For others, this sort of forced patriotism and slavish "respect" smacks of dictatorships rather than democracies and the short shrift given to the real problems being protested smacks of racism.
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This is very upsetting and smacks of discrimination and censorship.
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But aversion to anything that smacks of militarism runs deep.
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The very idea is dated and smacks of benevolent sexism.
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On one hand, the treasure hunt smacks of marketing genius.
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Also, it smacks of isolationism, which I am uncomfortable with.
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It's super harsh and also maybe smacks of some misogyny?
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"It smacks of Satanism," a Cossack leader told local media.
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Derek McLane's living room set smacks of tasteful Washington gentility.
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Tyrion points out that this smacks of the Mad King.
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Keeping Rasmussen on the faculty also smacks of moral hypocrisy.
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That response "smacks of retaliation and censorship," Tesla's lawyers argue.
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Your behavior is unprofessional, immature and frankly smacks of ethnic bias.
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But Cruz is very sensitive about anything that smacks of immorality.
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Rightly or not, that smacks of protectionism, sour grapes or both.
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Her repeated use of the word "highbrow" smacks of anti-intellectualism.
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For many in the dominant society, such talk smacks of superstition.
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To many biologists and neuroscientists, however, this notion smacks of anthropocentrism.
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"This smacks of pre-election panic measures by the government," he said.
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If this all smacks of pointless nihilism, that's kind of the point.
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They are neophiles, willing to try anything that smacks of the future.
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Once again, Ivanka's message smacks of paying lip service to women's empowerment.
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Suddenly, the plot smacks of lack of self-awareness rather than insight.
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From my own point of view, the Ashley Treatment smacks of eugenics.
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To me, this smacks of bad behavior (and voyeurism) from every angle.
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The result is just a really unhelpful distraction that smacks of opportunism.
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But, in my humble opinion, it rings hollow and smacks of sophistry.
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Yet anything that smacks of putting Auschwitz on tour instantly raises sensitivities.
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This itself smacks of haphazard catch-up, a game other cities don't play.
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It's a boast that smacks of unfairness in other parts of the city.
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Does it occur to the White House that that smacks of basic arrogance?
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Receiving an intricate tower means that the plate smacks of 'one careful owner'.
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Critics say the measure smacks of populism and risks bankrupting heavily indebted Italy.
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The open-ended nature of the buying smacks of Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear.
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His attitude towards ProSieben's media-for-equity model was that "it smacks of desperation".
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Making generalizations about national character is risky (and these days smacks of political incorrectness).
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Anything that smacks of what was once called postmodernism is still viewed with suspicion.
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His indifference to social cues smacks of someone who's past even pretending to care.
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And the methodology used in creating that category still smacks of a racial bias.
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From the outside, the process smacks of an arrest (except for the ice cream).
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The entire segment smacks of willful ignorance by buying into the perpetual foreigner syndrome.
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Part of Sunday's bluster, then, smacks of an attempted art-of-the-deal ruse.
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Now, you might think calling a head of state an asshole smacks of childishness.
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Each circular slab hums like a sweaty codpiece but smacks of delicious, complex creaminess.
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"That to me smacks of a rotation to value from growth," said Oakbook's Sampson.
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But it smacks of the envy our stunted strongman feels for his role models.
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It's that rare book that smacks of a tight deadline only in good ways.
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Competitors say, however, that it smacks of desperation in an increasingly adverse political climate.
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"This whole thing smacks of some sort of retaliation for his testimony," he said.
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"It smacks of a con job by the most conflicted President in modern history."
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Such behaviour smacks of irrational exuberance, but caution is in order before delivering that verdict.
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"This case really bothers me because it smacks of 'big brotherism,' " the lawyer tells PEOPLE.
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The organization found secret recording "smacks of trickery," which strikes average Americans as rather obvious.
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"I think an overwhelming majority oppose anything that smacks of being no deal," he said.
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That politicians fail to acknowledge this to their own voters smacks of timidity and ingratitude.
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But the profligate use of state-enforced GIs smacks of producers trying to gouge consumers.
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District Judge Carlton Reeves said that the new law "smacks of defiance" of the judiciary.
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Hill House stands near Hillsdale in a region that smacks of back-country New England.
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Treating Africa otherwise smacks of racism, of assuming that only white people can have history.
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To critics, the couple's arrest smacks of a vendetta linked to the wider Qatar crisis.
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Republicans don't want to do anything that's smacks of socialism, except socialism for the wealthy.
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"This remark by the president of the United States smacks of blatant racism," Blumenthal said.
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The violence smacks of sectarian prejudice because Mr. Sisi's support stems from Egypt's Muslim majority.
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"It smacks of illicit behavior," @SenBlumenthal says about Rudy Giuliani on Trump Tower Moscow project.
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Accusing Jews of falsifying our connection to Israel smacks of antisemitism and is of grave concern.
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Mr Schäuble's finance ministry bitterly resists anything that smacks of a "transfer union" or debt mutualisation.
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We need to take people out of the virtual world, and this generally smacks of Satan.
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" And president of Log Cabin Republicans, Gregory Angelo said, "This smacks of politics, pure and simple.
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It's testing friendships with allies, needling enemies and smacks of the tactics he used on Kim.
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"Forbidding inmates to use social media, through third parties, smacks of unnecessary censorship," Ross told VICE.
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For Adair Jeanjaque, a member of the Kalina indigenous people, the oil venture smacks of colonialism.
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It loves any headline that smacks of this thing being over, whether it's true or not.
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That smacks of duplicity when a day earlier he offered public money to backstop the pipeline.
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The timing of this announcement smacks of political motivation, which is unbecoming of any prosecutor's office.
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While the campaign purports to celebrate black soul, it smacks of performance rather than genuine homage.
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"The military very much likes to avoid anything that even smacks of law enforcement," Dunlap said.
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So, far from being an altruistic effort to stop Trump, this gesture by Rubio smacks of desperation.
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"This entire case smacks of a cover-up," civil rights attorney Lee Merritt told CNN by phone.
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"It smacks of prioritizing the interests of the powerful donors over the public interest," Ms. Lerner said.
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" In a voice that nearly smacks of admiration, Violet adds: "You're a cool little miss, aren't you?
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Ousting Mr Trump on the gut feeling that he might be mentally unstable smacks of a coup.
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The idea of technocratic nannies shaping our choices and behavior behind the scenes smacks of gross manipulation.
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It smacks of bad news for American consumers, who could start enrolling for 2017 coverage on Tuesday.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nothing smacks of pinkwashing more than a corporate-sponsored pride parade.
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However, Warren's political ambitions have led her to embrace one issue at least that smacks of hypocrisy.
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Sonically "Good Summer" is about as feelgood as it gets: it smacks of freedom and fun times.
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What if it smacks of the cringey portrayals of queerness that were so common in decades past?
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It smacks of sweaty desperation for attention over something that should, by this time, be the norm.
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The Trump administration's studied avoidance of the threat from climate change smacks of willful blindness or worse.
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Yet for all of that, there's a look and feel about their efforts that smacks of vanity.
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"Green Book" believes itself to be a movie about racial progress, but its victory smacks of backlash.
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There's just something about these synths and this bass groove that smacks of late nights and tawdry tales.
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"(It) smacks of desperation, 'please sell more euro debt that we can buy," Ostwald told CNBC via email.
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For civil rights advocates, the health crisis in Flint smacks of what has become known as environmental racism.
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Partly as a result, it has been hostile to anything that smacks of first- and second-class memberships.
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Yet, the ominous chatter of further investigations in New York smacks of trying to keep all this going.
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"This smacks of good old-fashioned Mormon bigotry," Herbert said on KSL Newsradio, according to the Deseret News.
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It has yet to produce a smoking gun, and it smacks of an attempt to rewrite electoral history.
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"That's the most idiotic thing I've heard in my life, and it smacks of sexism," the mayor interjected.
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To file charges against journalists who are covering a story smacks of the vindictive tenor of the times.
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It also smacks of collusion since u did it on day when Vlad cracked down on US networks.
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Nonetheless, some analysts have criticized the decision to speed up the IMF bailout, saying it smacks of desperation.
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Everything about it, however, smacks of an old-fashioned TV movie, and a pretty mediocre one at that.
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This album abounds with pretty sonic details, but the notion of barely audible oceanic vastness smacks of perversity.
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Such enthusiasm for state ownership smacks of a philosophy long since abandoned by leaders on both left and right.
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The movie, which arrives on Netflix Friday June 15, smacks of TV comedy, down to its television-specific cast.
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But switching to a more flattering way to track returns smacks of trying to mask a lack of growth.
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But it also smacks of a way for tech firms to keep profits private while socializing responsibility and costs.
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It smacks of Hollywood white-washing, which is something the industry has been deeply criticised for in the past.
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But the BJP's ideology of Hindu nationalism obliges it to oppose any step that smacks of undermining Hindu solidarity.
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In fact, it was probably public hostility to anything that smacks of sympathy for the Rohingya that restrained her.
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"It smacks of Big Brother," said William K. Dobbs, a longtime gay activist, in an interview with the Times.
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This is why Donald Trump's objection to Bee's language not only smacks of hypocrisy but also makes no sense.
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Even the sober assessment of the UN's latest annual world "water development report" smacks of a kind of desperation.
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One of the axioms of mainstream journalism is to avoid saying anything that smacks of "guilt by association," i.e.
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With tiki, this serious approach must be coupled with joy: If it smacks of sanctimony, you're doing it wrong.
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" He said that the new suit "smacks of desperation and also shows the true character of the other side.
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It's just Rihanna dancing in a glowing cube while rocking an oversized coverall that smacks of Missy Elliott's influence.
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"It smacks of what we never want to see in politics, which is it only self-serving," Sanford said.
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This smacks of the sort of colonialism that the DRC left behind when it won its independence in 85033.
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Mr Trump's invective smacks of bigotry: congressmen from poor white districts do not receive insults in the same vein.
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To misquote Oscar Wilde, it is a misfortune to lose one chancellor, but to lose two smacks of carelessness.
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It all smacks of a partisan witch-hunt funded by the American taxpayers, attempting to nullify the 2016 elections.
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You don't think characterizing journalists at Vice and BuzzFeed as overly "hip" and "woke" numerous times smacks of condescension?
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The expansion of the CPP's central committee last year by more than 300 cronies smacks of trying to please everyone.
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" New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich added: "President Trump's dismissal of FBI Director Comey smacks of President Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre.
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" New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich said, "President Trump's dismissal of FBI Director Comey smacks of President Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre.
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" His lawyers added: "The SEC's heavy reliance on this interview in its motion for contempt smacks of retaliation and censorship.
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For example: Left-leaning candidates are rightly cautious about anything that smacks of government subsidies or tax breaks for businesses.
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Even its name smacks of 2000-esque doublespeak, as "bed" implies a kind of hospitable sojourn rather than indeterminate incarceration.
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It smacks of something you see in a totalitarian country — unless there's a genuine, earnest reason to be doing it.
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However, his idealism smacks of a disregard of the failures of the last draft, brought on by the Vietnam conflict.
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Beyond that, Trump obviously dislikes anything that smacks of rule of law applying equally to the weak and the strong.
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Some university officials say the campaign unfairly targets Chinese citizens or ethnic Chinese and smacks of a new Red Scare.
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Indeed, Trump's decision to hold a rally in Pennsylvania the same night at the WHCS smacks of that campaign stunt.
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"This smacks of anti-Semitism, and is definitely anti-worker," the union said in a statement to the Daily News.
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Regrettably, they make their peace, but, for a moment, the sequence smacks of something threatening and fresh: oldster noir. ♦
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But shuttering ENA also smacks of the sort of political gimmickry that he has generally eschewed since his 2017 election.
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Other works that highlight the Singaporean vernacular sometimes do so with an exaggerated wink, which smacks of insecurity to me.
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This explanation smacks of an attempt to aestheticize a transgressive act that should be left to its dank, unsettling squirminess.
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Worldwide, the entire notion smacks of a willful ignorance and a heard-headed refusal to accept a mountain of scientific evidence.
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"This smacks of a late stage bull market: the levers of cheap financing and corporate re-tooling have been largely exhausted."
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Japan's inability to rise above such slights smacks of a national inferiority complex, says Kaori Hayashi of the University of Tokyo.
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To northern European ears, this smacks of old-style French protectionism and cuts against the principles of the EU's single market.
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"The implication that, as one legislator said, a 'family man' would be more suitable smacks of anti-Catholicism," Father Martin said.
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However, it smacks of "whoever smelled it dealt it", with Canelo unknowingly admitting the faults of his last in-ring foe.
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We already knew that Neanderthals made glue as far back as 200,000 years ago For some, that statement smacks of hype.
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Even the fact that researchers who first recorded the signal kept it a secret smacks of some grand alien-related conspiracy.
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On the other hand, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis' recently published National Defense Strategy (NDS) smacks of threat inflation and hubris.
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Some graduates have curtailed donations, and students have suggested that diversity training smacks of some sort of Communist re-education program.
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To make matters worse, her friends appear indifferent to it and won't welcome anything that smacks of criticism of the government.
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The writing-off of these students as nondistinctive, interchangeable kids smacks of racist stereotypes often used against Asians in this country.
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"This is the kind of analysis that's born of fear and smacks of a market that's getting ready to bottom," he said.
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To Pelosi supporters, the idea that Democrats should ditch their longtime leader simply because she's routinely smeared by Republicans smacks of appeasement.
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Nor is his cause helped by his dismissive attitude toward the charges, which at best smacks of callousness, and at worst misogyny.
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Terror experts say it smacks of ISIS and last year's Paris massacre - where the group hit several locations at the same time.
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But the very act of using the GOP's arguments as a justification for a coup against Pelosi smacks of sexism by association.
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If you take this case of blatant censorship in Chicago it smacks of nothing more than a sexist and homophobic double standard.
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Charlie says he knows why Trump's tapped MLB announcer Steve Ray instead of him, and he thinks it smacks of political payback.
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Dialogue often smacks of the naivety found in the novels, but anger and exasperation mix perfectly in this disastrous—and important—moment.
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But his treatment, the archbishop says, "smacks of a new and ugly Australia" in which believers are unable to express their faith.
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Where there is a dissent, former Appellate Body jurists could examine whether part or all of the ruling smacks of judicial activism.
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"While the toxic 'foreign agent' label doesn't sound good in any language, in Russian, it smacks of Cold War espionage," Krivosheev said.
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What Is Dead Can Kind Of DrownIn Pyke, the Ironborn are holding their kingsmoot, which honestly smacks of the Democratic presidential primaries.
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Because it smacks of state-run news, and we're not supposed to have state-run news in the United States of America.
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That's not so surprising, given Americans' intensifying resentment of anything that smacks of elitism and given Republicans' attacks on science and intellectuals.
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Sixteen years after overthrowing Saddam Hussein, that smacks of poor intelligence and of a depressingly weak influence over the government in Baghdad.
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Undaunted, posterity has latched onto everything, in every letter and every secondhand report of Austen's later years, that smacks of a symptom.
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It smacks of politicking at its most dangerous -- staking peace and stability as the price in a power play to hobble May.
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This is at least a little strange, and smacks of another story of heroism that turned out not to be so heroic.
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For II to be brought back, though, smacks of self-indulgence too much in the year of the series' 30 th anniversary.
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These dream shorts are always the same: barely grazing the knee with graceful pleats and fabric that smacks of really expensive tuxedo trousers.
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That smacks of a bubble made of snake oil… one all too likely to attract the heavy and unforgiving hand of the SEC.
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It is not a long-term strategy and instead smacks of desperation as the company tries to find a path to sustained profits.
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At the very least, he is someone who has made it to the top — and some of the criticism clearly smacks of jealousy.
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While the streets of Silent Hill echo with the smacks of flesh monsters, the beasts are as vulnerable to bullets as any antagonist.
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The scene of Flora and Lee playing jacks on the floor smacks of Murder House (remember those twins?), a recurring theme this season.
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This smacks of the targeted campaign against "malicious short-sellers" in the stock market, and it's unclear whether it will be more effective.
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Instead, approximate the look with one carefully chosen purchase that smacks of carbon-copy coolness (a two-tier purse, a double buckle belt).
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The Trump administration's policy of "maximum pressure" on Iran smacks of throwing the country into the sea to bring it to its senses.
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It smacks of a collective overreaction as a society, prompted by guilt for not speaking out long ago and tacitly accepting the unacceptable.
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If Congress again refuses to fund the licensing process for Yucca Mountain, it smacks of the anti-science stance both parties have decried.
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That smacks of bad trade policy like the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff that the same President Reagan often blamed for causing the Great Depression.
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"It smacks of elitism," said Cenk Uygur, founder of progressive news network "TYT" and host of The Young Turks, who supported Sanders in 2016.
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What's more, a largely testing-oriented public education smacks of single-focus college prep, rather than life prep, which is what today's students need.
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Some readers might like this sort of tweedy fantasy, but to me it smacks of Downton Abbey and its peddler of nostalgia, Julian Fellowes.
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Authorities deny either one is in custody, but both men are sons of prominent opposition political leaders and their disappearance smacks of political vendetta.
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And, he said, that the SEC&aposs action "smacks of retaliation and censorship" after Musk was critical of the agency in a CBS interview.
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And, however much Mr Trump protests, his promise to "Make America Great Again" smacks of a retreat into unilateralism that can only strengthen China's hand.
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Opponents say it smacks of the cronyism under the junta, when lucrative contracts were routinely doled out to a small group of well-connected businessmen.
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Her claim to know nothing of it, nor that her campaign guru in the election in 2014 was paid with bribe money, smacks of negligence.
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" Mr. Frank, the former lawyer in the California attorney general's office, said that this use of the ballot initiative system "smacks of a collusive process.
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"This towns fund smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing Members of Parliament to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation," he said.
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Greenland is home to 12,000 people, and the notion of buying an indigenous people and their ancestral lands smacks of colonialism and is deeply problematic.
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"Anything that smacks of amnesty in Alabama, that gives American jobs to illegal aliens rather than American citizens, is not going to be well received."
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It smacks of thinking frozen in the Cold War, that all it will take is the toppling of a dictator to allow democracy to flourish.
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The very idea that passing along talking points in defense of the Iran deal is a problem smacks of truly absurd, outrageous, and unmistakable hypocrisy.
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The state is the only one in India with a Muslim majority, and the Hindu-nationalist BJP dislikes anything that smacks of privileges for Muslims.
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It is one thing for a president to issue a pardon that smacks of favoritism, like when President Clinton pardoned his brother for drug charges.
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" Moreover, the policy, he writes, "smacks of disrespect: for the military's careful process, for the value of political deliberation, for the American ideal of equality.
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The restaurant may sit in a hip section of the 10th Arrondissement, but nothing about the space smacks of the typically unpolished Right Bank style.
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All this smacks of an attempt by the central government to make a case for intervention by the Chinese army, which Hong Kong's constitution allows.
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It smacks of anthropological condescension, evoking some forgotten branch of the human family, some lost tribe of amphibians emerging from ocean mist, crowned with seaweed.
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"Love's decision to sue only in SLCo as she continues to trail in this race is unfortunate and smacks of desperation," McAdams said on Twitter.
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Sometimes you wonder whether there's a connection between this and your self-worth, but anything that smacks of therapy tends to get on your nerves.
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The lawyer's response smacks of favoritism (to the president) and might violate the president's fiduciary duty to treat all shareholders equally and act in good faith.
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For a government to lose four in its first year, including the ministers of finance and the interior, on spurious grounds smacks of a parliamentary conspiracy.
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Freed has a veneer of wokeness that smacks of an industry used to shirking off responsibility for a toxic culture by referencing their wives and daughters.
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Who would not be outraged at what the New York City Bar says "smacks of trickery"– and then finding these privileged conversations in the public domain?
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Sound smart: Don't underestimate how much pressure Republicans will be under from rank-and-file voters to resist anything that smacks of amnesty, even for children.
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Luke Powell of Sydney's LP's Quality Meats won't let you down with this recipe for maple-cured, apple wood–smoked shoulder ham that smacks of bacon.
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To Mia Raven, who runs the clinic escort program for Reproductive Health Services of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision to go against clinics' requests smacks of arrogance.
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Some in the GOP are amenable to the idea, but others say that the measure smacks of price controls and they want no part of that.
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The Third Symphony is a bigger, brasher work: a brooding brass opening smacks of Wagner, then begins shifting between Dvořákian hoedowns and hazy whole-tone harmonies.
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Now, they and many Democrats are reassessing the value of having anything that smacks of a self-styled enlightened elite influencing the selection of the candidate.
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Deeply suspicion of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, he resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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Its Steven King-style paperback typeface smacks of a period piece, as does the theme music's deliberate, arpeggiated riffs, legatto "wahhhh" chord voicing, and heartbeat bass drum.
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Indeed, one coach lecturing another coach's player over small fries smacks of arrogance and is part of the reason why so many saw the scolding as unnecessary.
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" Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a frequent Trump critic, said the president's comment "smacks of blatant racism, the most odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy.
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That smacks of a person who knows the difference between the Gossip Girl life he was born into, and what regular people expect from a family party.
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Speaking of the Bravo staple, Arie's subsequent verbal joust with Krystal smacks of pettiness in the same way any man's appearance on a Real Housewives reunion does.
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They argue that it is high time to carry out education campaigns and infant screening for the infection, arguing that it smacks of paternalism to do otherwise.
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In fact, college officials can't say much of anything that smacks of moral guidance to students, and perhaps that's the real source of this hypersensitivity and censorship.
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This so-called compromise smacks of the kinds of changes demanded by the Freedom Caucus, whose members objected to Speaker Paul Ryan's original bill in the House.
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It is one of many examples — virginity tests, parents' permission to get an abortion — that smacks of the puritanical influence our culture can't seem to shake off.
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Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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It smacks of gimmicky gameplay with its (not required) motion controls and it's arriving on the heels of two other huge fighting games: Tekken 7 and Injustice 2.
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I know the "Old Taylor" is dead, but this really smacks of Old Taylor, and an ongoing schtick of her massive 1989 tour from a few years back.
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The small but powerful coterie of hardliners in both houses have Breitbart at their backs, ready to rile up Mr Trump's base against anything that smacks of "globalism".
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Every new scandal she is involved in, from the State Department emails to her private Wall Street speeches unveiled by WikiLeaks, smacks of the corruption of the powerful.
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The bride, who is tearing up something fierce earlier in the video just lets it all out, in a wide-mouthed shout that smacks of a cathartic love.
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Upon request, she manifests herself in K's apartment, switching outfits in a shimmer—a vision that smacks of servility, except that it's he who seems beholden to her.
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Beyond these privacy, financial, criminal and political issues, the request smacks of the playbook Republicans have been using for years — peddling the myth of so-called voter fraud.
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"The very fact that his daughter is senior adviser smacks of the kind of nepotism not seen since John F. Kennedy named Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general."
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Politically correct politicians want businesses to screen for dangerous people, but those same politicians would be the first to object to anything that remotely smacks of racial profiling.
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It smacks of self-interest — yet another instance when "party politics trumps the public interest," says Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
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This just smacks of fear and irresolution and contempt, not just for the hard-working bullpen, but of the responsibility of the administration to hold itself to account.
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"This towns fund smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing Members of Parliament to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation," he said in a statement.
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"It strikes me as misguided, and, more than anything, for a person that is supposed to be as smart as he is, it smacks of ignorance," Jackson told reporters.
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What's more, Simon's idea of the relatable teenage experience ("We do everything friends do: we drink way too much iced coffee while gorging on carbs") smacks of immense privilege.
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It smacks of a kind of entitled and outdated toxic masculinity that teaches young men not to take no for an answer — after all, it's romantic to be chased!
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"The increase (in protests) smacks of desperation as many more people in the UK now support the right to abortion," said Clare Murphy, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
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In fact, the fanfare around these projects smacks of tech solutionism, which can mask root causes and the risks of experimenting with AI on vulnerable people without appropriate safeguards.
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Lifestyle modifications are critically important to improving national health, but to present those efforts as alternatives to more technologically difficult efforts smacks of either defeatism or paternalism or both.
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Here's the Lane Bryant video in question: The idea of a body-positive ad being considered indecent is rather depressing in today's society, but it also smacks of hypocrisy.
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Trump's fellow Republicans have widely panned the Green New Deal, saying it would cost trillions of dollars of taxpayer money, may be technically unfeasible, and smacks of radical socialism.
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Mason eliminates this thread, along with more or less every element in the body of Greco-Roman myth that smacks of ethics, or suggests that anything we do matters.
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" In such moments, he notes, she resorts to "the kinds of canned lines that are deadly at a time when voters are intolerant of anything that smacks of inauthenticity.
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His portrayal of Eve recycles Romantic stereotypes of the eternal feminine, and his call to produce "healthier, more beautiful, more musical human beings" smacks of early-twentieth-century eugenics.
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Both are nicely played, and they leaven the mood (a tiny Rudd gets to hop inside Downey's metal costume, like a flea), yet their very presence smacks of desperation.
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There is a black-patinaed bronze of a figure lying on its back, knees slight drawn up, hands covering its eyes, that smacks of a high school art project.
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Still, the revenge plot, with its abductions and threats of rape, echoes "Titus Andronicus" and the use of human mincemeat as the symbol of ultimate inhumanity smacks of homage.
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"Investing in business efficiency is good but this announcement smacks of the 'jam tomorrow' theme ... and may frustrate some," said Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts, who rate JLT as "market perform".
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As in most sci-fi worlds — Blade Runner directly comes to mind — sexual and physical violence abounds, and some of the female nudity smacks of early Game of Thrones sexposition.
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"It smacks of bureaucratic ineptitude that they would be dithering with issues of standing while a humanitarian crisis is unfolding," a spokesperson for Velázquez told CNN about the DHS response.
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To the public, the Oscars are the only reason the Academy exists, and fixating on the awards' ratings smacks of the self-centered bent the industry is often accused of.
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To single out Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, for demonization and isolation, while ignoring egregious human rights violators aplenty, once again smacks of anti-Jewish hatred.
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For a large number of Congressional Republicans, any effort to cover the costs of care for the poor and uninsured smacks of socialism and unwelcome government interference in the market.
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Pedants might quibble about my saying that material tends to be flung outward while spinning, since this statement smacks of centrifugal forces, which their physics teachers assured them did not exist.
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And yes, it smacks of "greenwashing" — after all, it takes a lot of natural resources to build a new car — but they are helping make auto manufacturing less wasteful than before.
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But treating the Supreme Court as a rubber stamp for a policy agenda, rather than as a neutral interpreter of the Constitution, smacks of legislation through judicial fiat, not impartial judging.
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While that story line has attracted sharply worded comments from politicians in Washington and strident headlines in U.S. media outlets, for traders in Moscow it all smacks of politics as usual.
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The name certainly smacks of a Trumpian, Koch-esque organization, but we don't even yet know if that's the true organization Paeus and Sarah even work for (and it's probably not).
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Ms. Merkel has expressed cautious support while assiduously avoiding blessing anything that smacks of transferring German wealth to the less prosperous countries of the Mediterranean — a radioactive proposition among German voters.
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I didn't get enough crossed letters until late in the puzzle, at which point STRIAE revealed itself, a scientific word that smacks of crosswordese and is even rare in these pages.
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These numbers are big enough to catch Instagram's eye, and it smacks of the same unfriendliness that marked Twitter's battle with its own third party developers over access to its API.
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This hat, in turn, provoked a backlash from some on the left who feel that it smacks of complacency and lacks the righteous anger that the pursuit of social justice requires.
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The commanding threat of a shark in a part of the ocean that does not normally have sharks as soon as Blake Lively shows up smacks of a Gossip Girl revenge plot.
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For Chief Bridges, Ture smacks of trouble, but to his audience, including the president of the student union, Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), he's a seer, foretelling the advent of a righteous revolution.
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It would be smart and right because, as matters now stand, the entire process smacks of partisanship, with little concern for the precedential impact which these articles could have on future impeachments.
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At some point, this is not about finding facts, this smacks of politics, and I think we have an important job to do to try to keep the Intelligence Committee out of politics.
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Sure, the whole thing "smacks of gender"— the guy asked his soon-to-be fiancé's parents for permission, the woman needed help using the technology, marriage is a patriarchal structure to begin with.
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But moving to the district from her more rural home base smacks of opportunism, so she'll have to beat 2016 nominee Matt Heinz and former assistant army secretary Mary Matiella in the primary.
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Arguing the rule "inherently smacks of agency abuse," they also argued bump stock owners would be denied Fifth Amendment rights under the Takings Clause, which says property cannot be seized without financial compensation.
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It smacks of a pending Soviet-style purge: If you can't win the argument, create a fact-free environment for policy making by dismissing or at least intimidating those with whom you disagree.
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He pointed out that six months ago he struck down a 15-week ban and the legislature responded with an even more restrictive law, suggesting the new law "smacks of defiance" to the court.
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But hitting emotional underage users with ads when they feel "worthless,""stressed" or "defeated" — as Facebook reportedly studied in Australia — smacks of the type of emotional manipulation of which advertisers have always been accused.
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So if Trump did that, which he definitely has the legal authority to do, that eliminates a lot of the problems that otherwise would exist, though it still smacks of politicization and Nazi Germany.
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To China the blacklisting, days before President Donald Trump is to meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Japan, smacks of a negotiating ploy in the two countries' trade war.
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McClusky said the bill "smacks of elitism" because it would only benefit families who can immediately start saving for their child's college fund, while the legislation also does away with the adoption tax credit.
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"To some observers, qualified immunity smacks of unqualified impunity, letting public officials duck consequences for bad behavior—no matter how palpably unreasonable—as long as they were the first to behave badly," he wrote.
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His view of unfettered, unaccountable presidential powers defies law and common sense, and smacks of the flimsy excuse-making that has propped up Trump's abuse of the Justice Department to do his political bidding.
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" It added, "We also worry about government agents monitoring social media and using people's criticism of the government as grounds to deny entry, an act that smacks of unconstitutional ideological exclusion from the country.
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His behavior smacks of sexual harassment -- especially since Rhoda makes it clear that she is less interested in marriage than she is in getting the scoop that will land her a front-page byline.
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Another notes that it smacks of double standards for Eni to allow executives accused of corruption to stay in their jobs while insisting that a director ensnared in a vague defamation case relinquish a role.
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If the original short story was part of the tradition of adventure fiction so prevalent in the era, Zaroff's philosophy smacks of Darwin's "survival of the fittest" concept, or at least a misinterpretation of it.
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The call by the United Nations experts "smacks of unpardonable intrusion on our sovereignty," Mr. Panelo said, adding that the report's arguments appeared to have been based on statements from groups that oppose Mr. Duterte.
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German officials, long suspicious of anything that smacks of a transfer union, agreed finally to the idea of a eurozone budget, but in the tens of millions of euros and overseen by the European Commission.
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Allowing a library like the Los Angeles Public Library (which serves 18 million people) the same number of initial e-book copies as a rural Vermont library serving 1,200 people smacks of punishment, not support.
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"This smacks of more of a political assassination than a casualty in war," said Rory Baratta, 67, who had backed Sanders in 2016 but planned to support Biden in 2020 because of his perceived electability.
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"Indeed, the imposition of robotic detention procedures in such cases not only smacks of injustice, but also drains scarce detention resources that should be reserved for those aliens who pose the greatest risks," she wrote.
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Mourinho's latest stand smacks of a leader who has decided to go all-in on reimposing his authority at Old Trafford, evidently deciding that the provocative comments from his most important player were the final straw.
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"This just smacks of a classic intelligence operation," John Sipher, a retired CIA officer who lived in Russia in the 23s and was deputy of the CIA's Russia program in the early 2000s, told BuzzFeed News.
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"I don't know why that occurred but it smacks of the kind of political correctness and eggshells that law enforcement feels that they have to walk on in the environment that we're in today," Pence said.
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In a stunning move that smacks of censorship, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Wednesday that ESPN's Jemele Hill should be fired for tweets criticizing Trump and calling the president a white supremacist.
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Simply dismissing these critiques as bigotry, as Tanden and others did last week, is a lazy political strategy that smacks of tokenization, especially because much of the criticism comes from people of color on the left.
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"The 11 U.N. Special Rapporteurs' act of peddling a biased and absolutely false recital of facts, adulterated with malicious imputations against the constituted authorities, smacks of unpardonable intrusions on our sovereignty," presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said.
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He won't thank anyone for pointing it out, but his brand of hard-nosed nationalist populism smacks of President Trump, notwithstanding the fact that Khan's been at politics way longer, a couple of decades at least.
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"Arresting President Zardari during an investigative stage when he has been appearing respectfully before every court and N.A.B. office at every hearing smacks of political vendetta," said Sherry Rehman, a senator belonging to Mr. Zardari's party.
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"That Mr. Tillerson eschewed this sort of support in what he knew would be a tense and critical meeting with President Erdogan smacks of either poor staff work or dangerous naïveté on his part," Kirby added.
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Pressing a political view from the Oscar stage, declaring a conservative campus speaker unacceptable, flatly categorizing huge segments of the country as misguided — these reveal a tremendous intellectual and moral self-confidence that smacks of superiority.
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" She added, "This smacks of misogyny and sexism, to suggest that I can't do the job of a campaign manager—I can only go on TV. How about if I could do all of the above?
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"That Mr. Tillerson eschewed this sort of support in what he knew would be a tense and critical meeting with President Erdoğan smacks of either poor staff work or dangerous naiveté on his part," he added.
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"It's frightening, and it smacks of misuse of the Department of Justice for political purposes," said Patrick Cotter, a former prosecutor from the Eastern District of New York who helped jail the mafia boss John Gotti.
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But at a moment when activists have finally pried open space in American politics to question our relationship with Israel, it's particularly incumbent on Israel's legitimate critics to avoid anything that smacks of anti-Jewish bigotry.
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But trying to extinguish national identity through what amounts to mass brainwashing is an atrocity that smacks of some of the worst experiments of our time — including China's own Cultural Revolution — with some thoroughly modern twists.
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John Cornyn, a Republican member of Burr's committee, said the decision to subpoena the president's son "smacks of politics" and that he would talk to Burr about what work is left to do to finish the probe.
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In a complex deal that smacks of late-cycle merger action, Johnson's own shareholders are being handed $3.9 billion in cash to reduce the share count to levels that allow a shift of tax domicile to happen.
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With Bruce Wayne and young Catwoman still in their early teens, putting an underage mind in the body of a woman whose power stems partially from her ability to seduce smacks of something different than narrative necessity.
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While I'm sure there's plenty of Member Berries to go around about Coughlin's role in building the original Jaguars, this move smacks of having Mike Holmgren helm the Cleveland front office after he was past his prime.
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The case also pits the Obama administration's view — that it's time to grant relief from deportation to a substantial fraction of the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants — against conservative opposition to any reform that smacks of amnesty.
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That has prompted anger - and lawsuits - from critics who say it smacks of the militaristic past and violates the constitutional separation of religion and state, as the government pays the cost of 2.7 billion yen ($7003 million).
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Together with steel and aluminum import tariffs, these measures represent a further isolationist turn for American policy, following years of attacks from President Trump on economic engagement, alliances, legal immigration and anything else that smacks of internationalism.
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To be involved in races at all, even just through issue messaging, smacks of overt political involvement — which could be construed as a drift away from the institution's role as a strictly nonpartisan defender of the Constitution.
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"Duterte's statement on the South China Sea, while it smacks of utter pragmatism, has been viewed by many as capitulation bordering on treason," said Clarita Carlos, the former president of the National Defense College of the Philippines.
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For some Catholics, the difference clearly smacks of the sexism that "underlines the grave marginalization of women in the church," said Lucetta Scaraffia, the editor of a monthly insert on women in the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
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All of this just smacks of HP trying to make its printers relevant to the hot tech of the moment, when, in fact, they are still just inkjet printers that most of us use maybe once a year.
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That's colliding with a weird censorship creep that smacks of Tipper Gore-era pearl-clutching and an attempt to moralise something as broad and amorphous as an entire festival line-up and every one of its 40,000+ attendees.
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The purpose of the interview smacks of an effort to put Flynn on notice — slap him on the wrist, so to speak, for his pomposity, including for his chants of "lock her up" at the 2016 Republican convention.
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Yet, proposing to "buy" a piece of land, presumably without asking the people who live there, smacks of the style of colonial rule that European countries would like to think that they left behind in the 20th century.
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Ms. Goldberg's call for Al Franken's resignation from the Senate is outrageous on many fronts, not the least of which is that it smacks of a witch hunt that has proved a point and now gone too far.
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The effort smacks of the Bush administration's machinations to lay the groundwork for the Iraq war, when they established The Office of Special Plans led by Douglas Feith aimed at cherry picking intelligence for the case against Saddam.
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Some might argue that Calvin Harris' transformation from little dweeb to global stardom via Migos collaborations and relationships with Taylor Swift could put him in pole position for this possible figurehead, but Harris still smacks of the untouchable.
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"To some observers, qualified immunity smacks of unqualified impunity, letting public officials duck consequences for bad behavior—no matter how palpably unreasonable—as long as they were the first to behave badly," he wrote in another case last year.
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The idea that Bloomfield isn't just a bad guy but the worst woman smacks of a certain slant of cultural sexism — the kind that puts the onus on women to "fix" the problem and lets men off the hook.
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It smacks of the same salacious influences which made Rated R and Songs for the Deaf stand out from their low-risk contemporaries, but it's a shock for me given I still have ... Like Clockwork on a circadian rotation.
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French: I'm sorry, but the transformation of the evangelical public from the American segment most willing to hold leaders to a high moral standard to the segment now least likely smacks of pure, primitive partisanship, not high theological principle.
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And the fact that Trump stands to profit financially from political meetings with foreign leaders — his company makes money from their stays at his properties, and the venues get free advertising in press reports — "smacks of corruption," Berschinski notes.
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In one of the few moments that smacks of true Herzogian weirdness, Mr. Franco's character takes Bell to the top of a tower where human remains have been left and asks to kiss her in front of a vulture.
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But it also sounds like the idea of tracking students' locations is being quietly normalized, in a way that smacks of surveillance (compare to how some previous pilot programs attempted to track students equipped with RFID-embedded ID cards).
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The show represents a step up in class for A&E, which has been provocative in its recent unscripted programming choices -- such as the undercover prison exercise "60 Days In" -- in a way that mostly smacks of stooping to conquer.
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On the eve of the bank's annual general meeting, the heads of parliament's work and pensions and business committees said attempts by Lloyds to win backing for the policy from employees who also hold the bank's stock "smacks of feverish desperation".
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This French attempt to turn Paris into a startup hub is admirable, but treating a startup ecosystem as an end in and of itself smacks of cargo-cultism, even if your intent is to harvest them for big-company talent.
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This theory smacks of the 9/11 "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" conspiracies, but the problem is that steel and iron have melting points well above 1000 C and are certainly higher than what the Tesla will encounter in space.
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Syeh is inarguably none of these things, and so the museum guard's refusal to admit her to the museum smacks of misogyny — especially when you consider that many of the works in said museum take naked women as their subject.
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"Proposing to 'buy' a piece of land, presumably without asking the people who live there, smacks of the style of colonial rule that European countries would like to think that they left behind in the 20th century," argued Ask Foldspang Neve.
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" Mr. Murphy's campaign responded by releasing emails that chronicled a brewing personal animosity between Mr. Gill and Ms. Roginsky, who, in one July 2017 exchange, complained that he was dismissive of her role in a way that "smacks of rank misogyny.
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"The recent indictment against Joaquín's two sons smacks of a concerted attempt by the government to paint the entire family as being involved in criminal activity when the only evidence they have of it is based on cooperator testimony," he said.
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So bestowed upon her in this film is the honorific "miss" — a word that, I would argue, smacks of condescension when used to describe a fully grown, independent, almost scarily successful woman...even if it does look good on a movie poster.
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I concede that it may very well be true that US intelligence has identified the Wikileaks source, but the addendum that Russian officials "celebrated" Trump's win, with the caveat that the information is open to interpretation no less, smacks of political spin.
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There are some observers who have also warned that this all smacks of a new McCarthyism, a reference to the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s, with liberals raising suspicions based on the most tenuous of connections and communication that is actually normal.
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His extensive use of hidden components smacks of ritual — the Eucharist enclosed within the tabernacle — and demands a quantum of faith: we are obliged to trust that there are in fact line-filled scrolls inside the canisters and shit inside the cans.
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Where, previously, characters' blurry and heavily-filtered Instagram uploads felt like an engrossing way to exist within the show's universe, the overly-polished social-media presences of the new characters smacks of Facebook (Instagram's owner) using the show to hawk its own wares.
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Schmid's commentary on the mélange of reference documents is rendered in 15-point Comic Sans type, which smacks of just enough ironic self-awareness to make a fool of anyone who attempts a good faith effort to understand the validity of his ideas.
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And the divide between "citizenship" and "legalization without citizenship" has usually been a bigger problem for Republican elected officials, worried about the composition of future electorates, than Republican voters (many of whom are leery of anything that smacks of a "guest worker" program).
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They are also seizing on the scandal to discourage Twitter's roll-out of programs aimed at curbing abuse and the spread of fake news, making it clear that anything that smacks of "censorship" will be met with wall-to-wall conservative media coverage.
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Instead, Noah Horowitz, the director of the NRDC's center for energy efficiency, said that the apparent gaming of the system "smacks of bad faith," and called on the US Department of Energy to change its tests to more accurately reflect TV-watching habits.
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Bradley isn't big on titles: "I've shied away from naming bodies of work because on the one hand it kind of smacks of marketing to me, and on the other, I don't really think in terms of series like that," he says.
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The vague explanation from the French Open smacks of racism and sexism, and suggests that men in a position of power should be able to dictate Williams' style -- ostensibly in an effort to make sure it comports with white standards of beauty.
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The case against Mr. Shakir comes as part of a broader Israeli clampdown against the international movement to boycott Israel, a campaign that the government, empowered by the staunch support of President Trump, says delegitimizes the country and smacks of anti-Semitism.
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She presumes an ability to speak for all black people that smacks of a cultural nationalism that has rarely served black women, and that once upon a time was levied to keep black British artists out of conversations about black culture in America.
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To be fair, Sam Jadallah's smart lock company Otto did produce exactly the kind of gadget we've come to expect from Apple: a meticulously engineered device that smacks of luxury, yet with a minimalist external design that doesn't draw too much attention to itself.
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While the news smacks of "look at me too," Microsoft points out it has been working on AI long before its biggest competitors like Salesforce and Oracle, which recently announced their own AI capabilities at their respective customer conferences, Dreamforce and Oracle Open World.
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"It all smacks of a political motive and desperate agenda to remove Pravin Gordhan in order to make way for a more pliable Minister of Finance who will dance to the tune of a corrupt clique who are chasing public contracts," he told Reuters.
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Much like Nintendo's baffling decisions to prevent Switch users from backing up their own save data or discontinue the popular NES Classic while there was still stratospheric demand, this move smacks of a company that seems to always move a step behind its own audience.
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"It's a neat idea if it works, but it smacks of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good," said Konyndyk, now a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, and a sharp critic of the government's decision making regarding the virus.
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I ask Stephenson if the government's suit smacks of the kind of political risk multinational companies often face in autocratic countries such as Russia or Turkey, where the whims of the ruler have a way of translating into the judgment of regulators and courts.
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While WEF says it has helped to improve the state of the world by re-defining growth, promoting adaptation and planning for the future, its detractors say the event is useless and the resort, where a hot dog can cost $43, smacks of elitism.
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State officials working under Mr. Cuomo have argued that developers making money by leasing retail space at Penn Station should be able to pay for improvements themselves, a concept that smacks of President Trump's fantasy of the private sector alone solving the nation's infrastructure crisis.
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Martínez characterizes their activities as, "going around the bureaucracy," and it's clear that Hoffmann takes real delight in this kind of cheeky subversion, but it also smacks of social critique from so far inside the system that it does nothing to rattle the cage.
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Those both got a lot of fraud associated with them, a lot of fraud allegations, a lot of activity that I would say smacks of fraud, and a lot of Russia mafia figures listed as buyers who may or may not have actually put money into it.
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Obviously the fact that the avatars are gray will probably do very little to make words tweeted by anonymous accounts less visible, and this claim smacks of the same ridiculousness as rearranging some paragraphs in the Terms of Service and calling it a major anti-harassment effort.
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"This kind of revolving door influence-peddling smacks of corruption, and makes the American people rightly cynical and distrustful about whether high-level Trump administration officials are working for them, or for their future corporate employers," Warren said in a letter on July 1, to Gottlieb.
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What they're saying: In a response filing, Musk's lawyers said the SEC was trying to "trample on Musk's First Amendment rights" in an "unconstitutional power grab" that "smacks of retaliation and censorship" for saying in a "60 Minutes" interview he had no respect for the regulator.
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Warrenism's obsession with policy detail sometimes smacks of managerial paternalism, but it aims at building and streamlining the capacity of government to reliably deliver the high-quality public goods citizens demand in a way that relieves them of the burdens of confusing paperwork and Kafkaesque administrative complexity.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University, pointed to Trump's attempt to control messaging and silence public health experts and said it "smacks of the methods of an authoritarian government rather than a democracy that operates on the principles of transparency for the public good."
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Their parents, meanwhile -- played by, among others, Annie Wersching, James Marsters and Kevin Weisman -- are secretly up to something, hiding behind the imprimatur of a charitable event, which smacks of a strange cult, eventually leaving the show's modern-day Scooby-Doo gang wondering who or what they can trust.
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Driven by the impassioned vocals of Natalie Carol—tones that shiver in all the perfect places—"My Man" is a song that smacks of rolling hills and freeform dancing, a kind of pop imbued with Laurel Canyons vapors and alt country angles and a top down free spiritedness.
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In some ways the latest move smacks of a carrot and stick approach: The central bank has already asked commercial banks to strengthen supervision of NRA purchases of foreign exchange in China, among other measures to make it more difficult to move money quickly out of the country.
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For those who think this smacks of appeasement, consider that the U.S. clearly has a deterrent capability that could virtually eliminate the North Korean regime should North Korea ever have the temerity to actually use a nuclear weapon in any conflict with a neighbor or the U.S. itself.
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Asked about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's suggestion the United States could lower its national debt by buying back securities at a discount, Yellen said any move that smacks of a default for a security generally viewed by the world as risk-free would have "severe" consequences.
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But from the street level perspective, it felt like whenever a song wasn't about romance, it was reinforcing that "Grim up North" stereotype with constant smacks of fatalism or references to prostitutes in Neepsend or shithead bouncers—basically, all the perceptions that non-Northerners have about the North.
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A Philadelphia immigration judge was removed from a high-profile case and replaced with a judge who would order the man in the case immediately deported, a move that smacks of judicial interference by the Trump administration, according to a letter signed by a group of retired judges this week.
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The Trump administration's ban on bump stocks amounts to an illegal "about-face" that "smacks of agency abuse," according to a lawsuit filed by gun rights activists on Tuesday, hours after officials released a final rule to prohibit the devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
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The trope of a fallen woman who is rescued by her prince smacks of an archaic version of male/female relationships, which partially explains the decline of the genre in recent years — until very recently, when new voices and perspectives have given the rom-com a makeover of its own.
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But it sure smacks of the incestuous, corrupt, self-dealing behavior that Americans have come to expect from their elites and for some insane reason, this is what Democrats want to fixate on over the next many months as we head into perhaps the most critical election of our lifetime.
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PML-N insiders and some analysts say Nisar's assertiveness smacks of judicial overreach and hints at a return to Pakistan's past, when they say the judiciary cut politicians down to size at the behest of the powerful military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half its history since independence in 1947.
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The way this shared hell isolates the series's central group of four smacks of the reality of being harassed and tormented online — to a lot of people, someone complaining about social media bullying might as well be describing a ghost that's bothering them, or the alien transmissions that won't leave them alone.
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Everything smacks of the nineteen-seventies, from the photocopier the size of a small car to the actual small car, a mint-green Fiat, in which Bradlee, just to be different, zips around D.C. Nostalgists for vanished technologies, meanwhile, will moan with delight at the recurring images of type being set by hand.
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Trying to trick voters by dressing up a candidate like Evan Jenkins with the same principles and failed policy positions of Joe Manchin smacks of the swamp logic..." [Blankenship campaign site] The Russia investigation "You know, I've had a little personal experience with the Department of Justice [referring to his time in prison].
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It is un-American and smacks of fascism with the elites withholding information from the rest of US. According to that complaint, NBC previously responded to the viewer's original complaint, filed directly to the network, with a link to videos that, without a cable or video subscription, expired after watching 30 minutes of content.
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A "pho short rib grilled cheese" smacks of gimmickry—though I had a hard time arguing, one recent evening, with the juicy shreds of meat and provolone sandwiched in incredibly buttery griddled slices of Pullman loaf, and was ultimately won over by the accompanying shooter of hot, fragrant beef broth, pleasingly heavy on star anise.
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Tom Price, his ousted health and human services secretary, was shady from the get-go, but still: Would he have acted quite so high-flying and mighty — all those regal seats on all those pricey charters — but for Trump, whose entire rule smacks of economically self-aggrandizing brand promotion and whose family is busting the Secret Service budget?
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Appealing to Americans who want to feel safe from Islamic extremism but who wonder what almost 15 years of intervention in the Muslim world has achieved, Mr Trump has spent months promoting an America-First policy of unleashing no-holds-barred violence, including torture, against foes in the Middle East, while shunning anything that smacks of nation-building far from home.
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I agree, it will be interesting to watch Obama on the campaign trail, since he's distinguished himself thus far as the most Zen of all prominent Democrats about the Trump phenomenon: The sheer, deliberate normalcy of his post-presidential conduct has been an interesting counterpoint to the prominent Democrats determined to reject anything that smacks of "normalizing" in our Trumpian times.
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Second, both parties have their own ideologically driven reasons for finding the subject of spurring startups uncomfortable: For Democrats, the venture capital sector so vital to the success of new businesses is a convenient and frequent political target; for Republicans, the preferential treatment of startups in the tax code smacks of intrusion into the free market and the picking of winners and losers.
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Wrote O'Neal at the A.V. Club: To these acolytes, Parker and Stone have spent two decades preaching a philosophy of pragmatic self-reliance, a distrust of elitism, in all its compartmentalized forms, and a virulent dislike of anything that smacks of dogma, be it organized religion, the way society polices itself, or whatever George Clooney is on his high horse about.
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But in the eyes of many, to simply criticize the President and then immediately return to working with him is a tacit acceptance of his approach to a free press — which smacks of authoritarianism -- his subtle misogyny, and his perversion of what was once respected conservative ideology: He has turned it into a platform for self-promotion that draws its strength from our country's darkest angels.
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ROBERT S. NUSSBAUMFORT LEE, N.J. To the Editor: The decision by the Supreme Court to allow parts of President Trump's travel ban to proceed smacks of the favoritism that we saw just before the start of World War II. Because my family and I, refugees from Hitler's Germany, had relatives living in New York City, we were allowed to immigrate in 1939 to the United States.
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Mr. Toomey will have to bring in his colleagues from the right, who are leery of anything that smacks of gun control, and Mr. Murphy will have to bring in his colleagues from the left, who are demanding Senate passage of the stricter House bill and do not want to hand the president any political victories just as Mr. Trump is seeking re-election.
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THEY SAY YOUR THREAT OF LITIGATION SMACKS OF DESPERATION THEY POINT OF COURSE TO THE DEAL THE DECENTRIS DEAL AND THE LBO BUT MORE TO THE POINT ABOUT DVMT TRADING AT A DISCOUNT THEY'VE SORTY OF ENGINEERED THEY CLAIM THAT'S NOT THE CASE THE MARKET IS DECIDING EVERYDAY WHERE DVMT WILL TRADE, THEY WON THEY KNOW WHAT THE APPLICABLE CONTRACTS ALLOWED FOR HERE IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL EXCHANGE.
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But even when the stories and allegations are based on real-life events (as with, for instance, an alleged whisper campaign against Casey Affleck regarding accusations of sexual misconduct before his Lead Actor win for Manchester By the Sea in 2017), the timing of the stories often seems like a calculated effort to take down a particular film or person, one that smacks of political opposition research efforts.
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Mueller's assessment of the Trump Tower hijinks smacks of the envelope-pushing zeal that marked an investigation driven by progressive legal beagles, who believe the law is there to empower subordinate executive bureaucrats, such as themselves, to neuter the chief executive (at least if his name is Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE).
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