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Sadly, that doesn't stop news outlets from taking the bait.
"We need the media to stop taking the bait," he said.
The Clintons, particularly Bill Clinton, must refrain from taking the bait.
Only I'm not taking the bait, not today and probably not ever.
Trump's oxygen is keeping this controversy going and we are taking the bait.
"His tweets about this and, again, everybody is taking the bait," Trippi said.
Taking the bait does nothing to help Democrats prepare for 2018 or 2020.
President Underwood, not taking the bait, replies "I know" with that same loaded tone.
Tom Brady is quite skilled at not taking the bait from his many critics.
He couldn't stop himself from taking the bait in the days after the debate.
So anyone taking the bait here is setting themselves up for a scam, but whatever.
It shows them that, nope, you're not taking the bait and they can't get to you.
But authorities say none of that will do any good until people stop taking the bait.
To defuse an argument, avoid taking the bait and allowing the other person to justify their anger.
"What you will see our candidates doing is not taking the bait on every little thing," he said.
AH: It's affecting him in the sense that even after he won, he was basically taking the bait, constantly.
Can you handle a little bit of heckling, cliched as it was, without taking the bait and melting down?
J.R. Smith isn't taking the bait from a crowd at Oracle Arena that has been mocking him all game.
Taxpayers are taking the bait and losing significant amounts of money, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
It's tempting to feel like a sucker for taking the bait, until you realize he's actually given us an entire album.
We've yet to see if West is taking the bait, but one thing's for sure: Drake's not done with this beef just yet.
Taking the bait, Efron approached the pole — this time with his shirt on — and asked for some music to get himself in the mood.
My advice to those who spend each day refreshing their Twitter feeds for their next hit of outrage is to stop taking the bait.
If Democrats don't stop taking the bait on these things, for his next trick, Trump might just make them disappear in 2018 and 2020.
I would post a single item and then watch him try to rabble-rouse and wonder aloud why no one was taking the bait.
He looked presidential, was forceful but optimistic, and delivered well-prepared words without deviating from the text or taking the bait of Democratic barbs.
Happily taking the bait from this brilliant fuccboi move, Tess hands him one and goes outside for a smoke with him and his perpetually furrowed brow.
Stylistically, Trump was also restrained — to the point where he avoided taking the bait when his address was interrupted more than a dozen times by protesters.
But most public brackets aren't taking the bait; on average, users favored the other top seeds — Villanova, North Carolina, Kansas — and even No. 2 Duke instead.
And for months, Fox News and Ms. Kelly had avoided taking the bait, intent on sticking to Ms. Kelly's vow to avoid becoming part of the story.
The big picture: Trump's long been adversarial with late-night comedians and television shows, taking the bait to mock their ratings as they endlessly roast his administration.
Four entire days after releasing "shETHER," the most brutal diss track in recent memory (Drake and Meek Mill who?), and Nicki Minaj still wasn't taking the bait.
Instead, he and his campaign team spent considerable energy counterattacking radical preachers — in effect, taking the bait and unwittingly making sectarianism the central issue of the race.
Francona was too polite to frame it that way, but the Cubs are wounded now, and easily teased into taking the bait of the Indians' power breaking stuff.
Music execs not adding more women to their rosters further perpetuates the stereotype that only one emcee can shine at a time, and fans are, unfortunately, taking the bait.
After the nuclear deal, Rouhani—who loves him some capitalism—started making the case for Iran as a potential international investment opportunity, and US allies are taking the bait.
You could cry anti-Semitism, but you'd be taking the bait; the movie calculates its ethnic stereotypes to offend and dares you not to be in on the gag.
Instead of taking the bait, Joseph just laughs at her, insults her previous commanders' intelligence, and berates her for being willing to use her body to get what she wants.
Unfortunately, the only dealer who seemed remotely close to taking the bait told me he wanted £50 [$38] and that he couldn't get it to me until the following night.
In taking the bait Clinton dangled on Monday, Trump echoed his August entanglement in a days-long public dispute with the parents of a Muslim Army captain killed in Iraq.
In 6900, Republicans in Congress will have to stop taking the bait, and stop holding hearings on every story in the Washington Post — and they should get back to the country's business.
Rather than taking the bait, Congress should achieve a permanent resolution by updating the two laws related to the entire telecommunications ecosystem, the Communications Act of 22019, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Or when we are privy to Jon's internal strategizing at the same time he attempts to throw Harry Chalice off the scent about the leaked data or lure a journalist into taking the bait.
DANANG, VIETNAM – President Donald Trump's sweeping plan to restore American primacy by replacing "unfair" multilateral trade agreements with a series of bilateral deals is meeting a grim reality: foreign trading partners aren't taking the bait.
And if the bait items are worth more than $500 – packages containing an expensive TV, for example, or a pair of collectable sneakers – it could result in a felony charge for anyone taking the bait.
The new generation of women pop stars are an unstoppable force, because they're all friends and they're not interested in taking the bait when the music industry — or anyone else— tries to pit them against each other.
Carville, taking the bait, tried to goad her into naming journalists she believed to be enemies of the American people — a dangerous game in a world where journalists regularly receive death threats just for doing their jobs.
It seems like they are explicitly trolling people to go off on "back in my day you got a piece of shit hot dog and you were happy about it" takes, and today I am taking the bait.
Instead, they want him to practice staying focused on big-picture themes (jobs, terrorism, protecting the homeland and closing borders, "Make America Great Again") rather than picking fights on side issues or taking the bait from Mrs. Clinton.
While Obrador isn't taking the bait for now, the erosion of our alliance could mean he steps back from a number of partnerships crucial to our national security, including those countering the flow of deadly narcotics and weapons.
Undoubtedly, left-wing "antifa" groups have contributed to the security risks and costs at Berkeley, taking the bait that speakers like Mr. Yiannopoulos lay out and battling far-right militia groups who show up looking for a fight.
Rather than taking the bait, Hammons suspects that someone who is black (brown, yellow, or red) is seldom if ever seen in this country, that prejudices and stereotypes will always be applied, even by those who are well-meaning.
But it was her quiet ability to withstand the blows without so much as flinching, let Trump go at her, again and again, without once taking the bait, without once withering in the heat, that proved she has the qualities befitting a president.
But the most likely explanation is that Mr. Trump, who until now has largely avoided taking the bait that the North Korean propaganda machine churns out with its own warnings of imminent war, simply reverted to an old habit: sounding as tough as the other guy.
And I think it's a conversation that we can have without taking the bait — because this is not about the content of the games themselves but about the way the culture that surrounds gaming provides particularly fertile soil for sowing the seeds of resentment that grow into hate.
Taking the bait "I think what we're seeing now is our own administration goading Iran into taking ill-advised and tremendously foolish actions that would provide them with justification to ... use force against the Iranian regime," said Ned Price, a former intelligence officer now with the group National Security Action.
Whether it's Scott Pelley falling into a trap while interviewing pro-Trump personality Mike Cernovich, former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd taking the bait while being trolled on Twitter, or Megyn Kelly and NBC allowing Alex Jones to gin up outrage and scoop her on her own interview, the mainstream media has repeatedly failed to grasp the pro-Trump media's new rules.
Taking the bait, a gibbering Billy, who has gone insane with guilt over causing the death of his sister Kathleen, attempts to kill Richard's fiancée Kane with an axe. Dr. Caleb saves her life by shooting Billy to death with a pistol he was carrying in his pocket.
However these can cause serious damage to a pike's lower jaw. The Pike Anglers Club was formed in 1977 to campaign for the preservation of pike and the sport of pike fishing. Pike are susceptible to gut hooking when fished for with natural bait. Upon taking the bait, the pike will hold it for a short time in its mouth as it moves off.
Admiral Yi wanted to fight the Japanese in the sea where there was more room to maneuver. Hoping to draw the Japanese into open waters, he turned his battleships around and withdrew. Apparently, the Japanese commander had been observing the Korean movements and quickly ordered his captains to take a portion of the fleet anchored at Sacheon and attack the Koreans when he saw them withdraw. Taking the bait, the Japanese pursued the Koreans.
These two ships parted company during the night and eventually returned to their respective home ports.Gardiner, Fleet Battle and Blockade, p. 28 By this stage Villaret knew through his patrolling frigates that the grain convoy was close, and deliberately took his fleet to the west, hoping to decoy Howe away from the vital convoy. Taking the bait, the following day Howe attacked again, but his attempt to split the French fleet in half was unsuccessful when his lead ship, HMS Caesar, failed to follow orders.
However, others prefer to simply ignore flaming, noting that, in many cases, if the flamebait receives no attention, it will quickly be forgotten as forum discussions carry on. Unfortunately, this can motivate trolls to intensify their activities, creating additional distractions. "Taking the bait" or "feeding the troll" refers to someone who responds to the original message regardless of whether they are aware the original message was intended to provoke a response. Often when someone takes the bait, others will point this out to them with the acronym "YHBT", which is short for "You have been trolled", or reply with "don't feed the trolls".
On 16 April 1916, it supported the 3rd (Lahore) Division on the right bank of the Tigris, as it captured the Bait Isa line, part of the Es Sinn defences supporting the Sanniyat position on the opposite bank. Taking the Bait Isa line exposed the flank of the Sanniyat position to enfilading artillery and machine-gun fire. On the night of 16/17 April 1916, the Khalil Pasha committed his reserves to a counter-attack to retake Bait Isa. The counter-attack struck as the 13th (Western) Division was preparing to storm the next defensive position.
Hysterium arrives to this confusion, and tells Senex that Philia is the new maid that he has hired. Pseudolus returns, having procured the necessary mare's sweat; seeing that Senex has returned unexpectedly and grasping the need to keep him out of the way, Pseudolus discreetly sprinkles some of the horse-sweat onto him, then suggests that the road trip has left Senex in dire need of a bath. Taking the bait, Senex instructs Hysterium to draw him a bath in the long-abandoned house of Erronius. But while this is happening, Erronius returns home, finally having given up the search for his long-lost children.
Rickey was especially interested in making sure his eventual signee could withstand the inevitable racial abuse that would be directed at him. In a famous three-hour exchange on August 28, 1945, Rickey asked Robinson if he could face the racial animus without taking the bait and reacting angrily—a concern given Robinson's prior arguments with law enforcement officials at PJC and in the military. Robinson was aghast: "Are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" Rickey replied that he needed a Negro player "with guts enough not to fight back."Robinson, Jackie (1995), p. 33. After obtaining a commitment from Robinson to "turn the other cheek" to racial antagonism, Rickey agreed to sign him to a contract for $600 a month, equal to $ today.Rampersad, p. 127.Robinson, Jackie (1995), p. 34.
Other examples of fishing terms that carry a negative connotation are: "fishing for compliments", "to be fooled hook, line and sinker" (to be fooled beyond merely "taking the bait"), and the internet scam of phishing, in which a third party will duplicate a website where the user would put sensitive information (such as bank codes). ; Religious: Fishing has had an effect on major religions,Regensteinn J.M. and Regensteinn C.E. (2000) "Religious food laws and the seafood industry" In: R.E. Martin, E.P. Carter, G.J. Flick Jr and L.M. Davis (Eds) (2000) Marine and freshwater products handbook, CRC Press. . including Islam,African fishermen find way of conservation in the Koran The Christian Science Monitor Christianity,A Misunderstood Analogy for Evangelism Bible Analysis ArticleAmerican Bible Society Article American Bible Society Hinduism, and the various new ageAbout Pisces the Fish The Astrology Cafe Monitor religions. Jesus was said to participate in fishing excursions, and a number of the miracles and many parables and stories reported in the Bible involve fish or fishing.

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