Some felt he would acquiesce too quickly to Kalanick's whims.
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In the original story, Akane would protest but eventually acquiesce.
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To be silent is to acquiesce to the status quo.
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She's not going to quietly acquiesce to what leadership wants.
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Snyder, clearly, is not one to acquiesce the status quo.
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Do you acquiesce, thinking it would be cruel not to?
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But black activists did not acquiesce to this power play.
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The White House was forced by its allies to acquiesce.
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Not every automaker is going to acquiesce to Amazon's integration demands.
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Bartleby fails to acquiesce in carrying out his humdrum, tedious tasks.
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But neither Hamas nor Fatah seems to be eager to acquiesce.
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I refuse to acquiesce to the destruction of the Democratic Party.
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Puerto Ricans, however, did not simply acquiesce to second-class status.
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The Lakers, of course, did not acquiesce to Bryant&aposs demands.
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I refuse to acquiesce to the demonization and the loaded language.
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But not every automaker is going to acquiesce to Amazon's integration demands.
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The news organizations acquiesce, fearing a loss of access or legal trouble.
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He has provided no reason why Iran would acquiesce to America's demands.
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For Republicans, to maintain civility is to acquiesce to our political predicament.
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Now outnumbered, the two will face greater pressure to acquiesce to them.
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We consistently acquiesce in the crown prince's actions, however impulsive or harmful.
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The question remains whether or not the government will acquiesce to her.
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"Mental-health staff in prisons all too often acquiesce," Fellner told me.
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The Uganda parliament will not condone or acquiesce in acts of torture.
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Women must embrace our stubbornness, and not acquiesce unless we want to.
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Obama had the same three choices on Iran: bomb, acquiesce or negotiate.
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Though petrified, she didn't acquiesce—and instead walked away from the film industry.
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But Russia would be very hard put to acquiesce in such a plan.
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Things changed and he acquiesced in this but he didn't acquiesce in leaving.
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Acquiesce to his request to see you in some form twice a year?
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In all likelihood, he will see the wisdom in your offer and acquiesce.
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But we acquiesce or try to be conscientious consumers by patronizing farmers' markets.
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Candy is expected to acquiesce to an industry run by and for men.
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Dads are less likely to indulge or acquiesce to their children's immature behavior.
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Malaysian voters were supposed to acquiesce to whatever deal he had on offer.
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I would rather have you speak up and be fired than to acquiesce.
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"I did not 'acquiesce to pressure' to use non-merit factors," he responded.
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Conservatives get outfoxed and bamboozled when we acquiesce and hope for the best.
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But don't expect The_Donald members to acquiesce to these new changes without a fight.
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Did he really think that Kelly, the host of her own show, would acquiesce?
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Hence, the pressure to acquiesce to China diplomatically and on security issues is stronger.
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If by popular acclaim Trump is legitimated, the party will be forced to acquiesce.
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Rather than acquiesce, these students stood their ground, protested and had the decision rescinded.
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Nor do they acquiesce to it: Good counseling can help you with this, too.
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The emotion is in the silence: hers to convince him and his to acquiesce.
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But she's refused to acquiesce to the pressure and has continued showing up to work.
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Tito oversees and advises the musicians and entertainers and must acquiesce to the changing times.
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Although Andrew Jackson boldly refused several document requests, he did acquiesce more than 100 times.
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The more companies acquiesce to investors' demands, the more pressure on their peers to follow.
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It suggests that over time the United States might acquiesce to Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
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We can't blame them if we willingly acquiesce to their desires and regret it later.
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Will Republicans stand by President Trump, or will they acquiesce to the will of Republican voters?
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In South Sudan and Yemen, they acquiesce to the obstacles that governments place on distributing aid.
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In South Sudan and Yemen they acquiesce to the obstacles that governments place on distributing aid.
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If they did not acquiesce, they faced being blocked from their Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts.
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Instead of seeking surrogates for God, they try to acquiesce in something that transcends human understanding.
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Either way, the US has given Russia an ultimatum, and it's unclear if Putin will acquiesce.
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Al Qaeda forces storm a town, plant their flags, and then watch as local leaders acquiesce.
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Women who had to acquiesce to their owners' demands sometimes bore them children of mixed race.
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" Again and again, the lawsuit says, Ms. Tirschwell "felt she had no alternative but to acquiesce.
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Given that the Federal Reserve is presiding over a strong economy, it is unlikely to acquiesce.
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CO: Do you think this acknowledgement and refusal to acquiesce is your contribution to art history?
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They eventually acquiesce and the group takes turns shooting RJ in the head with a nail gun.
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But he added that this moment in the race is not a time to acquiesce to others.
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The move makes JPMorgan the latest company to acquiesce to the more casual nature of today's work.
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However, DOL should not acquiesce to the letter's additional proposal that the waivers be "phased out" altogether.
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Will Canadians acquiesce in what could easily be seen as bullying by their neighbor to the south?
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The numbers were grim, and Mr. Trump called Mr. Ryan to acquiesce into calling off the vote.
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CNN is told Ryan is very unlikely to acquiesce to this, but keep an eye on it.
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Slavery took away choice from enslaved people, leaving but two: acquiesce and live, or rebel and die.
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He wants the West to lift sanctions and to acquiesce in his plan to stay in power indefinitely.
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That doesn't excuse payroll or personnel departments who reflexively acquiesce to requests in apparently legitimate email, experts say.
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He would also have millions of citizens who acquiesce in inconceivably potent networks of corporate surveillance and control.
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Similarly, when someone says they are not going to acquiesce to being arrested, what is the NYPD playbook?
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The country's minorities have been targeted by the regime, which has encouraged violence to which some intellectuals acquiesce.
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The diplomatic unity of purpose that led Iran to acquiesce to the deal in 2015 is now frayed.
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If Lam thought the public would acquiesce in the wake of the grisly killing, she was badly mistaken.
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Soros's humanitarian activity is supposedly secretly indoctrinating Hungarians in a bid to let them acquiesce to mass migration.
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They want to use it as a hammer to get us to agree or acquiesce to their political claims.
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They want to use it as a hammer to get us to agree or acquiesce to their political aims.
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After the walkout, workers say Amazon representatives flew in to meet with them, but didn't acquiesce to their demands.
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Ironically, Dana developed a strong working relationship with Jenkins when he reportedly refused to acquiesce to Petty's daughter's demands.
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If conservatives acquiesce to this slower rollback of Medicaid expansion, they might want steeper cuts through the spending caps.
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Or will he acquiesce to Mr. Trump's demands and the economic imperative of good relations with the United States?
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In return for full acceptance, Western democratic societies demand that immigrants enthusiastically acquiesce to a new nation's cultural values.
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So he shouldn't have asked you not to submit an insurance claim, and you had no reason to acquiesce.
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The idea that it would now acquiesce to the United Kingdom's cherrypicking for the two-year transition is fanciful.
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It had loud electric guitars and blasts of pyrotechnics, and it wasn't going to acquiesce to current pop fashion.
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Mr. Trump has pointed to China's economic weakness as a reason it should acquiesce to his country's trade demands.
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But by early afternoon, there were no signs that Republicans would acquiesce to the Democrats' demands for a vote.
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In the BC One competitions, there are no coin flips to decide order, it's just who's willing to acquiesce.
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The DMV revoked the licenses of Uber's fleet of cars, forcing the company to eventually acquiesce and obtain a permit.
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When a client asks Christine to reduce her rates so he can continue seeing her, she says she can't acquiesce.
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American officials have dangled relief from stringent international sanctions or even economic aid if the hermit regime were to acquiesce.
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Cities and states have no choice but to acquiesce to its demands—and to its heavy use of public infrastructure.
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Western businesses must acquiesce to Beijing's wishes, sharing cutting-edge technology as a condition of entry to the Chinese marketplace.
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"You will have few bidders and be more likely to acquiesce to the demands of anyone who does show up."
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Most Latin American countries have recognized Mr. Guaidó and demanded that Mr. Maduro acquiesce to the call for new elections.
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Culpability rests not only with direct perpetrators but also those who are responsible for or acquiesce to it, they added.
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If Congress doesn't acquiesce to his demands, a stalemate could go for "years," Trump said during the meeting, according to Schumer.
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Many leaders in the region (and perhaps further afield) will probably acquiesce to a quick and relatively bloodless transfer of power.
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When doctors didn't acquiesce, however, patient satisfaction scores in surveys after the visits were dramatically lower than when requests were fulfilled.
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In 21845, Nelson Mandela requested her remains be sent back to South Africa and the French government took years to acquiesce.
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But what last weekend shows is that if Trump expects these nations to acquiesce to US demands, the plan isn't working.
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They would either have to acquiesce to these demands or give up on a years-long campaign promise of repealing Obamacare.
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That's what I find myself wondering as I hear story after story of adult women who helplessly acquiesce to sexual demands.
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Conservative lawmakers have been reluctant to embrace a payroll tax cut, but may be forced to acquiesce given the extraordinary circumstances.
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Mr. Johnson, for one, would be unlikely to acquiesce in the appointment of a consensus candidate unless the candidate were him.
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They are likely to fail, in part because Republicans in Harvey-ravaged Texas have no choice but to acquiesce, as Sen.
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To participate in the rehabilitation of pre-Trump Republicans is to acquiesce to the rightward shift of the entire political spectrum.
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The government of Canada's smallest province announced today it will acquiesce to the movement calling for abortion care on the Island.
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It will not acquiesce to the country joining NATO or the EU, of which Greece is a member, under the FYROM banner.
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Presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has zero desire to acquiesce to the President during her first hours with a gavel in hand.
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Each time we acquiesce to our kids' latest request to buy something, we subtly condition them that their resources have limited uses.
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I don't understand why they trust that she's willing to put feminism over family, but Ivy and Beverly acquiesce to their her plan.
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Some banks are still hoping for full access to the document before its public filing, though it is uncertain whether Snap will acquiesce.
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The idea that women deserve whatever happens to them if they don't acquiesce to the demands of men's feelings and egos is unacceptable.
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Removing Mr. Brennan's clearance was warranted to ensure the government did not acquiesce to his politicization of the Agency and the Intelligence Community.
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He reportedly told a closed-door meeting the United States would "go it alone" if alliance members don't acquiesce to his spending demands.
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Because Libya is not an immediate threat to the United States, President Trump might be tempted to acquiesce in Putin's newfound Mediterranean power.
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Both sides said it was a pleasant meeting, though Mr. Ryan did not acquiesce to the Democrats' request for votes on their measures.
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If the Assad regime advances with only Russian support, Israel likely will acquiesce; if there's an Iranian presence, however, it could hit back.
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"Ultra repeatedly threatened to cancel the event when [we] did not acquiesce to Ultra's increasingly burdensome demands," wrote lawyers representing Adria MM Productions.
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The Kremlin is unlikely to acquiesce and there is a risk of violence in Moscow and St Petersburg if the authorities crack down.
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The president has the legal authority to do this, as long as governors of border states acquiesce — and agree to foot the bill.
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Mr. Assad has perfected a system of political nihilism, which wipes out people who oppose it and enslaves those who acquiesce and submit.
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In January, after Defense Secretary James Mattis contradicted Trump on the use of torture, the president said he would acquiesce to Mattis' view.
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"We are left in a situation where they believe we will ultimately acquiesce," he said at the KentPresents ideas festival in Kent, Conn.
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Targeted by anti-religious activist groups, VA officials reflexively acquiesce to their demands, only to then be called to account for doing so.
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In the physical search context, the Court has consistently ignored the fact that people often feel they have no choice but to acquiesce.
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Women acquiesce to his aggressive "flirtations" because they want to advance their careers — even Verdon recognizes as much during a quick visit to rehearsals.
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Even Facebook had to acquiesce to users' demands for an alternative to its "Like" button by offering different ways to react to a post.
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Continue occupying these spaces, doing the things that you're looking to do; or acquiesce to the incorrigible shadow of white supremacy (it's always shifting).
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The government last month was partially shutdown a record 35 days over the refusal of congressional Democrats to acquiesce to Trump's border wall demand.
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During the hearing, Petersen had to acquiesce on many occasions that his "background was not in litigation," despite the role he was up for.
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But last year, the Five Eyes said it would contemplate forcing the matter of encryption if tech giants wouldn't acquiesce to the pact's demands.
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" New York magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi tweeted, "News organizations should protect their journalists, not acquiesce to the mob when it comes for them.
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He did not want to bomb Iranian nuclear installations, because of the uncontrollable events bombing could unleash, and he did not want to acquiesce.
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"We're saying today, 'No, we do not acquiesce to this,'" Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said after voting to block the emergency declaration.
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Over all, the possibility that the party will acquiesce to Mr. Trump looks a lot better than I would have thought even one month ago.
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The greatest lifeline we have in this desperate situation is the fact that people are refusing to acquiesce to their governments' efforts to criminalize compassion.
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But the fact that post-Brexit Britons will enjoy fewer rights in law does not mean that judges will necessarily acquiesce in a shrunken role.
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China seemed to have offered a bait, pretending that it might acquiesce into such unthinkable concessions, only to show its political establishment Washington's true intentions.
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The reason digital assistants acquiesce to harassment isn't just sexism or gender inequality in the tech world, as disturbing and prevalent as those may be.
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Noting that Trump has "shown no ability to stand up to Putin," Burns predicted Trump would acquiesce to the Russian leader on the Ukrainian confrontation.
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Mr. Fox, who was a lobbyist for United, advised Mr. Samson on how to pressure the airline to acquiesce to his demand, Mr. Fishman said.
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Do they simply acquiesce and let inauthentic works into the market if they are the product of a similar attempt at bullying and rampant greed?
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Such a move would typically be anathema to Republicans who favor a free market, though it remains unclear whether they would acquiesce to the administration.
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President Donald Trump hasn't yet gotten Democrats to acquiesce to his demands for $5.7 billion to build barriers — a "wall" — on the US-Mexico border.
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By any means necessary, using any weapon that comes to hand, Ragana is here to force you to listen—and you'd do well to acquiesce.
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But if his experience with the Thunder taught him anything, it's that delusion should be replaced by a willingness to acquiesce for the greater good.
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But Christmas here also includes wonderful divergences from conventional European cooking — some that acquiesce to our December heat, and some that spring from our diversity.
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Or did the president, knowing Mr. Cohen would tell a lie, acquiesce in the false testimony — signaling with this silence approval, or at least acceptance?
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But with Democrats set to reclaim the House majority in two weeks, there is little motivation for Ms. Pelosi to acquiesce to the president's demands.
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It is because of this hostility that she is now back behind bars under the Trump administration with no plans to acquiesce to the government.
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The argument that electors are likely to check the wishes of the public rather than acquiesce to them is therefore a difficult one to make.
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A female Republican senator dared to say a few words, and, because she didn't acquiesce to the left's demands, they wanted her to shut up.
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They are willing to suspend their principles and beliefs and acquiesce to Trump's wild claims solely because it is good for their own personal politics.
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Iran has made it clear that it won't acquiesce, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling Soleimani a martyr and vowing revenge for his death.
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If Democrats could end the trial with questions left unanswered and hanging over the reelection campaign of the president, why would Republicans acquiesce to that?
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He also needs the West to acquiesce in his annexation of Crimea and his retention of power after his (supposedly final) term expires in 2024.
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Democrats probably aren't going to acquiesce, especially when they think the Alexander-Murray proposal has already been undermined by the repeal of the individual mandate.
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Because the courts would need to acquiesce in any attempt to remove Kavanaugh without impeachment, it's possible that any effort to do so would fail.
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It has yet to acquiesce to one of his boldest demands, that the company simplify its structure by reorganizing from 10 business units into three.
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Recent comments by Qatari officials suggest it is unlikely to acquiesce to enough of the demands by the late Tuesday deadline to avoid further sanctions.
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They might reason that Trump is vague on most of these issues because he largely doesn't care, and would thus acquiesce to Republicans in Congress.
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It changes our behavior; it makes acquiesce to limitations on our liberty that men do not have, it alters our sense of what is possible.
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In Risen's view, we often "acquiesce"— or cave in to our System 1 thinking — even when we know it's irrational, for a few simple reasons.
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And though they will acquiesce, they will punish you for your request by going extra rough on both your tender head and your poor, weary rear.
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Recent events indicate that Trump will continue to use tariffs as a political weapon if China, Mexico, the EU or Japan don't acquiesce to his demands.
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If you don't dump this person, your only other choice is to try not to lose your mind while you acquiesce to someone else's emotional needs.
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Yet, that which is so obvious does not matter to those who acquiesce to Trump's every action, and they do so to the demise of conservatism.
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That ordinance demanded that all businesses open to the public acquiesce to the government's gender ideology, regardless of belief and those who would abuse the measure.
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From their side, companies say they are under pressure to acquiesce to the demands from Russian regulators or risk being shut out of a lucrative market.
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The second option would acquiesce to the debt ceiling being attached to the budget resolution, but demand that associated mandatory spending cuts increase to $250 billion.
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Most believe the Trump administration, despite its tough talk, will ultimately acquiesce, perhaps settling for a freeze that allows the North to keep a small arsenal.
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Some of you are saying that it's O.K. to be intolerant of intolerance, to discriminate against bigots who acquiesce in Trump's record of racism and misogyny.
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That does not mean we Australians will become Beijing's ally, but it does mean we will begin tacitly to acquiesce to China's claims to regional leadership.
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When women acquiesce to a role determined primarily by their biology of reproduction — even if it's unconsciously — they judge each other for rejecting that primary identity.
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But if you are ready to acquiesce to the pleading, what should you know before letting your child use the Internet to find a new family pet?
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We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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While Rittman did acquiesce to boiling his water the old-fashioned way—in a "saucepan"—his struggle with his wi-fi kettle continued well into the day.
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Your annual holidaytimes PSA:ELF ON THE SHELF IS A NIGHTMARE OBJECT DESIGNED TO ACQUIESCE YOUR CHILDREN TO AUTHORITARIAN SURVEILLANCE CULTURETHE ELF IS A NARCBURN THE ELF pic.twitter.
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Winning an election that vaulted them into power has apparently not changed the default mode of many Republicans: to acquiesce to Democrats like they're still in charge.
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The president has threatened to shut down the government over the wall on numerous occasions since taking office, only to acquiesce to Congress and sign funding legislation.
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It plays with the idea of having all the answers at our fingertips, glowing out of our respective screens, but those answers only acquiesce a specific thirst.
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It made Israel acquiesce to the principle of its withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war, including the West Bank, in the 1978 Camp David accords.
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Rather than acquiesce, Townsend and her mother, Sheila, paid their own way to New York, and Taylor played the junior event, where she lost in the quarterfinals.
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So we would then have to either attack again in the future to deal with a reconstituted nuclear program or acquiesce to Iran having a nuclear weapon.
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Claire McCaskill (D-MO) took a moment to remind victims that they should not doubt their emotions, or acquiesce because of the possibility that they feel somehow responsible.
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" To that end, he continued, "If Congress determines that an infringement has occurred, it is up to Congress to decide whether to challenge or acquiesce to Defendant's conduct.
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There is still no solid date set for a further meeting between Trump and Kim, but Pyongyang seems unlikely to acquiesce to U.S. demands for complete nuclear disarmament.
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For his part, Griggs tells us the Savages intended to acquiesce and meet Joycelyn in Chi town, but Johnson never got back to them after the phone call.
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A successful policy must also include incentives for Moscow to acquiesce in a satisfactory resolution and steady pressure on Kyiv to fight corruption and improve other governance practices.
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Because regional stability is inherently in its interests, India should not acquiesce to Pakistan's unfounded insecurities and instead embrace Trump's offer and augment its security ties with Afghanistan.
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"Luna making me feed her babydoll so I guess I have twins now," Teigen wrote alongside a silly photo of herself trying to acquiesce to her daughter's demand.
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We should demand more accountability and greater transparency—we may be the product, but that doesn't mean we have to acquiesce when corporations impose bad policies on us.
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He is also likely to acquiesce to any decision by President Trump to assert executive privilege to withhold certain materials, like communications with the president or agency deliberations.
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If present trends persist, young Jews might not acquiesce to an affiliation with a nation that discriminates against non-Orthodox Jews, non-Jewish minorities and the L.G.B.T. community.
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Buchanan's plan failed, and he learned a tough lesson from this foray into policy making: If the majority demands services such as free public schools, politicians will acquiesce.
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Waymo's vehicles don't necessarily ignore all the visual info it reads from its cameras as it drives around, but it also doesn't immediately acquiesce to a posted sign.
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As we were about to find out, Americans would not acquiesce to a president firing a special prosecutor chosen by the attorney general to investigate possible presidential misconduct.
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" Later, "The Amulet of Acquiesce" is a love song about protagonist Ryo and love interest Nozomi, which Hughes says is "in the style of Meat Loaf, meets Journey.
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The idea behind those regulations is that if the government is going to acquiesce to someone's presence here, that person should also be allowed to work on the books.
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The state's first-in-the-nation status also plays a role, though, with some arguing that it's not time for them to acquiesce to another candidate at this point.
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"Luna making me feed her babydoll so I guess I have twins now," Teigen, 32, wrote alongside a silly photo of herself trying to acquiesce to her daughter's demand.
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No sane community faced with addiction and crime would invite or acquiesce to brutal policing as their fate, and no moral community would impose it as a primary response.
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After initially feeling "kind of stunned" by the interaction, Dudley thought of a humorous way to acquiesce to the man's request: She placed the nursing cover on her head.
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Moonves was also accused of fostering a toxic environment where women who did not acquiesce to his sexual demands were fired, while men who sexually harassed women were promoted.
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The judge approvingly quoted Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on the temptation presented to lawmakers who know judges will acquiesce to agency decision-making.
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If two-thirds of senators vote to ratify a treaty, then that effectively means that a supermajority of the American people either agree or acquiesce to the nation's commitment.
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My guess is the latter, because once per Christmas/birthday cycle, my parents would acquiesce and buy me a well-intentioned, tangential-to-what-I'd-actually-asked-for outfit.
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We acquiesce as the media elevate the "arguments" of a tiny percentage of the population as though they represent the national conversation of working men and women and families.
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"There's no chance that if the Democrats take over the House they're going to acquiesce these decisions to the Trump administration," a former House GOP aide told The Hill.
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Populism's best energy comes from a refusal to acquiesce in the inequities of the world – once a motor force of the left, more often now found on the right.
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Under President Xi Jinping, China has grown increasingly confident in using its vast market as a bargaining chip, forcing foreign firms to acquiesce to strict demands on free speech.
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Instead, Madison wrote that in situations in which political minorities were aggrieved, they were responsible for persuading the majority of their views and had to acquiesce if they failed.
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Beijing has shown no willingness to acquiesce to any of the protesters' requests beyond allowing Hong Kong's Beijing-backed chief executive to temporarily suspend debate on the extradition bill.
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But they say they have more than enough commitments to put the petition over the top if the leadership does not acquiesce and assure a vote on immigration policy.
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China's president, Xi Jinping, cannot back away from goals of dominating many of the industries of the future; President Trump cannot acquiesce to those goals without huge political risks.
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As part of his strategy, the president has put tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods in hopes of forcing Beijing to acquiesce to U.S. trade demands.
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U.S.A. Hockey had shown little inclination to acquiesce to their demands for support equal to what the men's national team received and for better youth development programs for girls.
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She knew if she baited him — saying that they were engaged, that it was his responsibility to allow her to go out, rather than her father's — he might acquiesce.
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"Permanent residency" If Omar intends to stop speaking out, either to deny Republicans the ammunition or to acquiesce to Democratic leadership's wishes, she shows no signs of doing so.
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But he didn't indicate what he would do if Congress fails to approve funds, which leaves open the possibility that he will simply acquiesce once again to Speaker Pelosi.
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That was despite a decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leads the EPP bloc but has seen her political powers weaken, to acquiesce to French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's original pick for deputy national security adviser is now lobbying for a Ukrainian businessman who once advocated that Kiev acquiesce to Moscow's annexation of Crimea.
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At least some women might drop their objections to "cis" if those using it were clear that they are not implying that cis women acquiesce to traditional feminine gender roles.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin as yet has felt in no mood to acquiesce to American wishes for a deal, including an agreement for a no-fly zone in northern Syria.
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And he argued that it's up to both bodies of Congress to hash out differences during a conference committee, not for the House to acquiesce to the Senate's will immediately.
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And yes, since to acquiesce to Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is to gamble recklessly with the party's responsibilities to the republic, I overestimated their basic sense of honor.
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He said Kelly should not be allowed to moderate because she is "biased" and has a "conflict of interest," but Fox has refused to acquiesce to the front-runner's demands.
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This ambivalence is, of course, familiar from a contemporary life in which we daily acquiesce to data collection to enjoy the perks of social media, say, or an iPhone's GPS.
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Once we acquiesce to the digital documentation of what really happened, rather than what we might wish to believe happened, we can no longer take refuge in our "subjective" selves.
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Without that initial suggestion by Cobb -- and Trump's decision to acquiesce to it -- it's uniquely possible we could be talking about a different, and maybe significantly narrower, special counsel investigation.
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Kim wants the world to recognize his country as a nuclear state before denuclearization negotiations can take place, but the White House has said it won't acquiesce to that demand.
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Indeed, this week many Republicans have begun to acquiesce to his and the House leadership's desires, accepting that the bill, however flawed, is the best they are going to get.
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Many of these discussions operate off the assumptions that casual sex is ubiquitous and relationships are rare on campuses, and that men drive hookup culture while women acquiesce under pressure.
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Of course, there's no real reason for Trump and Pence to acquiesce and let Congressional Republicans investigate the chem trails that were reportedly spotted over Benghazi—at least not right now.
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If confirmed to head the Department of Justice, Sessions could join these officials in prosecuted those who help others vote, or he could merely have the Department acquiesce to voter suppression.
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Pakistan, which has long sheltered the Taliban leadership, would probably have to acquiesce to initial talks and use its leverage over the Taliban leadership to get them to join such talks.
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This requires the powers to all agree or at least acquiesce, as they did with 2005 sanctions on Sudan over its actions in Darfur and with the 2011 intervention in Libya.
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What is the point of being in control of the House and Senate if they are going to acquiesce to heated Democratic cries for a special counsel or a select committee?
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One analyst believes she may in fact have struck a deal with the army: in return for her defending their soldiers at the ICJ, the generals will acquiesce in constitutional reform.
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But to allow the GOP to claim the reason for this denial is one based on a wariness over a shaky government is to acquiesce to their imbalanced rules of play.
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He didn't have to acquiesce to the emergency declaration — he could have asserted the Senate's independence at a critical time by passing the spending bill without validating Mr. Trump's emergency declaration.
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"We are unwilling to acquiesce to the court's attempt to hijack the functions of the legislative and executive branches," Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, a Republican, said in a statement.
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"It's fairly clear that he was charged with blasphemy for political reasons, because they had to acquiesce to what the mob wanted -- that is a bad thing for Indonesia," Fealy told CNN.
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Warren, Cramer said, is harder on China than Trump, who has put tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods in hopes of forcing Beijing to acquiesce to U.S. trade demands.
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I think we've known for quite a while that he has the ability to control the board through the form of his shares and he had to acquiesce in whatever they decided.
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"The United States will not acquiesce to unilateral acts of other States designed to restrict the rights, freedoms, and uses of the sea and airspace, as reflected in international law," he said.
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They see themselves as grafting steel onto the spines of squishy Democrats, showing appreciation for Democrats who fight and obstruct, and verbally pummeling Republicans who acquiesce to Trump out of party loyalty.
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But Mr. Xi is also facing pressure from hard-liners in China, who do not want to acquiesce to the United States, particularly Washington's demands that China make changes to its laws.
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China's legislature approved a new legal code for foreign investment in March, giving the government a face-saving way to justify changes in other laws without appearing to acquiesce to American pressure.
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But Democrats, with their support needed to overcome the 60-vote threshold in the Senate and with a House majority just a month away, see no reason to acquiesce to Republican demands.
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In keeping with its policy never simply to acquiesce to the department's safety demands, the authority, instead, contested the results, conducted its own tests, and, not surprisingly, found contradictory and exonerating numbers.
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Must he, in addition, acquiesce in the permanent security clearances of the previous administration's spymasters, when they seek to wield these as licenses to kill his foreign policy and his whole presidency?
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But there's no sign Republicans will acquiesce to the demand, or that Democrats will be able to win over the three GOP senators needed to kill or delay the tax bill. Sen.
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After all, if these buyers simply ignore the U.S. and keep importing Iranian crude, Washington will have no choice but to acquiesce or fight an exceptionally damaging trade war on multiple fronts.
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After the Mexican War of Independence, Mexican authority remained tenuous — it became a tradition for Californians to overthrow their departmental governor and for Mexico City to acquiesce by sending them a new one.
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But because Long was such an icon of Broadway theater — by that point, he'd already won his second Tony — Martin believed he had to acquiesce to Long's behavior, or at least endure it.
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Citing security concerns because of the government shutdown, Pelosi wrote to Trump last week requesting that he delay the address or submit it in writing, but Trump did not acquiesce to the request.
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As one scholar has argued, the "current political system gives the President incentives to overreach, Congress incentives to acquiesce, and the courts incentives to defer" when it comes to limited military actions abroad.
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With this new policy, however, it appears the company is prepared to fully acquiesce to the provisions contained in the bill—a bipartisan companion to which has also been introduced in the House.
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While Detroit — unlike Puerto Rico and Washington — could avail itself of a Chapter 9 bankruptcy, which it did in 2013, bankruptcy law requires the state government to acquiesce before a municipality does so.
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"I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch," Huckabee said in June, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality.
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Both in the most pedestrian of ways, through the casual and regular practice of domestic violence, or simply by assaulting or murdering any woman who does not immediately acquiesce to their sexual demands.
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Still, never one to acquiesce to circumstances, she cadged what she could from the records of the Mobile Historical Society to embellish what little Kossola had told her, and headed north with Hughes.
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The irony is that Mr. Hyland was in fact going to acquiesce and start using another bread supplier until the activists kept showing up at his restaurants and at his reading at Greenlight.
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The president has already hit Mexico, Canada, Europe and Japan with steel and aluminum tariffs and threatened to impose auto tariffs if they do not acquiesce to demands on trade and other matters.
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You also have to either accept or acquiesce in wild claims that the overwhelming evidence for climate change is a hoax, that it has been fabricated by a vast global conspiracy of scientists.
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In his quest to force China to acquiesce to America's terms, Mr. Trump has already taxed $360 billion worth of Chinese products and had penciled in another round of tariffs on Dec. 15.
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No matter how you describe it, it's very, very clear that Pompeo's status within Trump's Cabinet is dependent in large part on his willingness to acquiesce to the President's view on, well, everything.
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"It would be surprising and extremely troubling if the national security cabinet officials were to acquiesce in an order like that after the assurances that they gave in their confirmation hearings," she said.
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To prop up the myth of the "peace process" and the "two-state solution" in Palestine/Israel is to acquiesce to the normalization of ethnic cleansing and the mass violation of Palestinian rights.
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A people who have endured 60 years of privation over the course of 11 presidential administrations in defense of national sovereignty and self-determination will not likely acquiesce to demands of a 12th administration.
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Democratic leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, have yet to acquiesce to Trump's demand that any government funding deal include more than $5 billion toward a border wall.
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And a Marquette University poll from last month shows why Johnson is refusing to acquiesce: 65 percent of his supporters want him to hold firm and deny a Supreme Court nominee confirmation until 2017.
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According to Hayek, Weinstein resorted to death threats, verbal abuse, and professional gaslighting when it became clear that she would not acquiesce to his sexual desires during the making of the 2002 film, Frida.
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They could either attempt a filibuster, which Republicans would very likely overcome with the "nuclear option," or acquiesce in a straight confirmation vote, where Gorsuch was sure to be confirmed by the Republican majority.
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The argument for coercion assumes that the people of Iran, who are suffering under a mismanaged economic system, will rise up against their government and force it to acquiesce to Secretary Pompeo's 12 demands.
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Trump said his fellow Republicans had to acquiesce to Democratic demands in spending bill because the party's majority was too slim to win the 60 Senate votes needed to advance the legislation without them.
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Yet, despite his belief that Wright had "nothing to say" to the new architectural movement, Johnson felt he had to acquiesce to the wishes of the MoMA board and include him in the show.
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This month, Mr. Trump ordered his administration to consider more than doubling the proposed tariffs from 10 to 25 percent out of frustration that earlier rounds of tariffs failed to compel China to acquiesce.
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However, the report cited lengthy and costly recovery of backup files—in cases where such data is available—as a motive for insurers to acquiesce to the demands of bad actors behind the attacks.
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Its foreign minister has hinted that it could acquiesce in London's needs to curb in-work benefits for new arrivals if Mr. Cameron sends troops to provide a long-term NATO presence on its soil.
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Majority voting means Britain alone cannot derail all EU plans, but Germany and France want all 28 leaders to back the plans at a summit in December in Brussels, or at least have Britain acquiesce.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook followed up with a public letter saying that Apple would not acquiesce, because doing so would set a legal and technical precedent for law enforcement entry to encrypted Apple user data.
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Smith and Stern both said they've known of studio teachers who acquiesce to a filmmaker's desire to push past the number of hours allowed by law for a minor to work on a given day.
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"Without such commitments, it is difficult to imagine that the U.S. will acquiesce to China's red line that any trade agreement should include the removal of all tariff increases since last year," the economists noted.
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Lam has signaled no plans to acquiesce to demands to step down; and although the latest protests have not been quite as large as the first, protesters similarly have shown no signs of backing down.
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As the chief architects of the compromise, Mr. Shelby and Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee's top Democrat, noted that both sides were forced to acquiesce on certain issues to reach the agreement.
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When the foreign minister of Japan now asks the rest of the world to follow the Japanese practice, as we already do with Korean and Chinese names, it's long past time for us to acquiesce.
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" Where another writer might end his story on this bleakly graceful note, Nguyen moves into a coda in which the wife decides to surrender her identity and acquiesce to the professor's delusion: "It's just me. . . .
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That happened in some circles in November, when Powell said in a speech that interest rates were "just below" neutral and some suggested the remarks were an effort to acquiesce to criticism from the White House.
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Not willing to acquiesce to a difference of opinion, the men, along with the Englishman Ashe and a large portion of the town, took off to a track to test the speed of the two beasts.
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It's a devastating snapshot of how the US conducts foreign policy today: It's one thing for Trump to want to do this, it's another thing entirely for his team to acquiesce and then defend the action.
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If their big idea for avoiding the stench of Trump is to completely acquiesce to him, why would they shift course after his candidacy is over, and their path to power begins to look easy again?
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The group must decide whether to acquiesce to a shutdown or fight to keep the place open, just as they have to figure out whether Hungary is still a country they want to call their own.
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Firms must take reasonable care to organize and control its fee disclosures with adequate reporting that require employees to document in writing the fees they state and require clients to acquiesce to them, also in writing.
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Kim Chol's commentary is the latest sign that North Korea fears China will acquiesce to American pressure for more vigorous sanctions enforcement, especially after Mr. Trump's summit meeting last month with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
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Lee is right that we're in the thick of eugenics almost the moment we acquiesce to the implausible conceit of fixed Intelligenzquotient, as the phantom human quality was originally dubbed in Germany in the early 1900s.
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They have the leverage to persuade Trump to acquiesce to the move, and they can also impose it on him, thanks to the power Pence would have under Section Four, if backed by a sober Cabinet.
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And then there's one more local issue I wanna talk about, which is like this was happening in San Francisco and homelessness, is that tech companies living there and whether the cities acquiesce to them too much.
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Diplomats stressed the E33 are weary of Iranian demands that they sustain a pact that Washington violated and said if Tehran followed suit they would have little choice but to acquiesce in the reimposition of U.N. sanctions.
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Egypt seems ready to acquiesce in Assad's staying; the Saudis want to toss Assad under a bus; and Turkey seems ready to cut a deal with anyone who's willing to check the aspirations of the Syrian Kurds.
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The lawsuit represents an escalation on the part of Tinder/Match Group's attorneys, after Trifonov refused to acquiesce to their December 2015 demands that 3nder change its name and its logo within 21 days, among other demands.
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The African Union, to which the rest of the world tends to acquiesce on such matters, has consistently refused to acknowledge Somaliland because to do so – at least according to their logic – might encourage secessionist states elsewhere.
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SoftBank was so unenthused by JPMorgan's plan, according to Reuters, that it refused to acquiesce to one component of it — that it go forward with a $1.5 billion investment in WeWork that it had previously committed to.
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Asked whether employees feared Doha would acquiesce to Riyadh's and Abu Dhabi's demand to shut down the network, many of them pointed to the job losses that had already been undertaken, as oil prices came crashing down.
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Add Trump's adoration of Putin and his financial ties to Russia, and Europe has reason to worry that Russia will invade NATO allies on its border, Trump will acquiesce and Congressional Republicans will give him a pass.
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Mr. Trump may have assumed that Democrats so loathed Mr. Comey because of his actions last year in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server that they would support or at least acquiesce to the dismissal.
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"Our feeling is that, again, this was more an acquiesce to U.S. financial regulators who didn't want to give that up, and so I think they're trying to see if they can work around it," Bentsen said.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's international aid agency is set to halt funding for sexual and reproductive health programs of organizations which acquiesce in President Donald Trump's ban on federal funding for foreign groups providing abortions or abortion support.
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If the United States continues to stand by and acquiesce to the bloc's hostile action against Qatar, which can drag our region only deeper into division and instability, American interests in the Middle East will be imperiled.
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If the party were to acquiesce to the letter's request, Booker and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro would be allowed to participate in 2020's debates despite failing to meet the existing criteria. Rep.
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At first it looks like Brienne will let herself die, but in the end she appears to acquiesce — and the last time we see her, she has indeed found Jamie, and is tricking him into coming with her.
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Despite these challenges, though, Whittaker and Crawford say that 2018 has shown that when the problems of AI accountability and bias are brought to light, tech employees, lawmakers, and the public are willing to act rather than acquiesce.
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They believe that if McConnell keeps his promise and the Senate passes a bill with overwhelming bipartisan support, that would put the onus on House Republicans to acquiesce or take the blame this time for failing to negotiate.
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We will not acquiesce to the debasement of language in the public square that would distort what is at stake, but we will make our voices heard by any in this new administration who are willing to listen.
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A direct result of this policy was what the report describes as the "humiliating" decision in 2007 to acquiesce to militia dominance in Basra by exchanging detainees in return for an end to the targeting of British forces.
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He had expected that the U.S. would back down, because of U.S. markets reacting badly to the impasse, and also from pressure to acquiesce to China's terms from U.S. farmers and businesses that are likely to be affected.
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According to the barista, when teens come in with secret menu requests, like Snickerdoodle Frappuccinos, which have cinnamon dolce syrup as well as caramel and toffeenut, they can acquiesce as long as all the necessary ingredients are onboard.
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"It's very difficult for Parliament now to legislate against a no-deal, or in favor of a further extension, unless a resolute prime minister is willing to acquiesce in that — and I would not," he told the BBC.
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But it's not as serious as the seeping, constant attempt — one sacred value at a time — to disorient Americans to the point they accept the unacceptable, cede to the grotesque, acquiesce to total arbitrariness as a governing principle.
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But despite Trump's new action against Turkey, which comes after days of appearing to simply acquiesce to the invasion, the president made clear he wasn't planning to backtrack on his decision to pull troops out of the region.
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That has forced civil servants into an impossible dilemma: acquiesce, allowing their institution to be sidelined, or mount a defense, for example through leaks that counter Mr. Trump's accusations or pressure him into restoring normal policy-maker practices.
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Kavanaugh, of course, was eventually confirmed to the court, with Flake voting for that confirmation, but the Arizona senator did acquiesce to the demands of protesters by slowing down the process and allowing an FBI investigation to take place.
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Kim Jong Un's leverage, with his nuclear arsenal, and allies like Russia and China loosening their own sanctions, may put the US in the uncomfortable position of having to acquiesce to Kim's demands before any verifiable denuclearization takes place.
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Mr. Miller, the pastor of Brown Memorial Baptist Church, said that after he hung up with Mr. Cuomo's team, he sent text messages to another 30 black pastors across New York City to ask that they not reflexively acquiesce.
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That refusal to acquiesce helped make Jeter a five-time World Series champion, and on Tuesday it helped him become a first-ballot Hall of Famer, receiving the second-highest percentage of votes ever for a player, with 99.7.
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In the same vein, people should not be asked to acquiesce to their pets being treated like cargo or luggage on commercial airplanes, subjected to extreme temperatures, poor ventilation, insufficient oxygen, inadequately secured suitcases crushing them, and rough handling.
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And the show has already set the stage for her arrival — first by having Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (née Shand) meet and fall in love, and then by having Camilla acquiesce to marry Andrew Parker Bowles instead.
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And the cast of characters that are engaged in conspiracy charges now ranges from a compulsively conspiracist president to public officials — elected representatives who either endorse these conspiracist claims or acquiesce to remain silent — to conspiracy entrepreneurs and their followers.
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The EU has sent mixed signals on whether it will delay Brexit for a third time, but there's a decent chance leaders will acquiesce if it means avoiding a costly and catastrophic no-deal exit at the end of the month.
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What if, instead of deciding to acquiesce to the underlying racism of some white voters because some say it's the only way to win, Democrats appealed to the hope and community-based policies of younger voters and voters of color?
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And the cast of characters that are engaged in conspiracy charges now ranges from a compulsively conspiracist president to public officials — elected representatives who either endorse these conspiracist claims or acquiesce to remain silent — to conspiracy entrepreneurs and their followers.
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In spite of the challenges faced in this foreign land—beatings and worse for minor transgressions and an understandably strained relationship with the indigenous Zulus who refused to acquiesce to British demands—they clung onto their religions and their food culture.
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But what was left behind was the triggering of a Sunni insurgency that would morph into ISIS, and a willingness to acquiesce in Shia exclusivity that would make a mockery of the possibilities for functional governance and Shia-Sunni reconciliation.
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He is so willing to acquiesce to Putin's version of events that he ends up being viciously trolled, convinced that a video Putin shows him of Americans fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan is actually a video of Russians heroically fighting ISIS.
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A deadline set by four Arab states for Doha to comply with their demands will expire late on Tuesday, and recent comments by Qatari officials suggest it is unlikely to acquiesce to enough of the demands to avoid further economic sanctions.
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I tell him that I am not certain that it will happen, but I cannot help but subtly acquiesce to the consolation it brings him to imagine one day drinking from an enchanted glass and sharing it with the entire family.
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Patel, who oversees competition authorities, said the amendments make it a criminal offence for directors or managers of a firm to collude with their competitors to fix prices, divide markets among themselves or collude in tenders or to acquiesce in collusion.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2013, Republican hard-liners engineered a 16-day shutdown of the federal government, implausibly insisting that President Barack Obama acquiesce to their demand that the Affordable Care Act be stripped of all funding.
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If the Trump administration had wanted to acquiesce to Mr. Erdogan's pleadings to let Turkey take stronger actions in service of its own national security, it could surely have managed such steps in a far more measured and coordinated manner.
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"While purporting to offer only educational services, Google instead has stripped children and parents of autonomy and control of their most sensitive personal information, forcing children to acquiesce to constant monitoring, in perpetuity, in exchange for their education," the suit says.
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What's more, Mr. Zelensky laid out clear "red lines" he will not cross in future negotiations: Ukraine will not be federalized, allow Russia to influence its political decisions or acquiesce to Russian control of any of its territories, including Crimea.
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For the past century, the custom of the Judiciary Committee has been not to move forward on a judicial nomination unless home-state senators acquiesce by returning a blue-tinted form agreeing to do so — hence the term blue slip.
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In announcing his new cabinet, Mr. Abadi sought to outmaneuver Iraq's political leaders, probably because he believed that if he put forward a qualified and respected team, positive public reaction and support from Ayatollah Sistani would force others to acquiesce.
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Perhaps Trump, in his boundless self-confidence and in his cocooned reality spun by advisers on Israel policy who are all fervent supporters of Israeli domination over Palestinians, believes that he can induce Palestinians to acquiesce in an apartheid state.
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As Kennedy approached the final hour in which he would have to attack, risking nuclear war, or acquiesce to a Soviet nuclear presence in America's backyard, both he and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, began to examine previously unthinkable options.
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Rather than acquiesce to the government—and to a select group of lawmakers and candidates who have labeled Apple as terrorist sympathizers—Apple is essentially flipping them off, creating a new operating system that would be completely impenetrable by anyone but the user.
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China is widely seen as the principal target of Trump's anger, so getting it to acquiesce to tougher WTO rules on subsidies, state-owned firms and preferential treatment could be key to achieving the "shape-up" of the WTO that Trump has demanded.
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So while the Gulf states and Israel may see some advantage in delaying Iran's nuclear problem with this deal, it will not be enough to help them overcome their fears of Teheran's regional aspirations -- or America's seeming willingness to acquiesce to them.
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They hunger for an unapologetic brand of conservatism that would confront rather than acquiesce to the political establishment — sentiments that have been amplified by conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and commentators like Ann Coulter, whose verbal broadsides influence the party's agenda.
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Diplomats have also stressed the European signatories are weary of Iranian demands that they sustain a pact that Washington has withdrawn from and said if Tehran followed suit they would have little choice but to acquiesce in the reimposition of U.N. sanctions.
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In particular, Lighthizer advocates that "WTO commitments are not religious obligations, [and] do not (and should not be construed to) impinge upon national sovereignty," arguing that the U.S. has been far too weak in its acquiesce to WTO obligations when crafting domestic law.
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The reviews could be a fresh sticking point, raising questions about the security of American technology and the degree to which American companies will acquiesce to Beijing's demands for fear of being punished in a huge market still partly controlled by the state.
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But Mr. Trump has said he has no intention of reinventing himself for the general election — a declaration that could force Mr. Ryan to acquiesce in the name of Republican unity or establish himself as the leading voice of opposition within the party.
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WASHINGTON — A bitter dispute over gay rights on Thursday brought down a routine energy and water spending bill in the House after conservative Republicans voted against their own legislation rather than acquiesce to a bipartisan amendment banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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The idea is that we've never seen a group so horrific, so threatening to global stability — which is fueling calls for world powers to ally with, or acquiesce to, Syria's Bashar al-Assad as a lesser evil in the war against ISIS.
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If Congress approves actions that would affect part of Mr. Trump's company after full disclosure of the potential benefit, that would go a long way toward removing any taint, in much the same way that corporate directors can acquiesce to a conflicted transaction.
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The intensity manifests itself mostly through a precision of speech and memory and also by him refusing to make a joke, or to acquiesce to one, lest I misuse a quote from him, though people who know him well told me he's funny.
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Getting the oil companies to acquiesce to a carbon tax might help the tax to be enacted into law, and giving up a few long-shot lawsuits to get the policy result we really need would be a remarkably sane step forward.
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It's unlikely Barr will acquiesce to many of the committee's demands, and Nadler indicated he'd be willing to negotiate terms of any of his desired interviews to allay any concerns the Justice Department might have about making its officials available to the committee.
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Trump wants good relations with Moscow and is prioritizing the war on ISIS; that has led him to mimic Obama's policy and acquiesce to the permanence of Russian and Iranian forces in Syria that won the civil war for the Assad regime.
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"We are left in a situation where they believe we will ultimately acquiesce," said Christopher R. Hill, an American diplomat who led nuclear negotiations with North Korea during the last Bush administration, which resulted in the dismantlement of part of a plutonium reactor.
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Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said this week that Jackson told him in a meeting he opposes privatizing the VA. But there are lingering concerns Jackson will acquiesce to those in the administration who want to move more veterans services over to private providers.
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China is widely seen as the principal target of Trump's ire, so getting it to acquiesce to tougher WTO rules on subsidies, state-owned firms and preferential treatment could be key to achieving the "shape-up" of the WTO that Trump has demanded.
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This is Cécile B. Evans' master stroke as the artist: she devised a cheeky presentation for the crucial privacy dilemmas that we will confront and perhaps acquiesce to as we creep closer and closer to a future as described by Spike Jonze in Her.
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But interviews in Kiev with government officials, lawmakers and others close to the Zelensky government have revealed new details of how high-level Ukrainian officials ultimately decided to acquiesce to President Trump's request — and, by a stroke of luck, never had to follow through.
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One story in particular has transfixed everyone: According to some reports, there were two types of victims — the foreigners who were killed immediately by the terrorists, and the Bangladeshis who were murdered later when they refused to acquiesce to the demands of their captors.
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It is rare for people to recover damages for smear campaigns — for instance, quietly labeling actresses as "difficult" when they don't acquiesce to powerful men — because of how complicated it can be to prove the action took place, let alone directly harmed someone's career.
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I'd acquiesce to the fact that it's important for us to try to stop ISIS from not only killing thousands of people but also halt their unbelievable destruction of some of the holiest and most ancient structures, monuments, and buildings history has ever seen.
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"The problem with voting for this," Mr. Miller said, "is that Trump will disavow it and U.S. credibility on the issue will again be undermined, not to mention what the Israelis might do on the ground in response, to which the new administration may acquiesce."
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It is rare for people to recover damages for smear campaigns — for instance, quietly labeling actresses as "difficult" when they do not acquiesce to powerful men — because of how complicated it can be to prove the action took place, much less harmed a career.
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But they never acquiesce to their opposition, whether that means standing up to a vile mother-in-law in court, taking a baseball bat to the man cave, banding together to say that Perry "fell" on trivia night, or hiding an affair with the theater director.
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America, pushed once more into the role of global consumer of first and last resort, might acquiesce to its president's desire to dismantle the integrated global economy, ushering in a much more dangerous era of economic nationalism and dealing a huge blow to incomes around the world.
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If it sides with the Philippines and then China begins building on the Scarborough Shoal—which both countries claim and which China has occupied since 2012 in contravention, according to the Philippines, of an American-brokered agreement—no Filipino president can simply acquiesce, especially a tough guy.
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Donald Trump used the results in Georgia and South Carolina, where Democrats narrowly lost in heavily Republican districts, to argue that Democrats had to acquiesce to his agenda: Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on Healthcare,Tax Cuts,Security.
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Apart from Robbie, the most interesting performance here is from Davis as the unsmiling woman who (one imagines) drafted the Suicide Squad proposal memo over long weekends and now has pushed it, doggedly, until the top level of the government sees no choice but to acquiesce.
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Few people with long-term knowledge have held hope for a viable peace process, as opposed to continuing one-sided efforts to force Palestinians to acquiesce to a neutered, Swiss-cheese, quasi-self-governing entity nowhere near close to the normal, independent nation-state they wish.
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She would have brought true diversity to the Court on the most rancorous constitutional issue of our day, underscoring how an intellectually astute woman need not acquiesce in the unquestioning abortion rights dogma that has held the cause for women's rights hostage for far too long now.
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It was a time when even subversive-seeming characters on "Sex and the City" could only be happy when they finally found husbands (except, of course, for Samantha, who was too much of a derelict to acquiesce and too old to have kids so what's the point?).
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U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said her inclination was to impose stricter conditions on Manafort and Gates than the prosecution team was proposing, but she said she might acquiesce after she gets details of the agreement defense lawyers are trying to strike with Mueller's team.
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Gülen's supporters likely fear such an outcome, but it is hard to imagine that Sessions, even if he were convinced that political considerations trumped the law in this case, would acquiesce to such an action on the heels of the early termination of the FBI director.
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Throughout, Standefer subscribes to what she calls an "unkempt, almost Gertrude Jekyll-ish approach," referencing the doyenne of British Arts and Crafts landscape design; her goal is to encourage nature to acquiesce into a series of seemingly organic vignettes that have, in fact, been skillfully engineered.
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"It could be very difficult for the 5-Star Movement to continue to acquiesce to Mr Salvini's demands and thus this might be the last straw, increasing the risk of early elections," UniCredit said, adding that in this scenario a general election could be held as early as October.
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While Washington's substantial responsibilities will be to get their Chinese interlocutors to yield on nationalistic technology transfer rules that foreign firms are subjected to, Chinese negotiators must first be convinced that the talks will lead to productive outcomes for them before they may acquiesce anything meaningful to Americans.
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Over the next few months, Mr. Trump must decide whether it is truly worth the many risks of war to force the North to disarm, as he has seemed to suggest several times, including in his United Nations speech, or whether he can acquiesce to Cold War-style containment.
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When it came to ending the country's longest government shutdown and forcing more aid for Puerto Rico into a long-delayed relief package for disaster recovery, House and Senate Democrats stayed united and ultimately forced Senate Republicans and President Trump to acquiesce to deals they had initially rejected.
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As conditions in Venezuela continue to deteriorate, the Trump administration has stuck to a sanctions-based policy of trying to pressure Mr. Maduro, who has shown little sign that he will acquiesce to the request of the United States, nor over 50 other countries that back Mr. Guaidó.
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At the end of the review I wrote, "Simon's paintings represent the degree, in the globalist era, to which we are willing to acquiesce or resist — a core question about cultural drift that's not going to go away," little suspecting that the drift would suddenly turn into a plunge.
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Despite claiming two billion users for its core app, Facebook has never been able to capitalize on that massive group of potential users because it doesn't acquiesce to Chinese censorship laws, which allow the Chinese government to have tight control over the content citizens are able to see and read online.
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Behind the scenes, the White House, congressional Democrats and the party's political operatives are beginning to piece together an aggressive public-relations strategy aimed squarely at forcing Republicans to either acquiesce and give the nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia a confirmation vote -- or suffer at the polls.
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" One way of thinking about how this works in practical terms is to turn to what's been called our "democracy of manners," in which voters are willing to acquiesce in a busted political system as long as it produces leaders who appear to be "no different from the rest of us.
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Now would be a good time for him to reduce his military presence in Syria and improve relations with the US. France's energetic President Emmanuel Macron has indicated he is keen to support peace with his Mediterranean counterpart and will even acquiesce to a Syria run by Assad, if that means peace.
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The process has proved to be a death by a thousand cuts for the Justice Department and FBI, as officials continue to turn over documents in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election -- often initially scoffing at the breadth of requests to only acquiesce months latter.
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Her vote, she said, put the interests of her constituents over party discipline and referred to support on the far-right for Britain to walk out without a deal: "I have never agreed to silently acquiesce as our country heads towards a cliff edge," she said, describing that as "wanton economic self-harm".
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The difficulty in predicting the outcome of the current crisis, analysts say, is that it involves politics and trying to predict the actions of both Erdogan and Trump — two outspoken leaders known for a dedication to their nationalist support bases — and how aggressively sanctions could intensify if Turkey does not acquiesce to U.S. demands.
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A few ways to ensure you'll be paid sufficiently include displaying confidence, building a case for why the number you're presenting makes sense, conducting market research on what others in your industry are being paid — and most importantly, not being afraid to ask for what you feel you're worth, regardless of whether or not you think HR will acquiesce.
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To wait is to acquiesce to the threat, which will embolden Iran to abrogate the Nuclear Agreement, conduct a rapid breakout with their own nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and then both the Far East and Middle East will be destabilized by nuclear-armed actors who will be inspired to demand concessions from the international community.
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Because the vehicles that carry the popular will to the highest echelons of the Iranian regime are imperfect, the electorate and the politicians seeking its favor have learned, over the course of decades, to play a long game, wedging the system open with the force of their numbers and refusing to acquiesce silently in their exclusion.
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It comes after a week in which the president at first pushed for a rapid withdrawal of American troops from Syria — only to later acquiesce grudgingly to his generals, who argued that the troops should remain in the country for a few more months to train local forces and stabilize Syrian towns liberated from the Islamic State.
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" The chief justice properly noted that Medicaid spending accounts for more than 20 percent of the average state's budget (it has grown to 85033 percent in 2015), and a threat to withdraw federal contributions from states that did not expand Medicaid amounts to an "economic dragooning that leaves the states with no real option but to acquiesce.
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Indeed, the majority leader has shown no willingness to acquiesce to Democrats' demands for witness testimony from acting chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael Mulvaney2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters Rapid turnover shapes Trump's government 85033 controversies that rocked the Trump White House in 2019 MORE and others.
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Democrats have paired those policies with a few proposals to shore up Obamacare: So they will be forcing their Republican colleagues to either remain so committed to opposing the ACA that they vote against popular proposals to bring down drug costs — one of the top priorities for voters — or to acquiesce to preserving the health care law that they loathe but couldn't kill.
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In particular, Republicans need to make sure they don't acquiesce to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's calls for a government shutdown in response to Democrats' refusal to fund a border wall.
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Mike SimpsonMIchael (Mike) Keith SimpsonHouse passes Paycheck Fairness Act Press: Democrats dare to think big Dem chairwoman seeks watchdog probe of Park Service's shutdown operations MORE (R-Idaho), who chairs the Appropriations Committee panel with jurisdiction over the Army Corps, said he's hopeful that the Senate will acquiesce if the two chambers negotiate the funding bill in a conference committee.
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McConnell has said he will not acquiesce to Democrats' demands that the Senate call witnesses such as acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael Mulvaney2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters Rapid turnover shapes Trump's government 10 controversies that rocked the Trump White House in 2019 MORE to testify at the trial.
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To say that one is out every day trying one's best to get to the truth, or as close to the truth as humanly possible, to say that one is trying to be objective in the best sense of that word, trying to be fair — that doesn't mean that you have to acquiesce to everything the people in power want.
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So there&aposs huge factions in Washington that are very vested in always having an enemy that Americans are scared of and right now what Democrats and Republicans, the leadership of each party as sort of a foreign policy lead are working in unison to do is to try and convince Americans to be sufficiently afraid of Vladimir Putin and Russia that they are willing to essentially acquiesce to everything.
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Should the Democrats regain the Senate next month, we shall see if they will acquiesce in retaining the filibuster regarding Supreme Court nominations or — given the otherwise sober John McCain's threat to reject all of Clinton's nominees — simply abolish it and thus, as a practical matter, give President Clinton enhanced power to pack the Supreme Court, and the rest of the federal judiciary, with nominees who share a broadly liberal vision of the Constitution.
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The expectation going into the debate -- judging from the tone of Sanders' announcement last week that he was planning to stay in the race -- was that the Vermont senator would use the one-on-one format with Biden to try to force the former VP to acquiesce to some of his policy proposals but generally avoid taking any big swings at the man who, according to the delegate math, is the near-certain Democratic nominee.
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"While many of us could support these proposals as part of an overall package that is balanced, we should not acquiesce in this one-sided process that omits Democratic priorities key to advancing the work of making opportunity more broadly available to the American people," House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and ranking Democrats on the Transportation, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and House Ways and Means committees wrote in a letter to colleagues.
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The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator -- aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.
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"While many of us could support these proposals as part of an overall package that is balanced, we should not acquiesce in this one-sided process that omits Democratic priorities key to advancing the work of making opportunity more broadly available to the American people," House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and ranking Democrats on the House Transportation, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Financial Services committees wrote in a letter to fellow Democrats on Monday.
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Current and former Trump administration officials noted that negotiations between the United States and China had stalled before and then been revived by Mr. Trump, who has developed a relationship with Mr. Xi. Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute who advises the Trump administration on trade, said that the apparent collapse of the talks was a sign that hard-liners are winning the debate in China and pressuring Mr. Xi not to acquiesce to Mr. Trump.
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When answering surveys, lots of people try to answer with what they think the surveyors want to hear — and, as the study notes, research suggests that this effect may be more pronounced in China than it is in the United States: "for example, Faunalytics (2018) observed that survey respondents in China were more likely to acquiesce to statements and were more likely to give responses in the middle of scales than respondents in the U.S." It's hard to guess how much that is a difference in attitudes and how much a difference in how respondents approach the survey.
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