But his grandmother willed everything to his stepgrandfather, who willed everything to his nurse.
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He willed that goal in the back of the net.
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But none of this happened because someone willed it so.
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I was selfish: I willed you this woe, this world.
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Trevor's stories traffic in plots, fated or willed, and hurtful.
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But Tom's real achievement is that he willed himself to be.
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He should've stepped to that kid and out-willed that kid.
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Now a nurse practitioner, Penelope is raising two strong-willed children.
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" It's so much more cathartic than, "He's a strong-willed guy.
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No, the 4G phones haven't suddenly willed themselves into 5G devices.
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He skulks around in search of weak-willed men or sawdust.
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But the healing process can't be hastened or willed to end.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong willed man," she said.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong-willed man," she said.
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Lying there on my belly, I willed the conch to move.
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What's a goatish, narcissistic, jealous, sentimental, weak-willed novelist to do?
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Both women are steel-willed and committed to improving their communities.
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The movie was willed into existence by Murray, who cowrote it.
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Claire's parents learned to trust their independent and strong-willed daughter.
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The Taliban willed the people of Mazar to pray for victory.
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Admittedly, the changes I willed to come faster were utterly conventional.
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Jordan is the strong-willed boss, and April the meek executive assistant.
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Lagerfeld succeeded because he willed the most beautiful things into the world.
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"He's definitely a strong-willed little boy," she says with a laugh.
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Uncrustables My daughter came right out the womb stubborn and strong willed.
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I stood beside my grandmother's bed and willed her to wake up.
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"She's still strong-willed," he says of her style then and now.
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When she's young, she's too weak-willed to do the right thing.
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A film that fans literally willed to happen is coming to fruition.
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Liz was so independent, fiercely strong‑willed, and further than her time.
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So she taught herself, trained herself, and willed herself into that position.
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It isn't because they are "weak-willed" or careless with their earnings.
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To a large degree, his unwillingness to bend, his intransigence are willed.
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"They are loving, strong-willed and, at times, extremely thoughtful," Farmer says.
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He has willed his four 50-yard line seats to his son.
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Yet somehow Brown willed herself into a glittering media czarina in Pucci.
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I had willed us into being but couldn't will us into lasting.
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When Mr. Ennis died in 1982, he willed Mr. O'Flynn his pipes.
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Ms. Barton believes that Mr. Pratt willed the show back into existence.
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I've had the pleasure of working for some very strong-willed women.
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"He was an absolutely caring and strong-willed man," Jacklin Luna said.
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The people took to the polling booth and willed it into being.
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Mr. Rudin is nothing if not strong-willed, and willing to litigate.
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"They're very similar and very strong willed," he said of the two men.
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He willed us to a win and took what the defense gave him.
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Who could blame her if she has willed her memory to be fuzzy?
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By the time I reached the register, my weak-willed morals had crumbled.
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But it did teach me Spanish, because I willed it to be so.
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Joan and Mercedes were both strong-willed women and they were my mentors.
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She's not just a bad writer — she's willed a genuine monster into existence.
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Corker's effort has been bolstered by another strong-willed supporter: Pennsylvania GOP Sen.
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He willed one to move and it just shredded bamboo, stalk after stalk.
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"She's extremely strong-willed and very adventurous," Harmeling, 240, told The LA Times.
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"He just willed us to win," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said of Paul.
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Theiss died in 1992, and willed Cawley blueprints for the original Enterprise sets.
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His gold medal came aboard Snowbound, a strong-willed 240-year-old gelding.
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Obama's team and our allies had willed the ends without willing the means.
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But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator's pidgin.
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How can anyone break through that kind of willed blindness and be seen?
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In death, vocal, strong-willed disability activists cannot push back on being exceptionalized.
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What the strong-willed Mr. Masur could not do was peacefully coexist with the equally strong-willed Ms. Borda, who decamped in 1999 to run the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which she helped elevate to a standard-setter in many regards.
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" Abigail's parents described her as a strong-willed teen who "loves to have fun.
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" The proud parents say Ella is "smiley, friendly and a strong-willed little lady.
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She had a lot of wonderful qualities: She was strong-willed and very smart.
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But they undermine the idea that supreme intelligence can simply be willed into being.
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Maiya is crazy smart, independent, kind, strong willed, and nurturing (Just like her mom).
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I wandered about for a while, letting the spirit take me where it willed.
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Leicester has willed itself to outrun the biggest clubs in this league this season.
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" I willed the doors to shut, but they didn't, so I acknowledged him. "Red!
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There are countless women who are weak-willed, weak-minded, self-serving, and cruel.
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"He is a strong person, patient and strong-willed," his mother Umm Dawoud said.
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Black spots swam before her eyes, but she willed herself not to pass out.
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It was just a matter of will, and we willed that one for him.
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And he was a strong-willed kid, so he moved back in with Toby.
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"Robbie is a pretty remarkable, strong-willed person," said Robert Ardino of White Plains.
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Moreover, speech that is reckless, hateful and ill-willed nevertheless enjoys First Amendment protection.
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Macron acknowledged during his remarks Tuesday that he was visiting a strong-willed peer.
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"I realized there are strong-willed women like me who really want to work."
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Ms. Shaver was strong-willed and warm, meticulous about her home and her appearance.
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There are various names for this willed receptivity to associations: flow, inspiration, the muse.
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Antidepressants, sleeping pills, and even Benadryl were seen as crutches for the weak willed.
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After starting the season 1-4, the Steelers willed their way back into contention.
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I was raised to be a strong-willed woman in a world full of men.
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At first, I thought I had imagined them, or maybe even willed them into existence.
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"Look, he's nervous!" exclaimed one guy, as I willed myself to get on with it.
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A. My mom says I was pretty strong-willed and strong-minded as a toddler.
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And I wanted people to see that these things don't happen because God willed it.
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The guy is unbelievable ... he was one of the guys who willed us to win.
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So they gathered Hilltop Dr. Carson despite Gregory's weak-willed objections, gravely crippling the colony.
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Johansson's performance as the good-willed mother is one of her best in recent memory.
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"I thought he pretty much willed us to the win," Portland coach Terry Stotts said.
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This lady has now quit, because my aunt can be strong-willed and verbally abusive.
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Often they are terrified, skittish and incredibly strong willed from having survived in the wild.
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I grabbed her head like it was a broken melon and willed the halves together.
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" Mr. Herman, the designer, said, "She was strong-willed, humane and stuck to her vision.
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We are a humble, strong-willed community that has proclaimed that together we will rise.
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We've got an extraordinary man in David Walsh but he's totally idiosyncratic and self-willed.
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Ehrman was famously strong-willed, and her politics fell to the left of the Clintons'.
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He willed this team back into this game, had to make a lot of plays.
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It's a weird, prophetic song that I willed the life I have today into existence.
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But in general, the sisters and their transformations remain hazy, especially the strong-willed Ayan.
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"She's extremely strong-willed and very adventurous," her brother, Brett Harmeling, told the LA Times.
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"It's a cat-and-mouse game between two very strong-willed leaders, strong governments," Burns said.
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Years earlier, she was the similarly strong-willed Nymphadora Tonks in the "Harry Potter" film series.
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As he became more fervently Jewish through his life, he willed that resistance on his people.
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I adored Gal Gadot's performance as the unapologetically kind, yet strong-willed and fierce Diana Prince.
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Strong willed and solidly built, Camacho was singled out as the more stubborn of the pair.
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Ironically, the much less strong-willed horse named War of Will took the prize home instead.
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And we've been through this enough times to know that he can't simply be willed away.
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He posited iron-willed, poker-faced Spartans to show that pain was not just about expression.
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I was a strong, free-willed woman who stayed home and took care of the family.
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"I would just say if you're not strong willed, strong minded, he'll attack you," Clark says.
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Mr. Ocean has willed himself from R&B curio to major pop star to art student.
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Donald Trump stayed on offense in 28500 and willed himself to an improbable White House win.
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What do Katie and Eric do with a child of such discipline and iron-willed ambition?
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My mother, being the strong-willed individual that she is, had no problem voicing her concern.
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To many in Hollywood, he was an enigma, both strong-willed and tormented by self-doubt.
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In one of the world's great exit lines he willed his wife his second-best bed.
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George Packer's 'Our Man' portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory.
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Impossible to pin down, Leigh Bowery was a monument to his own great, self-willed perversity.
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She wished it away, willed it out of existence inasmuch as her daily life was concerned.
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That is a difference of approximately 22000,22000 ballots that have been willed or spoken into existence.
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Back then, Wong took on an industry that was stacked against her and willed herself to succeed.
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" On Friday, Jack told Access Hollywood Live: "Mom is good … she's strong-willed, and we respect that.
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Others, like "Massa Allah", meaning "God has willed it", are a testament to the couple's persistent optimism.
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There's a phenomenon in which ironic memes, like the ones involving Brown, are sometimes willed into truths.
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On Tuesday, it seemed like midterm turnout was high, maybe because the celebs willed it to be.
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And his voters will be a valuable prize for a new generation of willed and ambitious politicians.
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The accompanying profile talks about how Jenner, the tall Kardashian, "willed" her successful modeling career into existence.
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Hell, I've willed myself to watch the Bachelorette for the past three Mondays because of Rachel Lindsay.
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But, without a doubt, binge racing is not for the weak-willed (or true adults with responsibilities).
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"It cannot survive a strong-willed liberal majority on the Supreme Court," he warned in July 2016.
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So if you're not very stable or strong-willed, you can easily get lost in it all.
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"Jimmie just willed himself to the front," said Dale Earnhardt Jr., who visited Johnson in victory lane.
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These were women who were persecuted and murdered because they were poor, old, strong-willed and rebellious.
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She had done a pilot for a C.I.A.-themed sitcom featuring a set of strong-willed women.
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But such enterprises often have a hopeful, doomed feeling to them: they seem more willed than wanted.
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But ultimately, he was ejected from his own company by someone as strong-willed as he was.
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"When they chanted 'Roger, Roger' I willed myself into believing they were chanting 'Novak, Novak'," he said.
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They must be victims because no right-thinking, free-willed woman would ever want that for herself.
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More myth than man, Karl Lagerfeld had willed his fantasy of Parisian-flavored decadence and eccentricity into existence.
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For one thing, there's no villain in this story, only strong-willed and cunning women vying for power.
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And how do Beyoncé, Tina Turner and The Rolling Stones inspire Claire's razor-sharp and strong-willed personality?
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They weren't easy to find, but Vásquez, dogged and strong-willed, eventually tracked down more than a dozen.
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Fans of Rodrigo Duterte compare the Philippine president to Lee: strong-willed and intolerant of crime and corruption.
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One of the hottest "Star Wars" collectibles is a strong-willed, dual lightsaber-wielding Jedi named Ahsoka Tano.
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He and Beatty settled on a gorgeous, strong-willed unknown as the Bonnie to Beatty's Clyde: Faye Dunaway.
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Disco had been willed into being and as planned, had been incredibly well received by the target audiences.
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Like surrealist painters, the Panthers imagined a world that did not exist but could be willed into being.
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"Fiona can definitely be strong-willed," said Gorsuch, which Gat believes is explained by Fiona's Mercury conjunct Pluto.
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Election In this 1999 classic, Witherspoon is a strong-willed high school student fighting to be class president.
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If God willed, it might mean lives saved, swords beaten into ploughshares and the world smiling with peace.
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Erin, played by Big Little Lies's Darby Camp, isn't ill-willed so much as bored and un-parented.
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Taurus: Queen Sugar As steady as a bull, a Taurus is practical, strong-willed, and full of force.
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This technique by a lesser poet's pen would be no more than a pretentious attempt at willed indeterminacy.
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"Riley is way too smart for her own good, especially with her being so strong-willed," Adam admits.
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His mother, too, had the right mind-set: "She willed me to find a way out," he writes.
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Emperor Palpatine was always drawn to the Skywalker family because Anakin was willed to life by the Force.
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But this has been a journey that has ended at the ballot box because the people willed it.
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The lack of resistance feeds Putin's narrative that he confronts only weak-willed irresolute, corrupt societies and leaders.
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What was it like to portray a strong-willed female character in a movie that was largely male-dominated?
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They were edgy, confrontational, and strong willed with very little care about how much others liked or disliked them.
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"It feels like something kids have willed into being, rather than it being something that preexisted them," O'Keefe says.
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He's a strong-willed guy and he'll let folks know if he doesn't like something they say about him.
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Mr Obama says that Mr Assad eventually must go, but has never willed the means to achieve that end.
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He now has full control over Trump's sources of information, able to easily manipulate the weak-willed nominal president.
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Macri, who has known Trump for years, added the Republican will bring strong-willed leadership to the White House.
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Tiexue, whose name means "iron-willed" in Chinese, carries articles on military affairs and history, often nationalistic in tone.
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But this over investment in something isn't stupid, it is a willed conversion of a commodity into something sacred.
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I like to imagine that I willed my beautiful son into existence, even though that can't be biologically accurate.
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"He is a strong-willed man with a forceful personality" and "well-formed, deeply studied views," the official added.
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But Mahomes, as he has done repeatedly in his breakout season, simply willed his team into the end zone.
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But finally a breakthrough: Mr. Crane willed the Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku to knock the ball into the net.
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That exhaustion and anger can't be willed, wished or insulted away, no matter how unsavory the insurgents may be.
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Tired, drenched in perspiration, and feeling increasingly ill, the iron-willed La Follette continued speaking until after 7 a.m.
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They are willed into existence by conspiracy theories, by fanfiction, by leaks of material never intended to be seen.
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So she willed herself up the stairs, inching past the framed collage of wedding photos, and into the room.
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Because of that, some consistent misunderstandings remain unaddressed or are exploited based on, what feels like, sheer willed ignorance.
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He was "a strong-willed, caring, giving, and special person," his niece Jacklin Luna said during an interview with Buzzfeed.
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Dropout Piece is the name Lozano gave to her wrenching transformation from insider to outsider, her declaration of willed marginality.
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The founders, strong-willed and influential journalists for various media, disagreed over what to do with their new political capital.
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"She was very strong-willed, strong-minded, an independent, young, female physician," said emergency doctor Betsy Hull, a close friend.
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"She is strong minded and strong willed, but with men that is often seen as a virtue," the person said.
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Unifying nearly all of his films are strong-willed but vulnerable female characters who provide succor to emotionally wounded sons.
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And the Frozen Music Collective sat in silence as I willed my brain to send a signal it was alive.
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"My daughter's extremely strong-willed and sassy and funny, and likes to beat a joke into the ground," she says.
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Lani, the son of Tapit, another notoriously strong-willed horse, dug in and kicked for several minutes before reluctantly entering.
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Bryan C. Black, 35 Ever since he was a child, the Green Beret medic was incredibly strong-willed and competitive.
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Lahiri's Indian readers, however, are likely to register this move as her further willed alienation from her first language, Bengali.
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" Fortunately, this compliment-bomb was promptly disarmed: "This is what God has willed, Madame Fathiya, your son is really smart.
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It occupied land that had been willed to his mother, Genora, by her grandfather, a veteran of the Civil War.
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He was a determined lens-man who essentially willed himself into being, both as a photographer and as a person.
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Instead, the Bulldogs nearly willed themselves to the win, specifically through the sheer force of the 5-foot-93 Atkinson.
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I do believe we need more strong-willed female superheroes because they can serve as an inspiration to young girls.
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Santiago uses historically rich details to draw a portrait of a protagonist, Ana Cubillas, who is strong-willed and unforgettable.
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Thus, Mr. Trump would remain in office, and congressional Republicans would keep looking like the weak-willed sycophants they are.
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Her alarm went off less than six hours later, and she willed herself out of bed at 4:40 a.m.
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"Thunder Road" fits the mold of a small-scale film willed into being by determination, obsession and a modest budget.
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Others believe that individuals are inherently flawed, often ill-disciplined, weak-willed, and capable of evil as well as good.
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Prosecutors described Urtula as "driven" and "strong-willed" with no history of mental health problems before his relationship with You.
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Emperor Palpatine said Anakin Skywalker, who was willed to life by the Force, could be more powerful than any Jedi.
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The Emperor always had a fascination with their family since Anakin was seemingly willed to life by the Midi-chlorians.
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Twice Arizona led by 12 points in the second half, but Holder all but willed Arizona State to stay close.
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Critics of democracy always claim that the public is too uninformed, or too weak-willed, to make important governing decisions.
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Debbie Reynolds "willed herself" to die a day after Carrie Fisher passed away, her son Todd Fisher says in new memoir.
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Clearly casting directors and fans alike have come to see Marvel as the epitome of an iron-willed woman in Washington.
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The name of the game is to stand as still as possible until everyone does exactly what you've willed them to.
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So they have simply willed themselves to believe it, or at least perform believing it, which eventually becomes the same thing.
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Think Al Gore, the boring man who says he invented the internet, or George H.W. Bush, the weak-willed Reagan underling.
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On the other hand, he seems rather weak-willed unto himself and doesn't do very many things without his wife's permission.
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Congress has not willed the means to make this happen and would not want to face the consequences of doing so.
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I'm a pretty strong-willed person but that was the one thing in my life that I couldn't get to stick.
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He's a pretty strong-willed fella, but I think most Americans have a right to know whether this was a Gen.
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After all, what better way to keep strong-willed pod humans occupied than to give them a gritty simulation of rebellion?
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Driven back at times, they willed their way north to form the line that today divides the oppressed and the free.
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Mr. Staggs also lacked the support of some Disney shareholders, including Isaac Perlmutter, the strong-willed chief executive of Marvel Entertainment.
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He stared down a 73-win steamroller and a three-to-one deficit, and willed his club to three straight victories.
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As the steel-willed Bette and Joan, Sarandon and Lange are fantastic, but they're also surrounded by a stellar supporting cast.
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Bill Clinton was surely shaped by the challenging circumstances of his youth, and by the imprint of a strong-willed mother.
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South Korean officials hope that the two strong-willed leaders will push the process ahead, with an eye on their legacies.
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The central library downtown plans a structure to house Mr. Roth's voluminous private book collection, which he willed to the library.
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General Moghaddam, known as eccentric and strong willed, had ordered his first facility, the one that was destroyed, painted that color.
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Often brusque in manner, outwardly self-assured and iron-willed, Ben-Gurion poured his innermost emotions into his diaries and letters.
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Even though he found conventional success early in his career, he found the life he'd willed himself into to be ungratifying.
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" Heather Beichner, another friend of the beloved mom, told NBC Connecticut, "She was an overall beautiful, strong-willed and amazing person.
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In 2013, she appeared as Liberace's strong-willed mother in the HBO movie "Behind the Candelabra," with Michael Douglas as Liberace.
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As for Jobs, Schilling says his strong-willed and somewhat abrasive personality made it difficult for him to sustain intimate friendships.
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"There is largely a willed ignorance about contemporary Native American identity and issues, especially in the arts world," she told Hyperallergic.
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Instead, though, the Bulls won a disjointed, brick-heavy contest—just the sort that Durant could have willed in the other direction.
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I do wonder if Artem constantly preparing me to hear the worst from the judges sort of willed their feedback into being.
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Hanneman created, discovered, or willed into existence a tune that encompasses as much of the genre as a single song possibly can.
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Mobile and comfortable on his temporary prosthetics, Izzy has developed the personality of a regular baby goat, albeit a stronger-willed one.
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Some infertility, then, was willed, which may account for the differing statistics among Caucasians and non-Caucasians; but the rest was not.
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Steal the Stars follows Dakota Prentiss, a grizzled ex-Army Ranger who's the strong-willed security chief at a secret government lab.
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And play she does not, moving from stone-willed business woman to furious sister to heartbroken woman and back again with ease.
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Over the past decade, Ms Welch has made her name both as a hitmaker and as a kind of strong-willed sprite.
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Page's three eVTOL projects have made it this far thanks to a group of strong-willed engineers and his own deep pockets.
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Crawford wanted the strong-willed roles Davis was famous for, but her rival got first pick on all the most coveted roles.
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I don't know what kind of women Verhoeven is surrounding himself with, but strong-willed, fierce women don't innately hate each other.
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If you are shy yet submissive, extremely feminine, and love to be dominated by a strong-willed Irish woman then write me.
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They're also strong-willed, soft to the touch, independent, difficult, strange, resourceful, calculating, judgmental, and could possibly cause schizophrenia... but probably not.
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You're made of stronger stuff than all us weak-willed boozehounds over here with our double G&Ts and pleasingly fuzzy conversation.
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We're all extremely strong willed people, which is good for bonding where we are right now, but it can also be tricky.
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It recounts the life of a long-running influential art gallery and, by extension, of the person who willed it into existence.
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This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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Throughout history, we've often fallen for this trick: We seek out strong-willed leaders in hopes that they will keep us safe.
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It was a premonition: tired of weak-willed performances, the crowd were crying out for a strong character to lead the team.
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Now, with determination and strong-willed attitude, the student at North High School in Wichita, Kansas, is happy to finally be home.
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Capote found it in pills and liquor; Warhol, in a willed detachment that transformed emotional peaks and valleys into glazed, flatline curiosity.
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On Ms. Post's death, in 231, Mar-a-Lago was willed to the federal government and presented as a possible presidential retreat.
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I'm going to eat today...I talk about it with my kids to this day: 'You gotta be strong-willed like Cole.
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A 2014 play by that name showed a self-willed monarch seeking to defy a government proposing state control on the media.
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Declaring himself a Democrat would make him look weak-willed, and alienate some of his fans who might otherwise vote for progressive Democrats.
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She had written a note to each of her children — wise Jayden, kind Elijah, strong-willed Kyzia — in case she never woke up.
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More importantly, as employers, industry leaders and Americans -- we have a moral obligation to protect these children from ill-willed policies and practices.
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He shows how people who in peacetime might just have been strong-willed or colourful types came to condone or perpetrate the unspeakable.
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"We are both strong willed and competitive — not just with each other but with everyone — and that's not a good mixture," she writes.
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The three new colors are meant to be sparkly matte, which seems like an oxymoron, but Kylie has somehow willed it into existence.
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In that sense, it's keeping up with the youngest fans of the original, who willed this sequel into being in the first place.
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"Right before I moved to California he gave me a pretty strong-willed kiss goodbye, which I have never experienced before," he said.
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"A new president is really vulnerable and open to all sorts of influence by strong-willed advisers," said Robert Dallek, a presidential historian.
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Teenagers this age are full of hope; they are passionate and strong-willed, and some apply these qualities to political issues as well.
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Allowing Mr. Trump to lead the Republican Party, filled with sycophants and weak-willed leaders, into the next election is the greater prize.
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In the Senate particularly, these committees are run by strong-willed chairs who expect to have a major role in shaping the process.
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But the focus here is on her fraught relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf), who is equally strong-willed and has high standards.
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At least since Ms. Driscoll's 2008 breakout piece, "837 Venice Boulevard," her dance-theater has generated its sugar-high energy by willed regression.
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Three busts had been made from a scan of the head of the performance artist Marina Abramović, her eyes closed in willed ecstasy.
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Anyone who has willed themselves to not feel a tickle as ticklish can appreciate the difference between stimulation and our perception of it.
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In order to survive her relationship with the strong-willed Marvelous, Margaret has put up certain defenses; she's funny, caustic, and relatively nonjudgmental.
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Thus far, Westbrook's effort has willed the thin Thunder roster to a 25-19 record and the No. 7 spot in the West.
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She grew up conversing with spirits, and today drives a car inhabited by the phantom of her granddaddy, who willed it to her.
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One can conclude that in our highly polarized world, a strong-willed president like Mr. Trump can limit impeachment — and possibly wreck it.
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It was an unusually conciliatory gesture for Mr. Rudin, who has a reputation in the theater industry for being strong-willed and litigious.
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The response was immediate, with the most iron-willed on social media falling in one fell swoop to her precision, skill, and endurance.
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So pull on your best Stetson and get yourself to your nearest line dance, because Beyoncé has willed it and it must be so.
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Cha explained that though media reports had portrayed Park as weak-willed, she was not "running away" from public pressure by stepping down. 4.
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"She was warm but strong-willed, both formidable and playful," Carole Radziwill recently wrote of her mother-in-law in a tribute to PEOPLE.
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As someone who is outspoken and strong-willed, as I imagine Rachel to be on some level, this is a less-than-ideal scenario.
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The Breakthroughs are both inspired by, and intended to outdo, those willed into existence at the beginning of the 20th century by Alfred Nobel.
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Well, I'm definitely not going to tell the tale I wanted: one of a man willed into a 24-hour coma by popular vote.
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She willed herself to go to a hospital close to her college campus, but was not met with the support she had hoped for.
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Conjuring or overemphasizing a national security threat creates a sense of crisis, allowing would-be autocrats to malign critics as weak-willed or unpatriotic.
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"Victoria was tiny and very, very strong willed," says historian Daisy Goodwin, the creator of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, which premieres January 15.
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And I was just really impressed by that, and by how strong-willed and determined — she immediately, she presented herself in such a way.
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So the strong-willed Deane decided to invest the money, little as it was, into creating a business to earn the income she needed.
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It's very hard to accept — a smart, intelligent, strong-willed person, or a young boy: Why do they have to feel abandoned like that?
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In response, he looked more strong-willed than ever in the final, and he, more than anyone, refused to let Palace win the game.
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The Jazz outscored the Nets 48-27 the rest of the way and Hayward willed Utah into a 1063-70 deadlock through three quarters.
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"She was so intelligent and strong-willed," said Mr. Bustamante, who won the Democratic primary before losing in the general election in November 2014.
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Note to the weak-willed: In a clever ploy, takeout must be ordered from the bar, where tempting drinks, costing $12 to $13, abound.
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The Modern, the Guggenheim and the Whitney, which were virtually willed into existence by women, have a chance to live up to their histories.
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But whether adding new directors will solve the problem remains to be seen, especially with a chief executive as strong-willed as Mr. Musk.
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Now, I can hardly remember what it used to look like, and I've willed myself to believe that my view will never change again.
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But do you think that in, in some ways you were fired by the president because you are both such independent, strong-willed people?
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Nikki Amuka-Bird snared a Bafta nomination as Natalie, a black barrister who willed herself to professional triumph and an idyllically affluent family life.
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"We encourage young people to join rugby to cultivate the sprit of being strong-willed, aggressive, acquisitive and unified," Alisports CEO Zhang Dazhong said.
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He didn't just dress up in costumes — as amusing family photos illustrate — he seems to have willed himself over the rainbow again and again.
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Local entrepreneurs say that she willed a community into existence, gathering the people and companies of the "Silicon Slopes" in meeting rooms and bars.
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Theirs can come across as stilted and willed, less recognizable as the workings of memory than as the preoccupations of a peculiar social class.
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The good fairy was a burlesque dancer, and Fibi, a strong-willed character and role model, was an adult actress under 4 feet tall.
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Her reputation as a hard-working, intelligent and strong-willed fighter further heightened expectations of the influence she would bring to the Trudeau government.
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Prince Charles is indeed, in real life, self-willed, pressuring successive governments to get what he wants – especially in the preservation of traditional institutions.
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At the film's Los Angeles premiere, Smith told PEOPLE he was immensely proud of the film's decision to portray Jasmine as a free-willed feminist.
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Bartholdi's name is well known for his association with the statue; it is said that Liberty's face is modelled after his strong-willed mother, Charlotte.
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The 43-year-old politician was described as a "unique, strong-willed, opinionated, stubborn, determined, intelligent, prolific and even sexy young man in his prime".
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Those who take the step of reaching out, and actually moving toward an exit from their community, are among the most daring and strong-willed.
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Shame, I suppose I was ashamed at being weak-willed and ashamed of not dealing with my problems the way everyone else seemed to be.
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As such, Beauty and the Beast really has an opportunity to leave us with a fleshed-out, strong-willed female character that sticks with us.
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Not even Oprah Winfrey, with all of her on-stage magnetism and gusto for Apple devices, could have willed the information out of Tim Cook.
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" Spencer told another crowd at a conference put on by the National Policy Institute, "We willed Donald Trump into office, made this dream into reality.
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It led by two goals against England in Berlin on Saturday before the young English lineup outscored and out-willed Germany in its own stadium.
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But these were largely discounted as the work of ill-willed outsiders serving a well-orchestrated campaign by Moscow to tar its foes as fascists.
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We tend to view it in black-and-white, almost moralistic terms: Anyone who succumbs to temptation, in whatever form, clearly must be weak willed.
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Federer willed himself to a break for a 2-1 lead in the second set, but Zverev quickly composed himself to capture the following game.
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He said he was taken aback when the strong-willed, spirited woman he had fallen in love with insisted on accompanying him to his tournaments.
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"It was supposed to be tuna niçoise, but we all like different things," Jane says; these three are strong willed as well as close-knit.
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Magnus Kihlbom, the director of an institute for child psychiatry in Stockholm, proposed in the journal that the disorder represented a kind of willed dying.
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That's why, on a blue-skied summer afternoon, he's invited me to meet him at the home studio where he willed this album into existence.
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Maybe that matters less than the fact that Ms. Fox sees her whole life as playing out under the terms of a self-willed destiny.
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A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the automotive pioneer who designed the Volkswagen Beetle, Mr. Piëch was himself a formidable engineer and an iron-willed manager.
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Since then, he has come to see him as fair but not particularly strong-willed after the school's dynamo of a first dean, Leonard Strickman.
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Avengers: Endgame and "Old Town Road" are, in reality, both just fleeting moments that were willed into becoming longer-lasting institutions by brute corporate force.
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Now, she's back with another political series, this time as the strong-willed but graceful-under-pressure President Elizabeth Keane on the new season of Homeland.
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Trump appearing to scream nonsense at a good-willed child in front of the White House roses was a demonstration of the absurdity of his presidency.
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I noticed I wasn't a weak-willed social recluse who rarely wanted to leave the house anymore, because that's not who I was in the game.
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The plot pivots on the strategic marriage between the mayor and Zhu Ying: iron-willed entrepreneur, brothel madam and grieving daughter of the old village chieftain.
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Conor McGregor has seemingly willed himself into becoming MMA's transcendent attraction through a combination of sheer clarity of vision and world-class next-level shit talk.
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"She remains in critical condition fighting for her life, but as we mentioned, she is strong-willed and she is fighting," Gene and Vicki Kopf said.
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Morose experimental music connoisseurs, Raime, announced their sophomore album today for English imprint Blackest Ever Black, entitled Tooth, and shared its itchingly ill-willed lead single.
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He or she may be stubborn, or be in the hands of a powerful staff or of a strong-willed spouse, the latter being Wilson's case.
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But that takes common-sense leaders, not ones who think the complexities of this age can be bombed away, walled away, willed away or insulted away.
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"To be around these two powerful very strong-willed and very talented women every day, for like 30 days was eye-opening for me," says Duterte.
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"It's for strong-willed, independent people with very supportive families," said Dr. Timothy Quill, a veteran palliative care physician at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Kelli Barrett (who starred on Broadway last year in "Doctor Zhivago") is as strong-voiced and steel-willed an Eliza Doolittle as one could wish for.
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The central bank's tough approach to banking regulation is "better than the weak-willed and spineless supervision that took place under Elvira Nabiullina's predecessors," Kostin said.
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Her idea of liberation was a willed but gracious enlargement of women's roles, a process that somehow needn't bother with the so-called privileges of men.
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But style is a funny thing: It stands both for something willed, an intended effect, and something inevitable and inescapable that artists are helpless to disguise.
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While the leadership of the British Conservative and Labour parties are immobilized by chaos and confusion, the iron-willed certainty of most "leave" leaders has evaporated.
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Balanchine's women still often seem the most free-willed in ballet: They keep taking the initiative, even when, as in "La Valse," it leads to doom.
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Its staff included more than a few strong-willed writers and editors, many of them Ivy League-bred, who took a dim view of media executives.
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I expected Julia—an independent, strong-willed woman with a solid family support system—to stand up for herself where many of the others had not.
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George Packer's "Our Man" portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory: relentless, ambitious, voracious, brilliant, idealistic, noble, needy and containing multitudes.
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It is an invitation for the strong willed and large hearted to dig deep and lift others up while also blazing their own unique creative path.
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For the migrants, who had willed themselves to believe that Mr. Trump could somehow be softened by their presence at the border, the message was clear.
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For most of that time, the Philharmonic was led by the strong-willed conductor Herbert von Karajan, one of the towering maestros of the 21962th century.
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Oberlin students are strong-willed and steadfast in our beliefs, yet we are a diverse group of deep thinkers with the capacity to understand dissenting opinions.
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The young actress Franziska Machens's Célimène is a strong-willed presence, and she matches Matthes, one of the Deutsches Theater's biggest stars, in toughness and resolve.
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And from the beginning, it was overseen by a strong-willed German board that knew well the risks and rewards that came with such a business.
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T.J. Cromer, who willed the Buccaneers into the NCAA Tournament with a historic showing in the Southern Conference tournament, finished with a team-high 19 points.
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Putin thinks he is winning over a bunch of weak-willed Western states that cannot even generate sufficient allied power to punish Moscow for its attacks.
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Desperate for any glimmer of success, Charlie reluctantly agrees to care for his famous pal David's (JJ Field) strong-willed, 11-year-old daughter, Gabby (Frankie Hervey).
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He was raised by his strong-willed grandmother in a St. Louis slum after his alcoholic mother gave up her children and his father abandoned the family.
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Installing the dang thingThe big fat box Nebia shipped in sat open on the floor of my apartment for days before I willed myself to install it.
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Put two strong-willed groups of people in a room with only one way of operating, and why would you expect the results to be any different?
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She told me that one of her friends, an especially strong-willed girl named Evelyne Richard, died after being injected with the drug we now call Thorazine.
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Goodwin nearly willed the Billikens to a victory, scoring seven points in an 80-second span to lower the gap to 67-63 with 54 seconds left.
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There's no slang, no fashion trend, no musical innovation, no theme, no sound, no movement that this group of boys created on purpose and willed into existence.
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Over the weekend, everyone from members of the National Guard to strong-willed moms on boats came together to rescue people trapped in their homes and cars.
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"Before this incident my son was confident, strong-willed, driven, a good student, a good athlete," the father told the judge, according to the Dayton Daily News.
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By totally dismissing the power of fake news right after the 2016 election Zuckerberg had, yet again, willed the historical parallel between Facebook and Microsoft into existence.
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Our stupidity, he realized, was neither willed nor wicked; it reflected, instead, a lack of imagination — or, perhaps more accurately, a lack of material for our imagination.
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Both were strong-willed, stubborn and fiercely intelligent, but in the man's world that was the early 19th century, when it came to battling, he usually won.
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Fox also has a stable of strong-willed movie executives who, at times, have tried to undercut Ms. Snider, who can now begin building a management team.
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The European leaders' role is not helpful to U.S. goals; in effect, it acts only as the weaker-willed parent to which Iran appeals when it misbehaves.
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But, as a nine-year-old, I wanted to be Amy, not Jo. Amy, too, was smart, artistic, funny, and strong-willed, but so much more glamorous.
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However, Elena's strong-willed political views aren't seen as something that need to be "fixed," and the show never condescends to her or forces her to change.
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More importantly, after a middling start in Boston, he's willed the now-healthy Celtics to 19-13, good for third in the East as the calendar flips.
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"Jazz is very strong-willed," Jeanette told me in a phone interview this March, speaking from her home in Florida with Jazz on the line as well.
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I chose the snow leopard as my kindred species for the campaign because they tend to be strong willed, independent characters who find themselves in tough situations.
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Tormented by self-doubt — he particularly disliked hearing how much he resembled the young Marlon Brando — he was also strong-willed, clashing often with directors and producers.
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As they have so many times, Tom Brady and the Patriots' offense willed the team back into contention in a game that seemed to be slipping away.
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But it's also because Cunningham didn't make his hats for posterity — they were daring and inventive objets, willed into existence by the sheer force of his imagination.
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The next season, he willed Lenny Dykstra, John Kruk and a shaggy group of misfits to a surprise National League Championship Series victory over the Atlanta Braves.
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Pursuits The first time I went to Santa Fe, I went out for a morning run and the city willed me to fall in love with it.
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They knew not because Harvey Weinstein, who made a string of Miramax movies with her, willed it but because people who went to the movies said so.
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"As a woman, if you are too opinionated, too strong-willed, too anything, you are disregarded," she said of the director, who also photographed her ELLE spread.
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It is to Kumar's credit that he makes Chauhan seem docile and mild, yet strong-willed enough to go where no Indian man has dared to venture.
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The Bell Centre was a cacophony of noise that night, as the passionate Montreal crowd willed their boy on to win against that day's enemy in Serra.
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It's probably just coincidence, but this sonorous passage seems to echo a verse in the Koran: "If God had willed, he could surely have made you all one single community, but he willed otherwise in order to test you...." Anyway, whatever inspired them, these well-crafted words about the "hypocrisy and meanness" of faith enforced by state power must rank as one of the eloquent critiques of theocracy ever made.
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Palmer explains that Webber was torn between the good of her gig – that she plays independent, strong-willed med student Gabby Holland – and the uncomfortable sex scene parts.
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Over the course of her last year of high school, Lady Bird brashly contends with her impending adult inspirations and complicated relationship with her equally strong-willed mother.
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In the meantime, Prince William and his sharp-witted, strong-willed wife, Kate, try their best to ensure the future of the throne that will eventually be theirs.
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Because congressional Republicans, back then, worried that a weak-willed president might turn a blind eye to Iranian cheating, they passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA).
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But though I willed myself to stand I remained where I was, barely upright, my hands buttressed at my side and my torso bent forward, swaying a little.
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NEWLY RELEASED ANTONIA'S LINE The Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris's account of two strong-willed women on a farm won an Oscar in 1996 for best foreign-language film.
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To a comical extent, top Republicans willed themselves invisible when I reached out to them for this article, fearing, not incorrectly, that the conversation would turn to Trump.
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Maude Findlay was a savvy, strong-willed, silver-tonged broad—a proud feminist living with her fourth husband Walter (Bill Macy), and her divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau).
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Ms. Falco won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of the strong-willed wife of the mob boss Tony Soprano.
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"Many people would call Fred a wimp, but what you realize in that moment is that Fred was the most iron-willed person out there," Mr. Neville said.
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It was Rupert's band-of-pirates mentality that willed the Fox broadcast network into existence, and turned Fox News into a source of astounding profit and political muscle.
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The pagoda is a souvenir in flesh of an antique willed to him by his maternal grandfather, a onetime pushcart vendor on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Declaring the fired Reince Priebus "a good man" is magnanimous; announcing on Twitter the decision to let him go comes across more as sloppy than as iron-willed.
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"This is true because robbery that must overpower a victim's will — even a feeble or weak-willed victim — necessarily involves a physical confrontation and struggle," Justice Thomas wrote.
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I loved how she dominated her field in football as a female, and despite transitioning into Olympic sports and bobsledding, she was still very strong-willed and determined.
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It's no wonder that as Bianca listened, her face collapsed into a mask of horror: This is what the world has done to her angry, strong-willed sister.
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" Addressing the schism between their religions, the two also declared, "It is our hope that our meeting may contribute to the re-establishment of this unity willed by God.
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In The Village, Grace plays a strong-willed and artistic teenager named Katie who lives among a close-knit group of neighbors at a unique apartment building in Brooklyn.
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My family is as strong-willed, stubborn and opinionated as they come (I get it honestly), and I won't condescend to you and tell you how to handle yours.
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A radically independent, fiercely feminist, ukulele-playing, gregarious dog-lover, my daughter is one of the most intriguing and strong-willed people I've ever met — even if I'm partial.
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This voter, she said, is "tired of arguing with folks in their circle of life who are very opinionated and strong willed and loud" — and opposed to Mr. Trump.
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This voter, she said, is "tired of arguing with folks in their circle of life who are very opinionated and strong willed and loud" — and opposed to Mr. Trump.
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When they enter into a sexual affair, she recasts herself adeptly (with the aid of whiskey and willed forgetfulness) so as to reap professional benefits while tamping down shame.
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He beat Mark Kerr in his prime, and against Enson Inoue, Vovchanchyn's haymakers exacted a heavy toll on one of the most iron-willed competitors in mixed martial arts.
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There are few people who can stop him from using the powers of the state to punish his enemies, but a strong-willed FBI director is one of them.
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The opinions about Webster have swung back and forth, some comparing him with a weak-willed appeaser of evil, others seeing him as a man of courage and conscience.
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Question: LeBron, as someone who has willed your teams to eight straight finals in the Eastern Conference, what are your expectations now that you have arrived in the West?
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But in 2007, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a maverick, strong-willed chief justice, locked horns with Mr. Musharraf, igniting the grass-roots Lawyers' Movement that helped lead to his resignation.
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What made you feel as confidently as you did, and how difficult was it to play against somebody who was so dynamic and strong-willed as Billie Jean King?
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Captain Burnett, who died in 1922, willed the bulk of his estate to his granddaughter in a trusteeship for his yet-unborn great-grandchild, who would become Anne Marion.
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Robert Downey as strong-willed Australian journalist Wayne Gale in Natural Born Killers is a textbook example of why international stars mess up the Down Under accent so easily.
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When we meet her at 30, she has willed her world into one of orderly precision and hospital corners; she's an anxious striver, a workhorse, a maker of lists.
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I'm reminded of some strong-willed women artists I knew, in the early years of the women's movement, who also resisted having their solitary struggles described in ideological terms.
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The men in their community, particularly Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), are overwhelmed by their ferocity of spirit, and look upon their strong-willed closeness with wonder that tips into envy.
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Raising a strong-willed child in Latin America in the 1980s and early '90s, my parents did not have the wisdom of the past 20 years of medical research.
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She is strong-willed and independent, obtaining a doctorate at the age of 55 and balancing a teaching job at a community college with the demands of being second lady.
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Travolta, 62, opened up about what it's like raising his 16-year-old daughter Ella in the spotlight, saying he's lucky to have such a smart and strong-willed child.
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Auli'i Cravalho, the Hawaii-born actress who voices Moana, told PEOPLE in October she wanted fans to feel welcome to dress as the driven, strong-willed leading lady for Halloween.
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Wholly successful is Kelly McAndrew's iron-willed Agatha, who embraces the hard realities of life with resolute, scheming clarity; even her crocheting conveys a sturdiness that should not be tested.
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He used crutches for a week and willed himself not to limp so NASA officials would not pull him from the mission but said walking on the moon was painful.
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They share a transcendent, commanding, engaging presence, as though Yiadom-Boakye has willed her subjects into being, enfleshing them that they might speak to our own minds and imaginations. —LP
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A New Jersey homeless man who fell prey to a cruel prank is now the recipient of an outpouring of support from good-willed strangers — and his favorite NFL team.
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Angela Bassett plays the strong-willed mother of two in Black Panther, a role she also holds off screen as the mom to 12-year-old twins Bronwyn and Sadler.
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It attacked the pope for a common statement with a prominent Muslim leader in Abu Dhabi in February which said the pluralism and diversity of religions was "willed by God".
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan, the stylish and strong-willed widow of the 523th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, has died of congestive heart failure, her spokesperson confirms.
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The charges, they said, amounted to a political assault on a strong-willed elected official who often seemed to have as many enemies in the capital as he did friends.
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"We are with what the leader had willed, especially his demand to stop the war, lifting the siege from our people," said Tareq, who survived the attack by Houthi forces.
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But local production cannot be willed into existence if the supporting infrastructure is absent, and banning goods has historically led not to local production but to a thriving shadow market.
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"It was a big-time play from our guy wanting to be a leader on this team and he just willed that goal in," Sabres head coach Dan Bylsma said.
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The E.M. Forster adaptation boasts Emma Thompson in her best role (and an Oscar-winning one at that!) as the strong-willed Margaret, who navigates class, family drama, and romance.
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There's also a control panel on the left side that electronically adjusts the desk's height up to 3.8 feet, so users can tower above their weak-willed seated co-workers.
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Wishing to turn a shuttered library into a day care center, Grandma (Luise Ullrich), the strong-willed matriarch, and her new companion, Gregor (Werner Finck), don't wait for city permission.
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You may have heard about the perfect Keanu Reeves cameo, or about how social media basically willed the film, fronted by Ali Wong and Randall Park, onto our TV screens.
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The effect, in Thilo Reinhard's graceful English translation, is almost Didionesque, as the willed, witty detachment of the narrator's voice at once conceals and emphasizes the rawness of her emotions.
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In "Moon Meets the Sun," they harmonize in a song of tenacity, cultural survival and willed optimism: "Ah, you put the shackles on our feet but we're dancing," Giddens sings.
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Justice Scalia, who is frequently invoked by Mr. Trump as a model for a Supreme Court justice, was known as a forceful writer and strong-willed voice of judicial conservatism.
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On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made — he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature.
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One of the world's great inventions, only a little behind the light bulb, was Ramona Quimby, the strong-willed, lovable and exasperating star of "Ramona the Pest" and other books.
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With obvious pride, he explained to me that Kadyrov has willed into being a Chechen state that surpasses what he and other rebel commanders once fought so hard to achieve.
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Ronan, again, serves as the movie's anchor, portraying a strong-willed young woman finding her literary voice, ably following in the footsteps of actresses like Katherine Hepburn and Winona Ryder.
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For decades, moral clarity functioned as a shibboleth, an efficient means of discovering, then assailing, anyone too weak-willed to wage war against America's ideological foes or incipient spiritual collapse.
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"To a large degree, the fate of Mr. Clinton's political ambition rests in the hands of his blunt, strong-willed and, critics say, strident wife," Shribman wrote in January 210.
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When Post died in 1973, she willed the property to the government, hoping it would become the "Winter White House," a place for presidents and government officials to vacation and entertain.
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He was, by all accounts, an iron-willed figure who led by example; bore no tolerance for intolerance; and possessed a moral compass, they said, that always seemed to point north.
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In fact, some of the brightest spots in the show's musical history came because someone had a clear vision for a scene, wrote it in and willed it to be so.
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So my main take home from this is self-compassion: You're not doing the comfort eating because you're some sort of weak-willed human being; you're biologically driven to do this.
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Duke remained a hard-working actress and a familiar face on television until the end of her life, usually playing strong-willed, occasionally wrong-headed women, and playing them very well.
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Debbie Reynolds' bond with Carrie Fisher was so strong that the late Hollywood icon "willed herself right off this planet" after Carrie's death so that her daughter would never be alone.
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It was a sparkling coronation for Olympic debutant Marin, an iron-willed 23-year-old who has dominated like no other woman over the past two years, winning two world titles.
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My guess is that he simply willed himself onward, driven not by some sort of superhuman courage but by the fear of letting down his buddies, of failing in his duty.
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Stewart playing inside and out, making pinpoint outlets as if willed by the mind alone—dribbling, shooting, outletting, post-up shit, the spirit of Utopian Basketball manifest in a human form.
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That checking was often achieved by corralling autocrats into the Western orbit, a maneuver fraught with moral hazard and willed blindness to the quotidian authoritarian customs of suppression, torture and assassinations.
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The French tennis crowd have always been enthusiastic embracers of the "Mexican Wave" and time and time again it swirled through the stands as Paire's supporters willed their man to win.
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From her youth until her last moments on earth, Barbara Bush could be plain spoken and strong willed at times and always radiated a humanity and goodwill that is quintessentially American.
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When they play songs like "Faith," "Boiler," or "Full Nelson," it's as though your body is willed into headbanging its way back to a different, much less aware version of yourself.
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But Trump is also a quick learner, and now has a better understanding of just how hard it is to work with the hundreds of strong-willed independent thinkers in Congress.
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Ramsey, a quintessential fan with a special place in the franchise's heart, had willed himself to Madison Square Garden after a nearly four-month hospital stay that ended just last Friday.
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Clinton has a history of strong-willed chiefs of staff, all of them women, including Maggie Williams and Ms. Verveer in the White House, and Ms. Mills at the State Department.
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Her most high-profile part came in 2007 as a strong-willed queen in Zack Snyder's "300," a film better remembered for writhing beefcake captured with then-innovative chroma key cinematography.
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After another strong-willed executive, Ernest Fleischmann, retired from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1997 after nearly three decades, his successor, Willem Wijnbergen, lasted less than two years in the post.
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And he loves this country enough to try to calm it when it most needs calming, even if that means a willed optimism about Trump that's oh so difficult to share.
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The reality, which her colleague Richard Weissman (David Strathairn) intends to reveal in the Times , on the occasion of a retrospective of her work, is that Isabelle willed her own demise.
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The elderly man and the seven bad golfers returned to the water and swam lazily, as if the golf balls would return to their hands simply because they willed them back.
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Ex-The Real Housewives of New York City star Carole Radziwill recently remembered her mother-in-law as "warm but strong-willed" and "both formidable and playful" in a tribute to PEOPLE.
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After several seasons of Joffrey's depravity, it was a nice change of pace for the various King's Landing schemers to now have to deal instead with the kind but weak-willed Tommen.
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All of this — inflating a bedraggled group of peripatetic refugees weeks from our border into a disease-ridden terrorist "invasion," an urgent, imminent "national emergency" — amounts to a kind of willed delusion.
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Although General Hifter styles himself as a military virtuoso who forged Libya's only disciplined army, in practice his Libyan National Army is a loose coalition of militias headed by strong-willed commanders.
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HEATHER SEIDEL Ambitious, strong-willed and looking for someone who can be her equal, Seidel is a flight attendant who is active and enjoys traveling and cooking for her family and friends.
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His rejection of the family values and preference for an artistic lifestyle led to the clashes with his strong-willed mother that he chronicled in "Three Tall Women," his most autobiographical work.
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It's possible they are good-willed guys, offering you the last seat in their chariot of awesome out of the kindness of their hearts, but this is not something you should assume.
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Facebook does things in the world that are not directly willed by the people who built it; to understand and predict those things, you don't interview its founder, you examine its workings.
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Perhaps rather than a weak-willed Fed chairman being to blame, the problem lay in factors specific to that period, or a flawed understanding of the relationship between monetary policy and inflation.
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Elon Musk's renewed feud with the Securities and Exchange Commission after another errant tweet raises concern over the Tesla board's ability to control the electric car maker's strong-willed and unpredictable CEO.
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That intangible sense of continuity, of weight, is missing here, so that you are always aware of the faintly humming machinery of the script, and of the willed subtlety of the performances.
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"We're both very strong-willed and ambitious, and I think we have a similar sense of humor," Ms. McCain said of her father in a 2010 interview with The New York Times.
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Two years before Jones soared above New England cornerback Eric Rowe, Jermaine Kearse nearly willed the Seahawks to a late win over the Patriots with a deep sideline grab that strained credulity.
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I had seen, in watching "Now on My Way to Meet You," how the idea of reunion could be made to feel inevitable, willed into existence, even on an otherwise silly show.
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"She's very assertive, she's strong-willed, she's a workaholic, she's determined, she's smart, witty and for her to become missing is very puzzling to me, because she's a fighter," said Ms. Ross.
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Nonetheless, her narrative is one of deep heartache, both in the predeparture attempt to quiet her own objections to the faith, and in the self-willed abandonment of certainty that departure requires.
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A 2011 study that examined how people deal with self-control found that those of us who are best at it aren't more strong-willed or dedicated: They simply experience temptation less.
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This is willed amnesia, of course; Scrooge (Anthony Vaughn Merchant), who makes his money in real estate, has forgotten how vulnerable he once was, and how much kindness meant to him then.
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There is also the figure of Mr. Correa himself, a strong-willed populist who ruled for a decade, created a new Constitution and lifted large sections of his nation out of poverty.
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Crime As a world-renowned forensic pathologist, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the iron-willed protagonist of Patricia Cornwell's insanely popular procedural mysteries, is often called out of town for high-level professional consultations.
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"Because her professional relationship with Brown was important and becauseshe took it seriously, Ms. Taylor willed herself to brush off the episode, hoping that Brown would stop pursuing her," the lawsuit states.
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Michel Houellebecq, the cardinal writer of my generation, the one before whom all of us, whether we like it or not (and without his having willed it), have had to measure ourselves.
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We meet her in the 1920s, a strong-willed, spirited teenager whose quirky personality demands an escape from the small village in rural Sweden where her religious family farms on church land.
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So by trying to make Arya see Sansa as weak-willed, easily swayed, and even emotionally loyal to the Lannisters instead of her own family, he's trying to drive a wedge between them.
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Mel is also a "strong-willed feminist" who experiences a tragic accident that leaves her angry and unable to deal with her emotions, which might cause some problems with her time-freezing abilities.
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Clark, meanwhile, is being set up as the show's heroine: She's a single mother of two children with a deadbeat ex, she's strong-willed, no bullshit, and the best at what she does.
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She had been watching Americans for years by then, and she would write about what she saw in them: their childlike optimism; their willed blindness to their own power; their peculiar racial hypocrisies.
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One of its actors, Greg Sestero, along with Tom Bissell, wrote an account of that film's making and his friendship with Tommy Wiseau, the quixotic anti-auteur who willed "The Room" into being.
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Those grievances, analysts said, have been amplified by Mr. Trump and his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both strong-willed leaders who share a penchant for invective and doubling down when threatened.
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The resilience he showed in sticking with things when he dealt with the ineligibility ruling is likely a good sign of character and he basically willed himself into being a first-round player.
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Jackie-Michelle Martinez, a Strong-Willed New Yorker When Jackie-Michelle Martinez joined the New York Fire Department in 2006, she was one of just 29 women among around 8,000 firefighters and officers.
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The president, in forcing the hand of General de Villiers, took a page from the playbook of Charles de Gaulle, the strong-willed former general who founded the country's Fifth Republic in 1958.
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NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE Andy Bragen's ("Don't You _______ Say a Word") autobiographical play looks at the relationship between a son and his formerly strong-willed mother, now ill and in her decline.
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I was tired of coming home late at night, only to arrive to feet scampering down the steps to greet me because he had willed his body to stay awake to see me.
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At the same time, the Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP, which props up May's government, is fuming at what it considers her ineptitude and weak-willed attempts to negotiate with the European Union.
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Hours after Westbrook physically willed the Thunder to another late comeback win, Steph Curry and the Warriors beat Leonard's Spurs in San Antonio after falling behind 23-3 in the first seven minutes.
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Eaton, who died in 1962, willed the collection to his daughter Martha Eaton, who in turn passed on the items upon her death in 1990 to Thomas Ryan, the executor of her estate.
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The Crown shows the strain her coronation places on their relationship, as Elizabeth struggles with wanting to be a model 1950s wife to her strong-willed husband, while having to also be his monarch.
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She was practically unrivaled in both physical strength and steel-willed emotional fortitude but also a far cry from the few and often grim female action heroines who had preceded her (see: Alien's Ripley).
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No joy for the chancellor that day – and even less for the coach, Joachim Low, with whom she has a strong friendship (which may have suffered a little.) Both are outsiders, both strong-willed.
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Many people tend to agree, even in the moment, that these behaviors are foul, and the companies folding to them under pressure are too weak-willed and image-conscious to take a proper stand.
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The last time the teams met on Islanders ice, raucous crowds at the Coliseum practically willed the home team to a Game 21 playoff victory in what would be the Islanders' last game there.
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In addition to being one of the most ridiculous and recognizable love stories on TV, it also features a tour de force performance by the late Carrie Fisher, who plays Delaney's strong-willed mother.
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I need Toy Story 4 to tell me before I fill up my entire house with trash on the off chance that I've played with it one time and thus willed it into existence.
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Robin Wright — currently starring in House of Cards and the upcoming Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049 — was just 21 years old when she played the ethereal but strong-willed Buttercup back in 1987.
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To review: Jackson brought brawlers, street fighters, drunks, hillbillies, knife fighters and duelers to the White House and the free will of rugged, self-willed settlers who busted on through to Texas and beyond.
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Obviously, there are certain situations that no amount of acceptance or willed positivity can fix, but dire scenarios aside, see if you can't also be one of the lucky ones by following these ideas.
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He ended up pacing the Warriors with 30 points, but more than that, he willed them back within shouting distance after the Cavaliers' initial onslaught, scoring 18 first-half points and hitting four threes.
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Too many intellectuals have internalized a stereotype, emanating from both the far left and the far right, of fuzzy-headed elitism — as if willed ignorance and intellectual laziness did not cut across social classes.
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The museum has owned the artifacts since Munch's death in 1944, as Munch willed all his work tools, artworks, and private library to the City of Oslo, which founded the museum two decades later.
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The deepening standoff raised questions of whether the two strong-willed leaders were risking even broader chaos as they vied for the upper hand in a widening diplomatic dispute largely focused on individual personalities.
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Here, highly skilled artisans create furniture the way they always have: by heating stiff poles of rattan into malleable rods that are bent on a metal frame and willed into functional works of art.
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His parents wanted him to go to nearby Horace Mann, a highly selective preparatory school, but Zuckerberg, once described by his father as "strong-willed and relentless," preferred the more rarefied Phillips Exeter Academy.
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They asked whether Mr. Sessions supported Mr. Trump's most controversial statements and questioned whether he had the independence to rein in the strong-willed Mr. Trump if he seeks to exceed his presidential authority.
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" The declaration added that "the pluralism and the diversity of religions" was willed by God, and, "therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected.
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After a minute, I willed myself to move over to the roof edge and look down upon the man who'd hired me and expected so much from me when I expected little from myself.
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TMZ Sports spoke with Santos while he was in physical therapy and he told us he's so mentally tough, he willed himself to keep fighting that night even though his body wanted to shut down.
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They came out to a desert, they were running away from the patent holders in New York, they came out to a desert where there was nothing, and they willed paradise out of the dirt.
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"This boy has fought, scraped, clawed and willed his way to recovery," Joey's aunt and guardian, Andra Munoz, wrote on Saturday on Joey Strong, the Facebook page she dedicated to chronicling his challenging health journey.
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"I think President Obama sees this as vindication of his belief that there's an iron-willed distinction between his commitment to Israel's security and whatever policy differences might exist between the two countries," Makovsky said.
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The big problem with the Never Trump movement was that it largely only talked to itself; sealed off from real-world fights, it was a callow, egocentric, and weak-willed attempt to resist Trump's rise.
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A prisoner his mother had spent a great deal of time with — my memory is vague here but I think Mr. Darnas said the prisoner was inside for murder — had willed the property to her.
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Jo is walking with Meg (Emma Watson) and Amy (Florence Pugh) outside Plumfield, the sprawling house that wealthy Aunt March (Meryl Streep) willed to Jo. The trio is discussing the book that Jo is writing.
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Russell's strong-willed mother, Lucy Elizabeth Robinson Baker, was forced to give up an infant daughter to childless in-laws and took the boy and his younger sister to live with her brother in Newark.
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Amazon shares dipped by a fraction of a percent on Thursday, but the blip was negligible amidst the momentum from its record-breaking performance on Prime Day, a shopping holiday the company unilaterally willed into existence.
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Todd Fisher says his mother couldn't bear the thought of his sister being alone that she "willed herself" to die a day after the "Star Wars" actress passed away, according to excerpts released by USA Today .
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But I can say from long experience of caring for, literally, thousands of dying people over many years that even the strongest-willed can become very vulnerable when struggling to come to terms with their mortality.
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It resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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Richard Barnes's photos of museum dioramas after visiting hours — employees cleaning fake snow, a giraffe strung up and ready to go back to storage — similarly puncture the illusion of reality that we've willed ourselves into believing.
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Thus began one of the stranger recent sagas in American celebrity bootstrapping as Mr. Cyrus willed his family (six Cyrus children in all) — and especially the daughter born Destiny Hope Cyrus — into becoming a household name.
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In roles like Juliet (opposite Orlando Bloom's Romeo) and the smiling yet iron-willed daughter in "A Doll's House, Part 2," she's shown a mixture of poise and fortitude echoing that of her mother, Phylicia Rashad.
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The whole reason states are considering passing local net neutrality protections is because in the past the FTC has proven itself fairly slow and weak-willed when it comes to cracking down on shady ISP behavior.
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Shep Doeleman, the radio astronomer who willed the earliest incarnation of the Event Horizon Telescope into existence, is a wiry 51-year-old man of medium height with thin, chaotic brown hair and wire-frame glasses.
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In return, it is mainly our duty to clean up our house, challenge the harsh interpretations of our faith and also build alliances with all the good-willed people who are committed to protecting human rights.
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Or is it possible that the authors of these descriptions failed to find a form — or a style or a voice or a plot — that could accommodate both violence and the civilized, willed response to it?
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Tyresse Haliburton made his final two free throws with 8 seconds remaining before Nembhard willed in a 40-footer off the bank with 1.7 seconds to play to send the game into overtime at 74-74.
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" Initial "Beauty and the Beast" reviews have been mostly positive, with critics praising Ms. Watson's strong-willed Belle; Sarah Greenwood's sumptuous production design; and Mr. Condon's vivid handling of the household objects — even Mrs. Potts. "Mrs.
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Together, they unspool Paul's gritty secrets, in a thriller that our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, said was brimming with "strong-willed female characters who can't wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes."
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At the Gender Management Service at Boston Children's Hospital, I saw a transgender girl so repulsed by her genitalia that she willed herself not to go to the bathroom and suffered intestinal damage that required surgery.
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Strong-willed and independent, Mr. Boutros-Ghali took the helm determined to subdue aggression and pursue peace after the fall of Soviet Communism and a relaxation of East-West tensions that had long hamstrung the United Nations.
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Gilbert's previous two novels, 2000's Stern Men and 2013's The Signature of All Things, both follow strong-willed women who forge their own paths in societies that aren't quite ready for them to do so.
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Not only did Thoreau's ideas influence Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but his strong-willed and idiosyncratic take on relationships among individuals, their governments, and nature has left a mark on generations of less famous readers.
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It all resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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My wife and I reckon their strong-willed and forthright personalities are strengths that will serve them well their entire lives (especially if they come up against men to whom these kinds of lessons were not imparted).
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Libby Lamm is a former top national security advisor who, while working with Rachel Burke, a ruthless, steely-willed political veteran, signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror.
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Gone, it seems, are the days when two of the world's strongest-willed leaders, Vladimir V. Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, engaged in an unlikely courtship to prop up oil prices and extend their influence.
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But the 'Gypsy King' willed himself to his feet and held on to send the fight to the judges, who rewarded him for controlling much of the fight behind his long jab, precise footwork and slippery defense.
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Apart from sales to private collectors and museum acquisitions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the bulk of Mr. Leiber's work was willed to the Judith and Gerson Leiber Foundation.
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When the movie opens, the young teenage girl, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), and her father, Will (Ben Foster), aren't just living — foraging, surviving, apparently thriving — in the forest, they are existing in a state of willed invisibility.
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" Fukuyama also summarized Alexandre Kojève's judgment of the postwar European countries as "precisely those flabby, prosperous, self-satisfied, inward-looking, weak-willed states whose grandest project was nothing more heroic than the creation of the Common Market.
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In this case, the strong-willed coaches render that more conspicuous by pushing back against essentially staging where they chat -- a cute moment, in terms of exposing their personalities, which makes the filmmakers look worse than intended.
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Stephen's wardrobe of hard-core nerd sweaters, on the other hand, is nicely in keeping with his endearingly unreconstructed dorkdom — a shell of awkwardness that Mr. Trumbull cracks to reveal pain, self-awareness and strong-willed dignity.
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Indeed, the production notes draw appropriate comparisons to the 1961 World War II classic "The Guns of Navarone," another film about a team of strong-willed individuals thrown together to undertake a secret mission against a malevolent empire.
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Then again, it weighs 50 pounds, and can carry up to 40 pounds of belongings, so it wouldn't be an easy task for any ill-willed thieves to just snatch it up and make a run for it.
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In 2002, the supervisor of the willed-body program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was found to have been running a side business selling tissue from donors — including fingernails and toenails — to outside clients.
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The Super Deluxe stream was peppered with Snapchat filters, the Curb your Enthusiasm theme, and memes willed into the world by Vic Berger, a brilliant video editor who proposed that Trump is best summarized as an air horn.
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"What he wants is to operate like the 26th floor of Trump Tower where he had a strong-willed, very good woman in Rhona Graff handling the calls, knowing him, getting his zen, things like that," Nunberg said.
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Obama's impatience and demands for a whole loaf through executive fiat means that every one of these actions can — as many will — be wiped from the books using the same pen and phone that willed them into existence.
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WASHINGTON — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.
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The fact that the prototypes were designed and built by six private contractors matters less, he said, than the impression that, upon completion, they constitute an unintended sculpture garden willed into existence by the president and his supporters.
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"I'm trying to keep them busy so he can get his project done, so that tomorrow I can go into work for the day," Carretta said, as her older son, Frank, 9, almost willed his pizza to arrive.
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While his parents are clearly supportive of him, they do insist that he goes to college at some point, though from what I can tell that's the extent of any iron-willed control they hold over his career.
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In the 2000s, as he willed the Renault-Nissan alliance into being, he was courted by the swashbuckling corporate raider Kirk Kerkorian and Kerkorian&aposs car-business guy, Jerry York, to bring a struggling GM into the alliance.
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Far from creating a "midnight monument" willed into existence at the slash of a presidential pen, the Obama designation provides these sacred lands with the protection that has long been in the prayers and dreams of tribal leaders.
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He became famous with the publication of "Growing Up," the account of his impoverished childhood, his strong-willed mother who kept urging him to "amount to something" and his satisfaction at eventually (he hoped) having achieved her ambition.
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Vanda the heroin addict is seen as a sober and relatively happy mother in Colossal Youth, and the addled Ventura who walks tremblingly through Costa's last three films is rejuvenated by his interactions with the strong-willed, unbroken Vitalina.
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I collected an amount of makeup that seemed obscene for a Broadway cast, let alone a single person, sat down in my living room, pulled out my phone, and willed myself to get in touch with my inner Kylie.
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But, again, the man making the face, bracketed on each side by question marks he seems to have willed into being through the sheer force of his incredulity, doesn't have to be Nick Young for the thing to work.
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By then, the Carter administration, worried that it could jeopardize negotiations over the Panama Canal, had already willed itself into forgetting what the U.S. government had long known about Panama's intimate role in the burgeoning South American cocaine trade.
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The hope was that with Boehner, the weak-willed establishment compromiser, gone, Republicans could finally grow a spine and exact the big cuts they really wanted — and defund and kill Obamacare once and for all, as they had promised.
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This is the first of what will undoubtedly be many rifts between Maggie and Gregory, who is fashioned as such a weak-willed aristocrat that it's hard to not feel his comic book origins bleed through the TV screen.
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The monster-voiced La'Porsha Renae parted amicably with the rest of her original foursome to join up with Tonie Starr and Marlena Johnson, who were in danger of being eliminated after Shelbie Z, the strong-willed hairdresser, ditched them.
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A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan's office also said discussions with Saudi chief prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb have yielded no "concrete results" despite "good-willed efforts" by Turkey to uncover the truth, according to The Associated Press.
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Watch it nowA warm, affecting comedy about a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
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A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan's office also said discussions with Saudi chief prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb have yielded no "concrete results" despite "good-willed efforts" by Turkey to uncover the truth, according to The Associated Press.
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An irascible, strong-willed figure, Mr. Wu ended up spending much of that money on his organization, the Laogai Research Foundation, which had worked to expose China's exploitative use of prison labor, especially involving people jailed for political crimes.
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He establishes convincingly, though, that the Eyquem family had long been in trade—and was quite possibly Jewish in origin on Montaigne's mother's side—and that Montaigne's persistent tone of lordly amusement was self-consciously willed rather than inherited.
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Weber's main character, Max, is a decent but weak-willed assistant forester who wants to inherit the top job — and with it the de facto leadership of the town — from Kuno, as well as marry Kuno's winsome daughter, Agathe.
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The cast is great, too: Joshua Sasse plays the titular hero, given equal opportunities to flex his golden pipes and biceps; Karen David is the iron-willed Princess Isabella, and Mallory Jansen is Galavant's trope-dodging lost love Madalena.
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" To be sure, the awkwardness of her hand is willed in a way that Thurber's was not, as she demonstrates with heartbreaking, freely drawn portraits of her mother on her deathbed in "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
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Bring your ex into the conversation I trust that anyone can be strong-willed if they set their mind to it, but avoiding sleeping with your ex is a lot harder when they won't stay out of your DMs.
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Time has a way of flattening the dimensions of a presidency, of creating a conventional narrative: Jimmy Carter was a weak-willed failure, Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet Union, Abraham Lincoln and FDR saved America at times of crisis.
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But from a Nietzschean perspective, strong-willed people enjoy the intoxication of loving, but have the big picture in mind: they realize the main criterion for choosing a long-term partner ought to be the ability to hold a decent conversation.
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It's a bracingly fresh experience, watching the story of Edwards — who willed himself through a loophole to, uh, "compete" in the Calgary Olympics in 280 — through the eyes of director Dexter Fletcher, a guy who knows something about the '248s.
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At this point, the scenario reaches Monty Python-esque levels of absurdity, French fry woman becomes a track-pants and headphones version of the iron-willed Black Knight, completely unwilling to grasp the immensity of the odds stacked against her.
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NEW YORK – The New York Public Library is beginning construction on a new study and research room that will house 1,800 books and three portraits that philanthropist Brooke Astor willed to the library after her death at age 105 in 2007.
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LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Spurs, but they were willed to the finish by Ginobili, 40, who has said he will decide in the off-season whether he will return for a 17th season.
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I think if I would have just heard 'Yes' my whole life, then I wouldn't be as strong-willed and as courageous as I am today, so that's what I instilled in these girls who really felt like my little sisters.
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I think that being in a place like Venice — it's this impossible city that, in some ways, shouldn't even exist because it's a city built on water that was willed into existence — you are kind of captured by the spirit.
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It was so relatable to me in that moment, it felt like I had willed the song into existence, just because I needed to hear these words reaffirmed by another person, so I wouldn't feel so crazy or so alone.
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Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
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Her next target was the treacherous, weak-willed foreign-policy elite: people like Robert McNamara who blundered into Vietnam but were scared to fight properly, or that deluded appeaser Henry Kissinger, whom she lambasted in a densely argued 800-page tome.
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Berg takes the cue from his no-nonsense characters and you feel their peril: Particularly effective is Gina Rodriguez's Andrea, one of the ship's navigators who is believably both strong-willed and absolutely petrified as her ship dissolves around her.
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While the kids and teenagers of past family sitcoms spent most of their time being lectured to, the youth of today's family sitcoms are strong-willed, independent thinkers who often teach their parents lessons rather than the other way around.
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Neal's third grade math teacher testified to Neal's resilience, how he willed himself from a below-average math student into a passable one, all to help further his dream of earning a college scholarship and one day playing in the NFL.
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Cixi, a peer of Queen Victoria's and apparently iron-willed, has invited revisionist interpretations that view her as a feminist, at least in the context of the late 19th century, when women in China were treated little better than spittoons.
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He was in the cast of about two dozen Disney animated films, including "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), as the villain Jumba Jookiba, and "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), in which he was the voice of Cogsworth, a strong-willed pendulum clock.
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In all contexts, this was his philosophy: behind podiums, or wading through mobs with microphones stuffed against his cheeks, or outdoors, before corrupt dictators, everywhere, he wanted to provoke until he exposed you as weak-willed, fraudulent, insecure, and reckless.
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This, in turn, willed Musk to take himself seriously: He was joking at first, but enough people took him at face value that he ultimately sent one of his cars into space and sold 20,000 flamethrowers in around 100 hours.
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Between Reynolds's natural charisma and the two men dancing on either side of her in virtually identical outfits, it's hard not to focus squarely on her, a brilliant performer who willed her inexperience into submission with sheer determination and skill.
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As a strong-willed career gal who inadvertently falls in love with a rakish playboy (played by Rock Hudson), Day conveys both a commitment to bedrock moral values and an undeniable yearning to be hugged and smooched by a total dreamboat.
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In 1960 he married a woman who embodies the most sexist understanding of the adjective "strong-willed" (a quality that would be labeled "strength" or "independence" in men) and spent every day of their marriage encouraging her to do so unapologetically.
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"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," Ms. Hirst said.
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Rather than "drift," I think of the mind-state of composition, only partially achievable as an end-user of the poem, as being inside the mind-state of the particular poem, which is a state of willed or controlled subconscious dwelling.
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Starbucks began selling "unicorn Frappuccinos" on Wednesday, a colorful kaleidoscope of a drink, breathing new life into a food trend that had been willed into existence by a torrent of carefully composed pictures shared on Instagram and other social media sites.
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"We're both incredibly ambitious and I do appreciate that were both very strong willed and trying to, as most woman are, [find] the balance between career, life, relationship -- all of that," she told AOL Build in an interview in 2016.
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Ms. Merkel and her strong-willed finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, had indicated before Monday's important talks that they were ready to be flexible in attempts to address France's economic woes, and the chancellor emphasized that Germans must not act superior.
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But for sheer, jaw-dropping wonder, I doubt that any of it will improve on a typical Conway television interview, which is a circus of euphemisms, a festival of distractions and a testament to the stamina of a willed smile.
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In developing a series about a strong-willed family that also includes two police officers and a prosecutor, Mr. Goldberg added an unusual touch: Every episode featured a post-church Sunday dinner, with the Reagans talking (and arguing) around the table.
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Strong-willed, far-sighted and independent, the Midwestern farmer has long lived up to his depiction in Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic," portraying a father and daughter posed with a pitchfork in front of a home complete with Gothic window.
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The comedy played out as he tried to advance grand plans against the wishes of his strong-willed wife, Sybil, played by Prunella Scales, and in his frequent miscommunications with Manuel, who was from Barcelona and not proficient in English.
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The cringe is the real secret skill of Hilda, because at the show's center is the idea that Hilda is a bit set in her ways and unwilling to consider other perspectives, like many a strong-willed child before her.
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Boleyn stood in on vocals while they looked for a permanent singer; she adopted the last name "Boleyn" after Henry the VIII's doomed, strong-willed wife so she could preserve her reputation as a respected keyboard player under her legal name.
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He likes to draw a parallel to one of the most important transformations in Mexican history: Generations of dying Roman Catholics had willed their lands and fortunes to the church, tying up much of Mexico&aposs wealth for perpetuity and strangling the economy.
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A strong-willed crusader for robotic rights, L3-37 is easily the film's most entertaining addition to the canon, as well as a sly thumb in the eye of fanboys who have turned their backs on a more inclusive Star Wars universe.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hailed as mother of the 'new' South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine ultimately was undermined even among some allies by her reputation as an iron-willed ideologue ruthless in her pursuit of revolution and redress.
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We kind of feel like we mentally willed Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti to fall in love; they are two of our favorite comedians from two of our favorite TV shows (that would be Key & Peele and Brooklyn 99, respectively), after all.
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" The Vatican's view, clarified in 2009, is that "abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law ... Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
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" Kathy Rinaldi, a national coach for the United States Tennis Association, said the strong-willed and passionate Stewart was "taking all the qualities she learned from tennis — commitment, knowing how to push herself and dig deep — and using them to full advantage.
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But these are willed thoughts, a hedge against an atavistic instinct to read omens and signs into a giant black vulture that has staked out my home on a day when the federal government has announced its intention to claim my child.
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Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation's largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to escape New York City's temptations and decadence, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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It's something I've been really intense, and has been honed on a public stage, but I do think I have always been kind of strong-willed and really vigorous about gathering information and finding the way to be confident in expressing myself.
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As set decorators and wardrobe crew remodeled summer 2017 into fall 1958, Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), the show's strong-willed heroine, hosted a birthday party for Ethan, her 4-year-old son, while discussing divorce with Joel (Michael Zegen), her man-child husband.
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By the time she died, Ms. Kamman had established a reputation as a strong-willed teacher of traditional French cuisine for modern tastes and an influential chef whose cooking was deeply informed by her knowledge of food chemistry, botany, history and geography.
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One of its actors, Greg Sestero, along with Tom Bissell, wrote an account of that film's making, and now James Franco has turn that account into a movie, casting himself as Tommy Wiseau, the fiercely independent personality who willed "The Room" into being.
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Along the way, he resists, and adopts, the advice of an assortment of good-willed authority figures — embodied by Jay Smith and Douglas Scott Streater, as well as by Ms. Benson — who see a redemptive spark of poetry in this violent man.
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"This is part of a larger set of issues that the country is wrestling with right now, where a very strong-willed minority is trying to impose its value system on the country as a whole," said Roger McNamee, an industry investor.
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"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," she told the Times.
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Embassies in Washington trade tips and ambassadors send cables to presidents and ministers back home suggesting how to handle a mercurial, strong-willed leader with no real experience on the world stage, a preference for personal diplomacy and a taste for glitz.
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But some Chinese officials share the concern of observers that future clashes between China and the US, if neither strong-willed leader is willing to compromise, would almost inevitably push up nationalistic fervor from hardliners in the Chinese government, military and general public.
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I, admittedly, haven't seen a ton of Mister Peepers, but the episodes and clips I have watched depict a rather meek man who manages to keep from being bowled over by his stronger-willed friends and colleagues through gentle good humor and spirit.
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But these passages do run through all the things that would distress a self-willed 21st-century young woman thrust into the past, including corsets, reflexive racism, and expectations of demure passivity, and they should make a modern reader grind her teeth in sympathetic frustration.
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The inaugural project from Hasbro's crowdfunded HasLab required that 5,000 people sign up for the $500 toy before it would be willed into existence, and a grand total of 8,810 got in line, so now Hasbro is making the toy for a February release.
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But the willed blindness to Barr's tweets, at least until today, points to the great flattening of post-Trump politics, in which it's ever more difficult to discern what's ridiculous and what should spark outrage — that which, as the word originally suggested, transgresses human decency.
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It's a closely observed, quietly emotional film about a girl strong-willed enough to throw herself out of a car on the highway to escape an annoying conversation, but still sensitive enough to have her heart broken by boys, her mother, and her family's poverty.
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" Benioff adds, "He's a very strong-willed person, he didn't come down there to bend the knee, he didn't come down there to join her in her fight against Cersei — none of that matters at this point; all that matters is fighting the dead.
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" The writer and literary intellectual Stephen Koch, to whom Hujar willed his estate, said in a 21973 interview, "One of the keys to his personality, I later figured out, was that anyone who had been an abused child was automatically on Peter's A list.
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One did not need a Ph.D. in political science to know that with a Democrat in the White House, and filibuster rules in the Senate providing a strong-willed minority the ability to block pretty much anything, neither of these promises could be met.
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Rather, they will become the party of Ed Gillespie-type candidates — weak-willed leaders who fail to stand up to Trump when it counts and pretend to be sympathetic to Trump policies and practices they privately deplore, from a president they privately view with disdain.
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The film revisits the high jinks of a profane group of Vermont state troopers played by the Broken Lizard comedy group; the sequel to the 2002 stoner classic was willed into existence by a devoted fan base that raised $4.6 million through an Indiegogo campaign.
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Helen Gao BEIJING — My generation of urban Chinese, born in the 1980s and 113s under the one-child policy, were long labeled "little emperors," a term used to characterize us as narcissistic and weak-willed children spoiled by parental attention and newfound material comfort.
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And while he willed himself to believe that he would perform on Broadway within three years of graduation — a goal he wrote down in a planner he still keeps on his desk — he wasn't sure that the theater, an overwhelmingly white industry, would welcome him.
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It's a modulated kind of distancing device that keeps the movie from turning into mush and dovetails with the fact that — in a somewhat bold move for mainstream narrative — Rogers remains an enigma, perhaps partly because he has willed himself into a state of grace.
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His father, Carmine Sr., was a legal stenographer for Manhattan law firms, and his mother, Susan (Plantamura) Persico, was a strong-willed woman who tried to keep a tight rein on young Carmine; his older brother, Alphonse; his younger brother, Theodore; and a sister, Dolores.
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Not mired in theatrics or heroics, the works in the exhibition push the viewer into a sort of compromise, in which all aspects of the work, including its various contexts, are either simultaneously willed to the fore, or picked out as exemplary of one thing or another.
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Meanwhile, Neal Brennan's newest Netflix special, 3 Mics, wades into some very deep and personal history, and the New York Times describes Chris Gethard's recent solo show, Career Suicide, as "much more about [his] uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to self-willed death" than his career.
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Anna, a strong-willed and charming bartender beloved by regulars at the restaurant where she worked, guided her 3-year-old niece into the raft, corralled her sister's dog into the carrying case, and placed her belongings into a garbage bag, along with bottled water and crackers.
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Among those who came were a young man called Guled, who had been kidnapped and escaped from al Shabaab; Nisho, born as his parents were fleeing Somalia in 1991; and clever, strong-willed Muna, to whom schooling gave the confidence to defy the strictures of her clan.
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At the same time, Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, was wildly unpopular, with many ordinary Russians seeing him as a weak-willed leader incapable of standing up to the US or protecting his country from terror attacks launched by militants from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
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Caillebotte, Thompson finds, accidentally invented the impressionist canon: He willed his collection of his friends' paintings to the Musée du Luxembourg, and the seven painters who featured in the resulting exhibition became the core of the impressionist canon: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Pissarro, and Sisley.
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"The brutal conspiracy by hired hands to target the public prosecutor Hisham Barakat and assassinate him, where the corrupt and weak-willed forces of evil and tyranny conspired, could only be carried out by an unjust group that has shed innocent blood," said Judge Hassan Farid.
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Unlike the hapless former secretary of state, he has a close relationship with Trump and more Washington experience, seems determined to put the State Department back in the foreign policy driver's seat, is strong willed and assertive, and knows how to play to foreign policy constituencies.
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The Radikons — along with a collection of strong-willed, relentlessly experimental neighbors like Josko Gravner, Movia and, a little to the south, Edi Kante — have operated on another borderline, making wines that wander into territory half-forgotten in an age of chemical farming and technological winemaking.
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Long before she was an Oscar winner, Katniss Everdeen, or even the strong-willed Ree in Winter's Bone, Jennifer Lawrence got her first big-screen role in a small film by Lori Petty, best known at the time for her role in A League of Their Own.
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The meeting itself — once I willed myself out of the car, into the cold and through the lit doorway — was just a bunch of strangers gathered around a huge wooden table, past a kitchen tracked with footprints, old linoleum curling upward at the edges of the room.
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The result fractured the invincibility of a strong-willed leader with little tolerance for dissent, who has made Turkey an increasingly prominent force in the Middle East and raised tensions with the United States as he moves his country, a member of NATO, closer to Russia.
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By the end of the second quarter, Detroit was leading by a score of 24-0, and while Rodgers willed his team into making it somewhat of a game, the 13 points the Packers left off the board thanks to Crosby's misses made it an impossible deficit.
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It is essential, however, to make sure that the good kind of seriousness — steady, good-hearted, good-willed — does not slide back into moral smugness or certainty, and that the fascistic thinking and dogmatism against which we retaliated with irony does not become our own signature.
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" "He's the eternal thorn in the Baudelaires' side, obsessed with laying his hands on the massive fortune willed to the children by their parents (who may or may not appear, perhaps or perhaps not played by a pair of familiar faces — Netflix demands we remain coy).
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With the major exception of the lounge-ready "Ntyilo Ntyilo," almost every track harks back at least momentarily to the '50s combos in ethos, mood, or tune, in conscious reiteration or wacky detail; every one evinces a willed knack for living in the moment and dancing while oppressed.
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What they missed was an excellent Kenneth Lonergan screenplay, crisply paced Hettie MacDonald direction, and a cast — led by Hayley Atwell as the strong-willed spinster Margaret Schlegel and Matthew Macfadyen as the conservative widower Henry Wilcox — which found some of the deeper character notes in Forster's story.
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Dobson's thinking on the topic of strength and authority is dominated by a single theme: If the strong-willed child is allowed by indulgence to develop "habits" of defiance and disrespect during his early childhood, those characteristics will haunt him and his parents for the next twenty years.
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Americans a generation older may associate the house with the notorious "Cliveden Set," presided over by the strong-willed Virginian Nancy Astor, who held gatherings in the lead-up to World War II that were attended by prominent, appeasement-minded Britons and the Germans who sought their support.
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DEBBIE REYNOLDS 'WILLED HERSELF' TO DIE ONE DAY AFTER CARRIE FISHER'S DEATH, TODD FISHER SAYS Scientology has come under scrutiny following "Going Clear" and the A&E docuseries "Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath," which focuses on former Scientologists and the experience they had after leaving the church.
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I don't really have it in me to be reasonable about Elton Brand, because I was so moved by the work he did in that most unreasonable of basketball situations, and how he willed and worked some dignity and purpose onto an organization that so flagrantly lacked either.
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"Respectful of the nature of the Church as willed by Christ, no mechanism of canon law provides for the removal of a pope from office," Edward Peters, the chair of faculty development at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit who runs a popular blog on canon law, wrote recently.
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Replace tobacco with coal or auto manufacturing or whatever single industry used to prop up the community you call home; replace the 2010 state elections with the 2016 presidential vote; swap the weak-willed North Carolina Democratic Party leaders with Representative Nancy Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, and the DNC.
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But, after Edsel Ford died, in 1943, and Henry Ford died, in 1947, and willed to the foundation a large chunk of the nonvoting stock of the Ford Motor Company, it became clear that the foundation was going to become, overnight, the largest philanthropic organization in the world.
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Conceived by a strong-willed woman who does not want to have to marry the boy's father, and who ships off for America only to discover that she cannot abort a 7-month-old fetus here, Deming is first sent back to China to live with his grandfather.
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These, and many other of Gehrig's personal items, have been in the family since Gehrig's mother died in 19249 and willed them to Ms. Ellis's parents, who were her friends and neighbors in Westchester County and Connecticut in the 24s and 21942s, said Mr. Ellis, a retired IBM manager.
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The centerpiece is the mansion of William Burritt, who willed the land to the city upon his death in 1955, but the highlights are the 19th-century structures that are home to a living history museum, with re-enactors in period-appropriate attire, and the view of the city.
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The musical still begins in 1906 in Oklahoma territory where Laurey Williams (a strong-willed Rebecca Naomi Jones) must make a consequential choice between suitors: the dreamy cowboy Curly McClain (a deceptively seductive Damon Daunno) and the loner farmhand Jud Fry (played with unprecedented vulnerability by Patrick Vaill).
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This is something that the superhuman specimens who play baseball for a living have in common with the mortals on the other side of the screen—not just the fantastic and forever thwarted delusion of control but a willed forgetfulness that makes failure seem like an outrage and a surprise.
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Beginning with the iconic opening line "It was a dark and stormy night," Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's sci-fi tale takes us on a harrowing journey with iron-willed Meg Wallace, precocious Charles Wallace, and charming Calvin as they they bend time and space to find Meg and Charles's missing father.
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In the aforementioned episode, "The West," it isn't her performance as a glamorously nude faerie queen; instead, it's her nostalgic reflection on the classic real-time-strategy game Age of Empires, including a bit where the bearded "prophet" from the game magically willed a metaphorical gender transition from male to female.
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We know from the way she dealt with Ramsay in episode 9 that Sansa is now very different from the naive, romance-obsessed girl we saw in the show's first season — Sansa 2.0 is strong-willed, tough, and more than happy to play the game and get her hands dirty.
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He wants to put strong-willed people — business executives and generals are mentioned most often — in charge of cabinet agencies and throughout his senior staff, and direct them to negotiate deals and plans with congressional leaders and state officials, as well as insurance companies and others in the private sector.
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In Homer's Odyssey, composed around 750 B.C., the main villain is Aegisthus, a cad who seduces the weak-willed Clytemnestra and then ambushes the recently returned king and his retainers at a feast, slaughtering them in a grotesque parody of a real battle, the bodies lying among the scattered crockery.
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As he rose the ranks, joining the special counsel team that investigated President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, as a deputy in the Whitewater probe, and later serving as a top assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey honed a reputation as a strong-willed prosecutor.
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So what did Ryan actually get in return for two years of swallowing his tongue, two years of being made to look like a weak-willed second banana next to Trump, two years of jeers from not just Democrats but anti-Trump Republicans and even conservatives who blamed him for inaction?
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In 1972, after the villa was willed to the government and offered as a "winter White House," an adviser suggested that foreign leaders could stay at the estate on their first stop in the United States, rest a few days and then continue on to Washington to meet with American leaders.
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" The same year, People magazine described her as "a strong-willed 41-year-old Spanish-born redhead" (the age was quite a bit off) who "has what it takes — money, taste and, perhaps most important, a willingness to back new plays to the hilt, take a bath and still try again.
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If it is the good-willed intention of the president and others on both sides of the partisan divide to "drain the swamp," then using back-channel conduits to covertly sneak in more toxic sludge with the hope of poisoning those with whom you disagree ensures failure — for us all.
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Tim Duncan, of course, served as the team's stalwart for 23.3 Hall of Fame seasons, but he picked up that torch from David Robinson and then, at the tail end of his career, handed it off to Kawhi Leonard, who willed himself to stardom under the watchful eye of the Spurs' development staff.
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He closed his eyes and willed it to land at J.F.K. He imagined the hard body of the plane pushing downward through the thick mass of clouds, emerging in a clean empty space between sky and ground, and then sliding down in one bold, determined movement until its wheels touched the runway.
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I willed myself to believe my feelings for her were platonic, and when the afternoon took a romantic turn toward evening, an electric fear shot up my spine (not unlike the zaps I felt at the base of my skull during my first week sober — I worried they were precursors to seizures).
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Sharp Objects was adapted from a 2006 novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, and is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, of Dallas Buyers Club and Wild and, more recently, Big Little Lies — another women-centered HBO drama, and one so successful and acclaimed that another season was willed into existence for next year.
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In an old fashioned post-screening bidding war that went late into the night, The Birth of a Nation, Parker's willed-into-existence epic about the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia led by Nat Turner, is being sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million — making it the richest movie deal the festival has ever seen.
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Chris Wallace's moderation of this Thrilla in Nevada did well to keep Trump outbursts to a minimum – relatively speaking– and steered the debate through the murk of projected national debt under each hypothetical administration and the mire of how to handle the problems of a humanitarian crisis and an iron-willed Russian influence in Syria.
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He's not alone: Stranded alongside the British schoolboy are Con ("short for Constantia, but if you call me that, I'll kill you"), a strong-willed schoolgirl whose primness will be tested by the rain forest adventure to come; Lila, shy and even-keeled; and finally Max, Lila's little brother, a rascal prone to tantrums.
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I found that strange, because Lenin was one of the most strong-willed men who ever lived; he was at once zealously one-sided and emotionally evasive, but nevertheless, throughout his exile, no matter where he happened to be, in Zurich, London or Paris, he made sure to have Turgenev's collected works with him.
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The play, first staged at New Mexico State and then, in 22019, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, is about a strong-willed young woman, Sarah, who is deaf, and her evolving relationship with James, a speech teacher at a state school for the deaf who struggles to understand her world and perspective.
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Nicholson immersed himself in the character, taking pains to physically transform himself into the union chief, via nose putty, eyebrow lifts and other makeup tricks: "Lips clamped, jaws screwed down, forehead willed into an unlikely cube, the kisser on Jack Nicholson's Jimmy Hoffa seems sculpted with a wrench," J. Hoberman wrote in The Village Voice.
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