They are pulling out of dealerships too. Ostensibly for cost saving.
His father actually disowned him.
We're both pretty laid back & just enjoy each other has best friends.
I think I've evolved beyond my simple rustic upbringing.
Sometimes you have to walk away from negotiations, the president said during an uncharacteristically subdued appearance before the media
an administration official explained that the gambit was designed to avoid the pitfalls of decades of ultimately unsuccessful lower-level negotiations
Google—the search engine company that everyone grew to love at the time—announced that they’re entering the ring. Chrome was born.
What started as an avant-garde, standard-compliant browser is now a sprawling platform that spares no area of modern computing.
While the Chrome browser itself is not open-source, most of its innards are. Chromium, the non-proprietary subset of Chrome, was open-sourced early on with a generously permissive license as a sign of commitment to the open Web community.
he personally overheard Trump and Stone discussing Assange's plans in July 2016.
I was a little bit put off by this.
Honestly thought the “storage” room was going to be a sex dungeon, but the decapitated dolls were much worse.
We were able to keep teams small, invest more in each person, and nimbly change our ways of working as needs changed.
plague
kiwi youth
statism
Asthma
Japanese attached zero stigma to nudity and eroticism
government then came and confiscated everyone's shunga
Heavily doused in religious imagery, the show explores themes of depression and existential dread.
I finally decided it's time to defy this recommendation
mojibake: random output characters
Then I have to fiddle with the encoding for a bit until it's a consistent
Bernie Sanders vs. Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.
Empirical laws.
They got into the school in the guise of inspectors.
Can climb the ladder of social mobility and reach the highest echelon.
executioner
More people executed in China than rest of the world combined.
scorecard system
mandate of heaven
having lived in China for 3 years and seeing what rights the Chinese people are forfeiting and what they are gaining in return
Spotify's acquisition spree won't change the podcast industry on its own. But it's another signal that we're on the cusp of a similar change for podcasting
Do you have any arthritis or pain, aching, or stiffness in your joints?
downhearted
the President missed an opportunity to hold Russia accountable.
FAA: Federal Aviation Administration
master key
The two leaders will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday
The six most common elements in living things are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Atoms of these elements combine and form thousands of large molecules. These large molecules make up the structures of cells and carry out many processes essential to life.
to make a quip.
quips and cranks.
She was exasperated by all this havering.
For god's sake stop dithering and make up your mind!
He would have preferred his wife not to work, although conversely he was also proud of what she did.
He renounced drugs and alcohol completely.
The romance fizzled out.
The politicians and warlords who are fermenting this chaos.
An egregious lie.
She slowed for a roundabout, taking the second exit.
The city was awash with journalists.
A quiet, reflective, astute man.
This invention is ascribed to Edison.
quash a rebellion.
writ of summons
White crane
For many years my wife had been extolling the virtues of spending time outside
perhaps I've just been walking in “simple enough” environments—that I haven’t tripped even when I’m not consciously paying attention
But if video is on, seeing people who are not paying attention just seems to viscerally kill the mood of almost any meeting
my headset is wired, albeit with a long wire that lets me roam around my office
But I never like to be computerless, and the 13″ laptop is a heavy thing to lug around
Conjure a duck out of an empty box
I conjure you not to betray me.
It's improbable that she will go
He filled her glass to the brim.
they gaped at her as if she was an alien
Grand a respite to a condemned man.
a plan was afoot to seize power
a rhetorical device
They arrested him on charges of public intoxication and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.
Particularly since I’m at my desk much of each day, I've tried to optimize its ergonomics
patent troll
There’s a peculiar person snooping around.
Kowloon and Hong Kong were ceded in perpetuity which meant that according to the term and agreement Britain could have kept these areas.
... in case the handover went badly.
Union Jack
roulette table
August intranet.
ballot tampering
Danger runs during your CI process, and gives teams the chance to automate common code review chores
any special process for reporting leukemia and lymphoma society donations for Jason to match?
torii gates
certificate of deposit
it can be changed on the fly with
Planking (or the Lying Down Game) is an activity consisting of lying face down, sometimes in an unusual or incongruous location
They arrested him on charges of public intoxication and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.
Remove the thorn form tread.
rear derailleur
front derailleur
itinerary
tried and true path.
you can also add mushrooms, to add in more antioxidants.
The crux of each test is a call to assertEqual() to check for an expected result.
the crux of an argument.
probiotics help repopulate your gut with the healthy bacteria
But I felt my learning rate was being annealed (slowing down) yet my mind was craving more
The most important thing is to keep your curiosity and modesty
Do you see yourself as a trailblazer in this way?
His quarrel is with my creator
drizzle starting in 50 mins.
The sinitic languages.
Become literate
The idea of abolishing Kanji is out of question.
It's gonna be rip-roaring.
The worst thing you can do is to stagnate
If someone has the money to be able to sway them to do either a better job or just not sabotage their health in general.
The exorbitant fees we paid for the VIP room pertain the actual deliver room.
It's little unnerving experience to sit in a abortion ward next to the deliver ward.
clutching their now empty wombs white in the face.
It's getting difficult to justify living there.
It's a shame to pigeonhole ourselves there
Through all the adventures and tribulation we've had
he moved to China years ago before Winnie the Pooh took over and tried bringing back the suffocating Soviet-like presence of the CCP into major cities
totalitarian government
it isn't that China is ruled by a government that harshly punished dissenting opinions and nearly destroys free speech
Where I live here in Germany kids are delivered by midwifes. Doctors only come, if there are problems.
this only helps making sure your whole family have the ability to stay permanently in the States if conditions in China become much more draconian
I can't understand how people can get away with crimes like the vaccine scam, and at the same time people will spend endless amounts of effort to track down someone who says something bad about China and try to ruin their life.
Compare California with Guizhou (one of the most impoverished regions in the country) and your conclusion is giving birth in CHINA is terrible
They were in a state of euphoria after the baby was born.
The moon is in conjunction with the sun.
Be in a subordinate position.
The front parlour was the hub of her universe.
unilateral contract
a midair hijack
Avert government shutdown
money worship
They were in a state of euphoria after the baby was born.
Several pitfalls remain
I just puked on the hood of that car.
The experience completely unnerved me.
Joy and grief are extremes.
We're not unduly worried.
duly authorized
indignation at the injustice.
Antenna
hobbled by responsibilities.
Get into a hobble.
The glare of the sun on the water.
touche (well spoke)
You were part of that prophecy.
Because I had pursued his father and put him in jail, and that was a family matter that should be resolved by the rabbis not by a prosecutor
This is one of the parts of book I genuinely was engrossed by.
Strip clubs in the outer boroughs.
Counterfeit and shoddy products
refreshment kiosk
The drunken man lurched along
Binge eating, binge drinking, binge watching
this car guzzles petrol
baffle plate, baffle wall.
pesticide residue
not a shred of evidence.
He convoyed her home.
Monsoon climate
It's difficult to cajole him into consent.
Sulphur dioxide
a dull lackluster life
twilight of gods.
strained the pulp from the juice.
We got a blip on the radar.
letter of undertaking, undertaking clause
undertaking simultaneous interpretation
fissile material
a labyrinth of passages and secret chambers
Digital Pimps
In a nascent condition
An outward display of friendliness
composite number
People on parole must follow certain rules.
The Wandering Earth feels like a throwback to a few familiar eras of American filmmaking
The pilgrims broke into song.
The lamb was a puny little thing.
He tried to pacify the mob.
Clear expression is the hallmark of good writing.
respiratory tract
monsoon climate of medium latitudes
Aquiculture and poultry
Aquarium
A young goose is a gosling.
Clear-cut evidence of tampering.
a deluge of complains.
There billionaires are fear mongering, right?
a myth busting show
People in that country are living in a thick bubble of intercultural ignorance, they barely understand people outside their border
she gave him a smack on the face
pork chops
inner lining
a wretched life
frantic with worry
leapfrog
vindicate one's claim
He thrashed the boy with a stick
the batterfield was a scene of utter carnage.
Let me know when the carnage begins so i can shield my eyes
it is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer performance.
chuck up one's job
chuck away rubbish
inferior quality
wooden casks
The fire charred the woodwork
They have nothing better to do than brawl in the street.
It isn’t just about some land, it was our home, our way of life was taken away.
We keep the pain of what was done to our predecessors
An irresistible impulse to sneeze.
A burial chamber
An injunction restraining the disclosure of company secrets.
Fortune is fickle
He is fickle to a proverb.
faulty concrete
We went into a passionate clinch on the sofa.
You must seek redress in the law courts.
Redress the scales
deadly infighting among the politicians
The court refused to extradite political refugees.
Sewer system
meteor crater
crater rim
This is almost surreal in today's America
Some presidents need show-and-tell on that front
Thieves in the bazaar rubbed us blind.
They're real aggro men who'll bully anybody for a few quid
Straight / heterosexual
subliminal perception
subliminal advertising
Growing up, I was always coprophilia.
You get slutty when you drink
I try to change the foreplay because I'd get bored
There are more than 8 million vacant properties littered throughout Japan – and they're going dirt cheap.
Many properties are listed under “gratis transfer” for the sum of literally zero yen
Another factor is superstition. Properties associated with tragedies such as suicide, murder, or "lonely deaths" are thought to bring bad luck in Japanese culture, making it harder to sell them on to a new owner and further feeding the surfeit of vacant properties that are slowly falling into disrepair around the country
the homes aren't technically “free” until you've rented them out for a number of years and the property has subsequently been deemed yours
Ignore the naysayers say you don't need it.
edible tree fungus
the fungus will decay soft timber
She thinks Gabriel took the fall
franc
the strange hinterland where life begins and ends
weary out, a weary smile
stymie: a thwarting and distressing situation
anti-semitic
Zionist
I saw a problem, I heroically stepped up.
caucasus mountains
blasting fuse
blow a fuse
Opium is a narcotic drug
a prelude to disaster
disburse a large amount of money for education
The Japanese archipelago
The rebels had the perfect pretext for making their move.
Find consolation in one's work.
Commit no nuisance
Nuisance analysis
diligence redeems stupidity.
He decried it as a criminal act, but was overruled.
The Weather Bureau gave adequate warning of the advent of the hurricane.
Overload protection
the bed sags in the middle, and is uncomfortable
resurgent nationalism
In which case, I was merely the catalyst to get things going.
excise duties
excise office
as stiff as a poker
the gleam of hope vanished
the cafe was engulfed in flames.
rump steak
adorn oneself with jewels.
flog a dead horse
a sanguine complexion.
a rickety old building
repatriate war refugees.
aeroplane carrier
a renowned painter