Even if it doesn't, spurning Chinese advances deprives foreigners of opportunities.
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In most cases, women were attacked for spurning advances from men.
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Spurning this flouts the checks and balances that undergird our liberty.
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Some of the girls and women photographed were burnt after spurning suitors.
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This led to Broadcom pursuing Qualcomm, despite the latter spurning its advances.
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They open the door, and at first sing lyrics spurning the uninvited guests.
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Thousands of Bangladeshi women have had acid thrown in their faces for spurning men.
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By spurning the rat race, they hope to raise "fundamental questions" about prevailing values.
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In many ways his spurning of political correctness has been key to his appeal.
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Richie hasn't reconciled with Devon, but he's gotten clean, spurning both coke and booze.
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At this stage he was a devout Marxist, spurning the Catholicism of his childhood.
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Spurning any jinx or hubris, they declare cheerfully that they will be buried together.
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"Reba and I have been friends for 40 years," Gill said, spurning the teleprompter.
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Some of his moves spurning court practices miffed his colleagues, who made their displeasure known.
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Despite the seismic changes in British politics, voters were unsentimental about spurning their usual parties.
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Quickly after she posted the photos, fans chimed in, both celebrating and spurning her golden piece.
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Admittedly, the sector is declining, with the younger generation of South Koreans increasingly spurning the practice.
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Oversight is often a mirage thanks to FBI spurning of congressional subpoenas and other information demands.
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For years now, McConnell has had a reputation for spurning almost every interview request he gets.
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Separately, Israel's prime minister is spurning a French initiative to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
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He is also spurning, at least for now, the impulse to join a superteam with other superstars.
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Consumers are spurning sugary drinks, but Coca-Cola is trying to lure them with something different: coffee.
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That was a really disappointing finish from Cuadrado, spurning what might be Colombia's best chance all match.
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Imagine a novelist spurning Oprah's Book Club the way Jonathan Franzen did in the fall of 2001.
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Spurning humans for phones is too powerful a social phenomenon to be fought with such a weak word.
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Bill Graves has endorsed Democratic nominee Laura Kelly in this November's gubernatorial election, spurning the GOP's Kris Kobach.
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States crack down on Emotional Support Animal fraud by tightening regulations and spurning certificates obtained over the internet.
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Joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization would be paltry compensation for what it would give up by spurning Europe.
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Parnas was subpoenaed for documents by Congressional investigators in early October after previously spurning House Democrats' requests for information.
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Parnas was subpoenaed for documents by Congressional investigators in early October after previously spurning House Democrats' requests for information.
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China's cashed-up and ambitious technology firms are increasingly spurning external advisers on acquisitions and investments in foreign companies.
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Recent profit warnings have compelled Flybe's board to put it up for sale–nine months after spurning a takeover attempt.
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In the video below, for example, George is realizing just how deeply he loves Mary, after spurning her moments earlier.
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Spurning women, he desires his friend Gaston; the final dancing scene sees him in the arms of a male partner.
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Thousands of Bangladeshi women have had acid thrown in their faces for spurning men, perhaps more than any other country.
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Trade sources see a second tactical motive for spurning the WTO and filing the industry's first such domestic U.S. case.
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And spurning the Players will raise concerns about Woods's capacity to properly prepare for the Masters, which begins April 9.
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Lynn says the independent Open Markets team will be run much the same way, spurning the traditional think tank model.
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Back in Dallas for the first time since spurning the Mavericks in free agency, Parsons had some fun with his return.
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By spurning the mainstream media and cultivating its own alternative ecosystem, it opened the door and invited people like Jones in.
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Spurning the received opinion that micromanagement is a bad trait in bosses, Mr Musk prides himself on being a "nano-manager".
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Not long after righteously spurning her former mentor and (perhaps unwitting) betrayer, Sansa Stark reversed course and asked Petyr Baelish, a.k.a.
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Spurning Hamon's entreaties to unite behind him, Melenchon said he had no intention of hitching his campaign to a "funeral hearse".
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As elsewhere in the industry, El Nacional's print operation was also impacted by younger readers spurning physical newspapers for digital news.
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Despite the golfers' stated concerns over Zika, Olympic organizers say the athletes are spurning the event because they see no financial incentive.
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Spurning this gift, however, will deprive you and your excellent cause of a benefit, without making any difference to the corporation's behavior.
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His induction did not dissuade Durant from spurning the Thunder in free agency months later to sign with the Golden State Warriors.
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Solis said that Sondland tried to kiss her and that she fell "over the back of the couch" while spurning his advances.
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But much of her caucus was reluctant to move forward if it meant spurning organized labor, a pillar of the Democratic base.
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Kickstarter's organizers and pro-union employees have asserted that the company has actively fought labor efforts, spurning its values along the way.
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Spurning "conspicuous consumption," a favorite phrase, may seem far-fetched for a country that just elected Donald J. Trump to be president.
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Bleak and spurning though Manhunt might seem, it's focused, and singularly intended, in a way I'd love to see Rockstar pursue more fervently.
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Netanyahu's Republican firewall was always risky — openly courting Republicans and spurning Obama appears to have accelerated the process of political polarization on Israel.
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With a net worth estimated to be $9 billion, Beal is effectively spurning the other Trump super PACs who had courted him relentlessly.
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Among the CEOs of the five most-valuable U.S. companies by market worth, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was alone in spurning the invitation.
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The novel accumulates intensity by spurning trite expectations — about New York and about the Nigerian central character's life there as a medical student.
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But much of her caucus was reluctant to move forward if it meant spurning organized labor, a pillar of the Democratic base. Rep.
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Scarcely a day goes by without America's college students being reproached for rejecting poorly rendered sushi or spurning the defenders of statutory rape.
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F Chandler Parsons, back in Dallas for the first time since spurning the Mavericks in free agency, had some fun with his return.
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Spurning global firms that typically work for Airbus, Faury has brought in Zurich-based consultants Egon Zehnder who are better known as head-hunters.
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"If you brought them a child, they would issue a birth certificate themselves in the name of their state," he said, spurning that proposition.
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With only two state wins, a Cruz/Kasich ticket would have a harder time convincing a potentially paranoid Republican House delegation from spurning Trump.
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By spurning both superpowers, he cultivated the perception that China was surrounded by enemies whom only he could balance, justifying his consolidation of control.
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They felt his spurning of their chair and his insistence on covering the state on foot showed Sestak didn't know what he was doing.
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UBS's spurning of the settlement is partly based on a wager that the courts will decide that the bank was foolish rather than dishonest.
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His appeal highlights a paradox in Western democracies: voters are spurning the mainstream in favor of anti-establishment populism in times of economic wellbeing.
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"His campaign's funding reflects this commitment, spurning the support of corporate super-PACS and relying instead on millions of grassroots donors," the editors wrote.
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He's a prize in the NFL draft only after spurning the Oakland Athletics, who drafted Murray in the first round of the 2018 MLB draft.
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"The people must rally around the flag, not listen to false prophets who accept dirty cash & preach bowing to Beijing & spurning the #US," Wu wrote.
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But in December 2017 Fox agreed to sell much of its business, including its stake in Sky, to Disney (while spurning an offer from Comcast).
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"Friends", "How I Met Your Mother" and "Gossip Girl" endlessly rehashed a popular formula, spurning character development in favour of on-again-off-again romances.
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Italian voters, too, are increasingly likely to vote "no" in the referendum, spurning changes that businesses and some in the political establishment say are essential.
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A congressional investigation appears to be in the works and through it we will learn more about the agency's motivations for spurning assistance from NASA.
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He dressed simply and lived with his family in a sparsely furnished apartment adjacent to his foundation's headquarters, always spurning attention from the news media.
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Later, however, the diva stands on a balcony and, spurning the offer of a megaphone, serenades the watching world with a tremulous burst of Puccini.
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Podemos also voted against Sanchez's bid, spurning his offer of measures to alleviate social inequalities as it pushes instead for an alliance between leftist forces.
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But audiences seem to be getting pickier about their scares, recently spurning "Black Christmas" (Universal-Blumhouse), "Doctor Sleep" (Warner Bros.) and "The Turning" (Universal-Amblin).
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Berlin put aside complaints from its companies about their shrinking market access in China, counting on political dialogue with Beijing and spurning trade war ideas.
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President Donald Trump's rejection of the values underlying NATO and the WTO has been remarkable, his spurning of America's role in maintaining them even more so.
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With longer time horizons ahead of them, the younger old are spurning lonely granny flats and looking for something more convivial, closer to a bachelor pad.
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A month later Mr Lai, a former mayor of the southern city of Tainan, resigned as prime minister, spurning Ms Tsai's entreaties for him to stay.
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During his subsequent tenure as May's foreign secretary (2016–2018), Johnson was accused of spurning briefings and relying on charm to conduct diplomacy, with mixed results.
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Don't be fooled by the last-second tut-tutting of G.O.P. senators about Trump's kowtowing to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and spurning of our intelligence agencies.
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Trump's allies have attacked Kemp for spurning Trump's advice to choose Collins, raising the prospect of a contested primary in a critical Senate race next year.
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Frederick's spurning of the family business helped fuel the disappointment that Fred Chase Koch, a self-made man and rugged individualist, felt toward his oldest son.
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For starters, George was unfaithful to Sophia long before she strayed, and he enjoyed openly spurning her in favor of his main mistress Melusine von der Schulenburg.
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ISIS actually spawned from al Qaeda, but was expelled from the group in 2014 after spurning the al Qaeda leader's attempts to restrict its activities to Iraq.
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O said it expected that its shareholders had voted against ending an investment advisory agreement on Thursday, spurning a proposal made by activist investor Ironsides Partners LLC.
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Chirac was infuriated by the German-Dutch plot to take the presidency of the ECB by spurning the candidacy of the French central banker Jean-Claude Trichet.
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Spurning interest from the Canadian Football League, he returned to school, at North Dakota State, and spent the next year and a half completing his engineering degree.
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And she personified the concept of low-tech, ultralight hiking, spurning a tent and sleeping bag, carrying only a small sack and relying on her trusty Keds.
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His widow, who scrambled into a lifeboat, took over, only to lose the theater to foreclosure in 1932 after spurning a pre-Depression offer of $1 million.
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Days after spurning takeover interest, Time, the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and other magazines, slashed its dividend in the face of falling revenue and wider losses.
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Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is turning his back on a club that seems to have rejected his membership aspirations, and is spurning its democratic values as well.
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Spurning a recommendation for a clean energy target from the country's chief scientist, the new policy will allow energy retailers to decide what sources of power to use.
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And then, later, Ahmad gave up that fight for another, seemingly seeking out jihad on his own and spurning the country that had welcomed his family as refugees.
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Mr. Erdogan was still bruised by the White House's spurning of a diplomatic effort by Turkey and Brazil to broker a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Ms. Verrill went a step further than most, spurning those who support the right to own a particularly lethal type of weapon — whether they own one or not.
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" U.S. President Donald Trump, who had criticized Rapinoe for spurning a potential White House visit, tweeted: "Congratulations to the U.S. Women's Soccer Team on winning the World Cup!
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A 20183-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed.
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Ever since spurning CEO Mark Zuckerberg's acquisition attempt, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and Co. have emerged as Facebook's greatest threat for the next wave of mobile-friendly teenagers.
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Rejecting musical genre classifications and spurning descriptions like "avant-garde" or "experimental," Big Ears has never spelled out its aesthetic guidelines, and by now it doesn't have to.
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You can UNFOLLOW someone on social media, and it might be considered a spurning, but the problem with this is that people rarely realize they have been unfollowed.
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In Melbourne, close to 1.13,000 people took to the streets, spurning calls from police and the state's center-left leader, Daniel Andrews, not to risk diverting emergency resources.
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Throughout his speech, Mr. Xi carefully used the phrase "economic globalization," while avoiding unqualified "globalization," reflecting China's spurning of an open internet, universal human rights and free elections.
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During the Obama administration, HHS rejected mandatory work requirements as inconsistent with the purposes of the Medicaid statute, spurning requests from Arizona, Indiana, and Pennsylvania under a previous governor.
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American retail workers have now lost jobs for the fourth straight month, locking in a trend in which shoppers are spurning bricks-and-mortar shops and buying on-line.
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Many member states were lukewarm toward the quota plan from the start, but Hungary and Slovakia stood out by openly spurning their quota requirements and trying to overturn them.
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Moreover, the European Union must hesitate before spurning a new nation with 7.5 million people and a gross domestic product larger than those of half the European Union's members.
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But this erosion of institutions is not all on the White House — the G.O.P. congressional leadership went along for the ride, spurning proper congressional oversight of the tax bill.
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Slovakia, who play Wales in their opening Group B match on June 11, had the better of the first half with Vladimir Weiss, Patrik Hrosovsky and Robert Mak spurning chances.
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It says a lot about his talent that he has managed to break into the top 22015 while spurning the standard recipe for success — even basics like having a coach.
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She brought up three match points with a precise midcourt dropshot and, after spurning the first, put Azarenka out of her on-court misery, when the Belarusian netted a return.
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LOS ANGELES — The Weinstein Company on Tuesday named a Dallas private equity firm as the winning bidder in its bankruptcy sale, spurning an offer by the Broadway producer Howard Kagan.
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Yet with the exception of Williams, who landed with the Mavericks five years after spurning them to re-sign with the Brooklyn Nets, the team whiffed on every single one.
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By selecting Perez -- and again spurning Sanders supporters -- Democrats risk the backlash that could come with leaving the left wing of the party disappointed a second time in the past year.
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I've regretted my sun-spurning pallor, I've felt bad about my neck (for reasons other than Nora Ephron's — mine is just really short), I've registered dismay at my stomach's persistent convexity.
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The European Union (EU) will not require its member countries to ban Huawei from their wireless networks, spurning U.S. warnings that the Chinese telecom poses an intelligence threat, according to Reuters.
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Mattis' resignation letter was a respectfully-worded but clear rebuke of Trump's foreign policy orthodoxy, marked by his spurning of long-time strategic European allies and embrace of adversaries like Russia.
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Some Chinese commentators called Bombardier "mad" for spurning a China tie-up, while others expressed dismay saying that it was a missed opportunity to gain access to the firm's valuable technology.
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Israel's security cabinet was meeting on Tuesday, and officials said the government was spurning, for the moment, offers by Egypt and the United Nations to try to broker a cease-fire.
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Last spring, Trump said he sided against "leading through the government" on 5G in favor of a "private sector-driven and private sector-led" approach, spurning some advisers including Newt Gingrich.
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GKN, which makes parts for car companies and aircraft manufacturers, cited the impact of Melrose's share price fall on the value of the bid as a reason for spurning the offer.
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From flygskam, or flight shame, to spurning fast-fashion to shunning meat, a relatively small number of young consumers exert a growing influence on big corporations—and politicians who regulate them.
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Italy faces a prolonged period of political instability after voters delivered a hung parliament in Sunday's election, spurning traditional parties and flocking to anti-establishment and far-right groups in record numbers.
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Where the "Breaker Of Chains," encounter was about punishing Cersei for spurning Jaime, the "Justice" scene was about proving to Jaime just how dedicated his sister currently is to her twin-lover.
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The researchers observed that a juvenile hormone wipe, like a forehead mark from Rafiki's thumb, caused larval ants to start producing more princess pheromone, spurning a reaction from the attending worker ants.
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Still, the report bolsters the impression that Trump's aides are working around him and is peppered with examples of presidential underlings spurning Trump's orders or working around him to avoid unsavory outcomes.
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TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - Japanese automotive chip maker Renesas Electronics Corp hopes to stay independent, its newly appointed chief executive said on Tuesday, spurning an overture from electronics parts maker Nidec Corp.
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Further spurning science, it allows logging projects to bypass the experts at the Fish and Wildlife Service if the Forest Service has a good feeling that endangered species will not be harmed.
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Mary Ellen O'Connell, of the University of Notre Dame Law School, says that Mr Obama's use of drones will make it harder for him to criticise other countries for spurning international norms.
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It means investors collectively are spurning the hope-and-hype business models for dominant established "platform" companies and battle-tested Old Economy businesses priced at a sensible multiple of stable cash flows.
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What prompted this tweet: CNN reported that the network was forcing conservative, pro-Trump editorials on its reporters, and Deadspin created a video of Sinclair broadcasters spurning "fake news" over the weekend.
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But the idea of trying to raise money and hold rallies while spurning the three highest officeholders in the state came to be seen by many Democrats as just a needless handicap.
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Even before Mr. Trump began thundering against an "invasion" from Latin America — spurning with finality the moderate swing voters that Republicans desperately needed — his party's facade of election-year unity was crumbling.
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The cat then took a lengthy tour of the field, holding up the game while ignoring or spurning pleas from beckoning security personnel as cat owners in the grandstand no doubt nodded knowingly.
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This schism, coupled with President Trump's history of spurning deals struck by his own administration, cannot give President Xi much confidence that there is anything he could do to satisfy the administration's concerns.
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In Oklahoma, Republicans nominated the Tulsa business executive Kevin Stitt in the runoff for governor, spurning former Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, who was attacked as being insufficiently supportive of Mr. Trump.
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But spurning an airline is challenging, given the waves of consolidation that have put the majority of flights in the United States under the control of four carriers — United, Delta, American and Southwest.
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There's only about two of them, and they just involve doing a smoke ring and kind of pushing it away from your chest, like spurning the advances of a nerd at the prom.
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Were she running against a conventional Republican rather than Vladimir Putin's favorite American politician, her dovish approach to Russia — and Putin's ultimate spurning of her overtures — would be a key GOP talking point.
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MONTREAL, May 12 (Reuters) - Ontario transit agency Metrolinx said on Friday it is entering into an agreement to buy 61 light rail vehicles from French train maker Alstom, spurning its Canadian rival Bombardier Inc.
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Akerman's version of a crime documentary is unlike anything you'll find on Netflix today, spurning sensationalism and morbid rubbernecking in favor of careful reconstruction and meditation on the murder and the circumstances around it.
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These were among Mr. Roche's more inventive riffs on traditional architecture, with which he appeared to have something of a lover's quarrel, alternately embracing and spurning it, or twisting it to his own purposes.
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On Friday, the Russian foreign ministry described the EU allegation as "baseless" and accused the bloc of spurning cooperation with Moscow and joining "another anti-Russian campaign deployed by London and its allies overseas".
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His appeal highlights a paradox that is challenging the status quo in Western democracies and fraying the European Union: voters are spurning the mainstream in favor of anti-establishment populism in times of economic wellbeing.
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Putintseva quickly brought up two match points on her own serve and after spurning the first, put Osaka out of her evident misery on the second when the Japanese sliced a backhand into the net.
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Meanwhile, Trump has shaken America's longstanding alliances with Western European nations like France and Germany, spurning the idea of global cooperation in favor of a rising nationalism that threatens to overturn the liberal democratic order.
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German drivers, companies and local governments are spurning state cash incentives to buy electric vehicles - only around 25.6 percent of the 21 million euros ($20.8300 million) in such funding was used in 2016, writes Welt.
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The Kleins ran a bakery called Sweetcakes by Melissa in Gresham, a city just east of Portland, and were hit with the state fine after spurning the couple, Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer.
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China gave up little in return, spurning the administration's nudges for a concrete commitment to buy more goods from the United States, and avoiding limits on its efforts to build new high-tech Chinese industries.
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Economy Minister Paulo Guedes kicked off the spat, spurning a congressional committee report for what he called excessive changes to the government's pension reform bill such as scrapping a plan to launch private savings accounts.
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Two battleground districts in particular — in Lexington, Kentucky, and outside Houston — feature examples of the continuing battle between establishment Democrats and insurgent candidates, who are proudly spurning party bigwigs in their efforts to win primaries.
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BUDVA, Montenegro (Reuters) - Tiny Montenegro will take a huge step towards integrating with the West when it becomes the 21th member of NATO this week, but it risks paying a heavy price for spurning Russia.
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The big tech companies have announced aggressive steps to keep trolls, bots and online fakery from marring another presidential election — from Facebook's removal of billions of fake accounts to Twitter's spurning of all political ads.
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However, spurning a deal with Bayer over concerns a tie-up might not receive antitrust clearance could also pose challenges for Monsanto - its own bid for Syngenta last year would have meant significant expansion in seeds.
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Kessler was responding a day after activist fund CIAM, which holds 0.9 percent of Scor's capital, published a letter in which CIAM's president Catherine Berjal criticised Kessler over spurning a proposed merger from French insurer Covea.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama selected Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, choosing a centrist judge meant to win over recalcitrant Senate Republicans whose leaders wasted no time in spurning the Democratic president.
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Candidates from Virginia to California threw out the conventional playbook for red district Democrats, testing the theory that unabashed leftists can energize new voters while spurning conservatives — and it didn't pan out quite as they'd hoped.
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Spurning the criticism that comedians should leave politics to the serious people, comedians have dug in their heels and become de-facto members of #TheResistance, and the networks don't appear to have a problem with it.
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Long divorced from the girl's father, she has chosen as her subject this woman of early Christian Rome, honored by the church for spurning the marriage proposals that would have spared her from suffering and martyrdom.
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In the sexual harassment case, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey ruled on behalf of public information specialist Diane Williams, who said she was dismissed after spurning the advances of her boss at the Justice Department.
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But it was the first time Khamenei explicitly pledged to press ahead with breaches of the nuclear deal, spurning European appeals to Iran to restore limits on enrichment aimed at obviating any dash to developing atomic bombs.
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Substitute Fernando Torres led Atletico's attacking efforts in the second half spurning two half-chances before he had a firm left-footed shot from an acute angle palmed onto the crossbar by Zoet in the 87th minute.
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Their skepticism reflected a deeper distrust of an American administration that has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, spurning its European allies and sowing suspicion that the United States is spoiling for a fight with Iran.
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Across four states with contested primary elections, Democratic voters embraced the candidates favored — and in some cases handpicked — by party leaders in Washington and the states, spurning insurgents who tried to align themselves with the activist left.
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ATHENS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Greek farmers on Wednesday vowed to step up action against a controversial pensions reform bill, spurning an appeal from the country's prime minister to negotiate plans which have triggered mass blockades across the country.
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Macron will visit Romania, Bulgaria and Austria, where he will also meet the leaders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but is skipping Hungary and Poland, whose right-wing governments he has accused of spurning the bloc's values.
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The US must use all of the appropriate instruments of state, economic, social, and cultural power to achieve these aims, not preferring one or spurning another a priori, but using all in balanced application as each circumstance requires.
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But it was the first time Khamenei explicitly pledged to press ahead with breaches of the nuclear deal, spurning European appeals to Iran to restore limits on enrichment aimed at obviating any dash to development of atomic bombs.
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Politico, citing 13 current and former White House officials and people close to the Trump administration, reported Saturday that Trump has handled the coronavirus outbreak by rewarding those who bear good news and spurning those with bad news.
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Unilever, the British-Dutch conglomerate that also makes Dove products and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, said in April that it would explore the sale of the spreads unit after spurning a $143 billion takeover offer from Kraft Heinz.
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In the aftermath of business leaders' rightful spurning of President Trump over his lack of moral clarity and conviction in condemning white supremacists, the fact remains: The White House still needs CEO support to drive its business agenda.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man condemned to death for the strangulation murder of his ex-girlfriend in 20073 was executed by the state of Georgia on Wednesday, after spurning any additional efforts for an appeal or 11th-hour reprieve.
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Three years after spurning a takeover bid from Pfizer, AstraZeneca is going through the biggest "cliff" of patent expiries the drug industry has ever seen, wiping off more than half of its sales - or $17 billion - in 2011-2017.
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Bush waited to deliver an endorsement until Marco Rubio had dropped out of the GOP contest, spurning the Florida senator who had once been his political protégé but who had angered Bush by running against him for the nomination.
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As the coronavirus now stampedes across Britain and much of the world, Mr. Johnson is heeding the same principle, spurning the mass closures that have become commonplace across Europe and gambling his political future on a more restrained approach.
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More people are spurning the Conservative Party, turning instead to the far-right U.K. Independence Party or the single-issue Brexit Party, which together are pulling in more support than the Conservatives in polls for the coming European elections.
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By spurning the concerted, top-level pleas of European allies who were also signatories to the deal — France, Germany, and Britain — Trump may have sounded the death-knell for future European efforts at cooperation with his administration on the global stage.
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Small forward Kevin Durant plays in his hometown of Washington D.C. for the first time as a member of the Warriors, after spurning the Wizards and his former Oklahoma City coach in Scott Brooks during his free-agency situation last July.
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The second order, meanwhile, is tasked with "eliminating" the "jobs magnet" spurning illegal immigration into the U.S. The measure would rescind any work visa provisions for foreign nationals determined as outside "the national interest" or who had violated U.S. immigration laws.
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Two years after spurning a $303 billion bid from Pfizer, AstraZeneca is going through the biggest "cliff" of patent expiries the drug industry has ever seen, wiping off more than half of its sales - or $230 billion - in 232-235.
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An alternative German guide to Berlin suggests spurning the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate in favour of the hideous Schwerbelastungskörper, a cylinder of concrete laid down by Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect, which is so gargantuan that it cannot be moved.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum exacted a top price for itself by repeatedly spurning Occidental Petroleum's approaches and pushing for all-cash offers, reasoning the market might react negatively to the blockbuster $38 billion deal, according to securities filings released on Friday.
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Tennessee Republicans chose Bill Lee, a wealthy businessman who has never served in elected office, as their nominee for governor on Thursday, spurning a conservative candidate who eagerly sought — but only glancingly received — the support of President Trump's White House.
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Mr. Kenney also promised to strip government contracts from companies such as HSBC and also threatened to put up billboards in the London subway, where the bank is based, intended to embarrass it for investing in Saudi Arabia while spurning Alberta.
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Far from spurning or avoiding modernity, Muslims are "drenched in it," as de Bellaigue points out, and in tracking the sinews of enlightenment through the last two centuries of Islamic thinking, this brilliant and lively history deserves nothing but praise.
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" When she discovered that Karadzic's father, long before Karadzic was born, had killed a cousin for spurning his marriage proposal, she writes (doubling down on the staccato prose with stagy italics): "I let it wash over me like a story.
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But the enduring delights of this novel seduced me then as now: the spirit and wit of Elizabeth Bennet, who defies convention by spurning the hand of the wealthy, haughty Mr. Darcy; the pomposity of Mr. Collins; the vulgarity of Mrs.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A leader of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it had resumed drone strikes deep inside Saudi Arabia this month in response to what he called the Saudi-led coalition's spurning of "peace initiatives" by his group.
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In a series of morning tweets, Mr. Trump said Ms. Pelosi had behaved "so irrationally" in spurning his offer to restore the temporary protections he took away from some undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion for a border wall.
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In the past, we were happy to refer to these cheese-hating people simply as "weirdos," but a new study now shows that they could have a neurological excuse for spurning one of the most delicious foods on the planet.
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The statistics of a stunning campaign tell an astonishing tale of how Leicester have turned the clock back by shunning possession and glorying in the long ball to a pacey striker, while spurning rotation in favor of a settled, almost self-selecting side.
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President Donald Trump, worried about spurning his most loyal supporters who bonded with him over his 2016 demands for a border wall, is digging deeper into a partial government shutdown that is stretching into an 11th day with no clear way out.
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Yet Chardy, a rejuvenated figure this season, hit back to serve for the second set but after spurning two set points, Gasquet regained the initiative, breaking back and winning the tiebreak to seal victory in just over an hour and a half.
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What worries the president's aides about Mr. Biden, according to people familiar with their thinking, is that his moderate profile and deep ties to labor could win back many of the voters who twice backed President Barack Obama before spurning Hillary Clinton.
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But there are too many pluses, on James's scorecard, to worry about that or the fact that the night before he joined the Lakers will be remembered for the All-Star forward Paul George spurning the Lakers to stay in Oklahoma City.
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C.), the chairman of the influential House Freedom Caucus, on Wednesday endorsed Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, spurning the incumbent backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Biden also said Trump's call in August for Russia to be invited back into the G7 group of nations was "embarrassing," adding that the Republican president's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin while spurning traditional U.S. allies were "irrational and self-defeating".
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Tyler intuited this—you can see a woman both fractured and fluid, alternately pleading with and spurning the camera, with Caity as some kind of subconscious doppelgänger whose motions are fluid and graceful whereas mine were choreographed to be at times staccato or almost 'possessed.
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But long before that was known, the president's use of his progeny as White House counsellors and as managers of his property empire—spurning advice to place his businesses in a blind trust—posed a grave threat to checks and balances crafted by the founders.
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Just as the Fallen Women of Victorian novels and yellow journalism were coarse and unnatural, so, too, is the Junkie Whore — instead of being femininely altruistic, she prioritizes getting the hit she needs, spurning her role in the nuclear family and neglecting her children.
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Lopas, who has grown marijuana since he was a teenager and sold it illegally much of his life, said he wanted to make his farm a shining example of regulatory compliance and environmentalism, spurning the pesticides that many illegal farms use to boost yield.
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And as official Washington returns to work, it is unclear whether Mr. Trump intends to focus his time and attention on his policy goals, or whether he will step into a full-bore campaign mode, escalating attacks on his political rivals and spurning traditional governance.
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In addition, the practical effect will be to hinder the island's ability to regain entry to capital markets, because spurning other groups of creditors will alarm future investors who otherwise might play a key role in creating much-needed economic growth on the island.
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He was both the author of many "$20163 a day" travel books and a driving force behind underground publications that, spurning traditional journalism, attacked political, social and cultural norms with bawdy language and comic-book imagery, all of it financed by sexually explicit advertising.
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Last week, it was reported that Nike, Under Armour, and Adidas were spurning the younger Ball as a potential athlete endorser because his father, LaVar, rejected a traditional endorsement deal and demanded the family's Big Baller Brand cobrand with one of the athletic-shoe giants.
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When the University of Virginia men's basketball coach, Tony Bennett, announced Friday that his team would decline an invitation to celebrate its N.C.A.A. championship at the White House, he continued a trend of basketball champions' spurning the traditional fete during the polarizing Trump administration.
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LOS ANGELES — Rupert Murdoch sold most of 240st Century Fox to Disney in December for $26 billion, spurning a proposal from Comcast that was 221 percent higher on a per-share basis, in part because Comcast refused to offer protections in the event of regulatory rejection.
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There were many other notable developments on the employment discrimination front this year, including a landmark decision on gay rights, a wave of equal pay lawsuits against law firms and large companies, and a huge settlement by a restaurant chain accused of spurning older job applicants.
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Initially, he and General McMaster got Mr. Trump to denounce torture (grudgingly), walk back the spurning of NATO, recertify the Iran nuclear deal (twice) and, to some extent, stiffen his position on President Vladimir Putin of Russia and sporadically acknowledge Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.
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Though he was criticized for spurning Wolfpack head coach Kevin Keatts during the postgame handshake after suffering his worst loss to an unranked opponent in his 40 years at Duke, head coach Mike Krzyzewski took a moment after the game to congratulate Johnson on his stellar performance.
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But people have cause to be on edge: Trump, in dealing with a series of recent crises, has betrayed a tension between listening to the world's most sophisticated intelligence apparatus and feasting on Fox News, spurning caution and using cable news insights for Twitter feuds with perceived detractors.
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While there's a bipartisan consensus in Washington that China represents a significant long-term threat — a view articulated in Munich by both Esper and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives — Europe is deeply worried about the consequences that spurning Beijing would have on trade.
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It is a third iteration of that topsy-turvy relationship: After spurning Trump during the presidential election, and then helping to block the administration's marquee legislative goal of repealing Obamacare, the Koch operation is now calling upon Trump's very movement to dump a tax on which Trump himself has waffled.
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" Lee defies the odds and the 2018 trend to win - NYT : "Tennessee Republicans chose Bill Lee , a wealthy businessman who has never served in elected office, as their nominee for governor on Thursday, spurning a conservative candidate who eagerly sought — but only glancingly received — the support of President Trump's White House.
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While Western businessmen commonly assume that their Chinese or Russian counterparts would be less inhibited by US sanctions, one Chinese executive in Tehran, who asked not to be named, also highlights the issue that international banks, fearful of being locked out of US capital markets, are so far spurning Iran.
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Donald Trump came back from Asia yesterday after achieving virtually nothing—aside from calling Kim Jong-un short and fat, spurning his own death sentence, and watching as the world moved on after he cut us out of one of the most lucrative trade deals in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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My relationship with Lily, too, was not like the story we inherited from fairy tales — a tale of cruelty and rebellion — or even like the story of divorce-era popular media: the child spurning her stepmother, rejecting her in favor of the true mother, the mother of bloodline and womb.
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LONDON — Under pressure after spurning a blockbuster $143 billion takeover offer, Unilever said on Thursday that it would explore the sale of its spreads business, restructure two major divisions, review its dual legal structure and buy back $5.3 billion in stock as it seeks to cut costs and appease investors.
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The company, which is under mounting pressure to deliver growth after spurning a takeover offer last year from U.S. rival McCormick & Co, said sales in its first quarter fell 3.1 percent as a good performance by its Sweet Treats division was offset by slow sales for its branded grocery products, notably desserts.
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"Unlike the U.K." Mr. Johnson, who made an early reputation as a journalist mocking the European Union, has shaken up the debate over British membership in the bloc — and jolted British politics more generally — by spurning Prime Minister David Cameron, a fellow Conservative, and backing the campaign to leave the European Union.
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Mr. Erdogan has delighted Moscow in recent years by feuding openly with Washington, blaming it for an abortive coup against his rule in 2016, spurning its offers of American antiaircraft weapons in favor of the Russian-made S-400 system and joining with Russia in energy projects at odds with Western policy.
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I know I am mixing reality TV metaphors, but you get the point By not only spurning Trump for "Person of the Year" this year, but giving it to persecuted journalists the world over, Time is sending a very clear message: We stand on the side of truth and those who would defend it.
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On Friday, the Russian foreign ministry described the EU accusation as "baseless" and accused the bloc of spurning cooperation with Moscow and joining "another anti-Russian campaign deployed by London and its allies overseas with an obvious goal: to put another obstacle on the path to the normalization of the situation on the European continent".
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After spurning close US partners at the G7 summit in Canada over his sense that the US is being cheated on trade, Trump turned to touting his historic summit with Kim as an unmitigated success that will quickly lead to North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons -- even though the regime offered no new concessions or verifiable commitments on paper.
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In a lengthy email that I cannot fully do justice to in this column, Tooby wrote that everybody benefits from participating in groups of alliances and factions on different scales, and people also benefit by fractionating solidarity in such a way that those on the far side of the boundary seem undesirable, worth spurning, contemptible, deplorable.
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Coming on the heels of similar decisions by the Tate Modern in London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the spurning of Oxy-cash seems to reflect a growing awareness that gifts to the arts and other good causes are not only a way for ultra-wealthy people to scrub their consciences and reputations.
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Once the lovers, spurning all advice, are bound in matrimony, they move to Bechuanaland, only to be kept apart for long periods, with Seretse detained against his will in England and his wife marooned in Africa: a desperate plight for the two of them, but not much fun for us, either, as we listen to them hollering down the phone.
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But even though as a rapper, Pusha is a traditionalist, as an executive, he's big-tent, welcoming all and spurning critics: Oh mama, they question my starting lineupYou only find a diamond from digging like coal minersDon't listen to 'em, DesiignerThe same rappers talking next year will be Uber drivers JON CARAMANICA A singer with a big voice pretends to have a much smaller one in the eerie, spacious "Garden" — a sign of how far alt-R&B is pulling pop toward the sparse and strange; maybe this should be billed to FKA Emeli Sandé.
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