Wray made a mockery of those values Thursday and, in so doing, made a mockery of the FBI.
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Ms Ortega had called it a "mockery of the people".
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This was, of course, a light mockery of modern robots.
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We are making a mockery of the rule of law.
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It makes a mockery of our history and our present.
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It makes a mockery of anything calling itself a university.
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These companies are making a mockery of supposed employment rights.
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Embrace the mockery of the disabled or Gold Star families?
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The comedian's new show makes a mockery of Israeli machismo.
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Trump makes a proud and almost ceaseless mockery of them.
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As for Trump, his mockery of the disabled offended Frisbie.
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A gentle mockery of the original format has already begun.
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It would be a mockery of trial, not a trial.
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"It's making a mockery of international conventions," Dr. Shepherd said.
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Democrats in Congress have made a mockery of the law.
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Hammons turned the racist slur into a mockery of racism.
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It made a mockery of concepts like fairness and competition.
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This was his approximation, and mockery, of the Aryan 'ideal'.
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They made a mockery of Christian faith and moral fidelity.
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This was a mockery of how capitalism is supposed to work.
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That's kind of making a mockery of the process, I think.
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On one level, the mockery of Juicero was a bit unfair.
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Katie Porter is making a mockery of the House of Representatives.
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It also makes a mockery of the process of fiscal forecasting.
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She denounced the assembly vote as "a mockery of the people".
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Indeed your action makes a mockery of the rule of law.
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The spate of murders, however, makes a mockery of these ideals.
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We're making a mockery of what should be a beautiful game.
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It makes a mockery of American immigration laws, encouraging more lawlessness.
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The Democrats have made a mockery of this whole confirmation process.
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An administration divided against itself only makes a mockery of sanctions.
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Made a mockery of London's licensing laws for drivers and companies.
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It makes a mockery of their faith and their supposed philosophies.
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Such arrangements make a mockery of the ethics laws and rules.
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The present-day Republican Party makes a mockery of this conceit.
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He is making a mockery of America on the world's stage.
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Calling the hearing a "charade and mockery of our norms," Sen.
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They show him terrorists making a mockery of weak American leadership.
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"Do you think you'll make a mockery of this election?" asked Tapper.
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And it makes a mockery of the monument of which Jefferson spoke.
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Trump called it a mockery of his tough-on-immigration campaign promises.
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Clinton's campaign has also seized on Mr. Trump's mockery of Mr. Kovaleski.
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That makes a mockery of affirmative action, and of the university itself.
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They make a mockery of the N.C.A.A.'s supposed emphasis on academics.
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But these meaninglessly long sentences aren't justice — they're a mockery of it.
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Everything that happens outside the court makes a mockery of this assertion.
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His capricious approach makes a mockery of our laws and deliberative process.
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Mr. Helm's mockery of Mr. Robertson, once his best friend, was lashing.
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A Trump or Cruz nomination would make a mockery of GOP values.
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Such a decision would make a mockery of the jury selection process.
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In another overture to this group, Clinton ripped Trump's mockery of Sen.
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Whitaker's installation makes a mockery of our Constitution and our founders' ideals.
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Democrats in Congress have made a mockery of the law, Grisham said.
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It will make a mockery of the very idea of America first.
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"To hold otherwise would make a mockery" of the Clean Water Act.
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"They are making a mockery of the blood of our martyrs," he said.
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A United Nations official has said his trial was a "mockery" of justice.
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Mr Barzani, for his part, has made a mockery of the political system.
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This makes a mockery of new schemes promoting employment in the digital economy.
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They wrote the then-candidate made a "makes a mockery" of their principles.
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"We can't allow people to make a mockery of the law," Jaitley said.
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Young's mockery of students who are not like him has spanned several decades.
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It is silly, a mockery of the pose and the teen-like tweeting.
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In recent years land grabs have sometimes made a mockery of customary ownership.
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Dawson said Trump's mockery of him didn't change his opinion of the president.
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Self-interested politicians have made a mockery of one of their primary responsibilities.
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Mr. Duterte's mockery of the rule of law is not limited to criminals.
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The initial bush clearing was not done without the mockery of other villagers.
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Certainly there will be no questions about Trump's mockery of a disabled reporter.
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Certainly there will be no questions about Trump's mockery of a disabled reporter.
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Russia's hidden arsenal of Novichok makes a mockery of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Are the White Walkers' art pieces a memory or mockery of their creators?
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That would make a mockery of the referendum we had two years ago.
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His tariffs, crony capitalism and self-dealing make a mockery of free enterprise.
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Mr. Whitaker's installation makes a mockery of our Constitution and our founders' ideals.
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Making a mockery of it is putting you further away from a solution.
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This act makes a mockery of all the United States has stood for.
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We cannot let the occupant make a mockery of our Constitution any longer.
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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger in which the retired pilot condemned mockery of Biden's stutter.
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Try to do what you do without mockery of our heartbroken little era.
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Emotional abuse might involve ridicule or mockery of her body or her disability.
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This subtle mockery of human kindness grows markedly less subtle by the minute.
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But time – like gravity, love and alcohol – inevitably makes a mockery of us all.
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Epstein's light sentence makes a mockery of the principle of equal justice for all.
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Rival bidder Fujifilm Holdings Corp had criticized it as a "mockery of the law".
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At the heart of Ferrell's impression, however unintentional, is a mockery of her femininity.
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Rival bidder Fujifilm Holdings Corp had criticised it as a "mockery of the law".
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It made a mockery of the decades-old market maxim: "Don't fight the Fed".
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A little mockery of the situation, and I think that's necessary for good health.
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It's a luxury conundrum, one that feels like a mockery of tremendous human suffering.
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They break down the mind, preserve the body, and make a mockery of pain.
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"These chemicals are still on the shelves ... it makes a mockery of the EPA."
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It encourages apathy by making a mockery of politics and all those who participate.
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And the idea that too much time has passed makes a mockery of morality.
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Too great a disparity makes a mockery of all human endeavor other than accumulation.
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This discrimination violates the Constitution and makes a mockery of civil rights-era legislation.
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One-year-olds stand alone before judges, making a mockery of our judicial system.
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The president has a four-year term, that makes a mockery of our election.
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It's not mockery of climate change, which he does whenever there is cold weather.
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It was a match-up that, in some respects, made a mockery of statistics.
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It cannot cut official rates without making a mockery of the debt-reduction campaign.
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"There is a kind of mockery of the Jews and Israel," said Mr. Bouvet.
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To make a mockery of the impeachment process, Trump has in turn, made a mockery of his own legal team by announcing the additions of Kenneth Starr, Alan Dershowitz and Pam Bondi before the Senate impeachment trial is slated to resume next week.
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I thought it was so on the nose with their mockery of the left wing.
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There is totally no freedom, but they are making a mockery of journalism in Egypt.
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That makes a mockery of Mr Peña's pledge in 2012 to halve the murder rate.
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The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
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"This is how lawmakers make mockery of rule of law," said Twitter user Yashwant (@yashwant_7).
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"They made a mockery of the whole thing and it was really disconcerting," said Kitei.
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I turned down roles that I felt were making a mockery of the Asian stereotype.
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"He made a mockery of magistrates and the judicial procedure," said government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux.
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" He accused Silver of "making a mockery of the very forecasting industry that he popularized.
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Mr. Lieberman's appointment would make a mockery of any possible Israeli overtures to the Palestinians.
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The Dong is in one way a mockery of all those other lonely Byronic wanderers.
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These practices are a violation of due process and are a mockery of Bangladesh's laws.
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This not only makes a mockery of the United Nations, it also endangers global security.
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Sadly, this has been typical of Nigeria, where elections often make a mockery of democracy.
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Neither woman's high school yearbook featured jokes about drinking and mockery of the opposite sex.
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But, in the end, this just makes a mockery of their own sense of morality.
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America has made a mockery of the value of its signature on an international agreement.
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The Trump administration is not just changing the rules; it's making a mockery of them.
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The Maduro regime makes a mockery of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Read more: David Von Drehle: The death penalty makes a mockery of our justice system.
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Johnny Isakson said "I resent that," when asked about Trump's mockery of Sessions' southern accent.
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A high, or low, point was his mockery of Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Party leader.
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He thought it made a mockery of the First Amendment right to petition the government.
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He stiffed creditors, made a mockery of the truth and publicly boasted about his promiscuity.
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Fraud after fraud have made a mockery of any pretension of integrity within their industry.
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"It just makes a mockery of the sport to have it so inconsistent," he said.
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The tactic makes a mockery of the budget process, said Bixby of the Concord Coalition.
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Macron's generous offer, in other words, comes off to many as a smooth mockery of Brexiters.
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They're making a mockery of national security and to a lesser extent putting it at risk.
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If anything, it's a mockery of the devotion and care that prayer is meant to embody.
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As with the upper-class Graybridge, the mockery of working-class Denley Moor is always affectionate.
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" — Glenn Beck, conservative talk radio host who supports Ted Cruz "Rubio mockery of Trump was priceless.
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Rafael Pardo, the minister for post-conflict issues, called the declaration a mockery of the exercise.
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Taken in a sarcastic light, Trump's words would be amount to a mockery of... Trump's words.
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As the Twitter mockery of these stories has increased, Trump has not slowed down one bit.
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Our relentless mockery of Trump and his followers helped fuel the backlash and make it spread.
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As well as devastating civilian lives, this makes a mockery of the global Arms Trade Treaty.
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They tried to send me on courses that seemed designed to make a mockery of me.
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Mr. Trump has said he believes Mr. Lewandowski is innocent, and that his mockery of Mrs.
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Meanwhile, they have just made a mockery of the government and the people's vote and will.
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Parliament. That seemed to make a mockery of the very value over which the U.K.'s
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The trigger for the ban seems to have been Jones's mockery of CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.
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In any case, Twitter didn't take long to make a mockery of Fox News' mystery expert.
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The work evoked a dance by slaves that began as a mockery of their white masters.
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He made a mockery of President Obama and others who urged Britain to remain in Europe.
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It will allow politics to eclipse process and make a mockery of justice under the law.
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Mr. Trump's mockery of Dr. Blasey at a Mississippi campaign rally on Tuesday only heightened tensions.
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Second, does the work in question in some way make a mockery of the reprehensible acts?
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But giving wealthy offenders a mere slap on the wrist makes a mockery of that objective.
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If I were to speak of it, it would make a mockery of my life's work.
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"What the court has done in this case makes a mockery of our rules," Alito wrote.
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Trump's mockery of Ford at a campaign rally on Tuesday night intensified political pressure on Sens.
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"It makes a mockery of the rules governing foundations," said Al Cantor, a consultant to nonprofits.
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Yet Labour's version of people power promises to make a mockery of both democratisation and decentralisation.
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"What the court has done in this case makes a mockery of our rules," he wrote.
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It is an ugly truth that money and power make a mockery of our justice system.
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Read: Did Trump Make a Mockery of Our Political System Just to Launch a TV Channel?
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But Trump's other words and actions during and before the campaign made a mockery of that statement.
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Because it's like he's glorifying it, but at the same time he's making a mockery of it.
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Instead, Mr. King made a "mockery" of the process, Mr. Matteo said at a hearing last week.
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The company also argued that the alleged conspiracy made a mockery of the crypto tenet of decentralization.
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"Making a mockery of this particular person is going to be a very effective tool," Takei said.
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The honours system makes a mockery of British democracy, argues Willie Sullivan of the Electoral Reform Society.
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His route onto the Republican ticket makes a mockery of America's log-cabin-to-White-House dream.
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It makes a mockery of the union's democratic accession criteria if countries can ignore them once admitted.
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But this made a mockery of the idea that markets, rather than bureaucrats, should determine trade flows.
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That makes a mockery of the carnage of that war, where at least 600,000 Americans were killed.
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At best, the school "made a mockery of due process" in the name of diversity, he said.
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He makes the Clintons look like paragons, and also makes a mockery of disclosure rules for candidates.
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It made a mockery of his own ambition to show a softer side to his unloved character.
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Chambers tweeted that he was "happy to announce" the ban, in an apparent mockery of Blizzard's action.
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Prime Minister Rajoy said the referendum made a "mockery" of democracy, and threatened to suspend Catalonia's autonomy.
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, complains about Democrats making a mockery of the court confirmation hearing.
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The president's legal team is making a mockery of this investigation in regard to President Trump's testimony.
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He's been joined by a handful of Hibernian toadies who have made a mockery of their heritage.
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Yet this mockery of a mandate has not prevented Mr Johnson from pursuing an unbendingly extreme policy.
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Those kinds of numbers can make a mockery of any effort to solve the problem with money.
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But in the eight days since Barr made his request, Trump has made a mockery of him.
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It goes down the memory hole, and makes a mockery of our collective promise to never forget.
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Freezing out journalists because they don't agree with him makes a mockery of his message of openness.
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Those divisions, like the failed marriages in "Agunot," threaten to make a mockery of Isaac's Zionist dream.
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His mockery of Dr. Ford last night in Mississippi was wrong, but it doesn't really surprise anyone.
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" His trial, he added before he was led away in shackles, had been a "mockery of justice.
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His presidency makes full mockery of the theory that those in charge should know anything at all.
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According to reports at the time, Trump hoped his mockery of Sessions would humiliate him into resigning.
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Democrats in the committee for the most part, did everything possible to make a mockery of this hearing.
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His partisan rant made a mockery of the polite but necessary fiction that federal judges are above politics.
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Or it might make a mockery of free discussion by manipulating everybody into bowing down before conventional wisdom.
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He said residents live in fear of the gangs, who have made a mockery of the security apparatus.
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Screenshot: SNL It's Sunday morning and Donald Trump hasn't tweeted about last night's SNL mockery of him yet.
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But this incident is particularly cringeworthy since we're talking about the abuse and mockery of high school teenagers.
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In Haiti, these simply reinforced underlying vulnerability and made a mockery of the commitment to "build back better".
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That "country club" name is tongue-in-cheek, a blue-collar east Houston mockery of snooty west Houston.
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Rather, it is making a mockery of our national values and reputation as a champion of human rights.
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Legal farce China's embrace of forced confessions is a mockery of its rhetoric of the rule of law.
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Trump and other conservatives regularly rail against "SNL" for its frequent mockery of the president and his administration.
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If anything, it makes a mockery of the WBC's championed "Clean Boxing Program," which is administered by VADA.
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It's not the first time Trump has commented on the widespread mockery of and confusion around his post.
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That's bad news for Cohen, a faithful Trump lackey despite the President's general disrespect and mockery of him.
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Plenty of profitable companies already offer paid sick days, making a mockery of arguments about the untenable expense.
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Under Republicans, the House of Representatives made a mockery of its oversight responsibility, if not abandoned it altogether.
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In fact, there is a mockery of norms and traditions of fairness, which ultimately is hurting the country.
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Ghosn's saga doesn't say much about this last priority, but it makes a mockery of the first two.
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Meanwhile, the Trump campaign's official Twitter account posted a tweet making a mockery of the entire impeachment proceedings.
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But to many Native Americans and others, the gesture is an offensive mockery of the nation's first people.
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Lasso had declared himself the winner and denounced the official figures as a mockery of the Ecuadorean people.
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I truly enjoy the meme culture and how it has resulted in a mockery of most serious topics.
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It's making a mockery of the fact that we are living this life and dying on the inside.
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They're doing what they have to do to get heard and appreciated and not made a mockery of.
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He chose to make a mockery of taking a knee one week and then banning it the next.
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Meanwhile, Trump continues to make a direct mockery of women's pain, and glibly brushes off accusations against himself.
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That the news moderators are ignoring that reality and that pundits make a mockery of solutions is malpractice.
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"The Justice Department's motion to disqualify Jim Cole makes a mockery of the adversarial process," the statement said.
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It's kind of making a mockery of that idea of changing things with a specific purpose in mind.Right.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal then moved to adjourn the proceedings, calling them a "charade and a mockery of our norms".
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Mrs May said the solutions demanded by the EU would "make a mockery" of British voters' decision to leave.
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Above them all, however, are "black swans," events which can make a mockery of ordinary supply and demand analysis.
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The capital account looked as porous as ever, making a mockery of the government's attempts to fix the leaks.
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Tolerance and openness Some in the Kingdom see mockery of religious establishment as a line that shouldn't be crossed.
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Syria has made a mockery of the UN's Chemical Weapons Convention, which Russia and Mr Assad himself have signed.
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Obama seemed to relish the question, replying with both serious criticism of Republicans and some pointed mockery of Trump.
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"Those who trample down and make a mockery of the DPRK's dignity can never go scot-free," it added.
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Spicer is among a growing number slamming "SNL" and Davidson for the mockery of GOP congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw.
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The cakewalk was a dance, created by slaves in imitation (some accounts say in mockery) of the white minuet.
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Mr. Trump is making a mockery of law in the appalling policy of forcibly separating families at the border.
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And by Tuesday, Israeli social media was rife with mockery of the army's "empty building" strategy, Ms. Meir said.
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But it also touched off a roiling controversy, pitting reformists against conservatives who resented Gogol's mockery of Russian officialdom.
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As of 2017, at least, capital and its incessant planetary movements still reliably make a mockery of such slogans.
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Zakir Riyaz, a PhD student in social work, said the new law made a mockery of India's religious openness.
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Vladimir Putin's macho authoritarianism, disdain for the press, and mockery of the truth has installed itself on the Potomac.
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"Trump's refusal to release Democratic response to #NunesMemo makes a mockery of national security and common sense," Blumenthal tweeted.
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And so Dick has done stand-up, he almost was a comedian, and he made a mockery of Twitter.
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Such an arrangement would make a mockery of the notion that those fleeing persecution in Central America have any recourse.
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Soon, she' chewing on diamonds (a Melania Trump diss, maybe?) and possibly making a cruel mockery of Kim Kardashian's robbery.
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But its antics make a mockery of the unity the EU has vowed to pursue after the wrench of Brexit.
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" Even the Indian news media chimed in, with one commentator writing that Mr. Feng had made a "mockery of Tagore.
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There is no better way to demonstrate the strength of your beliefs than to tolerate criticism and mockery of them.
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Whatever remaining dignity left to Copley is further diminished by the gentle mockery of a bird perching on his head.
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To fail to grant them rights would disregard scientific reality and make a mockery of our evolving notions of justice.
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Scotland and Wales say that the British Brexit withdrawal bill makes a mockery of two decades of power-sharing agreements.
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The magazine called it satire, humor meant to make a mockery of all the racist stereotypes aimed at the Obamas.
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Each president subsequently has used that waiver to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv, making a mockery of congressional will.
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And that, plus past fiscal laxity, has made a mockery of the Central Bank's (unambitious) inflation target of 2.5-6.5%.
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Conversely, a lack of sleep has been shown to make a mockery of an earnest attempt to lose body fat.
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This makes a mockery of competition, as does the fact that China's state firms are rarely targeted by antitrust authorities.
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Don Berna made a mockery of the process, using it as cover to strengthen his control of the city's underworld.
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Making a mockery of the UNSC won't obscure failure to fulfill obligations & to hold US to account over non-compliance.
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She has frequently responded to mockery of her working-class roots by invoking the dignity of service and retail work.
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"We agree that this decision makes a mockery of the rule of law and basic principles of democracy," they wrote.
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"Parliament would be effectively sidelined, which makes a mockery of parliamentary sovereignty," Chuka Umunna, a Labour lawmaker, said on Twiitter.
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Some pundits called the McCain vote cold revenge for Mr. Trump's mockery of his ordeal as a prisoner of war.
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The Trump administration is making a mockery of a special admissions program the Congress established to fast-track their resettlement.
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The patriotic outburst didn't impress the musicians' union, however, which accused the singer of "unjustified mockery of our dear Egypt".
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Reagan's gubernatorial victory in California two years later, followed by his two landslide presidential wins, made a mockery of Hofstadter.
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The bill would effectively remove their cases from the jurisdiction of the truth commission, making a mockery of transitional justice.
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Many senators — Democrat and Republican alike — have made a mockery of this trial on the potential removal of a president.
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The administration's decision to double down on US support for the bombing campaign makes a mockery of congressional oversight authority.
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In a brief reenactment of the Nevada Democratic debate, Trump crouched behind the podium in mockery of Michael Bloomberg's height.
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How could a patriot American sit and watch this mockery of the democratic process that this candidate has conducted himself?
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"Today's verdict makes a mockery of China's supposed religious freedoms," Amnesty International China researcher Patrick Poon said in a statement.
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It's tragic and sad and makes of mockery of the legitimate criticism the GOP used to level at erring Democrats.
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And because he was goaded into the declaration by Sean Hannity, the episode makes a mockery of the federal government.
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Jinks wants her old friend to realize that she's made a mockery of a community of people who are already disenfranchised.
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Social media users in China demanded an apology, saying Burger King had made a mockery of Asian customs and dining etiquette.
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He was found guilty in March under anti-terror laws, in what one United Nations official called a "mockery" of justice.
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A bit like Rainbow 6 Siege but without the twitchy tweens making a mockery of your (lack of) tactical nous. Hopefully.
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But this whole thing is both a physical and metaphorical attack on the free press and now a mockery of democracy.
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"They've made a mockery of Islam with this verdict, and we will hold them accountable," said a protester, Saqib Ali, 30.
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Some say that such mockery of Mr. Kim only softens the image of North Korea, effectively creating propaganda for the regime.
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He said such legislation would make a "mockery" of the judicial system, particularly in cases involving the murder of multiple people.
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A music festival in the Netherlands made the ultimate mockery of clubbers' obsession with renowned Berlin techno superclub Berghain this summer.
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"I felt like it was much more a celebration of the culture versus a mockery of the culture," Mr. Sklute said.
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"It's troubling to me that since the settlement Elon has already made a mockery of the S.E.C. twice," Mr. Whiston said.
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An official from the prosecutor's office told Japanese media that Mr Ghosn had made a mockery of the criminal-justice system.
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Shame on every senator who voted to withhold information from us and to allow this mockery of a "trial" to exist.
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A UN investigator accused Riyadh of making a "mockery" of justice by exonerating senior figures who may have ordered the killing.
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Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur for extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, said the trial verdict was a "mockery" of justice.
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But there is nothing to celebrate when mockery of the American president in a friendly capital has become the new normal.
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" Boris Johnson, former foreign minister and leading Brexit campaigner: "The deal is a national humiliation that makes a mockery of Brexit.
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During her acceptance speech, Streep recalled an uncomfortable moment from the 2016 presidential campaign: Trump's mockery of a reporter in July.
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"Our life together was a mockery of a 'normal' relationship: defined by abuse and fear, not love, or even affection," she writes.
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But he is an extremely conservative judge at a moment when an extremely conservative judge makes a mockery of the popular will.
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Now, even that title is lost to them, with City making a mockery of the idea that Arsenal are a watchable outfit.
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Like them, he insists he is committed to the FBI's high standards, but his reprehensible conduct makes a mockery of his claims.
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The practice of engineering soon teaches one that, after hydrogen, the universe is composed largely of condensed mockery of one's previous assumptions.
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By elevating arbitrary rules above the free market, these changes make a mockery of the White House's supposed opposition to intrusive regulation.
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The allegations made a mockery of N.C.A.A. amateurism rules and painted a black mark on several of the most prominent basketball programs.
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Trump has made a mockery of this whole process, substituting boundless faith in his personality for a policy architecture constructed over generations.
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One of the prosecutors who led the case later fled the country and said the proceeding had been a mockery of justice.
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Behind the mockery of Trump's monetary positions is the truth that mainstream Democrats aren't prepared for the implications of an MMT world.
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At best, it threatened to make a mockery of the hallowed "ASEAN centrality"; at worst, it might have blown the club apart.
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That statement alone makes a mockery of Trump's long-held assertion that China is paying for the tariffs, not the U.S. consumers.
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According to NPR — IHS, Taca, and Miranda exploited vulnerable individuals and made a mockery of the peer review process and government regulations.
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Worse, the Obama EPA, abetted by California, made a mockery of the so-called harmonized national vehicle program petitioners claim to support.
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Now the country has elected a man who threaded racist, xenophobic and misogynistic messages and mockery of disabled people through his campaign.
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And Marshmello's looks so childish that it almost seems like a mockery of our willingness to buy into these types of gimmicks.
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"The government of Turkey continues to make a mockery of justice in its treatment of Pastor Brunson," she said in a statement.
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This is no less true of Major League Baseball, where swollen sluggers made a mockery of the record books in recent decades.
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Almost 63 million of them voted for a man who had no political experience and made a mockery of politics as usual.
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A Slowthai gig is like a live political cartoon sketch, with the rapper whipping the crowd into a fevered mockery of authority.
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Some see it as a mockery of their beliefs, while others see forces at work that are larger than the First Amendment.
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" The closest to a reference in the speech was Trump's mockery of his opponents for not yet, in his view, proving "collusion.
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He was also confounded by the report's mockery of the department's crackdowns on dice games, a frequent target of robberies and shootings.
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But Ms. Le Pen's sneering mockery of her rival in the final presidential debate on Wednesday could have cost her some votes.
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Those views make a mockery of the ideals memorialized at the George Washington Carver Center, headquarters for USDA's in-house research agency.
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I certainly don't believe in Trump as its paladin — not when his entire career makes a mockery of faith, family, tradition, virtue.
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The process, overseen by the school's Student Government Association, at best "made a mockery of due process and transparency," Mr. Perry wrote.
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Trump has denied the gesture was intended as a mockery of Kovaleski's disability and has denied ever meeting him face-to-face.
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The "Commish" is pissed at the "Commish" -- with Michael Chiklis claiming Roger Goodell is making an absolute mockery of the esteemed title.
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Forty-five years later, this moment resonates as the sort of iconic public disaster that could make a mockery of a political career.
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Of course, this Trumpian narrative elides his deferments during the Vietnam War and mockery of John McCain's suffering as a prisoner of war.
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To the sportswriters and fans, the fix was in, and Jack Sharkey had twice made a mockery of the greatest title in sport.
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But it's hard to swallow that when there's a community of people saying the filter makes a mockery of — and belittles — their identities.
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Not to do so condones such atrocious behavior and makes a mockery of the rules-based international order supposedly upheld by the G20.
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The current law on assisted dying makes a mockery of due process, lacks popular support, is inhumane and fails to protect the vulnerable.
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" In the extensive interview, the CNN team asked all-important questions such as, "do you think you're making a mockery of this election?
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I am just like you, I thought when kids squinted at me in mockery of my own eyes; why can't you see that?
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Today, it's known as America's Most Wanted Bed and Breakfast — a deliberate mockery of Warren Jeffs's time on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
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" While many fans agreed in the comments, others continued to make a mockery of the situation, blasting Kardashian as a "buffoon" and "trash.
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Hard Brexiteers such as Mr Johnson think this would make a mockery of Britain's decision to leave the EU in the first place.
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Richard Blumenthal of Illinois said the lack of documents "turns this hearing into a charade and a mockery of our norms," while Sen.
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Then, the President launched into savage mockery of Trump's self image as a blue collar billionaire who can put Rustbelt voters in play.
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In many cases, as in the coldblooded murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the responsible parties are state actors who make a mockery of justice.
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"This is the decision expected by all Colombians who are outraged by this spectacle of mockery of justice," he said in broadcast comments.
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"The situation with Darya Klishina appears to be cynical mockery of the Russian sportswoman by the IAAF," news agencies quoted Zhukov as saying.
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Their ideological and cultural range makes a mockery of the strategists and pundits who claim to know who Democrats' "energized base" really is.
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He's raised the price of critical HIV treatment drug by 5000%, then made a mockery of his Congressional hearing on the controversial decision.
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Laidlaw's purely cosmetic obfuscation of names and places feels like gentle mockery of everyone involved; one last mystery for the fans to decode.
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"This is a joke, a total mockery of the system that only happens because 75 percent of the press hates Trump," he said.
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Even as I write these words I think of dozens of writers, both male and female, who make a mockery of this generalization.
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But his style also drew derision from the environmental community and the quiet mockery of many career staff members in his own agency.
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The economy seems to be slowing, making a mockery of the promise of strong growth that was used to peddle the tax cuts.
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House minority leader Edcel Lagman called it a "massive jailbreak" that made a mockery of the administration's key law and order policy platform.
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Confusion around moderating posts responding to McCain's death was made worse by another Facebook rule forbidding mockery of someone with a serious illness.
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"Saddam Hussein is relentlessly pursuing weapons of mass destruction, abusing his own people and making a mockery of the United Nations," Biden wrote.
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Her decision to take the test angered some allies on the left and did nothing to stop Mr. Trump's mockery of her roots.
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The I.P.C. president, Philip Craven, noted that Russia placed "medals over morals" and in so doing made a mockery of the Olympic Charter.
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The strategy of Pelosi is unlikely to succeed with the Senate, but it has succeeded in making a mockery of the rushed rationale.
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So for at least 30 years we have known that living in a globally-connected world has made a mockery of our injunction laws.
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The woman "won"—if that's even the appropriate word given what a mockery of criminal justice this entire scenario is—but it didn't matter.
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Despite their mockery of not-an-actual-stripper Tasha, we're sure all of Issa's friends would still say they're generally against hating on women.
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For the second time in six months, Senate Republicans are making a mockery of the process that is supposed to produce legislation in Congress.
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The move makes a mockery of the UN-backed GNA's ability to lead the country, put it under their control and own the oil.
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Couples who failed to produce a boy 20 or 30 years ago, and endured the mockery of their neighbours, are having the last laugh.
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Despite murmurs from athletes and journalists that Edwards' participation was making a mockery of the games, the Eagle valiantly defended his right to compete.
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These destructive actions made by the Obama administration not only cause harm, they make a mockery of the rights of states and local governments.
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Although circus sideshows have been traded for reality TV shows, the mockery of fat people — especially fat women — has not lessened over the years.
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It is, however, monstrously cruel, inhumane, and shameful and makes a mockery of America's reputation as the most welcoming and generous nation on earth.
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Actress Chloë Grace Moretz says President Trump is making a "mockery" of the country's political system, and she is urging others to speak out.
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Under the Articles of Confederation, local loyalties turned into intense tribalism, making a mockery of the very idea of a "United" States of America.
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The three guitarists, Buck, Bloch and Escovedo, none of them young, whipped up a fury that made a mockery of the dinner-theatre conceit.
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"The idea of a thousand people walking across your border is to make a mockery of the notion of rule of law," Sanford said.
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His contempt for people that are different is so consuming that he personifies mockery and threatens to make a mockery of the United States.
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Many of Mr. Trump's Republican primary opponents, including Jeb Bush, used Mr. Trump's mockery of the reporter in negative advertisements, seemingly to no avail.
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Warren accused the watchdog of making a "mockery" of its mission to protect investors in a letter sent to Chair Mary Jo White Thursday.
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While touting "tax reform," Senate Republicans have just released a budget outline that makes a mockery of any real reform of the tax code.
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I know what it's like to have the overwhelming power of the state used against me to make a mockery of the democratic process.
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Is this the country you thought it was or could be, or are Trump and Republicans in Congress making a mockery of your America?
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It was easier to believe our own pleasant fictions about the way things work in America before our president made a mockery of them.
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As for Sanders, Biden did not just defeat him across the country, he made a mockery of the senator's main argument for his campaign.
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" Journalist Glenn Greenwald said the move "makes a mockery of asylum" and that Ecuador is now "depicting itself as rather subservient to the West.
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He passed his test, keeping a promise to oppose any rushed, secretive bill that made a mockery of the Senate, as Graham-Cassidy has.
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His return to comedy made a mockery of consent when the New York audience was given no warning of his performance at the Cellar.
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Putin famously made a mockery of Russia's term limits by demoting himself to prime minister for a single term and then reclaiming the presidency.
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All of this makes a mockery of Bloomberg's stated intention that he is entering the race to increase the chances of beating Donald Trump.
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What's particularly debilitating is the way the news and scandals keep dribbling out, making a mockery of White House denials and the president's credibility.
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Agency-based studios and packaging fees make a mockery of that and are in violation of the agencies' ethical and legal obligations to writers.
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No small number of liberals bought into that, and "Get Out" is an all-out assault on their complacency, a bloody mockery of it.
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The US is tearing up a friendship treaty with Iran you probably didn't know existed Trump's mockery of Christine Blasey Ford perpetuates rape culture
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Making a mockery of the people serving you aside, is this really how you'd want to try another human being just doing their job?
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But all this would be in service to a bill that wouldn't just break Trump's campaign promises — it would make a mockery of them.
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And I suspect that if you like Vampire Weekend's simultaneous embrace and mockery of high society, you'll also find something to like in the show.
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He is a 'cult hero' in the loosest sense at Arsenal, in that some fans call him 'Lord Bendtner' in mockery of his monumental ego.
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You can accept that he is the president, and campaign like crazy to change that, without watching him make a mockery of the presidential platform.
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All this said, of course, any political prognostication has to contend with the fact that Trump has consistently made a mockery of the conventional wisdom.
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Emerging from an almost comically overcrowded GOP field of 17 candidates, Trump has beaten all the projections and made an abject mockery of campaign dogma.
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Using the bezel control is fast, logical, and the best interface on a round smartwatch I've ever seen, and makes a mockery of Android Wear.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was speaking over Grassley, calling the hearing a "charade and a mockery of our norms," protesters in the room began shouting.
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They do not want to seem like killjoys, and yet they do not want to collude with activities that make a mockery of their doctrines.
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The book's mockery of the church's Sun-centric stance soon resulted in an inquisition, and an eventual publication ban for any of Galileo's future works.
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The suggestion is absurd, and if the conclusion is that they do, it would make a mockery of the global rules-based system of trade.
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I had worked so hard to gain respect at the school and I felt this made a mockery of me and what I stood for.
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It could have been a cheap mockery of Star Trek, but it turned out to be a delightful, earnest love letter to the classic franchise.
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" Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov backed her up: "The situation with Darya Klishina appears to be cynical mockery of the Russian sportswoman by the IAAF.
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The migrant crisis, which has made a mockery of borders, looks tailor-made for a common European approach on interior as well as foreign policy.
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The real question for Republicans is whether they will continue to countenance a president who has debased himself and made a mockery of American values.
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Republicans say Obama is making a mockery of the law with his immigration actions and have expressed confidence he will be handed a stinging defeat.
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It frequently posts mockery of the US intelligence community and "liberal elites," tweeting about Syria in between posting gorgeous shots of snow-covered Russian landscapes.
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To have said something that seemingly makes a mockery of what they've gone through and what they live with is something that I apologize for.
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A 120-day or less review of these monuments makes a mockery of the transparent, civil process taken to engage the public in these decisions.
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"Under Pai's leadership the FCC has made a mockery of our democratic process," Evan Greer, Fight for the Future's campaign director, said in a statement.
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"The 'Boycott Dolce & Gabbana' T-shirt they created completely makes a mockery of what 'boycotting' is," Raury told GQ in an interview earlier this week.
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Congressional leaders are rushing this bill because they know it's unpopular, and their haste is making a mockery of the institution that McCain holds dear.
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They never could have envisioned another, unofficial branch of government that now is making a mockery of the model they created: the social media branch.
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The pleasure of his fiction has always been in its disobedience — in plots that make a mockery of the term, characters who shirk their duties.
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To take on the appearance of one's skin, but none of the suffering endured as a result of racism, makes a mockery of our experiences.
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It makes a mockery of the very idea of social mobility, the promise that those with talent who work hard can compete on equal terms.
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In this jungle, a mockery of the American constitutional mythos as it is, Donald Trump, for all his foibles, is the greatest and strongest beast.
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"The country is burning, the government has made a mockery of the constitution," said D. Raja, a general secretary of the Communist Party of India.
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The Trump administration would soon stonewall Congress on a host of subpoenas for witnesses and documents, effectively making a mockery of lawmakers' constitutional oversight powers.
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The phrase provoked widespread criticism and mockery of the bill, which Republicans passed after revising it to allow the choice of an external ultrasound instead.
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The FEC's frozen state is particularly dismaying given how campaigns, nonprofits, and Super PACs are making a mockery of the law during the 2016 campaign.
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Abigail makes a mockery of the series' archetype Ryu—the dignified, perma-frowning loner whose interests comprise walking and not enjoying himself—and I love it.
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"The Onion's scathing, relentless mockery of Israeli propaganda reflects a radical shift in US political discourse," journalist Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept explained in an email.
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Sir Angus worries that the British economy is "enriching the few at the expense of the many", which in turn "is making a mockery of democracy".
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Total Frat Movie is a mockery of what it's really like to attend a large school with a diverse community full of intelligent and dynamic students.
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Ocasio-Cortez's sarcastic mockery of the story on Twitter found its way into other news outlets' coverage, possibly helping minimize its potential damage to Warren's campaign.
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There is a massive injustice being done in a nation that believes in equal justice under the law; marijuana enforcement makes a mockery of that ideal.
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Since then, Brexit and recent Western elections have made a caustic mockery of notion that social media might bring nations together, rather than split them apart.
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All these nods and winks, she argued, make a mockery of Mr Trump's attempts, in the past week, to reset his image among non-white Americans.
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The judges said the EPA's action "makes a mockery of the statute" and that "there is no textual basis for EPA's current interpretation" of the law.
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"Introducing Gholami for the Science Ministry is a mockery of all the hopes students had when they campaigned during the elections," one student lamented on Twitter.
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The company still walked away with the spectrum, making a "mockery" of discounts that were intended for small businesses, as FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai put it.
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But the modern enforcement regime makes a mockery of the law, as governments feign powerlessness against an entity they themselves created by granting it a charter.
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The judges said the EPA's action "makes a mockery of the statute" and that "there is no textual basis for EPA's current interpretation" of the law.
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Those courts held that the right to self-representation as established in Faretta was absolute, as absolute as the mockery of the justice system they made.
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After a recent round of mockery of Henan from an aspiring television celebrity, Mr. Jing, a science journalist from the province, decided he had had enough.
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There are rules about when a president may impose tariffs; Trump has obeyed the letter of these rules, barely, but made a mockery of their spirit.
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In this, as in so many other areas, President Trump made a mockery of the process by submitting a gonzo health report from his Manhattan physician.
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The optimistic one is that the commission had to intervene aggressively to save its reputation because the Italian government made a mockery of the budgetary process.
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"There is a sense that the filibuster, once an extraordinary tool, has become so commonplace as to make a mockery of majority rule," Mr. Axelrod said.
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Now they are making a mockery of what is meant to be a careful and deliberative process by playing three-card monte with the American people.
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"Donald Trump is making a mockery of our electoral system with these blatant violations of FEC law," the fund's president Brad Woodhouse said in a statement.
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It is a gain for Iran, whose advance amid the gradual surrender of the Islamic State makes a mockery of vows to contain its growing influence.
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We're estranged from some of our most important allies, who are exhausted by Trump's moods, offended by his mockery of them and chilled by his ignorance.
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In his statement, Jonas said he had rejected the Guptas' offer "out of hand", saying it made a mockery of South Africa's 22-year-old democracy.
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Some, including Coach Steve Kerr of Golden State, who will lead the West squad, said players had made a "mockery" of the process by wasting votes.
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I want to know that the one occupying the Oval Office shares my reverence for what it represents rather than make a global mockery of it.
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The willingness of AHCA's drafters to eliminate this program makes a mockery of the already ridiculous claims that they are "saving" people with disabilities from Obamacare.
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We are encouraged by her action and hope that the slurs and mockery of tribal citizens and Indian history and heritage will now come to an end.
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"Facial-recognition technology snatches our biometric data without our knowledge or consent, making a mockery of our right to privacy," said Megan Goulding, a lawyer at Liberty.
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People joked about tucking them into their carrying case at night wrapped in $100 bills, and tweeted mockery of the well-dressed bros who adopted them first.
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His campaign made a mockery of political reporters who thought they were — in the old sports metaphor — the referees, blowing their whistles ineffectually as he marched past.
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Business travellers have already had to put up with the TSA's inability to handle passenger flows, mockery of their ignorance, gross misconduct and failure to detect threats.
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Sen. Jeff Flake said that President Trump's mockery of Christine Blasey Ford at his rally on Tuesday night was "appalling" during an appearance on NBC's "Today" Wednesday.
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Many people have been waiting for the perfect way to make a mockery of the Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, and here is their shining moment.
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It may look like consummate stubbornness for us to continue preaching caution on Mr Woods's future, just two days after he made a mockery of such counsel.
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And that NYT opinion editors James Bennet and Jonathan Weisman are defending this in the name of 'diversity' and 'free speech' makes a mockery of both concepts.
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He stayed silent throughout the internet's mockery of what is clearly a midlife crisis tattoo, but now he wants the world to know that he is fine.
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The idea that Megrahi could walk out of prison on "compassionate" ground made a mockery of everything that Mueller had dedicated his life to fighting and doing.
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The winning streak is widely attributed to Colbert's continued mockery of Trump, and shows no signs of slowing — at least while the President is still making headlines.
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The GOP campaign won't officially be over by Wednesday morning, and in a political season that has made a mockery of the conventional wisdom, anything seems possible.
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This detrimental proposal would create uncertainty for employees, employers and local enforcement agencies, and undermine the public's health, while making a mockery of our state legislative process.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) and mockery of a disabled journalist, just to name a few.
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A top coal executive is suing John Oliver over the "Last Week Tonight" host's mockery of him during a segment on the decline of the coal industry.
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From the moment he announced his candidacy, entrenched D.C. politicians and media super elites fell over themselves to make a mockery of him and smeared him incessantly.
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But Anderson's deal, which allowed him to plead no contest to a lesser charge, makes a mockery of Waco's and Baylor's religious standards, and of the law.
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The Great Recession and subsequent recovery spending may have been unforeseeable, but these events have made a mockery of the idea of a world without government debt.
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The way I swayed back and forth down the street made a mockery of the Greek ideal of balance, at least in the battleground of my body.
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But as conservative male mockery of Thunberg and others shows, climate politics has quickly become the next big battle in the culture war—on a global scale.
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China's unchecked abuse of the global free-trade regime makes a mockery of the very idea that the world can operate according to a rules-based order.
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During the Bund's high point from 1936 through 1939, which culminated in a Madison Square Garden rally some 22,000 strong, Winchell delighted in incessant mockery of Kuhn.
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The problem is, no one finds him funny — including late night host Franklin (Robert De Niro) who makes a mockery of him one night on his show.
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Laborers worked noisily within, each bang of the sledgehammers making a mockery of my dream world where people live at the address at which they are listed.
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You are making a mockery of impeachment and you are scarcely concealing your hatred of me, of the Republican Party, and tens of millions of patriotic Americans.
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"I don't understand why the Republicans need to make a mockery of our own procedures every time they want to talk about the FCC's process," he said.
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He can also make a mockery of the Senate's advice-and-consent power by ousting permanent appointees and appointing pliable "acting" agency heads to carry it out.
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But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge.
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His Twitter posts, delivered without warning or consultation, often make a mockery of his administration's policies and subvert the messages his emissaries are trying to deliver abroad.
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And New York voters finally got a chance to show Ted Cruz what they thought of his mockery of their "values," by dealing him a humiliating defeat.
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Every movie by M. Night in a four-film stretch (2006 - 2013) was designed to squash my hopes and make a mockery of a once respectable director.
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Council member María José Lecha González said public commemoration of Columbus glorifies colonialism and imperialism, and called the holiday a "mockery" of the genocide of the indigenous population.
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In life, Landon was wounded by gossip—"the spiders of society/ They weave their petty webs of lies and sneers"—and by the "cold mockery" of the critics.
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Trump was responding to a question about his mockery of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a condition that limits the movement of his arms.
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It's part of a larger theme of Trump's candidacy -- one that bemoans and belittles "all talk, no action" career politicians and makes a mockery of tired political tropes.
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He benefited from a ballot-stuffing campaign by Coyotes fans in what critics called a mockery of the N.H.L.'s decision to allow fans to vote for players.
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A couple of years ago, I did an interview with Noisey, and a week later, a writer wrote an article saying I was making a mockery of depression.
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One of the examples he made was Capital STEEZ's suicide and how people really go through these things, and it's not right to make a mockery of it.
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Democrats panned the vote as a political stunt Markey called the vote a "mockery" of the Green New Deal, and Democrats largely dismissed it as a political ploy.
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That's what happens when fuck-you-motherfucker-hold-me-back-bro bullshit follows two trained heavyweights fighting: it makes a mockery of using abusive language as a weapon.
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During his campaign, Trump either rejected or made a mockery of the customs -- unwritten rules, essentially -- that demanded candidates make public their tax returns and (some) medical information.
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But his showing in Arizona made a mockery of some media assessments that at last the President had managed to measure up to conventional standards of presidential behavior.
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If Vladimir and Estragon are fleeing the Gestapo or waiting for a contact in the Resistance, it gives them a purposefulness that makes a mockery of the play.
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Don't Trump and the GOP Congress realize they made a mockery of fiscal conservatism when their bloated tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations create mammoth budget deficits?
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"Your brand is being damaged by this dispute and it is making a mockery of your image as a compassionate company," they wrote in the letter to Neumann.
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In short, the NSA is effectively thumbing its nose at the other two branches of government and making a mockery of democratic accountability and the rule of law.
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And as if to make a sardonic mockery of its own ruling against Muslims, the Supreme Court at the same time essentially overruled its 1944 decision, Korematsu v.
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Casting himself as an outsider, he not only savaged leaders in both parties but he made a mockery of nearly all the pieties of the American political system.
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The DNC had a secret deal with the Clinton campaign that made a mockery of the notion that the national party organization should be neutral in presidential primaries.
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In Ryan's case, the bill supersized the deficit and made a mockery of the "debt crisis" that Ryan used to talk endlessly about during the Barack Obama years.
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Without directly saying so, the speakers pushed back against Mr. Trump's mockery of the former president's volunteerism slogan "a thousand points of light" during campaign rallies this year.
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Donald Trump was bitching about due process Tuesday, but just hours later made a mockery of his FBI investigation by essentially calling Dr. Christine Blasey Ford a fraud.
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Amazon's announcement makes a mockery of the position taken by progressives who continually agitate for government-mandated minimum-wage levels that are above what the market will bear.
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Mr. Hess's "mockery of the local quirks and delusions is grounded in both affection and impatience," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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These countries are being asked to vote in favor of a resolution that makes a mockery of the historical record and flies in the face of religious tolerance.
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Some MMA fans and reporters have taken issue with the belt saying the UFC is making a mockery of the sport by creating meaningless WWE-style fake belts.
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Jagmeet Singh, the turbanned Sikh who leads the left-leaning New Democrats, said the prime minister's mockery of dark-skinned people had hurt a lot of young Canadians.
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What transpired was gleeful mockery of the Middle Eastern boy by us three, in which we took turns ridiculing his name and accent and the clothes he wore.
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And then, the party sold its soul to the soulless charlatan who now occupies the Oval Office and makes a mockery of every one of the party's principles.
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As our understanding of gender (and how it was not the same thing as sex) evolved over the decade, so did criticism and mockery of gender-reveal parties.
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First Words Perhaps you've noticed, amid the hot invective and dry mockery of daily events in your social-media feeds, reports of the glaciers melting at each pole.
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That was the theory behind giving Michael Bloomberg a prime speaking spot at the Democratic National Convention, where his mockery of Donald Trump carried extra zing and sting.
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On the one hand, the first half of the season is a bit trite, a winking mockery of cable reality shows about "real life" hauntings and the like.
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We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.
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His mockery of "Sleepy Joe Biden" is a familiar tactic -- one he used against Clinton and Pelosi that suggests that a foe is intellectually diminished or verging on senility.
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Another scathing 1866 opinion piece, "The Mockery of a Faded Woman's Success," demonstrates how deeply Menken's material wealth came to be identified with her reputation as a scandalous woman.
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That the tasks you entered so lovingly will refuse to do themselves, and will instead glare at you from your to-do app, making a mockery of your dreams.
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But we can fault Republicans in Congress who are failing to do their jobs, and making a mockery of the constitutional system they claim to revere in the process.
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His first mean tweets appearance came over a year ago, before we knew El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago was going to make a mockery of the Republican party.
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"The plaintiff neither is, or has, been subject to inhumane treatment," said state lawyer Adele Matheson Mestad, adding that Breivik's stiff-arm salute made "a mockery of the court".
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And, like it or not, humankind today faces three common problems that make a mockery of all national borders, and that can be solved only through global co-operation.
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They made a mockery of the legislative process, holding no hearings and disregarding CBO scores, and put forward two monstrous bills that honored precisely none of their grand promises.
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But all the attention to the setting doesn't match Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's sly, audience-acknowledging attention to genre, or its aggressively clever mockery of its own story conventions.
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Burke tweeted her regret about using a phrase "that seemingly makes light of suicide" and apologized for making a mockery of those who've struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts.
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The sex thriller has mainly gone the way of the dinosaur: viewable only in museums or in poor renderings that make a mockery of the grandeur of the original.
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The ANC, by sticking with a leader who appears not to believe this, is making a mockery of the democracy that it and others fought so hard to establish.
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It got mocked at the time, for supposedly making a mockery of its own premise, but with the benefit of hindsight today it seems to have been spot on.
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"Hostile foreign forces will certainly exploit this act of copying out the party Constitution on a wedding night, and they will stir up mockery of it," he presciently warned.
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In addition to Saturday Night Live's regularly scheduled mockery of the Trump administration, this week's Jimmy Fallon-hosted episode fit in jabs at United Airlines and Pepsi as well.
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"This is a mockery of taking the Lord's name in vain and also highly offensive to Christians," said the petition, started by a person identifying himself as Ian O'Sullivan.
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It was a perversion of the agreement undergirding embargoes, we argued, making a mockery of the idea that they were good for journalism and the public, instead creating stenographers.
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Among the issues that were cited were his calls to ban all Muslims, his characterization of many Mexicans as criminals and his mockery of veterans and people with disabilities.
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The play's warning about an unimaginable future now feels like a bitter mockery of our degraded present—though mockery has its own political and artistic uses, as Brecht knew.
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This is something that can be done without jettisoning democratic institutions or making as much of an open mockery of them as a country like Vladimir Putin's Russia does.
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Or it could go in for easy mockery of those who really, really dig this stuff, because they're big, obvious targets — and thus become a cheap version of itself.
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But in recent days, China's English-language state media outlets, which are aimed at overseas audiences, have grown more strident in their mockery of the president and his policies.
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Many Asian-Americans winced at these portrayals, knowing that they might be subjected to the slant-eyed, bucktoothed, ching-chong mockery of their classmates or random people, including adults.
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He can lie to them, hurt them with tariffs, make a mockery of their values, suck up to freedom-hating dictators they once distrusted, and they'll stick with him.
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In "Voice," Nate has to endure the mockery of his slick older brother, who repeatedly describes Nate's fragile state with an adjective that's as vulgar as it is emasculating.
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"I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better," he added.
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How could anyone vote for this buffoonish character, and how can they continue to support him even as he makes a fool of himself and a mockery of America?
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For some time now, his over-the-top rhetoric against Kim and his mockery of his own secretary of state's efforts at diplomacy have given South Koreans sleepless nights.
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" It said Schiff had "misled the American people," brought disrepute on the House and made "a mockery of the impeachment process, one of this chamber's most solemn constitutional duties.
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The feud between Donald J. Trump and "Saturday Night Live" reached a new metalevel when the president-elect responded on Twitter to the show's mockery of his reckless tweeting.
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In landscapes ranging from the Southeast Asian archipelago and Congo Basin to Amazonia and Central America, killings of wildlife rangers have made a mockery of the rule of law.
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Like Sandler's earlier work, "Jack and Jill" is a broad comedy — slapstick, fart jokes, mockery of difference — a time-tested shtick that endures for more people than you'd think.
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"I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better," Lewis said.
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Many mainstream climate scientists say the proposal would make a mockery of scientific research, which already relies on an extensive process of peer review to weed out flawed analyses.
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"The jump in payrolls in December would seem to make a mockery of market fears of an impending recession," said Paul Ashworth, chief economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
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And finally, the underground press was self-conscious; the newspapers of the counter culture were a mockery of mainstream newspapers, as if to say, 'You want biased, propagandistic news?
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There are many such paradoxes: hatred of "big government," despite Louisiana's dependence on federal assistance; mockery of identity politics, despite a sense of victimhood rooted in white ethnic pride.
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Anything less would be unjust—a final affront to the families of Seau and so many others, and a high-priced mockery of both medical science and American jurisprudence.
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Perry said the Student Government Association (SGA) Election Commission made a mockery of the election when it disqualified the person who secured the most votes for a minor procedural violation.
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" As for her upcoming memoir, The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister, Grant said it is not a tell-all, but rather an effort to "make a mockery of the tabloids.
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Mr Blumenthal called the hearing a "charade and a mockery of our norms", and a voice from the back of the chamber added, "a mockery and a travesty of justice".
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Washington (CNN)More than two dozen former Republican members of Congress released a letter Thursday saying they cannot vote for Donald Trump because he "makes a mockery" of their principles.
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According to this 2.5-minute teaser for the show, though, this show is apparently a random assemblage of unrelated confrontations, VR gags, mockery of startup culture, and virtually no music.
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"Why make a mockery of the hard work, diligence, respectability and INTELLIGENCE it takes to be a lawyer?" one Twitter user asked in response to Vogue's tweet about the news.
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The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, said in a statement Thursday that Assad's use of chemical weapons had made "a mockery" of Obama's red line.
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At the same time, he has made a mockery of the one policy endeavor where party elites hoped to inch leftward to win over younger voters and minorities: immigration reform.
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The bleakest charge, heard in political speeches, in academic discourse and from community campaigners, is that American schools and neighbourhoods are resegregating along racial lines, in mockery of King's legacy.
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But Trump and his allies, including former Senator Scott Brown, whom Warren ousted in 2012, can't help but turn an attack on Warren's false claim into mockery of Native Americans.
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Now: "New Rules" by Dua Lipa, like so many songs in this post-Max Martin era, makes a mockery of the above formula by not having a chorus at all.
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" But Phillips said in the news release on Tuesday that "unfortunately, much of the students' behavior was understood by me and those with me as a mockery of our cultures.
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By the 2016s, many fans argued that the spectacle of hapless pitchers feebly trying to fend off blazing fastballs was turning their at-bats into a mockery of the game.
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He was a chilling character who made a mockery of the justice system by representing himself in a court of law, escaping prison multiple times, and murdering again and again.
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"It's making a mockery not only of the 43 and their families, it's making a mockery of all Mexicans," said Mario González, a father of one of the missing students.
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Since last year, Mr. Trump has made a practice of riling up his crowds with mockery of the media, often pointing to the press risers and describing reporters as dishonest.
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This vacillation discredits governments — and the French are hardly alone in this — in the eyes of their electorates and seems to make a mockery of rhetorical commitments to quash terrorism.
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Reducing it to a judicial examination of individual mind-sets as opposed to being attentive to the structural nature of racism is a mockery of history, justice and common sense.
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If they cared, they would respect privacy and let her get better instead of making a mockery of it like she&aposs a missing persons alert on a milk carton.
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The Nobel folks have skipped a few, notably during World Wars I and II, when giving someone a prize for peace would have seemed a mockery of the very term.
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"By undermining the results of the midterms, the GOP makes a mockery of the notion that elections matter," Jaime Dominguez, a political scientist at Northwestern University, told me via email.
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As a result, Trump, who cares above all about image, is now getting headlines that make a mockery of his campaign posturing — headlines about closing auto plants and lost jobs.
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Their leader is making a mockery of those values at our borders, separating even asylum-seekers from their children, and then using those children to force migrants into voluntary departure.
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For him to appoint the prosecutor would make an even greater mockery of the justice system and the balance of powers than Trump has managed to create on his own.
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O Canada Lynda Swafford This mockery of a presidency has left me in despair and my salvation will be moving to Canada next year, although I fear for the world.
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Economic Trends The stock market reached yet another new high on Wednesday, the latest development to make a mockery of what savvy economic commentators thought they knew about the world.
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It makes a mockery of the Chamber's precedents, and it reduces what little comity remains among senators, which is a huge loss since the body requires consensus to operate effectively.
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But in 2016, she slammed then-candidate Trump for an "isolationist foreign policy approach" and lambasted his mockery of the physically and mentally disabled as "disgusting," a CNN review found.
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"I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better," he said. Rep.
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And the mockery of the president in the streets, including a giant statue of the president atop a golden toilet named the Dump Trump, would surely have created a stir.
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The trail of potential harm to companies—both from America's tariffs and from retaliation by others—also shows how globalisation makes a mockery of attempts to aim tariffs precisely at foreigners.
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In his desperate desire to secure a win for his party, McConnell made a mockery of Senate rules and traditions in a way his party may well one day deeply regret.
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Sinn Fein should have no problem winning the forthcoming by-election for his seat, but his behaviour has made a mockery of republican complaints about the DUP's "disrespect" for its opponents.
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It's a fine line to walk, having traditional cowboy songs rooted in some kind of reality, while at the same time maintaining that mythos without it becoming a mockery of it.
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This lawsuit simply confuses consumers, and has the potential to make a mockery of Prop 65 cancer warning at a time when the public needs clear and accurate information about health.
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"In 2019, the federal grand jury exists as a mockery of the institution that once stood against the whims of monarchs," Manning wrote in a letter to Judge Trenga on Wednesday.
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"The Conservatives have not yet broken the British system of democracy, but through their hubris and incompetence they have managed to make a mockery of it," it said in an editorial.
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It's survived the mockery of Ted Leo and a development purgatory after Tom Hanks's company bought the film rights, and is now apparently heading to HBO to be resurrected yet again.
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To Ensnapingthesenses, "Lupin's extremely personal mockery of the Snape-boggart (which comes out of a closet!)" is a powerful example of the way in which Snape was shamed for being feminine.
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We live at a moment in history when the values that he represented seem to have been jettisoned, with a President who often makes a mockery of the institutions he governs.
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Then came mockery of passengers in an agency newsletter, huge shortcomings in its PreCheck programme, the resignation of its security chief, and, through it all, crippling security queues at America's airports.
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"Unless the CIA declassifies and makes public specific information about Gina Haspel's background, proceeding with this hearing will make a mockery of the Senate's constitutional responsibilities with regard to nominations," Sen.
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But Norman, who wound up guarding Beckham (seven catches, 121 yards) for most of the game, said the officials had also warned him not to make a "mockery" of the game.
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The Hill's Jessie Hellmann reports: A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC says that despite Donald Trump's mockery of Clinton, the billionaire businessman and Republican presidential candidate is the real punch line.
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By elevating and protecting human rights violators and engaging in smear campaigns against democratic nations, the UNHRC makes a mockery of itself, its members, and the mission it was founded on.
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"Iran is making a mockery of President Obama's vow to confront Iran's dangerous and illicit acts," said Representative Ed Royce, Republican of California and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Republicans are used to getting short shrift from the entertainment industry, but those interviewed by The Hill said "SNL" went out of its way to lean into its mockery of Trump.
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One firm even offers employers a "money back guarantee" in the event of a union victory, thereby making a mockery of the notion that the law protects employees' choice on unionization.
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It was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, its belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness.
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"–from the TV to a stoned victim in Freddy's Dead, a mockery of a popular "this is your brain" anti-drug PSA "Why don't you call one of your little friends.
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Ali blazed the path for hip-hop artists, placing vernacular speech in the service of truth, though such speech is always at first seen as a mockery of taste and pedigree.
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"The FCC's decision to go ahead with the vote makes a mockery of government integrity and rewards the very perpetrators who scammed the system to advance their own agenda," Schneiderman said.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission in April saying that the firm made a mockery of the agency's mission to protect investors.
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Just as he did after his harassment of Jones, Yiannopoulos intensified his harassment in response to the outrage, repeating his mockery of the student at a different stop on the tour.
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What Trump has done is not only ignore the idea that a president of the United States should take the high road, but also made a mockery of the very idea.
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They make a mockery of "equal justice under law," the central animating principle of the American experiment and one that, in the main, Republican and Democratic administrations have striven to honor.
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Speaking on Thursday, Harris also mentioned the public comments about his heritage and the mockery of his moustache - despite the fact that many famous Korean historical figures had similar facial hair.
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But in women's tennis, it is making a mockery of the demographics, and at least for the moment it has more top 20 players than Spain, France, Australia, China or Russia.
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He can thwart, resist and make a mockery of attempts to hold him accountable and to coerce acceptable behavior because Washington is filled with more survivalist politicians than with selfless patriots.
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Ms. Hasina's government has responded by denouncing its accusers, making a mockery of international and Bangladeshi law when faith in democratic institutions is crucial for the nation's struggle to counter terrorism.
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With this in mind, it's possible Democrats benefit politically from the chance to lambast what happened in the Senate over the last two weeks as a mockery of a fair trial.
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His divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, bullying mockery of others during campaign rallies, combative foreign policy, his rejection of diplomacy, and his demand for unequivocal loyalty have seriously disturbed the political establishment.
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This lawsuit simply confuses consumers, and has the potential to make a mockery of Prop 20083 cancer warning at a time when the public needs clear and accurate information about health.
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Activists voiced outrage at China's conduct at the U.N. review, held every five years, which Kai Mueller of the International Campaign for Tibet said made a "mockery of this important mechanism".
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He had made a mockery of the much-ballyhooed matchup, averaging 37.7 points and 9.3 rebounds against the Thunder while shooting better than 65 percent from the floor during those games.
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As a matter of fact, the appointment of private attorneys without adequate resources to represent their clients makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel.
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The probation officer's recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft timeout, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women.
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The verdict makes a "mockery" of President Xi Jinping's claims to champion the rule of law, Wang Yaqiu, a Hong Kong-based researcher for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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Condemnations of his comments about wages being too high were far more common in speeches during the convention's first three days, as were allusions to his mockery of a disabled reporter.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday responded to President Trump's mockery of her claims to Native American ancestry, releasing the results of a genetic test to try to shut down his critiques scientifically.
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House impeachment managers whined constantly about a lack of fairness, after they put on a master class in the mockery of due process when the House was in charge of the process.
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On Sunday night, an hourlong special on mounting violence against police officers, called "Police Emergency," was wedged between hours of impeachment coverage and mockery of Democrats from Joe Biden to Bernie Sanders.
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Even more importantly, whether people like it or not, humankind today faces three common problems that make a mockery of all national borders, and that can only be solved through global cooperation.
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Twenty horses is an insanely large field, and there are hundreds of things that can go wrong and blow your entire wager, make a mockery of all of your charts and graphs.
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British defense minister Gavin Williamson, in comments reported by the Financial Times, said London stood "resolute" behind Washington over the issue, and that the Kremlin was making a mockery of the agreement.
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"Sadly, our party's nominee this year is a man who makes a mockery of the principles and values we have cherished and which we sought to represent in Congress," the letters states.
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In a cruel mockery of both consumer health fads and language itself, PepsiCo is now offering a certified organic version of everybody's favorite salty neon sugar water, Gatorade, in select Kroger supermarkets.
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"Your 'fake news' t-shirts aren't funny, @Newseum(.) They make a mockery of the reporters, whose name you have inscribed on your walls, who died for their vocation," reporter Leigh Giangreco tweeted.
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As for Robert Kennedy, TRC calls the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, "A mockery of a trial that has been demolished by numerous eyewitnesses, investigators and experts," including the then L.A. County Coroner.
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For instance, just last week over 25,000 viewers watched two Scottish Cup replay matches on Periscope streams, making a mockery of the decision to schedule the fixtures without any live television coverage.
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To view his application with favor would be an affront to every person, Jew or non-Jew, who is concerned with anti-Semitism, and would make a mockery of the immigration laws.
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Pelosi said Friday that President Trump is making a mockery of Republicans by bringing conservative skeptics of the GOP's ObamaCare replacement bill to the White House next week for a few frames.
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"Tom Perez needs to realize that this resolution is a blatant mockery of one of one of the most serious problems of our time," said CREDO Action campaign manager Jelani Drew-Davi.
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This sounds like insipid spiritual pablum, but in fact it's a difficult teaching, one that makes a mockery of our foolish national politics, and much of what we find in the media.
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The Cougars (19-1, 6-1 AAC) shot 66.7 percent from the 13-point line, making a mockery of the Pirates' 3-point defense, which entered the contest 11th in the nation.
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Trump is singularly ill-suited and unprepared for the job he is seeking, and he is making a mockery of what conservatives have argued, accomplished, and sought to achieve in recent decades.
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Meese has claimed political neutrality — it's central to his message of art as a force beyond good and evil — while his over-the-top persona makes a mockery of fascism's anesthetized aesthetic.
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What defined the lowest part of Tupac's short life, a significant era of mental and emotional fatigue, is repurposed as little more than big business branding, a mockery of its original intent.
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"If Verizon or AT&T can just willy-nilly kick people off that network, it makes a mockery of the idea that that's a satisfactory approach for those rural areas," Mitchell said.
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It makes a mockery of the gothic, placing horrific imagery in quotation marks, but still manages to be genuinely unsettling: Gorey's parodies of nineteenth-century nightmares remain disturbing in the twenty-first.
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Clinton scarcely alluded to Mr. Trump in a speech about people with disabilities, earning praise from some viewers by leaving a familiar attack — Mr. Trump's mockery of a reporter's physical disability — unsaid.
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" To lock him up forever even though deemed a changed man is to make a mockery of his sentence: "25 years to life" is not supposed to be cynical code for "life.
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The system was described as "worthy of Gogol" by Mr. Major's private secretary, Roderic Lyne, in a reference to the Russian writer known for his mockery of Russian bureaucracy 150 years earlier.
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There had been calls from many within the alliance to expel Mr. Orban and his party, arguing that he was making a mockery of the very political family to which he belongs.
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Facebook said Wednesday it will switch back on its controversial facial recognition feature in Europe — a move denounced by privacy activists as a "mockery" of the company's promise to protect user data.
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"Facebook's plan to roll out automated facial recognition in the U.K. makes a total mockery of their promises to respect users' privacy," Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, told VICE News.
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Trump also flouted protocols at home, making a mockery of his necessity to advise Congress of military action by writing on Twitter that his tweets would serve as official notification of strikes.
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Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Erdogan's administration told Turkish reporters that the Turkish president had thrown out a letter from Mr. Trump, making a mockery of his attempts to prevent the Turkish invasion.
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And for people with disabilities who rely on trained, certified service animals to move through the world on a daily basis, mockery of emotional support animals may further stigmatize their own needs.
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The fact these groups can often operate out of prison with impunity and escape when they decide prison has become too uncomfortable makes a mockery of the arrests and prosecutions that occur.
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Radical reform is necessary, on this view, because the status quo makes a mockery of democracy — in a way that will likely get worse as the country's population gets younger and browner.
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Fat Mike, of NOFX , never seemed impressed by the genial antics of Hoppus and DeLonge, who made a mockery of his conviction that punk should be at least a little bit confrontational.
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Russia, where often vicious mockery of Barack Obama has for months been a state-sponsored national sport, responded with glee to Mr. Obama's departure from office and the arrival of President Trump.
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And while I disagree with his language in that interview (as my mom taught me: Loose lips sink ships), there's been too much mockery of Scaramucci for it to really be fair.
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" Speaking from inside Number 10 Downing Street, May repeated that the options on offer from the EU were unacceptable and would "make a mockery of the referendum we had two years ago.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The first three races of the Formula One season have made a mockery of pre-season predictions that Ferrari would set the pace and leave Mercedes struggling to keep up.
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A single state could thus wipe out annual and lifetime limits across the whole country, making a mockery of federalism, where each state is supposed to be able to make decisions for itself.
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The result, Mr Reeves argues, is a chasm between the upper middle class and the bottom 80% of households, which makes a mockery of America's vision of itself as a land of opportunity.
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"I think at this point the leadership, with their duplicitous words that do not align with their actions, has made a mockery of the movement that millions of women have built," Alterman said.
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But it will make a mockery of the euro zone's fiscal rules, which require Italy to keep a low budget deficit in order to cut its public debt, currently 132 percent of GDP.
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One is a Norway-style deal, which would force it to obey nearly all the bloc's rules, including freedom of movement—something that would make a mockery of the referendum, Mrs May said.
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The leak, aside from its brazen mockery of the name given to the hacker group by security firm CrowdStrike, attempted to discredit WADA by showing that US athletes took performance-enhancing drugs, too.
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The probation officer s recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft time out, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women.
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In the process, he exposed the party's underbelly of bigotry and xenophobia with deliberately provocative rhetoric, and went on to make a mockery of both the mainstream media and the liberal political establishment.
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The United States this week announced it was suspending talks with Russia on a ceasefire, all but saying the Russian and Syrian assault on Aleppo had made a mockery of the peace effort.
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It would make a mockery of the Olympic movement to deny an athlete who has taken enormous personal risks for the cause of clean sport the ability to participate in the Rio Olympics.
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Elected to the Palestinian Authority presidency for a four-year term in 2005, he has refused to hold another election, choosing to remain in office and make a mockery of Palestinian democratic pretensions.
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"An approach that allows rich towns to raid money desperately needed by poor towns makes a mockery of the state's constitutional duty to provide adequate educational opportunities to all students," Judge Moukawsher wrote.
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Activist: 'We're disgusted and we're outraged' "I'm appalled, I can't believe that this really happened, just to make a mockery of everything," said Chauntyll Allen, founder of Black Lives Matter's Twin Cities chapter.
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"Donald Trump didn't help Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation with his crude mockery of Christine Blasey Ford on Tuesday night in Mississippi, but then this Supreme Court moshpit isn't about this President," the editors wrote.
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That moment during Wales's 3-0 Group B victory over Russia on Monday made a mockery of the fact that Russia, with 143 million people, dwarfs Wales, which has just over three million.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, sent an angry letter to the S.E.C. in April, saying that approval of the new firm had made "a mockery" of the agency's mission to protect investors.
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When the opera was performed in Vienna in 1870, two years after its première, a rumor spread that the serenade was a deliberate mockery of Jewish singing, and some operagoers hissed in response.
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"This is an opportunity lost, and makes a mockery of the architectural competition for new ideas," he said, referring to the competition that Mackintosh won, earning him the right to build the site.
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" Sentencing Turner to just six months in jail, the male juror wrote, "makes a mockery of the whole trial and the ability of the justice system to protect victims of assault and rape.
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Those women strove to change law and political culture all over this land because they believed that manhood suffrage — full voting rights for men and only men — made a mockery of self-government.
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Instead, he worked to make a mockery of the proceedings, prove his devotion to the president and gin up attention for a possible Senate run, which he teased on Twitter at one point.
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone's closing argument followed a clip show of sorts showing Democrats during the Clinton impeachment saying that Republicans were making a mockery of the process with their hyper-partisanship.
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There are many reasons working-class conservatives vote against their economic interests — abortion and gun issues count heavily for some — but another is the mockery of Democrats who deride them as ignorant bumpkins.
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This makes a mockery of the Constitutional obligation that the Senate hold a trial and take an oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
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A man who uses what is a largely apolitical role to push a punishing immigration policy and spend whatever bipartisan credit he had defending a President who makes a mockery of the office?
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To allow the articles of impeachment to go to trial when the outcome is preordained would make a mockery of the impeachment process and offer an opportunity for President Trump to claim exoneration.
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Joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, Alito said the majority had made "a mockery of" court procedure because, he said, it resolved a question related to Madison that was not directly before the court.
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Justice Thomas's position would strip justices of the power to revisit and revise the meaning of the Constitution; it would make a mockery of the idea of the Constitution as a living document.
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The boundary-pushers of Charles and Bunny's time reveled in making a mockery of identity politics and political correctness; ours is defined by sharpening categories as a means to demand inclusion and recognition.
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But because I love you, dear Noisey reader, I have taken it upon myself to present you with several of Emin's music videos, and will now proceed to make ruthless mockery of them.
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The United States this week announced it was suspending talks with Russia on a ceasefire, all but saying the Russian and Syrian assault on Aleppo had made a mockery of the peace effort.
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" PAUL ASHWORTH, CHIEF U.S. ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS, TORONTO: "The far bigger-than-expected 312,000 jump in non-farm payrolls in December would seem to make a mockery of market fears of an impending recession.
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" On Trump's mockery of Christine Blaey Ford at his Mississippi rally: "President Trump went through a factual rendition that I didn't particularly like, and I would tell him, 'Knock it off, you're not helping.
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But by the end of the episode, the internet mob comes to realize the play is not the mockery of Asian culture they feared, and that they're the ones who are acting like jerks.
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"The Clinton Foundation's lack of disclosure surrounding this high-dollar event is deeply troubling and makes a mockery of Bill Clinton's claim that the foundation is 'as transparent as we can be,'" Miller said.
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Nobel laureate and Princeton professor Angus Deaton has warned that the widening gap between rich and poor is "making a mockery of democracy" and inequality in the United Kingdom could soon hit American levels.
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"She is sick, & the most overrated person on TV" suggests a personal injury and deeply felt affront, very different in tone from Trump's hearty mockery of "low energy" Jeb Bush or "Little Marco" Rubio.
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But these will be a mere echo (and perhaps even a mockery) of the force that carried out the shocking seizure of terrain in Iraq, threatening even Baghdad, a year and a half ago.
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"Our party's nominee this year is a man who makes a mockery of the principles and values we have cherished and which we sought to represent in Congress," the group said in a statement.
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"The bill the GOP pushed through last night makes a mockery of the Zika health crisis that so many Americans are concerned about," said NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue in a statement.
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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Monday for an "immediate arms embargo" against South Sudan, saying that its rival leaders had "made a mockery" of the peace deal they signed only months ago.
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"As we've told the FCC: moving forward with this vote would make a mockery of our public comment process and reward those who perpetrated this fraud to advance their own hidden agenda," Schneiderman said.
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It also ruled last month to outlaw mockery of the national anthem and decided the law would be extended to Hong Kong, which will take effect after it's been put to the city's legislature.
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"Detaining and charging peaceful protesters makes a mockery of the promise that authorities will lift political restrictions within the next month," Katherine Gerson, a Southeast Asia campaigner for the group, said in a statement.
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He seems to be implying that if you make a mockery of the tier system, you eventually force the hand of the United States Soccer Federation, which sanctions the various tiers at its discretion.
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"The way Setya Novanto has made a mockery of our legal system and of the public's trust, we need to show that there is no more room for the likes of him," she said.
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Now they understood that if their interest was partly in jest, it was not the sneering mockery of hipsters at Olive Garden, but the camp infatuation of gay men who root for Disney villains.
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Mr. Trump, with his affinity for military men and mockery of male emotion would have seen such a subservient man as weak, but Ms. Hicks cannily leveraged the president's own misogyny to her advantage.
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Trump's use of this particular nickname combines several of his worst habits: his inability to let perceived insults slide, his bullying mockery of opponents — and most of all, his general cluelessness on race issues.
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When I think of that story — and the hundreds of sad and disturbing stories of how Native people have suffered throughout history, I can't imagine making a mockery of their names or their lives.
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Consequently, over the last two decades we have allowed successive waves of mergers that make a mockery of the 1950 law, and have concentrated economic power in ways that are dangerous to the polity.
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"This is a revolting film and a mockery of our history, our heroes, in particular of my father," Maria Zhukova told the Russian Military Historical Society, an organization that promotes Mr. Medinsky's ideological causes.
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The show derives a lot of its humor from Kaz's earnest attempts to belong, which occasion some reasonably subtle mockery of the city's social stratification and of a certain strain of tragic millennial mopiness.
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" PAUL ASHWORTH, CHIEF U.S. ECONOMIST, CAPITAL ECONOMICS, TORONTO: "The far bigger-than-expected 312,000 jump in non-farm payrolls in December would seem to make a mockery of market fears of an impending recession.
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The 1998 impeachment verdict and Edwards trial established that trying to criminalize this behavior through perjury traps and strained election-law readings renders a mockery of our justice system, and we rejected it twice.
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Scores of women took to social media, making an immediate mockery of the idea, and soon after, a PepsiCo spokeswoman denied the company was ever even, really entertaining the idea in the first place.
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But it turned into an iconic Trump-era spectacle that served instead to show how the White House and its acolytes have made a mockery of the checks and balances of the Washington system.
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Deep time makes a mockery of the plantations' blinkered order; under the ancient canopy, the master's stride falters and the voices of African hunters and Amerindian priests resound from the depths of unrecorded millenniums.
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Shareholders have backed the deal despite opposition from activist investor Odey Asset Management, which said the offer was too low and seemed "to make a mockery of both internal and external audits at Sirius".
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Both projects share in their mockery of a gaudy, all-gold aesthetic that Trump seems quite fond of — from the gold plating on his airplane to the golden detailing outside his New York penthouse.
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For all of the liberal media's mockery of Trump, he's right that dialogue with Moscow is essential, although dialogue with Moscow will be productive only if we talk about the tough issues we disagree on.
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Josh Shreve annotated like a reporter breaking down amid chaos as Scott Anderson held a microphone up to the party's mascot, "Seymore D. Icks," a mockery of the fair's fluffy pelican avatar Seymore D. Fair.
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But perhaps their deepest love for this awful, awful wordplay runs in their self-mockery of the fact that, as three bespectacled musicians, they look like an advertisement for LensCrafters' line of indie rock eyewear.
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"It is sickening to know that someone would make a mockery of black men being savagely lynched and then use that imagery for decorative purposes in a restaurant," Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima Levy-Pounds commented.
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Anastasia Somoza, the beautiful, bright, young, disabled activist took the stage and took down Donald Trump and his savage discrimination of disabled Americans demonstrated by his juvenile mockery of a reporter earlier in the year.
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The truth is, Turkey uses its NATO membership to make a mockery of democracy and has done so for decades, one may need to look no further than Turkey's illegal occupation of Cyprus in 1974.
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President Trump, USTR nominee Robert Lighthizer, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and Commerce-Secretary designee Wilbur Ross are less likely to turn a blind eye to China's making a mockery of its WTO obligations.
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A horrible mess that makes a mockery of the Apple catchphrase of yore ('it just works') by actively degrading the productivity of writing — interrupting your work with pointless sound and an alphabetic soup of fury.
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In "An Ideal Husband", Wilde presciently imagines his fate through the character of Sir Robert Chiltern: "public disgrace, ruin, terrible shame, the mockery of the world, a lonely dishonoured life [and] a lonely dishonoured death".
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And that's to say nothing of the invitation extended to the warlord "General" Haftar, whose brief presence in Palermo made a mockery of the peace process, his hosts and his many victims in eastern Libya.
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"[McConnell] and his colleagues want to make a mockery of the national debate that we have started with the Green New Deal, and that's because they have no plans to fight climate change," said Markey.
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" The irony here is not lost on Trump supporters, who are daily under assault by liberals for lowering the level of debate, making a mockery of our politics, and generally being portrayed as "dumb America.
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"People are only used to watching homosexual content in the context of comedy or in scenes that make a mockery of homosexual characters," said Dhaliwal, a trans woman who describes the film as semi-autobiographical.
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The board all but accused City Hall of making a mockery of the city's strict campaign-finance laws by soliciting big contributions from special interests for the organization, called the Campaign for One New York.
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The sad thing here is that the value of getting a free education at a major university has again been devalued and, once again, made a mockery of the entire stated purpose of college athletics.
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This food talk is a reminder that "American Psycho" has yet to receive its full due as the most wicked and sustained mockery of the late-80s restaurant scene that we have in our literature.
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Mr. Schumer said the Republican tax bill had made "a mockery of the legislative process," and he pleaded for Republicans to work with Democrats on taxes instead of moving forward with the current tax plan.
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The ones who cheered President Trump's mockery of Christine Blasey Ford at a rally in Mississippi, tweeted #HimToo in support of their sons who might one day be, in their eyes, unfairly accused of assault?
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The Raiders (27-73) have been making a mockery of what could be their final season in Oakland and probably don't have the players to make a game competitive even if they decided to try.
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For legal reasons, a delay beyond the end of June would be likely to require Britain to participate in elections to the next European Parliament, making a mockery of British plans to leave the bloc.
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How do I reconcile the lessons she learns in school -- about America as a country founded on the principle of freedom of religion -- when Trump makes a mockery of that tradition with this bigoted ban?
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She said the video was a "mockery of the Immaculate Conception," included "denial of the existence of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad" and gave "an offensive description of Patriarch Kirill" of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Some people, including me, had come to worry that Trump might make a mockery of America's ideals, that he would be allowed to get away with his abuses because of congressional timidity and hand wringing.
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With her sneering mockery of Mr. Macron, her tone and her use of epithets, she had revealed something essential about herself despite years of effort to soften her party's image, in the view of commentators.
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SNL Late night TV's mockery of presidents and their senior staff is nothing new, but the intensity (and accuracy) of Melissa McCarthy's "Spicy" left him looking more like a caricature of himself than the original.
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If protest is needed this year, I wouldn't be surprised to find myself in ample good company demanding we transform this mockery of democracy into the enlightening, empowering debates that are critical to our future.
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Once I knew it was Borat, we already know his game and his -- so we knew he was here to make a mockery, and make a mockery of what, gun owners, the gun business, gun shops.
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"Scott Pruitt and Senate Republicans have made a mockery of the confirmation process, permitting the nominee to escape scrutiny and hide his deep ties to the fossil fuel industry," the Sierra Club said in a statement.
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Right from the start, the geek community had their worst fears about this show confirmed: based on how it began, The Big Bang Theory promised to be a cliché-ridden weekly mockery of all things nerdy.
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U.S. producers claim the Canadian wood is unfairly subsidized because it comes from federal lands and have threatened to seek billions of dollars in tariffs, which Canadian officials say would make a "mockery" of free trade.
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But the 22-year-old Bouchard made a mockery of her world ranking of 48 to win 6-3 1-6 53-1 and set up a third-round clash with Slovakia's 19th seed Dominika Cibulkova.
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NEW YORK – George Takei has been vocal about his distaste for President Donald Trump and now the "Star Trek" actor has made an app in hopes of making a "little mockery" of today&aposs political climate.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Friday denounced Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in a coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen, saying such traffic made a "mockery" of a global arms trade treaty.
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"The gain in first-quarter GDP would seem to make a mockery of claims that the U.S. economy is slowing as the fiscal stimulus fades," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
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After the Floridian death metal explosion of the late 80s and early 90s, and before the New Wave of American Heavy Metal would devolve into a shit-core mockery of itself, there was At The Gates.
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At a concert hall in Carmel, near Indianapolis, on Monday, Mr. Trump again said that winning the state would end the Republican race, and interspersed his mockery of Mr. Cruz with harsh attacks on Hillary Clinton.
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And one other thing: the reflexive mockery of whites, as in an opening gag sequence in which Mr. Huang rescues a distressed swimmer and declares that it's another white person who ate too much jerk chicken.
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This week, the official Russian Embassy to the UK tweeted Pepe the Frog to British Prime Minister Theresa May, an apparent attempt to make a mockery of the UK's relationship with both the US and Russia.
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"I think that we've come to the conclusion that Fix NICS alone would be a mockery of the magnitude of the problem and also the seismic shift in public opinion around this issue," Mr. Blumenthal said.
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As long as Tara herself remained unknown, and her motives remained ambiguous, My Immortal was essentially Schrödinger's fanfic, both high trolling and genuine ostentation, a simultaneous celebration and mockery of fandom at its best and worst.
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The jokes in Larry's opening monologue on his in-show talk show were always stale and a little hacky, the sorts of easy mockery of politicians and celebrities that we're used to seeing on such programs.
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Senate Democrats have said they would try to block any rewrite of the tax code that included these measures, arguing that they would make a mockery of Republican promises to provide relief for the middle class.
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Ms. Osakue said she had found the mockery of her as a "poor little black girl" that erupted after her injury to be unfair, and disputed the accusation that she had milked the injury for notoriety.
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No goals and the only highlights of the half are the two Belgium yellows, a mockery of the notion of fair play that will not go unpunished when the history of this tournament is writ .... kidding.
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The basis of my rejection of their offer is that it makes a mockery of our hard earned democracy, the trust of our people and no one apart from the President of the Republic appoints ministers.
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"The rule flatly violates federal law and makes a mockery of our national obligation not to return asylum seekers to violence and persecution," Richard Calderone, litigation counsel at the Tahirih Justice Center, said in a statement.
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Cybersecurity insiders have told Business Insider that non-disclosure agreements allow European firms to "make a mockery" of Europe&aposs data laws, letting them cover up security breaches and potentially avoid millions of dollars in fines.
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Probably the richest life cycle of any meme on this list, "Thanks, Obama" started as a sarcastic mockery of right-wingers who sought to blame all their woes on the Obama administration, even irksome everyday frustrations.
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Pence, Tillerson and Mattis leave behind them a chaotic, Tim Burton-esque Camelot: a king who tried to run before he could walk and graceless courtiers who make a mockery of themselves, their roles and the monarch.
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Yet Mr Trump has made such a mockery of diplomacy and policymaking that the world is readier to believe them than his ostensible reason for withdrawing from one of the most successful international accords of recent years.
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Riggs put all his energy into grandstanding, supplying pithy commentary about how he intended to put the "show" back in "chauvinism," and generally making a mockery of the face-off, with a goal of drumming up attention.
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"Unfortunately, the latest proposal by Cerro Colorado only considered a real (wage) increase of 1 percent, which we consider to be a mockery of the workers, whose efforts are the lifeline of the company's profits," said Parra.
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Mr. Trump's celebrity and pugnacity had turned previous debates into widely watched spectacles that frequently descended into shouting matches, dueling insults and, in Mr. Trump's case, frequent mockery of his rivals as listless, flailing and even ugly.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he hoped parliament would vote against the government's Brexit deal, calling it a national humiliation that made a mockery of the decision to leave the European Union.
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In this climate changing era, which is making a mockery of American inaction, the unattended backpacks of our time are heavy meat consumption, excessive fashion waste, gas guzzling sports utility vehicles, incandescent bulbs, frequent flyers and more.
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As Trump makes a mockery of his office, he has left America to drift in two fundamentally anti-democratic directions, with the military exercising ever greater power as neo-Nazi street protesters form militias of their own.
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"The probation officer's recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft timeout, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women," the victim said in her statement.
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"The BJP's irrational insistence that it will form a government in Karnataka, even though it clearly doesn't have the numbers, is to make a mockery of our constitution," said the Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi on Twitter.
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If Carroll's nonsense satirizes the rise of philosophical idealism and the university, mocking people who think for a living and end up with absurd results, Lear's is a mockery of Victorian natural science, particularly the life sciences.
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But those attacks, along with President Trump's mockery of Dr. Blasey at a campaign rally, could complicate the party's efforts to confirm Judge Kavanaugh by alienating three key Republican senators, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
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Initially Harv is tasked with being 63ix9ine's bodyguard, but eventually tensions between him and Shotti splinter the gang from within; Harv had had enough of the loose-tongued interloper who was making a mockery of his world.
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As for the "VSCO girl" meme explosion, largely a mockery of white middle-class, social-media-savvy teenagers, it provided a jolt of publicity for a nearly decade-old company lost in the shadow of the giants.
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Barely a minute into the second quarter, Dallas (22-32) increased its lead to double digits and then quickly made a mockery of the spiraling Magic (20-5), who have punched just five wins since Dec. 26.
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" They added that the actions taken by the Justice Department on the Stone case "make a mockery of your responsibilities to seek equal justice under the law and reveal that you are unfit to head the DOJ.
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His startling rise to becoming the Republican standard-bearer has effectively ripped open the GOP, thrown conventional political wisdom out the window, and made a mockery of any pundit who tried to predict the race this year.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a conservative fiscal watchdog in Washington, said the Mnuchin analysis "makes a mockery of dynamic scoring and analysis," referring to methods for forecasting the impact of tax changes on the economy.
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"The far bigger than expected 312,583 jump in non-farm payrolls in December would seem to make a mockery of market fears of an impending recession," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.
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In Photos: These New York Protesters Made a Mockery of Donald Trump in His Hometown Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is trailing far behind the two candidates for the Republican nomination, also spoke at the conference on Monday.
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Morning commuters gathered to snap photos and debate whether the statue should be seen as mockery of Netanyahu or homage to the right-wing prime minister, now in his fourth term and known by his childhood nickname "Bibi".
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But there is one potential silver lining: if the Warriors become so dominant that they make a mockery of the league, it might spur Adam Silver, the NBA's impressively open-minded commissioner, to prioritise much-needed economic reform.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it had canceled the release of "Death of Stalin", a dark, satirical movie from British director Armando Iannucci, saying many Russians would find it an insulting mockery of the country's Soviet past.
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Her rendition of the mysterious, surreal, "Dark Eyes," from the 1985 album "Empire Burlesque" was equally strong, and Ms. Osborne made sense of that ubiquitous anthem, "Forever Young," which often sounds like a mockery of baby-boomer narcissism.
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Now, after months of apocalyptic rhetoric and mockery of "Little Rocket Man," Kim Jong-Un, the President is offering to open dialogue when it's "appropriate," and even says he's willing to talk to the North Korean leader himself.
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There were big crowds, special rules in place, Alan M. Dershowitz mugging for photographs and Triumph, the canine puppet known for his ambush mockery of celebrities, trying to score an interview with Senator Mitt Romney, to no avail.
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N.L." between 63 and 1993, said, "It was a mockery of someone acting in bad taste," adding, "It's so absurd she turned something that was written—these were trunk pieces, old sketches—into something improvised just for her.
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Donald Trump, too, has melded his mockery of the establishment with an appeal to patriotic zest, raising the prospect that someone, somewhere, might sneak over a border and steal your job as if it were an unlocked car.
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It was "another move in a string of agreements that continue to make a grotesque mockery of the right to asylum," Charanya Krishnaswami, the advocacy director for the Americas at Amnesty International USA, said in a press release.
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" The Lakota People's Law Project vigorously disputed the report's conclusions and said in its own statement that the significance of the Covington teens' tomahawk chops "would naturally be taken by a Native person as a mockery of his culture.
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The report "would seem to make a mockery of market expectations" for a quarter- or half-point cut at the July 30-31 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
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Starting on the night of the "Super Tuesday" primaries on March 1, he has held a string of news conferences in ornate settings, wrapping himself in presidential pomp even as he continued to engage in mockery of his rivals.
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Then, a couple of innings later, to make a mockery of my debut, Cabrera hit another one that rocketed over the head of the right fielder, who turned around and got to watch the ball sail into the stands.
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Are we meant to discern a deconstructive critique, or merely a mockery of chick lit, in Spiotta's portrayal of two smart female artists trying to honor their pasts while inventing their futures, all without judging each other to death?
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" Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor: "With anti-migration parties in gov or strong opposition in so many EU countries you could say this issue will destroy the EU, making a mockery of European 'unity' and pulling the block apart.
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"By choosing a major violator as Iran's voice on human rights," it said in a statement, "Iran is also making a mockery of the Human Rights Council and showing contempt for the U.N. human rights system as a whole."
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"Sophisticated and large scale adulteration has thus been able to make a mockery of the honey industry's feigned attempt at 'self-policing' through True Source," said one honey importer and packer, who requested anonymity over fears of professional retribution.
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In a similar manner to last season's bold flashback to prehistoric Jarden, this season kicks off with a trip back to 1844, when a band of religious pilgrims suffered the mockery of their frontier town for their apocalyptic prophecies.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong proposed new laws on Friday punishing mockery of the Chinese national anthem with up to three years in jail, mirroring new penalties in mainland China and raising fresh concerns over the city's promised freedoms.
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New state voter restrictions, the flood of dark campaign money and a partisan redistricting power grab at the Supreme Court have made a mockery of the fundamental principle that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.
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In December, a Saudi court sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder, but a U.N. investigator accused Riyadh of making a "mockery" of justice by exonerating senior figures who may have ordered the killing.
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Leading Brexit advocate Boris Johnson said the deal was a national humiliation and made a mockery of the public's vote to leave the EU. May's nominal allies in the Northern Irish DUP have also said they will vote against her deal.
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Though the new TV series is based on Heathers (which starred Winona Ryder as the only non-Heather in the titular mean girl gang), it looks quite different from the black comedy that made a twisted mockery of high school life.
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Her sporadic attempts to lighten up are hit-and-miss: her frequent public mockery of Mr Johnson is making an enemy of him—and feels weird coming from the woman who gave him his powerful job in the first place.
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British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Financial Times that the U.K. would stand by President Trump's decision to withdraw from a landmark nuclear treaty with Russia, claiming that the Kremlin has made a "mockery" of the deal with repeated violations.
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The new law has not only complicated many of our Social Security decisions enormously, it's made a mockery of fairness by permitting a one-second difference in the time of one's birth to make major difference to one's lifetime benefits.
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Making a mockery of the 21st seeding she landed after a miserable 2017, the former world number one outplayed Keys in almost every facet of the 51-minute match to seal a semi-final date with Simona Halep or Karolina Pliskova.
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They blame his government for being slow in reaching out to them after drought ravaged their crops in 2014 and 2015, making a mockery of his election promise that they would make a 50 percent profit on their cost of cultivation.
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Pruitt has repeatedly made a mockery of the role of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide pollution in causing global warming, and before he took the helm at EPA, he sued the agency repeatedly in an effort to combat environmental regulations.
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But what was left behind was the triggering of a Sunni insurgency that would morph into ISIS, and a willingness to acquiesce in Shia exclusivity that would make a mockery of the possibilities for functional governance and Shia-Sunni reconciliation.
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Conflicting leaks about what was in the emails and how close to indicting Clinton the FBI was cropped up in different outlets, muddying the waters and making a mockery of the bureau's general rules about not commenting on active investigations.
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In this book, capitalism makes a mockery of the illusion of freedom-just-ahead—the promise that sent millions traveling west during those same years when the Ingallses were loading and unloading their covered wagon and then loading it once again.
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Rubio's mockery of Trump for having small hands and his quip: "You know what they say about men with small hands," served mostly to show that "Little Marco" was not in the same league at insult politics as his tormentor.
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An emboldened Turkey will eventually overreach; but for now it seems determined to revive ISIS by freeing Islamic State prisoners, making a mockery of the tens of thousands of people who have died either fighting these extremists or as their victims.
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It's hard to believe, but amidst the global streaming war that threatens to make a bonafide mockery of our anxious bank accounts, a new streaming service has launched in the UK — and it's all about that sweet, sweet British content.
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The tone of his campaign, with its mockery of opponents and lambasting of Republican leaders, has elevated the billionaire to his current prominence in a year of anti-Washington fury -- so he is unlikely to suddenly tout endorsements by GOP grandees.
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He never suggested that Trump's routine attacks on decency—his depictions of immigrants and Muslims as sinister invaders; his mockery of everyone from disabled reporters to sexual-assault victims—added up to something more consequential than any piece of legislation.
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And now he will follow up that meaningless fight with another one against former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, a man who hasn't fought in three years and has never fought at middleweight—further making a mockery of the official rankings.
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WASHINGTON — Democratic senators blistered President Trump's health secretary on Tuesday, telling him that the Trump administration's efforts to undo health insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions made a mockery of the president's campaign to rein in prescription drug prices.
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While the president has so far dodged questions about whether he will pardon Mr. Manafort, he's already shown a willingness to make a mockery of the justice system with his pardons of unrepentant lawbreakers like Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Dinesh D'Souza.
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Then apologize to her, to all of the people who suffer from actual sexual dysfunctions (whose maladies you've made a mockery of), and to anyone whom you might have used sexually and perhaps emotionally misled to fulfill your own needs.
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"But the other kind of getting rich, 'taking' rather than 'making', rent-seeking rather than creating, enriching the few at the expense of the many, taking the free out of free markets, is making a mockery of democracy," he said.
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Erasing the results of open, cooperative deliberation with a back-room sweetheart deal inserted into a huge must-pass omnibus spending bill without debate on the floor of either chamber of Congress would make a mockery of citizen participation in government.
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Leading Brexit advocate Boris Johnson said the deal was a national humiliation and made a mockery of the public's vote to leave the EU. May's nominal allies in the Northern Irish DUP have also said they will vote against her deal.
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One needs to only look a little more deeply at the relationship between the Ethiopian leader and Eritrea to understand why the decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize was wrong and makes a mockery of the Eritrean people's suffering.
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But the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported that Turkey's justice minister, Bekir Bozdag, said a week ago that Mr. Kahl, the foreign intelligence chief, had made "a mockery of Turkish people's intelligence" by rejecting Turkey's evidence on Gulen supporters.
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WATERLOO, Iowa — Joe Biden seized on the mockery of Donald Trump by foreign allies at this week's NATO summit, making it a central feature of his campaign to portray the president as erratic, dangerous and distrusted at home and abroad.
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Related: In Photos: These New York Protesters Made a Mockery of Donald Trump in His Hometown He also made effigies of Peña Nieto and Elba Esther Gordillo, the head of Mexico's teachers union who currently faces criminal charges for embezzlement.
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"Today, Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President," he said, making a strange, meta-textual reference to his previous tweets before launching into his usual mockery of Ms. Warren's claims to Native heritage.
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Commentary: The lessons of Aleppo's long, pointless siege As long as it held out, Aleppo made a mockery of President Bashar al Assad's ambition to once again be seen as ruler of everywhere important in Syria, writes Reuters global affairs columnist Peter Apps.
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" He said Wednesday's proceeding was making a mockery of the U.N. Danon said, "Just for comparison, the devastation in Syria that has claimed 500,000 lives, and displaced seven million people has never resulted in an emergency special session of the General Assembly.
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Social media exploded late Sunday night with widespread mockery of the armed group, which is led by Ammon Bundy, the flannel-cloaked 40-year-old son of rancher Cliven Bundy, who once sparred with the federal government over grazing rights — and won.
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" Citing the separation of immigrants from their children, the treatment of Ford, the mockery of gun violence survivors and much more, Sewer argued that for many in Trumpland, "community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them.
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Ministers are hoping Cox can convince eurosceptic lawmakers he has done enough to remove the threat of Britain ending up in the EU's customs union indefinitely, something Brexit supporters say would make a mockery of the 2016 vote to leave the bloc.
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The letter goes on to identify Mr Trump as "a danger to our society" whose behaviour—including bullying, mockery of the disabled, race-baiting, religious discrimination, sexism and threats of physical violence—"goes against everything we teach the children in our care".
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Beyond just actor and character, Depp played Jack Sparrow as a sort of a mockery of his public image, parodying his "bad boy" and "rebel" reputation by becoming a clownish version of himself, but still quick, clever, mysterious, and always two steps ahead.
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Wild variations also occurred when the subjects ate foods like sushi and whole-grain bread, making a mockery of the glycemic index, long used to rank foods according to their effects on blood sugar, and calling into question the reliability of calorie calculations.
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But America has made a mockery of the WTO by picking trade fights with friends and enemies alike, and by refusing to appoint judges to its appeals body—opening the way for China to set up a rival body of its own.
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Other Americans long looked down on Gullah or Geechees (Clarence Thomas, a reticent American Supreme Court justice born just down the coast from Ms Smart-Grosvenor in Georgia, attributes his reluctance to speak from the bench to childhood mockery of his accent).
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While those outside the service may shrug at the above video and chalk it up to some guardsmen having a little fun, those within the military are furious, deriding the video for what they say is making a mockery of a solemn event.
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AT&T's proposed $85 billion buyout of Time Warner could make a mockery of US open internet protections if the combined company decides to exploit a loophole in federal regulations in order to favor its own content at the expense of rivals.
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Having thrashed Denis Istomin in his Melbourne Park opener, third seed Federer faced a different beast in world number 189 Evans, who made a mockery of his ranking and pushed the Swiss hard throughout a high-quality duel at Rod Laver Arena.
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It's a natural progression of the million other things he's said this campaign that would normally disqualify someone from the presidency, like his praise of dictators and his attack on John McCain for being captured and his mockery of a disabled reporter.
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That is the strongest performance by the yen since the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and makes a mockery of the Bank of Japan's shock move at the end of January to weaken it with negative interest rates.
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Like ancient Greek tragedy, "Prophecy" exposes the folly of human efforts to circumvent fate, which become the very acts that ultimately fulfill it, making a mockery of free will — even, it turns out, for someone as steely as Krasner was said to be.
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"The fact that OPEC is not being held accountable for its anticompetitive behavior makes a mockery of U.S. antitrust law," said Goodlatte, who asked Delrahim if the administration would support the bill, called the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2018.
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Trump's personalization of the presidency has crippled him in his dealings with Kim, inspired him to degrade institutions like the free press and judiciary, and attempted to make a mockery of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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He told the parliament's upper chamber, dominated by members of his Partido Popular, that the Catalan leadership had made a mockery of democracy and that there was no alternative but to continue with efforts to stop the secession movement in its tracks.
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By comparison, 43% say that of Mr Trump, though his campaign pronouncements have been so packed with falsehoods—concerning the state of the economy, his record, you name it—as to make a mockery of the notion of rectitude in public life.
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He has taken such polarizing stances on a series of key issues -- hard-line immigration policies, his mockery of #MeToo, and his intransigence on gun control -- that the energy driving his opponents will be stronger than the fact that economic times are good.
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They will make a mockery of federal election laws, because they will catapult viewers into a post-truth universe where, to paraphrase Orwell, power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of someone else's thinking.
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Read more: Deontay Wilder's desire to 'get me a body' on his boxing record by killing an opponent makes a mockery of the fighters who have died through the sportShould Fury be the first to beat the heavy-hitting American, the world awaits.
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Progressive women in Congress are also using these votes to broadly challenge the hypocrisy of our multi-decade partnership with Saudi Arabia and, together, with women leaders on the ground rejecting an alliance that makes a mockery of democracy and human rights.
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We must demand clear reporting from the U.S. media and concrete plans from politicians — both those in office and those clawing at each other for the presidency — not simply sound bites and what is frankly increasingly becoming a mockery of the democratic process.
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"The basis of my rejection of their offer is that it makes a mockery of our hard-earned democracy, the trust of our people and no one apart from the president of the republic appoints ministers," Mr. Jonas said in a statement.
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The second attempt this year by the Cold War-era superpower foes to halt the conflict has succeeded so far in curbing the fighting, but it remains a risky gamble in a war that has made a mockery of all previous peace efforts.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's aviation industry hit out at the government on Monday over its decision to increase a tax on long-haul flights, saying it made a mockery of the government's ambition for a 'Global Britain' after it leaves the European Union.
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He made his name in the late 18983s with a series of gargantuan, passport-style photographs he called "Porträts" (Portraits) — and depending on your perspective, the title is either a straightforward description or a mockery of the whole genre (or perhaps both).
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The idea of demanding such shared standards made a mockery of the situation the world was facing, Li said, with an international security environment characterized by a pervasive sense of insecurity, in which "unilateral and bullying practices" were the new forms of hegemony.
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Mr. Cuomo also plans to introduce a bill aimed at another stubborn problem in the justice system: constant delays in bringing a person to trial that often make a mockery of the speedy trial provisions in state law and the United States Constitution.
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Efron's smoothly manipulative performance makes a mockery of their devotion, so much so that at times the movie appears less about the psychology of a specific sociopath than a general comment on women who shield such men and even hanker after them.
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Explicit art can do one of two things, either make a mockery of the event and downplay it to make it look miniscule or it can be so detailed that it feels like you're reliving a traumatic experience you've already been through.
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"This is what people hate, around the state, about what goes on in politics: it's sickening, it truly is," said Senator Andrew J. Lanza, a Republican from Staten Island, yelling at Democrats for "making a mockery of justice" and not protecting children.
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He also discovered that Republicans were less likely to be amused by Kimmel's mockery of Sarah Palin than Democrats, providing evidence of what most people already know from personal experience: that comedy is funny until you become the butt of the joke.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have been making a mockery of the National League this season and look to win for the 16th time in 18 games when they host the San Diego Padres on Friday for the opener of their three-game series.
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What they are really doing, in their erratic rush to judgement, is making a mockery of the laws and processes that were put in place some 200 years ago to handle matters of grave importance, such as the impeachment of a president.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power, a sentence denounced by Human Rights Watch as a "mockery" of Beijing's claims to champion the rule of law.
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As Cuthbert enters the zoo, we're in a light satirical dystopia: There's some gentle mockery of Cuthbert's populist jingoism, a little parody of Britain's entrenched class system and love for aristocracy, a little exaggeration of the Western obsession and identification with technology.
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" Lavrov also railed against a decision to reject Russia's request at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to carry out a joint investigation into the attack with Britain, calling it "a mockery of international law, diplomatic etiquette and elementary decency.
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But her opponent, the youngest player to qualify for the main draw in the professional era, was in no mood to play lady-in-waiting as she made a mockery of the 24-year age difference and 269 ranking places that separate her from Williams.
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" Judge Garaufis also disagreed with the idea of "people with lots of money setting up a private jail with all kinds of amenities," saying it "makes a mockery of the system of justice when other people can't pull together $100 to get out of Rikers.
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"The Trump White House 'iftar' is a sham, a charade, and a mockery of both the sanctity of Ramadan and the ideals of a democratic government of the people by the people for the people," said Omid Safi, director of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center.
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EditorsNote: Minor fixes, but clarified lede with 10 straight home wins The Dallas Mavericks made it 10 home wins in a row in front of their fans Monday night by making a mockery of the Orlando Magic with a wire-to-wire 101-76 victory.
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Palin contrasts Mr. Trump with Mr. Obama, has everything she relishes: Mockery of Mr. Obama's early years working in Chicago neighborhoods, right-wing accusations that the president has apologized for America, and a crude reference to him as a submissive sissy on foreign policy.
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Flinching in the face of flag-waving, "God Save the Queen"–bellowing fans and finding a soft landing spot somewhere between genuine excitement and mild mockery of the small, often inward/backward–looking island we come from – that's our (first, second, and third generation) lot.
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It was also a city easier to target on a day when security forces were concentrated in Paris for the Bastille Day military parade, and offered a staged mockery of the show of muscle, steel and strength displayed twelve hours before on the Champs-Elysées.
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And Devin Nunes and others have been put off by this saying, look, we are trying to do legitimate oversight of the FBI and the Justice Department and you were basically threatening us and coming after us and making a mockery of the oversight process.
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"The Turkish prosecution's decision to charge Taner Kilic ... with 'membership of a terrorist organisation' is a mockery of justice, and highlights the devastating impact of the Turkish authorities' crackdown following the failed coup attempt in July last year," Amnesty said in a statement on Friday.
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Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions.
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But omnibus bills that made a mockery of Chief Justice John Roberts's blithe assertion in Shelby County that racial discrimination in voting was no longer an issue—and that therefore Congress had lost some of its explicit constitutional authority to address it—are another story.
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"This arrest over a 34-year-old land deal makes a mockery of Pakistan's claim to be a democracy that upholds freedom of the press," said Steven Butler, Asia program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, one of several groups to denounce the arrest.
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The shadowy title figure, a staunch right-winger, used bribery and thugs to get movie producers — all Jewish — to abort titles that "make a mockery of the America that you and I are fighting for," as he ranted to one of his prized goons.
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It's also what you see from a segment of religious conservatives, like those gathered at last week's Values Voters Summit, who cheered rapturously for an empty, strutting nationalism and a president who makes a mockery of the remoralized culture that they claim to seek.
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By bringing this work to light specifically for this exhibition, the Prado confronts head on the uncomfortable place this work inhabits within Goya's oeuvre as well as the poignant suffering and mockery of the figure represented, which Goya directly correlates with non-normative sexuality.
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" But Patrick Burgwinkle, a spokesman for the House Democrats' campaign arm, said that Mr. Gowdy had "made a mockery of congressional oversight" and that he had overseen, in the Benghazi investigation, "a dark and shameful chapter in the history of the House of Representatives.
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But it gives just enough hope to everyone else that there is a way that City might be stopped, if not from winning the Premier League, then certainly from making a mockery of the English conceit that its top division alone is immune to domination.
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"That not a single police officer has been brought to account for the killing of at least 900 people in the Rabaa and Nahda protests shows what a mockery of justice this trial was," it added, referring to Rabaa al-Adawiya and another Cairo square.
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The man who claims to be the creator of everything makes a mockery of much of what the pastor believes — including the divinity of Jesus, who Burton says rotted in the cave after he was crucified and was replaced by his identical twin brother.
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Williamson was mocked on social media after the Democratic primary candidate urged Democrats to cease criticism and mockery of Americans who believe in the power of prayer, writing that the "overly secularized Left" was responsible for the loss of many voters to the GOP.
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"The public declarations by Senator McConnell that his role in the impeachment process is to coordinate with the White House and thereby make a mockery of the trial directly contradict his oath of impartiality," Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, said in a statement.
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In the letter, which was obtained in advance by BuzzFeed News, Smith says that any claim of impartiality on behalf of senators running for president would be a "mockery of our democratic institutions," as the senators have already come out in favor of impeachment.
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It's also something that's been missing in Trump's America, when progressives have watched in horror as a feckless President tears down so much of what we hold dear and his own party simply shrugs as he makes a mockery of our institutions and our values.
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LONDON — Two weeks before the anniversary of a nerve-agent attack against a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England, someone unfurled a large Russian flag on the city's cathedral overnight, in what residents took to be a mockery of the ordeal they suffered last year.
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"The testing by (the) U.S. military of a land-based missile banned under INF treaty two weeks after the official termination of this treaty is a blatant cynicism and mockery of the international community," the RIA news agency cited Russian lawmaker Frants Klintsevich as saying on Monday.
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"Senate Republicans made a mockery of their constitutional responsibility to provide 'advice and consent' on the president's nomination of Justice Kavanaugh, and the American people deserve to know how and why the process was such a sham," the groups wrote in the letter to the House.
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Standing alongside co-counsel Jared Genser, the pair grinned as they welcomed a beaming Nasheed to Heathrow Airport, who was granted a temporary release from a prison in his home country after being found guilty last March in a trial described as a "mockery" of justice.
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He's been made a mockery of, just just by his own actions, but literally by the British comedy stage revue Beyond the Fringe, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore don't mince words when it comes to giving their two cents about the politician.
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But here he is now, full aflame in celebration of that most savage of victories, the pose of the Christ taking on the sins of humanity in his celebration,** arms spread in MOCKERY OF GOD, so deep is the pleasure he has derived from destroying the Raptors.
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It's at once a moving plea for animal rights, a gentle mockery of animal rights activists, an unflinching critique of "ethical capitalism" and the livestock industry, a wacky corporate satire, and a harrowing adventure with enough heart and soul to outmatch the best Disney and Spielberg movies.
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Future scholars will sift through Trump's digital proclamations the way we now read the chroniclers of Nero's Rome—to understand how an unhinged emperor can make a mockery of republican institutions, undo the collective nervous system of a country, and degrade the whole of public life.
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Ryan in June said Trump's mockery of Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," was not appropriate, after the president claimed she had a low IQ and was "bleeding badly" from cosmetic surgery when she visited him at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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"Many people of the older generation, and not only, will regard it as an insulting mockery of all the Soviet past, of the country that defeated fascism and of ordinary people, and what's even worse, even of the victims of Stalinism," Medinsky said in a statement.
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In a statement, US Vice President Mike Pence said that in exiting the UN body Washington "took a stand against some of the world's worst human rights violators," claiming the council had made "a mockery" of its original mission in its criticism of the US and Israel.
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"We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights," she said, adding that the U.S. would be "happy" to rejoin the council if it is reformed.
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CHAMPIONS WAY: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports (Norton, $26.95) documents how big-time college programs like Florida State massage egos, flout the law, bow down to the almighty dollar and make a mockery of the term "student-athlete" in order to keep winning.
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But as experts in the field of statutory law, we agree that this decision makes a mockery of the rule of law and basic principles of democracy — especially Congress's constitutional power to amend its own statutes and do so in accord with its own internal rules.
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"This decision makes a complete mockery of Coles's claim to want to reduce plastic waste and is a betrayal of the millions of their customers who want the supermarket to do the right thing in favor of a vocal minority," Ms. Deans said in a statement.
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Whatever becomes of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, the Senate Judiciary Committee's process for considering him has been a mockery from the start — a mockery of lawmakers' constitutional responsibility and of the ideal that the court should be anything more than a political trophy.
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What's more, especially after the election, I recognized that laughter from the left fed Mr. Trump's appeal, that it was all too easy to cast jokes about him as mockery of his supporters, or as an elitist dismissal of those who don't speak in a particular way.
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In an effort to still Donald Trump's mockery of her as "Pocahontas" from his endless string of rally podiums, Warren in October 2018 released the results of a DNA test that showed her with a smidge of Native American ancestry dating back, at minimum, six generations.
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"The probation officer's recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft time-out, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women," she said, questioning whether a less privileged defendant would face a similarly lenient sentence.
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RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a U.N. investigator accused it of making a "mockery" of justice by allowing the masterminds of last year's killing to go free.
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David Frum, senior editor at The AtlanticWhat We Know: In "Trumpocracy," Frum argues that President Trump and his family are making a mockery of conservatism and democracy by exploiting his position while the presidency falls to the wayside and into the hands of the financiers around him.
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President Donald Trump's mockery of the size of North Korean leader Kim Jung Un's nuclear "button" — he tweeted, "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works" — made the nation shudder at the possibility of nuclear war.
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Almost as soon as the Valeant Pharmaceuticals crash buried several celebrated fund managers, the gleeful mockery of their hubris came wrapped in a scolding lesson about their supposed errors: "This is what happens when a fund is too concentrated in a few names," the didactic investment experts tut-tutted.
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"To me it is personally offensive to see non-Natives making a mockery of our cultural items — feathers are sacred gifts that we have a lot of respect and honor towards," said Victoria, a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma who did not give her last name.
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Second, and infinitely more important: If your aim is to increase Americans' appreciation for war's costs in life and limbs, and you accomplish this by making non-serving Americans pay money, you make a mockery of Americans' humanity, reducing their most fundamental human-rights commitments to a transaction.
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Mr. Trump also risked reopening controversies related to religious tolerance and military service: His treatment of the Khans has brought on a new wave of criticism of his proposal to ban Muslim immigration, and of his mockery of Senator John McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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It's not just that violence is woven into Trump's language as indelibly as the snarl woven into his features — the talk of shooting somebody or punching a protester in the face, the insulting of the disabled, the macho mockery of women, the anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican tirades.
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Or else the mockery of Whitney Houston on American Dad in 2005: "First you sing, Whitney, and then you get your precious cocaine," main character Stan Smith tells a gaunt likeness of the late singer, who had returned to rehab for the second time that very same year.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday warned they would work to block any rewrite of the tax code that repealed the estate tax and the deduction for state and local taxes, arguing that those moves would make a mockery of Republican promises to target tax relief to the middle class.
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But the vast majority of slots go to Indian IT workers brought onboard by tech companies as coders and engineers—although these workers are highly skilled, Silicon Valley and outsourcing firms have been criticized for manipulating the program to bring in cheaper labor, making a mockery of its intentions.
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"They are making a mockery of the process, and that is because the No. 1 goal of the hard right is to stack the bench with ideologues, because they know they cannot achieve their goals through the elected branches," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
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Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has upheld Mr. Sweikat's June 2016 death sentence, as well as those of 13 other Saudi citizens tried with him — including a disabled man and two who were juveniles when sentenced — after a mass trial that made a mockery of international standards of due process.
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"Then, lo and behold, at the Kiev airport, there were two gigantic U.S. Air Force C-17s" — an easily recognizable American military transport aircraft — on hand for a trip to plan an upcoming visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., making a mockery of all the careful planning.
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The first scene released from the "Will & Grace" reunion makes a mockery of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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"Many people of the older generation, and not only, will regard it as an insulting mockery of all the Soviet past, of the country that defeated fascism and of ordinary people, and what's even worse, even of the victims of Stalinism," Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said in a statement.
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"His complete control of the relationship with MBS in Saudi Arabia meant that he kind of got played by MBS," Ward said, adding that Saudi Arabia "made a mockery" of the US in 2017 by cutting off diplomatic ties with Qatar shortly after hosting the President, Kushner and Tillerson.
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But there was hope, in the wake of Trump's rollback of reproductive rights, his mockery of Christine Blasey Ford, and his hateful rhetoric towards female colleagues like Maxine Waters, that there might be, if not a sea change, then at least a rogue wave disrupting the voting patterns of white women.
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JOHN OLIVER SLAMMED FOR 'CONTRAVERISAL AND PARTISAN' MOCKERY OF PENCE FAMILY BUNNY Pence's daughter, Charlotte, released a children's book about her family's rabbit titled "Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President," showcasing a day in the life of her father from the pet's point of view.
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But despite the mounting mockery of the larger scientific community and dwindling research funds, a handful of immunotherapy researchers continued to believe—and continued searching, decade after decade, for the missing piece of the cancer immunity puzzle, a factor that prevented the immune system from recognizing and attacking cancer cells.
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And he has succeeded in increasing what may be the biggest risk of all for himself and his party — that this extremely controversial bill will in the end actually become law and strip tens of millions of Americans of their health coverage while making a mockery of Trump's own campaign promises.
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"Senator Schumer objected to waiving the rule, because Democrats believe that the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans have made a mockery of this process by withholding millions of pages of documents from Judge Kavanaugh's records," Matt House, a spokesman for Schumer, said in an email to reporters that highlighted the decision.
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Yet Trump's relationship with TV—which extends to fannish shout-outs to shows he likes (like Fox and Friends) and mockery of the low ratings of shows that criticize him (like the Emmys)—might explain not just his singular path to the presidency, but his continued hold on his supporters.
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Less than a quarter of the G.O.P. caucus was prepared to block a national-emergency declaration most of them know violates the separation of powers, tramples on their legislative prerogatives, makes a mockery of long-held conservative principles, and establishes a political precedent they will come to regret bitterly and soon.
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I am horrified at the expected closure of this independent service, the A.A.P. We already have such a biased slew of newspaper ownership now, that this service being destroyed makes a mockery of freedom of the press and the arm's length required between the news makers and the news reports.
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But the SEC's new draft proposal, announced just as everyone was leaving for the holidays, makes an absolute mockery of the original anti-corruption intent of Section 1504—and highlights just how cozy the Trump administration is with the pro-corruption, anti-transparency forces swirling America's oil and gas sector.
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The distress voiced by women in the Senate gallery, who shouted "Shame!" as the votes were cast for Kavanaugh, was the sound of anguish over how once-reasonable leaders have capitulated to a president who issues lies by the thousands, gleefully divides the citizenry, and makes a mockery of cherished institutions.
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He couldn't even close the deal on a pathetic, bare-bones health care bill, ineffectually bullying Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, and failing to win over John McCain, who gleefully had his revenge for Trump's mockery of him as being a loser because he was captured in war.
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Their claim that amendments can be ratified over many decades — or even centuries — and that states can never rescind or change their minds, as five states have done on the ERA, makes a mockery of an Article V process designed to ensure that any changes to the Constitution have extensive support.
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But even if the plan survives these practical challenges, it makes a mockery of the notion that people can keep the plan they have if they're happy with their current coverage, one of the ACA's biggest selling points (for which President Barack Obama got into some trouble when those promises fell short).
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But for most disability rights activists and disabled people I know, the choice to oppose Trump had relatively little to do with his mockery of Kovaleski — or his alleged description of deaf actress Marlee Matlin as "retarded," or even his efforts to kick disabled veteran street vendors off public sidewalks near his buildings.
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The original Trump tax scandal of keeping his tax returns secret, which made a mockery of his campaign promises, prevents Americans from knowing vital information about whether the president has foreign business interests or foreign loans that compromise his ability to make presidential decisions involving hostile nations with whom he does business.
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This wanton abuse of Senate power left the court with only eight justices for more than a year, making a mockery of claims by Senate Republicans that the Kavanaugh vote cannot be postponed to enable the FBI to conduct a background check of allegations made against Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
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Jeb Bush swung hard at Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE Monday morning, attacking the New Hampshire front-runner's mockery of Sen.
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The atheist who runs the account wouldn't give me His name, as He says He and his family have received death threats in the past because of His online mockery of God, but He did tell me that pretending to be God on the internet is a full-time job for Him.
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The unity of art and design that Hoffmann and Moser advocated no longer seemed so imperative, and the later days of the Wiener Werkstätte were dominated by Peche, whose ornamental gilded wood frames, feather-bedecked chandeliers and jewel boxes topped with preening stags made a mockery of earlier claims to objectivity and functionalism.
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As I detailed on Wednesday, Trump's initial response to the acquittal was to post authoritarian memes and make a mockery of the entire process — thus undermining the talking points used by numerous Republican senators who expressed hope in the days leading up to Wednesday's vote that Trump would be chastened by impeachment.
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First, Ryan makes a mockery of his pretensions to fiscal responsibility with a tax-cut bill that would make the deficit soar, and then, citing the skyrocketing deficit he would create with the tax cuts, he prepares to attack some of the worthiest, most popular programs that Democrats have given the nation.
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Trump officials are barreling forward with a lease sale in America's most iconic wilderness – the fragile coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge – after slipping a plan for Arctic Refuge drilling into the 85033 GOP tax scam and making a rushed mockery of the review process mandated by the National Environmental Protection Act.
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"Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are continuing their daily mockery of the Trump administration, calling it "Felony Friday" one day after reports emerged that special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in his investigation of Russian election meddling and possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Moscow.
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" Agnes Callamard, who investigated the killing for the United Nations, condemned the trial as a "mockery of justice," saying, "The fact that that the chain of command and the state have not been investigated means that the system that made it possible for Jamal Khashoggi to be killed has not been touched.
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They're making fun of the films to hold on to their sanity as part of a scientific experiment designed to drive them up the wall, and that makes their mockery of the films feel less aggressive and mean and more like the byproduct of bored friends trying to keep each other's spirits up.
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"If Kyagulanyi or any of the others arrested in Arua is in the condition his lawyers described, and prosecutors do not urgently work to bring torture charges against those accountable, it will make a mockery of Uganda's constitutional provisions against torture...," said Maria Burnett, associate Africa director for New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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By refusing to confirm any nominee of President Obama to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Republicans would disrupt two judicial years of Supreme Court practice and the rule of law in America and make a mockery of McConnell's promise to bring comity, civility and regular order to the Senate once Republicans were given control.
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But if it's a lie — if it's all an elaborate lie — then not only is some stranger catfishing pretty much everyone on the internet, but that person has deliberately made a mockery of people who are on the autism spectrum, people with schizophrenia, and people who struggle with self-harm or who battle suicidal ideation.
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Women, blacks, Hispanics, seniors and young people have it within their voting power to defeat a president who foments national division, exploits racial tension, and demonizes whole groups of Americans while his party makes a mockery of calling itself the party of Lincoln by waging hostile and anti-democratic attacks against their right to vote.
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