ny times "Xi....

"
fanning speculations

ny times "Europe's Far Right: Female Leaders Wooing Female Voters"

vying to be president
??
Abortion and gay rights are not lightning rod political issues ofor conservative
s as they are in the United States, so they tend not to be ideological tinder in
Europe.
Gender is a useful wedge, though, when it comes to highlighting what has become
one of their main planks: a critique of immigration, particularly from the Musli
m world.
"gender is a useful WEDGE"
Muslim enclaves
L'Opinion
berated
"I am scared that the migrant crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's
rights," she wrote. Ms. Le Pen is also making a bid to woo gay voters, whom her
father, the party's founder, once openly berated.

squarely nationalist party

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Europe / Sergey Kislyak, Russian Envoy, Cultivated Power Network in U.S.
Sergey I. Kislyak
jowly

assail
invited to think tanks to discuss arms control, he would invariably offer an una
pologetic defense of Russia's intervention in Ukraine and ASSAIL Americans for w
hat he portrayed as their hypocris -- then afterward approach a debating partner
to suggest dinner
grudging / grudgingly
But we gradually came to develop a grudging respect for him as someonne who was
really representing the positions of his country.
allegations
nefarious / per se / I don't think it was out of the box
I don't see anything nefarious in that per se, and I don't think it was out of t
he box
for Senator Sessions to talk with Kislyak
affable
what both sides preumably knew, that American intelligence agencies closesly tra
ck Mr. Kislyak's movements