But the Pentagon has taken pains to downplay the possibility.
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The Pentagon has taken pains to praise General Hyten. Col.
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The Pentagon has taken pains to praise General Hyten. Col.
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Mr. Snowden has taken pains to portray his exile as comfortable.
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Most have taken pains to avoid politicizing the Labour MP's murder.
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Powell has taken pains to emphasize that his decisions are data-dependent.
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And importantly, the automotive industry has taken pains to protect consumer privacy.
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Mr. Macri has taken pains to emphasize his support for the cases.
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Western forces have generally taken pains to avoid stoking sentiment against foreigners.
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Veterans groups have taken pains to stress that their issues require bipartisan work.
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But other people of color have taken pains to break up that argument.
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But, with the stakes so high, the US has taken pains to keep out.
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Instead, they've not only done nothing — they've often taken pains to prop him up.
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Meanwhile, Mind the Gap has taken pains to avoid public detection since its inception.
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Many directors, particularly at Bayreuth, have taken pains to show their consciousness of this.
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Both have taken pains in recent years to find additional space for ground burials.
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Mr. Spicer, who had taken pains to call on Ms. Ryan that day, was incredulous.
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The Freedom Party has also taken pains to shed its Nazi legacy — by courting Jewish voters.
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Many of the largest tech companies have taken pains to appear impartial in matters of politics.
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To build their case, Democrats have taken pains to connect Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine to Trump.
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In recent weeks, Mr. Cruz has taken pains to highlight Mr. Trump's past support for abortion rights.
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Mexican authorities have taken pains to make sure he doesn't get out again, or get too comfortable.
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Governor Cuomo has taken pains to distance himself from Mr. Howe since news of the investigation broke.
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Stoltenberg has taken pains not to get on Trump's bad side, crediting him with allies' increased spending.
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Since her May marriage ceremony, Markle has taken pains to avoid stealing the spotlight from other brides.
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Many have taken pains to reiterate their wish not to disrupt the journal system, only to enhance it.
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The two have taken pains since to put up a united front — at least until the tariff announcement.
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To that end, the police have taken pains to keep protesters away from Mr. Xi's scheduled public appearances.
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That sum hinted at a fraction of Putin's reputed glittering wealth, which the Kremlin has taken pains to deny.
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Still, retailers have taken pains to accommodate the wishes of discerning consumers who demand jewels untainted by armed conflict.
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Uber had taken pains to distance Freight from Otto, saying the two were separate, independent businesses without overlapping products.
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There is a long list of possible successors, but Mr. Fink has taken pains not to tip his hand.
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And so far in his visit, Mr. Cuomo has taken pains to cast himself in the bluest possible light.
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His legacy is so problematic that Mr. Kobach has taken pains to distance himself without offending core Republican voters.
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The company has taken pains not to appear biased toward one side of the political spectrum or the other.
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Mr. Pompeo has taken pains to ensure that he is marching firmly in step with his commander in chief.
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The company has taken pains not to appear biased toward one side of the political spectrum or the other.
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In the past few months, Turkey and Russia have taken pains to line up their once-conflicting strategies there.
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Device manufacturers don't want people repairing their own stuff and they've taken pains to make it difficult to do so.
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In the response filed Monday night, Musk's team said he had taken pains to avoid "unnecessary disputes" with the SEC.
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It has taken pains to conceal Doe's identity and has resisted the ACLU's attempts even to make contact with him.
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And Democratic leaders have taken pains to portray their investigative efforts of the Trump administration as serious and measured oversight.
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Stoltenberg, meanwhile, has taken pains not to get on Trump's bad side, repeatedly crediting him with allies' increased defense spending.
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Both Boeing and its airline customers have taken pains to keep these options, and prices, out of the public eye.
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But in some cases it's merited, especially when the filmmaker has taken pains throughout his career to invite the comparison.
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Over the past year, however, Washington has taken pains to show the Asia-Pacific region that it remains a steadfast partner.
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Even as he campaigns to join the Legislature, Mr. McGrath has taken pains to set himself apart from its current occupants.
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Most left fewer clues to their identities behind, and appear to have taken pains not to post too much authored content.
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She has often taken pains on the campaign trail to depict Mr. Trump as too erratic to trust at the controls.
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WikiLeaks has taken pains to say that their servers weren't compromised, which would be a more significant security concern for them.
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Trump had already taken pains to hide the discussions from his Chief of Staff, knowing Reince would try to foil the move.
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Facebook has taken pains to show that it will not control Libra, forming an association of numerous organizations to oversee the currency.
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Amid the threats, Stoltenberg has taken pains not to get on Trump's bad side, repeatedly crediting him with allies' increased defense spending.
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Past commanders in chief, especially in the post-9/11 era, have taken pains to avoid injecting partisanship into Independence Day events.
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And Mueller's prosecutors has taken pains to keep the trial focused on the nuts and bolts of the specific charges against Manafort.
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"They're male," he said with a smile, noting that the carver had taken pains to make the genitalia too obvious to ignore.
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Biden has taken pains to cast himself as an ally of union groups, playing up his middle class roots in Scranton, Penn.
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Breitling has taken pains to explain that this isn't just a hunk of plastic squeezed into a mold and filled with a movement.
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READ: N. Korea tests artillery in 'imaginary' strike on S. Korean leader's residence But the Pentagon has taken pains to downplay the possibility.
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The company has taken pains to secure the location data that's stored, says Renaldi, which is a differentiating factor for this company's solution.
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For decades, the Republican Party has taken pains to court rural, conservative, churchgoing Christian voters and the religious institutions to which they belong.
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But she has also taken pains to dampen expectations, reminding everyone that the talks were just the first step on a long road.
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But instead of using the museum as a place to fight cultural battles, Green has taken pains to make it a welcoming space.
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Nevertheless, conservative politicians have taken pains to paint the virus as a foreign threat while promoting isolationist policies, like the southern border wall.
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Erik and I had taken pains to keep our romance private, but on the last night, I wanted to confess, and I did.
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The company has since taken pains to assert that its products are made in safe conditions, and that its workers are paid fairly.
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It could have taken pains to publicly reach out to conservatives in the company and begin a dialogue about political alienation in the workplace.
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The turnover has produced tension in some parishes, but on the whole, Catholics have taken pains to welcome Latinos into their new, American congregations.
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"We have studied it a great deal," he said, adding that his team has taken pains to be transparent with customers about the price.
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As conservative Islam gains greater traction in Indonesia, many politicians including Widodo have taken pains to appear "more Islamic" to appeal to Muslim voters.
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Mr. Butterworth has taken pains to define every one of them, and the cast repays him with performances that blaze unconditionally in the moment.
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Don't worry, thought, it's anonymized and the company has taken pains to ensure your most intimate data is as secure as it can be.
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American politicians on both the left and the right have taken pains to note his past, whether or not they support his being killed.
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Since 2004, countries like Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand have taken pains to educate people about coastal hazards like tsunami, storm surges, and flooding.
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Obama and the White House have taken pains to remain neutral in the Democratic primary contest, even as many of Obama's allies have backed Clinton.
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Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, but they've taken pains to avoid stoking conservative paranoia about the government coming door-to-door to seize people's guns.
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Wade On the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Kavanaugh has tacked to the right and taken pains to avoid controversy.
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His campaign has taken pains to inform Colombians that he was an urban militant devoted to spreading the group&aposs ideological message of social justice.
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At the same time, they've taken pains -- however clumsy -- to acknowledge that which requires the assistance of the international community, like refugees and the environment.
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House Republican leaders have already taken pains to make it clear they won't feel bound to run with any legislation that stems from McConnell's promise.
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At all turns, the final two seasons of the show have taken pains to point out just how taxing all of this is, and how exhausting.
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The United States and Russia, while backing opposite sides in the Syria conflict, have taken pains to make sure that their forces do not accidentally collide.
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In the extended look at Aronofsky's latest psychological thriller, Bardem and Lawrence's characters live in a secluded, sprawling home they've taken pains to renovate by hand.
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Because the president spoke in scattered generalities, he didn't make it clear exactly which humans he considers unhuman — something he could have taken pains to specify.
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Other lawmakers have taken pains to avoid discussing the issue with the President even as they try to work alongside him to advance the GOP's agenda.
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But in a caucus where seniority is prized, Mr. Jeffries's ambitions — which he has not taken pains to mask — can rub some people the wrong way.
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Still, SNL has typically taken pains to make its political impressions accurate; players focus on getting the voice/affect right first and finding the comedy second.
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The bureau has taken pains to note that it did not ask Apple to break the password, and that this solution would not work on newer phones.
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Its descendant "Homeland" — co-produced by Howard Gordon, an original producer of "24" and an executive producer on the reboot — has taken pains to consult intelligence experts.
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As a result, the team at E-Line Media has taken pains to depict a waterscape and soundscape that prioritize the beauty and mystery of the ocean.
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The Lumbee voteBoth parties have taken pains to court voters in North Carolina's Lumbee community, vowing to push for full federal recognition for the tribe in Congress.
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And Pelosi has taken pains to tamp down the impeachment talk as Democrats juggle their ongoing investigations with efforts to make good on their ambitious legislative agenda.
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Pelosi has taken pains this week to emphasize the seriousness of the inquiry to her colleagues -- reinforcing that impeachment is a step she is reluctant to take.
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Republican senators who support the resolution have taken pains to remove references to Trump, in order to avoid the appearance of taking a shot at the president.
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This time around, Sanders has frequently taken pains to say that he likes and respects Clinton, and that she'd be a far better president than any Republican.
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Since then, each successive administration has taken pains to reflect some gender and racial diversity in the Cabinet and have always included one member of America's largest minority.
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During that time, the White House and the Pentagon have taken pains to avoid describing the deployments as combat troops, instead calling them special operators, trainers and advisers.
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Two top White House economic advisors have taken pains recently not to hint at where they stand on a key piece of the House Republicans' tax reform plan.
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And it's clear from the video for CL's debut English-language single "Lifted," released in August, that she has has taken pains to move away from that direction.
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Up until that point within a party scarred by the memory of Clinton's defeat in 2016, most leaders had taken pains to show their neutrality from the sidelines.
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Both governments have taken pains to brush aside such a notion, at least publicly, with Chinese officials especially highlighting continued intertwined bilateral economic interests despite the trade war.
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That may explain why YouTube is going to launch its own pay TV service — though YouTube has taken pains to describe YouTube TV as a "mobile first" offering.
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Shakir recognized that the People Power project made some of the ACLU's state affiliates uneasy, and he has taken pains to emphasize that the group remains committed to nonpartisanship.
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Jordanian officials have taken pains to point out that Syrians are allowed to work mainly in low-end jobs in construction and agriculture that are unattractive to most Jordanians.
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The pipeline's developers say those fears are overblown and that it has taken pains to reroute the project around cultural sites and near existing pipelines to minimize pollution risk.
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Barron's privacy has been fiercely guarded by the Trump White House, where officials have taken pains to keep life normal and protect him from those critical of his family.
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In turn, some groups behind digital tokens have taken pains to emphasize that their cryptocurrencies are not "securities," but rather act more like rewards program points (like airline miles).
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In recent days, especially since officers were targeted in Baton Rouge over the weekend, Obama has taken pains to keep his remarks about honoring police and fixing bias separate.
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Many prominent Democrats, on the other hand, have taken pains to avoid the subject of impeachment, fearing that such a strategy would backfire and end up increasing support for Trump.
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The undoubtedly cool parents, who have taken pains to protect their young daughters from the spotlight in the past, felt this honor warranted the sharing of their first family selfie.
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But the President himself has taken pains in the last year to suppress any public leanings in the Democratic nomination contest, meeting privately with both Clinton and rival Vermont Sen.
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And Cruz's campaign, as Trump has taken pains to observe, has been heavily backed by wealthy private donors and conservative groups — but not by a single colleague in the Senate.
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The three main architects of the team's success — Kraft, Belichick and Brady — have taken pains to emphasize that their allegiance to Trump is based on friendship and loyalty, nothing more.
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Mr. de Blasio had taken pains for weeks to keep political distance between himself and Mr. López Rivera's presence in the parade, and the two men had no visible contact.
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The curators of this, the first-ever museum devoted to American writing, have taken pains to appeal to people of all races, genders, and creeds, even if they're not big readers.
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At every step of the way they've taken pains to remind our team that the goal is to build a media brand built on great journalism, strong values, and beautiful design.
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But some said they had taken pains to avoid relationships with men who might talk about women that way, and others said they could not imagine men they know doing so.
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In response, workplace software companies like Zoom, Microsoft, and Google have offered their software for free and have taken pains to make sure they can accommodate the growing demand from users.
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Publicly and in private, Mr. Burr and Mr. Warner have taken pains to preserve bipartisan comity, and their success has set the committee apart from the other panels investigating Russia's efforts.
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The government, beset by criticism from left-leaning politicians and environmental groups, has taken pains to emphasize it is not for or against fracking and will defer to the court's ruling.
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Although the show is sometimes thematically diverse to the point of dissonance, each artist has taken pains to create work uniquely capable of speaking to the complex layers of their identities.
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Since then, however, the SF Bay Area startup has taken pains to demonstrate that it has its sights set on a loftier goal of providing sustainable infrastructure for the restaurant industry.
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Mr. Tillerson has taken pains to sound a conciliatory note on drugs, acknowledging, as have his predecessors, that the United States shares responsibility in the drug trade as a source of demand.
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They have taken pains to urge members of the military to abandon Mr. Maduro, arguing that doing so would constitute not a coup, but adherence to their oath to uphold the Constitution.
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On the other hand, executives have taken pains to avoid clashing with U.S. President Donald Trump who has repeatedly said the United States must take steps to protect American jobs and technology.
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Because banks cannot risk jeopardizing their access to the plumbing of the dollar-based global financial network, they have taken pains to steer clear of nations and companies deemed pariahs in Washington.
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Trump has also taken pains to appear personally involved in planning and relief efforts, appearing in photos from the Oval Office with large maps and briefing materials spread across the wooden Resolute Desk.
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On issues like Mr. Trump's proposals for a border wall and Space Force, Mr. Shanahan has taken pains to support White House requests, many of which were delayed by his predecessor, Jim Mattis.
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The country's government has taken pains to emphasize its environmental efforts, including last year's anti-deforestation Leticia Pact, even as it has inked new oil and gas contracts to boost its energy reserves.
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Tom Steyer Elizabeth Warren Joseph R. Biden Jr. Bernie Sanders Pete Buttigieg Amy Klobuchar For the last year, the two leading liberals in the 2020 race have taken pains to avoid direct conflict.
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Mr. Castro hopes so, too, but he also does not want to be pigeonholed as a Latino candidate, and he has taken pains to try and appeal to a broad swath of voters.
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Clinton, for example, has taken pains to emphasize her endorsement by Planned Parenthood and suggested that Sanders's single-minded focus on economic inequality reflects a lack of commitment to the pro-choice cause.
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Tesla has taken pains to camouflage the car when taking it out in the public, even going so far as to cover it completely when charging it and hiding its steering wheel and screen.
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North Korean officials are "sensitive to being dictated to," one source close to the talks said, and the Hagin-led team has taken pains to present ideas for the summit in a collaborative way.
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Like their counterparts on the Intelligence Committee, the two senior senators have taken pains to present a united front, issuing letters and subpoenas jointly and agreeing on the scope of the inquiry this summer.
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One possible reason for his increasing confidence is the rising influence within the White House of Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, whom Mr. Tillerson has taken pains to charm.
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And allies of the vice president have taken pains to suggest he was not involved when the Trump transition team and the White House made some bad calls about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
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Republicans intend to push back by highlighting Judge Kavanaugh's record of hiring female clerks — 25 of his 48 clerks have been women — and by making the case that he has taken pains to mentor women.
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In a region beset in the past half century by ethnic-based killings — both Burundi and neighboring Rwanda experienced genocides in the 1990s — analysts have taken pains to characterize the current turmoil as primarily political.
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While Trump has been a boon to the Democrats' recruiting efforts this cycle, party leaders have taken pains to avoid making the election a referendum on the divisive president — a strategy that backfired in 85033.
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It speaks to the solidity of his legendary political base, which he has taken pains to preserve and means that his presidency remains viable despite the torrent of logic defying escapades that he engineers every week.
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But the couple has taken pains to keep the place approachable for hard-core vegans and rookies alike, largely thanks to a light, West Coast-style menu, which includes items like slow-roasted barbecue jackfruit sliders.
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Still smarting over accusations that it had lowered standards to help the first women graduate from its elite Ranger School in 232, the Army has taken pains to avoid making any exceptions for infantry boot camp.
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As it stands, analysts like Rob Arthur, the author of the FiveThirtyEight study, have taken pains to emphasize that there is no evidence to suggest that MLB has intentionally modified the ball to generate more home runs.
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At a time when officials in Iran and North Korea have accused Bolton of pushing a more forceful line, Trump has also taken pains to distance himself from the more bellicose views of his national security adviser.
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Fully cognizant of the intra-party stalemates that led to predecessor John Boehner's (R-Ohio) demise at the hands of the Freedom Caucus, Ryan has taken pains to incorporate these often inflexible members into the policymaking process.
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But the EIB has taken pains to present the benefits of its work to a British public evenly split on whether to quit the bloc, a move that would end access to EIB funding for British business.
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The party's founders have been criticized as being "puppets" of President for Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, but they have taken pains to expand the party's base by enlisting important members from minority groups in the Netherlands.
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While Afghanistan's many ethnic factions have long warred among themselves, in recent years they have taken pains to play down differences between the majority Sunnis and minority Shiites, who are mostly members of the Hazara ethnic group.
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Mr. Bukele, a businessman who has cast himself as a iconoclastic reformer, has taken pains when dealing with the Trump administration to disavow his predecessors' embrace of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua.
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On the other hand, Boeing executives have taken pains to sound measured when publicly discussing trade, in part to avoid clashing with Trump who has repeatedly said the U.S. must take steps to protect American jobs and technology.
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And while military leaders, business titans and Republican former presidents have all taken pains to distance themselves from Trump's comments about the violence in Charlottesville, Bannon seems to be embracing the controversy as helpful to the White House.
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As all-out war looms, each episode has taken pains to show moments of humanity to ground the audience, reminding us of the high cost of war and what the soldiers on the front lines are actually fighting for.
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The Japanese leader was the first to personally meet with Trump after the mogul's surprise win in November, and Abe's spokespeople have taken pains to stress that they believe Trump will remain committed to the longstanding US-Japanese alliance.
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He also seemingly conceded Russian involvement in the election, but he has taken pains to point out that there is no evidence that any vote tallies were altered, apparently seeking to avoid the suggestion that his victory was illegitimate.
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The question of whether the march's goals speak to women of all backgrounds has been a theme leading up to the event, and the organizers have taken pains to communicate that the version of feminism it reflects is intersectional.
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Though Facebook has taken pains to appear neutral, the censorship of LGBT ads, however inadvertent, points to the company's difficulty in finding a middle ground in a tense national climate where policy increasingly hinges on fundamental questions about race and identity.
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Disney and Ritchie seem to have taken pains to deliver a respectful film: They've written more three-dimensionality into most of the main characters, especially Jasmine and the Genie, and they've removed much of the exotic stereotypes of the film's predecessor.
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Mr. Trump has taken pains to present himself as the "law and order" candidate — the theme of Monday's convention program is "Make America Safe Again" — and the campaign has made clear its plans to capitalize on the national sense of unrest.
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With re-election appearing to be all but assured next month, the mayor has taken pains to cement the notion that he is very much the same liberal Democrat from Brooklyn who was elected in a landslide four years ago.
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Mr. Shanahan, the president's pick to become defense secretary — and who will soon be visiting Tokyo after his time in Jakarta — has taken pains to go along with White House requests, many of which were delayed by his predecessor, Jim Mattis.
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She has also echoed the Trump administration's criticism of the United Nations, deploring what she said was its anti-Israel bias and its lack of efficiency, even as she has taken pains to build good will among her diplomatic peers.
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For most of us, the idea of putting money in an account in a bank located in some out-of-the-way island country is intrinsically shady, but as many news stories have taken pains to point out, not all offshoring is evil.
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Still, for a company that has taken pains to avoid making editorial judgments about the articles shared on its platform, the nearly wholesale removal of a viral post marked a noteworthy step against the spread of white supremacist propaganda on the network.
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De Blasio has taken heat for increasing service disruptions and delays on the city's aging subway system, the largest in the United States, though he has taken pains to emphasize that the subway is run by a state-controlled authority, not the city.
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The report's author, Risa Sugarman, the election board's chief enforcement counsel, is an appointee and ally of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who has a well-documented habit of undercutting the mayor — a connection that Mr. de Blasio has taken pains to highlight.
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Yet while appropriate, Dior, Borgo De Nor, and, today, Fendi, are neither American nor Japanese labels, another indicator that Trump, as she has done before, isn't necessarily nodding to the fashion diplomacy guidelines that most first ladies have taken pains to adhere to.
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On Capitol Hill, while members of Congress have taken pains to present a calm front, a newfound sense of dread has quietly set in — as much among senior lawmakers as among low-ranking staff aides — manifesting alternately as manic denial and gallows humor.
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President Trump views veterans — a group he has taken pains to court, even though at times he has slighted them — as part of a key component of his political base, and he has long sought to put more veterans in private health care.
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The United States has taken pains to refrain from recognizing the Holy City as Israel's capital precisely to avoid being seen as prejudging the outcome of peace talks, in which Palestinians seek to make East Jerusalem the seat of their eventual government.
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The space used to be packed with a lot more, including three large bookshelves, but of late Mr. Horner has taken pains to pare things down, putting "take a book" signs on a shelf, for example, when he has performances in the loft.
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Schumer and Pelosi have taken pains in recent weeks to control the narrative around the fate of Dreamers, both privately and publicly, in an effort to keep the issue from getting even more politically charged and derailing any chances for a bipartisan deal.
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"He's a broadly seen as a Manhattan guy who is working at not appearing so much of a Manhattan guy," said Battista, who said Schumer had taken pains to understand the concerns of Western New York, including campaigns to keep the Buffalo Bills from relocating.
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" According to Amarnath Amarasingam, a fellow at the Program on Extremism, the Islamic State has taken pains to assure individuals like @abuionian that they will receive divine rewards for their endeavors on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook—for "hitting the kuffar (unbelievers) where they live.
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VW has taken pains to show that Tarok would be able to handle serious workloads, among other things fitting it with an underbody skidplate and an all-wheel-drive system that, with the turn of a rotary dial would be tuned to off-road conditions.
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The Ways and Means Committee, for example, has taken pains to present their request as part of a committee investigation into the I.R.S.'s program for auditing presidents and not as an attempt — as Republicans charge — to simply embarrass Mr. Trump for political reasons.
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Several key Republican lawmakers are expressing support for the programs, which, since their near-death experiences during the culture wars of a generation ago, have taken pains to counter accusations of coastal elitism by making sure to distribute their grants widely across all 50 states.
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In my case, anger has undergirded a lot of my work, but in the earlier part of my professional life as a feminist writer, I had taken pains to cover that anger and dress it up as many women do, as humor, dark humor, playfulness, cheekiness.
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And even as the Moroccan security sector took hardnosed measures against jihadists in the kingdom, the monarchy has also taken pains to address what it sees as the roots of radicalism — including poverty, marginalization and ideological indoctrination — through anti-corruption measures, economic development and Islamic education reform.
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He said that early on Mr. Hamlen had taken pains not to push him to play too much too soon, and would sometimes encourage him to take less lucrative chamber music gigs — with smaller fees, and smaller commissions — because he believed they would help him develop.
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Despite the end of Sessions' tenure in the Trump administration, he has taken pains to remind Alabama voters about his longtime service and his early endorsement of the president, focusing on it during his announcement in November and his closing TV ad in the race last week.
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The Fed has taken pains to try to persuade financial markets that the new round of creating money and using it to buy Treasurys is not the same thing as the easy-money-policies the central bank put in place in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Since the signing of the nuclear deal, leading figures in Iran's dominant hard-line faction, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have taken pains to highlight how little they see the agreement as the watershed moment in Iran's history that Mr. Rouhani had promised it would be.
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The effort appears to be part of a calculation that the Iran deal could provide an avenue to bring out the more moderate forces within Iran and begin its engagement with the rest of the world, though the administration has taken pains to deny that that is a goal.
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The organizers have taken pains to ensure nothing is included that could create an uncomfortable experience for Native visitors to the museum, who generally understand artworks as living, breathing objects imbued with spirit — which raises a question of whether these objects belong in a Western museum at all.
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As the health care debate reached its final days, and in the wake of its failure, Trump and Ryan have taken pains to preserve and improve their relationship, speaking by telephone multiple times a day, in an apparent acknowledgment that their hopes for a substantive common agenda rest on remaining united.
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Throughout the years of investigations that followed the 2015 revelations of Russia's extensive doping program, the I.O.C. has taken pains to emphasize that it has no influence over WADA's decision-making, even though it provides half of the organization's funding and its members also serve on the antidoping agency's board.
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Manchin has positioned himself as a centrist who cares more about the state than party identification and he has taken pains to emphasize that he has a good relationship with the President in an era where his party's liberal wing has called for all-out resistance to the Trump administration.
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He has taken pains to praise him whenever he can, vacationed with him in Vermont, and, when it was time to be sworn in for a second term, Sanders and his wife shivered in the same seats Hillary and Bill Clinton had occupied four years earlier to do the honors.
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But publicly, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican whom Ryan supports as his successor, and Whip Steve Scalise, the Louisiana Republican who is waiting in the wings if McCarthy can't lock in the votes to be the next leader, are supportive of Ryan and have taken pains to present a united front.
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House Democrats are acting following a stunning Washington Post report that Trump has taken pains to keep even his own administration officials in the dark about his talks with Putin, taking away his interpreter's notes on at least one occasion and demanding that no information about the talks be shared with US officials.
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Of course, there are the negative side-effects like dehydration-induced headaches (he's now learned to drink a lot more water than usual) and bad breath, as a phenomenon known as "keto breath" is common with prolonged fasting and extremely low carb diets (he's now taken pains to brush his teeth more regularly).
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Back in Washington, both the White House and a spokesman for President Trump's lawyer have taken pains to distance the president from the meeting, saying that he did he not attend it and that he learned about it only recently, a point Donald Trump Jr. reiterated Tuesday in his interview on Fox News.
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"I have taken pains to keep my drive for children's freedom and play separate from political ideology and my participation as a co-keynoter with Bannon would severely impair my credibility with the many diverse groups with which I am involved," Gray said in a letter to ACE, which he shared with Motherboard.
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But both this trailer and the teaser before it have taken pains to show K journeying from a noirish LA street — — to what could be the washed-out cradle of civilization: This shift from blue to orange is a visual contrast that movies are notorious for using in order to present tension and energy.
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He has taken pains not to criticize the president publicly, though he has disagreed over policy and personnel with the president and his senior staff — and Mr. Trump has reminded people around him that he regards Mr. Mattis, a retired four-star general, as "a Democrat" who is more liberal on many issues than he is.
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Having spent five years as president of the European Parliament and more than two decades working on broader European matters rather than specifically in German politics — something once seen as a potential advantage for him — Mr. Schulz has taken pains to shed the image of a globalist interloper and present himself as a man of the people.
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While the European Commission has largely stayed out of the campaign for fear it would be counterproductive to Cameron's Remain camp facing a Eurosceptic electorate, the EIB has taken pains to present the benefits of its work to a British public evenly split on whether to quit the bloc, a move that would end access to EIB funding for British business.
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For example, Scott said he would not "defend the indefensible" when asked about Trump's comments in 2017 that there were fine people on "both sides" of the deadly confrontation between white nationalists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Va. He also has taken pains to vet, or in certain instances even block, Trump nominees for judgeships or cabinet positions over concerns regarding that person's views on race.
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Fully cognizant of the intra-party stalemates that led to predecessor John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE's (R-Ohio) demise at the hands of the Freedom Caucus, Ryan has taken pains to incorporate these often inflexible members into the policymaking process.
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Pol: Trump defended articles of the Constitution that don't exist But even with more national cash, Trump has undoubtedly made their task harder: More vulnerable Republicans from Mark Kirk in Illinois to Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire have taken pains to distance themselves from their presumptive nominee, and Democrats are branding Republicans with Trump's imprimatur in states where he is expected to be a significant drag on downballot candidates.
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