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The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn’t portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love. – Shayan Das	added by anonymous 1 year ago
The majority staff accurately portrays how Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook have used their monopoly power to act as gatekeepers to the marketplace, undermine potential competition, and pick winners and losers. – Ken Buck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They should have a specific museum for those monuments and statues - a museum that portrays the history of slave-owners, the history of the transatlantic slave trade is very cruel, it's not a good thing. However, we have to remember what happened in the past so we don't repeat what happened. – Anthony Bouadi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The energy that everyone portrays is just a feeling that you just can't explain. I mean, he energizes everyone. – Trish Asselta	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To be honest, whatever the life of The Crown is after where we are now, I doubt well ever go as far into the present day, i think well probably ... we dont travel into the present day. The series currently takes place between 1964 and 1977 and portrays the life of the royal family from the time when the queen was crowned. Harry and Meghan announced on Jan. 8 that they would take a 'step back' as senior members of the royal family and instead work independently, splitting their time between the United Kingdom and North America, specifically Canada. (Getty) The shows creator, Peter Morgan, also echoed Mackies sentiment in 2018, telling Entertainment Weekly that Markles likeness was unlikely to be featured in the series simply because its too close to the moment. – Suzanne Mackie	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
In its movie ... (Netflix) defames and portrays the plaintiffs (Mossack and Fonseca) as ruthless uncaring lawyers who are involved in money laundering, tax evasion, bribes and/or other criminal conduct. – Mossack Fonseca	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
> Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump denied again Friday President Donald Trump had instructed President Donald Trump former White House counsel to fire Robert Mueller, contradicting the redacted report Robert Mueller released last week and furthering a battle with Democrats over whether Don McGahn, Don McGahn, should testify before Congress.It comes as Trump scales up Don McGahn attacks on Robert Mueller and the report Don McGahn produced -- broadsides and claims that some view as damaging to an overall legal strategy of asserting executive privilege to prevent key aides from appearing before Congress.Some West Wing officials have conceded that the President's tweets disputing McGahn's account are not helpful to their case, and fear it could make it more difficult to assert privilege over a conversation that Trump denies occurred. Mueller's report portrays The President as consumed by the Russia probe and intent on short-circuiting it. Those portrayals have led Democrats on Capitol Hill to issue their own requests for some of the report's key players, including Don McGahn. But White House has dug in, refusing to cooperate with the requests and disallowing some aides from appearing before congressional panels.Trump at war with Democrats : Were fighting all the subpoenasIn the case of Don McGahn, lawmakers are keen to know what specifically Trump asked in his conversations about the special counsel. In his report, Robert Mueller wrote Trump read MoreBut Trump has long disputed that, including to Don McGahn Don McGahn in an episode recounted in detail in the Mueller report. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn, Trump insisted he would have been within his rights to dismiss Robert Mueller, but that history told him to hold off. – Don McGahn	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's tons of secrecy surrounding this eighth and final season of HBO's hit show and Zach Braff had some fun with that.He posted a photo of Zach Braff with actor Kit Harington, who portrays one of the main characters, Jon Snow. – Zach Braff	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's a bad night for the AK Party, they have done very poorly in all the economic powerhouses of country. For a party which portrays itself as pro-business, it's a huge issue. – Wolfango Piccoli	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is everything : from the imagery Cynthia Matuszek company portrays, from the way Cynthia Matuszek act on social media, to the direct actions of Cynthia Matuszek employees, these are all critical things, both internally with employees and externally with consumers in the marketplace. For companies that are smart, they're going to be thinking about these things. – Michele Meyer-Shipp	Found on CNN 5 years ago
A lot of journalism and a lot of Hollywood work portrays people's world views as liberal, moderate, right [ - wing ], but I don't think people sit in buckets that are that clean all the time, i think you could be hanging out with a pot-smoking, born-again Christian who believes in Medicare for all and is a climate denier. I know that guy. – George Goehl	Found on CNN 5 years ago
[ The movie ] shows just how big such small things can feel -- like walking down from the house to the pool, and the scene just portrays kids in the [ way ] they're viewed by other kids, which is the scariest goddamn things alive. – Elsie Fisher	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's ironic that President Trump, who portrays himself as an advocate of the working man, doesn't see fit to pay his own driver a fair wage. – Larry Hutcher	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
(Ryanair CEO) Michael O'Leary portrays this as people in the UK won't be able to fly. But it's people in Europe that won't be able to fly. – Willie Walsh	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The painting portrays a colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society. – William Lacy Clay	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg has adopted a policy of censoring news that portrays Muslim migrants in an unfavorable light and reveals the jihadi motivations of the Orlando killer. – Pamela Geller	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Most Americans do believe that there is a link between screen violence and real world aggression, but they don’t think it affects them or their children - only others. In addition, the media itself often portrays the issue as being contentious, whereas in fact hundreds of studies and several large meta-analyses have shown that there is a definitive( albeit small to moderate) link between virtual violence and real world aggression. It is always possible to find a dissenting scientist( think climate change), but the truth is for the vast majority of researchers, this is settled science. – Dimitri Christakis	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
When it comes to love Words don't mean anything Said or unsaid they don't define anyone It's what we act out that tells our stories Portrays our thoughts and emotions Sings our song and plays our music Evidently we've all got to improve But if it's with the right plus 1 You'll never lose her – Sandile Sean Mntla	added by anonymous 7 years ago
This image portrays how an African city like Dar es Salaam is evolving to become a metropolitan city hand-in-hand with economical and sociological progress towards a new urban Tanzania. – Ali Nasoor -LRB- @ali_kagawa -RRB-	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With her middle-class roots Vidal acts as counterweight to Macri, whom Scioli's Front for Victory party often portrays as a neo-liberal born into money and privilege. – Jimena Blanco	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Disney is a capitalistic corporation bent on consumerism, and that's what drives our economy, it brings out people's opinions about our society and culture in general. You can love them or be very critical of those aspects of our culture and society because it portrays them so well. – Manchester University sociologist Robert Pettit	Found on CNN 8 years ago
These are very public appointments. You have to be careful of how this affects your image, samantha Cameron is obviously not part of a government, but the public image it portrays is that the UK government is somehow sponsoring the actions of Save the Children and therefore it becomes more difficult to say there is no political agenda behind our humanitarian action. – Michiel Hofman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn’t portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.

– Shayan Das

added by anonymous
1 year ago

The majority staff accurately portrays how Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook have used their monopoly power to act as gatekeepers to the marketplace, undermine potential competition, and pick winners and losers.

– Ken Buck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They should have a specific museum for those monuments and statues - a museum that portrays the history of slave-owners, the history of the transatlantic slave trade is very cruel, it's not a good thing. However, we have to remember what happened in the past so we don't repeat what happened.

– Anthony Bouadi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The energy that everyone portrays is just a feeling that you just can't explain. I mean, he energizes everyone.

– Trish Asselta

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To be honest, whatever the life of The Crown is after where we are now, I doubt well ever go as far into the present day, i think well probably ... we dont travel into the present day. The series currently takes place between 1964 and 1977 and portrays the life of the royal family from the time when the queen was crowned. Harry and Meghan announced on Jan. 8 that they would take a 'step back' as senior members of the royal family and instead work independently, splitting their time between the United Kingdom and North America, specifically Canada. (Getty) The shows creator, Peter Morgan, also echoed Mackies sentiment in 2018, telling Entertainment Weekly that Markles likeness was unlikely to be featured in the series simply because its too close to the moment.

– Suzanne Mackie

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In its movie ... (Netflix) defames and portrays the plaintiffs (Mossack and Fonseca) as ruthless uncaring lawyers who are involved in money laundering, tax evasion, bribes and/or other criminal conduct.

– Mossack Fonseca

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

> Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump denied again Friday President Donald Trump had instructed President Donald Trump former White House counsel to fire Robert Mueller, contradicting the redacted report Robert Mueller released last week and furthering a battle with Democrats over whether Don McGahn, Don McGahn, should testify before Congress.It comes as Trump scales up Don McGahn attacks on Robert Mueller and the report Don McGahn produced -- broadsides and claims that some view as damaging to an overall legal strategy of asserting executive privilege to prevent key aides from appearing before Congress.Some West Wing officials have conceded that the President's tweets disputing McGahn's account are not helpful to their case, and fear it could make it more difficult to assert privilege over a conversation that Trump denies occurred. Mueller's report portrays The President as consumed by the Russia probe and intent on short-circuiting it. Those portrayals have led Democrats on Capitol Hill to issue their own requests for some of the report's key players, including Don McGahn. But White House has dug in, refusing to cooperate with the requests and disallowing some aides from appearing before congressional panels.Trump at war with Democrats : Were fighting all the subpoenasIn the case of Don McGahn, lawmakers are keen to know what specifically Trump asked in his conversations about the special counsel. In his report, Robert Mueller wrote Trump read MoreBut Trump has long disputed that, including to Don McGahn Don McGahn in an episode recounted in detail in the Mueller report. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn, Trump insisted he would have been within his rights to dismiss Robert Mueller, but that history told him to hold off.

– Don McGahn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There's tons of secrecy surrounding this eighth and final season of HBO's hit show and Zach Braff had some fun with that.He posted a photo of Zach Braff with actor Kit Harington, who portrays one of the main characters, Jon Snow.

– Zach Braff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a bad night for the AK Party, they have done very poorly in all the economic powerhouses of country. For a party which portrays itself as pro-business, it's a huge issue.

– Wolfango Piccoli

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is everything : from the imagery Cynthia Matuszek company portrays, from the way Cynthia Matuszek act on social media, to the direct actions of Cynthia Matuszek employees, these are all critical things, both internally with employees and externally with consumers in the marketplace. For companies that are smart, they're going to be thinking about these things.

– Michele Meyer-Shipp

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A lot of journalism and a lot of Hollywood work portrays people's world views as liberal, moderate, right [ - wing ], but I don't think people sit in buckets that are that clean all the time, i think you could be hanging out with a pot-smoking, born-again Christian who believes in Medicare for all and is a climate denier. I know that guy.

– George Goehl

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[ The movie ] shows just how big such small things can feel -- like walking down from the house to the pool, and the scene just portrays kids in the [ way ] they're viewed by other kids, which is the scariest goddamn things alive.

– Elsie Fisher

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's ironic that President Trump, who portrays himself as an advocate of the working man, doesn't see fit to pay his own driver a fair wage.

– Larry Hutcher

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

(Ryanair CEO) Michael O'Leary portrays this as people in the UK won't be able to fly. But it's people in Europe that won't be able to fly.

– Willie Walsh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The painting portrays a colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society.

– William Lacy Clay

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg has adopted a policy of censoring news that portrays Muslim migrants in an unfavorable light and reveals the jihadi motivations of the Orlando killer.

– Pamela Geller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Most Americans do believe that there is a link between screen violence and real world aggression, but they don’t think it affects them or their children - only others. In addition, the media itself often portrays the issue as being contentious, whereas in fact hundreds of studies and several large meta-analyses have shown that there is a definitive( albeit small to moderate) link between virtual violence and real world aggression. It is always possible to find a dissenting scientist( think climate change), but the truth is for the vast majority of researchers, this is settled science.

– Dimitri Christakis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When it comes to love Words don't mean anything Said or unsaid they don't define anyone It's what we act out that tells our stories Portrays our thoughts and emotions Sings our song and plays our music Evidently we've all got to improve But if it's with the right plus 1 You'll never lose her

– Sandile Sean Mntla

added by anonymous
7 years ago

This image portrays how an African city like Dar es Salaam is evolving to become a metropolitan city hand-in-hand with economical and sociological progress towards a new urban Tanzania.

– Ali Nasoor -LRB- @ali_kagawa -RRB-

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With her middle-class roots Vidal acts as counterweight to Macri, whom Scioli's Front for Victory party often portrays as a neo-liberal born into money and privilege.

– Jimena Blanco

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Disney is a capitalistic corporation bent on consumerism, and that's what drives our economy, it brings out people's opinions about our society and culture in general. You can love them or be very critical of those aspects of our culture and society because it portrays them so well.

– Manchester University sociologist Robert Pettit

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These are very public appointments. You have to be careful of how this affects your image, samantha Cameron is obviously not part of a government, but the public image it portrays is that the UK government is somehow sponsoring the actions of Save the Children and therefore it becomes more difficult to say there is no political agenda behind our humanitarian action.

– Michiel Hofman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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