In his nine-minute speech, Donald Trump sought to portray the border wall as a solution to a humanitarian crisis, rather than what it always has been: the holy grail of a nativist political movement.
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☕ “If the success of bubble tea is anything to go by, then cheese tea has a good chance”
non-event, nonevent
“It was so dark and evil in that place,” said the wife of one miner who missed his shift that day and so was spared. “No one dared report the accident because the owner was so powerful.”
Indeed, the Lijiawa mine tragedy might still be an official non-event, but one brave soul reported the cover-up in September on an Internet chat site. The central government in Beijing stepped in, firing 25 local officials and putting 22 of them under criminal investigation. The results of the inquiry are expected this month.
The $55 billion project is in danger of becoming a non-event for the Asian nation's lenders.
non-event/nonevent
n. Informal.
An anticipated or highly publicized event that does not occur or proves anticlimactic or boring.
anything to go by,
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