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"self-appointed" Definitions
  1. giving yourself a particular title, job, etc., especially without the agreement of other people
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Pulisic is different, the experts and self-appointed experts all say.
Which is to say, as self-appointed rulers, we are shams.
But most of the self-appointed leaders urge people to wait.
Elsewhere, self-appointed cow protectors are dishing out their own justice.
Instead, the camp has an ad-hoc structure with self-appointed leaders.
Ask the self-appointed bartenders to pass hors d'oeuvres instead of booze.
Charles de Gaulle, the self-appointed leader of the Free French Forces.
Her brother, self-appointed guardian of his sister's honor, spies from behind.
There are nits to pick, and self-appointed editors to pick them.
There will be other inevitable complaints from the self-appointed culture police.
That doesn't make this group of self-appointed watchdogs any less effective, though.
Scanlan became the self-appointed "go-to guy" for helping affected immigrant teenagers.
But even worse are those are self-appointed national ambassadors of the Cubbies.
He was a movement, a brand, and the self- appointed commissioner of Twitter!
Civil rights groups are also concerned about self-appointed election monitors carrying firearms.
Meanwhile, the Quantum Bullshit Detector tweets on as the community's self-appointed watchdog.
The latter is considered academic fraud, and it's within the association's self-appointed terrain.
Earl Washburn is founder of the Curling WikiProject and the sport's self-appointed WikiGuardian.
Not all Democrats approve of Warren's self-appointed role as the Party's moral arbiter.
Hollywood teems with pompous self-appointed kings ruling their fiefs as they see fit.
The Prime Minister is an avowed feminist, free-trader and self-appointed cheerleader for diversity.
In its self-appointed task as the "guardian of democracy," the military committed numerous atrocities.
Singh has gone by the self-appointed nickname "Superwoman" since she was eight years old.
One was Reed Irvine, a self-appointed debunker of the "fake news" of mainstream media.
"We'll let the chattering class and self-appointed critics talk about the name," he said.
Meanwhile, Steve, the self-appointed "Secretary of Fun," continues to make us all feel at home.
The self-appointed town crier, whose real name is Tony Appleton, has been around for years.
Self-appointed thinkers became national figures, thanks to popular pages and a flurry of Facebook Live.
Additionally, Max II is aided by his owner, Phyllis Mueller, his self-appointed Chief of Staff.
Mr. Stocks is the self-appointed caretaker of tossed-out parts of the Statue of Liberty.
It was a self-appointed wunderkind who struck a persuasive pose and talked an amazing game.
Trump and Kushner, his self-appointed foreign policy guru, have few guiding principles on foreign policy.
"Schooldays" ends with the self-appointed savior taking the first, halting dance lesson of his life.
Aipac is a self-appointed lobby that does not represent my feelings as an American Jew.
The worry is that, in time, the country's self-appointed moral guardian will go beyond policing morality.
As a self-appointed honorary Dunder Mifflin employee I can't believe I'm about to type these words.
Ammon Bundy, the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, was the self-appointed leader of the occupation.
The more he was slammed by the self-appointed voices of political reason, the stronger he became.
Maduro faces a challenge from self-appointed interim president Juan Guaido as the nation becomes increasingly unstable.
Corporations, politicians, presidential candidates and academics increasingly cave to a few self-appointed judges, juries and executioners.
The non-elites tend to feel judged and looked down on by the self-appointed savior class.
And as self-appointed King of Permission Granting, I am hereby granting permission to you as well.
The same anger that has swept the developed world against self-appointed elites emerged especially strongly in India.
From avocado pizza to avocado bouquets, self-appointed "chefs" are turning vulnerable avocados into something they're not: disgusting.
It's impressive how, at such a young age, Barbara is so grimly devoted to her self-appointed duties.
" Given the crude comments, people were obviously a little taken aback by his self-appointed title of "gentleman.
Or being afforded the ability to speak up for themselves, rather than through a self-appointed, "radical" proxy.
Like Odysseus, his new hero, Malcolm, is on a self-appointed quest, fighting off enemies from his boat.
For years, the self-appointed leaders of Silicon Valley were young people — mostly men — with age-appropriate behavior.
If you think Caldwell sounds like Bannon, the self-appointed tribune of Trumpian working-class populism, you're right.
And that is the self-appointed task of the EcoHealth Alliance, a charitable research organisation based in New York.
Khan was never given a written summary of the conclusions of what he called "self-appointed mediators," Turner said.
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London and self-appointed cheerleader for London's tech startups, declared himself as an 'outer'
I'm not saying that we need a bunch of self-appointed musos instructing the vulgar masses about what's good.
He is the self-appointed spokesman of the same Christian militia unit that Ilangilang belongs to: Red God's Army.
But they have a kind of Senate of self-appointed scientific minds who run everything on behalf of everybody else.
Like when she played the role of self-appointed "creative director" during Khloé Kardashian's Complex magazine cover shoot in 2015.
I say "self-appointed" entrepreneurs because there is often little or no regulation placed upon workers in the nongovernmental sector.
Nor have his years in the embassy resolved questions about the legality or morality of Mr. Assange's self-appointed mission.
Out of school for the summer and keeping his father company, Josiah has become something of a self-appointed docent.
Whenever there is a Senate "gang" — a self-appointed caucus of problem-solvers — Mr. Graham seems to be in it.
Time will tell if these self-appointed burden bearers will take the president up on his offer and speak with him.
Marilyn Manson may be incapacitated following an onstage accident but that hasn't hindered his self-appointed duties as an arch provocateur.
Jennifer Lawrence's self-appointed producer role on the 'Real Housewives' franchise is just that, according to the franchise's honcho Andy Cohen.
The contest between Saudi Arabia, the self-appointed champion of the Sunnis, and Iran, the leading Shia power, makes everything worse.
Because let me be clear — self-appointed political commentators do not get to define who we are and what we believe.
Whereas Dib, the self-appointed champion of Earth's freedom, is overzealous to the point of being self-defeating, like America itself.
Aunt Lydia, the engine behind so much of their pain, is in her element this episode as June's self-appointed keeper.
For three months a year, I am an avian extension agent: unpaid, self-appointed and yes, I made up the title.
Self-appointed "Caliphs" continue to appear and disappear, suggesting that a void remains unfilled since the last sultan occupied that role.
Here are five things to know, with bonus insight from the self-appointed "Sultan of Swag" who puts them all together.
Now known as "the big head tiny body meme," it's a perfect tool for mocking self-appointed grammar police and annoying fandoms.
When she was a girl, the newly self-appointed queen received an eerily spot-on prophecy from a fortune teller named Maggy.
Above all, he was a peerless networker and self-appointed leader in the cause of independence for South America from Spanish rule.
I long wondered why the self-appointed civil rights leaders, as well as "Black Lives Matter," were loath to broach the subject.
Is Trump, America's self-appointed madman, the person who can bring consistency of purpose to the U.S.'s relations with North Korea?
A lot of towns, the local governments will make mascots, but a lot of people became these sort of self-appointed mascots.
As the NBA's self-appointed Directed of Nickname Operations, I have taken it upon myself to compile a taxonomy of NBA nicknames.
And Jeffry Denman is unnervingly intense as Michael, the clean-cut tyrant who becomes Luke's self-appointed mentor, father and (possibly) lover.
Op-Ed Contributor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph of the self-described Islamic State, might have been killed. Again.
" Though the track marks Cuco's first proper premiere, he can already lay claim to a devoted fanbase of self-appointed "Cuco Pebbles.
" He added that "the self-appointed and self-anointed critics of what goes on here" can't grasp "our core values as military people.
Twitter trolling the Trump White House and general wrongness she sees on social media has increasingly become one of Clinton's self-appointed roles.
The collapse of any viable business model to support the work of journalism has made many of its self-appointed defenders distinctly pusillanimous.
Self-appointed spokespeople for the economy have been fearmongering about the markets being cut in half if Warren is elected, which is ridiculous.
The military has a self-appointed role as a protector of Buddhism, the majority religion in this country with Muslim and Christian minorities.
Harry is the elder, more conscientious bean counter, conscious of the old country, honest and devout, the self-appointed guardian of family morals.
It is through the breaking down of barriers that our prejudices are put aside, not through social media censorship by self-appointed gatekeepers.
She held true to her word, eating only one basil leaf, one lemon drop, and one lime Popsicle after her self-appointed date.
Each star references something from their storyline, from Huger's self-appointed "Grande Dame" status to Dillard's new marriage and Samuels' umbrella-freakout last season.
As a transgender person, you never know when some self-appointed potty vigilante is going to spot you and decide to make a scene.
In Cetacean, a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued the government over the Navy's use of sonar.
Yachty paved a space for himself in rap with his self-appointed bubblegum trap, which was crafted by Perry's video game soundtrack-inspired production.
Instead, they negotiated with the self-appointed interim authorities and formed a quasi-parliament to help govern until a constituent assembly had been elected.
In recent months, there has been an increase in reports of violence from self-appointed cow protection groups, which have proliferated under his tenure.
Self-appointed legal experts will claim that police had no "probable cause" to pull over a vehicle or detain someone suspected of a crime.
America and China are not natural enemies, but the narrative perpetuating the animosity suits those with a self-appointed status of superiority or righteousness.
"Equally of concern is your self-appointed spokesmanship on behalf of those who have sent responses to TRAI using your platform," the agency wrote.
There are walking coaches — I have been to more than one — and self-appointed experts who can teach you how to breathe more effectively.
And on Saturday, Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist and well-known self-appointed leader of the fringe alt-right movement, condemned the attack.
Without Draymond Green, their top defender and self-appointed megaphone, the Warriors regrouped against the Nets, plowing their way to a 117-101 victory.
"Self-partnering means you can't get a bloke, right?" suggested British TV host and, we can only assume, self-appointed relationship expert Piers Morgan.
He tried to stop Bridenstine's confirmation and failed to do so, somewhat diminishing his self-appointed role as the guardian of Florida's space interests.
But as a guest of a guest, he was treated like a close friend by the club's owner and self-appointed headwaiter, Mr. Trump.
But as a guest of a guest, he was treated like a close friend by the club's owner and self-appointed headwaiter, Mr. Trump.
And I discovered there were two types of us: people who lived to write, and self-appointed experts hoping to get rich and famous.
"Equally of concern is your self-appointed spokesmanship on behalf of those who have sent responses to TRAI using your platform," the letter reads.
The self-appointed guru has also relayed her speciality into a series of classes that promise to strengthen and tone in more ways than one.
A computer nerd turned NASA scientist turned establishment-science cynic, Zayner is something like the self-appointed leader of a small but burgeoning biohacking movement.
Instead, he was allowed to lead a march of self-appointed patriots to India Gate, the iconic war memorial in the heart of official Delhi.
Hearing Madeline's peers talk about her brought to mind the high school kids in Mean Girls talking about their self-appointed queen bee, Regina George.
We learn that Margaery is a decentralized data machine; indeed, she's acting as the network's self-appointed captain of the board, wielding primary command authority.
It was cemented when I hooked up and later married a drag-racing hobbyist, self-appointed president of the local car club: the Brooklyn Dodges.
On April 237th, just a day after taking control, Awad Ibn Auf, the defence minister and head of the self-appointed "transitional military council", resigned.
Chris Christie thought he would steal a march on his fellow losers from the Republican primaries by signing on early as Trump's self-appointed consigliere.
After an avalanche of media speculation, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London and self-appointed cheerleader for London's tech startups, declared himself as an 'outer'.
The failure to pass a Zika funding bill before the holiday, a self-appointed goal for GOP leaders, could be politically troubling for both parties.
As such, the last thing it needs is the introduction of a Dab University, with Manchester United winger Jesse Lingard as its self-appointed dean.
Drejka, he told CNN, was "the initial aggressor" and was acting as a "self-appointed cop wannabe" in hounding McGlockton's girlfriend about the parking space.
Part of Mr. Cosby's fame was built on his self-appointed role of guardian of black respectability and occasional scold of other blacks, he said.
"The Kotel belongs to all Jews worldwide, not to a self-appointed segment," American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris told The Jerusalem Post.
As the self-appointed and unchallenged leader of The Verge's premier Pride & Prejudice (2005) fan club, I'm delighted another Jane Austen adaptation is coming up.
Would it be acceptable to society at large to have a private company in effect become a self-appointed referee for everything that politicians say?
What bothered me were the self- appointed white knights of the Democrats rushing to defend Strzok as if he was a princess stuck in high dungeon.
Mr Bannon paints himself as the self-appointed "enabler" who, on finding Mr Trump's campaign office empty on a Sunday, comes in and shakes things up.
"If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their way on his Serena Williams cartoon, our new politically correct life will be very dull indeed."
Darting between them, students in high-school uniforms, acting as self-appointed traffic police, checked drivers' licences and even distributed food to those stuck in jams.
The selective aggression of the self-appointed censors uses media as a platform to distort social context and manipulate public opinion about culture, particularly the arts.
The more time Sanders spends defending his self-appointed label, the less time he will have to talk about what he can do for working families.
Clearer, consistently enforced rules would make it more obvious what Twitch thinks belongs on Twitch, instead of leaving it up for debate among self-appointed gatekeepers.
Self-appointed task forces of Reddit and 4chan users published her address and flooded her professional organization with emails, demanding that her professional license be rescinded.
And if someone tells you not to, cite Shakespeare, Swift and Johnson and ask the self-appointed scold if he thinks he knows better than them.
After all, it was self-appointed cop, Neighborhood Watch volunteer, and civic racist George Zimmerman who extrajudicially executed a boy for walking home alone at night.
Even when civilians have been in charge, the army has lurked in the background as the self-appointed guardian of secularism against Islamists and other radicals.
Chefs, restaurants, the Federal Trade Commission, South Park, and its own shareholders have all taken shots at Yelp and its army of self-appointed restaurant critics.
In our building, an elderly woman on the fourth floor was the self-appointed cat carer, and she put out bowls of food for the animals.
He has become a self-appointed cultural ambassador for Japan, promoting his home nation's culture and craftsmanship to the world through the universal language of sake.
I was lucky to find some of the few lesbians who were willing to regard me — a newly minted, self-appointed woman — as one of them.
And watchdogs, self-appointed and otherwise, with backing from an Internet full of facts (or approximations thereof), are also inspecting the underpinnings of films much more closely.
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Every time Peter has to choose whether to do his self-appointed job or seize one irreplaceable personal moment with Liz, the strain shows on his face.
Given the company's self-appointed position as a champion for inclusion in comic book storytelling, Marvel has had no choice but to meet the backlash head-on.
To hear the whole interview with Cooper, which also touched on his becoming a self-appointed embed in Burma and Somalia, and more, click on http://podcast.cnn.com.
Despite what self-appointed zen gurus out there would like you to believe, you'll never be able to "beat stress" completely — and honestly, who would want to?
It is not clear whether ISIS' overall leader, the self appointed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is in Mosul or elsewhere, according to a US military official.
"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind &aposStand Your Ground&apos to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through," Crump said.
"Among her self-appointed responsibilities she had for me, she always made sure, without fail, that I knew when daylight savings was," Stamos said, recounting her statements.
The official Berlin is keeping quiet, but the German media are furious that Renzi dared to challenge Germany's self-appointed supreme leadership of an unraveling European Union.
Two generations older than the artists who came later, Brancusi was in many ways the alley's self-appointed bon-papa, ruling benevolently until his death in 1957.
While some of the snobbier self-appointed "hardcore" types would argue he was wrong, 101 million sales and a complete rewriting of gamer demographics would suggest otherwise.
At this moment, some believed that Washington himself should seize power from the Congress and, backed by his army, become the self-appointed leader of the colonies.
There is a robust group of self-appointed watchdog/gossip channels that chronicle, expose, and analyze all manner of bad behavior perpetrated by so-called beauty gurus.
His self-appointed mission: to expose the person he believed was behind the firm's operation, a Kazakh oligarch with interests in asbestos mines in Kazakhstan and Russia.
In minority communities, the gatekeepers are usually self-appointed guardians whose power rests on their ability to define what is acceptable and what is beyond the bounds.
" She added that "today's multiculturalists" consider themselves the "self-appointed heirs of the civil rights movement" but in reality, their message is one of "divisiveness not togetherness.
Acknowledging them is the self-appointed task of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission: a private foundation that identifies and rewards members of the public for being heroes.
Flores, a farmer and a river guide, was a self-appointed conduit between the Mashco and the region's other indigenous people, who lived mostly in riverside villages.
He continued to stumble through his self-appointed role of kingmaker, holding off supporting Clinton — whose 2000 U.S. Senate campaign he managed — while declining to back Sanders.
The more famous one is recounted in an unpublished manuscript called Basic Art, authored by prolific mail artist, art writer, and self-appointed "Nut chronicler" David Zack.
Nobody thought the Blue Jackets would be anywhere near this good, and most of the hockey world's self-appointed experts have spent the entire season predicting their demise.
"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind `Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said.
So the origins of what was originally called the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) were rooted in the self-appointed task of "cleaning up" Hollywood.
Meghan's self-appointed defenders, who describe themselves as the "Sussex Squad," have watched closely for negative commentary on social media and have mobilized against journalists and other critics.
Let the true incompetence of this sad excuse for a man come through, so that we can deal with it as a nation, not through self-appointed saviors.
Smoke clouds billow from drum grills, scalloped-edged paper plates are pried apart, and self-appointed Southern potato salad queens set out bowls covered with crinkled aluminum foil.
These self-appointed guardians of Beijing's authority have appeared in Australia, where they shouted profane insults in Mandarin about the mothers of a group of Hong Kong supporters.
Wagner Illig, a self-appointed "poly educator" who gives talks at adult conventions about polyamory, began to identify as poly after her second divorce in the late 163s.
Florence, recognizable to anyone from an Italian-American Catholic family (as I am), is a rosary-wielding maternal beast: consummate worrier, maven of meatballs, self-appointed guardian angel.
The show is based on a Rolling Stone article about the real-life phenomenon of self-appointed superheroes, a disquieting subject that makes for an off-putting show.
And by play's end, the self-appointed dumb guy has scooped up what play there is thanks to a performance from Mr. Owen that couldn't be more smart. Cleansed.
More importantly, Facebook has become the self-appointed gatekeeper for what is acceptable content to show the public, which is an incredibly important and powerful position to be in.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, turn the table and put the mirror on people who are nothing of the type of self-appointed civility police that they talk about.
Where we previously relied on more old-school methods, the all-enveloping digital and social media revolutions we're experiencing have facilitated the rise of the self-appointed fashion police.
"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind &aposStand Your Ground&apos to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said.
From colonial New England to northern California, to Florida and back to Depression-era Harlem, American Messiahs offers a parallel history of a nation through its self-appointed deities.
Twenge, who is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, appears to be a self-appointed thinkfluencer whose bonnet is inhabited by the bee of the youth.
Throughout his career, he has positioned himself at every turn as the standard-bearer for substance, a man at war with soccer's legion of self-appointed, self-identifying aesthetes.
It also means that funds dedicated to investing in companies with women on boards can vote against gender and diversity shareholder proposals without losing its self-appointed ESG status.
Pacino is delightful in his role, reconciling his preening showboating (appropriate for a puffed-up, sometimes self-appointed leader of men) with his ability to go quiet and seething.
Dr Jasser feels the "Muslim-equals-left" stereotype is partly the fault of his community's self-appointed representatives, not so much the young firebrands as the community's elderly godfathers.
These self-appointed monitors do research, and then approach total strangers and suggest to them, based on information that may or may not be correct, that they can't vote.
And Jordan's kinetic Killmonger is no cat-stroking cartoon villain; he's a genuinely tragic figure, a self-appointed warden of social justice irreparably warped by the wrongs done to him.
One such questioner was Salman Taseer, a liberal-minded governor of Punjab province; in January 2011 he was gunned down by a self-appointed scourge of liberalism: his own bodyguard.
Lythgoe was its self-appointed leader and the court heard he continued to keep it active after its ban, using a makeshift gym where members could train for race war.
In our interview, Brennan could be frustratingly obtuse about his motivations for studying porn, and you get the sense that this evasiveness comes with being a self-appointed dispassionate observer.
A self-appointed champion for the rights of big cats, Carole received those snakes from Joe Exotic, a mulleted zookeeper who does not wear underwear but does record country music.
Although Missouri leans heavily Republican, she defended her Senate seat six years ago against the self-appointed sexologist Todd Akin, he of the crackpot distinction between legitimate and illegitimate rape.
And just remember, if you want to be the self-appointed know-it-all at your next cookout, share your knowledge about hot dog ingredient labeling or just enjoy your meal.
Amid the chaos of a contested convention, with the complicated delegate math shifting by the minute, Trump's self-appointed title as the world's greatest deal maker could face its toughest test.
Its self-appointed mission was to come up with a broad definition of what it meant to be Sunni; and to denounce Muslims who are intolerant of other shades of opinion.
The self-appointed revolutionary "vanguard" of the working classes seized power in Tsarist Russia in 1917, established absolute state control, and exterminated millions of citizens who doubted their wisdom and vision.
I will admit, as a self-appointed member of the grammar police, that it was a bit jarring to read a judicial opinion employing plural pronouns to describe a singular plaintiff.
Tapping into the widespread anti-trade rhetoric spewing from both presidential candidates, and many of their self-appointed spokespeople, the two platforms contain many concerning provisions with respect to trade policy.
The United Kingdom's leading campaign for a new Brexit referendum is in a state of meltdown after its self-appointed head told two prominent staff members that they had been sacked.
It's also a party fueled by social media, especially on Yelp, the user-review site, and Instagram, where self-appointed influencers soon learned that shared plates translated into more photo ops.
This is wholesome as hell: Shane and Lila are just two of the self-appointed "casting directors" in this small yet booming Instagram community, made up mostly of other young teens.
A self-appointed morality brigade called the Islamic Defenders Front, best known for smashing up bars, has recently attacked people for selling food on Ramadan or wearing Santa outfits at Christmas.
His trip to Ukraine shows the president's attorney has maintained his self-appointed role as Ukraine fact-finder even as he emerges as a central figure in the House's impeachment probe.
But in openly retreating from its self-appointed role as a defender of the ideals that underpin the compact, it is showing cynical contempt for human rights even as a goal.
Not courageous enough to try to accomplish this feat alone, many of these self-appointed color-line monitors seek help from wherever it can be found — from the police, for instance.
But that hasn't been enough to satisfy Unsworth, who had reportedly been working around the clock in Thailand to save the 12 Thai kids and took offense to Musk's self-appointed involvement.
But she's also been acting at times as a shit-stirrer and an amateur detective, a self-appointed Miss Marple of the Monterey Peninsula with a conveniently selective sense of the truth.
Colin (Neil Maskell), the self-appointed leader, has hired the venue in Dorset—a "four-hour drive", as all the guests note with practised passive-aggression—for a New Year's get-together.
" Even readers who aren't seeking guidance in their own lives might be interested to learn what kind of guidance is on offer: "Thousands of titles a year, thousands of self-appointed experts.
In the 30 days since he took office, 14 suspected criminals have been killed every day on average on the streets of Filipino cities, either by police or by self-appointed vigilantes.
But after stern warning from pop's self-appointed wise dad Gary Barlow to not squander Leona's obvious pop star potential, actual time, effort and money was put into making her a star.
But he feels it must be liberated from its self-appointed guardians: people like the film's steely dance teacher who insists, implausibly, that there is nothing sensual about the gyrations he demands.
As more candidates entered and the race shifted sharply to the left, he leaned harder into his self-appointed role as a voice of moderation, nowhere more so than on health care.
It's not about being the lone creative genius, it's about being among the ranks of people using their creative talents — whether professionally honed or self-appointed — to make a meaningful visual statement.
In Cetacean, a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued under the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
In 2016, Jake Paul sought to dominate YouTube as the self-appointed leader and creator of Team 10, a content collective composed of him and, at the time, five of his closest friends.
With a naked dress here and a naked dress there, the self-appointed bad girl marches to the beat of her own drum (in a pair of eight-inch Giuseppe Zanottis, mind you).
Bush, a case where a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued the US government for endangering cetaceans in the ocean with its use of sonar systems.
The self-appointed leader, Plaisted cast himself as the expedition cook, a job he held in the military while serving in the Aleutians, a remote string of volcanic islands in the northern Pacific.
The Washington Post describes them as "culture warriors" for conservative Russian values—a self-appointed role that led to members of a Cossack militia beating up Pussy Riot during their Sochi Olympics protest.
" Conservative MPs Former minister Iain Duncan Smith "You've got to understand that, of course, there's the European issue but there's also the issue about who is Supreme - Parliament or a self-appointed court.
Bush, a precedent established after a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued the Navy for using a sonar system alleged to be harmful to marine mammals.
Yulín Cruz, who is reportedly planning to run for governor in next year's elections, referred to Pierluisi as a "self-appointed governor" and said he should not be able to make any decisions.
They strain to keep faith when the arbiters of moral and cultural acceptability, all of them self-appointed, insist both on their right to offend nearly anyone and take offense at nearly anything.
Patagonia's people were the West's recolonizers, the next wave of pioneers, the self-appointed protectors asserting a blue-state ethos in red-state territory—tree huggers pitching their tents in a logging camp.
"Everyone is working together to keep it clean because this is where they live," said Kishwar Jahan, 218, the self-appointed leader of this 232-person slum in the east of the Indian capital.
Add in how the Pirates, a self appointed "small-market team", are seldom the ones doing the paying, and you can understand why Cervelli signing an extension was regarded as a low-probability event.
She becomes the self-appointed lead investigator on a murder case when her young son is arrested for allegedly killing a teenage girl and displaying her on a rooftop in the middle of town.
Another important issue: Self-appointed committees that decide which treatments or procedures are low-quality may have conflicts of interest or no direct responsibility for patients, so their guidelines may not always be valid.
And somewhere between all of this, there have been countless other self-appointed arbiters of style — think the What Not To Wear franchise back in the '00s to the more recent rise of bloggers.
The sort of off-roader that self-appointed car lovers love to dismiss as a cute ute that spends more time rolling through mall parking lots than cavorting through streams and over felled trees.
Because there is plenty there to talk about -- and that Ivanka could do, but apparently hasn't yet done, to embody her self-appointed role as champion of women and children in her father's administration.
Firstly, when Kathleen confesses she is sad about her failing business, he sends her a ponderous message berating her for not having seen The Godfather, like the self-appointed pop culture gatekeeper he is.
It's been a busy week for the self-appointed speech police on college campuses; Monday saw protests not only in the U.S. at Lewis & Clark Law School but also in London at King's College.
He left the ground open for Barack Obama to remind us that our founders wanted active engaged citizens, not a government run by a solipsistic and self-appointed savior who wants everything his way.
Yesterday (March 9) marked the twelfth anniversary of his disappearance on an Iranian island where he had gone on a self-appointed mission to try and recruit a fugitive American as a CIA informant.
At least that's the case if you happen to believe the self-appointed "Archbishop of Peckham"—Peckham being one of the most ethnically diverse areas of London, and the site of the 2011 riots.
Perhaps Andrea Agnelli, Juventus's head honcho and self-appointed soccer soothsayer, had a point when he mentioned that the sport has to be wary of the threat from (things like) the video game Fortnite.
But there's a less-simple view, too — one in which many people might be coming to see the self-appointed arbiters of racial politics, and the candidates working to satisfy them, as the establishment.
LOS ANGELES — What's the only art form big enough to hold Kanye West's grandiosity, his grievances, his cast-of-thousands collaborations, his musical lushness and toughness, his religiosity, his self-appointed skill at design?
Far past the realm of AA groups and therapy sessions, there are self-appointed gurus keeping people clean by spending dozens of hours a week with paying clients to prevent them from making harmful choices.
You may know me as a self-appointed chief justice of Facebook's new Supreme Court, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Antonio Vazquez, the self-appointed Grand Warlock of Mexico, holds a press conference in Mexico City on June 13, where he predicted Mexico's performance and performed a ritual to bring the national team good luck.
The SSI has the self-appointed mission (backed by government funding agencies) of encouraging British academics to code sensibly from the beginning—for their own good, as well as that of any commercial spin-offs.
The coup de grace, however, has been the court's self-appointed mission to prevent patents from being granted in some of the most important technologies to our country's future economy, including software and medical diagnostics.
Nebenzia went on to call Washington and its allies "self-appointed executioners" and accused them of pressuring Russia to change its position after the latest round of airstrikes and a promised new round of sanctions.
More damaging were his avarice and his braggadocio, apparently suggesting he would be interested in taking a job visiting East Asian countries as a self-appointed "keynote speaker" for 400,000 pounds (about $521,000) a year.
Playing the role of self-appointed champions of the rules-based multilateralism and unbridled globalization, they should recognize that they have to bring down their destabilizing and unsustainably large $595.4 billion surplus on American trades.
Lil Nas X has yet again found himself on the wrong side of some self-appointed gatekeepers of country, this time inspiring social media protests and sworn boycotts in response to his collaboration with Wrangler.
He became a self-appointed Republican spokesman on national security — challenging the Clinton administration's intervention in Somalia, counseling against deploying American troops to the Balkans and sounding an early warning on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Mr. Macron also aspires to be a postmodern president, the self-appointed harbinger of France's future, yet his tone and language alternates between elevated intellectual conceits and provocative street talk, sometimes sounding scornful, even patronizing.
After a tornado of a lip sync, the house was finally brought down on the self-appointed resident antagonist The Vixen last week, liberating our lullaby league from the tyranny of a particularly insufferable witch.
" Mr. Wiles, in the interview, said that he had been unfairly attacked by "the self-appointed gods and goddesses of the news media, who do not think we should be permitted to attend any event.
And now, a self-appointed gumshoe by the name of Todd Van Luling has finally caught the actress behind the superthief, reporting his findings to the Chief – er, The Huffington Post – 20 years after her debut!
"But being like the self-appointed president of [Rockwell's] fan club, I felt like, okay maybe it's good that I'm here, that I'm representing the people that love this guy to celebrate this moment," he says.
But: The snakes aren't man-eating, just metaphorical; the plant, yakruna, is merely a hallucinogenic; and the attempted cannibalism is ordered by a white man on himself, a self-appointed messiah apparently committing suicide-by-disciple.
"If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their way on his Serena Williams cartoon, our new politically correct life will be very dull indeed," the paper wrote in an editorial on its front page.
The authorities in Anchorage say they have not tracked the number of people, like Floyd, who have taken on roles as self-appointed spotters, watchers, trackers or all-around crime fighters, but that they are numerous.
With a self-appointed mission to monitor the behavior of the newcomers, the citizen patrol became a menacing presence on the streets and bus routes of Freital and at the fringes of the anti-migrant rallies.
Cornelius is the void at the heart of "Gurlitt: Status Report," a man who never registered his address, who didn't watch television or see a movie after 1967, a self-appointed keeper of the family flame.
If the local organizations in your area are lethargic and ineffectual, then find one or two people to join you and, boom, you are a precinct committee, self-appointed to connect to voters in your neighborhood.
Set mainly at a medical convention held in a dilapidated family-owned hotel, "The Holy Girl" (2004) details a teenager's self-appointed mission to redeem the middle-aged doctor who rubbed up against her in a crowd.
"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind 'Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said in a statement following news that Drejka was charged.
Adnani was one of the last living senior members, along with self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who founded the group and stunned the Middle East by seizing huge tracts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Bush where a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued over the Navy's use of sonar — animals do not have standing to sue unless Congress clearly writes it into the statute.
But it certainly didn't help her candidacy when, just ten days before the election, Comey—reprising his self-appointed spokesperson role—announced that the F.B.I. was reopening the investigation because more Clinton e-mails had been found.
Mr. Klayman has described himself as a conservative Ralph Nader, but during Bill Clinton's presidency, he often behaved more like a self-appointed Kenneth W. Starr, papering Washington with subpoenas related to every would-be Clinton scandal.
Drejka was "the initial aggressor" and was acting as a "self-appointed cop wannabe" in hounding McGlockton's girlfriend about the parking space, even as she had two young children in the car with her, he told CNN.
It is the language of self-appointed leaders, business associations and entrepreneurs who exploit the country's divides — between insiders and outsiders, South Africans and people primarily from other African nations, citizens and immigrants — for their own ends.
Ditto for the rather stock bad guys, a collection of thugs who, Gotham City style, are gradually overwhelming the authorities, though the police are nevertheless hostile to the notion of receiving help from a self-appointed crimefighter.
Since the birth of the modern right after World War II, its self-appointed leaders, intellectuals, policy professionals, and media personalities have never been able to consistently exercise any control or even influence over any mass constituency.
But as the self-appointed Zarathustra of user experience on the web, I am here to pronounce brutalism dead and announce the victory of Sino-Maximalism over the boring, user-friendly web design we've all grown accustomed to.
The president's planned comments come as the administration has already moved to allow Guaidó to access bank accounts with funds previously controlled by Maduro's government in the U.S., a major step toward legitimacy for the self-appointed president.
Gerald, profession unknown, is a Type A bully and Lothario and self-appointed visionary; Laura, vaguely referred to as a former West Coast editor for Vogue but unable to substantiate it, is a genius underminer and freelance vixen.
Unmoored by Dina, Sydney strikes up a mutual sarcasm pact with Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), an affable weirdo and extremely small-time pot dealer who becomes her would-be boyfriend and, as her powers reveal themselves, self-appointed sidekick.
It was to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, the self-appointed caliph, that Malik dedicated her bay'ah —her pledge of allegiance—on Facebook after she and Rizwan fled the site of the attack.
He actually captured a correct and important bit of nuance from the Mueller investigation's findings: It was not the special counsel's office that concluded Trump hadn't committed any crimes, but instead his self-appointed top law enforcement official.
Like "ex-gay" zealots who warn against the evils of homosexuality from the dark side of their own mental closets, Gibbons didn't dial down his intensity: He simply switched his act from pleasure-seeker to self-appointed preacher.
Looking at internet infrastructure — server farms, deep-sea cables, 3G cell towers — these artists, academics, journalists, and self-proclaimed "hacker-tourists" (self-appointed travelers who document fiber-optic networks) gain access to the IRL implications of our online reality.
We learned from the girl who'd stuffed beers into her bathing suit — the self-appointed class clown of the catamaran — that she was desperately in love with a married woman, but otherwise conducted herself like a classic lesbian fuckboy.
This company says its artificial intelligence can tell The shelved titles include "MMS Health Recovery Guidebook" and "Introducing MMS," both written by Jim Humble, a former Scientologist and the self-appointed archbishop of a religion devoted to chlorine dioxide.
Their victims usually happen to be from India's 14% Muslim minority, whether these are cattle-traders beaten up—and in one recent case, killed—by self-appointed protectors of the sacred cow, or cricket enthusiasts cheering the wrong team.
In doing so, these influencers become something like self-appointed ambassadors for ordinary brands — Nordstrom, Sephora, Zara — brands that certainly don't need anyone to tell people to shop there, but whose barrage of products arguably require a trustworthy curator.
She is also working with Dr Achigan-Dako to set up MoBreed, a pan-African collaboration with the self-appointed task of improving ten orphan crops, including Kersting's groundnut, the African custard apple and fonio, a type of millet.
Andre Breton, the group's self-appointed leader, wrote in his novel Nadja that the market at Saint-Ouen was "an almost forbidden world of sudden parallels" and "petrifying coincidences," where unexpected encounters with dreamlike objects lurked around every corner.
Compellingly, in The Half-Blood Prince, Harry and Hermione examine Snape's handwriting in an old copy of Advanced Potion Making, not knowing who the self-appointed "Half-Blood Prince" who had written in the margins of the book is.
The ink had barely dried on the bipartisan budget agreement that President Donald Trump signed last week before Washington Post opinion page editor Fred Hiatt, self-appointed arbiter of how much money the government should spend, savaged the deal.
The fact that the institutional Jewish community is welcoming Trump's administration even as he makes these appalling appointments is the most stunning reminder yet that the self-appointed institutional Jewish community does not represent the majority of American Jews.
Another prominent theorist, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, thought that the "as a" move was "a distancing from oneself," whereby the speaker became a self-appointed representative of an abstraction, some generalized perspective, and suppressed the actual multiplicity of her identities.
The footage of the jihadists' barbarity—boys no older than 12 shoot grown men at point-blank range, the heads of opponents are impaled on a fence in the main square—serves to highlight the perilousness of RBSS's self-appointed task.
My friend Darrin Cappe, a Hip aficionado and self-appointed historian, dug up and remastered rare video of the band singing "Grace, Too" and "Nautical Disaster" on Saturday Night Live in 230, and it flew around Facebook, amassing 221 million views.
The same self-appointed judges of presidents and political success who got their election predictions so wrong are also using these first 100 days as their "proof" for why the Trump presidency is already and will continue to be a failure.
Indeed, the original grotty blogger stereotype was largely propagated by Hollywood, which felt its control threatened by the pirates and self-appointed critics of the web and hit back by portraying the people behind computer screens as weak, friendless teenagers.
The way actual white supremacist Richard Spencer was treated at the University of Florida Thursday was an example, now sadly typical, of how self-appointed social justice warriors refuse to allow unpopular speakers to even open their mouths during their events.
In 1964 Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, high school teacher and self-appointed director of Zambia's national space program, had the bold ambition of beating the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race, and landing a Zambian on the Moon.
As the self-appointed "housekeeper" in Baltimore-based experimental duo Matmos, Martin Schmidt has spent a large portion of a January morning sifting through detritus in the basement of the house he shares with his partner and musical collaborator Drew Daniel.
Daniel's basement studio—in which he churned out illustrations, films, and malformed pop-hits, all while buoyed by his nurturing but confused middle-class parents—was an eerie mirror of my own self-appointed savant-cum-uselessly dependent-son existence.
But there is a lingering tension in the church that extending a hand of welcome might come across as an endorsement of homosexuality, against church teaching.. "Sadly, many self-appointed Orthodoxy watchdog groups are focused on this," said the Rev.
Torday's self-appointed millennial spokesman is Mark Brumfield, a 31-year-old ex-journalist with a Ph.D. We follow him from the heights of youthful ambition in pre-9/11 Brooklyn to the subterranean lows of his parents' suburban Baltimore basement.
"If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their way on his Serena Williams cartoon, our new politically correct life will be very dull indeed," the type below the headline said, referring to the cartoonist who created the drawing.
"Consider the shuttle diplomacy that is now going on by a self-appointed group of Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers between the U.S. and China," Navarro said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Marie, who functions as a self-appointed life coach for her friends, mentions that Ida B. (Sophina Brown), a prominent black TV producer at her studio, is looking for an assistant, and she offers to help Hattie get an interview.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), this week purportedly put out a voice recording to his dwindling flock of followers, exhorting them to carry on a fight they've already lost.
The defects of the Stand Your Ground law, which was enacted in 2005, were highlighted in the case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, who was shot to death in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman.
This electrifying moment when the self-appointed prophets of the new age defy the artistic establishment of the old is, sadly, overlooked by Rappaport, as are the exploits of Robert Bruce Lockhart, who is involved in a plot to murder Lenin.
Interim President Jeanine Añez is self-appointed  After Morales resigned, a relatively unknown Bolivian senator became the president of Bolivia, leading some to speculate that Jeanine Añez woke up one day and decided it was her turn to be president.
"Bickenhead," a self-appointed sequel to Project Pat's 2001 crunk classic "Chickcnhead," twists the original's beat into a sliced-up, percussive marvel, with looped, echoing background yells and eerily insidious electronic trickle augmenting the thick stabs of the electronic bass.
The film is interrupted on occasion by On Cinema guest and self-appointed film expert Gregg Turkington (a bizarro version of real-life Gregg Turkington), who takes us with him as he trawls through trash cans for straight-to-VHS classics of yore.
But Mr Chaudry, who as self-appointed president of the Pakistan American League had tried to parlay his title into political influence on behalf of the Pakistani government, pleaded guilty to a rare sort of crime: failing to register as a foreign agent.
China has already displaced the US as the world's largest consumer of ice cream, and it appears that America's self-appointed title as the King of Beers may also be under threat—or at the very least, purely symbolic at this point.
It's not so much that the one-time King of the Teens and newly-self-appointed King of the Youth is just returning to his comfort zone; he's just jumping back to his Summer Songs aesthetic and seeing where he can take it.
At a press conference Monday, the assembly's finance committee chairman told reporters that the interim government established by self-appointed interim President Juan Guaidó had requested access to 152 bank accounts controlled by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, according to Bloomberg.
As an adolescent, Starlite was a classroom cutup who played Gollum in a student production of "The Lord of the Rings," performed in a mentor's soul cover band, and wore a tuxedo as the self-appointed host of a school talent show.
Since 2009, RuPaul — drag queen legend and the self-appointed (/undisputed) Supermodel of the World — hasn't only gathered, judged, and mentored a hundred drag queens at varying stages of their career but has also propelled them to busier, richer careers outside the show.
" The dictate to stand for the playing of the anthem, she said in a statement, serves to "enable self-appointed 'guardians' of the law and vigilantes all over the country to more aggressively pursue moral policing on their own equal fellow citizens.
"Tim was the mastermind, the self-appointed commissioner... the Jim," Kinsey said, revealing that the King of the Hill staffers had an entire opening ceremony, a torch, and even wore special shirts to easily distinguish the different team members at the event.
"The idea of creating a mechanism on attributing responsibility for the use of chemical weapons no longer makes any sense when Washington and its allies have already determined who's guilty and in essence are already acting like self-appointed executioners," Nebenzia said.
This should add to Ani's suffering and desire to catch the murderer when Bryce is found dead, but she's so flatly crafted that her interest in the case just feels like an extension of her self-appointed role as Liberty High's central intelligence agency.
Gael García Bernal and The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan on the zombie drama) star in this film about a Negan-like character who takes it upon himself to become the most terrifying self-appointed, super-racist border patrol agent that ever was.
Richard Viguerie, a self-appointed spokesman for the "conservative movement," took Pence to task on Thursday for committing the sin of listening to public opinion after signing a bill last year that would have legalized religious-based discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
The Kostelnicka, the village's self-appointed moral guardian, whose decision to kill her stepdaughter's out-of-wedlock child to save the family from disgrace sets in motion a frenzy of guilt — and, eventually, one of the most moving scenes of forgiveness in all opera.
But while Lloyd had plenty of supporters, there were also doubters — self-appointed kicking experts on Twitter criticized her for taking longer than a two-step approach on the ball, and claimed she might be a liability should one of her kicks get blocked.
But in the meantime, there's still an audience of self-appointed family historians, who are making old photos available to their extended families, as well as older folks who grew up in the pre-smartphone era and now want to bring their memories online, too.
His self-appointed moniker of "the blue collar priest" becomes evident in it's first track "BackToSleep," the struggles of trying to will yourself out of bed in the morning combined with your shitty manager calling and asking why you're not already in to scrub bathrooms.
"I'm Afraid of Americans" has a darker resonance today not through its chorus, but in a context that gives it unnerving prescience: a snapshot of the disaffected American that sexist tanning bed Donald Trump baited to rise to power, self-appointed alpha-male-in-chief.
" According to an excerpt obtained by The Wall Street Journal Spicer explains, "One group that I find interesting is the self-appointed 'fact checkers' of the Washington Post and other media outlets, who could learn a thing or two from their more careful brethren.
That gilded neologism appeared in a story that was published shortly before Thanksgiving on her company's website, promoted by its Twitter handle and exquisitely emblematic of her approach to her self-appointed role as heroine to and model for working women the world over.
But on Saturday, as Ms. Harris seeks to reinvigorate her presidential campaign, she went on the offensive, laying out a robust defense of her record as prosecutor and decrying what she called "self-appointed political commentators" who fail to understand the complexities of criminal justice.
As is often the case with "The Leftovers," most of this episode is about the destructive arrogance of self-appointed seers, who mess with other people's lives when they claim to be the only ones who can read the signs and portents all around.
Fast-forward a few decades and you get Helen Gurley Brown, self-appointed patron saint to single girls, impressing upon female office workers the importance of not leaving "any facet of you unpolished," lest an eligible colleague who glances your way fails to keep glancing.
May, 60, revealed in the article about being the only child of a clergyman, or her sleepless nights over Britain's decision to leave the European Union, self-appointed arbiters of taste and propriety began wagging fingers about the no-nonsense prime minister's expensive attire.
Oryon is compelled to sit in the school lunchroom exclusively with other black students and endure racial profiling at the hands of the local police; he is roughed up by members of a faction known as the Abiders, self-appointed keepers of the status quo.
The space was sealed off at some point, and wasn't re-discovered until 21920, when a Taoist monk, the self-appointed guardian of the temple, accidentally crashed through a wall to find the hidden cache, which contained sculptures, piles of documents, and the now-famous star map.
I hate to break it to the self-appointed intellectual gatekeepers of the New Yorker, but the ideas of Steve Bannon, odious as I believe them to be, are already "normal," in the sense that they have been used to win democratic elections from Washington to Budapest.
The most extreme manifestations of this are Twitter personalities like Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor, self-appointed Russia experts who built up a following among hardcore #resistance types by constantly predicting the reveal of proof that Trump is in Putin's thrall — evidence that never seems to materialize.
" On January 16, 1893, the self-appointed "Committee of Safety" wrote a letter to US Minister to Hawaii John L. Stevens claiming that "the lives and property of the people were in peril and appealing to him the United States forces at his command for assistance.
The eruption of long-simmering anger, combined with a toxic social media brew stirred up by self-appointed social-justice gatekeepers, pushed a necessary—and perennial—conversation about responsible representation of the vulnerable and disenfranchised into the red zone, where no clear lessons could be made out.
Location: New York, NYSports: Basketball, hockey, combat sportsCapacity: 20,789One thing to know: Madison Square Garden, the self-appointed "World's Most Famous Arena," is actually the fourth iteration of the building, as previous Madison Square Gardens were located in other areas of midtown in New York City.
The reaction from those outside the court, from the queen's self-appointed subjects, was rapturous (on Twitter, a sampling: "I love this"; "LIFE GIVING"; "The look of the century") and the designer, who took the final lap herself, did so with a giant smile on her face.
The Pac-12 lived up to its self-appointed moniker during the 123-18 school year, winning the most championships over all of any league for the 13th straight year, with a total of 12 titles in sports including men's baseball and women's gymnastics and tennis.
F.B.I. investigators ultimately charged three businessmen, including Mr. Lichtenstein, in court papers that described how self-appointed police liaisons within the Orthodox community, such as Mr. Lichtenstein, exercised such influence within Police Headquarters that police commanders would turn to them for support when seeking a promotion.
In that case, the public forgiveness expressed toward Roof served to intensify the grotesque senselessness of his crimes: Roof sought to prove his self-appointed superiority over people of color, only to receive kindness and dignity from members of the community he had hurt the most.
As a self-appointed canary down the coal mine, Wiley conceived the raw mechanics of grime—choppy, icy strings, hollow basslines, two-step beats, punchy bars—before stretching the genre to its creative and commercial limits in the time it took most MCs to get a record out.
The entire episode, from when the first complaint about Franken was aired to when he announced unhappily that he'd leave the Senate, took three weeks; his self-appointed prosecutors turned on a dime, at first supporting and then throwing process (consideration by the Senate ethics committee) to the wind.
"We want to maintain the authenticity and the Brooklyn edge of things," said Karen Brooks Hopkins, the former longtime president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who served on the board of the partnership and has become something of a self-appointed watchdog for culture in Downtown Brooklyn.
A former jazz drummer and stand-up comic who was later a writer, campus lecturer and filmmaker, Mr. Abel was best known as a perennial public gadfly, a self-appointed calling that combined the verbal pyrotechnics of a 19th-century flimflam man with acute 20th-century media savvy.
In Andersen's telling, you can easily trace the line from the self-appointed 17th-century prophet Anne Hutchinson to Kanye West: She was, he writes, uniquely American "because she was so confident in herself, in her intuitions and idiosyncratic, subjective understanding of reality," a total stranger to self-doubt.
Amid the torrent of words and controversial statements that have spewed forth from the volcano of his mouth and mind recently — and there have been a lot, starting with the Trump-love — this was the part that the self-appointed consumer watchdogs of the digital world could not countenance.
Armed with the self-appointed title of "personal attorney" to the president, Mr. Cohen, who had served as a personal-injury lawyer and owned a taxi business, became seen as the man who could help others gain access to the seat of power that had been denied to him.
The losses in the stock market — one of the president's self-appointed barometers of the nation's success — are described as a consequence of fears deliberately spread by liberals and biased journalists, rather than a reaction by investors concerned about how the virus has affected economies around the world.
As he runs for president, Mr. Biden, the former vice president, has also taken on another role: self-appointed political pundit for his very own primary race, holding forth on the nuances and mechanics of the contest at every turn in the manner of a commentator on cable news.
And the minds of the American right, as they pursue the movement's self-appointed mission to preserve the traditional basis of American society and (in its more grandiose states of transport) Western Civilization, have never been able to come up with a consistent idea of what this is.
My guess is he was channeling his one-time political guru Steve Bannon, who serves as the self-appointed leader of what he described as an economic nationalist movement that is rooted in the idea that global elites are squeezing out the average Joe all across the world.
Talk show host Wendy Williams — who, in the past, has come under fire for making insensitive remarks about the LGBT community — questioned Gibson's seemingly self-appointed status as the "moral police," telling her live studio audience no one "asked" the 38-year-old for his opinion on issues of gender.
"Self-appointed 'prosecutors,' 'judges' and 'executioners,' these secret operators believe it is their mission to attack by whatever means available companies that provide investigative tools to law enforcement," Vincenzetti wrote, clearly referring to Phineas Fisher, who hacked Hacking Team, and the still-unknown hacker or hackers behind the attack on Cellebrite.
He and Dr. Fubini went on to create a self-appointed Middle Eastern Science Committee, which in turn led to a meeting in November 1995 in a big red tent at Dahab, Egypt, in the Sinai Desert near the Red Sea, attended by scientists from around the Middle East and beyond.
In Westerville, Booker used his self-appointed role as the uniter in the room to draw a contrast with his opponents and Trump, saying he was "having déjà vu all over again" after early questions in the debate about Trump's attacks on Joe Biden and his son Hunter's work in Ukraine.
They probably saw it coming: Malika Anderson, Jean Deaux, Jenni Stampley, Taryn Williams, Kadiata Diallo and 'Alyssa' (not her real name), and the 15 other women who, Amber Rose has said, also accuse Abloh's friend, the self-appointed 'King Of The Youth' and Kanye's former 'head creative consultant' Ian Connor of rape.
The self-appointed caretakers of conservatism at National Review went so far as to pack the sum of their energies and anxieties into an entire issue devoted to taking down Trump, even though their readers aren't his supporters and their exertions only underscored his pitch that he's not part of the system.
As the first person in my immediate family to go to college, it was my self-appointed duty to define success and achieve it, to make good money so I could shoulder financial burdens for my mama and my grandparents, to become someone worthy of the sacrifices they'd made to make me.
The bracket is broken down into four Glizzy-specific regions: Jefe (his self-appointed nickname and brief artist name), Tre-7 (37th St. where he's from), LL30 (the hashtag used to honor his slain friend and rapper, 30 Glizzy), and Soufease (a more accurate pronunciation of his native Southeast quadrant of DC).
The painting isn't by anyone famous, but its inscrutability has earned it a kind of cult status: fans have their own Facebook group, and there are "self-appointed guardians who will go in and make sure it's OK," explains Allison Hayward, a Las Vegas–born lawyer who created the group on social media.
The result has been such toxicity on college campuses that even conservatives acknowledge it is causing their side to dig in irrationally, growing intractable even when the speaker is someone like Mr. Yiannopoulos, who has defended pederasty, or Richard Spencer, a white supremacist and self-appointed leader of the fringe alt-right movement.
Naturally, it doesn't take long for the identity of the "secret guests" to be rumbled by Tom Clancy, the self-appointed leader of a local band of republican freedom fighters, who wants to be taken seriously by the "top brass" in Belfast and lets them know he's ready to kidnap the girls.
Early into another season in which Jackson may not have rebuilt the Knicks to the satisfaction of the long-frustrated fan base or his Madison Square Garden boss, James L. Dolan, he was back in the public cross hairs last week as a self-appointed arbiter of the N.B.A.'s purity and probity.
Nobody else seems to want this lurching hulk of a city, headed to the honor farm like a former star given to paregoric and shoplifting, so it has de facto been ceded to us self-appointed guttersnipes, and maybe someday we will rule it, although for now we're content to pick at its scabs.
"Amiable With Big Teeth," which is set in 303-36 amid efforts by the Harlem intelligentsia to raise money in support of Ethiopia after it had been invaded by Mussolini's Italy, is an unsparing satire of the shenanigans of self-appointed backdoor diplomats and manipulators of public opinion — a historical novel with newfound contemporary resonance.
The misdemeanor conviction, which could mean six months in jail, should be a warning against the kinds of abusive tactics used by Sheriff Arpaio in his self-appointed role as guardian and enforcer of federal immigration law — an effort the Justice Department called one of the worst examples of racial profiling it had ever seen.
Culinary fashion these days celebrates the perceived freshness of Vietnamese and Thai cooking (and Mendelson has sharp things to say about self-appointed white tastemakers), but our awareness of the variety of Chinese cooking, she argues — along with the experimentation that accompanied a million wok sets into American kitchens — has changed our food forever.
One such woman was activist Emma Watson, who attended last night's Vanity Fair Oscars party with a (likely) temporary tattoo of cursive script that read, "TIMES UP." But rather than focus on the important message emblazoned across her forearm, Twitter's self-appointed grammar police zero-ed in on something they deemed much more important: the phrase's lack of apostrophe.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "One finds light best in the darkness" —Meister Eckhart A great deal has been made of Rothko's paintings over the years, less in terms of discourse than through the efforts of art enthusiasts whose self-appointed mission is to convince viewers that a rarified state of emotional content is latent within these paintings.
While more female South Asian voices are indeed needed in mainstream culture and media, there is something deeply uncomfortable about the self-appointed spokesperson of South Asian womanhood being a privileged young woman from the West who unproblematically claims the experience of the colonized subject as her own, and profits from her invocation of generational trauma.
Despite being the self-appointed treasurer of the "Keg City Club—100 Kegs or Bust" in high school, Kavanaugh also insisted that he's never drank to the point of blacking out or passing out—but Roche told CNN he came home "incoherent" and "stumbling" all the time, and threw up from drinking too much more than once.
That is especially true when one thinks about what can and does go wrong when unaccountable and nontransparent intermediaries can freely interfere with competition and market forces; intercept private communications, inside information, and trade secrets; inject biases, discrimination, and self-dealing; influence mass choices, behaviors, views, and cultural norms; and intervene whenever they want as self-appointed censor, arbiter, and regulator.
The prize, as usual, is hundreds of millions in commissions and bragging rights, and the players are reliably kooky — from John McMonigle, formerly the top agent in the country who found himself bankrupt when the market crashed, to the fantastically named Jojo Romeo, the self-appointed "real estate queen" of Orange County and an ex McMonigle agent now working for the competition.
The X-ray technician and self-appointed nobleman also known as Carl Tanzler exhumed the body of one of his patients in the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and mended her decaying body with his home remedies: silk for skin, coat hangers for bones, a fragile wig for her hair, and heavy doses of formaldehyde and perfume for the smell.
All clubs are expected to recommend hotels to their opponents: Leicester offered the teams in its group — Club Brugge, F.C. Porto and F.C. Copenhagen — a choice of two within easy reach of King Power Stadium, with another half-dozen in case the visitors preferred a more idyllic location in the County of Leicestershire, the self-appointed Heart of Rural England.
" He added: "Neurosis and psychosis have us believing that quartz crystals can make a sick person well; that by humbling yourself and giving yourself over to a higher power, you can follow 12 steps to salvation; that a greedy charlatan who wears white robes holds the keys to wisdom; that the rantings of a self-appointed messiah are God's truth.
Or perhaps still, one can find enlightenment, power, and healing somewhere as unlikely as Second Life, just as with 21st century wizard, Oz. Titled simply The Wizard Oz, a new 23-minute documentary profiles the self-appointed wizard Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, aka Oz, offering a glimpse into the mind of a rare man who thrives off stories and legends, and yearns to pass them along.
Or perhaps still, one can find enlightenment, power, and healing somewhere as unlikely as Second Life, just as with 21st century wizard, Oz. Titled simply The Wizard Oz, a new 23-minute documentary profiles the self-appointed wizard Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, aka Oz, offering a glimpse into the mind of a rare man who thrives off stories and legends, and yearns to pass them along.
A black teenager gets killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, another black teen gets shot by a police officer after an altercation through the cop car window, and new social media technology assure that the whole nation knows about these incidents and what happens in their wake, whereas just a few years before they could have remained local events barely discussed beyond where they happened.
"There are self-appointed experts, people working from anecdote, or making up wild claims to get traffic or notoriety," said Mr. Pattison of the W.H.O. The groundwork for the coordination around the coronavirus was laid two years ago, when Mr. Pattison went to the W.H.O. general director, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and suggested a full-blown effort to connect with social media titans to combat health misinformation.
The multi-cultural and racial-preference policies these groups have created over the past 30 years has changed the census from a government task intended to assist the maintenance of our multi-ethnic, democratic republic as E Pluribus Unum to a task intended to help leaders of self-appointed ethnic special-interest groups who draw their political power from dividing Americans, not uniting us.
Buttigieg's surge is causing ulcers in the very online world of Political Twitter, the parallel universe where self-appointed pundits, liberal activists and Twitter-verified "influencers" are as likely to support businessman Andrew YangAndrew YangAndrew Yang accused of discriminating against female employee at education company EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Bloomberg bets 2020 campaign on unprecedented strategy MORE as they are to rally behind Sanders or Sen.
His name is Gustav Triplett (played with fabulous flair by Johnny Ray Gill), and he's just one of the self-appointed detectives trying to figure out what's gone wrong in Washington, D.C. In "BrainDead," on CBS, it's not one-per-centers but space aliens who are rigging the system: a mysterious meteorite has crashed to Earth, releasing ants from another planet, which tiptoe into politicians' ears and literally eat their brains.
Who Tried It: Emily Kirkpatrick, Associate Style News Editor I was willing to sign up for this particular line of products because I figured that, unlike most of the Housewives who decide to launch themselves into the world of beauty (or should I say beaute), this is at least a woman who is not only married to a preeminent plastic surgeon but also the self-appointed queen of "champs" and all things luxury.
Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) and most self-appointed consumer advocacy groups: The CFPB is the only thing stopping Wall Street bandits from breaking into your home and prying money out of your calloused, hard-working, blue-collar hands.
And Ms. Heard, the self-appointed leader of the #metoo movement despite a prior arrest and incarceration for violent domestic abuse, now faces a growing mountain of evidence including new female victims coming forward, a fraudulent letter to Homeland Security, scheming in writing with her lawyer to suborn witness perjury, and her infamous hoax getting obliterated by 24 sworn eyewitnesses, 2 police officers, 87 video surveillance tapes, audio tape, and her own sworn confessions of violence.
The small-town characters we're introduced to (the self-appointed Bay City rock music historian; the cafe proprietor who's into Madonna-related astrology; the owner of a tool-and-die shop who made the singer an outsize key to the city, to name a few) aren't, on their own, consistently evocative or meaningful enough to hold our attention, and the same goes for the inside-baseball stuff that they worry over and that Simone has chosen to document.
Over 21919,21 K.N.A. documents, which were discovered in 21919 and have since been digitized by the Korean Heritage Library of the University of Southern California, reveal an extensive, global network of organizations, funds and activists, including esteemed figures like Ahn Chang-Ho, Henry Chung, Philip Jaisohn, Hyun Soon, Syngman Rhee — later the first president of South Korea — and Kim Kyu-sik, a self-appointed delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference and the K.P.G.'s first foreign minister.
"Rather than live up to the terms of its contract with Yiannopoulos to publish Dangerous, and despite pre-orders projected to propel the book onto leading best-selling book lists, Simon & Schuster wrongfully, and in bad faith, terminated the contract with Yiannopoulos in violation of its terms and canceled Dangerous under pressure from authors, bookselling accounts, business and special interest groups, celebrities, and various other self-appointed censors," the civil suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court on Friday, read.
WATCH THIS: Food Hack: Make The Best Burger Topping Ever While the throngs of guests at the outdoor party on Manhattan's Pier 92 were responsible for voting for the People's Choice Award, it was up to an all-star panel of burger enthusiasts—including of Neil Patrick Harris and chef husband David Burtka, Chopped judge Marc Murphy, chef Josh Capon (who has won the People's Choice award six times), and self-appointed #FoodGod Jonathan Cheban—to taste each speciality burger and present the Judges' Choice.

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