"There is no pretense of open-mindedness, no pretense of 'let's hear the facts and then we'll decide,' " Chemerinsky said.
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However, democracy is dependent on a certain amount of pretense – the pretense that elections are a battle of ideas, not people; the pretense that one's opponent's bad ideas are the consequence of a failure to understand, not of malice; the pretense that the airing of two sides of an issue in a debate can somehow lead us to agreement or truth.
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He enjoys the political pretense of a war with the press, and much of the press has used the pretense of conflict with the Trump administration as a marketing gimmick.
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Why our relationship should be made worse by this pretense?
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There was no pretense of working like an old master.
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It has this pretense of fairness, but it's ultimately destructive.
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"Very genuine — no pretense, no nonsense, extremely intense," Daniels said.
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The V.M.A.s strip away the pretense and make this plain.
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More than a few reporters made no pretense of objectivity.
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Also' the movie never violated its own style or pretense.
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Both these criticisms fail to acknowledge the power of pretense.
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But the falseness of the pretense has always been obvious.
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With Trump there is no pretense of respectability or rectitude.
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Seen up close, the fighters' pretense of bravado soon disappears.
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Their enemies: sham, cant, pretense, the flattening out of feeling.
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Last week, he stripped away the pretense and the camouflage.
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But there was not an ounce of pretense in him.
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What Bannon's exit might mean, however, is the end of even the pretense that Trumpist economic policy is anything different from standard Republicanism — and I think giving up the pretense matters, at least a bit.
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Hang him!' because they now have some slight, flimsy f—— pretense.
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There is no pretense here—only delicious, squishy wheels of Babybel.
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But Ford is past the pretense that he needs a reason.
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" Of Blasey Ford's emotional testimony, Johnson adds: "There was no pretense.
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And many found comfort in Mineral's sincerity and lack of pretense.
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That the programs were "voluntary," they argued, was merely a pretense.
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There was a truth behind their performances, as well as pretense.
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This election-year "Shrew" obviously makes no pretense of being nonpartisan.
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Today's Republican Party has no pretense of concern for those institutions.
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She spoke of cancer eloquently, no pretense here, words tumbling out.
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There is not much pretense that the court will be impartial.
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"Will & Grace," returning Thursday after eleven years, makes little such pretense.
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Sometimes the secretarial firms just dispensed with the pretense up front.
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Danger lurks everywhere in Gilead, often under the pretense of kindness.
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But Mr. Petrenko's conducting, for all its theatricality, is without pretense.
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Any pretense of Siatta as a threat to visitors fell away.
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Now, WeWork has finally given up any pretense of going public.
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Who more ruthlessly tears the mask from the face of pretense?
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Expansions of regulatory power are political, all pretense of technocracy notwithstanding.
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Sometimes fake news doesn't even bother with the pretense of fact.
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And then give some sort of pretense to giving state control?
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RILEY: The shooting was yet another pretense for going after Donald Trump.
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I loved the lack of pretense of Chinese entrepreneurs, their authentic entrepreneurialism.
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There is no pretense of formality here, yet the service is remarkable.
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It didn't take long to see through its pretense of realness, though.
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There was, I felt, maleficence at work with a pretense of positivity.
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Parker Brothers maintained the pretense that Darrow was the creator of Monopoly.
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Offred is barely keeping up a pretense of meekness in this scene.
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There is a promise of follow-up, but it feels like pretense.
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Now, in Washington as in Westminster, all such pretense has been abandoned.
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It reduces you to your essence and strips you of every pretense.
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Worse still, it drops any pretense of making you worry about resources.
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Keegan Messing of Canada makes no pretense: He is a show skater.
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The story lays bare how much immigration is a game of pretense.
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When it came to politics, though, he dropped the pretense of casualness.
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A charade is an absurd pretense intended to create a respectable appearance.
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Once a president drops even the pretense of accuracy, what's the point?
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A prime example is the pretense that health reform hasn't helped anyone.
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Trump campaigned as a divider with no pretense of uniting the nation.
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Among his large, close-knit family, he drops his accent and pretense.
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Being part of a trail crew strips down any pretense of individuality.
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Barcelona slung crosses into the box, all pretense at highbrow philosophies forgotten.
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And we make no pretense of knowing the best treatment for others.
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To be sure, the pretense was not solely reserved for the GOP.
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Trump makes no pretense, and this is what's so extraordinary about him.
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In the US, conservatism has found small-government ideology a congenial pretense.
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Others secure their outright release, under the false pretense of being terminally ill.
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"Nobody's going to sit around and allow this pretense to continue," Kerry said.
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To me, it would be a disservice to gloss over that for pretense.
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She interviews Sheriff Keller "for the paper" as a pretense to get information.
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There's no pretense, no feeling of exclusion or needing to get everything right.
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She shredded the pretense of governing with civility and dignity in the House.
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But that pretense can only go on for so long before something breaks.
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The House Republicans have essentially shut down any pretense of a serious investigation.
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But he made no pretense of mourning Cor—indeed, he openly denigrated him.
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By now, there is not even a pretense of legitimacy to these proceedings.
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But the pretense for even-handedness has kept the wheels of diplomacy running.
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But the aspirants must grow comfortable with a certain quantity of awkward pretense.
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Society demanded the pretense of innocence at the expense of experience, of truth.
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Pride was banned in 2015 under the pretense that it happened during Ramadan.
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Yet Old Orchard Beach's unapologetic lack of pretense is part of its appeal.
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But that's kind of a useful pretense because nothing is a closed system.
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One is that pretense norms work against the people truly deserving of praise.
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Now, let us be candid, they are invoked only for pretense or ostentation.
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Mongiardino appreciated the honesty of the food — its quality and lack of pretense.
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They make no pretense of setting aside their disagreements for lovey-dovey reconciliation.
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The pretense continuesSo why do they continue to participate in the annual ritual?
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It allows pretense to be stripped away — it's just you and the barbell.
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What Trump enjoys is a political pretense of a war with the press.
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ZERO pretense here -- just a whole bunch of butts shaking, popping and clapping.
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Such a state of affairs will surely make many progressive critics of American foreign policy and civil rights causes nostalgic for those days before the loss of pretense, however troubling the gap between that pretense and reality may have been.
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Apple's battle with the FBI over Farook's iPhone destroyed any pretense of a truce.
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President Obama dropped any pretense of objectivity Thursday in the Democratic presidential primary race.
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The feelings exhumed are so raw and visceral that all pretense is wiped away.
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There's barely a pretense at going through the motions of inquiry and evidence anymore.
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You led us into the land of Wakanda without ego, without pretense, without fear.
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So I'm still writing, but the pretense of "writing is my career" is dissipating.
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Colborn on the evening on November 4, 2005, under the pretense of helping Sgt.
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"Perhaps the biggest pretense of all was that I was having fun," she said.
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With the pretense of defending free markets, the Republican Party consistently supported big business.
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Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right.
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Bandersnatch's gameplay lures you in under the false pretense that everything will be okay.
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"All pretense is gone," said Representative Peter Welch, a member of the oversight committee.
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"All pretense is gone," said Representative Peter Welch, a member of the oversight committee.
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Yes, he's done away with the pretense and the illusion and all of that.
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That was the straw that brought down the pretense of rapprochement and triggered sanctions.
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Men like Kendrick Lamar have built their careers on the pretense of social consciousness.
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Mr. Assad has attacked many of them on the pretense of attacking Nusra fighters.
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Any pretense to a motivation other than dodging taxes has now been wiped away.
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Posner suggested that society could drop the pretense and allow for an actual market.
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"And now I, Meghan" tells us the poem intends to dispense with poetic pretense.
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The truth, when it arrives, destroys the pretense with a shocking display of violence.
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I kept wanting to put "lost" and "pretense" in there for those vague clues.
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The notice to reporters announcing the Monday meetings made no pretense about their significance.
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Neither Shuler nor Ryan made much pretense of being a Pelosi-caliber legislative tactician.
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I congratulated myself on putting aside pretense and finding ways to enjoy the album.
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For one, it is making no pretense to be bridging the two digital realms.
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Why not give a shot to one who doesn't bother much with the pretense?
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So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence.
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Amazon argues the changes were a pretense to block the company from the award.
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This is a form of activism for me: finding place and context without pretense.
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That is why wines like California carignan, presented straightforwardly without pretense, are so exciting.
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It is always an illusion, of course, but the pretense otherwise is especially insidious here.
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Underwear would have ruined her outfit, and that simply isn't worth the pretense of modesty.
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Arrested and charged with falsely obtaining property by false pretense, Denton posted her $2,500 bond.
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There is a quasi-libertarian pretense among that crowd that government is slow and inefficient.
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Suddenly, I'm shoving folks out my life under the pretense of having a nice conversation.
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Skidmore said she had three more encounters with him, all under the pretense of work.
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Meanwhile, Khajuria also kept up the pretense of searching for the child in the village.
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But after the pivotal home invasion scene, the filmmakers throw off any pretense at restraint.
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Great to see body diversity represented here, and especially that you acknowledged it without pretense.
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Trump University's only pretense at being a part of real higher education was the name.
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As a stage entertainer who never takes the stage here, he's remarkably free of pretense.
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I suppose you can create something and make a pretense that it's them doing it.
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The showrunners scrupulously avoid any pretense or flatness in regards to its characters, and themes.
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That pretense mostly looks pretty stupid to people watching, but looking smart isn't the point.
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The pretense collapsed entirely when it looked like voters would weigh in the wrong way.
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Mayweather-McGregor is on a sped-up timeline with no pretense of greatness, just spectacle.
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Especially in our internet era, the truth, communicated purely and without pretense, is remarkably salient.
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With the opposition in control of the National Assembly, all pretense of democracy quickly unraveled.
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The political theater reached bizarre levels by ignoring protocol and abandoning any pretense of decorum.
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Austria has long abandoned the noxious pretense of being the "first victim" of Nazi Germany.
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For better or worse, both these candidates have shed any pretense of joy or optimism.
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He is forthright both in his enjoyment of music and his complete lack of pretense.
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There's a lot of pretense in plantation slaw, whether the restaurateur realizes it or not.
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So I invented this whole pretense to serve both humans and aliens when they meet.
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There is no longer any pretense that the America social fabric is a single cloth.
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But in a single declaration, Biden quickly dispensed with even the pretense of equal consideration.
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Eliminate the pretense that any reasonable amount of truth is being offered by the administration.
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The Republicans' pretense to deficit hawkery put pressure on Democrats to adopt a similar stance.
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Mr. Trump gave up any pretense that he would follow the facts wherever they led.
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There is no pretense that Peter will be better off after the film has finished.
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The Trump administration has abandoned any pretense at being an honest broker in the conflict.
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But in any case, adding "and besides, they're stealing our jobs" undercuts the whole pretense.
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Our foreign policy no longer seems guided by even the pretense of these American values.
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But the last thing most students want from a mentor is the pretense of chumminess.
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They made no pretense of reforming the tax code beyond slashing some very visible rates.
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For this to happen, though, museums will have to relinquish their pretense of ideological neutrality.
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But she's dropped all pretense of trying to get her father to support reproductive rights.
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Transparency seemed like it was just a pretense for Korey to micromanage and exert control.
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There was no longer any pretense that anyone outside the Kremlin participated in making them.
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"He raped me, under the pretense of helping me," Mr. Harris, now 210, recalled Wednesday.
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The spectacle of Bryant's last outing, though, had the counterintuitive effect of dissolving the pretense.
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The radio plays a lot of hip-hop — it's a youthful, informal atmosphere with little pretense.
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But blaming the filibuster for why House Republicans torched the immigration bill is just a pretense.
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The promise of the regional supermarket is ultimately the assurance of consumption without pretense or profile.
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"I loved Amy immediately because I could tell she was authentic with no pretense," Ashworth said.
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But as soon as the main character, Lacie (Bryce Dallas Howard) appears, any pretense is forgotten.
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The effort to restrain himself proved too strenuous, and he finally dropped all pretense of discipline.
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And we're all in tank tops and flip-flops, so there's not much cover for pretense.
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He offers the pretense of impartiality, and takes pains to admonish "both sides" for being uncivil.
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The pretense of it being a "smart" watch, at least in terms of style, is gone.
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But there used to be at least some pretense of taking facts and hard thinking seriously.
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On some pretense, such as a peacekeeping mission, thousands of troops would gather on the border.
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She moved slowly and sensuously, pausing sometimes and dropping the pretense of smiling, then starting again.
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However, the Obama administration sought to achieve the appearance of success through a pretense of process.
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Ornaments first, warriors only in fetishized pretense, they are, after all, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
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The fact is, there often was more pretense than principle in his final years as director.
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Now, the left has given up all pretense of being the champions of the working class.
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Are we accidentally indemnifying foreign — or mostly foreign — companies that make a pretense to being American?
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Politicians have long felt the need to disguise raw political agendas in the pretense of principle.
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And he brought Smoyer to Washington on the pretense of a book-signing at the Pentagon.
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" But most public expressions of distress about corruption in Trump's circle struck him as a "pretense.
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A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
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There's so much artifice and pretense and grandiosity in the characters that it actually fits perfectly.
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They've lived with the pretense for so long that it'll all be alright on the day.
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Last week, though, Alabama decided to forgo even the pretense of respect for the Roe precedent.
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A massive cluster of contenders on a debate stage dispenses with any pretense of civic respectability.
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"The men who kidnapped us did not even make a pretense of being Muslim," he said.
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True, even Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has not entirely given up the pretense of caring about deficits.
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Under the false pretense of his wife joining us, he turned our day trips into overnights.
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Which is why Mr. Trump's tweet was something of a relief in its shredding of pretense.
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So he proceeded to openly mock his pretense of a more presidential stance at the rally.
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When it came to Nevada's role in choosing presidents, Mr. Reid made no pretense of neutrality.
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Any doubts that he would eventually win were a pretense to deflect suspicions about political manipulation.
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Some say her duties are a pretense for keeping the community's retarch out of the way.
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It's a strategy that risks a government default over stubbornness under the pretense of fiscal prudence.
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The police officer noticed, and all pretense of the officer's unquestionable authority vanished in an instant.
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Sondland's revelation rips away the last of the pretense that Trump cared about corruption in Ukraine.
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What is really different this time around is that McConnell sidestepped any pretense of using traditional processes.
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But the plot's reductive pretense revolved around the fact that some of the suitors were secretly straight.
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He saw through all the pretense and pruning that I feel new New Yorkers seem to favor.
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Under this pretense, Martens, after hours of questioning, changed her story again — this time cooperating with authorities.
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BE FOR REAL removes the pretense and satirizes how [people] see the game with [these] scratch tickets.
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Nassar was accused of molesting young women for years, under the pretense of giving them medical treatments.
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The pretense that Nintendo's games exist in this pure, innocent, sexless vacuum is collapsing all around us.
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Memmo was charged with larceny over $1,200 by false pretense as well as misleading a police officer.
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Salt Lake Police Detective Jeff Payne initially put on a pretense of patience in the burn unit.
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The next day, Fri, under false pretense of receiving mail, xxxx was called to the Administration Bldg.
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Where even their great rivals Fall Out Boy flirt with the pretense of genuine self-expression, Panic!
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Of course, you might want to sample the forbidden fruit of foreign Netflix without the above pretense.
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Pence wears the traditional mask of chivalry while Trump is undisguised by any pretense of loftier motives.
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Andrei heads to the Rostov's country home on the pretense of consulting the count about militia business.
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There can be no pretense that Trump has satisfactorily confronted the racists who shamed America this weekend.
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And he makes no pretense that he will use the power of government to achieve his goals.
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His preference for bilateral bullying over multilateral coalition-building has destroyed any pretense of U.S. global leadership.
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Big Oil and its front groups want to kill electric vehicles (EVs) under the pretense of fairness.
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If Zuckerberg wants to regain the public's trust, he can start by dropping the pretense of neutrality.
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Trump, meanwhile, has seemingly abandoned even the pretense of collaboration with Democrats or, more broadly, with Congress.
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When your words are honest and direct, stripped of pretense, you acknowledge the enormity of their experience.
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Strongman politics are ascending suddenly, whereby elections, some pretense of democracy, are maintained, the form of it.
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He makes a minor pretense of covering his tracks, swapping the characters' gender and scrambling their names.
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Even on the pretense that the candidates actually like each other, their opponent's supporters, their opponent's families.
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The revelations about Louis C.K. and others are killing any pretense that any of this is objective.
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Soon she had given up even the basic social pretense that we might actually want the brooches.
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Let go of any pretense of perfection, and embrace any mishaps as part of the greater celebration.
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In other words, any plan would need to drop the pretense of realizing either side's perfect deal.
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President Trump's budget plan would destroy the food stamp program, on the pretense that it discourages work.
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Everyone loves the over-the-topness of the pretense, because everyone knows no one can get hurt.
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Perhaps, Kavanaugh is doing everyone a favor by dropping the pretense that the court is above politics.
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Fraser tried, however bluntly, to tear down pretense and expose the ways in which intimacy is performed.
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This time the press openly declared war on the G.O.P. candidate without even a pretense of neutrality.
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But for the most part, he projects his status most authentically by speaking without pretense or arrogance.
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"Know that this wasn't an ad for young conservatives of color — that was the pretense," she tweeted.
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The human race shed all pretense, gleefully revealing themselves as gibbering voyeurs for the pending gladiatorial match.
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I don't think this is a pretense for what's coming up," Costa said Monday on CNBC's "Closing Bell.
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The site I landed on dropped all pretense; no picture of Stewart or mention of the distraught wife.
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More often, the Republican presidential nominee openly dismissed any pretense of respect for some very basic pluralistic ideals.
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"There was no pretense of justification at all," Jackson said of Republicans' actions in the lame-duck session.
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Finally, the official lowered his hand, dropping any pretense the race would start, so the runners watched Thompson.
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In more recent clips, the pretense of Ryan actually playing with certain toys has been totally cast aside.
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Any pretense that she is not "free" is a manipulation of the public's sympathy based on false facts.
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Go deeper: The Trump administration's secret anti-China plans U.S. and China drop the pretense: It's us vs.
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We played games or kicked a ball around, but it was all a pretense for the social aspect.
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LGBT refugees claim to have seen people collecting money under a false pretense: They pretend to be gay.
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His failure on Auschwitz is Exhibit A. Now there is no pretense, no question about what we know.
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Instead of studying up, Palin gave up any pretense of seriousness and has now disappeared from the debate.
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This is a pretense that we are doing something while we're showing the NRA we aren't doing anything.
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Mr. Dubourdieu was an enemy of pretense and impatient with the traditional secretiveness of the Bordeaux wine trade.
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" Despite her success, she is without pretense, Dr. Clapp said: "She is the same person everywhere she goes.
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The department jettisoned all but the pretense of working for the citizens it claims to serve years ago.
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Will his perceptions speak to who these people are, or will they unveil the pretense of their feeds?
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But the French and British air forces began to run out of bombs, and that pretense fell away.
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When the passengers understood that they couldn't talk their way out, they dropped the pretense and drew guns.
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His critics say he is using Smolensk as a pretense to arrest political enemies before elections in 2020.
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On the 1,001st day of his tenure, which was Thursday, all pretense of normalcy went out the window.
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"We have an absolute pretense of what 'normal' is," she said in a 2018 interview with the BBC.
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The workout, with its pop-rock playlist and jazzercise-y moves, successfully removes any pretense or affected erudition.
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A Princeton University graduate student, Mr. Wang had been held under the pretense of espionage since August 2016.
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Eventually, Comey dropped the tiresome pretense and began tweeting directly about events and people under his own name.
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Both, under pressure from Trump, voted for it under the phony pretense it might be a holding action.
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His critics believed their argument had been proved — that Dr. King's claims to nonviolence were so much pretense.
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In 1976, Syrian troops entered Lebanon under the pretense of stabilizing a country rapidly tumbling into civil war.
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The institutions it built scarcely made any pretense of transcending faction; they are of and for the right.
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But charges of indecent conduct and requesting and receiving the nude photos under false pretense involving the petty officer were dismissed, and the military jury also found Howard not guilty on charges of indecent conduct and that he requested the snapshots from a female civilian under false pretense, Baker said.
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There, she deconstructed the idea of a song; on Home she abandons the pretense of pop song structure altogether.
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But the pretense that everyone loves movies and that the ceremony is some lasting celebration of cinema is absurd.
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Wozniak lured the 26-year-old into a theater attic under the pretense that he needed help moving furniture.
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In truth, your mission as a spy is a pretense, meant to engage you in the play's documentary materials.
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" Boykins, in court filings and through his lawyer, has accused Buttigieg of coercing him into resigning under "false pretense.
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"Iran has never offered any evidence that even makes a pretense of justifying this imprisonment," the news executives wrote.
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On Bachelor In Paradise, there's no pretense — the contestants just show up, and they're let loose in "paradise," a.k.a.
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But police claim that Memmo obtained the larger flat-screen under false pretense, which would be against the law.
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It's the kind where Google quashes any pretense of Nest operating as a separate, independent operation within the company.
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His son and successor as head of Liberty University has abandoned all pretense that biblical values inform his politics.
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Imagine New York's Time Square with a makeover from John Carpenter's They Live—but without any pretense of deception.
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Some journalists even suggested giving up the pretense of objectivity, as this widely circulated New York Times article illustrates.
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Today, we can abort unborn children at any time during pregnancy on the pretense that they are not human.
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He also argued that many scientists should drop their pretense of objectivity and become active proponents for their work.
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The lack of pretense and the actual object of the fireplaces, which showed the workers' hands having fashioned it.
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This argument offers Democratic senators the pretense of principle in refusing to vote to confirm any nominee of Trump.
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According to the police statement, Jago sexually assaulted H for 15 years under the pretense of magic or witchcraft.
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Trump's is a MacGuffin, a pretense for talking about what he and his supporters miss about an irretrievable past.
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Our pretense to real sagacity has crumbled; only luck and randomness can save "it won't be Trump" punditry now.
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Let's not restructure and cut an efficient program under the false pretense that it will put people to work.
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When I went, I just felt there was a lot of pretense—a lot of pressure to be cool.
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So let's drop the pretense that Trump is filling his Cabinet with "the best people," as he promised voters.
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Certainly much of the media is "out to get him" and has discarded any pretense of fairness and objectivity.
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The steel and aluminum tariffs were put in place earlier this year under the pretense of protecting national security.
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Maybe it is time to cut the smaller countries loose, to stop even the pretense of sharing the wealth.
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The Democratic freshman class, meanwhile, is seemingly trying to shed all pretense in favor of a personal, unfiltered approach.
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But Djane is operating under a ridiculous pretense while perpetuating a boring, swimsuit-model type of feminine beauty ideal.
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He obtained a tourist visa to the U.S., on the pretense that he would stay with friends in Houston.
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Ripping children away from their parents under the pretense of community safety when these are our neighbors and churchgoers?
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Nonetheless, Sherman cautioned that if approached incorrectly, a diplomatic effort ending in failure could become a "pretense" for war.
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"This is a pretense that we are doing something while assuring the NRA that we aren't doing anything," Rep.
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What I found astonishing when the #MeToo movement broke was the pretense that nobody knew this was going on.
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This autocratic pull has combined with a weakening push from democracies to follow even the pretense of democratic norms.
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Many conservatives complain that the anchors and panelists on CNN have abandoned any pretense of treating the administration fairly.
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But the pretense that justice has been even remotely served must not be given any credence, at any level.
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He believes that respecting the Palestinians includes dropping the pretense that their national movement will ever accept Israel's existence.
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Vanderbilt's wealth and profile gave her the freedom of authenticity, of selling what was aspirational without the accompanying pretense.
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Onstage, she ditches all pretense of being a neat little housewife to become all too human in her imperfections.
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Matt Gaetz (R-FL), voted in favor of the bill's passage seemingly with the pretense that it would be changed.
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That night, Vester said Brokaw showed up at her hotel room under the pretense of having been in the neighborhood.
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And by abandoning the pretense of objectivity, Law & Order tells the least caricatured story about the Menendez murders so far.
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Walden has none of the pretense or weariness or serrated caution that so many Division I coaches wrap around themselves.
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The pretense is gone, and Damn Daniel gets even better because it was obviously only ever meant to be fun.
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What's neat about that sequence is the way the game drops all pretense of you controlling one character over another.
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Gone is any pretense that President Trump's opponents are genuinely concerned about policy or about the condition of the country.
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In the final moments of the debate, Rubio slammed his fellow senator for hiding behind the pretense of conservative values.
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There will be no secret and no pretense, as Ohtani's splitter is the perfect weapon to wield in this moment.
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But there is no longer a pretense that, if Republicans band together, they can eke out a victory in November.
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Now, with his economic agenda on the skids, Trump is dropping the pretense and pivoting to an outright culture war.
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"There's a pretense, there's something created about him in the sense of bullydom," the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star continued.
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Maar's photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.
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In backing down from the next round on Tuesday, however, Trump surrendered the pretense that only China bears the costs.
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"There's this pretense that retirement savers are being protected, but no assurance that firms will be in compliance," Roper said.
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And in a short time in office, Donald Trump has ignored any pretense of process and dismissed all important regulations.
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For days, Mr. Cruz has dispensed with any pretense that he can rise above Mr. Trump in a fractured field.
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The pretense of a lot of political coverage today is that it aims to improve and edify our civic life.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Big-time college football long ago whistled past the pretense that it is not an enormous business.
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"There is no pretense or calculation in this essay," said James G. Nondorf, dean of college admissions and financial aid.
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It's such a palm-to-the-face moment, so insensitive in its pretense, that you almost feel sorry for Christian.
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But this was a week in which the pretense of symmetry between the modern Democratic and Republican parties fell away.
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Much of this land was acquired on the pretense of agricultural development; it has become gated communities and golf courses.
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Putting aside any pretense toward nuance or complexity, the paper has surrendered to the sensibility of left-wing political activists.
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I know there's a certain amount of allure or pretense — depending on where you're coming from — when you say that.
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What happened in 2016 is that the religious right dropped all pretense that theirs was a movement about family values.
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In her performance here, there's no polish or pretense — Franklin seems like she's singing directly to her no-good lover.
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China's censorship laws, which predate the first coronavirus cases, have been deployed before under the pretense of preventing mass panic.
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This doctrine was always more aspirational than operational, but today even the pretense of protecting the population has been discarded.
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But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense.
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Others say it is a pretense for discouraging the poor, minorities and other typically Democratic-leaning voters from casting ballots.
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"This is a pretense that we are doing something while assuring the NRA that we aren't doing anything," said Rep.
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Inside the House chamber, lawmakers dispensed with any pretense of persuasion, accepting early on that the vote was largely predetermined.
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There was little talk on Sunday about terror and violence, just the pretense of waking up to a hopeful beginning.
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Any pretense of tolerance and egalitarianism, already damaged by a Republican history of words and deeds, will be completely obliterated.
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Oh, and the howling mess that is the current G.O.P. tax plan shows what happens when Ryanesque pretense meets reality.
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Meanwhile, the business operations of the press have used the pretense of conflict with the Trump administration as a gimmick.
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But when it comes to strangers, where the pretense of love isn't even established, we tread closer towards actual stalking.
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Professional insider journalists sometimes mock the explainer conceit, as though it is arrogance or pretense, but they are missing the point.
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I think part of what college football fans like about their sport is that there is no real pretense of objectivity.
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"There's already enough pretense around whiskey, wine, cocktails and so many other things that just ought to be fun," says Betts.
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He said one of the issues is that there has been a "pretense of knowledge" on the part of the members.
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And any sort of pretense that the public's voice in the matter was being heard has been chucked out the window.
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"A pretense of friendship with strangers for commercial reasons was not a part of Russian culture before," reporter Andrew Kramer wrote.
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"These [laws] are all specifically designed under the false pretense of fraud to make it more difficult to vote," he said.
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Barbershop has a lack of pretense and a spirit of populism that's rare to find in other musical genres, said Ross.
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Where we give up any pretense of a civil society and devolve into smaller and smaller factions who despise each other?
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When women behave otherwise, Trump makes no such pretense; women who do not act ladylike are not deserving of respectful treatment.
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For all the angular confusion of Dendritic Arbor's approach, Infinite Waste skip all pretense and experimentation in favor of pure ferocity.
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But these rhetorical efforts feel rote and habitual; there's scarcely even a pretense that any coherent philosophy is being consistently applied.
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The eco-left, whether at the legislature or at the PUC, has abandoned any pretense of caring about low-income ratepayers.
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Samsung didn't do the product any favors by dropping the pretense of distinction between the Note and its Galaxy S line.
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Adorno was suspicious of the "jargon of authenticity" and the attempt to find a self unmediated by language, pretense and power.
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Still, that's not what she said, and we're not buying the pretense that being beautiful somehow puts actors at a disadvantage.
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Ms. Collins and Ms. Murkowski could drop the pretense that dissenting within the party has made one bit of "moderating" difference.
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"What's interesting is that he's shed any pretense of making it look as if it's democratic in any way," she added.
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Neither Mr. Lu nor other officials offered much pretense that the arrests were not linked to Ms. Meng's fate in Vancouver.
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Meanwhile, conservative media have given up even the pretense of doing real reporting, and become blatant organs of ruling-party propaganda.
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Day is the key to it all, because her presence simultaneously upholds the pretense of virtuous normality and utterly transgresses it.
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Any pretense that committee members will come together to get to the bottom of that matter — or any other — has disappeared.
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Ryan used to claim that his plans were about reducing the budget deficit, but he has now given up that pretense.
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Originally dubbed Negro History Week, it was established under the pretense- the knowledge- that White Americans were not doing their job.
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Then they abandoned the pretense and opened up the spending taps as soon as one of their own was in power.
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A few years later, General Khan formed his own political party to wear the pretense of democracy while running the country.
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Becky still had his business card, and with the pretense of hiring him for an event she could make a call.
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Maher is a liberal prognosticator who exhibits a pretense of tolerance and open-mindedness — thereby giving him comedic license to offend.
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The only people who seemed to escape her wrath were the truly suffering, who had no energy for décor and pretense.
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The pretense that those who win power reflect the will of the people -- that our government has legitimacy -- is becoming unsustainable.
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There's a concept in wrestling called "kayfabe," which is basically the pretense that the conflicts in the ring are actually real.
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The next, Washington scuttles from the field of battle, abandoning any pretense of taking seriously this most pressing of global issues.
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Each now is facing 12 charges that include breaking and entering; breaking and entering a motor vehicle; larceny after breaking and entering; felony larceny; burning personal property; misdemeanor injury to personal property; two counts of obtaining property by false pretense; two counts of attempting to obtain property by false pretense; and two counts of felony cruelty to an animal.
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It's been widely reported that in some cases, officials took the children under the pretense that they would be getting a bath.
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"Apollonian rigidity versus Dionysian catharsis is brilliantly etched as carnality opposes pretense and the haughty are brought low via mockery," he says.
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These sanctions dismantled any pretense that oligarchs are legitimate business owners by treating them as they are—subsidiaries of the Russian government.
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If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense.
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There was no falsity, no pretense, no guile, no spin, no art to Barbara Bush, who died on Tuesday at age 92.
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Recently widowed, Dick drags Jason to Florida on the pretense of having a nostalgic trip, but it soon becomes a reckless debauch.
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One pitfall he says to avoid, however, is getting talked into additional services under the pretense that it will save you money.
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Beyond its emphasis on the proliferation of violent headlines, Breaking News: Cassils explodes the pretense of objectivity endemic to the news business.
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The pretense was that her music, covering sexual topics, provides carte-blanche to rampantly infringe upon invasive questioning on her personal life.
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He will keep up the pretense that I matter to him so I will not cut off his access to my body.
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Split the pretense from the actual virtues and you have the difference between football and the NFL, the sport and the business.
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Warbelow says elected officials need to hear from their constituents that discrimination is wrong, even under this pretense of First Amendment protections.
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Sex work seemed like the easiest way into dating straight men because it was the pretense under which guys were approaching me.
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"This is a pretense that we are doing something while assuring the NRA that we aren't doing anything," said Congressman Steny Hoyer.
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So the fact that his child would make such a heinous accusation with no pretense, really made me a target for [Nassar].
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Political appointees wait out the Republican administration by "burrowing" into the civil service, returning to the nonprofits, or just ending the pretense.
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Less comprehensible are the motives of people who do the work of the state without the pretense of getting paid for it.
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Our enemies in the region may use the embassy opening as a pretense for action against the United States and our interests.
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" The Senate GOP campaign arm hammered Casey over his remarks, saying he has "given up any pretense of being a moderate voice.
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So maybe it's best to keep up the pretense if the prospect of embarrassment means people will actually go to the toilet.
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Even when the charges don't stick, charges can be used as a pretense for public humiliation, weeks of imprisonment, or even deportation.
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From threats to rude, belligerent coverage, the media hasn't held back from making its disgust clear and dropping any pretense of objectivity.
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Even the pretense of fairness or objectivity has been abandoned; if a story might possibly damage President Trump, it will be published.
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Ray lacks pretense and is quite happy to spend his time putting in the hard work behind the scenes that success demands.
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Yet pretending to believe these things is the price of admission to the club — and the falsity of that pretense shines through.
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The IDF is determined to protect Israel's citizens and sovereignty against Hamas's attempts to terrorize us under the pretense of violent riots.
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We continue the pretense of counting dominoes, for a time—until she looks past me at the clock above the guard station.
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It is history seen through the eyes of these persons, without a pretense to being universal, which, through its subjectivity, becomes universal.
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Instead, on May 14, CBS filed the lawsuit to strip Ms. Redstone of voting control, dropping any pretense of friendliness or cooperation.
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Her family escaped to West Germany when Alicja was 8 years old, under the pretense of attending a relative's wedding in France.
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Throwing out any pretense of oversight, he told donors that Republicans in the House need to protect Trump from the special counsel.
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What Instagram has branded "Stories" is an endless feed of images, one-liners and special effects that carries no pretense of progression.
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But as we've seen, the network has long abandoned even the pretense that any rules apply to Hannity, its undisputed standard-bearer.
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"The deal was made on a completely false pretense," the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said at her daily briefing.
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Everyone knew that he was a gay man with a marriage of convenience; everyone agreed to maintain the pretense that he wasn't.
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Imagine "Girls," but with ten times the self-knowledge and no pretense anyone would actually be friends with the Lena Dunham character.
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It would be helpful in this discourse if the mainstream media would drop the pretense of being guardians of truth and rightness.
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Apologies for all that pretense — it's too cold for ice cream here, and it'll counterbalance how frothy and fun this puzzle was.
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Critics of the announcement said the change in policy removed any pretense that the United States is a neutral broker for peace.
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It exists so naturally that in a world full of pretense, it stands singularly, [communicating] much more than what is on the surface.
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I'm also closer to the continent [Africa] and the community cultures are very dedicated and involved and passionate and still operate without pretense.
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It's an 88-minute adrenaline puzzle that leaves any pretense of a damsel in distress behind in favor of a smart, resourceful heroine.
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That pretense -- the suggestion these laws are not clearly and specifically aimed at humiliating and discriminating against Muslim women -- needs to stop now.
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His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and her fingers itched to give up this pretense and sink into the rough silk.
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I think one of the things that I&aposd like to see change is they and this pretense that they are neutral platform.
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No matter whom Democrats nominated, Trump and his supporters would find a pretense for claiming that the candidate wasn't entitled to hold office.
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The men met with Veselnitskaya on June 9, 2016, at Trump Tower under the pretense that she had damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
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"There is the pretense of sharing a meal together, which normalizes the awkwardness of strangers meeting and having very intimate conversations," she says.
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By abandoning even the pretense of congressional oversight, Republicans are leaving it almost entirely to reporters to scrutinize Trump's ethical and legal conduct.
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The only person who can talk her down is June — it's interesting that in a real crisis, all pretense of Gilead is dropped.
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That would all be fine if Schiff would be consistent with his grand jury pretense and do all of this behind closed doors.
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Senate Republican leaders said Mr. Cotton's amendment was never pending for consideration and accused Democrats of creating a pretense for scuttling the bill.
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So as it's all come up, I've realized how under the pretense of being grateful, I wasn't really looking at some unfair stuff.
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It wasn't just that it was sad or dark or depressing, but that it was all of those things without apology or pretense.
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And Mr. Ryan, after a brief pretense of agonizing about Mr. Trump, is now in full attack-dog mode on the candidate's behalf.
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There is no guiding political philosophy here, and the country should by now be well beyond any pretense that there might be one.
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Patiently, with no pretense, he unlocks one safe deposit box of memory and emotion after another — safe deposit boxes you'd forgotten you'd owned.
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Read more: It looks like the US has abandoned any pretense that its war on Huawei is unrelated to the China trade talks
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" According to MRT materials obtained by VICE, we all begin childhood in the moral stage of "disloyalty," which involves dishonesty, "pretense," and "victimizing.
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Soon the donations had soared to $11,500, by which point Lea had abandoned all pretense of playing and was dancing across her room.
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It is also why it is not the absence but the pretense of principle that is so maddening among our ethically challenged leaders.
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In a series of hourslong interviews for this story, Mr. Eagan was thoughtful, funny and self-scrutinizing, with an appealing lack of pretense.
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For Mr. Scott, the album is a pretense, a necessary step in between him and the exuberant presentation that is his true gift.
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That comment raised questions about whether the White House used Mr. Sessions and his deputy to create a pretense for firing Mr. Comey.
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The Supreme Court is now in a position to reject the charade of over-regulation on the pretense of patient health and safety.
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Hours earlier, the nation's largest pharmaceutical company went to court to argue that the state had purchased the drug using a false pretense.
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He was convicted and imprisoned three years later on two counts of obtaining money by false pretense, check cloning, wire transfer and forgery.
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Trump's action dispenses with the pretense that the United States officially opposes these actions, giving Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in Jerusalem its imprimatur.
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Nobuya Takai, a lawyer who has represented foreign trainees in labor disputes, said the pretense that trainees are not workers contributes to problems.
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When people tell the truth, they can experience a feeling of release from pretense that is perhaps similar to the release of rudeness.
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He's a relic himself, but one modern folks can respect; there's nothing audacious or mythical about Rogers except his utter lack of pretense.
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Like the little child in Hans Christian Andersen's tale, I refuse to lie and have no space for pretense: Mr. Trump is naked!
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I make no pretense to expertise on any of these matters, and I celebrate the possibility that the "Mona Lisa" once had eyebrows.
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"But Hong Kong is not a democracy, and Beijing will not allow Hong Kong to become one, despite the pretense otherwise," he said. video
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This handing off of the FCC's regulatory abilities under the pretense of "modernization" is exactly what Wheeler, the former chairman, was calling a fraud.
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" Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years behind bars in February for sexually abusing young female athletes under the pretense of medical "treatment.
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Likewise, Elizabeth's relationship with her confidant, Bess of Hardwicke (Gemma Chan), is a welcome respite from the constant strain and pretense of court life.
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The designer's optimism, charm, and lack of pretense — evidenced in his choice of attire — has garnered Sies Marjan a cult following, and unsurprisingly so.
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"To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretense, service without self-regard, and to live life fully," Obama said at the time.
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After all, a large amount of Trump's appeal relies on the pretense that everything is going wrong and that only he can save things.
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In picking him as their standard bearer, Republicans have abandoned any pretense of being the party of economic competence and growth in this election.
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And so they start an elaborate game of pretense with the local town, holing up and claiming they're still looking after their convalescing mother.
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After this brutal string of betrayals, Red's been pushed to abandon any pretense of self improvement and indulge in revenge, even when it's detrimental.
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The ability to generate malicious links that appear to lead to actual government websites can be a handy pretense for criminals conducting phishing campaigns.
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A spy cammer filming a woman's swaying butt in a supermarket isn't making a pretense that she's being caught in a moment of pleasure.
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Steinberg alleges Morrisey was lured to McNew's home on the pretense that she would retrieve her belongings, but was instead confronted with a gun.
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At this point in our story, Amy Adams's boozy journalist Camille is done with the initial pretense that took her back to her hometown.
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Some DCOMs abandoned all pretense of escapism and just got extremely real, including commentary on race relations, the environment, disability, and even 9/11.
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The first step forward is for Facebook, and anyone who uses algorithms in subjective decision making, to drop the pretense that they are neutral.
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To women who wanted to kill, it was an avenue of getting away with murder -- with just a bit of pretense at being abused.
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The proposal amounts to a nuanced charade, socializing the costs of unprofitable power plants under the pretense of thwarting imminent threats to grid reliability.
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That Republican pretense drives the politics that empowered Mr. Trump and his acolytes and produced the four-day hate fest we saw in Cleveland.
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Many possible 2020 contenders traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire ahead of the midterms under the pretense that they were campaigning for local elected.
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After prefacing the call under the false pretense of a pregnancy, the accuser began to ask Parker to fill in details from the night.
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Republicans are hurrying (yet again) to pass a law without any pretense of knowing what is in it and what its impact will be.
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Under the pretense of writing a puff piece about a scholarship fund, Hammerschmidt scores a meeting with the artist formerly known as President Walker.
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It's an unnecessary pretense that highlights her complete lack of empathy, and her willingness to take advantage of people, even using them as props.
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Oleg, see, is in the states on the pretense of attending a class in the titular subject, but Stan suspects something more is up.
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This behavior offers other countries a pretense for adopting a similar position and threatens to undermine the fledgling global climate effort just getting underway.
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The leader of the Republican Party does all of that and more, denying the G.O.P. any pretense to stewardship of a stable world order.
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The notorious $15,000 ostrich jacket, the desperate living beyond his means, the ostentatiousness — these all very predictably go with the pretense of the boaster.
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It suggests that there is some sinister, lurking thing, shrouded in pretense: We know it's in there, and we know it might come out.
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It has the pretense of being important, in its size but also its presence, as would any portrait of a famous or important man.
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"I'm such a mom-nerd," she apologized, as if sensing the pretense of Hollywood Glamour melt with each dab to her flush, freckled cheeks.
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By the time it hits New York, people have begun to abandon the pretense of normalcy — the thing that keeps society running as designed.
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The fake engagement gives the pair ample excuse to indulge their attraction under the guise of method acting, but the pretense quickly falls away.
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Then Mr. Weinstein invited Ms. Dunning to a boutique hotel in TriBeCa, on the pretense of meeting people in the film industry, she said.
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The president could succeed in browbeating enough vulnerable Democrats to join him, in an effort to give whatever he signs the pretense of bipartisanship.
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There is no way of disguising the fact that he is not an ordinary rookie and no amount of pretense can make it otherwise.
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The facility opened in 1993 under the pretense that it would save money while turning the desert's broiling summer into an element of punishment.
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Then she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband — and they keep up the pretense.
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But any pretense of sincerity from Warren's campaign on the unity front has been completely eroded by the events of the last few days.
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The best thing about Platt's new memoir, "The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony," is the way he dispenses with pretense in general.
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Opinion: Snap investors abandon all pretense at self-regardInvestors have effectively just done what no self-respecting person ever should: wear sweatpants in public.
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By the following morning, the air had dried out and the grounds sprang into a kind of sharp autumnal relief—a pretense of perfection.
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At times the analysis surrounding the immigration order seemed to drop any pretense of objectivity and took on the character of open Trump bashing.
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SO, YOU KNOW, I TRY NOT TO PUT A WHOLE LOT OF PRETENSE INTO, WELL, WE'RE HITTING THIS NUMBER, SO EVERYTHING MUST BE DIFFERENT.
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They "could easily be used as pretense to discriminate against foreign companies," analysts at consulting firm Trivium China wrote in a commentary this week.
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Increasingly, he did away with any pretense at democracy, cherry-picking which countries would host the Cup of Nations and rarely explaining his reasoning.
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But no other modern occupant of the White House has so brazenly embraced foreign strongmen or so baldly jettisoned any pretense of promoting liberty.
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In three separate but politically motivated trials that made no pretense at fairness, Mr. Morsi was sentenced to more than 216 years in prison.
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Pretense to the contrary, appeals to any sort of trans-partisan standards or restraints, are merely a ruse, a gambit in the endless war.
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But tax reform should not be perverted into a tax windfall for capital owners on the pretense that it's good for the working man.
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Per the Post:"In essence, I got in the way of Microsoft's profits, so they pushed this into federal court on false pretense," Lundgren said.
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While "cocktail attire" is frequently interpreted as knee-length dresses, the actress and model decided to forego the pretense in favor of an easy suit.
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For my next experiment, I chose an off-label bottle sold to me under the pretense of "leather cleaner" from a local leather/sex shop.
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The Burger Bar's burgers are comparable to In-N-Out Burger—quality bun and meat, and a selection of specialties that provide variety without pretense.
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Many experts believe the Trump administration's labor board might reverse that protection, and activists worry Google's argument might give it a pretense to do so.
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The young guides populating the fake store are dressed in all white, and they're trying their utmost to maintain a serious air to their pretense.
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It's pretty clear that he's fed up with the pretense of beating around the bush — and he's not the only news anchor who's doing so.
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These stalwarts of the right, who border on cult personalities, have absolutely no pretense of objectivity, let alone any pledge to professional rigor or ideals.
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Today any young person with a hint of fame-lust would create a social media trail hot enough to quickly evaporate any pretense of reality.
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It gets rid of the pretense of a connection to 9/11 by giving presidents practically unfettered authority to go to war anywhere and anytime.
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While New Year's resolutions often have a half-life of mere hours, even the pretense of self-evaluation has a redemptive role in our lives.
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But his comments, including a call to the public to defeat Trump in a "landslide" in the next election, have stripped away any remaining pretense.
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Conservatives' consistent inability to acknowledge the role of systemic, though indirect, restrictions on rights shallowly conceals their culture war beneath the pretense of strict constructionism.
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It was also Trumpism at its finest: raw power, stripped of any pretense or principle, hostile to scrutiny and judiciousness, exercised purely in self-interest.
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What makes it all the more horrific is the film's lack of a strong redemptive counternarrative and the absence of even a pretense of holiness.
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No doubt the Senate Democratic leadership, which has abandoned any pretense of support for any kind of immigration enforcement, will attempt to block the bill.
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There is not even a pretense of respecting fact, reason, and argument—there is only a fiction told over and over until it becomes real.
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With that project, singer Andy Choi, who is a lawyer by day, accomplished the rare feat of making music that felt divorced from any pretense.
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Her detailed and dense paintings often depict young people hanging out together without pretense, lounging about in public spaces, and interacting with their mobile devices.
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They're specifically for couples and single women, and coming into that environment under false pretense raises some serious concerns—safety and informed consent among them.
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In fact, Victor was one of them, and in fact it was the headmaster groping him sexually under the pretense of teaching him self-defense.
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These transferred signal-callers have poked even more holes in the pretense that, for top players, college football is more than just pre-professional training.
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As a Seattle native, I miss the old city, the lack of pretense, and dinner parties that didn't turn into discussions of real estate porn.
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The director Lucia Aniello, who wrote the script with Paul W. Downs, soon abandons any pretense that she is going to deliver more than goofs.
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The official deadline to produce a budget of April 2628 comes and goes every year without even a pretense of producing a budget on time.
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But it has abandoned any pretense of diplomacy in this case, saying that it would begin criminal and civil proceedings in Russia against those responsible.
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" Cupp, a vocal Second Amendment supporter, said she is upfront on her show about making sure there is "no false pretense you're getting pure objectivity.
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Ms. Park and Ms. Choi are going down, but the rulers of the nation's economy look set to get away with their pretense of innocence.
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No effort to bring poor black men into the workforce will bear real fruit under the pretense that the only problem is unavailability of work.
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The times I spent with him over these years, it felt like being with a beloved family member, it felt easy and real, without pretense.
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Among other things, they felt the need to justify their policies, to maintain the pretense that different conceptions of the public good were at issue.
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In the first study, psychologists asked 71 New Yorkers to walk a block wearing Google Glass under the pretense of testing out the wearable tech.
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Moreover, unique of any US ally, Israel has no qualms about advertising -- even if via the pretense of diplomatic code words -- its intelligence operations against America.
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Or you can just go to your local liquor store, skip the cardboard contraptions and religious pretense and just pour yourself a goddamn drink every night.
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Zagorski lured John Dotson and Jimmy Porter into the woods in northern Tennessee, under the pretense that they were buying at least 20163 pounds of marijuana.
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Mike Deodato's Wonder Woman art in the 1990s is infamous for brokeback poses, butt close-ups, and a costume that abandons any pretense of structural integrity.
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Their violence was committed under the pretense of helping women push out the baby without complications, but what I saw did not sit well with me.
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Michelle's father plays the spoilsport in the love story, but the film doesn't even put up a good pretense of having any conflict at its centre.
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The "mere pretense of an event is likely sufficient to entice the global monetary authorities into serving up a fresh course of Jelly Donuts," wrote Einhorn.
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It's hard for some people to understand why Black lives matter, but Black Twitter exists without this pretense of having to prove or explain our value.
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Back in 2001 and 2003, Republicans could sprinkle their tax-cut largesse broadly, and they made no pretense of paying for it in the near term.
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Worse than a pretense of knowledge, the Democrat's platform demands a duplicitous straightjacket, consigning people to partisan dependence instead of reliably supporting their opportunity to flourish.
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The bottom line: The U.S.-China trade war seems to be spiraling out of control, with even the pretense of progress being dropped by both sides.
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Despite all the bluster and drain the swamp rhetoric, the first year of Donald Trump's presidency has laid waste to the very pretense of good government.
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While both extremes tend to overwhelm neurotypicals, not enough time is spent praising autistic people for our lack of pretense, our ability to be radically genuine.
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Nobody, even in the administration, seems to be making any pretense about the fact that they are designed to loosen restrictions on the fossil fuel industry.
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"(The United States) should abandon the pretense of fabricating an internal political opposition, paid for with money from U.S. taxpayers," the nearly 3,000-word editorial said.
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Because the supposed wise men of the age refused to fully call out the mainstream media for what they'd become, the pretense has continued for decades.
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The public announcements by senators that they believe either Ford or Kavanaugh illustrate how both sides are dispensing with any pretense of fairness or due process.
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I don't need a grand pretense about the nature of scientific inquiry or the vast challenges of climate change to make me interested in those things.
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Earlier this year, Will Romano published " Close to the Edge: How Yes's Masterpiece Defined Prog Rock ," a frankly obsessive study that makes no pretense of levelheadedness.
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"[The United States] should abandon the pretense of fabricating an internal political opposition, paid for with money from U.S. taxpayers," the approximately 3,000-word editorial continued.
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Selby Rothberg, abandoning all pretense of solidarity, pulls the plug on Jill's Canadian-ladies project, and on all other company projects geared toward predominantly female audiences.
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He habitually accepts sentencing recommendations from the IRGC and the intelligence ministry, undercutting any pretense that his court offers an independent check on the executive branch.
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Both parties have done away with any pretense of fiscal probity, so the national debt continues its stratospheric ascent, mortgaging our future and hamstringing future generations.
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It can be particularly dangerous as users may overestimate how much to take, or dealers may pedal the drug under the pretense it is something else.
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His compulsive need to shame people can only boomerang in this case and shame Mr. Trump in any pretense that he is up to the job.
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But really, what has had the patriarchy drop all pretense of civility is a placard that asked men to keep to themselves selfies of their penises.
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Now we've sort of dropped all pretense, and the president-elect is saying it's a central role of government to decide which firms sink or swim.
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Adolescents are prime for poetry: its intensity, its hormonal rhythms, its power to unpack pretense and probe deeper are in sync with that time of life.
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Impeachment sharpens the lines that have already been drawn in the Trump era between left and right, the politics of pretense and the politics of rivalry.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Democrats shed any pretense of offering a streamlined, made-for-TV version of events meant to captivate the Senate or the nation.
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The common critical pretense that a book stands alone, divorced from its creator, can only crumble under the autobiographical claim that Bock makes on this text.
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The clinic, located in St. Louis, has sued the state, arguing that the audit was little more than a pretense to stop abortions from being performed.
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Many lawyers noticed that Trump's team wasn't particularly careful about details in its brief: The Trump / Barr OLC doesn't even bother with the pretense of lawfulness.
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Inside her room—the pretense that he is merely walking her to the door has apparently dissolved—they make out for a while by the bathroom.
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The Roland Berger Foundation suggested that the accusations against Georg Berger might have been politically motivated, and that the charges of hoarding were merely a pretense.
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The clinic, located in St. Louis, has sued the state, arguing that the audit was little more than a pretense to stop abortions from being performed.
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Though video games commonly aspire to cinema-grade action, their congenital chaos, in the form of our actions as players, inhibits even a pretense of choreography.
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"We saw the anti-abortion advocates and legislators very quickly drop the pretense that they cared about women's health, and I think that's very telling," says Allen.
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Trump, too, trades on a narrative of economic victimhood -- and a pretense that decisions about fiscal responsibility can be brushed aside by the roar of a rally.
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Bachelor in Paradise is meant to be the looser cousin of The Bachelor, ditching the pretense of a storybook romance in favor of a spring break vibe.
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That's a more important disclaimer than you might think, especially after watching previously innovative Android manufacturers like HTC abandon any pretense of not just being a knockoff.
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I close my eyes under the pretense of trying to remember the dream, but then doze off until my first (of three) back-up alarm goes off.
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I decided that all I wanted to do was find a way to render what my eye was seeing through my hand: no composition, no art pretense.
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Many have argued that the purpose of pretense is to provide children with experience dealing with real-world grownup issues, such as cooking food and driving cars.
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"You'll notice a lot of the things we're criticized for have to do with reproductive organs or sexuality, and there's always this pretense of protection," she says.
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But that status update was really just pretense for a link to a blog entry from Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith outlining the company's thoughts on the election.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There are documentaries that embrace subjectivity over journalistic pretense, and then there's the idiosyncratic approach of the new film 306 Hollywood.
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Instead, Lin gave the cars superpowers, allowing them to leap through the air and rush across highways in ways that abandoned all pretense of obeying physical reality.
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He had taken it under the pretense of editing it, but the footage was only returned to Tan — without sound — four years after Cardona's death in 2007.
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That data was collected under the pretense of academic research, and Facebook has cut ties with a number of data partners in the wake of the scandal.
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They should not be dragged through the courts on the pretense that they set out to do harm, nor punished as a way to send a message.
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But here, the whole thing is like a hygiene play in which every interaction resembles ones we have every day, but stripped of any pretense or disguise.
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Any pretense at a polished, scripted development video is dropped almost immediately when somebody witnessing him recovering the stolen items mistakes him for another thief and attacks.
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Most people cannot use the internet or access foreign media — Kim's attempt to maintain the pretense that his country is prosperous and the Western world is failing.
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Tim Kaine, said Donald Trump Jr. may have committed treason when he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer under the pretense of getting dirt on Clinton.
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She was also sentenced to two years' probation for theft of over $250 by false pretense and for accepting government benefits meant for Bella after her death.
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By 2020, the system will likely reflect either the will of party leaders or the will of party members, with little pretense of trying to serve both.
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"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said.
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Because even anonymized data can be easily correlated to an individual when correlated across datasets, any pretense of privacy is out the window, for mother and baby.
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I dropped all pretense on the last day and ate my food untainted, instead simply dumping spoonfuls of CBD powder directly onto my tongue for each meal.
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Still, with or without pretense of some kind of unwritten rule, the current Senate has made obstructionism its job, so all of this is to be expected.
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Hungry City 7 Photos View Slide Show ' Sometimes it's a relief to eat a dish that makes no pretense of beauty, that settles for simply being delicious.
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But, according to the IG Metall union, Mr. Özalp was fired on a pretense just before the company would have been required to hire him full time.
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Instead, thousands of trans servicemembers have had their careers put at risk and their basic dignity insulted, without even the pretense of a fair and reasonable process.
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" He also appealed to the president for help, complaining in a tweet that Facebook was "now just banning people for wrongthink," with "no pretense of enforcing rules.
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At a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday, the president flouted the pretense that support for the judge could coexist with authentic concern for victims of sexual assault.
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Indeed, by moving the embassy to Jerusalem in the first place, Trump sent the implicit message that the American government has given up any pretense of neutrality.
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We exchanged business cards on the really shoddy pretense that since I work in digital learning and she works in tech, we should get drinks some time.
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The abuse accusations exploded any pretense of rectitude and instigated one of the most stunning reversals of a public figure's reputation that modern America has ever experienced.
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"No one made a pretense that other challenges we knew existed were suddenly going to be wiped away," he said about the aftermath of the nuclear agreement.
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"There is now no longer any pretense of regularity," said Margaret Love, who served as pardon attorney under President Bill Clinton and now represents clients seeking clemency.
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This pretense has caused so much strife and division that we can't even stomach to be in the same room as people who think differently than us.
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And while the songs on 2018's EP My Dear Melancholy just hinted at his relationship with ex Selena Gomez, this one seems to drop all pretense.
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Teen-agers today have to move past embarrassment quickly, and, because there's little time for pretense in the digital arena, many are producing music with unusual honesty.
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He said he learned a lot about narrative writing from comic books ("lots of invention and no pretense of realism") but deliberately avoided college courses in literature.
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That is what's so complicated about these shopping groups: They encourage members to buy things they don't really need, under the pretense of scoring a good deal.
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"The pretense of protecting a community is what typically justifies the stifling of dissent and other forms of 'other-mindedness' in images and texts," the statement reads.
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He explains with no irony or pretense how each of the sculptures came to be and what memories were triggered for him in the making of it.
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The four plaster panels underscore the painting's status as a tangible object (or objects), subverting its original pretense as a window onto a visionary, symbol-laden world.
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Police said Michael Sandford, a Briton, struck up a conversation with a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer under the pretense that he was seeking to get an autograph.
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There's no pretense that its host is a completely objective reporter, but rather a real human being following a story and telling it to us as she does.
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Vasilev, under the false pretense of being a rich and successful manager with connections in various airlines, allegedly began offering discounted flights to dozens of people through Facebook.
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Whereby elections in some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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All the game's narrative is optional and hilariously basic — there's no pretense about it being anything more than a skeleton on which to hang all the glorious gameplay.
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Bolton's presence will destroy the Republican pretense that Trump didn't try to cut a deal to protect his own political fortunes at the expense of U.S. national security.
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But the Bachelor franchise tries to keep its secrets much more closely held, as its trappings of romance would be less interesting without the pretense of true love.
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Trump's lawyer has argued that Neal is only using the presidential audit program as a pretense to embarrass the President and release Trump's private information to the public.
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There was no pretense of fidelity that I could detect, just a joyous caricature of every song that was nevertheless realistic enough to be charming rather than grotesque.
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Instead, the Japanese have dropped the pretense of hunting whales for research and say they will strictly hunt whales in waters around Japan — mostly for the whales' meat.
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North Korean prosecutors claim he entered the country more than 100 times under the false pretense of humanitarian work, while actually trying to overthrow the regime through religion.
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It is that with which he cannot be reconciled even when he evades sequential time in favor of a pretense—the creation of a virtual universe of simultaneity.
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Unprecedented immigration has not led to a Nordic Shangri-La, nor will keeping silent and trying to keep up the pretense that it has—miraculously make it so.
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But you don't need to be an expert on the source material to keep up, because there's no pretense with Deadpool, no deeper concern than having ultraviolent fun.
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At the joint White House news conference Wednesday, Mr. Erdogan showed little reciprocity for Mr. Trump's bonhomie, making no pretense of taking seriously Mr. Trump's famously fatuous Oct.
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If Ms. Alden had seemed perfect for him at Dartmouth, she was more so now: sweet, smart and, in a city brimming with smoke and mirrors, without pretense.
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That phone number is being given under the pretense of security, and thus Facebook is being required not to use this data for financial gain (such as advertising).
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Whatever pretense was made, soon after Mr. Trump lost the Wisconsin primary, of his being on the verge of behaving like a more traditional candidate is now gone.
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Because we are not God, our narration of another's life is a pretense of knowledge—simultaneously an attempt to know and a confession of how little we know.
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Epstein allegedly had the girls visit him there under the initial pretense of giving him massages, and then would allegedly pay them hundreds of dollars after each session.
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Just as his business career was characterized by Mob-connected cronies, racial bias, aggrieved contractors, dubious partners, byzantine lawsuits, and tabloid sensation, his Presidency dispenses with ethical pretense.
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This novel is an utterly serious and wildly comic test of the strange idea we take for granted in reading prose fiction—the pretense of the omniscient narrator.
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Under the false pretense of cultural and identity politics, the radical left has circumvented having to produce tangible results to holistically address the real concerns of African Americans.
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Whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained — the form of it — but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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And if they're the adventurous type, skip the booze pretense altogether and buy them some Mirth Provisions Legal tonics that essentially switch the alcohol for THC and CBD.
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For Parlá, it's a mode of aesthetic innovation; for JR, it's a jumping-off point and a pretense; for Martins, it's a way to connect past and present.
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Now that conspiracy theories have been converted into pure entertainment, with no pretense of conviction, they have been infused with plausible deniability, for hucksters and for platforms, too.
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But Bush's send-off — to which, unlike McCain's, Trump was invited — never had the pretense of being much more than a quick courtesy call from the Old Normal.
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While it may be easy to just dismiss him as another troll on the interwebs, his pretense-free wine attitude is definitely resonating with other wine-loving Millennials.
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Britain's government on Wednesday abandoned any pretense that leaving the European Union would lift the economy, instead presenting its own plan to leave as the least destructive option.
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"He has to stop any pretense and veneer that he's the 'sunny ways' guy or Mr. Clean," said Ms. Kurl, the executive director of the nonprofit polling firm.
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A village pariah, Shahrzad lives alone in a modest, isolated house and appears as a fugitive pretense: a silhouette in a window, a disembodied voice, a distant figure.
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But many in Washington, including veteran F.B.I. officers, saw a carefully choreographed effort by the president to create a pretense for a takedown of the president's F.B.I. tormentor.
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They make people disappear, accuse them of corruption -- often as a pretense to detain them -- censor bad news, and can even subsidize industries that you're attacking with tariffs.
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Young said Weinstein then lured her and Salinas to his hotel suite under the pretense that he needed to get ready to accept an award for Quentin Tarantino.
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To him, the idea that a human might have a two-way conversation with another species, even a humble prairie dog, is not a pretense; it's an inevitability.
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One issue facing lawmakers and aides was that the pending litigation may have provided the Senate with a pretense to ignore a Mueller-focused article of impeachment altogether.
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Basically, the film depicts key scenes from the life of Christ, like the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, and finds some pretense to turn them into hardcore fuckfests.
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Here, contemporary culture rends artists of their political pretense and unmasks itself as a collection of shiny baubles for the rich, whom galleries pad with puffery and champagne.
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If it is, then it needs to drop the pretense of having any principled commitment against harassment and abuse — and indeed any commitment to actual quality of discourse.
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Any pretense of solemnity, however, was quickly dispensed with as speeches were intermittently interrupted by chants from both sides emanating from both the public gallery and the deputies.
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Later, he was killed — in police headquarters in Manila — while officers allegedly continued to extort ransom money from his wife under the pretense that he was still alive.
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" While paying tribute to Biden during the ceremony, Obama said, "To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretense, service without self regard and to live life fully.
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The communications team at the Clinton Foundation invited me to attend this Day of Action, a semi-annual volunteer event, under the pretense that we'll discuss the #NewDaysResolution campaign.
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While Tehran has long argued that it requires defensive depth, which it conveniently defines as extending all the way to the Mediterranean and Red seas, this is mere pretense.
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This month, the Bureau of Land Management released new management plans for the shredded monuments that abandon any pretense of stewardship, any respect for cultural, ecological, and paleontological resources.
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Then they did nothing for a month, as Pelosi engaged in the ridiculous pretense of holding the articles to coerce senators into calling witnesses and holding a fair trial.
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State prosecutors claimed Lim entered North Korea more than 100 times under the "false pretense" of humanitarian aid, but instead tried to use religion to overthrow the atheist regime.
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They say this scammer sent them flying to Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia under the pretense of an exclusive photo assignment, but it was all a hoax.
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"Senator Grassley has surrendered every pretense of independence and let the Republican leader annex the Judiciary Committee into a narrow, partisan mission of obstruction and gridlock," Mr. Reid said.
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The designers of Freehand took the best of Chicago and threw it into a 1927 building that manages to be both of-the-moment and classic — without any pretense.
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They are wealthy enough not to care about any pretense of nobility — Edlis jovially explains how he often prefers to "trade" art rather than write checks to dodge taxes.
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"Tyler Grasham, under the pretense of a business meeting regarding potential agency representation at APA Agency, fed me alcohol while I was underage and sexually assaulted me," he wrote.
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More recently, liberals have called for the war crimes prosecution and jailing of Bush administration officials, while conservatives impeached a sitting Democratic president on the flimsy pretense of perjury.
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A separation would typically occur under the pretense that there was a significant incident with a family member, such as abuse or neglect, that would prompt an incident report.
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While some retellings of the playwright's complexly human stories stick to the traditional with original dialogue, others scrap the pretense entirely and opt for a modern setting entirely different.
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At the very least it was thought that, even if Republicans had abandoned any pretense of being responsible stewards, they still had to obey the laws of electoral politics.
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One document, for example, shows that the CIA knew of a Bulgarian independence activist confined in a military hospital in Panama under the false pretense of being a psychopath.
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Most of all, I am thrilled that Mr. Trump beat the mainstream press, which dropped all pretense of neutrality this year in order to save us from a monster.
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He has not only extinguished any pretense of coming to a settlement with the Palestinians, he now entertains the idea of annexing the Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
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The international community is unlikely to support a U.S. decision to impose terrorism-specific sanctions on Venezuela if the application of those sanctions is based on a false pretense.
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That is, until you realize that rationality has nothing to do with it, set aside all pretense of ego, and bow down to the gods and goddesses of music.
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" Obama, delivering the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, warned that "strongman politics are ascending suddenly, whereby elections, some pretense of democracy, are maintained, the form of it.
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They were saved by Hurricane Hugo, which leveled good portions of Charleston and allowed the Dyes to get started under the pretense of working under a hurricane refurbishment act.
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Art, especially high culture art, certainly didn't come in a box, the paint-by-number critics sneered, with capsules of pigment and the pretense that any Everyman could paint.
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Not only has she opened the floodgates to emotional testimony in a very pronounced way, but she seems determined to lend her voice, shedding any pretense of judicial distance.
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This is happening right now in both Hungary and Israel, where authoritarian-inclined leaders are using the outbreak as a pretense to seize powers undreamed of in normal times.
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But seeing them together paints a picture of a democracy in deep trouble, and of Congressional Republicans who have given up all pretense of working for anyone but themselves.
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Much of Christie's unwaning appeal relies on incongruity—maleficence emerging in the most genteel of contexts, like strychnine in the tea—whereas the Thrombeys make no pretense of decency.
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I would also call on the administration to drop any pretense of using 242 to say that my 11-year-old Honda Accord is a threat to national defense.
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The federal government must do more to incentivize states to reinvest, not cut off student aid under the false pretense it will immediately and effectively drive down tuition costs.
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He pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges and state charges of criminal sexual conduct stemming from the sexual abuse of patients under the pretense of providing medical treatment.
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Upon the pretense of writing a popular novel for us, you have been receiving cash advances from us, while passing through our press the sheets of a blasphemous rhapsody.
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The best of these promote social integration and community policing, but such efforts can be difficult, particularly if Muslims experience them as a pretense for surveillance or sting operations.
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Bumble filed the $400 million countersuit, alleging that Match Group interfered with its business operations by asking Bumble to provide confidential information under the pretense of pursuing a purchase.
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The trailer eerily mirrors the accusations against Weinstein, who was accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment and assault in hotel rooms under the pretense of business meeting.
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With that pretense in place, critical coverage and unflattering facts can be dismissed even as Trump selectively courts the press to inject his own preferred ideas into the mainstream.
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Users who bought the devices under the pretense of free recording and night mode aren't even grandfathered in, so they don't get to keep the features they're used to having.
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This controversy began when a special counsel was named under the false pretense that a "dossier" paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign was legitimate.
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But in recent months, with pivotal national elections slated for July 29, the administration of Hun Sen – the world's longest-serving prime minister – has abandoned even the pretense of liberalism.
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His refugee ban was signed under the pretense that Syrian refugees may be strong male ISIS terrorists in disguise, despite the fact that most Syrian refugees are women and children.
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"The government tried to keep refugee families apart under the pretense of national security," Lisa Nowlin, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, said in a statement.
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Denson made the recording under the pretense of writing an article about Bishop's church service, but after about 40 minutes she confronted the former church leader about the alleged rape.
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Their remarkable ability to write nothing but Good Ass Tunes is what draws people in, but it's their lack of pretense, sense of humor, and consideration that holds them close.
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In the final 10 minutes of season 7's "Something Borrowed" she drops such pretense to take a good long swig out of her bottle of unnamed, definitely expensive vino.
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At a time when the containment of communism had faded as a logic for U.S. intervention, bringing down the world's most notorious criminal was a pretense, not a unique obsession.
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So in threatening to eschew all manner of presidential engagement, save the pomp and circumstance for which he lives, he has simply shed all pretense and shown his true self.
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There was no pretense that politics was anything but violence, no need for one to undertake the contorted theorizing through which today's "explainer" class attempts to cleanse politics of violence.
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Kerry has joined the interim government in a grand pretense: that it is already the constitutional government of the country, as though Rousseff had already been convicted by the Senate.
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But the real story here is that Abramoff has decided that forging links between strongmen and Trump—under the pretense of fighting terrorism—is the right career move right now.
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And of course you can lie in music: Look at Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte," for instance, or even Verdi's "Falstaff" or any number of comic operas that depend on pretense.
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The for-profit facility took dead bodies from relatives on the pretense of using them for scientific research, in exchange giving the deceased's relatives a free cremation service later on.
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Donald Trump's great gift to us is the stripping away of the pretense and cant that has long surrounded the gun control debate specifically and the culture war more broadly.
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Markle's lawyers said the baby shower cost a fraction of that, and that Markle's mother was invited on the pretense of paid airline tickets, but her mother had work obligations.
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Many of the features Facebook has since added have seemed to be about walking back the pretense of a free-ranging, colloquial AI to a more structured and practical utility.
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The measure has given authorities broad power to detain civilians without reason, monitor and censor all forms of communications, seize property and restrict public gatherings under the pretense of counterterrorism.
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Armed with the liberating knowledge that I was not a smart person, I dropped any pretense of objectivity or subjectivity and began asking truly smart people to rate dumb things.
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But that itself is as much an act, as much a pretense, as Kanye making a concept album that might seem overblown, but is doing something musically far more interesting.
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"You could say we took a risk hiring Hildy back in 2013 — she came from politics and made no pretense that she knew much about the fashion world," she said.
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And Trump, abandoning any pretense that foreign leaders should stay out of other nations' internal affairs, slammed the leader of Britain's opposition who may now try to bring Johnson down.
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You know what that means: If this bill or anything like it passes, Republicans will immediately revert to their previous pretense of being deficit hawks and start demanding spending cuts.
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As a result, it sometimes feels as if liberal institutions are devouring themselves over sex while conservatives, unburdened by the pretense of caring about gender equality, blithely continue their misrule.
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Ms. de Caunes said Mr. Weinstein invited her to his Paris hotel room in 2010 under the pretense of showing her a book that would be adapted into a movie.
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But how could O'Neill take people at their word, given the home he came from—all that pretense, starring an actor father and a mother who was addicted to morphine?
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Erdogan also said that support for militant groups "under the pretense of battling" Islamic State was unacceptable, and added that the real threat in Syria was the Kurdish YPG militia.
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Here in Unionville, the disclaimer was little more than a perfunctory aside—the pretense of neutrality evaporated just a few sentences into the opening remarks by FRC president Tony Perkins.
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But the revelation that these leaders were lying about health care all those years has destroyed their intellectual credibility — remember when people took Paul Ryan's pretense of policy expertise seriously?
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It hunts for new contacts any time a user opens the app, under the pretense that it is helping connect with their friends, much like how Instagram flags Facebook friends.
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It was a fascinating conversation between young members of the military and military leaders and experts without the pretense and lack of candor you might normally hear in an interview.
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And yet she has maintained the lack of pretense of a prairie farm girl; in person, the 49-year-old Freeland comes across as friendly, sincere and, well, very Canadian.
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That kind of tribalism in politics is not new, of course, but with the Trump administration, the US conservative movement has more or less abandoned any pretense of anything loftier.
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What's particularly striking about Trump's relationship with the mainstream press is the extent to which the pretense of an oppositional relationship with the White House has become a marketing tool.
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"He is a down-to-earth, normal guy who doesn't have a lot of pretense and doesn't dodge anything and will talk about things that normal people talk about," says Peter.
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It's true: McCarty has been convicted of theft, forgery and false pretense -- which could certainly make her a questionable source and made me reticent about reaching out to her at all.
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They&aposve allowed a special counsel to be launched like the bomber at the end of Dr. Strangelove on fraudulent pretense and now they don&apost know how to recall it.
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Smackdown pride at any point until Survivor Series and that even in this little slice where it supposedly matters there's never any pretense that it's not all one big company anyway?
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That's not a fair assessment, certainly, but Cersei lost any pretense of being fair to Tyrion back when she was torturing him in his infancy, as Oberyn Martell once told us.
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But even if it loses territory and any pretense at governing, it is likely to regroup as more of an Islamist insurgency in the vast open spaces of the Libyan desert.
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With this deal, the Obamas are abandoning any pretense of a quiet, private life and leaning into a pop-culture legacy that was in the works long before the 2016 election.
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The episode opened with Kevin going for a run in Fox Forest, but we quickly learn that it's just a pretense for a hookup with an unknown guy in the woods.
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I get that the committee is expected to labor behind some judicial pretense of impartiality, that it is designed to evaluate the weight of teams and not the impact of individuals.
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Under the pretense of gathering grass for the goats, the two set off on the island, and Claire runs off — straight into Captain Leonard, who had wisely gone patrolling for deserters.
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And in the final episode of Season 2, Murphy once again scours the depths of Gabriel García Márquez's Wikipedia page in search of a literary pretense for the show's compulsive stereotyping.
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Many are actually hotels, greedy landlords, or similar businesses looking to cash in by letting rooms under the pretense of being normal homeowners, and thus being able to command higher rates.
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I was looking for something familiar—a place that was safe, a place that felt like mine, where I could be the man I wanted to be without restraint or pretense.
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They all stood for substantially the same policies, but Romney at least tried to make a pretense of making empiricism and humanism important, a stance which failed to excite the base.
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While it is true that canceling accession negotiations would relieve the regime of any pretense of democracy, it would not kill the desire for reform that remains in parts of Turkey.
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LGBTQ family law experts who spoke with VICE were mystified that social conservatives appear so dedicated to stigmatizing same-sex couples that they've abandoned all pretense of concern for child welfare.
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Hapgood claims that Mitchel, who reportedly was intoxicated by alcohol and cocaine, entered his family's hotel room under the false pretense of having been sent there to fix a broken sink.
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Fitton alleges she and Pishevar were leaving a New York City after party in 2011 under the pretense of meeting friends of Pishevar's in a hotel room to order room service.
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Conservatives like Mitch McConnell and Leonard Leo, flush with victory in the judicial wars, are dropping the pretense that they ever cared about anything other than the raw acquisition of power.
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That's merely the necessary pretense: The bowler's primary objective is to terrify the batsman, and if in the course of this terror campaign a cheekbone is shattered, well, that's dashed unlucky.
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"Some people from the West often use the pretense of human rights to export their own values and even to use them to meddle in other countries' internal affairs," it added.
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Today's readers will find the novel's most visceral moments of cruelty all too familiar: white Americans dismantling any pretense of civility, taking out their own great pain on a black body.
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Bundy requests a phone call to his beloved—an obvious pretense for springing an escape—and leaps out one of those windows to his freedom—payoff for his in-cell exercises.
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Andersson's team is best summed up by Ibrahimovic's heir as captain: Granqvist, a 33-year-old central defender of old-fashioned virtue, a gritty, grizzled presence, all heart and no pretense.
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Like shooting elephants or rhinoceroses for trophies, cruelly killing animals now shown to possess a high level of intelligence on the pretense that the practice has a cultural importance is untenable.
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The pretense that all was well came to an end this week, when she abruptly canceled a parliamentary vote on her European Union withdrawal agreement rather than suffer a humiliating defeat.
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Blight dismantles this pretense in a tour de force of storytelling and analysis, showing that the young orator-to-be had benefited from a great deal of mentorship and good fortune.
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What will end is the millions of public funds that are spent financing "famous" artists under the false pretense that they are fostering culture, when they are really just buying support!
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The agreement also requires China to scrap excessive regulatory reviews and health testing for U.S. products used to halt American exports from entering the country under the pretense of food safety.
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Put it this way: Republicans used the pretense that they cared about fiscal responsibility to engage in de facto economic sabotage as long as a Democrat was in the White House.
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Over the years, many of the reforms and simplifications of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 have been repealed outright or just eroded, without even a pretense of maintaining revenue neutrality.
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Though if you have the budget to splurge and want an approachable, high-end resort that both couples and families will love without any pretense, this room should be a frontrunner.
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That doctrine has always been honored primarily in the breach but, this term, with a dozen cases in highly contested areas, it could lose even the pretense of a functioning principle.
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President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to abandon all pretense that he believes any part of the sexual assault allegations that two women have leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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According to the report, Toback would bring young women into a private space on the pretense of audition talks or a promise of fame ... and then proceed to ask intimate questions.
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North Korean prosecutors claim the 62-year-old entered the country more than 100 times under the false pretense of humanitarian work, while actually trying to overthrow the regime through religion.
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Even as a No. 10 seed, Syracuse is still Syracuse, and so there is no sentimental value in having them here in an underdog's pretense; if anything, it is just the opposite.
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Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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He invited me out under the pretense of hanging out, then informed me that he was joining the Coast Guard, would be shipping off to Guam, and we needed to be done.
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Levin pointed to comments Clark made online about Agenda 21, a UN action plan from 1992 that conspiracy theorists believe is really a pretense for powerful globalists to seize control of land.
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She wants to build a messaging app explicitly constructed for sexting, as opposed to Snapchat's disingenuous pretense that its growth was not fuelled by that — an app with custom filters, emoji, etc.
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" During her speech, Warren fiercely rejected Trump's effort to portray himself as tough on Wall Street, saying, "Now that he has sewn up the Republican nomination, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense.
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And if they're a little bit expensive for your taste, Arca sells just the leather headpiece for $5,275 (no headphones), doing away with the pretense you'll use these for music at all.
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The tight race at the top of the field comes as Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz have dropped any pretense of pleasantness and have been sharply attacking each other in recent weeks.
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Jeff Flake, also responded to Trump's Tuesday press conference, in which the President shed all pretense and openly argued that neo-Nazis and those who oppose them were moral equivalents, via Twitter.
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Heritage was a pioneer in politicizing the once staid work of think tanks, but it nevertheless maintained the pretense of doing policy work and of being aligned with a larger conservative movement.
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And in the event where there is no pretense of safety or security, stripping someone naked in front of a crowd and invading their body cavities is a form of sexual assault.
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Unsurprisingly, these technologically savvy images are the most interesting in the exhibition, as they reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and instead attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.
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Steeped in political paranoia and intellectual pretense, the film concerns a failed production of Shakespeare's "Pericles" and a shadowy totalitarian cabal, and it is distinguished more for its atmosphere than its performances.
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Actions that are no longer acceptable to do without pretense, as an adult, become acceptable in order to take a photo—like jumping into a ball-pit or going on a swing.
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Blade Runner was set hugely ahead of its time' but 2019 is only a couple of years away and we're not even going to be close to that pretense in real life.
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When the party's last five-decade history has involved going further to the right at every junction, what's the logical next step when you abandon all pretense of adhering to democratic norms?
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True, the United Nations is deadlocked, unable to ensure international justice for mass atrocity crimes as countries put naked self-interest above any pretense of principle -- whether in Myanmar, Syria or Gaza.
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It is one of Mr. Trump's most insidious victories that he has given his supporters permission to drop any pretense of insisting that their actions and views should conform to this principle.
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" He adds, "merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather—like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime—a pretense, constructed to rationalize an unjust distribution of advantage.
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Suddenly, the sculptures drop their pretense as separate objects to reveal themselves as traces of sensation, accumulated to understand fundamental questions about existence through a body sensitive only to what is tactile.
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But now work happens all the time, deceptively, under an aesthetic pretense of wellness — the white walls, the dispensers of cucumber water, the blond wood, the furniture arranged to facilitate healthy sociality.
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Geneva offers no such pretense; if the world is headed for climate catastrophe in the foreseeable future, the Geneva show will go down, like the band on the Titanic, playing for time.
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Another woman, Zoë Brock, has accused Mr. Lombardo of accompanying her into Mr. Weinstein's Cannes hotel room in 1998 under the pretense that friends would be joining them to continue a party.
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In an interview not long before that, though, he belied any pretense of self-doubt when he was asked whether he was perplexed by the seemingly insolvable challenges of health care economics.
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Dominic Maker and Kai Campos make serious music sound playful, stripping the overly academic electronic scene of pretense with plinking drums and stargazing notes that evoke a baby genius sampling toy pianos.
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Some pro-Brexit Labour lawmakers representing areas that voted to leave the bloc are struggling to keep up the pretense that they want Brexit to happen, but later and on different terms.
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The world would see Washington as responsible for the treaty's demise, and it would leave Russia free to deploy its intermediate-range missiles openly, without the pretense of adhering to the accord.
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"Jack Engle" is a piece of pure pulp, a city mystery that offers a twisty tour through the underbelly of 19th-century New York but makes no pretense toward lasting literary merit.
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Parnas and FRUMAN traveled to Israel over the summer to meet with KOLOMOISKY, under the pretense of talking about their gas company, to try to arrange a meeting between GIULIANI and ZELENSKY.
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Five years ago, Platt decided to dispense with the pretense that he wasn't recognized in the restaurants he reviews (he's unmissable), and he allowed himself to be photographed for his magazine's cover.
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It is often because of trouble or violence at home, or hope for a better education or because in fact traffickers and smugglers are offering them the pretense of better opportunities elsewhere.
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She was very tense, though she pretended not to be as she sat with her legs kicked out in front of her; she was without the pretense of a book this time.
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Police from Redondo Beach, CA even used the pretense of camera registries to determine who should get a discount and who shouldn't, according to a city council meeting memo obtained by Motherboard.
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She added that it was often difficult for Uighur women to refuse advances of these men because of the crackdown in the region against the minority group on the pretense of counterterrorism.
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"B'Tselem will no longer play a part in the pretense posed by the military law enforcement system and will no longer refer complaints to it," it said in an 80-page report.
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This extra turn of the screw of pretense is also directly from the case history of Monsieur Boursicot (the subject of a fascinating book by The New York Times columnist Joyce Wadler).
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They dropped all pretense of counting and began hacking firebreaks through the burning woods with shovel, ax, and pulaski, clearing protective moats around the towering white acacia trees where the macaws lived.
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" An article in Vox pondered the "benevolent racism" of "Get Out," while one in The Muse observed: "The real horror, exemplified many times over, is the weapon of white privilege and pretense.
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And yet, starting next month, you may well find yourself caught up in the moment, willing to ditch all romantic pretense for an intimate moment in the heart (wink wink) of Times Square.
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The pretense of the account was, more or less, dispatches from a sentient appliance located in the offices of the New York Times and thus privy to very deep and meaningful journalistic insights.
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There's not even a pretense of neutrality: Everyone is reading what they want into Barr's letter, establishing a reality in which their side is right and the other side is making things up.
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"When you deceive the public and take people's money that is under the pretense of fraud, we will not tolerate those actions," said a statement from the pageant organizers Butler's Beauties in August.
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The suspect, Othniel Inniss, allegedly lured the 45-year-old mom to a Wells Fargo bank under the pretense of giving her money for rent only to shoot her instead, according to police.
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Ptolemaic astronomy was for centuries able to "save the observable phenomena" about planetary motions by assuming epicycles and deferents [elaborations of circular motions], with no pretense to give a true story about it.
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Away from his teammates, Jake drops his macho pretense, and begins to explore what college is all about: exploring new things and new ideas on the way to discovering who he really is.
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The prosecution's case relied heavily on testimony from Rachelle Bond, 41, who pleaded guilty pre-trial to being an accessory after the fact to murder and theft of over $250 by false pretense.
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If enough of them do, Republicans will have given up the Reaganite pretense of America as a "city on the hill" and accepted a grim destiny as "killers" out to plunder the world.
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"The court lacks even the pretense of attempting to situate breath searches within the narrow and weighty law enforcement needs that have historically justified the limited use of warrantless searches," Justice Sotomayor wrote.
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Their jeans said it all: They wore them ripped, of course, but they didn't even put up pretense that said jeans were ripped naturally in the course of manual labor or agricultural work.
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Human history is rich – it's incredibly complex' incredibly varied – and stylistically you can go back and probably find remnants or origins of every single style pretense that's never been invented or will be.
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Dawson agrees to be friends and somehow invites himself on Jen's upcoming date with high school stud Cliff under the pretense that he, too, has a date at the same time and place.
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The so-called one-and-done rule leads the best high school prospects to play college basketball for just one season, under little pretense that they are interested in other aspects of college.
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Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained — the form of it — but those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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Whitty befriended the father of an apprentice in the factory and, over a pot of coffee, persuaded him to arrange a tour of the premises, under the pretense that Whitty was a relative.
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Having whitewashed the Saudi crown prince's apparent direct involvement in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump abandoned all pretense of principled leadership by pledging to pursue business as usual with the Saudis.
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All pretense of shyness or awkwardness evaporates as the group — two 503-year-olds and one 15-year-old — begin hammering away at bass, guitar and drums to create a joyous, youthful racket.
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At every stop, tasting-room workers were eager to share what they knew, without pretense; you can learn a lot about wine in these parts without being made to feel like a rube.
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Except for worthy news organizations such as CBS News, C-SPAN and public broadcasting, there is no longer a pretense from most television news organizations that the public airwaves create a public trust.
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In other words, Trump in practice, as opposed to Trump in pretense, has turned out to be every bit as committed to trickle-down economics as Republicans in Congress have been for decades.
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All pretense of shyness or awkwardness evaporates as the group — two 17-year-olds and one 15-year-old — begin hammering away at bass, guitar and drums to create a joyous, youthful racket.
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" Read the notice of intent for yourself Another factor: "The capital felony was a homicide and was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.
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We have seen the Republican Party repeatedly back cuts to critical social programs under the pretense of fiscal discipline only to pass giveaways to major corporations, the wealthy, and an already gluttonous military.
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" It also accuses the NFL of abandoning "even the pretense of supporting free speech and dissent" while allowing "organized disrespect and contempt for the Flag of the United States and the National Anthem.
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"Here, the court lacks even the pretense of attempting to situate breath searches within the narrow and weighty law enforcement needs that have historically justified the limited use of warrantless searches," Sotomayor said.
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I think that, at some level, he likes wearing the black hat; I think he knows, and we know, that he's not so much misunderstood as demonized for his utter lack of pretense.
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As ever, those in power lie with impunity, but now they seem to have dropped the pretense for objective truth entirely and those in opposition are expected to Mean It, Man at all times.
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MACCALLUM: Which is such a great point, Victor, because even recognizing that verbally, Byron, once you&aposve recognized that the pretense that you&aposre not looking at it through a political lens is gone.
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Many wearables appear to have abandoned any pretense of appealing to a broad spectrum of users, but I'd expect more from a company like Fitbit that has already had a broader cross-gender appeal.
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The pretense of it even seeming like a mouth doesn't even make sense anymore, it's like someone opened Dragić in Photoshop and just smear-tooled his face to within an inch of its life.
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Those moves don't mean Iran will immediately resume its pursuit of a nuke; lose US allies could reimpose their own sanctions if Tehran used Washington's move as a pretense to restart its nuclear program.
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In that case, police were called to a Kansas man's home on a false pretense, apparently following a dispute over a Call of Duty game, and the man was shot after answering the door.
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"When your pretense is that this place is safer than the one you came from and that you came here for opportunity," you aren't necessarily going to be very a vocal opponent of it.
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Wealthy donors would still be able to give all the money they want to keep Venice afloat, but we can finally set aside the false pretense that American taxpayers should help pay the tab.
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The White House is clinging to the pretense that President Trump's "extreme vetting" executive order isn't a Muslim ban, but stuff keeps happening that makes it look an awful lot like a Muslim ban.
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She's making a statement about putting on a show by declaring that she is acting — and dropping that pretense allows her to play and experiment in a carefree way that is almost more real.
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" The complications would grow if Trump takes the bait and, as Sanders put it, uses a potential agreement as a pretense to "run around the country telling everybody what a great president I am.
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"Drum and bass was a part of Home Club's DNA, as we felt that the spirit of the music fit like a glove to our objective, which was no bullshit, no pretense," says Tan.
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The conjunction of events on Friday perfectly expresses just how rotten this bargain is, and the extent to which Republicans have abandoned any pretense of being a responsible party that cares about democratic values.
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Without pretense about the challenges Americans face, she will offer a more optimistic vision of the future than Mr. Trump's relentlessly dystopian portrait of a country on the brink — the audacity of no hope.
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"When the EU and others falsely assert the U.S. steel and aluminum duties are safeguard measures, and impose retaliatory duties under this pretense, they do great damage to the multilateral trading system," Lighthizer said.
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In Sadr City, the IRGC forces attacked uniformed U.S. military forces that had invaded Iraq on a false pretense—hardly the same as blowing up a civilian airliner or shooting up a rock concert.
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"Kind of unwittingly ... a softer side ...starts to come out when you pet your dog and other people see you do that, and some of the pretense ... starts to melt away," says psychologist Blazina.
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As more NBC News stars such as Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell embrace MSNBC's left-wing ethos, it's been harder for NBC News (and Holt's broadcast, by extension) to maintain any pretense of objectiivity.
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For a show that's about robots fighting one another, this pretense of scientific credibility has always felt a bit over the top, a sort of excuse for license fee payers funding the whole exercise.
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As someone who has trouble feeling checked in enough to be in a real relationship, the identity she's found in the girlfriend experience has a lot less pretense for Christine than we might think.
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Rorty's advice to the left was to pay attention to who benefits from such a strategy: The super-rich will have to keep up the pretense that national politics might someday make a difference.
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It takes a true skill set and a distinct pop sensibility to turn a large-scale commercial property with no pretense to art and a great many moving parts into a smoothly enjoyable diversion.
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What's amazing is that they're so out of it that they don't know either how to pretend to care about the middle class, or what nonsense to spout in order to sustain that pretense.
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"Moses was not making even a pretense of creating new homes for the families displaced," Robert A. Caro wrote in "The Power Broker," the Pulitzer-winning biography of the planning czar's life and career.
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Mr. Abbas and his advisers have complained that the Trump administration has dispensed with any pretense that the United States can be a neutral mediator of the conflict and has essentially taken Israel's side.
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You know the answer: Republicans would suddenly revert to the pretense that they're deficit hawks, and demand "entitlement reform" — that is, cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, programs that ordinary families depend on.
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While this country has been taking small steps in that direction for decades, Sanders would abandon any pretense of a free market system and accelerate government management and ownership of the means of production.
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Read more " _____ • Sharon Block in Democracy Journal: "Upon review of the President's budget, it is safe to say that that any remaining pretense of an open door to labor has been slammed firmly shut.
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He was responding to criticism after a South Korean businessman was strangled at Police Headquarters last year by officers who later extorted ransom money from his family under the pretense that he was alive.
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Just as traditional earmarks seek to exempt favored projects from the funding competitions that apply to everyone else, Murkowski's riders make no pretense of setting good public policy for the nation as a whole.
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The other accusers — Tarale Wulff, Dawn Dunning and Lauren Young — were all aspiring actresses who said Mr. Weinstein lured them to hotels on the pretense of helping their careers, and then sexually assaulted them.
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Under Trump, the U.S. has abandoned the pretense of backing democracy and human rights, meaning there are no longer any great powers that even pretend to put morality at the center of foreign affairs.
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Not to mention the fact that the pretense of a "guerrilla" fashion action is itself kind of a joke when the whole thing is Instagrammed by Bella Hadid, among others, and Kardashians are involved.
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In the past several months, the company said, American authorities had masqueraded as Huawei workers to "establish legal pretense for unfounded accusations against the company," although it did not say what the accusations were.
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When this past holiday weekend rolled around, Trump, with an assist from the on-air pundits at Fox News, abandoned the pretense of the past year that he wants to make the program permanent.
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Bernie Sanders and Michael F. Bennet have done marginally less TV, with Sanders telling reporters this week that he was balancing his duties "with much difficulty," with no pretense that he was enjoying it.
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With Republicans in search of bipartisan credibility, Democrats can hold out for legislative deals that meet their demands or sit back and accuse Republicans of going it alone and abandoning any pretense of bipartisanship.
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At the moment, he would like to win as many votes in California as possible, and maintaining the pretense that he's not remotely close to giving up is the right way to do that.
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My parents had purchased the computer for me in an attempt to free up their office on nights and weekends, when I would use the pretense of homework to chat with friends on AIM.
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"Very strange," in the language of conspiracy theorists everywhere, is signaling without any pretense at all that the spooks of the CIA and FBI are up to their usual cloak-and-dagger high jinks.
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"You are having a one way relationship with an object or a person that does not return your love except by pretense," computer scientist Noel Sharkey said at the same conference, according to The Telegraph.
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The 45-year-old Australian national has denied the allegations and dismissed them as a pretense for extraditing him to the US, where he could face criminal charges related to WikiLeaks' publication of classified material.
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For this reason, a tragedy like Parkland, in the context of the camps, becomes a pretense for more people to learn how to use guns rather than an impetus to advocate for stricter gun laws.
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She never lets us forget for a moment that we are visitors in a made-up world, and there is never a pretense of reality in any of her work, no equivocation in her vision.
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On the one hand, Trump said he would take a neutral position on Mideast peace, on the other "he has suggested moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which ends any pretense of neutrality," Serwer said.
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Why it matters: Gulen has been accused of orchestrating a failed coup against Erdogan in 2016, which the strongman president used as a pretense to arrest thousands of dissidents and assume sweeping new executive powers.
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Any good movie musical (and quite a few bad ones) will make us accept the pretense that a song rises in the body like sap in a tree and then blooms as flowers and leaves.
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Now that Manafort has received a de facto demotion, to be replaced by Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, we can expect to see Trump drop any pretense of cleaning up his act.
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Thanks to the forceful questioning of the Court's female justices during oral argument in early March, the state's medical-based justifications were exposed time and again as mere pretense for a sweeping anti-abortion agenda.
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We need to create an independent media source that makes no pretense of generating a profit or even enough income to pay its employees, and is totally unconnected to the state or any private individuals.
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First, the girls got Lauren Pesce out of the house under the pretense of a "girls day" so that the guys could run all the necessary errands, picking up flowers, desserts and even matching outfits.
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Look around -- strongman politics are ascendant, suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, where those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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Look around — strongman politics are ascendant, suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, where those in powers seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.
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The recent spate of incidents in which Trump administration staffers have been confronted, and in some cases refused services at dining establishments is alarming, especially given liberals usual pretense at intellectual honesty and democratic process.
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In October 2013 Mohamed Abdi "Afweyne" Hassan, the man accused of pioneering highly organized Somali piracy, was arrested after he flew to Belgium under the pretense of consulting on a film about his own exploits.
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Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP)Apple is suing a company, Corellium LLC, that it says is illegally reselling virtual copies of its iOS operating system under the pretense of legitimate security research, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
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This means it's up to judges to determine whether a particular gerrymander was legally or illegally motivated, and several candidates emphasized on Thursday that partisanship could now be used as a pretense for racial discrimination.
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There could have been more in-depth analysis of the dynamics of power in Orwell's totalitarian state, whose leaders, we are told, are the first to have dispensed with even the pretense of serving humanity.
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His adult sons, who are ostensibly managing the family business while he's in office, have more or less given up the pretense that there's a significant firewall between the private family business and the administration.
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Using national security as a pretense for bailouts for money-losing coal and nuclear plants is the simplest path available to the White House and might make it more difficult to challenge in federal court.
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But that right, and the right to bear arms in general, is informed by the settler history of the American nation and structured by hierarchies of race and gender, despite our collective pretense to universalism.
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The revenue loss from tax cuts always exceeded any explicit spending cuts, so the pretense of fiscal responsibility came entirely from "magic asterisks": extra revenue from closing unspecified loopholes, reduced spending from cutting unspecified programs.
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As with Obamacare, this story began with a politically convenient lie — the pretense, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, that social safety net programs just reward lazy people who don't want to work.
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Mary abandons all pretense of journalistic objectivity and plunges herself into Prague to try to find Rita before she's transported back to Germany and to intervene in Czech affairs and suspend the government's expulsion order.
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Poured concrete, in contrast, was honest and audacious in avowing its bulk, primeval and pretense-free for an age that still doubted the perfection of the new corporate model and sometimes pushed back against it.
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An epidemic of shouting and yelling-down normal discourse seems to have replaced any pretense at sober consideration of issues based on some grounded judgments about what is feasible for human beings in particular circumstances.
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Time and again the cameras panned over a sea of white faces standing and clapping for a demagogic anti-immigration message that made no pretense of being grounded in fussy concerns about labor market economics.
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With earnest eyes and a lack of pretense, the subjects of Selma Fernandez Richter's photography series The Ache for Home yearn with quietude and humility for a life and environment no longer in the background.
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" Soon I'd given up all pretense of having a conversation, and by the time the soaring chorus kicked in you bet I was singing: "It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you!
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Formerly as Ansølo, and now dropping all pretense to just go with his legal name, Elgort's worked with heavy hitters like Logic, NERVO, and the Chainsmokers and performed at prominent fests like Electric Zoo and Ultra.
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Kessler's controversial event last August stoked the ire of the country for its assembly of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who gathered under the pretense of protesting the city&aposs planned removal of a Confederate statue.
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Lingerie imagery can so often feel overly staged, overly airbrushed, or just plain over-the-top — which is why it's refreshing when a company takes a stance against all the pretense and, well, strips it down.
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Goins wore a prosthetic pregnancy belly "to pass as being pregnant" and had posted ads on Craigslist trying to arrange meetings with mothers of infant children under the pretense of giving them baby clothes, Franklin said.
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" There's no fluff and no pretense to be found here: The Glorious Rebellion's enduring goal is ultimately to " crank it up and yell at it until our point is made and then get off the stage.
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More than that, the actual seriousness of Kaepernick's protest has blown a hole, deep and wide, right through the pomp and pretense and vast self-seriousness of the NFL and the conversation it wraps around it.
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Republicans may find "reform and rename" a far more manageable goal — even if it falls short of their promise to drive a stake through the heart of the ACA, and even if it involves some pretense.
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And Audible has doubled down on these customers' desire to do away with the pretense that they're actually interested in reading by debuting "Take Me To The Good Part" in over 100 Audible Romance package titles.
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Holding onto that may not be entirely rational—Cruz could almost certainly make a killing by renting out the building—yet he opens a video game store utterly lacking in pretense, like LA used to be.
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She managed to keep up the pretense for a few dates until he surprised her with a picnic on the beach and then invited her to assume a certain pose with him as the sun set.
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Your defects glare like hot neon bulbs: sloppiness, confusion, rootlessness, affectation, pretense, laziness (work does not mean writing one play after another; work means making as perfect as possible the specific product) and a lot more.
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Bran cuts through Littlefinger's pretense by unveiling "chaos is a ladder"—a line Littlefinger first said to Varys in season three, when the then-Master of Coin revealed his goal to sit on the Iron Throne.
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Today, Lazar runs United Nuclear, a scientific supply company in Michigan, which he claims in the film was recently raided by the FBI under the pretense of trying to track the source of some toxic materials.
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When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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Knowing Chuck is laid up at home in a space blanket, incapacitated after the day at the office, Jimmy trots over under the pretense of caring for his brother — but gets up to something more vengeful.
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A few months later, Congress went one step further and retroactively extended a raft of expired tax provisions — many of them egregious giveaways like accelerated depreciation for companies — without even a pretense of paying for them.
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Depending on your perspective, this has always been Trump's immediate political threat or promise—that he might strip bare the pretense that high-minded, philosophical conservatism, rather than ethno-nationalist grievances, are what drives Republican politics.
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With Durant refusing to meet with Frank and his position as the Democrat nominee on shaky ground, Frank decides it's best for Claire to head to Texas with Tom on the pretense of helping her mother.
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"We hope that the NYPD's eagerness to start the disciplinary process does not mean the outcome has already been decided, without even the pretense of due process," said PBA President Patrick J. Lynch in a statement.
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The pretense is that, as long as they keep talking about mysterious professors and British spies, they aren't ignoring the threat that Russia and other foreign powers continue to pose to the integrity of American elections.
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But there was long a taboo on alcohol sales to most ticketholders, in deference to the many underage students in attendance as well as to college sports' appeal (or pretense) as an amateur, good-natured spectacle.
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Maybe you see an athlete so averse to pretense that, even when he knows that he's going to be photographed with the major award he just won, he cannot be bothered to put on long pants.
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There have been only a few tests of the idea, one of which was conducted without scientific oversight off Western Canada in 2012 under the pretense of helping a native Canadian community improve its salmon catch.
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For many Hong Kongers, the proposed bill hit like a political bombshell: It seemed to pave the way for China to target anyone in Hong Kong on almost any pretense and try them on the mainland.
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If you were trapped by outdated rules of gender, genre, race, culture, class, cliché or some musical pretense, you could see Bowie stride through the same wall and suddenly feel a little safer to be free.
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His merriment was no mere pretense; his laughter bubbled over and was contagious; his buoyancy was immense; and there was not a soul present who did not become infected with the same feeling of genuine happiness.
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A president with even a pretense to statesmanship would have canceled it — the country was in the middle of what can reasonably be described as a terrorist attack, with someone attempting mass murder against leading Democrats.
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Just 22 days in, an injured crew member was evacuated, dispelling any pretense of a "closed," Mars-ready system, and thanks to respiring soil bacteria, a glut of carbon dioxide threw the atmosphere out of whack.
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Mr. Trump is nominating a new American ambassador, David M. Friedman, who has broken with even the pretense of supporting a two-state negotiated agreement and has helped fund some of the settlements Mr. Kerry denounced.
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And this bright, exceptionally well-read American hero does this under the false pretense that it's a tradition that former defense secretaries don't criticize the commander in chief — and neither do retired military generals, especially Marines.
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His dictatorship kicked off the most violent stage of the country's "Dirty War," during which Argentina's military and right-wing death squads murdered tens of thousands of people on the pretense of fighting disparate Marxist guerrillas.
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Wilsey first met Dillard at a basketball game while both were stationed at the Offutt Air Force Base and they exchanged phone numbers under the pretense that he was romantically interested in her, the World-Herald reports.
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But once in Paris, they encounter racism and violence as they struggle to hold onto the pretense of their marriage, taking on menial jobs as a domestic helper (Yalini) and building custodian (Dheepan) to make ends meet.
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Erdogan's plan to use the military uprising as a pretense to cement his hold on power became clear when he declared the failed coup "a gift from God," as he landed at Ataturk Airport early Saturday morning.
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Over the course of the year, Tohmé succeeded in abandoning the pretense that can so often overshadow international art biennials, and brought together an incredible range of voices, stories, and artworks across (and taking into account) borders.
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The lack of having that anchor there, even though that's all pretense and silliness of not having a person at a desk you just cut to and say, "That was that story, here's another story," unsettles me.
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While thousands of other do-it-all gadgets seem to have abandoned all pretense of simplicity, the Amazon Kindle remains devoted to a basic purpose — it lets me read books regularly and holds a charge for weeks.
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Over the last 30 years, the pretense of acting like the Golden Globes have credibility has imbued the show with a kind of raucous energy — and the free-flowing booze certainly helps get people in the room.
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But to prevent it in all its forms—most of which will be less obvious, and more pernicious, than airport detentions—we must abandon the pretense that the America of stump speeches is the America that exists.
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In sharp contrast to former attorneys for the President -- several of whom have resigned -- Giuliani has dropped any pretense of cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.
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" Noting that she has built entire red carpet looks around Ms. Neuwirth's one-of-a-kind pieces, Ms. Philipps added: "She does travel to fabulous places and she throws incredible parties, but there's no pretense about it.
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Released from the formulas of falsity that contaminate much realistic fiction—drama, dialogue, the pretense of "real time," the cause-and-effect of motive—the writer proceeds like a biographer who sees everything after it has happened.
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They wanted to ban abortion, so they voted effectively to do just that — without offering any pretense of trying to protect women's health, as supporters of other virulent anti-choice laws in states like Texas have done.
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The White House was prepared to slap some sanctions on Tehran but, quickly changed course under the apparent pretense that damaging President Hassan Rouhani wasn't in our best interest when worse hardliners are sniping at his heels.
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Written and directed by David Mandel, the episode seemed particularly true to a character whose commitment to winning has always overwhelmed any pretense of morality -- certainly in her private, hilariously foul-mouthed exchanges with her various minions.
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The harassment largely stemmed from anti-feminist Star Wars fan accounts who rounded up and highlighted tweets under the pretense that those complaining were "outraged" social justice warriors trying to tear down a successful Star Wars franchise.
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It is typical for far-right politicians who want to attract racist, xenophobic or nativist voters to attempt to provide at least the pretense of reasons, invariably shoddy ones, for animus against racial minorities, immigrants, or foreigners.
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In recent weeks, Pakistan has been rocked by charges that at least 2500 women were brought to China under the false pretense of marriage and instead forced into prostitution or made to work in bars and clubs.
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It was Mr. de Blasio's way of saying that even a pretense of Clintonian centrism was in disfavor at City Hall and that "a new progressive era," as he called it in his remarks, ruled the day.
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When I sat down with Gary Barnett, the founder and president of Extell (in, it should be noted, his nondescript seventh-floor office) he maintained no pretense that he needed 161 feet ceilings for an HVAC system.
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Liberals don't want a hermetically sealed media ecosystem of their own, so much as one that does away with the pretense of kneejerk balance: a media that's willing to say one side is worse than the other.
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Sometimes, at work, I feel the way I do when I'm talking to Thomas about his father: a little bit guilty for lying, a little bit noble for upholding a pretense that will ultimately preserve his feelings.
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The charges depict Mr. Ray as a man who exploited his victims, initially college sophomores, like a cult leader, learning intimate details of their private lives and their mental health struggles under the pretense of helping them.
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"Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate in it," White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote.
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Cercas gives himself some postmodern leeway in this narrative, every so often speculating on how, if he were to throw off all pretense of not being a novelist, he would fill in the gaps in his story.
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"During the Bush years, the administration dropped all pretense that they cared about AIDS in this country," said Millett, who is now the vice president and director of public policy at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.
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Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie have dropped all pretense of civility and are trading increasingly lurid attacks, looking for any advantage in the closely watched contest with nine days until voters head to the polls.
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After more than four years of trying to limit the president's divisive style, asking him to stop tweeting or focus on the economy, the Republican Party has given up any pretense of trying to rein him in.
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"Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate in it," Cipollone wrote to the Democratic lawmakers.
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As Ian Parker points out in the piece, Hannah's second Poirot book, "Closed Casket," features a preposterous but charming Mallory-esque character whose own multitude of falsehoods includes the pretense that he is dying of kidney disease.
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The only people who can hold Gamergate and its adherents accountable are members of the movement, who will occasionally toss someone out but almost always do so under the pretense of a game or, worse, a joke.
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Ted Cruz has been willing to attack Trump on the campaign trail and through ads, but until recently kept up a smarmy pretense of liking his friend Donald, hoping to inherit his votes after he somehow withered away.
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A former wedding photographer faces extortion, cyberstalking and wire fraud charges in Missouri, where he allegedly tricked dozens of women into having sex with him under the pretense they were auditioning for X-rated film roles, PEOPLE confirms.
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Being whiskey-soaked, road-worn, and incapable of pretense wouldn't wear the same way on her, because those tend to be seen as markers of legitimacy on men and signs of being unappealing, difficult, a mess on women.
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Dunn's parents went on to accuse the Trump administration of luring the Dunns to the White House "under a pretense only to be ambushed by the administration who tried to engineer a grotesque meeting" between them and Sacoolas.
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That pretense ends now, because once the phrase "how to kill a dragon" becomes part of your daily conversation, you might as well sign yourself up for the next Ren fair and get out your 20-sided dice.
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It alleges that he quit without notice under the false pretense of a medical condition, then secretly founded DreamWorld under a new nickname and began running it through an intermediary, which Meta believes is his wife or girlfriend.
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Many of the acts are graceful (like Chiara Anastasini and her hoops, and the Energy Trio, with its remarkable balancing), rather than thrilling, but the level of artistry is impressive, and the performers are confident and without pretense.
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