| 单词 | fig leaf |
| 例句 | They gathered fig leaves and placed them in a row down Dill from his head to his feet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sinjin took in the sight of the man in the fig leaf trying to commune with the ergo chair. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The black box: a fig leaf in reverse, concealing identity while leaving shame exposed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The valet trotted up with the requisite fig leaf, and Woolf, smiling out of one side of his mouth, wrapped it around his waist, rode into the winner’s circle, and posed for the photo. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I unfolded the legs and helped him line them up beneath the canopy of fig leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In the Middle Ages, heart shapes were also used to portray lily pads, fig leaves, and weapons, namely arrows. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A grinning Agent Jones burst into the room wearing only a fig leaf. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They arranged some type of work for us to do in the courtyard, but it was merely a fig leaf to hide their capitulation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A strange man in a fig leaf pushing her and others toward safety. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Weave the fig leaves atop three equal lengths of twine that are at least four inches longer than the broadest section of leaves. Fish roasted in fig leaves is a gift from the world's first food snob 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z When it comes to naked photos, technology acts as both a fig leaf and an vehicle of humiliation. From JLaw to Lena: How nudity became the new normal 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z With incredible yellow and pink sunlight, in a setting of fig leaves and white stucco, the film’s strange mixture of primitive and poetic images becomes etched into memory. Movie Review: ‘Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You,’ a Band’s Tale 2013-08-05T20:46:01Z "Tropic Thunder" is now commonly understood as a maximalist shock comedy wrapped in a fig leaf quilt. Fifteen years later "Tropic Thunder" is a flawed comedy that we're still trying to agree on 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z We are familiar with Shepard Smith, the host of “The Fox Report,” who applies the fact-based fig leaves that lend journalistic cover to Fox’s propagandistic suasion. The Reliable Volatility of Geraldo Rivera on Fox News 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Still, it conveys information about such subjects as the corrupt Venetian doge for whose tomb the work was commissioned, the accident that befell the masterpiece at the Met and, yes, fig leaves. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But you at least need to offer them the fig leaf. Did I Just Say That Out Loud? Romney Adviser?s Unerasable Etch-a-Sketch Comment 2012-03-21T19:29:58Z The western world's first published gastronomist advises wrapping fish in fig leaves and letting it roast in the embers of a waning fire and to serve it with salt alone. Fish roasted in fig leaves is a gift from the world's first food snob 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Alexi Worth’s allegorically ingenious painting “Arizona” offers a God’s-eye view down on a canopy of silvery fig leaves through which a hand is reaching up to pluck one of three green fruits. Art In Review: ‘BEASTS OF REVELATION’ 2012-07-19T21:37:37Z Ringing the sweet potato nubs, romanticized with curry and other Indian spices, is an emulsion of fig leaves and cream that the tongue registers as coconut milk. Arômes review: A chef’s imagination runs wild. Sometimes a little too wild. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z I can't honestly say I knew any of that when I first started cooking with fig leaves. Fish roasted in fig leaves is a gift from the world's first food snob 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z “It looks like a fig leaf,” she said. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Not that homemaking is so wrong that it needs crafty fig leaves — it’s that some answers to some questions catch the socially unskilled off-guard. Carolyn Hax: Her partner is a happy househusband. Let the mass judging begin. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Together, they tear the moldy fig leaf off a Hollywood staple, the Arthurian-style romance — with its chivalric code, knightly virtues and courtly manners — to reveal a mercenary, transactional world of men, women and power. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Ever since Adam and Eve were booted from their naked paradise, presumably in search of fig leaves, humans have had a fraught relationship with public nudity. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The state apparatus is the fig leaf of efficiency, rationality and even, modernity in a system that is an ideological construct of the most absurd kind. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z “After the attacks in Orlando, I thought the government might do its job and pass any kind of gun control — even a fig leaf to justify their existence,” Colbert said. Stephen Colbert can’t hide his disgust: “I thought the government might do its job and pass any kind of gun control” 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “They needed me for appearances. I felt as though I was being used as a fig leaf.” She Tracked Nazi-Looted Art. She Quit When No One Returned It. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Treaties were merely a fig leaf: “They wanted all of it, they wanted everything,” says Suzan Shown Harjo, guest curator of the exhibition. ‘Nation to Nation’: Full of the intriguing, often maddening details of history What they examine is how consent can act like a fig leaf, as Popova calls it, masking other power differentials in the relationship — because someone has already “said yes” — or offering cover for other violations. Yes, No, Maybe So: A Generation of Thinkers Grapples With Notions of Consent 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Then the film is a fig leaf; even a by-product of abuse. Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Thus, the statue’s proverbial fig leaves will remain even in the fall and winter, when most other trees lose theirs. Hirst Work Gets a Fig Leaf 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z At its core, the board is a high-priced fig leaf meant to avoid real accountability. Perspective | Facebook’s oversight board whiffed. Trump deserves a permanent exile. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes they use the shreds like fig leaves; sometimes they toss them into the air in a joyous storm. Still Reforming Postmodern Dance, California Roots Intact 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Russia’s legal system was turned into a weapon and a fig leaf. ‘Putin’s People’ Documents the Ruthless and Relentless Reach of Kremlin Corruption 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z "If you just put Oxbridge brown people in positions, then what's the point? They come from exactly the same mindset. That's not diversity, it's a fig leaf." BBC DJ criticises Radio 1 diversity 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It's more than a fig leaf when Kidder, a long-form journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and many other accolades, mentions his editors' harsh assessments of his early work. Tracy Kidder and his editor on writing 2013-01-14T18:58:08Z Churchwell strenuously resists any implication “that the American dream was invented as a fig leaf to protect white privilege, to obscure the racist foundations of the capitalist system in institutional slavery.” How ‘America First’ and ‘American Dream’ Went From Hazy Sentiments to Loaded Clichés 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “Gods of Egypt,” by contrast, doesn’t bother with the fig leaf of respectability. Review: In ‘Gods of Egypt,’ That Doughnut Beast Is Stepping on My Sandal 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Before removing from the fire move the fish to the coal side of the grill just long enough to toast the fig leaves. Fish roasted in fig leaves is a gift from the world's first food snob 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z We’d like to suggest a simple solution, with its roots in classical art: Perhaps a gigantic fig leaf covering the obelisk? Perspective | Hey, Picasso, we have some suggestions for your masterpiece 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Rabbit leg is braised in olive oil and an allium stock flavored with charred fig leaves and seasoned with fish sauce. Changing Chefs, Gotham Bar and Grill Starts a New Era 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z A fig leaf creme brulee will undergo dozens of iterations just to settle on how to best steep the bitter leaves in the liquid. The diary of a pastry cook with Covid-19 taste and smell loss 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But Troup also got 45 requests for religious exemptions and had to disentangle the genuine conscientious objectors from those looking for a proverbial fig leaf. Many are searching for vaccine mandate loopholes. These are the people trying to stop them. 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z And while the Armory intends to broadcast the results, some day, in a yet-to-be-determined way, the filming was a bit of a fig leaf. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z At that point, the fig leaf of scientific debate is dropped and pure emotion takes over. ‘Frontline’ Review: Why the Climate Changed but We Didn’t 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z “Adam wasn’t so great. I would have needed a bigger fig leaf.” Perspective | Trump insulted John McCain. We can only imagine which deceased figure might be next. 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But there is thankfully no pseudoscientific fig leaf justifying how this all works: The show simply asks you to drink from its bottle, Alice-like, and shrink or expand to its level. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In routine news and feature stories, Trump’s dishonesty carries no fig leaf. Lies? The news media is starting to describe Trump’s ‘falsehoods’ that way. 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There was certainly the allegation that it was a bit of a fig leaf. Jeff Flake on Trumpism: ‘I don’t know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z One day, hearing something on the television while he was waiting for the bath, he walked in, hands covering his parts like a fig leaf, unconcerned. Motherlode Blog: Naked, With Children ? but for How Long? 2012-04-02T00:48:51Z The television series is a goof, and a fig leaf for Cold War dread. Review: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Resurrects a Glossy, Action-Packed ’60s 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z There she is, staring from the cover of the latest New Republic under the headline “inevitable,” while other media outlets offer flimsy fig leaves like “If, as many suspect, she is running for president . . . ” Is Bill Clinton running for first gentleman? No? Well, it doesn’t hurt to speculate. Successful treatment depends on the person wishing to understand and change their behaviour rather than use rehab as public relations fig leaf, said Sophy. Hollywood therapists on call '24-7' amid reckoning over sexual misconduct 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z But, she said, the current arrangement that shrouds buyers in secrecy is only a fig leaf to staunch criticism and just increases speculation. At Hunter Biden’s Art Show, Line, Color and Questions 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Surely years of boycott and splintering and moratoria flouting would have torn off the fig leaf of togetherness. Divine dispatches: a religion roundup 2011-01-26T15:30:00Z The Lib Dems are a party to the left of Labour and they are doing the Tories' bidding – they are fig leaves, being used to justify Tory policy. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z James Hunt dismisses claims Sky Arts is a cultural 'fig leaf' for BSkB. James Hunt dismisses accusations that Sky Arts is a cultural 'fig leaf' for BSkyB 2012-11-25T19:00:03Z Blame the mystery of fig leaves and pomegranates same as the mystery of gangrene and heart disease. So you’re dying? Just don’t change! 2012-07-20T00:00:00Z For them, the grammar excuse seems to be a convenient fig leaf, and what it’s covering is these letter writers’ own prejudice. Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But it’s a fig leaf for Fox’s usual sycophancy. Chris Wallace is uniquely qualified to interview Trump — and uniquely independent at Fox News 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The most British thing about “Very British Problems” is the way in which its overall air of self-deprecation is a fig leaf that doesn’t hide a fierce cultural pride. Review: ‘Very British Problems’ Keeps Calm and Carries On Through Discomfort 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z I took some lovely photographs of her swimming, and she took one of me, although I'm glad to say I found a fig leaf with which to disguise my virility. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z It wasn't until they looked at one another and recognized each other as men and women that Adam and Eve felt shame and donned the fig leaves. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “Not even a fig leaf of a respectable response,” Eisinger said. Where to go when nature calls? Seattle has a public restroom problem 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z The fight against disinformation is now being used in some countries as a fig leaf to jail dissidents and punish their enemies. "On Disinformation" and why we can't "expect journalists to save us" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Biden declined to rub it in, even offering fig leaves to Vietnam’s northern neighbor and saying China should not be concerned about warming ties between Washington and Hanoi. Biden seeks deeper ties with Vietnam on supply chain front 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Three minutes after the break, that fig leaf was gone too. Dupont and his French team answer call of a nation 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Many environmental groups, such as Greenpeace warn against the use of carbon credits to meet climate targets, and say they are a fig leaf to distract from a lack of genuine emission reductions. Explainer: What options do African nations have to finance climate, nature? 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Such deflections and denials are a defining feature of "stochastic terrorism," in which political leaders encourage violence through direct or indirect appeals and then hide behind whatever rhetorical fig leaf is available. What's ahead for Trump: There's "literally no downside" to encouraging violence 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z “It’s a mere fig leaf of legal access,” said Greg Chen, who leads the government relations division for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Lawyers Say Helping Asylum Seekers in Border Custody Is Nearly Impossible 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The court’s holding that laws banning abortion in 1868 must define the nation’s history and tradition of liberty was a fig leaf for giving conservatives what they want. Opinion: How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z "The two-state solution is really a corpse of a political project that is usually used as a fig leaf for the continued oppression of Palestinians," he says. 'As Palestinian youths, the political process has failed us' 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z This bit of casual cruelty came packaged with an expensive fig leaf: A $50,000 reward to anyone who shares information leading to the suspect's capture. Greg Abbott demonized the victims of the Texas shooting. It say a lot about why the GOP loves guns 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z I found myself rooting for their romance, but it’s hard to lose sight of the performers when their characters are no more than fig leaves. 'New York, New York’ the film is not good. The new Broadway musical is worse 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But now that fig leaf is being tossed aside. Tennessee Three — minus one — expelled: Is Republicans' revenge racist? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z I am getting to the stage in life where I’m grateful this fig leaf works. Advice | Carolyn Hax: He had to work late, he said, then hit a bar with friends 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Using "parent rights" as a fig leaf for censorship is tough when so few parents wish to even use such "rights." "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z This religious pablum is just a fig leaf, of course, for what is essentially a nihilistic message. Trump wants Americans to think society is an apocalyptic wasteland: Mass shootings help him 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z This fig leaf of concern for "children" has been collapsing recently, however. The GOP is getting unhinged about LGBTQ people — which will only make them more unpopular 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But Xi and Putin aren’t just hiding behind a fig leaf of legitimacy; they are attempting to redefine the world’s understanding of what “democracy” means. Opinion | Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Gabuev said that Russia and China’s insistence that Ukraine was at the top of their joint agendas was a “fig leaf” for China’s growing leverage in the Beijing-Moscow relationship. Xi and Putin Bind China and Russia’s Economies Further, Despite War in Ukraine 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Using "parent rights" as a fig leaf for censorship is tough when so few parents wish to even use such "rights." "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Time and again, we've seen feigned concerns about "sexual materials" offered as a fig leaf for people whose real objection is to books that are critical of white supremacy. Not just Florida — the GOP war on education goes national 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “The Chinese peace plan is a fig leaf to push back against some Western criticism on support for Russia,” said Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. How a warrant for Putin puts new spin on Xi visit to Russia 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Bukele’s “state of emergency” is a fig leaf for a dictatorship. Opinion | There’s more to Bukele’s mass imprisonments 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The motif of the season is a fig leaf. Milan fashion celebrates girl power at Gucci, Cormio, Tod’s 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Skeptics, however, have long argued that concern over "the children" is just a convenient fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia. It's not about "the kids": GOP push family-friendly version of anti-LGBTQ agenda 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Time and again, we've seen feigned concerns about "sexual materials" offered as a fig leaf for people whose real objection is to books that are critical of white supremacy. Not just Florida — the GOP war on education goes national 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “But to Meikeljohn, this seemed like an inherently dangerous sort of fig leaf to hide behind. … The blockchain, like a massive undeciphered corpus of an ancient language, hid a wealth of secrets in plain view.” Review | Criminals thought crypto was untraceable. They were wrong. 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Either you deny there are bullies who use social justice as a fig leaf, or you agree that everyone is in imminent danger of social ruin for forgetting to indicate their pronouns. A resolution for 2023: Time to say no to the "woke wars" 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z “Any negotiations need to be real, they need to be meaningful, they can’t just be a fig leaf for Russian rearmament and further recruitment of soldiers,” Cleverly told Sky News. Britain's foreign minister: Ukraine peace talks can't be used as cover for Russian rearmament 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Concern over "the children" is just a convenient fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia. It's not about "the kids": GOP push family-friendly version of anti-LGBTQ agenda 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Rather, these institutions are more about providing a fig leaf for those other states that are asked to take a position on accountability. Can There Be a Rights Reckoning for Nations That Don’t Want to Do It? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z And yet for those whose zeal for bigger government was not sated by the trillions already on or headed for the government’s books, MMT offered a fig leaf of validity. Opinion | Modern Monetary Theory, debunked everywhere except among government big-spenders 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z How can we get the titillation, but with a fig leaf? On-screen and off, men are subjects, women are objects 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “There is no more Roe fig leaf, and I know the energy is very much on the red side right now.” Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California’s midterms 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z At least when it comes to elections, Republicans still feel the need for some sort of fig leaf. Opinion | The 2022 midterms are the most important of my lifetime 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Even by the standards of political fig leaves, the document doesn’t do much to mask the lack of a Republican plan for governing. Opinion | The only agenda that unifies the Republican Party is revenge 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z As for those who don’t, I look forward to witnessing them vote accordingly, without any procedural fig leaf for their awful position. Opinion | Why a Black lesbian married couple with kids left Texas 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Q: I want to get back to the fig leaves. On-screen and off, men are subjects, women are objects 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z They write opinions in terms of originalism, but we should see that as the fig leaf to cover what's really going on — conservative justices imposing conservative values. How Justice Scalia created chaos: "Originalism" is just right-wing ideology in disguise 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z "Geological disposal is in fact, unfortunately, a nuclear fig leaf." UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z So no one cared that a major museum, embarrassed by a dearth of fig leaves, was selling his works. Review | Rodin never visited America, but he still seduced its art lovers 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z But platforms "too often use deepfakes as a fig leaf to cover for the fact that they are not doing enough on existing forms of disinformation", Ms Schick says. Big Tech must deal with disinformation or face fines, says EU 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "So one might wonder if this is one of those examples of the fig leaf: We were going to do this anyway, and here's our cover." The challenges of calculating a lab leak risk 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Brauchler, a Republican, characterized the bill as a fig leaf for Democrats as they head into the election season. Colorado legislators wrestle with drug penalties as fentanyl deaths surge 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z “All we have to consider is this pathetic fig leaf of a bill that will do absolutely nothing to solve this crisis,” said Rep. Tom Cole, Oklahoma Republican and ranking member of the committee. House Democrats’ gas price gouging bill panned as ‘socialism’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Both men and women wear a green apron embroidered with a fig leaf pattern, to represent Adam and Eve. Inside a new TV show's extraordinary effort to re-create a secret Mormon ceremony 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The state’s “reimagination” of its constitutionally required mental health responsibilities needs to be a real commitment and not a 350-bed fig leaf. WA’s broken mental health system and homelessness crisis are inextricably tied 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The Bournemouth East MP also dismissed suggestions Mr Johnson should stay in post to manage the Ukraine crisis accusing the prime minister's allies of using the war as a "fig leaf". Boris Johnson faces criticism as minister defends leadership 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Most are along refugees’ paths, or near the borders they had hoped to reach, allowing governments a fig leaf of compliance. The World’s Broken Promise of Asylum 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Germany — and others in Europe — would be offered the seductive chance to buy Putin’s gas while hiding behind the fig leaf of the Nord Stream 2 sanctions. Opinion | Zelensky and the West have called Putin’s bluff. Let’s not waver now. 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z But in August a judge had called this reasoning a "fig leaf". Droitwich shop wins appeal against £35k Covid lockdown fines 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders,” the whistle-blower said. Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z "I believe that Swiss banking secrecy laws are immoral. The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders," they wrote. Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after big banking data leak 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders.” Leak gives details on over 30,000 Credit Suisse bank clients 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z As Kathryn Joyce documented for Salon, the fig leaf of "parent's rights" has long been used as cover for what is a flat-out war on public education. The secret plan behind Florida's "don't say gay" bill: Bankrupting public education 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “Any time you build a product and use threat of prosecution to prevent misuse, that’s a fig leaf, not a real deterrent,” he said. I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z That fig leaf can make Rogan's elevation of right-wing figures that much more dangerous. Joe Rogan made anti-vax Dr. Robert Malone a right-wing media star: Was that the point all along? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The German-Syrian human rights organization Adopt a Revolution said in a statement issued ahead of the verdict that the judgment should not be used as “a fig leaf for political inaction.” Syrian intelligence officer is convicted of crimes against humanity, gets life in prison in landmark German trial 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “He does and has been using the PIF as a fig leaf, as a cover, as an intermediate step between his face on things and Saudi Arabia’s face on things.” Perspective | Take note of the PGA golfers who play in Saudi Arabia. They’re accepting blood money. 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Bellish and other skeptics also point to a troubling consequence: Prediction tools could be used to justify crackdowns on peaceful protests, with AI used as a fig leaf. The battle to prevent another Jan. 6 features a new weapon: The algorithm 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z They accused Hamdok of allowing himself to serve as a fig leaf for continued military rule. EXPLAINER: What’s next after resignation of Sudan’s PM? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Hamdok, in particular, was accused of providing a fig leaf that allowed the military to continue dominating the political sphere. Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, Resigns 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The conversation, which Boebert sought after issuing a tepid statement last Friday, offered an opportunity to extend a fig leaf in a House riven by tension. Boebert in call refuses to apologize for anti-Muslim remarks 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The agreement has angered Sudan’s pro-democracy movement, which accuses Hamdok of allowing himself to serve as a fig leaf for continued military rule. Despite deal, Sudanese rally to demand military rulers leave 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “We are not a fig leaf. We are making our voices heard. But our power is meager.” Back in power, Israel’s left finds its influence is limited 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z But the agreement has angered Sudan’s pro-democracy movement, which accuses Hamdok of allowing himself to serve as a fig leaf for continued military rule. EXPLAINER: What does PM’s reinstatement mean for Sudan? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z She said the audits could end up giving AI vendors a “fig leaf” for building risky products with the city’s imprimatur. NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Whether commissioned by the developers or the host country government, environmental impact assessments are not always made public, and some are little more than fig leaves, biodiversity advocates say. China’s global infrastructure program goes green—but could still devastate ecosystems 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Ward uses fig leaf trees in rooms that could benefit from an organic, structural element. The best, most realistic-looking fake plants for decorating your home 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Staff complain of abuse, so a sign or a sticker on a table often acts as a fig leaf for official policies. Covid passes set to stay as Europe heads for winter 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z "I think that is the cover to call it off ... a fig leaf to make it look like it is not a climb-down," he said. Separatists end week-long blockade of hotel housing OSCE in eastern Ukraine 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, authoritarianism has covered itself with the fig leaf of supposedly lawful regulation. Opinion | The Internet became less free this year — again 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z And the conservative justices are increasingly ordering off-menu, using their “shadow docket” to make decisions without the fig leaf of full briefing and oral argument. Opinion | Breyer’s airbrushed portrayal of the judicial process 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “That shield never really existed but now it’s not even a fig leaf.” Security of some ballot-marking devices could be vulnerable in California recall, researchers say 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z This year, cherries for their new Cherry Fig Leaf preserves came from Smallwood Farms in Okanogan, but the fig leaves were harvested on Orcas. Girl Meets Dirt expands its Orcas Island repertoire from popular jams to fruity wines 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In his four years in the White House, Donald Trump often dispatched with even the fig leaves that past presidents had employed around the rule of law. Opinion | Repression Without Borders 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “Some fig leaf of progress is not enough.” The Pandemic Is Testing the Federal Reserve’s New Policy Plan 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z What Mississippi’s brief has done is make it impossible for the court to place any kind of fig leaf over a ruling in the state’s favor. Opinion | Mississippi Explains All on Abortion 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “The so-called ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘art creation’ should not be used as a fig leaf for the despicable.” Artwork Ranking Women by Their Looks Sets Off a Furor in a Changing China 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z And they did so out of raw political fear, this time without fig leaves. Opinion | Republican senators’ failure to investigate Jan. 6 is worse than their impeachment performance 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “They’re all fig leaves,” said Diana Buttu, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a former legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel on Edge as Politicians Wrangle Over Coalition to Oust Netanyahu 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Egypt is usually the interlocutor “and the fig leaf” for negotiations between Hamas and Israel, which both sides deny but that are going on almost continuously over many smaller issues, he said. Before Any Diplomacy Begins, Israel Attacks Gaza With Ground Forces 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Reid’s point, as I take it, was that your party uses you — more accurately, your skin color — as a fig leaf covering not simply its lack of Black officials, but its hostility toward Black people. Sen. Tim Scott, stop acting as a human shield for Republican ignorance 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Yet some observers are critical of this rationale, saying it merely offers a fig leaf to a biased system. With Derek Chauvin’s trial, Court TV is back 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Variants of such fig leaf democratic systems exist around the world in autocratic countries. Looking for Something New in Russia’s ‘New People’ Party 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z We are exposed with nary a fig leaf to be found. Digital overexposure 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z This provided a procedural fig leaf for the GOP caucus' 'Don't be a snitch' culture, which actually works to undermine the Constitution that serves as the foundation of our criminal and civil law. Donald Trump's a traitor — don't cut him the same slack we gave Jefferson Davis 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Republican senators hoping for even a fig leaf to cover the cowardice of a vote to acquit had to have been disappointed. Opinion | Trump’s lawyers had no defense because there is none 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He added: "I am not surprised that members of the Foreign Affairs Committee have been so outspoken in saying they would not be used as a fig leaf." Government faces fresh rebellion from Tory MPs over anti-genocide law 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z But Schneebaum added that Republicans have used the city’s past problems as a fig leaf to mask their real reasons for opposing greater home rule. After coming to the Capitol’s rescue, D.C. leaders seek more autonomy under Biden 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z He added that the “one country, two systems” framework “is now merely a fig leaf covering for the C.C.P.’s expanding one party dictatorship in Hong Kong,” referring to the Chinese Communist Party. China Targets Hong Kong’s Lawmakers as It Squelches Dissent 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z One Country, Two Systems’ is now merely a fig leaf covering for the CCP’s expanding one party dictatorship in Hong Kong.” Hong Kong legislature opens; democracy bloc set to resign 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “One Country, Two Systems is now merely a fig leaf covering for the CCP’s expanding one party dictatorship in Hong Kong,” O’Brien said. Hong Kong opposition lawmakers expected to formally tender resignations in protest over oustings 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z By the fall campaign, major news organizations were dispensing with the caveats and the fig leaves, openly describing Trump as incompetent, racist and a divisive liar. If Trump loses, the media will be celebrating for years 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z And certainly throughout my reporting, talking to dozens of people that were complicit that came up a lot, this sense that the news anchors there are like fig leaves of respectability. CNN's Brian Stelter: Fox News "is bigger than Trump" — if he fights the network, he'll lose 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Instead of justice, he has offered fig leaves: Last Monday, a court announced that eight members of the 15-member team sent to kill Khashoggi had been given prison sentences ranging from seven to 20 years. Opinion | G-20 leaders, don’t forget the women’s rights advocates rotting in Saudi prisons 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z The Post’s View: The Khashoggi verdict is meant to provide a fig leaf. Opinion | Trump let Saudi Arabia get away with murder. Could Biden hold MBS accountable? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z In fact, Homeland Security’s “comprehensive review” is a fig leaf obscuring the president’s intent to terminate a program that enjoys enormous bipartisan support. Opinion | Trump didn’t like rulings on DACA. So he’s defying them. 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z "So they're using these other vehicles. But it's really a fig leaf. It doesn't do much to actually help people." Administration eases rules to give laid-off workers more time to sign up for COBRA 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “So they’re using these other vehicles. But it’s really a fig leaf. It doesn’t do much to actually help people.” Administration eases rules to give laid-off workers more time to sign up for COBRA 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z But the vote, seen as fraudulent by critics and many analysts, provided little but a fig leaf for public disenchantment with corruption, stifled freedoms and stagnant incomes made worse by the pandemic. Protests Swell in Russia’s Far East in a Stark New Challenge to Putin 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z It’s a legal fig leaf, since no one really believes Trump is all that concerned with the graffiti on Portland’s Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Perspective | The federal crackdown in Portland is ‘legal.’ That’s the problem with it. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The first clothes in western literature, Adam and Eve’s fig leaves, performed their essential fictional function in drawing attention to the protagonists’ moral failings. Top 10 best-dressed characters in fiction | Amanda Craig 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z "Patriotism" is a mere fig leaf for his real agenda, white supremacy. Russia bounty shocker: Trump never cared about the troops — only racism and re-election 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said the bill is too fundamentally flawed to be saved by an amendment process and called it a “fig leaf.” Mitch McConnell slams Democrats for pursuing ‘partisan theater’ on policing packages 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z But then it’s time to admit they are taking sides and drop the fig leaf of objectivity. New York Times fiasco: Media bring Trump model to racial issues 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Democrats railed against that proposal too, saying it simply provided a fig leaf to Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich because he joined other GOP attorneys general in trying to overturn the law often called Obamacare. Arizona House OKs virus liability shield for businesses 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z In a novel that is all about looking beyond appearances, not even a fig leaf is needed. Top 10 best-dressed characters in fiction | Amanda Craig 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Rather, skeptics believe the company has applied a fig leaf of legitimacy that lets it avoid responsibility for controversial calls without actually changing much. Opinion | Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Supreme Court unanimously overturned the convictions of former Christie staffers Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni, and that fig leaf was torn off. Final chapter of Bridgegate: Chris Christie's gone, but N.J. corruption will always be with us 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z But to the theory’s adherents, the lock-step maneuvers by the Fed and the government were not the arrival of a far-out idea but the removal of a fig leaf. How the Government Pulls Coronavirus Relief Money Out of Thin Air 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z “They are likely going through the motions and using these reviewers as a fig leaf,” he says. Hundreds of scientists have peer-reviewed for predatory journals 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Liberal Democrats tend to see it as a fuddy-duddy concern that obstructs ambitious new programs; the Republicans under President Trump have shed the fig leaf of fiscal rectitude in favor of all-out tax-cutting. Opinion | The coronavirus is a reminder that Fed independence is vital 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z He and his team didn’t even bother with fig leaves or pretexts. As Trump retaliates against perceived foes, GOP remains silent 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Critics warn that the Greens risk becoming a fig leaf for Mr. Kurz’s hard right agenda. A Onetime ‘Refugee Child’ Takes On Austria’s Far Right 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Legal experts widely dismissed the order as a pointless fig leaf, but, in a Rose Garden ceremony, Barr declared it a triumph. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z After the election, as a fig leaf to Sanders and his army of progressive supports, the DNC rolled back the influence of those superdelegates. Chaotic 2020 primary battle raises prospect of brokered convention: Could it really happen? 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The Saudi verdict may offer them a fig leaf for their complicity. Opinion | The Khashoggi verdict is exactly what impunity looks like. It must be denounced. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps this would be a scant fig leaf barely obscuring venomous partisanship. Opinion | What does ‘impartial justice’ mean to the Senate? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z That stated justification was a fig leaf for the administration’s true intentions. Perspective | The White House didn’t like my agency’s research. So it sent us to Missouri. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps they misguidedly figured that I might lend the endeavour a fig leaf of respectability. Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Right or wrong, perhaps the Israeli government perceived Tlaib’s predicate for the visit as the ultimate fig leaf. Reporter's Notebook: Spat over scrapped 'Squad' members' Israel visit is tricky politics for both sides 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Some analysts may view such a remark as a fig leaf for McConnell to avoid actually doing something on guns. Reporter's Notebook: What Mitch McConnell said and did not say about guns 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z No longer hiding behind what philosopher Jennifer Saul has called “racial fig leaves”, Trump’s language has become increasingly explicit and vitriolic. Words matter. Trump bears a responsibility for El Paso | Lynne Tirrell 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z From then on, they felt ashamed in each other’s presence: “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” The Scientific Underpinnings and Impacts of Shame 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z That deal may have been a fig leaf for the U.S. exit from that disaster, but it was long past time for the United States to withdraw. Opinion | Sometimes you lose the war but win the peace 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z It did this in code — “Willie Horton,” “tax cuts,” “welfare queen” — which, while obvious to all but the most gullible, still allowed respectable white men and women to maintain fig leaves of deniability. Is the GOP a hate group? 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Plus, Edwards would be signing legislation he described as a “fig leaf” that doesn’t fix anything. Analysis: Health care bill boxed in Louisiana’s governor 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z At this point, the court order is something of a legal fig leaf that protects the magnet program, giving it a legal right to continue. School busing and race tore L.A. apart in the 1970s. Now, Kamala Harris is reviving debate 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z This argument was a small fig leaf when it was made. Opinion | Evangelicals are naked before the world 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z “The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer hacking has been removed,” said Assange defense lawyer Barry J Pollack. Assange's arrest is escalation of Trump’s attacks on free speech, experts say 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z That dramatic step, he said, removed the “fig leaf” that the case about his client was only about hacking. Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “There is no way that that is a replacement of anything. It is at best a fig leaf designed to prevent embarrassment.” Analysis: Health care bill boxed in Louisiana’s governor 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Barry Pollack, a U.S. lawyer representing Assange, said the hacking charge was a “fig leaf” for a case that endangers press freedom. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged with violating Espionage Act 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer hacking has been removed,” Mr. Pollack said in a statement. Julian Assange indicted in Chelsea Manning classified material leak 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But reading your letter, I wonder if you haven’t been retained not as a fig leaf for this company’s systematic ageism but rather because your work is indispensable or inexpensive, or both. What to do when people who report to you earn more than you do | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z “The exploitation of athletes is being used as a fig leaf – regarding such questions, there are places and appropriate bodies to turn to,” she added. Trieste half-marathon backtracks on exclusion of Africans 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z "The exploitation of athletes is being used as a fig leaf - regarding such questions, there are places and appropriate bodies to turn to," she said. Racism row over Trieste half-marathon 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “The exploitation of athletes is being used as a fig leaf – regarding such questions, there are places and appropriate bodies to turn to,” she said. Trieste half-marathon accused of racism in excluding Africans 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z As a result, they become aware that they are naked, clothe themselves with fig leaves and hide. Opinion | What the Bible Says About Secrets 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Duty Free Art, her 2017 book of essays, detailed how culture is used as a fig leaf for questionable corporations and repressive regimes. Hito Steyerl: the Serpentine's Sackler building should be unnamed 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Instead, he is using journalism as a fig leaf for his reckless conduct. Julian Assange, arrested for damaging leaks, claims to be a journalist 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z “I think overall it’s a positive step rather than a fig leaf,” he said. Real or artificial? Tech titans declare AI ethics concerns 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Yet by fixating on religious minorities, it actually serves as a fig leaf for the government’s own nativist tendencies – and is a reminder how fear and antipathy tend to beget bad, dangerous laws. Quebec's religious symbol ban targets minorities in the name of secularism | Martin Patriquin 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Psychoanalysing a stranger is a fool’s game, and with Jackson it is especially complicated because he often used cod psychoanalysis of himself as a fig leaf for the truth. Michael Jackson’s life showed us the journey from abused to abuser | Hadley Freeman 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “Our Republican friends are saying with this fig leaf, ‘Grant me the courage to stand up to President Trump, but not yet,’ ” Schumer said. Senate on cusp of passing rebuke to Trump on national emergency declaration 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z "This fig leaf is so easily seen through, so easily blown aside that it leaves the constitutional pretensions of my Republican colleagues naked." Pelosi works to derail bid to spare Trump from border emergency rebuff 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Here, accusations of inaction are no fig leaf for presidential over-reach. Trump is wrong about the wall but he might be right to fight it | Lloyd Green 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z In French discussions of integration, there is a tendency to dissemble questions of race, class and social discrimination beneath the fig leaf of religion. The Right-Wing Pundit ‘Hashtag Triggering’ France 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “All of us working on human trafficking, we are tired of being the Trump Administration’s fig leaf,” Vandenberg said. The Hypocrisy of Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Argument for a Border Wall 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z But this moral stance may simply be a fig leaf for another moral quandary. “Reverse Innovation” Could Save Lives. Why Aren’t We Embracing It? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “I hope it’s not sort of just a fig leaf because they’re getting such bad publicity and America is moving so far away from what they believe,” the Democratic leader said. Analysis | The Daily 202: Stacey Abrams isn’t the future of the Democratic Party. She’s the present. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The Taliban may calculate that, rather than insist on an acceptable political settlement, the White House will settle for the fig leaf of their assurances about preventing terrorist attacks. Opinion | The Trump administration’s tentative deal with the Taliban could return Afghanistan to chaos 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The only difference is the fig leaf: temporary protections for some immigrants who’ve been imperiled by Trump’s own regressive agenda. As shutdown drags on, Trump's new 'offer' seems designed to fail 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For example, if I identified a claim by the president that was provably false, I would ask the White House to supply a fig leaf of supporting evidence. Opinion | I worked in the Justice Department. I hope its lawyers won’t give Trump an alibi. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Politico reported that some Republican leaders have urged the party to “drop the voter fraud issue” regardless of the decree because “many minorities view it as a fig leaf for racially charged voter suppression.” Court allows Republicans to pursue "ballot security" measures aimed at minority voters 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Now Moscow seems intent on removing the fig leaf. Opinion | Why the world should be paying attention to Putin’s plans for Belarus 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z This is the Renaissance without a fig leaf. Masters and machines: the best art and architecture of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The fig leaf of saying that the penalties imposed by colleges are not “criminal” sanctions does not change the severity of the matter. Opinion | Cross-examination is essential, even in Title IX investigations 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Talk of Soros was, once again, a fig leaf, a narrative designed to appeal to Hungarian anti-Semitism and the American right. Opinion | Hungary is thumbing its nose at the U.S. — by following Trump’s cues 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z A Podesta employee referred to the nonprofit's certification that it wasn't related to the Ukrainian political party as a "fig leaf on a fig leaf." Mueller-referred probe into Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig, Clinton-linked Tony Podesta heats up: report 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z A Podesta employee referred to the nonprofit’s certification that it wasn’t related to the Ukrainian political party as a “fig leaf on a fig leaf.” Prosecutors ramp up foreign lobbying probe in New York 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But it’s clear that these referendums are fig leaves for political power-grabs masquerading as citizen empowerment. Opinion | Mexico’s new president must learn from his heavy-handed transition 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z They allow him to warp both foreign and domestic policy for short-term political gain — and to do so transparently, without the tiniest fig leaf of pretense. Opinion | On Tuesday, vote to stop the madness 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The fig leaf of democratic appearance is preserved. Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return” 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The fig leaf of a $15 wage notwithstanding, homelessness, gentrification, boondoggles, traffic jams for the hoi polloi and toll lanes for the rich are the true legacy of Seattle’s so-called “leadership circle.” Amazon wage raise: ‘Fig leaf’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The FBI background check into Kavanaugh was so heavily curtailed by the Trump White House that it served as a cover-up: a fig leaf to protect vulnerable senators from embarrassment. Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation isn't democracy. It's a judicial coup | Richard Wolffe 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z In patriotic ball gowns, pilgrim costumes, shamrocks as fig leaves or maybe just bunny tails, they gather ’round the miniature pond in front of their Dream House, sometimes engaging in some, um, rather grown-up scenarios. - The Washington Post 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The employee dismissed as “a fig leaf on a fig leaf” its written attestation that it was not controlled or funded by Mr. Yanukovych, or his party, which Mr. Manafort represented. Manafort Plea Deal Casts New Scrutiny on Lobbyists He Recruited 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z As Jackson says, de Gaulle got exactly what any other French politician would have: a surrender with the barest fig leaf. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This growing estrangement means that if Trump tries to shut Cohen up by pardoning him, the president would not even have the fig leaf of friendship to hide behind. Opinion | Is this the best Giuliani’s got? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Critics see that as akin to a fig leaf, with the North Koreans running up the tab to help pay for their nuclear program. For the U.S., a frustrating history of recovering human remains in North Korea 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Baroness Warsi said her party should learn from Labour's response to anti-Semitism allegations and not seek to use promises of action as a "fig leaf" to hide the true extent of the problem. Tory peer calls for Islamophobia inquiry 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Austrian leaders are now talking about securing their own “southern borders,” and others are likely to follow, using the German deal as a fig leaf. Germany’s Europe-Shaking Political Crisis Over Migrants, Explained 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z And his fig leaf of facial neutrality won’t stand up in the court of history. Opinion | John Roberts just validated religious discrimination 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But his latest on behalf of coal miners at least waves a fig leaf in the direction of a genuine problem. Half a Cheer for Trump Coal Order 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Standing, after all, can be a fig leaf. After the Supreme Court’s artful dodge, expect the 2020 gerrymander to be much, much worse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Because I care deeply about violence against women in the NFL and beyond, I can no longer continue to be part of a commission that is essentially a fig leaf. Opinion | I’m done helping the NFL Players Association’s pay lip service to domestic violence prevention 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But to criminal-defense lawyers in New Orleans, all of that is a fig leaf: Most of the lawyers who represent inmates are badly overworked public defenders carrying 150 felony cases or so at a time. Calling Your Lawyer’s Cell From Jail? What You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Electric cars, nifty but not popular with consumers, provide automakers with a bright green fig leaf. Opinion | Why fuel-efficiency standards won’t actually curb gas consumption 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z After all, the Chinese live very well and promise to live better without any of those fig leaves. Journalists Suffer Deadliest Day in Afghanistan Since at Least 2002 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Arsenal still have the Europa League to try to offer a fig leaf of credibility to a season of regression. The least Arsène Wenger deserves is a royal Arsenal send-off | Daniel Taylor 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Of course, Republicans’ actions show that “mental health” is just a verbal fig leaf. Opinion | The NRA is winning the spin battle 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Skeptics say the judgment allows the I.O.C. the fig leaf of talking tough, while at the same time making decisions that it knowingly knew could be successfully challenged on appeal. 28 Russian Athletes Win Appeals of Doping Bans 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z After that snake led to the discovery—and end—of public nudity, the first wardrobe was plant-based fig leaves. The Jewish Arbor Day 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Outraged liberals moaned that Democrats had won nothing but a fig leaf to cover the fact that they had broken down. Why the Democrats lost their nerve in the shutdown battle 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z He forgot to leave the fig leaf on; that is all. Opinion | Trump and ‘shithole’: I’m shocked, shocked! 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z "It's not even a fig leaf. It's a pine needle," Cotton told reporters after the meeting. White House quickly rejects tentative bipartisan deal for Dreamers – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Nadler said the Intelligence Committee’s warrant requirement “is a fig leaf for reform” and “fails to address the vast majority of searches” of the Section 702 databases. House poised to vote this week on renewal of major surveillance program 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “At the very minimum, if the commission is going to offer the fig leaf of bipartisanship, they should be allowing members of the group to receive any and all the information they want,” she said. A Democrat on Trump's voter fraud commission asked for more transparency. Here's what happened next. 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s now standard practice for questions to be sent out to external verifiers for double-checking, giving producers a fig leaf if a mistake slips through. 'I'm a magpie, a collector of facts and curiosities': secrets of a quizmaster 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z “It might look like a face-saving device, a fig leaf,” Bixby said. Sen. Bob Corker promised not to let the GOP tax bill drive up the debt. He’s running out of time. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s nothing more than a fig leaf for pervasive corruption. Perspective | College sports’ real criminals: Those getting rich under the guise of ‘amateurism’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Surely Alabama Christians care more for Scripture than to let it be a fig leaf for Roy Moore’s naked power trip. Opinion | Christians: Our silence on Roy Moore isn’t enough 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s a convenient fig leaf for harassers and bullies of all stripes to hide behind, one that is only interested in the enjoyment and consent of exactly one person. BuzzFeed’s new social media card game is an easy way to harass people 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Or will he also be the last, his downfall a fig leaf for larger inaction? Opinion | Why I thought twice before saying #MeToo 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z I was very excited but very fraught because I had one little idea and that’s not even a fig leaf. 'Blade Runner 2049' writers Hampton Fancher and Michael Green on whether Deckard is a replicant and other mysteries 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But many gun control campaign groups regard the move against bump stocks as little more than a fig leaf. Las Vegas shooter may have planned other attacks 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “One little idea — that’s not even a fig leaf. But then I got a couple of little ideas and then three little ideas and then we were off to the races.” Ryan Gosling and director Denis Villeneuve have 'no idea how the world will react' to the risky 'Blade Runner 2049' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Most Republicans like it because it’s a fig leaf to wear at town-hall meetings. Opinion | The real reason health care in America is a mess 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z A last-minute committee hearing would be nothing more than a fig leaf disguising a reprehensibly partisan process in service of an unworthy bill. Opinion | Another execrable health-care bill proves bad ideas never die 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Here’s the irony: Democrats created Obamacare’s marketplaces as a fig leaf to Republicans who in turn targeted them by shrinking subsidies, undercutting protections for pre-existing medical conditions, and more. Republicans are radicalizing Democrats. Just look at healthcare | Lawrence Jacobs 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Critics characterize that supposed motivation as a fig leaf. College Football’s New Secret Weapon: Coaches Who Don’t Coach 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It is then further extracted using an alcohol, which evaporates, leaving a purified form called fig leaf absolute. What Gives the Sycamore Its Smell? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The female breast, covered in fig leaves to conceal the immorality of the original sin. Perspective | Topless bans aim to protect, but some question who needs protecting 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But the line was mocked by liberal detractors and competitors who believed it was a fig leaf for the conservative slant in much of the channel’s programming. Fox News no longer advertises itself as 'fair and balanced' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Ivanka’s paid family leave program in Trump’s 2018 budget is the perfect metaphor for her role in the administration: it serves as a fig leaf for his most oppressive policies. Ivanka Trump's family leave plan is a fig leaf for her father's worst policies | Lucia Graves 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Nunes made it clear that Trump’s wiretapping claim was false, but he seemed intent on offering the President a fig leaf for the explosive claim. How the White House and Republicans Blew Up the House Russia Investigation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, puts it more bluntly: “The balanced budget talk is a fig leaf to let them change America into a right-wing alternative universe.” Convention of the States: Is a billionaire-funded coup to rewrite the Constitution on the verge of happening? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Outside observers say the nuclear-armed Pyongyang’s space programme is a fig leaf for weapons tests. North Korea's Kim Jong-un hails engine test as 'new birth' of rocket industry 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Few doubt that “training” is a fig leaf. Japan’s Foreign ‘Trainees’ Work in a Place Trump May Envy 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z O'Leary said the lease was a "fig leaf" to mask the acquisition of its main domestic competitor, which he said would raise their combined market share to 63 percent. Ryanair in cooperation talks with AlItalia, to fight Lufthansa deal 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The talk about a replacement is a fig leaf driven by the Republicans' understanding that most Americans do not share their core principles or philosophy. The G.O.P.’s Health Care Death Spiral 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z “However, our experience counsels that it sometimes is a fig leaf for protecting pharma profits, and that issue shouldn’t be ignored as well.” State’s U.S. senators face criticism for blocking import of drugs from Canada 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z He had earlier given voice to the voter fraud fig leaf used to cover racial discrimination at the polls, although there were only 31 documented instances out of one billion votes between 2000-2014. Jeff Sessions now has my book 'White Rage'. Will he read it? | Carol Anderson 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Timothy Naftali, a former director of the Nixon library, said the notes “remove the fig leaf of plausible deniability” of the former president’s involvement. Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Other factions call clean coal a fig leaf to keep coal, with all of its environmental baggage, in the energy mix. Can Carbon Capture Technology Prosper Under Trump? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Adam and Eve, in one of the earliest renderings of them naked with fig leaves, stand on the outermost wings. A Master Work, the Ghent Altarpiece, Reawakens Stroke by Stroke 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z At times the ultra label has been little more than a fig leaf for neo-fascism. Inside Italy’s ultras: the dangerous fans who control the game | Tobias Jones 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In a speech Monday afternoon on the Senate floor, Warren called the funding for NIH and opioid abuse prevention a “tiny fig leaf of funding” that masks provisions that benefit the industry. Congress set to vote on bill that promises to speed up drug approval 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In pursuit of ratings – from behind a “freedom of speech” fig leaf – many media platforms have detoxified radical and untruthful behaviour that was until recently confined to the darker corners of Reddit and Breitbart. Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon and how bigotry became a cool new trend | Nesrine Malik 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Hence the fig leaves of military preparedness, flood control, fighting crime, etc. Inside the Conservative Push for States to Amend the Constitution 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “By providing that modicum of a fig leaf, we encourage the local authorities. We are condoning their actions by remaining silent and not speaking up.” South Sudanese Violence Engulfs Aid Workers, Pushes Nation Closer to the Brink 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For the CIA’s part, cover names for agency officials would end up being fig leaves, once attentive readers began poring over the report. 'A constitutional crisis': the CIA turns on the Senate 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z “It has the fig leaf of legality,” said Cornell University law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, who, like other leading immigration experts contacted by AP, was unfamiliar with Hawaii’s arrangement. Hawaiian seafood caught by foreign crews confined on boats 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z You can compete, lose and still keep a fig leaf of dignity because nobody will see your face. Which Olympic Sport Would You Compete In? 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The studio music was just a starting point for the live shows, costumed spectaculars of wide-brimmed hats, war paint, dashikis, military gear or perhaps a white sheet with only a fig leaf underneath. Bernie Worrell, Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder, dies aged 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Those two bills aim to provide a fig leaf, misleading Americans into thinking our opponents are addressing gun violence when they’re not. Gabrielle Giffords: Orlando and Jo Cox’s death show the horrors of gun violence 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The move follows MSF’s recent decision to withdraw from the UN-run world humanitarian summit, which it said was a “fig leaf of good intentions” and would achieve little. Refugee crisis: Médecins Sans Frontières rejects EU funding in protest 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But there is no way to finesse this, no fig leaf big enough to cover the gap between them. Paul Ryan’s soap opera with Donald Trump 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Religion has always been a fig leaf, used to justify otherwise unjustifiable assaults on reproductive rights, gay rights, and even the education system. Christian right voters get in line behind Trump, because conservatism has always been their true religion 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It's not economics – that's the same fig leaf we heard with segregationist George Wallace 50 years ago. The Extinction of Reagan Democrats 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It's better to remove the fig leaf and acknowledge the motivating factors. Recruiting Students Overseas to Fill Seats, Not to Meet Standards 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z She was expelled from Brearley, for putting red paint on the fig leaves of the school’s Greek statues, and then from a convent school in Suffern. The Psychedelic Garden of Tuscany 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In a floor speech, Mr. Ryan said the accommodation is a “fig leaf” that falls short, particularly since the administration fully exempted houses of worship and employers with grandfathered plans. Paul Ryan defends the Little Sisters of the Poor ahead of Supreme Court showdown 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The invasion of Afghanistan, unlike that of Iraq, had a fig leaf of moral rationale: Al-Qaeda, sheltered by the Taliban government, killed nearly 3,000. The lie that wasted the world: Why liberals need to finally admit that the Afghanistan invasion was wrong 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “These were fig leaves to conceal his desire to travel to the Islamic State,” Fitzpatrick said. Virginia man admits he planned to join the Islamic State 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Stuff the meatballs in tender fig leaves and throw on the grill. 7 great meatball recipes 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Knowing that others share the same emptiness, we don't envy the fig leaf they wear. A Point of View: Why do medals make people happy? - BBC News 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Given the ongoing efforts and demarches, however, the diplomat does not believe that the idea of the conference was to give "a fig leaf to a predetermined French plan to recognize Palestine." How Serious Is the French Proposal on Middle East Peace? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “This seems like an enormous fig leaf,” he said. European and U.S. negotiators agree on new ‘Safe Harbor’ data deal 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Setting aside an area as a park should not be used as a fig leaf for a lack of a wider environmental approach. In praise of parks 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “It’s a fig leaf, but the KMT is going to be desperate for something to save face,” Mr. Sullivan said. Singer’s Apology for Waving Taiwan Flag Stirs Backlash of Its Own 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Which leaves journalists fresh out of fig leaves. Donald Trump gets away with bullsh*t: The magical secrets that help him con the press 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The new policy announced by Manfred would be seen for what it is: a fig leaf. Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z And, from what I’ve heard, it would be a small fig leaf.” New documents provide details of LAUSD probe that led to firing of famed educator Rafe Esquith 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z And you can't argue with the results: grilled sardines with fresh turmeric, chiles and radishes, lamb leg cooked à la ficelle, sheep's milk ricotta grilled in a fig leaf with herb salad and tarragon toast. This year's new cookbooks: 27 of our favorites 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The Obamacare legislation did originate in the House, but those bringing the lawsuit claim this is only a fig leaf because the bill was rewritten in the Senate using a “strike-all” amendment, a common procedure. The GOP’s latest doomed quests to kill Obamacare 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z We know this because they are not even bothering to use the resources excuse as a fig leaf for the real reason, which is flat-out fearmongering in the wake of the attacks in Paris. Cowardly governors give ISIS a propaganda victory: Refusing refugees is a moral outrage & a strategic blunder 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The Flight Guide will update its euphemistic fig leaves — ‘‘material’’ and ‘‘herbs.’’ Letter of Recommendation: Magic-Flight Launch Box 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “But these Arab groups are weak and just a fig leaf for the Y.P.G.” New U.S.-Backed Alliance in Syria Exists in Name Only 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Yet the commission was far more than a fig leaf. A Veto to Veterans' Wallets 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The DUP's opponents are already accusing them of using the paramilitary assessment as a "fig leaf" to return to power. Stormont crisis: NI paramilitary assessment report due on Tuesday - BBC News 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Its name comes from the Latin, pudere, to be ashamed, as if we’re still cowering in the Garden of Eden, trembling behind fig leaves. Babies ruined my orgasm: How trying to have kids sucked all the pleasure out of sex 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Hughes says curbing time at the office or eschewing weekend work is a fig leaf. Tragedies Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z “We’ve learned in the last 15 years that currency is a critical part of trade,” Mr. Levin said, calling the proposed side agreement negotiated between the Treasury Department and Japan “a fig leaf.” Negotiations on Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Are Extended, Fueling Hope 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Including Chromecast and Android TV may just be a feint, a fig leaf, a post hoc justification. What's behind Amazon’s baffling decision to ban Apple TV and Chromecast? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But some Muslim groups argue the cautious language is a fig leaf for continuing to approach their communities primarily through law enforcement and homeland security. For a teen aspiring to be president, being Muslim is a hurdle in post-9/11 America 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z They and conservatives alike say the vote is a fig leaf and predicted Republican leaders will eventually relent on the Planned Parenthood fight to avoid a repeat of the 16-day shutdown in 2013. Planned Parenthood funding vote sets up government shutdown showdown 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Her company, Miyoko's Kitchen, produces vegan cheeses wrapped in fig leaf or covered in ash, among other varieties. For vegetarians and vegans, it's a new world of appealing options 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z “This is trying to put a fig leaf on the really oppressive enforcement they’re doing.” Homeless could get minor citations cleared if they accept services 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z That’s why every bag of spike carries the disclaimer ‘‘Not for Human Consumption’’ as a legal fig leaf. Spike Nation 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Over in the U.S., bulls are looking to take that Tsipras fig leaf and turn it into something. Markets Rally on Fresh Hopes of Greek Deal — Live 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z She’s trying to walk this line of giving labor a fig leaf of sympathetic support. Obama’s trade agenda is alive — and could very well pass 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Notes of the salty fruit and fig leaf from Provence are bound together with bergamot, anise, cardamom, black pepper, cedarwood, iris and tonka bean. Last-Minute Father's Day Gift Ideas: 8 Fragrances for the Discerning Dad 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z "A fig leaf of artistic expression cannot convert such hurtful, valueless threats into protected speech." The Supreme Court's Elonis decision isn't a victory for trolls 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He reached in front of him and said, “Here I am,” though she didn’t hear him, because her ears were stuffed with rolled-up fig leaves. “Love Is Blind and Deaf” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Democratic Sen. Tom Holland, of Baldwin City, immediately dismissed the governor’s business-tax proposal as a “fig leaf.” Kansas governor outlines new tax plan to close budget gap 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Many observers are calling this a fig leaf to conceal a complete surrender. Democrats Don't Realize Trans-Pacific Partnership Debate Is Real Trade War 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z "Fantasy tax avoidance crackdowns are a fig leaf for unfunded manifesto pledges" was the title of one newspaper article. The Election Vocabularist: Unfunded, opinion and poll - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z "A fig leaf of artistic expression cannot convert such hurtful, valueless threats into protected speech." The Supreme Court's Elonis decision isn't a victory for trolls 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “I’m here,” she told him, because his eyes were covered with fig leaves. “Love Is Blind and Deaf” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “Tower instead of cower. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Instead of holding your hands in fig leaf position, hold them like a basketball player — shoulder-width apart.” How to Get The Attention Of Investors In-person And Online 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr McMurray said it was a "bogus consultation exercise geared to providing a fig leaf for their preordained but undisclosed cuts to bus and rail services". Translink railway consultation: Unite union considers industrial action 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z There is no obvious fig leaf among them. Netanyahu Has No Diplomatic Fig Leaf 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Then afterward he will try to attach Herzog or Lapid to it, to provide the fig leaf to help him deal with the many hardships waiting for him in the international arena. Bibi's 'Mr. Security' Strategy Helps Secure Win 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z She squinted through a veil of fig leaves into her fig-leaf phone, the only light in the room of the world, and listened to herself listening to him struggle to breathe. “Love Is Blind and Deaf” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The White House has offered a diplomatic fig leaf, saying it would be unseemly to host Netanyahu so close to the March 17 elections. For Hillary and Bibi, a long and sometimes fraught relationship 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z After dozens of telephone calls failed to achieve anything, she flew to Minsk, Belarus, with the French president in tow as a kind of fig leaf, to negotiate a cease-fire , which also failed. Germany’s central role 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Now, of all times, however, a fig leaf like that is more essential than ever. Netanyahu Has No Diplomatic Fig Leaf 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Those careful words – that Walker is considering a run for the presidency, but not technically “testing the waters” – amount to the crucial legal fig leaf these operations use to avoid a violation. Blurred Lines: The Covert Funding of the 2016 Campaign 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The bottom line: The script includes a very subtle gay joke that younger kids will miss and a lightly implied nudity gag involving a goblin and a fig leaf. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Strange Magic,’ ‘Black or White’ and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z They paste on a fig leaf of a miniscule tax cut for the middle class to conceal the full ugliness of their policy junk. Obama Tries to Steal the Taxes Issue From Republicans 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Here forever and not even a fig leaf. Caption Challenge: Bear witness 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Or if the president is forced to veto the bill, he figures that somehow some fig leaf can be created to allow him to basically bring up a clean funding bill. GOP and Boehner Playing Games With DHS Immigration Funding Bill 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour created the impression of a day at sea by blending juniper, red berries, grapefruit, fig leaf and spices. Penhaligon's Trade Routes: Perfumes for the Intrepid Traveler 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Not even a fig leaf such as, say, withdrawal of secret police support in Venezuela. Nylons for nothing in Cuba 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “That fig leaf of action is growing steadily more tattered,” she added. Palestinians Move to Join International Criminal Court, Defying Israeli and U.S. Warnings 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The prisoner exchange is a fig leaf for a U.S. capitulation; the swap could have taken place on its own. Sony And Cuba: Why The U.S. Looks Like A Shriveling Power 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Without notice, without the legislative fig leaf of debate, the Cromnibus raised the limit tenfold for individual donations to the national party committees. Ruth Marcus: The ‘Cromnibus’ isn’t without an upside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Regulations simply prohibiting companies from making personal information public is, in my opinion, a fig leaf. We Can’t Trust Uber 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z We could also say the Javelins provide a fig leaf to cover the embarrassment of Stratford International, at which no international trains – no Eurostars – actually call. The 'Delectable' Eurostar Turns 20 in Style Turner said the “fig leaf” will remain on the Great Blue Heron for a week. Artists take on university over nude model class 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Beijing gave Hong Kong democrats not even a fig leaf of cover over the rules for nominating election candidates. HK protests: Inside Xi Jinping's head 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z In short, the noble fig leaf of terra incognita has fallen away and laid bare the peripatetic, outsize bravado of Scott’s kindred spirits. The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z They deploy the cultural authority of science — considered society's most objective way of understanding the world — as a fig leaf for positions motivated explicitly or implicitly by ideology. Genetics: Under the skin : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The latest, which will be introduced in early September, is Vert, scented with fig leaf. New candle lines add a glow of inspiration 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z “They tried to ram privatization down our throats. I told them I wasn’t going to be a fig leaf for Andrew.” Andrew Cuomo Meddled With His First 'Independent' Commission, Too 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In early July, a promisingly thick underbrush of fig leaves started sprouting at the base of the otherwise lifeless-looking tree. A Fig Tree Dies in Brooklyn, and in Other Boroughs 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “The Sudanese government has abandoned the fig leaf that the janjaweed don’t operate under their command and control,” said the Enough Project, a nonprofit group based in Washington. Sudan Revives Dreaded Militias, Rights Group Says 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Putin seems to be extending a fig leaf to Kiev. At D-Day Event, Putin Extends Fig Leaf To Ukraine Pres 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Barghouti said the Rolling Stones are crossing “our boycott picket line and providing Israel with a fig leaf to hide its regime of oppression with.” Rolling Stones to perform in Israel despite pressure from Pink Floyd members to cancel Some lawmakers may view this new wine-only proposal as a fig leaf that would allow them to claim they delivered on their campaign promise, but this wine-only approach is not real reform. Time For Pennsylvania Lawmakers To Get The State Out Of The Booze Business 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z They want the fig leaf to avoid real sanctions. Poroshenko Elected Ukraine President; Putin Dodges Promise To 'Respect' Results 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z And yet Republicans traditionally end up losing the debate, usually after being bought off with some fig leaf tax cut or pork barrel spending for their business allies. How Republicans Can Take Back the Minimum Wage 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z They are aware, too, of hair-trigger sensitivities bequeathed by the clash of empires, as if the Cold War had merely spread an ideological fig leaf over a far older contest. Letter From Europe: Dusting Off the Language of Cold War 2014-03-27T16:54:09Z Yet another puts a fig leaf between edit and native. Inside Forbes: 10 Battlegrounds to Watch As Native Advertising Marches On 2014-03-25T12:18:00Z “And the fig leaf is not adequate,” he said. In Job, Appointee Profits and Christie Gains Power 2014-03-04T05:08:43Z The trial functions as no more than a fig leaf on the legal system, which is dependent on the party system. Sinosphere Blog: Q. and A.: Detective Novelist Qiu Xiaolong on Chinese Corruption 2013-12-24T21:00:50Z In exchange, Republicans were seeking what they called a few “fig leaves” — minor adjustments to Obama’s new health-care initiative. GOP scrambles to develop new plan to end shutdown, avoid default 2013-10-12T00:48:26Z It's a fig leaf - and not a very good one. Viewpoints: Should smoking in prison be banned? 2013-09-20T13:04:16Z It has become abundantly clear over the past few months that there is but a fig leaf of oversight to protect against abuse of civil liberties by the NSA. Spooked 2013-09-18T17:20:06.853Z Mr. Doig, the Dartmouth professor, said the recusal afforded Mr. Samson an ethical fig leaf. In Job, Appointee Profits and Christie Gains Power 2014-03-04T05:08:43Z They coyly call it “renewables and advocacy” but that’s merely a fig leaf cover for “how well are they doing Greenpeace’s job?” Links 17 Aug: Your iPhone Uses More Energy Than Your Refrigerator 2013-08-17T16:33:00Z Correspondents are asking if Mr Mansour will be any more than a fig leaf for military rule. In pictures: Egypt crisis 2013-07-04T18:49:59Z Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticised lawmakers of both parties, who he said "very much want a fig leaf" on border security in order to justify their vote on immigration. US immigration reform gains momentum 2013-06-25T02:29:40Z He charged that colleagues of both parties were seeking “a fig leaf” that would permit them to say they bolstered security along the border, “when in fact this bill does not.” Border security amendment clears hurdle, bolstering chances for immigration bill 2013-06-24T22:42:13Z In a resonant passage, the commission says that "UKFI will increasingly be seen as a fig leaf to disguise the reality of direct government control". Commission backs Lloyds as first privatisation 2013-06-19T08:24:11Z The doors are no longer just revolving but spinning, and the people charged with protecting the public interest are bought and sold with barely a fig leaf of regulation. Corporate power has turned Britain into a corrupt state 2013-06-04T21:20:01Z But why did they even want a fig leaf? Occupy’s legacy: The media finally covers social protest fairly 2013-04-13T19:00:00Z Perhaps the government believed that mass protests – with placards denouncing the EU as a fig leaf for revived German domination of Europe – would strengthen its hand. Cyprus rescue fuels a growing rift that endangers EU integration 2013-03-28T16:14:55Z In an interview last week with The Associated Press, Lapid said he would not be a “fig leaf” for a hard-line agenda on peacemaking. Netanyahu scrapes victory 2013-01-23T14:12:00Z Younger readers may be forgiven for not knowing any of this, since the fig leaves have barely twitched over three decades. Times directors find voice as Rupert rings the changes 2013-01-20T00:01:12Z It is a fig leaf to hide the mutilation of public services. How Libor rate rigging has put hospitals in crisis 2012-12-20T10:47:03Z Since then, junta officials have sought to tighten their hold on power under the fig leaf of a “national unity” cabinet including civil opponents. Mali's Crisis: Is the Plan for Western Intervention 'Crap'? 2012-12-19T08:05:23Z So many investors solve the dilemma this way: They seek out ideas that are tried and true and hiding behind a fig leaf of innovation. Is It Human Nature to Stifle Big Ideas? 2012-12-06T15:01:00Z I doubt that Nicholas Wade’s suggestion of handing fundamentalists a “fig leaf” on evolution would be effective in the way he intends. Letters: An Age-Old Question: Readers Debate Science and Theology 2012-12-06T15:22:42Z “I refuse to put on this fig leaf.” San Francisco Officials Vote to Ban Public Nudity 2012-11-21T02:54:31Z Wearing nothing more than a fig leaf, gladiator sandals and a handlebar moustache, Eugen Sandow was once an image of masculine perfection. The man with the perfect body 2012-10-19T09:49:34Z The board is “an industry fig leaf,” said Sarah Sellers, a former FDA official who worked on compliance issues involving compounding. Critics charge that drug-compounding pharmacies require government oversight 2012-10-19T01:09:00Z For the next 12 years, King Sihanouk provided a fig leaf of respectability for the Khmer Rouge as they and several nonCommunist groups tried to evict Vietnam from Cambodia in the name of national liberation. Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian Leader Through Shifting Allegiances, Dies at 89 2012-10-15T01:34:42Z Disabled people are far too important for the Paralympics to be used as a fig leaf to hide the oppression and discrimination they seem increasingly to face. Disabled people face a tidal wave of prejudice and discrimination 2012-08-30T07:30:01Z The economic fig leaf for the reversal in position seems to be a citation of this new economic paper by Michael Bordo and Joseph Haubrich. Political economics: Yesteday's heresies 2012-08-07T14:45:04Z "I think it's going to be an extension bill with disaster relief as a fig leaf to move it forward," said Ferd Hoefner of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, a small-farm advocacy group. House Speaker pledges action on drought aid 2012-07-26T20:09:18Z "The princely house will not serve as a fig leaf for policies it no longer supports," Alois said in a speech at the opening of parliament in March. Insight: Liechtenstein prince faces vote over veto power 2012-06-11T09:15:44Z But to critics, the Shadow committee is simply offering a fig leaf--albeit one full of technical details and white papers-- that hides the real risks of deregulation. The right?s deregulatory brain trust 2012-05-08T13:00:00Z Yet the coalition, which was created in 2004, is often criticized by activists as a fig leaf for electronics manufacturers. Disruptions: While Apple Is Criticized for Foxconn, Other Companies Are Silent 2012-04-08T16:56:48Z An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Even on that April day the fig leaves were unfolding, and the small green knobs of the first crop of fruit had sprouted close under the foliage at the tips of the ash-grey branches. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The first result of eating the forbidden fruit was a regard for decency, and they made some somewhat inadequate clothes out of fig leaves, sewing them together. The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny 2012-03-14T02:00:26.310Z “The Fair Labor Association is largely a fig leaf,” said Jeff Ballinger, director of Press for Change, a labor rights group. Critics Question Record of Fair Labor Association, Apple?s Monitor 2012-02-14T02:14:42Z "There are brave souls in every land Who worship nature, grand and nude, And who with swift indignant hand Tear off the fig leaves of the prude." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It said it would add more monitors to the 165-strong team, ignoring calls to pull the plug on what critics say is a futile effort that provides a fig leaf for Assad to suppress opponents. Arab monitors "buy time" for Assad: Syria opposition 2012-01-09T13:35:24Z Schumer said the Keystone pipeline was a fig leaf for Republicans who needed to show they could force Obama’s hand. Boehner Says House Republicans Oppose Senate Deal on Tax Cut 2011-12-18T17:22:01Z They were even promising to return 5,000 call center jobs to the United States as some sort of fig leaf or carrot to the Obama group. Is it Atherosclerosis for Ma Bell's Management, Arrogance or Both? 2011-12-12T05:41:28Z Actually it is a fig leaf hiding the structures beneath, in their hierarchical complexity. Essay: Theodor Holm Nelson: On the Information Superhighway, Destination Unknown 2011-12-05T22:57:20Z Finding enough spending cuts to pay for big tax cuts would have doomed their efforts, so they concocted a theory, “starve the beast,” to maintain a fig leaf of fiscal responsibility. Economix Blog: Bruce Bartlett: The Balanced Budget Amendment Delusion 2011-11-15T11:00:35Z But Democratic Senator Charles Schumer called the Republican plan, "a political fig leaf that would likely add to the deficit while doing nothing to create jobs." Senate Republican jobs bill urges tax reform and cuts 2011-10-13T22:27:24Z In reality, the transmission argument is just a fig leaf that has failed to hide the discomfort the German-led minority at the ECB feels over the plan. Trichet leaves ECB, and opinion, divided 2011-10-06T14:36:19Z The protest movement’s grass-roots leaders, some of whom rejected the Trajtenberg committee from the outset as a fig leaf for the government’s shortcomings, said they would put forward alternative ideas on Tuesday. Israeli Panel Offers Plan to Ease Cost of Living 2011-09-26T20:25:40Z Chaste monks have put an apron on the antique Venus; the ridiculous custom of bestowing a fig leaf on nude figures has continued even up to the present. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Concerns about "voter fraud" are a fig leaf for anti-democratic restrictions on voting by undesirable populations. Professional "voter fraud" troll now preemptively predicting fake voter fraud 2011-09-12T22:40:00Z She had tasted of a fruit which had opened her eyes, and she would fain clothe herself in fig leaves, so they hid the deformity of dirt, and rags, and sin. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z Do you still keep on using the fig leaves, even though they're a trifle withered—you don't use any term of endearment? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Alternative Minimum Tax "offset" is the all-important fig leaf in this deal. The Senate's deficit reduction magic trick 2011-07-19T19:08:00Z As Chait explains, the Alternative Minimum Tax "offset" is the all-important fig leaf in this deal. Why a debt ceiling apocalypse won't happen 2011-07-08T11:45:00Z And others, like Mohler, see the provisions as mere fig leaves for defecting conservatives who wanted cover for their votes n favor of marriage. Gay Marriage: The Coming Clash of Civil and Religious Liberties 2011-07-01T20:25:00Z Upon eating, their eyes are opened, and they are ashamed of their nakedness, and sew fig leaves together to make breeches. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It was simply that a naked truth, deprived of the last fig leaf, circulated concerning every one. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z So is the fig leaf of hiring consultants, each of whom lowers the bar for the next. Think About Sin When Bonuses Are Revealed: Roger Lowenstein 2011-03-24T23:03:44Z "It remains to be seen whether the stress tests being talked about for nuclear plants will be more than a fig leaf for business-as-usual." Go-ahead for nuclear stress-test 2011-03-21T16:20:17Z Critics say the country's Jamahiriyah or "state of the masses," the only government most Libyans have known, is a fig leaf for authoritarian rule and has kept the country poor. Upbeat Gaddafi fires trademark blast at West and Qaeda 2011-03-02T14:42:39Z What bothers me is media outlets making that judgment, either sincerely or as a fig leaf. The Craigslist Congressman Story: Whose Hypocrisy? 2011-02-10T20:37:45Z Osborne's move to put an extra £800m tax on the banks the previous day was a political fig leaf by comparison. This failure to curb banks is a failure of government itself 2011-02-10T20:00:03Z Bernanke offered a fig leaf to both sides, supporting lower taxes on the one hand while maintaining that short-term budget reductions should not be too radical. Bernanke warns against steep budget cuts 2011-02-10T01:39:17Z "This panicky announcement seems to be a fig leaf to hide George Osborne's failure to get a deal on the Project Merlin talks with the banks," he said. VIDEO: Balls criticises 'damp squib' bank levy hike 2011-02-08T15:31:45Z “This panicky announcement seems to be a fig leaf to hide George Osborne’s failure to get a deal” with the banks on pay and lending. U.K. Bank Levy Increase to Raise 800 Million Pounds 2011-02-08T12:39:05Z The fig leaf of their platonic friendship suddenly blown to bits, he asked what would happen if he and Amy wanted to get married? Purely platonic relationships possible? 2011-01-11T22:44:45Z After building a home and establishing in it a fireplace for the preparation of food, woman's next concern was to secure more raiment than was afforded by the traditional fig leaf. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z One thing is certain: when the fig leaf of civilian government arrives in 2011, there will be no place in it for the Lady. Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's First Lady of Freedom 2010-12-29T08:30:00Z The only uncertainty is the size of the fig leaf obtained by the White House to attempt to cover up its dismal failure. Too little, too late, too useless: The House tax cut vote 2010-12-02T20:56:00Z The best scenario for Democrats is to restrain Republicans from a "permanent" extension of all the Bush tax cuts while getting the fig leaf of something like an extension of unemployment benefits of return. Obama's weak tax cut hand is showing 2010-11-30T18:35:00Z This is a fig leaf move on Steiner’s part. City Room: Panel Named to Weigh Waiver for Schools Chief Appointee 2010-11-19T19:40:00Z “The networks have moved to where they’re resigned to accept some sort of advertising — but they still require a fig leaf held up with suspenders.” Advertising: Trojan Makes Concessions to Place a Suggestive Ad 2010-09-28T02:40:00Z Now, military leaders seem to want to present a fig leaf of civilian rule to the West. How Burma's Junta Is Cementing Its Wealth and Power 2010-07-22T04:55:00Z Democrats are divided between thinking that it’s the most realistic chance for progress and worrying that it’s a fig leaf that may delay more significant action. Economic Scene: Overcome by Heat and Inertia 2010-07-21T02:10:00Z The legislation is "largely a fig leaf," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic & Policy Research in Washington. The Financial Reform Law: A 'Fig Leaf' 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z A former U.S. intelligence official said the CIA was conducting the drone strikes instead of the U.S. military because the covert nature of the program gives Islamabad the "fig leaf of deniability." Special Report: How the White House learned to love the drone 2010-05-18T20:11:00Z The Pakistani Taliban increasingly serve as its fig leaf, some experts said. Pakistani Taliban Are Said to Expand Alliances 2010-05-07T01:28:00Z It is vital that this project is not used as a fig leaf to divert attention from a carbon intensive, business-as-usual approach in other government departments. Green investment bank may be announced in the budget, but what would it deliver? 2010-03-23T13:39:00Z "One of the great dangers of the special advocate system is that in some circumstances it serves as a fig leaf for fundamental unfairness," she said. Court fight over secret evidence 2010-03-08T17:35:00Z Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas to their health plan — and not just fig leaves. Economic Scene: On Eve of Health Meeting, Big Questions Still Linger 2010-02-24T03:10:00Z The fig leaves, though certainly overshadowed by their bulky neighbours, hold their own in the universal struggle for air and space. Fragments of an Autobiography And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. The Bible Story One by one the recruits came before us a la Eden, sans the fig leaves, and were subjected to a careful medical examination, those who were in any way physically disqualified being rejected. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War So they "sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Bible Romances First Series As far as this majority is concerned we might yet be living among rocks and trees, without shelter, lacking sure supplies of food, with fig leaves to cover our nakedness. Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business In English public life it is necessary to profess a respect for decency, to make aprons of fig leaves. The Island Mystery Or they may be dried away by some moderately corroding application, such as the milky juice of fig leaves, of swallow wort, or of spurge. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families You agree with me, don't you, my dear, that it is not necessary to have more than a fig leaf? Introduction to the Science of Sociology The Bible says: “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.” The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 The girls have an equally free and easy time while young, their only garments being a silver fig leaf, fastened to a chain or girdle round the waist. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo It was the same plate with the big green fig leaves; the same knife and fork with the white bone handles. Jewish Children The fig leaves may have lost none of their verdure—the sky may be unfretted by one vengeful cloud—nature, around you, may be hushed and still. Memories of Bethany Beauty and comfort—that surely is the raison d'être of apparel—apart from modesty, which, however, a few fig leaves can satisfy. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends They're all excited about themselves and whether or not they wear fig leaves. The Night of the Long Knives The story of embroidery includes in its history all the work of the needle since Eve sewed fig leaves together in the Garden of Eden. The Development of Embroidery in America It was surrounded by a design of big green fig leaves. Jewish Children The Mohammedans aver that the “forbidden fruit” was the banana or Indian fig, and cite in confirmation of this opinion that our first parents used fig leaves for their covering after their fall. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I will send up your cloak, which is barely bigger than a fig leaf, when I can. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 His mother did bind his black eye in a fig leaf poultice and tell him fighting were not good for little lads. The Coming of the King And modesty blushed rosy red when Adam put the apple to his lips, and invention and ingenuity, new-born, rushed to the rescue, and they gathered the fig leaves. Fair to Look Upon I remember that we ate off the same beautiful Passover plate that was surrounded by a design of big green fig leaves. Jewish Children "If I get it in I will devote it to buying you a fashionable fig leaf." Bohemians of the Latin Quarter At the end of this time cover with fresh water, adding a few grape or fig leaves to color, and cook until quite green. Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. Since the first record of Eve having "sewn fig leaves together to make aprons," women have used the needle in some form. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance A few fig leaves make a full summer suit for the African and the skin of an ox his garb for winter. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Only fate could have brought together this man and this suit, so manifestly destined for each other since the hour when Eve began to patch up fig leaves for Adam. The Big-Town Round-Up He wrapped a stone round with fig leaves, and said to the carnac, 'This time I will give him a stone to eat, and see how it will agree with him.' Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits "Behind the rhubarb plants; they have such large leaves, larger even than a fig leaf." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 This girl wore a small piece of bark, in guise of a fig leaf, which was the sole approximation to clothing seen among them. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 It started by sketching a history of the petticoat, beginning with Eve's fig leaf and working up. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock Most of the women were of very dark complexion, and not dressed very stylishly, while the younger population did not have even a fig leaf, or anything to take its place. Death Valley in '49 But after they sinned they made themselves clothes of fig leaves. The Key to Peace If you have no elm feed oak and fig leaves. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Few incidents in history excel in pathos the scene of the first mother plying with heaving breast and tremulous fingers, her crude needle on the few fig leaves which her dejected husband plucked for her. Bushido, the Soul of Japan They came running just as they were, and Adam, garbed in his fig leaf, was fully clad compared to most of them. A Minstrel in France It wouldn't matter if you didn't even have a fig leaf. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Our common descent we may each recall To a lady of old caught tripping, The fair one in fig leaves, who d——d us all For a bite at a golden pippin. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Sheep eat whatever is put before them—fig leaves, marc, even straw. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro They have hitherto lived utterly ignorant of the necessity for wearing fig leaves, or the utility of ploughs; and in this blissful state of ignorance they would, no doubt, prefer to remain. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia I dare to swear the more she put off, the fairer she mist appear, even as our general mother Eve gained no lustre from her fig leaves nor furs. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty There are brave souls in every land who worship nature grand and nude, and who, with swift, indignant hand, tear off the fig leaves of the prude. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis After the devil had made all the trouble for woman he could with the fig leaf, he introduced the French heel. An Ambitious Man We know how ridiculous the diminutive fig leaf makes a statue seem in our museums; think of the poor man and woman attired in fig leaves just plucked from the trees! Memoirs of My Dead Life We thought it remarkable that of all the people we had yet seen, not one had the least appearance of clothing, the old woman herself being destitute even of a fig leaf. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 And thus they knew that they were naked, and they took fig leaves and sewed them together for to cover their members in manner of breeches. Bible Stories and Religious Classics "I wonder if Eve ever had the chance to be extravagant in fig leaves?" Drusilla with a Million That is putting the fig leaf over our eyes. Nonsenseorship Eve was beautiful in flowing hair and fig leaf. Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information Culture and religion were used as fig leaves to disguise the true nature of wars. After the Rain : how the West lost the East All his finery was gone; he was naked as when he was born, with the exception of a scanty flap that answered the purpose of a fig leaf. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The drunkards carried leathern bottles, and the greedy quarters of meat, cakes, fruits, butter wrapped in fig leaves, and snow in linen bags. Salammbo Our simple ancestors covered no more with the fig leaf than they thought it necessary to hide; we wear the fig leaf over our eyes: that is the nonsenseorship. Nonsenseorship Adam was plucking a nice, fat, green fig leaf out of his salad. Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information |
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