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And because violent extremism isn't confined to any one language, religion or ideology, the Redirect Method is now being deployed globally to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.
But once Victoria (Emily Blunt) comes of age and is courted by Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) the film blooms.
It's about a little bar on the outskirts of civilization (Arizona or New Mexico) where its run by an old man and his daughter or granddaughter (Bette Davis) who keeps getting courted by a football veteran.
The mayor has a beautiful, intelligent daughter who serves as a topnotch public defender but who is also being courted by a top law firm.
And nevermind his being courted by that high-powered law firm!
A beautiful princess, courted by royal suitors, is desired by a powerful Mongol magician.
From Russia With Unrequited LoveNEW DELHI – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has assiduously courted Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with him more than a dozen times in four years.
Trump courted Rupert Murdoch, just like Blair and, to a lesser extent, Cameron had.
That sort of thing won’t go over well with many of the white blue-collar workers Trump so assiduously courted during his campaign.
While China is not a party to the current negotiations, the TPP is designed to allow additional countries to sign on in the future – and the Chinese, we can assume, will be courted assiduously.
Since 2000, China has actively courted Africa’s unstable and dictatorial countries with offers of aid and a refusal to back United Nations sanctions against them.
Even if motivated by a conscious strategy to undermine the domains of the left’s cultural power, it has needlessly courted controversy by appointing people with weak credentials.
And yet, though courted by all sides in the struggle to maintain stability in Northeast Asia, South Korea now runs the risk of becoming isolated.
In the first phase, America courted Mao Zedong’s regime, despite the Korean War, China's annexation of Tibet, and domestic witch hunts, such as the Hundred Flowers Campaign.
With China looming on the horizon as a much more confident and defiant force than Russia, including as a key player in the G20, Russia is being courted by all the world’s powers.
In the lead-up to the invasion, George W. Bush’s administration assiduously courted journalists at mainstream liberal and conservative news outlets, who then helped it win public support by disseminating what turned out to be false claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In the heyday of American dominance, European governments profited doubly: they were part of a powerful West and courted as a potential counterweight to US dominance by third countries.
A few years ago, a clown named Brozo, with a large red nose and a bright green wig, was Mexico’s most popular political commentator on television, actively courted by all candidates running for national office.
Though India is rightly allergic to being seen as a US-supported counterweight to a rising China, in practice it is avidly courted by Southeast Asian countries anxious to balance the Chinese, a development that suits American interests.
At the same time, Meles courted China as both an investor and as a hedge against the West’s criticism of his human-rights record.
By contrast, Modi is likely to remember states, such as Japan and Israel, that courted him even as the US targeted him.
He has also courted foreigners, including French movie icons Brigitte Bardot and Gérard Depardieu and even the Hollywood has-been Steven Seagal.
The West has courted trouble in appearing to isolate the Pashtun.
Several WTO “developing” countries are now net creditors, lend massive amounts of money to the United States Treasury, and are courted by European countries in financial distress.
In fact, with its innovative economy and high-tech military industry, Israel has become an indispensable partner for countries in the region and beyond; it is regularly courted by powers like China for its technological prowess.
Already, China has courted all three countries with long-term financial-aid packages.
That Vronsky courted you?
Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at.
I cannot say, however, that anything he said made impression enough upon me so as to give me any thought of the matter, till he told me at last very plainly, that if I refused, he was sorry to add that he could never go on with me in that station as we stood before; that though he loved me as well as ever, and that I was as agreeable to him as ever, yet sense of virtue had not so far forsaken him as to suffer him to lie with a woman that his brother courted to make his wife; and if he took his leave of me, with a denial in this affair, whatever he might do for me in the point of support, grounded on his first engagement of maintaining me, yet he would not have me be surprised that he was obliged to tell me he could not allow himself to see me any more; and that, indeed, I could not expect it of him.
I was courted by several very considerable tradesmen, and particularly very warmly by one, a linen-draper, at whose house, after my husband's death, I took a lodging, his sister being my acquaintance.