" According to Tejerina, it's not hopeful — it's "placating.
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Mr. O'Brien repeated his case, then dropped the placating approach.
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Victoria's Secret is all about a placating, unchallenging brand of sexy.
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Placating racist voters is the norm, and cuts across both parties.
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But placating them risks driving away other members of his caucus.
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If they are not satisfied with that, then stop placating their demands.
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She's just placating Jon and Daenerys with the idea of a truce.
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At hearings, a number of these officials proffer placating but prevaricating reassurances.
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Domestically, the embassy move was aimed at placating Trump's increasingly conservative base.
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It appears it's a tough job placating the demands of the gold bugs.
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The popular White House talking point on infrastructure in this budget is placating.
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But placating the Americans proved difficult, and the Europeans took another wrong turn.
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Leave him to his Twitter account and to placating his base with disgusting Tweets.
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Conservative picks in the cabinet have disappointed young adherents without much placating the opposition.
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But when it's camouflaged to disguise weaknesses and shortcomings, then it's just ingratiating and placating.
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In her book, Jerkins discusses how respectability politics consign Black women to placating white America.
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But it has become increasingly clear that Trump has no interest in placating the GOP.
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Moondog's best pieces are minimalist and percussive, and incite a kind of woozy, placating trance.
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"We are antagonizing our friends and placating those who clearly wish us ill," Mr. Corker said.
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But he may be placating that part of the Republican base by giving them the courts.
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Used to licking the spoon or placating yourself with full-on chunks of raw cookie dough?
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And despite the placating tones from royal aide (and Princess Margaret crush) Peter Townsend, it is cancer.
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Often, Trump seems to be placating a slice of his domestic base rather than playing diplomatic chess.
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By the end of the episode, Nomi gives her panicked drunk friend a very sweet, placating kiss.
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Despite the state's efforts at placating them, many parents and educators are still angry about the tests.
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I feel like events like this are placating, and I am not in the mood to participate.
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Suddenly, the small office staff turned its focus away from making money to placating a government regulator.
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I have to stop myself from editing this article, cutting out criticisms, inserting caveats or placating phrases.
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There's been a considerable cost to this placating of white audiences whenever race becomes the topic of interest.
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Flanary is often seen on the show placating his partner and trying to encourage her through her tears.
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Can you please China's leaders while placating young democratic activists who are prepared to take to the streets?
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Europe's current strategy of placating Mr. Erdogan for the sake of its own short-term interests is misguided.
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Mrs May could find that placating Dublin over the Irish border creates problems elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
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Commentary NATO's survival depends on more than finding extra cash or placating President Donald Trump, writes Peter Apps.
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Many remained opposed to the legislation, even after changes were made that were aimed at placating their concerns.
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Sisi has felt compelled recently to begin placating his restive working class with salary bonuses and tax cuts.
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Why should my daughter be taught, at 3, that she's responsible for placating Max and his mood disorder?
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But comparing the two companies to brides that both need placating is a sexist way of describing those relationships.
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The latter is far more effective at placating the masses, since it appears to empower individuals through consumer choice.
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They were largely about placating hard-right donors, many of whom were furious that Obamacare repeal had been tabled.
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The Mermaid does a remarkably good job of smoothing over violation with a whole lot of platitudes and placating.
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Turkey has been placating China ever since due to the wound created by the reneging of the missile deal.
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Or, more prosaically, we just don't want to taint a high with the work of placating a client throughout it.
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The opera involves the entangled tale of Idomeneo's attempt to wrangle out of the vow, while placating the god Neptune.
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Placating them without endangering more pragmatic lawmakers worried about depriving constituents of their health coverage may be an impossible task.
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Trump's warning on Turkey's economy on Monday appeared aimed at placating critics who accused him of abandoning the Syrian Kurds.
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With this latest Eagles brouhaha, the NFL is learning firsthand that any hopes of placating Trump are unlikely to succeed.
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From military strikes to placating Iran through arms sales and cash payments, U.S. presidents have employed force, diplomacy and persuasion.
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Deactivating explicitly pro-ISIS accounts is helpful, but the sites' lofty missions to "ban terrorism" are broad and vague and placating.
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The party's Brexit policy has been built on placating the former, who are more numerous, while not scaring off the latter.
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The owners, however, were more concerned with placating President Donald Trump who riled up his base and attacked players for kneeling.
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There's nothing more disheartening than someone placating you with a non-compliment in order to avoid making an honest, upsetting critique.
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Our current Prime Minister is a PR success in terms of placating global liberalism, especially in comparison to someone like Trump.
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Clinton will be placating the Sanders bloc and avoiding an unsightly spat, without committing to changes that undermine her own agenda.
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"Placating party leaders will do little to help Ocasio-Cortez achieve the kind of transformative changes she wants," wrote Jacobin magazine.
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But now international giants, historically deft at placating guests with stately buffets and fine, indeterminately European menus, are joining the fray.
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"They're placating a mob that will never be satisfied & undermining the foundation of the Internet economy," Mr. Duncan wrote on Twitter.
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However, whether these measures will be sufficient in placating sentiments among the Philippine business community is something that remains to be seen.
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Cuomo's primary opponent Cynthia Nixon has seized on that record and criticized Cuomo for placating anti-abortion Republicans in an attack ad.
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In placating tones, Arquette explains how the history of war has been undermined by soldiers who were reluctant to pull the trigger.
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"And also placating a guy who gets angry and upset and could fire them on a whim," he added of the president.
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But couples who don't want gifts may see these expanded registries as a necessary evil or a way of placating family members.
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The bottom line: Europe is struggling to determine how to share the refugee burden while placating the concerns of its own people.
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A woman is supposed to curl up and be diminutive and enjoy their placating advances, and I cannot do that any longer.
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The move displeased police union officials, who said it amounted to placating activists by second-guessing officers who have done nothing wrong.
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Because you'd need to leave said mood at home to accomplish this, I suggest this: A PTA barbecue isn't placating, it's celebrating.
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On Wednesday, CMS issued a proposed rule aimed at placating nervous insurers and starting the shift to a Republican view of health coverage.
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But if the Democratic nominee spends too much effort placating the elite special interests and the Twitter mob, Trump has the upper hand.
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"Denise is a good part, with a great back story," Michael assures her, in the placating tones of a showrunner managing the talent.
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Trump's stern words seemed to be aimed at placating critics who accused him of abandoning the Syrian Kurds by pulling out U.S. forces.
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The tension between creating a sound NFIP and placating constituents seems always to be resolved in favor of premiums that are too low.
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Because Canada's population is concentrated in Ontario and Quebec, federal elections have hinged on the east, where politics have focused on placating Quebec's separatists.
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"Seems to me that Facebook is just placating liberal institutions with these ads, not trying to solve any problems," one journalist pondered with me.
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Given the current animosity between House Democrats and the White House, it is hard to see what she could gain by placating Mr. Trump.
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If successful, the strategy shifts the ultimate goal of the opponent from winning the competition to placating the crazy person sitting across the table.
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Throwing a boyar (an aristocratic official) off the porch to a restive crowd was a standard means of placating discontent until Peter the Great's time.
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"The president is blatantly circumventing Congress' intent and violating the American people's trust by allowing this exemption and placating to Iran's deceptive intentions," he added.
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Among the reasons stated for Trump's renewed interest is placating voters in farm states that have been hit hard by the trade war with China.
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Braumoeller said having a stable government was key to placating growing civil unrest and violence in the face of food shortages caused by climate change.
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It leaves us with the impression that these were simply justifications for the underlying motive of placating the politically powerful father and his lawyer (Clinton).
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Diplomats say the Vatican's low profile in Taiwan for four decades has been aimed at placating Beijing, which still sees Taiwan and its sacred territory.
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The gambit of placating black voters has grown stale during a time when a Republican president is delivering real results that positively impact their lives.
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These elected officials in particular are not only obsequiously placating a man nursing a god complex, they are displaying a staggering lack of national fealty.
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"If someone is acting out toward someone else, you may see flight attendant placating them, but this is not because they condone it," she says.
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The truth, though, is that keeping the alliance effective – or even alive – will take much more than finding extra cash or placating the U.S. president.
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While Algeria has about 15 opposition parties, they are seen as weak, and the ministry's move appeared to be aimed at placating protesters seeking more democracy.
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Mr. Cochran's health could determine whether another seat may soon be up for grabs, placating Mr. McDaniel or perhaps laying the groundwork for another intraparty fight.
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Winning over Scripps would mean placating the company's eponymous family, which controls roughly 92 percent of the broadcaster's voting stock and which votes as a group.
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It's an "out of sight, out of mind" approach aimed at placating a skeptical local population, but it could backfire in the future, Mr. Somers warned.
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Ryan, whose deputies are reportedly loath to work with Democrats in the House, could lean too far toward placating arch conservatives supporting Trump's goals, alienating key Democrats.
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In the documents, ClassPass made clear that part of improving the company's financial forecast would involve reducing the amount it spent on classes while placating studios' concerns.
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And many businessmen, even those who usually advocate placating the central government in the interests of political stability, think that extrajudicial rendition would cross a red line.
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This arrangement ensured uninhibited trade across the border, helping to render it virtually invisible and placating many Irish nationalists with circumstances they deemed acceptable if not ideal.
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McConnell faces his own dilemma of having to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate, while also placating an erratic President who demands nothing short of total loyalty.
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The red carpet "losers" are, by and large, attendees who have no interest in placating a limited idea of what is pretty, and they dress, instead, for themselves.
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But if her ancestor is 10 generations back, that could mean she's just 1/512th Native American, something that could further excite her critics instead of placating them.
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Stoking racial tensions was a winning tactic for the Trump campaign, just as placating white progressives and black civil rights leaders was a successful electoral strategy for Truman.
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The film's plucky protagonist, MR (Emelie Jonsson), returns to her job with the crew — placating anxious passengers with images of Earth before fires turned the blue marble brown.
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Obamacare, by placating the insurance industry, was a quintessential compromise — as was the haggling after the 2008 financial crisis that kept even the most notorious bankers from jail.
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New LME rules aimed at placating years-long criticism over long wait times to take delivery of metal have made it harder for warehouses to reap hefty margins.
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He banished a hysterical zookeeper to the front cabin and turned out the lights to recreate the jungle setting of its habitat, instantly placating the creature, he said.
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The vanishing bipartisan consensus orchestrated mammoth deportations and militarized the border in the quixotic hope of placating the nativist right and winning it over to supporting immigration reform.
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The move is aimed at placating a complaint by activists PAR Capital Management and Altimeter Capital Management that the company does not have enough directors with expertise in airlines.
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For Silicon Valley companies trying to woo their next billion users, censoring their products and placating India's conservative majority appears to make good business sense — at least for now. ●
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While Algeria has about 15 opposition parties, they are seen as weak, and the ministry's move appeared to be aimed at placating protesters seeking a greater degree of democracy.
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It's in Google's best interests to be cooperative, and even to spend a bit of money placating the UK Chancellor, if it helps to ward off more severe measures.
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Unlike our touristy Friends, Cersei's out for blood, not sightseeing, and Jaime's got a vaguely placating look on his face, like he's trying to talk some sense into her.
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While some have speculated that the missing flags on the patch are due to Paramount placating its Chinese business partner, others suggest that the difference is due to storytelling.
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The same source also stated that the President sees the Jerusalem issue as key to placating concerns among his core supporters that he's going soft on his campaign positions.
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A lock-kneed stance from which he loosely bobbled his head: the familiar posture of a boxer whose knees have long since atrophied but whose creditors still need placating.
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The speech was mostly aimed not at potential voters outside the fold, but at placating the GOP elite (especially the donor class) while simultaneously holding on to his populist base.
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We are witnessing another shameful moment in US history, in which a president is placating his base of supporters who fear an America in which white people no longer rule.
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From the moment we meet Margery, bristling with anger, and John, who soon shifts from placating her to suggesting an exorcism, Ms. Nichols and Mr. O'Connell are delicious to watch.
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The source also thought it seemed Barr simply was placating Trump in a room where others appeared to be ganging up on the President, knowing the issue would likely die.
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Mr. Barr is said to have assured Republican senators that he could go a long way in placating Mr. Trump by making administrative, rather than statutory, changes to FISA procedures.
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Coal is widely available in the Balkans, making it appealing to governments seeking ways to ensure security of supply and keep energy prices low while also placating influential mining lobbies.
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Survivor is a highly verbal game, and that's especially true at the final tribal, where you have to somehow answer questions thoughtfully and eloquently while placating a lot of angry jurors.
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After debating, then placating a group of anti-abortion holdouts, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi eventually delivered -- without a single GOP defector -- a 219-212 vote to approve the Senate bill.
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Whitaker may be "placating a volatile President by officially not recusing, but trying to avoid risk and controversy by not actually doing anything," said Kris, founder of the Culper Partners consultancy.
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Behind placating statistics of overall growth, our economy faces two crises: severe inequality between the top one percent and bottom 163 percent of earners, and the rise of highly concentrated markets.
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Which means that by using this metric, Mattis could essentially slow roll or ignore part of Trump's order, leaving some trans troops in place and placating his colleagues in the Pentagon.
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Her shot at being chosen VP is under threat by Republicans, and this damp wash towel of a politician is placating her with patronizing comments about trying again in four years.
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BT is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs and plugging its pension black hole, while placating shareholders by maintaining its dividend, in the latest restructuring by Britain's biggest telecoms group.
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The nation's top corporate leaders, traditionally a cautious and middle-of-the-road group given to placating powerful political leaders in the hopes of gaining influence over economic policy, had mutinied.
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The bottom line: Controversies like this latest one around InfoWars show just how difficult it is for Facebook to thread the needle between fighting misinformation and placating critics who cry "censorship."
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"I understand the political process to pass a bill can require placating potential opposition, but a $100 million bonus to private companies is beyond the absurd," he said in a statement.
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Yet he's found himself often placating conservatives and waltzing into endless controversies around whether accounts like those of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars network get to stay on the platform.
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Facebook's latest attempt at placating activists and lawmakers who say its advertising platform permits discrimination is to remove 5,000 options that can be used to exclude certain religious and ethnic minority groups.
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"Those in the Senate have decided that placating our base is more important than upholding their constitutional and institutional roles in our democracy in a way that is dangerous," the president said.
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"The administration doesn't want some kind of explosion and they think they'll avoid that by placating these students and patting them on the head," political science professor Harvey Klehr told the site.
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Putin, by placating the new Trump administration, which campaigned on a confrontational relationship with China, could be in a position to play the American card against his economic giant to the east.
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"Parliamentarians denied themselves the opportunity to review the terms we will get in favour of placating the government, who are currently running full steam ahead towards no deal at all," he said.
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The Zelensky administration, Ms. Zerkal said, is most concerned about placating Mr. Trump, having decided that the impeachment inquiry will fail in the Senate and that Mr. Trump could be re-elected.
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The addition was seemingly less about placating Trump and more about appealing to conservatives, who have issues with their party's wider spending plans but view the wall as a perk for playing nice.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi sought on Monday to curb the powers of influential Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias, a politically risky move apparently aimed at placating the United States.
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Many American Muslims said they suspect Trump's iftar is aimed at placating the country's allies overseas, rather than making genuine connections with their community, with whom the president has had a troubled relationship.
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One analyst identified a way for the White House to keep the joints drills with Seoul while still placating the North Koreans, who view the annual event as a threat to national security.
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In dark moments, we as a nation have often turned to the placating power of Yo-Yo Ma's Bach, as described in this profile of him written by Zachary Woolfe from Leipzig, Germany.
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As Roamies arrived and departed, even in the week I was there, the social texture shifted in subtle and compelling ways, placating any incipient boredom: It was always changing and remaining the same.
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Washington (CNN)Katrina Pierson, a Trump campaign official, said she was placating Omarosa Manigault Newman when she indicated on tape that she believed President Donald Trump had been recorded saying the n-word.
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The US silence about something everyone knew was happening didn't really succeed in placating Turkey — and Trump's decision to go public will just make the frosty ties between Ankara and Washington even frostier.
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Asian and European allies will be nervous Throughout Trump's two years in office, much of Mattis' role has been to travel the globe placating America's allies and reassuring them of Washington's long-term support.
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Perhaps he will reconsider Pruitt's rulemaking proposals that were thin on substance and seemingly more directed at placating the fossil fuel industry and others more hostile to environmental protections than working toward sustainable change.
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Placating the rich by trying to help them avoid — yes, avoid — paying more in federal taxes is California's way of keeping their income in-state rather than watching it leave for lower-income states.
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At the end of May, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced they had hammered out a deal aimed at placating concerns to win the backing of the Wall Street groups.
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But on the day it was delivered, March 4, 1865, with the Union on the brink of victory in the Civil War, Lincoln had trouble placating his own party, much less his political opponents.
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Gallo kind of sounds like Michael Stipe on "It's the End of the World," except here, Gallo rattles off all of the shit tearing us apart before easing us with his oddly placating aphorism.
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LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - BT is cutting 13,000 managerial and back-office jobs and plugging its pension black hole, while placating shareholders by maintaining its dividend, in the latest restructuring by Britain's biggest telecoms group.
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It is conservative whites whom Texas Senator John Cornyn is placating when he says that "we simply don't have all the answers" when it comes to solving entirely preventable problems like gun-inflicted mass death.
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Now that the Chinese have less reason to fear a US military strike against North Korea, they are less concerned with placating the White House and can double down on making North Korea great again.
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NATO has emphasized that it is in favor of dialogue with Russia and doesn't want a new Cold War; being tough on Russia doesn't mean publicly threatening them any more than it means placating them.
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By placating the far right on immigration, embracing his instincts on foreign policy and unnerving investors with his trade wars and policy gyrations, Mr. Trump is elevating the nativist and noninterventionist elements of his party.
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Editorial Let's discard the fiction that President Trump wasn't placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.
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Reasoning that the continued delivery of vital public services dictated placating the unions at any cost, many state legislatures gave in to their demands, one of which included making the payment of union dues mandatory.
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He does not condemn Obama for firing Sherrod, or for placating the police officer who had arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his own porch by inviting him for a drink in the Rose Garden.
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For Apple, the optics of taking down an app that's used by people fighting authoritarian regimes around the world aren't great considering it's been under fire for placating the whims of Chinese censors in recent months.
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According to these findings, then, the actual effect of Facebook's "Why am I seeing this?" button could be rather unnerving: a placating show of transparency that only enhances the hold the behemoth has on our minds.
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Lignite - the most polluting type of coal - is widely available in the Balkans, making it appealing to governments seeking ways to ensure security of supply and keeping energy prices low while also placating influential mining lobbies.
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Culp has an uphill task of placating investors who have dumped the stock as the company racked up staggering losses of more than $30 billion over the last two years and cut its dividend to near zero.
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The timing of the announcement could signal that Beijing wants to avoid further escalation of the ongoing trade dispute with the U.S. But it's not clear how far Thursday's announcement will go in placating the Trump administration.
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On "Hopeless," a smooth electronic gloss coats the jerky, up-and-down pairing of the buzzy metallic keyboard with the punchy bounce of the drum machine to replace its nervous energy with a placating sense of calm.
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It's also had the more immediate effect of placating Maloney, who just a day ago was considering a bid to unseat Luján atop the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) but has since decided to forgo the challenge.
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The drafting of the code has been met with widespread scepticism, with some experts convinced China's uncharacteristic support for it is aimed at placating Southeast Asian states while buying time to completes its military installations in the sea.
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The company is planning to buy back $21.34 billion in stock, representing about 11 percent of its shares outstanding, a move aimed at placating investors after weak holiday quarter sales and recent underperformance at the Kate Spade brand.
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Let's not forget that conversation he had with Claudia, where he was more honest than we'd ever seen him, and it was all to say that his agents are children and he's sick to death of placating them.
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The national security of the Republic of Korea and strengthening the U.S.-led trilateral quasi-alliance involving Japan seem lower priorities for Moon than fanning the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment for political gain and placating North Korea.
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And people like Meadows's placating manager and Silverman's cut-and-dried publicist are all too eager to sell Conner4Real to the screaming masses, convincing him to go bigger, brighter, more ridiculous — whatever it takes to make a profit.
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We can find ourselves endlessly pursuing the unrealistic proposals put forth by liberal interests intent on placating their vocal base with the so-called net-zero and in the meantime kneecapping our economy and hurting communities across our country.
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Because of this, many brides worry they won't be in the moment during their weddings and will instead focus on all of the elements being just so or placating certain guests that they might not want to be around.
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And it is testing Mr. Shanahan's ability to remain in lock step with his commander in chief while still placating lawmakers who will ultimately decide whether he will be confirmed as the defense secretary, should the president nominate him.
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Clark turns the character's specific rich-mom anxieties — making sure the decorations are just-so, placating catty neighbors, emotionally nurturing a child in need — into a marvelously twisted joke with a punch line involving a panda costume and a vanilla cake.
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On the other hand, Starbucks' decision throw open its doors to non-customers to use as public gathering places shows just how far things can go when a company decides that placating social justice warriors is more important than satisfying customers.
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An ABC/Washington Post poll published Sunday showed that his approval rating among people who voted for him was 94%, validating an administration strategy of placating those supporters with a flurry of executive orders cutting regulations and prioritizing US workers.
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To keep it going, NOC chief Sanalla has to tour the country regularly, placating restive armed factions and local groups while at the same time tussling with the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli over budget and control over the oil sector.
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The situation highlights the thorny tradeoff US-based companies face when operating in China: It's a hugely profitable opportunity, but placating the Chinese government can require compromising on fundamental democratic values in ways that provoke backlash elsewhere in the world.
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He may ignore his advisers, but he hears the attacks on him for being cruel, for abandoning promises such as those about health care, for lying about his past and caring only about placating the thousands who mob his rallies.
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May, who said she was "bitterly disappointed" by the Bombardier ruling, will have to balance placating the DUP with the need to secure an advantageous trade deal with the United States for when Britain leaves the EU in 2019, however.
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Publishers are heavily influenced by traffic—what no one is influenced by is the comment section under an article about someone's personal life, full of heartless and patronizing remarks from a group of faux-intellectuals placating themselves with the caps lock key.
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The thrust of the new proposal, which is aimed at placating concerns about a provision in the TPP that could give foreign governments the ability to require U.S. businesses to maintain data servers within their borders, would broadly prohibit requirements for data storage.
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WASHINGTON — The White House stepped up its push on Tuesday to revive legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act by placating the most conservative House members, but the effort risked alienating more moderate Republicans whose votes President Trump needs just as much.
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"For the moment, it seems Jack Dorsey is much more interested in placating conservative users, who've long claimed the platform is biased against them," Krueger said, before listing a number of tweets to highlight the racist and misogynistic content that remains unchecked.
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"Because there's a lot of emotion around it, local agencies may be moved to make a decision that's made based on placating the general public rather than the available science," said Ian Musgrave, a molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist at University of Adelaide.
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This ideological battle will not be won by placating right-wing populists, but rather by challenging their divisive narrative, tackling their tactics head-on and offering a positive vision of a more united, tolerant, free and democratic European continent based on values and fundamental rights.
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The BBC reported Monday that the government could be considering a compromise over the Irish "backstop" in that it could be applicable to Northern Ireland only, potentially placating Brexiteers — albeit at the expense of lawmakers bent on keeping the U.K. indivisible in terms of law.
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The book depicts the 1990s as a pivotal moment, especially for black women who "were squeezed between competing narratives" of "having it all" on the one hand and President Bill Clinton's Republican-placating policies — like welfare reform and the 1994 crime bill — on the other.
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Abdul Mahdi on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning, said he had not ordered use of live ammunition and announced measures aimed at placating protesters including a cabinet reshuffle, punishment of corrupt officials, job opportunities for the unemployed and stipends for the poor.
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Abdul Mahdi on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning, said he had not ordered use of live ammunition and announced measures aimed at placating protesters including a cabinet reshuffle, punishment of corrupt officials, job opportunities for the unemployed and stipends for the poor.
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These included the Pentagon's failed train and equip program — whose rebel groups famously ended up fighting with the groups the CIA was secretly training; half-hearted threats and ineffective rhetoric about the Assad regime; and window-dressing diplomatic efforts aimed mainly at placating humanitarian concerns.
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He launches into a series of sly allusions to contemporary art failing to be critical or revolutionary, but rather being placating and self-serving instead, and I can't help but think of other professional provocateur Ai Weiwei and the crowd-pleasing work of Yue Minjun.
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It's unfortunate that Hannah and Zach didn't get a chance at a happy ending, but this plot line served a purpose greater than placating shippers: It showed that sex can be enjoyed as long as it's on your own terms, and that there's nothing shameful about it.
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Denying access to contraception and abortion services is bad for the mental, physical, and financial health of women and their families, but this administration and the GOP are willing to watch American citizens endure those consequences if it means placating their base and maintaining political power.
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While his contacts in the GOP establishment, including his running mate, Mike Pence, are still trying to keep the peace, it has become increasingly clear that Trump has no interest in placating other GOP politicians — and that many of his supporters are right there with him.
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Bob Corker blasted the administration, telling Pompeo that members of Congress are "filled with serious doubts about the White House and its conduct of American foreign policy," and Trump's pattern of "placating" adversaries such as North Korea and Russia, reaching secret deals and "antagonizing" US allies.
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While Trump's contacts in the GOP establishment, including his running mate, Mike Pence, are still trying to keep the peace, it has become increasingly clear that Trump has no interest in placating other GOP politicians — and that many of his supporters are right there with him.
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For its part, he says, the right needs to square up to the unyielding fact of human "risk aversion" and the indispensable role safety nets in placating this deep-seated distaste for feelings of uncertainty and insecurity by insuring us against the turbulence of capitalist dynamism.
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"If the government makes the historic mistake of prioritising placating the EU over establishing an independent and whole UK, then regrettably we must vote against the deal," Steve Baker, a leading eurosceptic and former minister, wrote alongside the DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
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In his monthlong tenure, Giuliani has adopted the tactics and tone of Trump White House staffers past and present: performing on TV as if only the boss is watching, placating him with firm but meaningless deadlines, and making audacious statements to turn the media narrative in Trump's favor.
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Sent to nine member states who oppose the plan on June 3, just before Juncker's high-profile visit to Russia on Thursday, the letter appears aimed at placating some concerns amid signs of a tentative thaw in EU-Russian ties despite difficulties in implementing a peace deal in Ukraine.
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Headed by Walter D'Rozario, the former chef de cuisine of Junoon, who takes a "grandmotherly" approach to cooking, Spice Symphony celebrates the cultural mix-and-match spirit with the confidence of a cocksure matriarch who dares to inspire the palates of her children rather than placating their proclivities.
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"So what you have here is, I think, a circumstance in which those (Republicans) in the Senate have decided that 'placating our base' is more important than upholding their constitutional and institutional roles in our democracy in a way that is dangerous," Obama said in Chicago on Thursday.
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From the beginning of the Brexit debate, he has sought to lie low, content to criticize Prime Minister Theresa May while placating the main Labour constituencies — urban Remain voters and Leave supporters in rural areas or working communities, who make up about a third of the party's electorate.
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Republicans did pass a huge tax cut bill, but Ryan has spent most of the last two years placating a president who has no interest in his agenda, and who in many cases — like on immigration, trade, and changes to entitlement programs like Social Security — breaks with the Ryan wing altogether.
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She had washed her hands of the day-to-day details, leaving Nancy to pick up the pieces, which Nancy said included answering questions from concerned participants, finding some of them alternate lodging, and placating the owner of a local catering business hired to provide meals, who also wasn't paid.
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The left fought against the placating, middle of the road, quasi-liberalism that flirted too frequently with big business and big money, that spoke more frequently about the middle class than the poor, that rivaled the right in its zeal to be tough on crime at the expense of minority citizens.
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With the two factions pretty much coming down to "friends of Rams owner Stan Kroenke" and "friends of Chargers owner Dean Spanos"—Raiders owner Mark Davis is apparently constitutionally incapable of making friends—that meant a deal placating both Kroenke and Spanos, or at least not angering either man too much.
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Aging yet still forceful, he prowls the corridors of 10 Downing Street in a fog of cigar smoke, bitterly cognizant of the folly of placating Hitler yet knowing that he has no choice: Britain has only 20 fighter planes that work at high altitude, and Chamberlain desperately needs to buy time to allow his country to rearm.
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In one glimmering, mirage-like afternoon, I learn to look out for elevators, to spot access ramps sans binoculars, to smile in placating gratitude at anyone who offers small conveniences, and most importantly, to not scream at people who treat us as if we are obstructing half the world, instead of half the sidewalk, with Emily's sweet kid.
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Evidence is widespread more immigrants are already returning to Mexico than moving north, and that the wall would backfire by trapping seasonal workers in the US. Even that is generously assuming Trump's wall is motivated by some kind of genuine concern for law and order and not just placating racists—and if you believe that, enjoy your toxic fumes and dead wildlife.[ThinkProgress]
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Moreover, they likely are still convinced that Republicans can win with the George W. Bush approach of appealing to Hispanic and black voters with an inclusive opportunity and growth agenda that includes a pro-immigration, pro-trade, pro-corporate platform, while placating non-college-educated whites with some stuff about traditional Christian values and maybe a few middle-class entitlements or tax credits.
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The foods of their childhoods were once mocked and rejected by their non-Asian peers (and by their ashamed or rebellious younger selves); then accepted in dilute, placating form; and now are able to command audiences who clamor for their sensations and aggressive flavors, and who might be unnerved if they knew exactly what they were putting in their mouths.
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Only when every network chief executive and over 2237 media outlets besieged the Trump campaign with requests for additional comment on how women should be punished for abortions did the Trump campaign turn to an ally: Chris Christie, whose tenure as the Republican governor of the blue state of New Jersey had given him experience placating both social conservatives and the moderate voters Trump hoped to attract in the general election.
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While the change may not have warranted the #RIPTwitter hashtag that began trending worldwide on Friday evening after BuzzFeed broke the news of the feature, it does speak to larger issues that Twitter is facing, mainly that the company appears to be torn between placating its small-ish (320 million monthly active users versus Facebook's 1.59 billion), albeit passionate, user base while at the same time trying to get more everyday people using the service.
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With tens of thousands of athletes, officials and visitors from almost 100 countries gathered in South Korea, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE would be forced to grit his teeth and defer to Seoul's initiative of placating Pyongyang.
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Given the innumerable ways in which women or people who are read as women are conditioned and socialized from birth to be nice and placating, given the way that women are consistently pitted against each other and are then admonished for being either catty or weak depending on how they respond, given the intense care with which women must conduct themselves in male-dominated spaces (and the specific way in which WMMA stars have had to watch themselves in a post-Rousey backlash world), the Preacher's Daughter has been nothing short of a social and PR red belt lately.
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