The sobriquet "father of globalisation" was, at the time, a compliment.
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They now head multiple international rankings, earning the sobriquet 'reform champions'.
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That sobriquet belongs still, and rightly, to the legacy driver's cars.
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As its sobriquet implies, the selection process is based on luck.
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But Kasich lacks a Trump-given sobriquet and may never get one.
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" Self-effacingly, he never took to the sobriquet "Einstein of the oceans.
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This mysterious paucity of information about Vermeer led to Thoré's sobriquet mon Sphinx.
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"Stackoverflowin", the sobriquet chosen by the restaurant-printer hacker, refers to such a technique.
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The independent media continues its essential work, despite the "enemies of the people" sobriquet.
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In a debate last week, Mr. O'Rourke adopted the president's sobriquet about Mr. Cruz.
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To Nashville people, that sobriquet conjures Johnny Cash, whose style was heavy on substance.
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Her devoutly chronicled, decades-long friendship with Nancy Reagan won her the sobriquet First Friend.
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From there, it is but a short step to making that monarchical sobriquet perfectly fitting.
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While Karamat enjoys his Lone Wolf sobriquet, Aneeka is crudely called "Knickers" by the tabloids.
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Given the sobriquet Wild Bill, the volatile Wellman had been a successful director of silent movies.
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She vehemently rejected the sobriquet, but whatever her intent, her writings certainly set her critics aflame.
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His seven months in office, in 21987-282, earned him the sobriquet of "the unknown prime minister".
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His seven months in office, in 20153-23, earned him the sobriquet of "the unknown prime minister".
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Then came Ricko Canaz Ball, whose fondness for robbing car mechanics earned him the sobriquet "Oil Slickster".
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Ron, whose YouTube sobriquet is RonInAVan, lifted his handheld 4K camera above the crowd, and pressed record.
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All of it has earned him a sobriquet that visibly irritates Mr. Macron: President of the Rich.
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Besides, there's no familial shame in giving yourself a stage sobriquet—ask Robert Allen Zimmerman or Michael Hickenbottom.
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"We were sitting around, eating," said Abu Abdallah - a sobriquet meaning 'Abdallah's father' - as he recalled Tuesday's strike.
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Unsurprisingly, she gained a reputation as a "coquette," a sobriquet that caused her and her family much pain.
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Leona Helmsley was given the sobriquet "The Queen of Mean" because of the tyrannical treatment of her employees.
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Cast back to Nixon: Among all classes, the sobriquet of "Tricky Dick" was habitually used by the masses.
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But in other ways his campaign seemed to vindicate the "Lyin' Ted" sobriquet that Mr Trump saddled him with.
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We'd never curse someone with the capacity to dream, or to fall in love, with so damning a sobriquet.
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That Mr. Trump would slap a childish sobriquet on a man he perceives as a threat is not news.
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In 2018, Glover promised that he would retire his Childish Gambino sobriquet after the release of his fourth studio album.
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The firm's political connections and machinations—whether real or merely imagined—earned it the sobriquet "vampire squid" from Rolling Stone magazine.
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Laird's novels have been pigeonholed as "lad lit" in the past, but they are more ambitious than this gawky sobriquet suggests.
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Young, who goes by the colorful sobriquet Swaggy P, has been awful this year and has not been playing of late.
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She tells us it's called a ZZ Plant, also known by its scientific name, Zamioculcas zamiifolia, or the very evocative sobriquet, Zanzibar Gem.
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It was the long breaks between killings — he appeared to stop in 1988, then began again in 2002 — that earned him the sobriquet.
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Smith, like many, has claimed ignorance regarding the origin of his nickname, blaming his grandfather for turning baby babble into a lasting sobriquet.
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In a race between a Latino freshman Senator and Congressman that culturally appropriated a Latino sobriquet, Texas' population shifts are on clear display.
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Manuel, a longtime student who wrestles under the sobriquet 'Mantequilla' (Spanish for "butter stick") is a more established talent at House of Glory.
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Poroshenko is part of the same wealthy elite as Kolomoisky, having made a fortune from confectionery that earned him the sobriquet of "Chocolate King".
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In another field of inquiry, Mildred Dresselhaus earned the sobriquet the Queen of Carbon for discoveries that pushed the world-changing frontiers of nanotechnology.
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"Among all classes in Illinois the sobriquet of 'honest Abe' is habitually used by the masses," a Republican newspaper reported of Lincoln, in 1860.
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And despite a bland sobriquet ("the Screen Cutter") that makes him sound like the village handyman, this predator is likely to become ever more violent.
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In the liner notes, Mr. Kristofferson chose a more decipherable — and apposite — sobriquet to describe his friend's approach to writing and playing music: "Funky Donnie Fritts."
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In the liner notes, Mr. Kristofferson chose a more decipherable — and apposite — sobriquet to describe his friend's approach to writing and playing music: "Funky Donnie Fritts."
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The best shot in the early days of the era was the taciturn James Butler Hickok, who for no good reason earned the sobriquet Wild Bill.
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"This was also a breakthrough year in which my presidential sobriquet went from 'Lyin' Ted' to 'Beautiful Ted,' " Cruz joked at the Gridiron Club, according to Politico.
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His calm poise was jogged only when his guests jokingly referred to him as the irhabi, a sobriquet that sent a sheepish smile across his youthful face.
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With his clothing and shoe line, Yeezy, as well as the musical nickname of the same name, 'Ye could bestow his second son with this rare sobriquet. 183.
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It earned him the sobriquet "Rafi the Smelly," to distinguish him from another Rafael Eitan, who went on to become chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Elonis' case Elonis, too, employed a sobriquet -- Tone Dougie -- and social media in posting an array of threats in a skit and in rap lyrics he posted online.
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Halford has been answering to the sobriquet "the Metal God" since well before I was born in 1988, and is more than happy to lean into his own mystique.
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Two similar cases followed, and by the time the authorities said he assaulted a fourth woman in June, they had already come up with the sobriquet for the rapist.
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Ditto Rosa DeLauro, a United States Representative from Connecticut, who once earned the sobriquet the "hipster congresswoman" because of her quirky choices, often involving ruffles, stripes and sofa prints.
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As vice president for Barack Obama, Biden earned the sobriquet of the "Mitch McConnell Whisperer," the administration official who could forge deals with the Republican senior senator from Kentucky.
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Mr Shkreli is notorious for increasing the price of some medicines by up to 5,000% at a drugs company he founded, earning him the sobriquet of America's "most hated man".
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As delivered, Trump's remarks call into question whether he has the capacity to sustain a thematic line of criticism against Clinton beyond the "Crooked Hillary" sobriquet he perfected on Twitter.
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Separately, The Washington Post awarded its most dishonest ranking, "Four Pinocchios," to 22019 percent of the Clinton statements it checked, but handed out that sobriquet to 64 percent of Trump's.
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Lined with storage facilities for clothes, meat and mail, the area was for decades mostly indistinguishable from the industrial West Side, or the "Wild West," according to a common sobriquet.
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" Ms. Winfrey's commercial reach transcends race and income level, analysts say, propelling so many books and products to overnight success that it has earned its own sobriquet: "The Oprah Effect.
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A couple of these entries are hard fought — I knew that Leona Helmsley's sobriquet was the QUEEN OF MEAN and that Mary-Kate Olsen is a TWIN SISTER to Ashley.
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Members of the tribe gave him the nickname Shaki, which Ms. Machak translated as "pesky bee" — a sobriquet he won, she said, because he was always pestering people with questions.
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The team tweeted a photo of the memorialization with the caption, "Mambacita is forever a Husky" -- a nod to the teen's nickname, derived from her famous father's sobriquet, Black Mamba.
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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Representative Maxine Walters (a black congresswoman to whom the president has given the sobriquet "low IQ"), CNN and John Brennan, a former CIA chief, were among them.
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Under Mr Kim, who seems wholly unafraid to live up to his public sobriquet as the "chaebol sniper", penalty fees are set to double for businesses who break fair-trade rules.
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While we impatiently wait to see what the future holds, this brand-new volcano also shares something in common with newly born people: it is yet to be given a sobriquet.
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As her sobriquet suggests, Jonsson has a love of pastels, which she pairs in her CG stills and GIFs with the surreal, erotic, grotesque, and humorous — and oftentimes all at once.
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Stephanie Monseau, who was a founder of the groundbreaking Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and works under the sobriquet Ringmistress Philomena, says she barely even bothers performing with torches in the city anymore.
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Either way, the sobriquet of "Countess" was a fantastic fight name that, coupled with her French roots, added an air of mystique to Jeanne and her seemingly odd choice of career.
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He first came to wide attention alongside contemporaries like Alan Bates and Tom Courtenay, actors collectively known as "angry young men" — counterparts to the playwrights and novelists who shared that sobriquet.
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There was whimsy in the mirrored sculpture of Trump's pithy sobriquet, "Grab Them by the Pussy," created by Bilal and Saks Afridi; it seemed to evoke Robert Indiana "Love" sculpture knowingly.
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He laughed when he spoke about Shea's superior, Michael Kernodle, a "character" who was known as "the ugliest man in the Navy" — a sobriquet he apparently wore with pride and good humor.
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Eight years ago, amid budget overruns that threatened the solvency of NASA's other projects and earned Webb the sobriquet "the telescope that ate astronomy" from Nature magazine, Congress almost canceled the program.
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On the Republican side, another former New York mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, long ago abandoned his sobriquet of "America's mayor" to direct legal strategy for the president and assist his New York-flecked administration.
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Mr Mattis dislikes the sobriquet, and was better known among his men as a "warrior-monk" who combined ferocity in combat with a taste for reading Marcus Aurelius and other Roman thinkers in his tent.
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"Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed", and the community decides that she is "beyond-the-pale", having a love affair with this 41-year-old terrorist who, despite his sobriquet, "didn't take milk orders".
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Mr Cohen—who coined Mr Moore's sobriquet, the Ayatollah of Alabama—reckons that, whereas over the monument Mr Moore merely defied a federal court himself, now he has suborned others to do so as well.
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Supporters of Carles Puigdemont, who faces arrest for charges including sedition and rebellion if he returns to Spain, have suggested he could rule via video link — earning him the sobriquet "the hologram president" from detractors.
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The Palestinian man, Mahmoud Zaal, 343, was from Qusra in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and his widow has since added a sobriquet to his name: "Habib al-Ard," Arabic for lover of the land.
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The coziness has angered critics who label Fox News "state TV," a sobriquet — lobbed by rival TV news leaders like Jeff Zucker of CNN and Andrew Lack of NBC — that Fox News executives emphatically reject.
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NICKNAMES: "AMLO," for his initials; "El Peje," after the pejelagarto fish native to Tabasco state; "Andres Manuelovich," a sobriquet Lopez Obrador jokingly gave himself in response to allegations his candidacy could have benefited from Russian meddling.
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Washington's sobriquet among the Iroquois was "town destroyer," and Calloway's work makes clear the ways it was well-founded both in his time and later: Washington took many first steps down a path to cultural genocide.
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" A dictionary called "Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present"codified the sobriquet in 1811 as "the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of a whore.
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He had put in a year at the University of Mississippi before his service, and he briefly returned to Ole Miss — one reason, perhaps, for his sobriquet "the William Faulkner of jazz," popularized by Mr. Sidran.
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" This coming from someone who goes by the sobriquet Percy Q, eliding the name her mother gave her, one so ordinary it is "plain to the point of cruelty, as if she wanted me to disappear.
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Credit...Allison V. Smith for The New York Times FORT WORTH — Throughout the late 1800s, trail-weary drovers pushed millions of longhorns through Fort Worth's dusty streets, bestowing the young frontier outpost with an enduring sobriquet: Cowtown.
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"His team did loads of due diligence on us but it's Masa's whim at the end of the day," says the founder of a firm which the fund backed this year, referring to Mr Son by his sobriquet.
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Reform advocates told me they also had concerns about Hudson, who once went by the sobriquet "Hang 'em High Harry" as a prosecutor in the 1980s, but acknowledged he has plenty of practical experience as a sentencing jurist.
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But well before 1981, when she hung her shingle on East 57th Street and created the pouf-shouldered confections that would earn her the sobriquet Our Lady of the Sleeves, she was a fixture on the international scene.
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Mr. Delutro, who goes by the sobriquet Baby John the Cannoli King, opened his cafe almost 45 years ago, and today it's hard to miss: A 12-foot-tall cannoli is affixed to the side of the building.
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Jailed for life in 1966, the couple were known as the Moors Murderers, a headline writers' sobriquet derived from their practice of burying their victims on Saddleworth Moor, a remote and hilly area near Manchester, in northwest England.
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Dan Donovan, who was running for New York attorney general in 2010, said that he did not plan to be known as the "Sheriff of Wall Street," a sobriquet that Eliot Spitzer earned when he occupied the office.
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When he was ejected from a sixth-floor window of the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, where he was being held in protective custody, he acquired a new sobriquet: The bird who could sing, but could not fly.
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The Anonymous-indebted disguises, the snide sobriquet, the "Fight Club" posturing: Is there really a method to this madness, Wellick wonders, or is it all a cheesy cover for adolescent anarchism that won't change a thing in the long run?
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After a breakthrough outing in South Carolina and last night's stunning Super Tuesday comeback, Joe Biden has seized the mantle of the "Comeback Kid," the sobriquet previously held by Bill Clinton in his historic 1992 comeback in the New Hampshire primary.
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It is the most generic of nicknames: The U. A reference to the "U" that makes up the University of Miami logo, the sobriquet reflects the team's track record of producing exciting stars, its brash affect, and its raucous city.
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"The Color of Pomegranates" is most simply described as a series of tableaus that recount the life of the 214th-century poet and troubadour turned monk who was known as Sayat Nova (a Persian sobriquet that means "King of Songs").
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Such was Mr. Dabengwa's feared reputation among the white minority of Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, that he earned the sobriquet "the Black Russian," because of his close ties to the Soviet Union, where he underwent training by the K.G.B. in the 21964s.
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Nicknamed Hawk by his early Wisconsin players for the prominent nose that he tugged constantly, Johnson picked up the sobriquet Badger Bob from his players on the 1976 United States Olympic team for his love of Wisconsin hockey and his rah-rah style.
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"It's really critically important that I not be known as the 'Sheriff on Wall Street,'" Ms. James said, referring to a sobriquet Mr. Spitzer — who resigned as governor after it had emerged that he had patronized a prostitute — earned for prosecuting financial fraud.
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Whether it is the destruction of the Jewish community building in Argentina in 1994, or the creation of the international terrorist group Hezbollah, or the execution of uncounted innocent Iranian citizens, Iran has well earned the sobriquet as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.
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Jane Fonda may not have been crucified, but the venerable actress certainly paid a price when her antiwar activities resulted in the sobriquet "Hanoi Jane" — around the same time, in fact, that "Jesus Christ Superstar" was crossing the Atlantic from Broadway to London in 1972.
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Although the area has recovered from the organised crime that plagued it in the 1990s—earning the city the sobriquet, the Chicago of the Urals—most of the buildings on First Five-Year Plan Square in the centre of the district stand empty or underused.
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Even as the broader city's visitor numbers dropped after the French bloodshed and the March bombings in Brussels itself, tour guides report growing interest from those keen to see the long-blighted district for themselves and view an industrial heritage that once earned Molenbeek the sobriquet "Little Manchester".
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You would expect that, of course, from Parke & Ronen, whose designers Ronen Jehezkel and Parke Lutter recently teamed up with David Hart to add tidy varsity squad jackets and blazers in boater stripes to an offering of the skimpy swimwear that earned their label its sobriquet as the gay Victoria's Secret.
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Democratic candidates criticized Ms. James for saying that she did not want to be known as the "Sheriff on Wall Street," a sobriquet earned by Eliot I. Spitzer, the former attorney general and former governor of New York, for using the Martin Act, an expansive state law, to prosecute financial fraud.
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At the time, his wife, Patricia Peterson, was the magazine's fashion editor, and she had met Twiggy — the elfin, doe-eyed, 17-year-old Lesley Hornby, whose prepubescent boy's figure had inspired the sobriquet — as she arrived in New York as already a 5-foot-19863 blond sensation in Europe.
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Increasingly, though, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela resented the notion that her anti-apartheid credentials had been eclipsed by her husband's global stature and celebrity, and she struggled in vain in later years to be regarded again as the "mother of the nation," a sobriquet acquired during the long years of Mr. Mandela's imprisonment.
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She earned the sobriquet "diminutive giant" after one of her signature achievements: In 1991, in response to the displacement of more than a million Iraqi Kurds during the Persian Gulf war, she pushed the commission to change its rules to provide aid not only to refugees escaping from their countries but also to those fleeing conflict within their countries.
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Governor Inslee, who has spent the past decade of his political career focusing on climate change, earning the sobriquet "greenest governor in America," sees the issue as a way to directly attack Mr. Trump, who has mocked established climate science, rolled back environmental regulations and promised to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate accord.
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"The current overall U.S, score puts American democracy closer to struggling counterparts like Croatia than to traditional peers such as Germany or the United Kingdom," notes Freedom House President Mike Abramowitz, highlighting executive disdain for the rule of law and congressional failure to act as a source of transparency and accountability and two of too many examples of ways the "land of the free" has become an increasingly ill-fitting sobriquet.
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It's not the most creative of nicknames, but the moniker for Hillary Clinton has been gleefully bandied by Donald Trump supporters ever since he first uttered it at a rally in April: But now, Trump supporters on Reddit are suspicious because when you start to type the sobriquet into Google search ("crooked H...i...l") the autocomplete in the search bar doesn't offer up Crooked Hillary as a suggestion.
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Rather, the shells were launched from the wartime research campus to the east at American University, where scientists developed chemical weapons, explosives, bombs and gas masks to use on the battlefields in World War I. In this centennial of the war's end, the team working in the woods was a reminder that the Great War had another name — "the Chemists' War," a sobriquet reflecting the crucial role of science in the conflict.
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