You will bend to me as all men must bend to me, one of the giants whose blood alone turns the wheel of history to crush lesser creatures beneath us.
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They certainly didn't bend to Trump – that's for sure.
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Mexico and Canada won't bend to his will on NAFTA.
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And the seasoning can bend to a cook's whim, too.
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But we will never bow or bend to radical Islamic terror.
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We weren't going to just bend to another's will very readily.
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Mrs May had no choice but to bend to their will.
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But Iran is far less likely to bend to such pressure.
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Nor was he ready to bend to Trump's brand of sadism.
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Trump has shown a small willingness to bend to respected advisers—Gen.
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"I did not bend to pressure from the Europeans," Mr. Mnuchin said.
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Clubs have to bend to that, with only a handful of exceptions.
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Carmelo Anthony should bend to Westbrook's strengths and not the other way around.
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The House isn't going to bend to a procedural objection from the Senate.
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That forces creativity to bend to the lowest common moral and intimacy denominator.
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They bend to the will of strongmen leaders and the people know it.
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Mr. Seeger can make ingredients bend to his will almost without touching them.
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Am I correct in my thinking, or should I bend to their requests?
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Did Ramirez bend to casting directors' stereotypical notes just to score another part?
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It may turn out fine: Ultimately the world could still bend to his will.
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In 85033 the hardliners finally succeeded in making the government bend to its demands.
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But your ability to make obstacles bend to your will will make you unstoppable.
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The world which won't bend to the wind and waste means traffic, select invitations.
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But the administration may not bend to Congress's effort to exercise any control at all.
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Romero remains a beloved cult icon because of his refusal to bend to industry tastes.
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To wrap around the user and bend to their whims to create a unique experience.
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Those who worked alongside Wray, however, say that he does not bend to political pressure.
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Their goal is to make biomedical devices that stretch and bend to move more naturally.
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Amazon is sending the message that it will bend to no city or state government.
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What to watch: American airline companies have thus far refused to bend to Beijing's will.
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"They would rather bend to him than sustain the rule of law," Mr. Cohen said.
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"I did not bend to pressure from the Europeans," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defiantly said.
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If Congress doesn't bend to his demand, Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency.
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The idea that we must bend the world to our will instead of bend to it.
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More and more, users expect not to be forced to bend to communicate to a computer.
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How far should the church bend to respond to modern life or to bring people back?
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Her legs bend to let her sit cross-legged on the floor in a meditation pose.
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And a ban would be far harder for platform giants to simply bend to their will.
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MoviePass wanted to stand in the middle and force the industry to bend to its will.
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The arc of history is long, but Cockburn believes it will eventually bend to her will.
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He reminded them that Singapore exercises "very strict government power," which may not bend to diplomatic pleas.
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But even true believers in originalism have to bend to the reality of changing times on occasion.
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But should it force us, against all better judgement, to bend to Tim Cook's nomenclature-shaping will?
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He doesn't want to negotiate with the conservative movement; he wants the movement to bend to him.
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Yet Microsoft also makes clear its position that it will not bend to the US surveillance apparatus.
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Simply asserting herself to a man who won't bend to her aesthetic will has turned her on.
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Those are the three factors that needed to happen on a positive bend to get markets higher.
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Women are constantly being critiqued when they refuse to be silent or bend to a beauty standard.
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President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said on Thursday that his country would not bend to American pressure.
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Whether President Xi Jinping of China agrees to bend to Mr. Trump's demands remains an open question.
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He has less to lose and could more likely bend to the president's day-to-day whims.
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Landy views the executive order as a way to press Congress to bend to Trump's immigration demand.
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Maybe 2020 won't feel like the start of a new decade you must bend to your will.
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The retirees often said the decision was highly personal, and unable to bend to any broad prescription.
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The two play "a game of chicken" throughout the trailer, neither woman willing to bend to the other.
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She could conceivably strangle and threaten the ecosystems of her neighbors, forcing them to bend to her will.
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We will never bend to those who talk the language of sanctions and build walls instead of bridges.
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"In this campaign I've stood my ground refusing to bend to the political winds," Bush said Saturday night.
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It is not clear how much Mr. Sanders will ultimately bend to the wishes of his current advisers.
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The European Union has threatened to punish firms that bend to the American threats and withdraw from Iran.
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When you bend to lick a boot you relinquish the posture required to stand and tell the truth.
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I ask directions, and a family points me down the street and around a bend to the beach.
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"California won't bend to the President's reckless and politically motivated attacks on our clean car waiver," he said.
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For even the familiarity and foreignness that box us in, or out, will bend to a sovereign art.
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"It's more difficult to deal with a living, breathing, person who doesn't bend to your will," said de Jarnatt.
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Still, we've seen Republicans willing to bend to pressure with today's vote, and it proves that activism is working.
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Other Republicans were emboldened, and say the onus is now on Democrats to bend to the White House's demands.
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He's built his reputation in the Senate as a purist -- someone who won't bend to the prevailing political winds.
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But in the second half, the Giants seemed unable to bend to the officials' tight calling of the game.
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Democrats not only refused to bend to the President's will, but demonstrated an impressive display of strength and unity.
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He scolds and attacks them until they resign, replacing them with loyalists who may actually bend to his will.
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The brothers denounced it as a phony excuse to bend to critics, who at that point included President Nixon.
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Americans can only join in that hope while Congress continues to bend to the will of the gun industry.
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All share one ugliness because all bend to one effect: not charm but intimidation, and not persuasion but fear.
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Confession: Despite rounding the bend to the big 3-0, I still love a good teenage coming-of-age movie.
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The strategist added that should Italy eventually bend to Brussels, this would "calm current nerves" and bring Italian yields lower.
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The Korean electronics giant designs, manufactures, and tweaks Android (with TouchWiz) to bend to its needs, and it's worked wonders.
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" Meanwhile "the court has insisted that broad public sentiment favouring business regulation must bend to the demands of the constitution.
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Most things in life don't bend to your will the same way, so I think that's a major selling point.
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Like, they show up, but under the expectation that they bend to what mainstream gay culture expects us to do.
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Mr. Trump has not, in the past, been willing to bend to the traditional politicking that New Hampshire voters expect.
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It's important to remember that though new technologies have often inspired moral panic, they bend to social and economic will.
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Starbucks has yet to bend to the pressure from Enough is Enough, but they seem to be the organization's next target.
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Mr López Obrador openly scorns civil society and the supreme court, neither of which will bend to his will as president.
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" By contrast "the court has insisted that broad public sentiment favouring business regulation must bend to the demands of the constitution.
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But demanding that the media bend to a myopic political agenda does us all a disservice in the search for patriotism.
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Still, China does not want to bend to the protesters, whom the state news media have depicted as lawless, spoiled separatists.
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We must work with them as they weaken the NRA and by default, the politicians who bend to the organization's will.
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How far will Qatari society bend to accommodate guests with certain expectations of the way a World Cup looks and feels?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, maintains that the British constitution can "bend to a passing storm".
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He said his country would not bend to "the language of force, pressure and threats," and vowed to break the sanctions.
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He described Pryor as an outstanding public servant who "calls it like he sees it" and won't bend to public pressure.
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Responding to concerns about care for veterans who are homeless, Buttigieg mentioned initiatives undertaken in South Bend to correct the problem.
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"What she is trying to do is get Mitch McConnell to bend to her will, to shape the trial," Graham said.
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They obey local and national laws, court orders and national security authorities, and bend to other, less transparent means of coercion.
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He seems to believe that he can force corporations to bend to his will, even when economics and policy say otherwise.
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In any case, we shouldn't expect the Trump administration to stop testing just how far the law can bend to its whims.
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"Landfall is still expected overnight Thursday into Friday morning along the Big Bend to Panhandle region of Florida," the hurricane center said.
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"Even if they (Saudi Arabia) wanted to bend to President Trump's wishes, how much spare capacity does the Kingdom have?" asked Innes.
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Sometimes, like if you're flying to South Bend to play Notre Dame, you are putting in 80 hours a week of work.
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Until we're all brain patterns on computers, there are still forces that do not bend to our wants, including senescence and death.
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This came only a day after he had threatened to act if Congress did not bend to his will on the issue.
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Instead, he has behaved as if he could make the economy bend to his will, and blamed economic problems on foreign conspiracies.
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Mexico's rich are often criticized for their indifference to social causes and their tendency to bend to the will of the government.
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If Democrats don't ultimately bend to his will, Trump said he may grant himself emergency powers to build the wall without congressional approval.
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It can even lock up the inside wheel on a tight bend to help the big truck navigate tight curves in a trail.
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A commentary piece in Chinese state-run newspaper Xinhua hinted China would not bend to U.S. demands to change its state-run economy.
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However, on the show, it seems Grimaldi's only task is to be a subservient woman, ready to bend to the Bachelor's every wish.
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They're socially conditioned to please others, to bend to what other people want, lest they're labeled "difficult" or, the old classic, a bitch.
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According to TMZ, he was "pissed" that his vocals were changed on the track, but Scott wasn't willing to bend to his preference.
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After all, it's not just one dinner or one weekend that needs to bend to my work: It's my loved ones' whole lives.
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As a result, there is no indication that Mr. Xi will soon display greater willingness to bend to international pressure on human rights.
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The move is a huge coup for China, and signals increasing pressure on the Taiwanese authorities to bend to Beijing's "one China" policy.
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His biggest career blemish was his brief willingness last year to bend to White House pressure and give Trump cover for Comey's firing.
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It is shameful beyond belief that we have a president so eager to bend to the will of a dictator like Mr. Kim.
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Our correspondent traveled to South Bend to learn more about how Mr. Buttigieg, 38, governed and grew over his eight years in office.
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One of the great joys and regular frustrations of South Carolina politics is its unpredictability and refusal to bend to prevailing political norms.
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Major film studios, including Disney, routinely bend to local sensitivities in hopes of maintaining access to viewers, especially in the lucrative Chinese market.
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Incidentally, Buttigieg will hold his own rally this weekend in South Bend, to officially announce his campaign for president after an exploratory phase.
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Today, directors and writers have more creative freedom to tell stories that do not need to bend to Hollywood standards to be successful.
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Weddings aren't exactly a wheel to be reinvented, and they're always going to bend to ritual and tradition before the money comes into play.
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Vignarajah reminded the court in closing arguments that his job "is not to bend to the fashion of the moment, but to do justice".
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The other is that of China's Communist regime, which is attempting to force companies in China, including foreign ones, to bend to its rules.
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The same content has been shared on Twitter, but the company has so far refused to bend to peer pressure and remove his account.
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The courts have ruled in favor of fewer limits on political spending, thus expanding pressures on Congress to bend to well-financed corporate will.
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Their skates hit the ground with a loud snap, their knees bend to absorb impact, and they go sailing down the bowl skating backwards.
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This dilation force comes from the two flexible beams, which bend to provide a gentle spring force while forming a lumen to accommodate airflow.
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He also liked to assert his male dominance a lot, which meant he looked for broken birds that he could bend to his will.
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I see Republicans trashing two of our most sacred institutions — the F.B.I. and the Justice Department — because these agencies won't bend to Trump's will.
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Many have wondered how much Qatari society might bend to accommodate guests who view drinking as a central part of the World Cup experience.
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Beyond Mr. Mueller's report, there is evidence that Mr. Trump has continued to try to push the Justice Department to bend to his wishes.
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But on that Sunday it was filled with Episcopalians from around the country who had traveled to South Bend to attend his campaign launch.
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But Mr. Trump's top advisers are more united in their opposition to engaging with Iran, and Tehran is less likely to bend to pressure.
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In the early days of the celebrity gossip internet, bloggers like Perez Hilton would pride themselves in their refusal to bend to celebrities' demands.
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The worry is that after the state's retreat in Culiacán, gangs know that if they threaten enough bloodshed it will bend to their will.
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It's already the top market for plug-ins, and as the world's largest car market, China can make global manufacturers bend to its regulations.
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He was not planning to do so, but also did not intend to relinquish his grip on the proceedings or bend to Ms. Pelosi.
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As the patriarch of a banned Buddhist church, he endured prison, house arrest and internal exile but refused to bend to the Communist authorities.
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In truth, the department's decision is spiteful retaliation against people who reside in a state that declines to bend to the administration's immigration priorities.
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The Obama administration should not bend to pressure from oil and gas trade associations to continue the failed business-as-usual model of leasing.
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The White House clearly assumed that, at some point — maybe after she secured the speaker's gavel — Ms. Pelosi would bend to Mr. Trump's will.
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It offered a scorecard of his rise from the provinces and a perverse kind of protection: The Kremlin would never bend to Navalny's accusations.
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Justin Fairfax, who would become the next governor should Northam bend to pressure to resign, is facing allegations of sexual assault from two women.
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The point, then, is that Putin's brinkmanship has not yielded a pliant Europe, one willing to bend to Russia's interests in Ukraine and elsewhere.
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Naturally, PWR BTTM's refusal to bend to patriarchy's frequent and often insurmountable bullshit makes them a source of great ire for certain hate groups.
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"Altaforte Edizioni does not bend to the logic of a single way of thinking ... Books cannot and must not face censorship," he said on Facebook.
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I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver youthe hard pull of all my thirsts—I learned Drink in a country of drought.
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Noah has become a guy who thinks things are happening to him, rather than an egoist who expects the world to bend to his will.
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And on offense, the Timberwolves success will simply be a matter of taking advantage when opposing defenses—Golden State's and otherwise—bend to Towns' will.
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In 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot force states to bend to its wishes with a financial "gun to the head".
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Right now, the jet stream has a sharp bend to it, carving out a low pressure area in the middle of the curve, or trough.
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That means Macron will be in protesters' crosshairs for quite some time, especially since he has given no indication he will bend to their demands.
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The French school system, highly structured and unforgiving, has done little to bend to the needs of the children living in the projects, he said.
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Months later, in June 2015, Godejohn allegedly traveled down from his home in Big Bend to Springfield, to fatally stab Dee Dee as she slept.
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Simon CowellNever one to bend to other people's expectations, the American Idol judge went for an open-chested look to greet Charles and Camilla. 2.
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When 85033 percent of House members believe that every piece of legislation should bend to their will, they are what's wrong with our political system.
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The geography across its border varies from the forbidding canyons of Big Bend to the flat floodplains and thorn scrub of the Rio Grande Valley.
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The official line was that Mr. Wainwright, who wrote the libretto in French, refused to bend to the Met's insistence that it be in English.
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They shame themselves when they stoke fear and make people fear that they have to bend to the will of the government or face consequences.
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That means that they'd have to get other countries, like France, that lack any real reason to bend to Trump on this issue on board.
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And if she were to bend to Labour's basic demand of remaining in a customs union, that could cause a fatal split in her party.
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Remember that body image is a social construct, and you don't need to bend to the will of the patriarchy to achieve exultant self-acceptance.
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Mr. Buttigieg used the tour to debut the first black surrogate from South Bend to travel with his campaign — Sharon McBride, a city council member.
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Eaton quickly tore through the pack, accelerating through the bend to and powering down the home straight to finish with a time of 46.07 seconds.
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Flour is never spilt, eggs are cracked with a surgeon's precision, butter is obedient, and fussy shellfish bend to the will of Food Network's chefs.
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When the character realizes that she has people willing to bend to her whims, the real fun starts, but Vardalos says it's all a delicate balance.
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So femininity for the femme lesbians in these types of relationships wasn't just a look, it was statement that they wouldn't bend to anyone else's expectations.
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" He deemed American enemies in a statement to be "brutal and ruthless and will do anything to murder those who do not bend to their will.
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Lynchings were also used to control populaces of color, forcing them to bend to racist power structures and ensuring limited paths to economic and political development.
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But a new "fact sheet" sent out by the FCC today asks: what if facts are flexible things that we can bend to our preferred reality?
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Anna Eshoo reached out to Santiago asking him not to bend to the intense lobbying efforts of AT&T and its peers in letters Wednesday morning.
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When the Night King strolled into the Godswood with his crew, he didn't have to say a single word to make everyone bend to his will.
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And the minute it was taken away, I realized that I just love to bend to the side and stand up and bend the other way.
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A curiosity of the grid system is that, if its roads stretch far enough, they eventually have to bend to accommodate the curvature of the Earth.
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Audiences might have tolerated a serious story, and been grateful for a song like "Come to Me, Bend to Me," meltingly sung here by Ross Lekites.
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She had to bend to demands from her party's junior coalition partner, and agree to roll back deregulation that, since 2005, has unleashed the country's economy.
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The ability to not have to bend to the will of the collective helps you see that other people have other responsibilities that you don't have.
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Bibi is convinced that if Israel is strong militarily, economically and technologically, the world will bend to its will and beat a path to its door.
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And if that executive doesn't bend to their will, they will seek out someone, anyone, who feels more authentic to their experience, whatever that may mean.
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Republicans had been counting on Senate Democrats who are up for re-election next year in states won by Mr. Trump to bend to their will.
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The school partnered with Cultivate, a "food rescue" group in nearby South Bend, to prepare the meals, which include a protein, a vegetable and a starch.
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The statement came moments after Trump said the U.S. has "a lot of options" to get Beijing to bend to its will in the trade talks.
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When Ginsburg skipped Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech, Democrats celebrated -- touting it as a sign of her unwillingness to bend to the domineering President.
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"The health of the American people should not be used as bargaining chips to force the government to bend to one giant company's will," she wrote.
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Which again begs the question: Who can have a city bend to their will, and whose will is bent or blatantly ignored in the service of others?
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Juan Chicharro, wrote that the foundation must defend itself from "the staggered outlawing of everyone who doesn&apost bend to the totalitarian demands" of the Spanish left.
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Trump and Lighthizer, having cut their teeth in the battles against Tokyo, could assume that a similarly aggressive policy will prompt Beijing to bend to their demands.
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But, she said, "the health of the American people should not be used as bargaining chips to force the government to bend to one giant company's will."
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And there's at least one government shutdown deadline coming up — an opportunity for any Republican senator who wants to force the party to bend to his wishes.
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But Mr. Trump's top advisers are far more united in their hostility to engaging with Iran, and Iran is far less likely to bend to such pressure.
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To enter the world of "The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic," your faith must bend to the following: Time travel exists.
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President Donald Trump is guilty of just this error whenever he predicts that other governments will bend to his will because they know what is good for them.
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And it shifts the power for licensing these activities from the central government to provincial ones, which critics say are more likely to bend to local economic interests.
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A couple of hours into the Balcony Walk, the path rounds a bend to reveal not only a curve in the canyon, but one with a huge overhang.
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Meanwhile Taipei faces a backlash from China in many areas, as Beijing tries to pressure the democratically-elected Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to bend to its will.
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"Cabinet source today tells me they now sceptical deal (will) pass ... source thinks she will bend to her party and go for No Deal," Rigby reported on Thursday.
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To help eradicate corruption, the government should look to make the Central Bureau of Investigations truly independent and ensure police forces don't bend to state politics, Kar suggested.
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In January, AT&T abruptly pulled out of a deal to carry Huawei's top-of-the-line smartphone, appearing to bend to pressure from Washington over security concerns.
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She boldly addresses the realities of the Madonna-whore complex and about how she refuses to bend to norms that set a double standard for men and women.
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Most of us spend our days ruled by etiquette: doors are held, we say "please" and "thank you," we bend to pick up things that others have dropped.
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Having predicted 4 percent GDP growth in 2019, AMLO now has to accept that economic reality will not bend to his will as easily as the political system.
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If you're American and wondering why this affects you, keep in mind that huge swaths of the internet will bend to the most draconian version of this law.
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Perhaps Trump wanted to corner the press into a fight, flexing his new powers over a media that refused to bend to the habitual lies of his campaign.
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Maybe China, Canada and our European allies will indeed bend to our will on trade and it really will be easy to win multiple trade wars at once.
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In ice dance, this is not rushed but emphasized in strokes that lean and bend to propel a skater from one side of the rink to the other.
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The US has shown little willingness to relent on its pressure campaign against Iran, but Iran has shown little sign it is prepared to bend to the pressure.
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And they didn't bend to the market and so if they need to do something in the future I think that they did help their credibility in this meeting.
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That was the end of the story — or so I thought, until I traveled to Bend to see exactly what we'd lost with the demise of home movie rentals.
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She passed Falla and set her sights on leader Nilsson, who won gold in the individual sprint, as they rounded the final bend to set up an electrifying finish.
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Flake is now positioned as the conservative conscience of the party, someone not willing to bend to the latest political winds just because it's the path of least resistance.
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The aggressive capitalist system that had failed so many in the 2008 financial crisis needed, the image suggested, to bend to fundamental human values like grace, dignity, and compassion.
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If Trump can force Darroch home, he would send a message to any foreign government keen to exploit Britain's willingness to bend to the will of a host nation.
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Denying him a high-profile match upon his return would signal that he couldn't keep screwing up and expect his promotion and his division to bend to his whim.
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On your last exhale, reach both arms forward and move to the other side of your body, this time stretching your right side as you bend to the left.
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"In the past we have always been on the side of prosecutorial and judicial independence, and against authoritarian regimes that demand that justice bend to political power," he said.
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The threat of losing access to the massive, lucrative Chinese market has pushed the NBA, Morey and even basketball superstar LeBron James to bend to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Those who are watching these deliberations closely believe asbestos will make the list, but the EPA could still bend to the will of the chemical industry and its lobbyists.
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They will weigh whether to limit government controls, as Mr. Trump has often suggested, or to bend to pressure from hospitals and doctors, many of whom oppose the change.
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Mr. Rouhani said that he would not bend to "psychological warfare" from Mr. Trump and that Iran's Atomic Energy Organization was ready to produce more nuclear fuel if necessary.
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In an interview with "The Daily Show," he attacked Pete Buttigieg for suggesting that the two of them could go to South Bend to seek answers on urban renewal.
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"The health of the American people should not be used as bargaining chips to force the government to bend to one giant company's will," she wrote in a statement.
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Humans have always used tools to create art, but paintbrushes, pens, and chisels don't have an agenda of their own; they bend to the will of the person wielding them.
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As for major players like Amazon and Apple, we've asked if they intend to bend to Russia's demands to remove the app from their services but never received an answer.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has made clear the Fed will not bend to the will of President Donald Trump, and so far the central bank appears to be winning.
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But that's the free market at work — and I'd rather have the onus on Apple to make its products more compelling, rather than on developers to bend to its will.
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That incident sparked national attention as well as days of protests, prompting Buttigieg to leave the campaign trail in June to return to South Bend to deal with the fallout.
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It ignores regulations and uses popular public sentiment and the promise of being involved with an innovative company to get politicians on a local level to bend to its will.
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The president appears to be betting that threatening trading partners like China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada with tariffs will eventually force them to bend to the United States.
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"Khamenei does not rule over an absolutist system; although Iran's highest authority, he must nevertheless bend to the wind in order to preserve the regime," RAND's Alireza Nader points out.
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In the end, he did not bend to Mr. Trump's envoys' request that he promise in writing to conduct the investigations of Joe and Hunter Biden and the 2016 campaign.
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It demonstrates Amazon's cultural clout — bolstered by its growing TV and movie production business — and its ability to make the entire retail industry bend to its idea of the calendar.
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Huawei doesn't have the clout of Apple, Google, or even Samsung when it comes to negotiating with carriers, and it certainly would have had to bend to their demands for customization.
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With repairs an absolute necessity for farmers, they're forced to either bend to the will of manufacturers' arbitrarily priced repair costs or go to extraordinary lengths to find their own workarounds.
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That changed when Kamala Harris pivoted a discussion about Pete Buttigieg's response to a recent police shooting in South Bend to Joe Biden's record on busing, race, and civil rights. Sen.
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" And Buttigieg used his dropout speech in South Bend to call for "a broad-based agenda that can truly deliver for the American people, not one that gets lost in ideology.
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The North Koreans noticed, and much of the statement issued last week was a denunciation of Mr. Bolton and a vow never to bend to "great powers" seeking a similar deal.
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With China's rise, Beijing is less willing to bend to Washington's will than before and more willing to aggressively pursue its interests, whether they involve trade or the South China Sea.
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But Mr. Brunetti's images have their own intense emotional resonance — the buildings are formidable expressions of collective faith made all the more so by their stalwart refusal to bend to perspective.
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But unlike the previous mayor, he was not willing to bend to what he thought unreasonable demands of the Chinese, and he invited a Taiwan representative to the New Year's reception.
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It remains to be seen if Riyadh will bend to international pressure and give the women acquittals or pardons - or pursue harsh sentences after state-backed media labeled them as traitors.
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The burden felt by women of color to bend to mainstream beauty ideals is structurally embedded, with advertisers taking advantage of the image of idealized whiteness to sell products with harmful ingredients.
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Judging from his campaign pronouncements, for Trump, fossil fuels are a means to an end, whether to fuel his resorts and casinos or to pressure foreign powers to bend to American will.
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Why it matters: In his 2020 run for the White House, Buttigieg is using his record of revitalizing parts of South Bend to, in part, illustrate why he'd make a good president.
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And there are still doubts about China's capacity and willingness to make North Korea bend to Washington's will, for instance by cutting off fuel, food and investment supplies that sustain Kim's regime.
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Silicon Valley has been very supportive of Apple's refusal to bend to the will of the government and many tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum.
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Over the past 20 years, the franchise has mutated into some kind of roided-out phantasmagoria where even the fundamental laws of physics bend to the will of Vin Diesel's glistening muscles.
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Instead, companies such as Twitter sometimes have to bend to local or domestic tastes and legislation, meaning that what a user in one country sees could be unavailable to someone in another.
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They're both genetically gifted specimens — Efron in this movie looks like a mound of boulders in a too-tight, too-tan skin suit — whom the world seems to bend to and favor.
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Even as they bend to the task of reclaiming what the tempest has scattered, a trace of that wild ache lingers — a glimpse into what it means to be inconsolably, joyously human.
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Iceland inspired the central Oregon mountain town of Bend to create its tourism pledge in October 2017, a decision based in part on complaints by locals about a perceived shift in culture.
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According to those inside the network, his departure was because he was sick of being attacked by Trump and his colleagues since he refused to bend to the whims of the president.
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In the past five years, however, many of the balancing institutions that temper overzealous governments, such as the press, courts and regulatory bodies, have come under pressure to bend to Mr Modi's will.
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"Even if they wanted to bend to President Trump's wishes, how much spare capacity does the kingdom have?" said Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia-Pacific at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore.
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This is the era for successful and powerful interactions to arrive as these questions and more are addressed; the machine, and not the user, will bend to meet us in the middle ground.
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Two senior officials of the EU Commission said that Brussels was, however, not inclined to bend to pressure and would formally adopt the list, with Saudi Arabia in it, in the coming weeks.
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" More shows the recklessness of Roper's resolve — the dangerous tendency to make the law bend to your will in the name of a higher cause like Roper's desire "to get after the devil.
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It is a castigation of assertive black masculinity, like Obama's, which refuses to bend to traditional power or promulgate the fallacy that the legacy of historical racism is all either fantasy or forgiven.
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The president's scattershot attention span has diminished his power to persuade the business world to bend to his will, corporate communications experts say, as once fearsome tweet storms have devolved into ephemeral annoyances.
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China has a history of leveraging access to its massive market of 1.5 billion consumers to get foreign companies to bend to its will, squeezing apologies out of multinational retailers and airlines alike.
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But after Putin gained office the system that he began to construct had little tolerance for cocky and unruly power brokers, and Berezovsky's ego didn't allow him to bend to the new rules.
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To take photos with only one hand, Apple's patent filing proposes fitting the camera module in a "malleable" wristband, which you'd be able to bend to prop up the lens against the watch.
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Since assuming the job, Barr has repeatedly appeared to bend to Trump's demands, including in his initial description of Robert Mueller's report and a move to stop defending the Affordable Care Act in court.
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On March 14, Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) lived what she thought was her dream: She woke up as a white man and watched in awe as the world appeared to bend to her will.
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China has not said whether or how it may retaliate against the measures directed at Huawei, but state media have taken an increasingly nationalistic tone and vowed Beijing will not bend to U.S. pressure.
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The Chinese leader's remarks during the visit about rare earth elements as an "important strategic resource" and a "new Long March " signaled to many that Beijing is resolved not to bend to American demands.
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Given that willingness to bend to public sentiment, corporate pressure and user-driven anti-hate campaigns are proving themselves to be powerful tools, even if it's not clear where exactly to draw the line.
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In fact, rather than check the president's expansive use of authorities, Congress has been used to rein in, harass or obstruct elements of the executive branch that the president cannot bend to his will.
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While the battle over tariffs and protecting intellectual property may eventually damage the United States' economy, there are signs that China is already paying a price for its refusal to bend to Trump's demands.
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Using foreign aid -- including the $255 million in foreign military financing currently in the spotlight -- to pressure countries to bend to our will is not an appropriate way to participate in an international institution.
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" At one point, Trump turned toward the crowd and leaned into his off-the-cuff attack lines against a slew of political rivals, saying he refused to "bow or bend to the Washington swamp.
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The Times, which had already established its own schedule for candidate interviews and will announce its choice Sunday, would not agree to bend to Bloomberg's will by changing the newspaper's timeline to meet his.
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Knowing it needed the millions in support to fend off Russia's invasion, Ukraine would have little choice but to bend to America's will to get the money and a much-desired White House meeting.
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So this concern arises: When President Trump is buffeted by events — when hard times hit, when crises arise, when other politicians and world leaders do not bend to his will — pernicious things will happen.
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"Even if they (Saudi Arabia) wanted to bend to President Trump's wishes, how much spare capacity does the kingdom have?" said Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia-Pacific at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore.
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Trump has been complaining about the Fed for a while now, putting on the pressure in interviews and on Twitter for the central bank to bend to his will when it comes to interest rates.
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" The text of the tweet by the Republican Party of Kentucky reads, "#ThrowbackThursday last month the socialists threatened the lone #Kentucky #Democrat in Congress if he didn't bend to their radical, extremist will: http://bit.
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What binds these players together is the passionate belief that no one should be forced to bend to societal expectations; in keeping with idea, everyone approaches competition with a strong sense of solidarity and sportsmanship.
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With strong, simple melodies that easily bend to accommodate the inflections of Baker's naturalistic talk-singing, accompanied by bright guitar arpeggios cutting through the aural space, she's scaled the arrangements for maximum crispness and definition.
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And I think that this particular record is definitely the first time that I have 1000 percent clearly executed my artistic vision without compromise, without trying to change something or bend to fit into something.
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Google has repeatedly said the French demands to regulate the Internet worldwide could set a worrying precedent for more repressive governments — like China or Russia — to demand that technology companies also bend to their will.
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"You can't insult the national honor of a country of 126 million people and just expect them to bend to your will," said Jeh Johnson, who was secretary of homeland security under President Barack Obama.
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When developers across the country seek to build affordable apartments in more integrated, higher opportunity neighborhoods, they are often stymied by exclusionary zoning ordinances or local officials who bend to racially motivated opposition from neighbors.
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He heard several Black Lives Matter protesters who had traveled from South Bend to interrupt Buttigieg's speech, laying out a list of concerns about how his policies as mayor had failed communities of color there.
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It is craven to cast a vote out of fear that Mr. Trump will seek revenge by suggesting that someone else ought to hold your Senate seat if you do not bend to his will.
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From the speech: Where do you suppose that Donald Trump got the idea that he can personally attack judges, regardless of the law, whenever they don't bend to the whims of billionaires and big businesses?
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Murphy applauded Williams, saying that, as an African-American judge, "he did not bend to that pressure" from the black community, many of whom wanted to see Nero convicted as an emotional response to Gray's death.
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In the clubbish world of Italian business, where change often happens slowly and chief executives bend to the prevailing political wind, Marchionne stood out as an exception, taking on trade unions and rowing publicly with politicians.
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Again we have a pattern of behavior in which Trump expresses great displeasure about the Russia investigation to key officials, and in which he seems to be trying to get officials to bend to his will.
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Often as not, when politicians try to reconcile law and reality, the result is that the law gets changed to bend to the reality — not that the reality is changed by enforcing or changing the law.
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The third-gen self-driving test cars were redeployed to Arizona from San Francisco in December, after Uber refused to bend to California regulators' will and seek a permit for testing autonomous driving in the state.
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Now with his book out, Flake is attempting to position himself as a conservative conscience of the party, someone not willing to bend to the latest political winds just because it's the path of least resistance.
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As his petition to the justices reads, the Abood rule requires him "to subsidise AFSCME's efforts to compel the state of Illinois to bend to the union's will" regarding a series of proposed cost-saving reforms.
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Related: Astronauts, Artists, and Architects Designed a Temple on the Moon A US Satellite Took These Beautiful Black-and-White Photographs of Mars From Dusk to Dawn, These Solar Panels Bend to the Light Like Supplicants
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According to the excerpt, Moses contends that his mother was emotionally manipulative and physically abusive, detailing a number of alleged instances in which Ms. Farrow struck him or pressured the children to bend to her will.
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One theory is that President Trump's decision last year to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have included Vietnam, decreased the incentive for Vietnam to bend to American-led pressure on human rights issues.
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Once the cartel leaders were able to force the authorities to bend to their will by turning on the population, they might try to do it again, said Osvaldo García, an employee at a tapestry shop.
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In other parts of Asia, including the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, Mr. Trump's willingness to bend to China is fueling worries that the United States will stop trying to counter China's growing influence in the region.
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If the speed of all of this is catching Putin by surprise, he may want to reflect on the fact that in democracies, politicians bend to the will of their citizens -- not the other way around.
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The entire premise rests on the belief that a president has some "political capital" he can use after an election to push things through Congress, a so-called "honeymoon" period when legislators will bend to his will.
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But the amount to logic we'd have to bend to get Jorah up to The Wall and get him to leave Dany's side right before [the events in the finale]…there's no way to do that blithely.
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STRIDENT TONE While China has not said whether or how it may retaliate against the measures targeting Huawei, state media have taken an increasingly strident and nationalistic tone and vowed Beijing will not bend to U.S. pressure.
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A scenario: As Wolff pointed out, a possible future home for Hannity (reunited with Bill O'Reilly?) might be Sinclair Broadcast Group, a newly muscular chain of local TV stations that shows an unabashed bend to the right.
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An outspoken advocate for women of color and the cultures so often sidelined by mainstream music, she uses her rhymes to showcase fellow "outcasts," as she calls herself, refusing to bend to pop culture's sugary, plastic norms.
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It's the resentment and disdain toward a world that just doesn't listen, that will not bend to my will even though I'm so smart and have worked so hard and for sure know the path toward harmony.
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In his regular Washington Post column, Rogers affirmed his commitment to bend to the will of the Republican primary electorate: The truth is we either have primaries or we don't; we either have rules or we don't.
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But two weeks ago, Jones, a nonvoting member of the compensation committee, escalated the dispute when he threatened to sue the league and the six owners on the committee if they did not bend to his will.
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Each time the cast — Mr. Harrell, Thibault Lac, Perle Palombe and Ondrej Vidlar — emerge through a doorway and exit around the bend to model another look, they transform into different characters with different emotions: sensual, mournful, excited.
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It's easy to see Apple's decision to put a small touchscreen above the keyboard as a simple, stubborn unwillingness to bend to the larger trends in the PC industry, just as it once resisted larger smartphone screens.
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Mr. Trudeau was undeterred on Thursday, saying Canada would not bend to the United States demands, including elimination of a dispute settlement mechanism that allows Nafta countries to challenge each other outside the nations' official court systems.
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Previous reporting by the Times noted that the company survives in China largely by being willing to bend to censors' requirements, like restricting the ability of users to freely associate on the site or limiting topics of discussion.
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But Rouhani has proven fairly adept at exploiting social unrest — including the nationwide protests — to his own ends, arguing to regime oligarchs that refusing to bend to popular will could lead to the demise of the Islamic Republic.
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In a post-#MeToo world, who wants to watch different ladies bend to the carnal desires of an impossibly powerful man like the Getty patriarch, or realize just how many employees are complicit in Paul's overwrought sex manipulations?
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CHINA WILL NOT BEND China has not said whether or how it may retaliate against the measures directed at Huawei, but state media have taken an increasingly nationalistic tone and vowed Beijing will not bend to U.S. pressure.
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The news of a mass removal of gambling apps isn't surprising, then, but it's a reminder of how American companies are forced to bend to the Chinese government's rules if they want to do business in the country.
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Of course, many men continue to buy up firearms, reaching to grasp what is slowly and surely being lost: the idea that holding a gun makes one powerful and dominant and makes the world bend to one's will.
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When I reached out to touch the images, they'd react in different ways: seaweed-like tendrils would bend to my hand movements, and a jellyfish-like ball would rapidly spin and implode when I tried to grab it.
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During the Obama administration, the FDA exerted its authority granted by Congress to regulate all tobacco products, including cigars and e-cigarettes, but it is unclear if Gottlieb will bend to industry pressure and roll back the regulations.
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While the architects of both President Trump's proposal and Congress's Blueprint bend to the right of American politics, both sides of the aisle have historically seen the potential economic value of policies aimed at sparking small business success.
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That task proved successful, leaving it less likely than ever China would bend to US pressure to take a firmer hand with its neighbor, potentially harming its own economy or destablizing a country of millions on its border.
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Despite LinkedIn's current problems in Russia, the company has often been willing to bend to local pressures, particularly in China, where it has agreed to abide by the country's strict censorship rules to build a significant presence there.
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McLaughlin, 20, was level with Shamier Little at the halfway point, with fellow American Muhammad also in the frame, but burst away on the second bend to win in 52.85 seconds, over one second clear of the field.
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But it also gave a glimpse of the reluctance of lawmakers to bend to Mr. Trump's spending priorities, like his desire for sharp cuts to domestic programs, with the increase in funding for medical research a prime example.
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Prosecutors have argued that the quid pro quo of Mr. Skelos's corruption stemmed from his threats to kill legislation that the company officials needed for their businesses, if they did not bend to his and his son's wills.
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And it demonstrated the ability of the Democrat-led State Legislature to call into question the governor's control over the kinds of state boards that, in recent years, he had been mostly able to bend to his will.
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But it is also a reminder of how important truth-telling is to American foreign policy, and how ultimately self-defeating it is for the United States to bend to autocratic pressure tactics, whether from Turkey or anywhere else.
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Gray family attorney Murphy applauded Williams, saying that, as an African-American judge, "he did not bend to that pressure" from the black community, many of whom wanted to see Nero convicted as an emotional response to Gray's death.
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Or do they bend to popular opinion and allow profits to fall, inviting the danger that, in the run up to their 2018 annual general meeting, a fund manager from, say, Fidelity or Capital will topple them for underperformance?
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday said he would not bend to President Trump's threat to withhold federal funds from cities that don't help the federal government take a harder line with undocumented immigrants.
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Yet despite momentarily losing his rhythm, the champion regrouped to take control on the back straight and he scorched off the final bend to forge clear and take his third successive world 2000,000m title by a couple of meters.
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During the Obama administration, the FDA exerted its authority granted by Congress to regulate all tobacco products, including cigars and e-cigarettes, but it is unclear if Gottlieb will bend to industry pressure and roll back the regulations. Sen.
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ANONYMOUS If you (and your friend) are so self-important that you believe others must bend to your will on all matters, including the makeup of fantasy political cabinets, then, yes, drop this person as a friend at once.
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In Xerox's latest effort to get HP to bend to its will and combine the two companies, it announced its intent today to try to replace the entire HP board of directors at the company's stockholder's meeting in April.
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This allows us to compare South Bend to a better benchmark than the country as a whole, to see how well other leaders of other similar cities steered their municipalities over the same period that Buttigieg led South Bend.
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But AT&T, which intended to promote the Mate 210 Pro as a rival to premium devices from Apple and Samsung, abruptly pulled out of the deal this month, appearing to bend to pressure from Washington over security concerns.
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Membership of his union is simply a matter of signing up to a Facebook group and it is unlikely that other members would follow his call to take their content off YouTube if it failed to bend to his wishes.
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Buttigieg already canceled multiple events and meetings in New York that were scheduled for Monday and called a late-night press conference in South Bend to address the shooting, pledging to work to get to the bottom of what happened.
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But multiple Buttigieg campaign aides said the mayor was canceling that appearance -- along with other meetings and at least one fundraiser he was meant to attend -- to be in South Bend to respond to the shooting and meet with community members.
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In just a few short months, 22017-year-old presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has gone from being the little-known mayor of Indiana 's fourth largest city, South Bend, to a household name — regardless of whether you can pronounce it.
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But sometimes it can be enough to help you figure out what the false world you've forged might say about what you want from the world itself — the one you are bound to, the one you cannot bend to your will.
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"Seeing Jon realise that the position he is in, is just like the position Mance was in, exhibits the development of Jon's character so well," xIdkTbhx writes, and many people are convinced this means that Jon will bend to Daenerys.
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Though the Kremlin is engaged in a constant balancing act between appeasing corrupt state apparatchiks at various levels and managing public anger towards those officials, there is a generally understood foundational rule: never be seen to bend to public pressure.
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There is a single piece of technology here with potential to take down a relationship — if the couple at the center does not find a way to bend to the changes in their relationship the technology has, in part, caused.
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He comes to power at a time of national crisis, promising Britain will leave the European Union at the end of October but with little sign that Brussels will bend to his demand to sweeten the terms of the country's departure.
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More recently Mr Johnson has applied the same drive that he applied to Brexit to securing a general election, fixating on a particular date (December 12th) and threatening to go on strike if the opposition parties didn't bend to his will.
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Modern European conservatism, like that of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), constitutes an essential bulwark against national extremists across Europe -- when they steadfastly refuse to bend to the far right's demagoguery or to rule in tandem with them.
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But it was postponed until this year, when Mr. Kabila appeared to bend to international and regional pressure as well as street protests led by the Roman Catholic Church, one of the few institutions in the country that enjoys widespread legitimacy.
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With that knowledge of both the executive and creative worlds, he&aposs become a perfect fit to run the movie side of a company that wants Hollywood to bend to its will, but also win a few Oscars along the way.
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The man known as Beto represents a politics of conviction for higher values and courage in refusing to bend to the lesser instincts of our times that have lowered the standards of far too many politicians in far too many places.
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However, from the perspective of those already using the service every day, the long-term effects of this character limit increase might not be so subtle as Twitter continues over the years to slowly bend to the demands of user growth.
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"I worry that there are those in Washington who think they understand the Chinese mindset, and that they can force President Xi Jinping to bend (to) the will of Washington's desires, and maybe not appreciate ... the rhetoric coming out of China, " he said.
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Bolton and Pompeo have led the charge here, replicating the Bush-era conviction of neo-cons who hoped that the world would bend to the order they wanted to impose: that they had to bid something be and then just watch it happen.
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The series owes its shockingly adult bend to how Lena (The Office's Fischer, trying to prove she's more than merely Pam Beesly) and Martin (Hudson) actually end up sharing an address following their breakup, which is the entire twist of the show.
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The territory, which lies about 1,100 miles from the tip of Florida, isn't a state, and though its residents are American citizens, they can only vote in local elections — not Presidential or Congressional ones — and its government must bend to Congress's ultimate authority.
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As a result, he has been reducing his overweight to U.S. stocks and other risky assets in the short-term, though he expects the Fed will bend to the market's wishes rather than the market taking its cues from the central bank.
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Kiprop, the 33 Olympic champion, ran the last lap of the opening semi-final in 52.93 seconds, sweeping past the field on the back straight and taking the lead off the final bend to cross the line first in three minutes, 39.73 seconds.
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Beneath the disingenuous talk about the self-determination and cultural identity of Crimeans, Putin's message was clear: A Ukraine that does not bend to Russia cannot be trusted with the territory of Sevastopol naval base, at the time Russia's only warm water port.
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And his erratic penchant for revenge has businesses across the country facing a new reality: Bend to the president's whims or face the retribution of an angry tweet, which has already wreaked havoc on the stock prices of a number of U.S. companies.
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Trump's decision is likewise a boon for the Israeli right, which for years has insisted on ignoring international norms and opprobrium, arguing that the international community and Arab countries will eventually bend to Israel's will if Israel demonstrates its power and resolve.
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It remains to be seen if Riyadh will bend to international pressure - with the women possibly receiving acquittals or pardons - or pursue harsh sentences in a case critics say has revealed the limits of the crown prince's promises to modernize Saudi Arabia.
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Experts say that the new reality is that partisan consumers on social media have more influence than they they've ever had and that outlets will in some instances have to bend to reader demands or watch as their subscribers take their business elsewhere.
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"Rappers didn't try to bend to get on TV, which would mean purging all traces of drugs, expletives and all sexual comment from their texts," said Andrei Nikitin, 40, editor of The Flow, a website that has followed the scene for years.
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The largest repertory opera in the world is in the throes of innovation, simulcasting performances in HD theaters, introducing Sunday matinees, premiering modern operas and updating the classics — all attempts to bend to the new reality rather than be broken by it.
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Buttigieg was scheduled to fly from Selma, Alabama, to Dallas, Texas, on Sunday, but during the flight he informed reporters that he would be flying back to his hometown of South Bend to make an announcement on the future of his campaign.
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"Voters need people who have the political courage to stand up for their values and not just bend to the will of the party," said Mr. Friese, who entered politics after treating Representative Gabrielle Giffords for a near-fatal gunshot wound in 2011.
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The companies and organizations that produce much of this culture, however, have had to increasingly bend to China's political will under its leader, Xi Jinping, whose ambition is to make his country a counterweight, if not an alternative, to the United States.
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Commanders-in-chief are elected to lead the nation's legislators to a place where reasonable people on both sides of the aisle can embrace commonsense reforms—not rule by fiat when members of the House and Senate fail to bend to their will.
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Amazon is not a company that's been known to bend to social causes — not when it was faced with a tax to help Seattle's homeless and not when it was called on to stop providing facial recognition technology to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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It remains to be seen if Riyadh will bend to international pressure — with the women possibly receiving acquittals or pardons — or pursue harsh sentences in a case critics say has revealed the limits of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's promises to modernize Saudi Arabia.
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Durov responded to the court's decision in his official Telegram channel, saying that while governments have the power to make some companies bend to their will — citing Apple's decision to move iCloud servers to China last year — his company was not in that situation.
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He argues that if Britain is prepared for a no-deal Brexit, the EU will bend to his argument to remove the so-called Northern Irish backstop to prevent a return to a hard border with Ireland if there is no agreed future trade deal.
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It remains to be seen if Riyadh will bend to that pressure - with the women possibly receiving acquittals or pardons - or pursue harsh sentences in a case critics say has revealed the limits of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's promises to modernize Saudi Arabia.
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Felix, still running in pain from the April injury, accelerated from fifth place off the bend to take the lead on the home straight and keep alive her dream of becoming only the third woman to complete a 183-218 double at the same Olympics.
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"The Get Down" is categorically different from those projects, but it raises a similarly radical proposition: that everyday teenagers — the show also anoints Hispanic heroes — imbued with obsession and determination can invent a whole new world and make the old one bend to their whims.
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The question is whether Macron will bend to the will of the street or whether he will stay the course, hoping to hang on long enough for his reforms to take hold and raise the French standard of living, as he has promised all along.
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He is trusted as Clinton is not, he has a donor list that raised unprecedented amounts of small-ticket contributions and he has laid out an agenda that Clinton had to bend to in order to appear legitimate to the traditions of the Democratic Party.
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With that popularity has come heightened scrutiny — US lawmakers have voiced concerns that TikTok's Beijing-based parent company ByteDance could bend to China's orders to censor content that criticizes the Communist Party or to submit user data on US citizens to the Chinese government.
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What is increasingly clear to many on Capitol Hill and in the business community is that the White House is seizing on trade as a negotiating tool, trying to use the nation's economic dominance as leverage to pressure other countries to bend to its will.
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I am not what you call a man's man (as you could tell if you saw me with my floral-print backpack or witnessed my inability to change my own oil), but I have a certain macho pride in refusing to bend to the elements.
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He looks it, he speaks it, he lives it, but there's this carefree-ness about him that doesn't seem to have to bend to the collectivist ideas of how you have to treat others, or how you have to be in relation to others.
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Pam Bondi was clearly tasked with making the case for why Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, is more troubling than the President of the United States attempting to force a foreign power to bend to his personal will.
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Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.
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Despite the tariff war with the United States and Beijing's willingness to punish foreign brands that do not bend to the views of the Communist Party, Singles Day shows that the world still wants to come to China, at least when giant buckets of money are involved.
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"Kids are being given some really dangerous messages these days about the fact that they can't handle being triggered, that they shouldn't have to bear witness to anything that makes them uncomfortable and that their external environments should bend to and accommodate their needs," she told me.
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But the fall of Mugabe, a charismatic despot who drove his economy to ruin, shows how Beijing is learning to navigate, very carefully, through turbulent transitions in places where it has deep economic ties, sometimes decades old, and how countries bend to the arc of China's gravity.
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The step was an extraordinary concession by a president who has been criticized as remote and unempathetic, and who has refused to bend to previous protests and plummeting poll numbers as he pushes through changes that he insists are necessary to make France's economy more competitive.
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The thought that we might need to bend to the forces of nature -- that we might need to change something about ourselves, either in the short or long term, to accommodate the fact that we live on a planet we can't entirely control -- frustrates us enormously.
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Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country's "most important asset" and it would be viewed as election meddling and "disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations" to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.
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Taylor said Morrison witnessed a conversation between Trump ally Gordon Sondland — the ambassador to the European Union — and a senior Ukrainian official in which Sondland said hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine hinged on the country's willingness to bend to Trump's demand.
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"What began as freeing women up to speak has today turned into the opposite – we intimidate people into speaking 'correctly', shout down those who don't fall into line, and those women who refused to bend [to the new realities] are regarded as complicit and traitors," the letter reads.
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Some, perhaps including Mr Trump, may even believe that the president was skilfully pursuing Richard Nixon's "madman theory": the idea that if you convince your adversaries that you are sufficiently unhinged to do almost anything, including starting a nuclear war, they are more likely to bend to your will.
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"The man creates a woman who is going to be everything he needs her to be — to idolize him and also bend to his will and obey every move — and ultimately she becomes stronger than him and breaks away," Silvas, 40, says of the inspiration behind the video.
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That includes an extruder motion system that allows for faster and more precise prints, a build plate that will grip prints better and bend to make removing the finished product easier, and a significant reduction in noise — MakerBot says it wants its printers on desks, not in back rooms.
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I find it easy to believe that the man who went out in a storm with his son on a June night in 1752 to catch lightning from the sky, would have been comfortable setting the world ablaze in 1772 when a king refused to bend to his will.
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And then came the women's marches, with their attendant handmaids costumes, and the Emmys and Golden Globes for the show and for Moss, and then the show seemed to want to bend to meet its adoring public; it felt that it had to say something meaningful about our world.
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Frenchman Pierre-Ambrose Bosse kicked effectively around the bend to produce an upset triumph in the 800m over a field that included former Olympic 1,500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi and Olympic silver medalist Nijel Amos of Botswana, who finished a disappointing sixth in his first outdoor meeting of the year.
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When it was the turn of Mayor Pete Buttigieg , of South Bend, to answer, he spoke about the years in which he lived with the fear that, as a military officer and an elected official in a socially conservative community, revealing that he was gay would end his career.
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An examination of these episodes, including thousands of pages of documents and interviews with dozens of current and former McKinsey consultants and clients from multiple projects, suggests McKinsey behaves as if it believes the rules should bend to its way of doing things, not the other way around.
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By Friday, Trump will have signed at least 32 executive orders — the most signed in the first 100 days of a new administration since World War II. Behind-the-scenes: Trump, used to getting his own way in his business career, is frustrated that Congress won't bend to his will.
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While the next months are likely to be characterised by uncertainty, it's likely the United States is going to find it considerably harder to make the rest of the world bend to its will this time, especially when the major financial beneficiaries are its own oil producers and the Saudi Arabians.
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"This is the last hotbed of terrorists who are trying to speculate on the region's status as a de-escalation zone, who are trying to hold the civilian population hostage as human shields and bend to their will those armed groups ready to engage in dialogue with the government," Lavrov said.
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The move to change what the Fed pays banks for keeping money with the central bank is seen as critical to showing that it can still get markets to bend to its will and influence how readily banks can get cash, and in turn, make loans to corporations and consumers.
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The main sticking point is Costco's decision not to bend to a union request that 3,500 members on the East Coast on a 401(k) pension plan be allowed to join the defined benefit pension plan provided to 12,500 members in California, the International Broth3rhood of Teamsters said in a statement.
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To the Editor: Re "Trump's Perversion of Leadership," by Frank Bruni (column, April 4): It is in his contempt for the very office he holds, his effort to make the presidency bend to him instead of giving it the respect it deserves and that we demand, that Donald Trump does the most damage.
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Some suggest that a newly elected British Parliament might block exit, if a new referendum were a stated commitment of the victorious party, or that somehow the Europeans will just bend to the British will and grant the nation privileges no other country has to block immigration of other European Union citizens.
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For Other Music to outlive its Tower Records neighbor by a matter of a decade and still find itself forced to bend to the dismal trends of the record industry feels like a sad epilogue—especially considering that the store remains pretty popular today (I stop in often and rarely see it empty).
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Though Mr. Trump stepped back from plans to impose tariffs on every nation — exempting, for the time being, Canada and Mexico — he did so while exerting additional pressure: He emphasized that tariffs could ultimately land on both countries unless they bend to American demands in renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Like a modern-day Gulliver, President Trump is metaphorically wandering around a Middle East where he'd rather not be, tied up both by smaller powers whose interests are not his own -- and by America's illusions about the region, perpetuated by Trump who somehow believes he can force Iran to bend to his will.
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Like a modern-day Gulliver, President Trump is metaphorically wandering around a Middle East where he'd rather not be, tied up both by smaller powers whose interests are not his own — and by America's illusions about the region, perpetuated by Trump who somehow believes he can force Iran to bend to his will.
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Where the Support/Surface artist Marc Devade, for example, brought a heavy psychoanalytical bend to his writing and placed the painter in crisis squarely in the center of any painting practice, Bonnefoi did not dwell on the importance of the painter and did his best to evacuate volition as much as possible from his method.
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But Mr. Khuzami also handed out awards to officials who spent years building potentially big cases that they then chose not to file for lack of evidence — sending a message that the agency should not bend to public and political pressure to punish unpopular figures on Wall Street, according to current and former officials.
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"The President is excited to return to South Bend to tout the benefits that his historic tax cuts are providing Hoosier families throughout Indiana, and to remind them what an important role they'll play in expanding our GOP majority in the Senate in the mid-term elections this fall," Glassner said in a Thursday statement.
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But it's no small thing to be baselessly accused of serious crimes by the president of the United States, and Trump is sending a clear message here to any official of the US government who, at any level, might be thinking of trying to uphold the rule of law rather than bend to his whims.
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His comments suggest that, for all the bashing and political drama, Powell may be less of a central figure in the political battles of 2020, having delivered rate cuts the economy needed without seeming to bend to the will of a volatile president, something that could have undermined investor confidence in an independent central bank.
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Of course, writers Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, and Rowling are under no obligation to bend to the will of fans, but when the influence of the fans, their theories, and their work can be felt so strongly in the material that it feels a little gross to leave out something so important to and sought after by the audience.
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Though the success of these experiments varied wildly as the band grappled with what it meant to be one of the last big rock bands of its time and how far to bend to stay current, Coldplay's shiftlessness remained grounded in a bedrock of big, dumb feelings and the attempts of its smiley frontman to unpack them.
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"The President's attack on Judge James Robart, a Bush appointee who passed with 99 votes, shows a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn't always bend to his wishes and a continued lack of respect for the Constitution, making it more important that the Supreme Court serve as an independent check on the administration," Schumer said in a statement.
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But this move suggests that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and the justices on the court's conservative wing are inclined to bend to the whims of an administration that often sets out to harm people by executive fiat, only to get challenged in court and later complain that judges are standing in the way of government policies.
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"The President's attack on Judge James Robart, a Bush appointee who passed with 99 votes, shows a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn't always bend to his wishes and a continued lack of respect for the Constitution, making it more important that the Supreme Court serve as an independent check on the administration," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
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And something should be said of Yara's nowhere-near traditional-appearance: instead of a withering flower, she's all pirate (or all viking?) all the time: a swashbuckling, loud-mouthed, axe-wielding lady who, like Brienne, doesn't bend to rules of gender expectations either inside the universe of the show or the standards of what women are "supposed" look like on TV.
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In other words, while the candidates will have to publicly audition for the first time, there is no indication that the veto-wielding P-5, as the permanent members are known, are about to abdicate any power over whom they choose for the job — and hence, how far the next secretary general will bend to the wishes of the world powers.
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The mother is made a surreal figure with an extended rectangle for a head, two lifted plates with holes for her breasts, one leg a straight rectangle with a bend to make a knee while the other leg is a strangely bent and angled trapezoid that structurally acts as support for the piece but pictorially makes her a grotesque figure.
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What they're saying: Lam said Friday's chaos left Hong Kong "semi-paralyzed," according to AP. Some peaceful protesters say the violence has become a "means to an end, the only way for young masked protesters to force the government to bend to clamors for full democracy and other demands," writes AP. Go deeper... China's split-screen: Hong Kong protests vs.
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It just happens this way, you bend to the cup, the sea-reaching stream runs down somewhere below our angle of view— though on a good day you hear it, I see you hear it—straightening itself as it goes, going down to go faster, at some point merging and merging, splitting its waters, gathering, a slope will help it.
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Because of the secondary sanction threaten of US, many crude oil companies have withdrew their investment and crude oil business in Iran, but there are still many countries say they would not bend to the pressure from the US. Among them, the Indian Ministry of Oil and Gas said that India does not recognize unilateral sanctions and only recognizes sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
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This will almost certainly turn some listeners off – it's more than a bit "what if phones but too much"—though it's worth noting that for teenage fans, who are, rightfully, the listeners this record keeps most in mind (I've written before about how its singles bend to the listening habits of younger people), it's possible that the track might be offering a point of view previously not considered.
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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 told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that another round of trade measures equaling $2628 billion in value was "ready to go" if Chinese authorities do not bend to U.S. demands for significant changes to China's trade policies.
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In light of writings from George Washington (speaking out against religious "bigotry"), Thomas Jefferson (saying the constitution protects "the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo and infidel") and James Madison (decrying a law that "degrades from the equal rank of citizens all those whose opinions in religion do not bend to those of the legislative authority"), the Supreme Court's rejection of official acts expressing religious animus is "of ancient lineage".
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Mr. Trump made Republicans bend to his will — and against their long-held opposition to picking "winners and losers" in the economy — even before his inauguration when he announced last month that the Indiana-based air-conditioning manufacturer Carrier would keep roughly 1,000 jobs in the state rather than moving them to Mexico, thanks to $7 million in tax incentives negotiated by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the current governor of Indiana.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that another round of trade measures equaling $85033 billion in value was "ready to go" if Chinese authorities do not bend to U.S. demands for significant changes to China's trade policies.
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Read more:Pete Buttigieg rebuked a man in Iowa who said 'tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs'A suspected burglar who broke into a Kansas home strapped himself to an inversion table and had to call for helpA Texas prosecutor charged 216 high-school students with making school threats in just 3 months, fearing another Parkland shootingOfficials in a Louisiana city are rethinking their 'saggy pants' ordinance after a man died during a police chase
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Deadspin's Laura Wagner argued that these stories were examples of a broader problem — the media's willingness to bend to right-wing pressure: Respectable news organizations and journalists, to whom being seen as balanced, level-headed, and more attuned to context and contingency than the reactive social-media mob is more important than reporting the most accurate version of the truth as best they can tell it, backed off, following Reason's lead and doing the work of the gibbering masturbators who had risen up in defense of the MAGA teens.
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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 is frustrated with Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE and has privately disparaged the retired Marine general as a moderate unwilling to bend to Trump's policy positions, according to a new report.
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