The Saudis have bowed to Iran's preference for Lebanon's president.
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It too often bowed to a poisonous and censorious multiculturalism.
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But it has since bowed to the Finance Ministry's pressure.
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The answer to "Bowed, to a cellist" is ARCO. 61A.
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It certainly seems as though YouTube (belatedly) bowed to public pressure.
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But on Tuesday he bowed to the pressure, resigning his job.
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Mr Morrison has also bowed to the conservatives on climate change.
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Whether the judges bowed to external pressure is impossible to tell.
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And to a certain degree, Democrats have bowed to that characterization.
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They bowed to one another and took turns sweeping cracked walkways.
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Mr. Saikawa apologized for the scandals and then bowed to shareholders.
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Agency critics suggested the FDA may have bowed to outside pressure.
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Some collections bowed to an unbridled romanticism that bordered on decadence.
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They bowed to their coach and began jogging around the mat.
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Non-Muslim businessmen bowed to demands from Sunni employees for prayer rooms.
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Then, a second woman walked into the room and bowed to me.
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The FCA's critics claim it has bowed to pressure from the government.
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"We are extremely disappointed that Apple has bowed to pressure," said Yokubaitis.
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It has publicly criticized some companies who have bowed to Beijing's pressure.
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Two days later, Ryanair bowed to the inevitable and announced the cancellations.
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But on Thursday, they bowed to the court ruling and moved out.
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The French government, however, bowed to Soviet protests and canceled the performance.
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After the last note shivered to nothing, Feo bowed to the room.
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But in 2015, the prior FCC bowed to pressure from President Obama.
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He made unverifiable claims that China had bowed to his tough rhetoric.
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Telecom masts, satellite feeds and the internet all bowed to its force.
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Donald Trump bowed to pressure and ordered families to be held together.
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Apple bowed to China's censorship pressure, which is completely unsurprising but nevertheless disappointing.
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Mr Mbeki, unlike Mr Zuma, bowed to the party and quietly left power.
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On March 14th Mr Fico bowed to the inevitable, agreeing to step down.
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Erdogan's spokesman responded by saying the Netherlands had bowed to anti-Islam sentiment.
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Dressed in black, they pressed their palms together and bowed to Sgt. Maj.
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"Star Wars" fans may mourn the day the Force bowed to mere mortals.
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Rouhani has bowed to pressure and fired the head of the central bank.
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In the speech, I simply bowed to the majesty of the democratic system.
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Facebook also bowed to such concerns last fall and enacted a similar ban.
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But then he bowed to the reality that is the 2016 presidential race.
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Facebook bowed to pressure a few days later, and the image was restored.
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Sometimes Hanyu bowed to the Pooh doll, which doubled as a tissue dispenser.
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At one point, he bowed to the crowd, one section at a time.
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On Wednesday, Trump bowed to pressure and signed an executive order ending the separations.
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And in 2004 Monsanto bowed to worldwide protests and abandoned a GMO wheat project.
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But BofA is skeptical of whether the BOJ should have bowed to market expectations.
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Facebook bowed to pressure from shareholders and abandoned a plan to reclassify its shares.
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I'm reminded of this when his staff bowed to him in the first episode.
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The band bowed to the other side of the arena, then left the stage.
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South Korea also bowed to Mr. Trump's pressure and revised a bilateral trade agreement.
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After his apology, Mr. Saikawa and other Nissan officials bowed to the assembled shareholders.
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At the end, the musicians rose in silence, faced forward, and bowed to us.
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Throughout they bowed to the tyranny of short-termism and make-no-waves-ism.
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"They've bowed to the pressure of the theater owners without compromising this year's festival."
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Remember the "apology tour," or the assertions that he had bowed to overseas leaders?
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For 20 months, the E3-following UK appeasement policy-has bowed to US diktat.
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So now, out of reaction to public outrage, Mylan has bowed to public pressure.
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Spotify is trouncing its music streaming competitors, and Microsoft has bowed to this reality.
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As he left the courtroom in police custody, Cardinal Pell bowed to Judge Kidd.
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They're going to say Powell bowed to Trump's pressure and the criticism that he's taking.
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But there was little evidence other leaders had bowed to his wishes on that front.
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The city's leader, Carrie Lam, on Saturday bowed to pressure and delayed the bill indefinitely.
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Last month the government bowed to opposition demands for a review by an independent commission.
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He bowed to that reality earlier this fall when he announced he wouldn't run again.
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Two weeks later, she bowed to the inevitable and announced that she would step down.
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The FBI has opened an investigation after Trump bowed to pressure from moderate Senate Republicans.
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Eventually, in 1897, Franz Joseph bowed to popular pressure, and Lueger ruled the city until 1910.
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At first, Trump was defiant, but eventually he bowed to the inevitable by folding the councils.
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And with an air of false humility, he repeatedly bowed to their superior intellect and polish.
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They call them "political prisoners", and accuse the court of having bowed to the government's will.
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However on trade, Trump bowed to pressure from allies to retain a pledge to fight protectionism.
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He finished the whole demo, and then he took off the headset, and bowed to me.
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In late August, Bolsonaro bowed to international pressure, and sent soldiers to help fight the fires.
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In the past, Trump repeatedly denounced President Barack Obama for having bowed to a Saudi king.
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But he bowed to pressure as thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of the capital Quito.
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Fellow singers bowed to her eminence and political and civic leaders treated her as a peer.
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Giertz initially bowed to the pressure, deleting five of her videos at the behest of sponsors.
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That he bowed to the White House and stayed away does not mean the matter is settled.
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But on Wednesday, March 291th, Trump eventually bowed to pressure, directing the FAA to ground the plane.
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But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince bowed to public pressure and terminated Cloudflare's relationship with The Daily Stormer.
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The site linked to by WikiLeaks eventually bowed to public pressure and took down the offending files.
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In reality, the RFA simply bowed to pressure from its newest and largest member: an oil refinery.
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The inquiry was ordered in 2014 after May bowed to pressure from Litvinenko's widow and British lawmakers.
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Bouteflika, 82, bowed to the protesters last week by reversing plans to stand for a fifth term.
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Afterward, Miura stood with his teammates, bowed to the crowd, waved and then disappeared beneath the stands.
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A Republican-controlled Congress bowed to public outrage over an attempt to water down an ethics office.
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Increasingly, Hollywood filmmakers have bowed to Chinese box-office pressures and removed material that could offend officials.
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But it still bowed to China's sensitivities, altering the category to say "country/territory" instead of nationality.
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But after weeks of plunging polls and flatlining fundraising, the California senator has bowed to the inevitable.
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He also expressed concern about the indictment against Weinstein ... claiming prosecutors had bowed to immense public pressure.
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As for me, I have the satisfaction of knowing that I walked tall and bowed to no man.
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Still Republicans from Reagan to Bush have bowed to shrink the size of government, but it never works.
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After a few days Mr Heath bowed to the inevitable, but his reputation was tarnished by the episode.
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Cameron at last bowed to pressure on Thursday and made the admission he had owned shares in Blairmore.
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On Tuesday, Salvini bowed to pressure and agreed to answer questions at a still-unscheduled hearing in Parliament.
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Last month, Atlantia bowed to pressure from the ministries and asked them to authorize its bid for Abertis.
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CNN placed him alongside other moderate GOP senators who've bowed to the president's grip on the party base.
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In a two-day session in Beijing, they bowed to Mr. Xi's wish to hold onto power indefinitely.
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At the end, fans showered the ice with soft toys as the Korean players bowed to their coaches.
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He bowed to pressure, apologized to President Ronald Reagan, and promised to stop spreading the fake AIDS story.
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Despite lifelong stage fright, I bowed to pressure when I was summoned to the center of the room.
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A few years ago, US Soccer bowed to pressure and banned heading before 11 (though 14 would be better).
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Still, some worry that Mr Cuomo has bowed to pressure from powerful vested interests, including hotel lobbyists and unions.
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After weeks of political tumult, Peter O'Neill bowed to pressure and resigned as prime minister of Papua New Guinea.
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Emmanuel Macron again bowed to the gilets jaunes protesters who have been thronging French streets for the past month.
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But on Monday Ivanov bowed to the European Union, the United States and opposition demands and revoked his pardons.
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The Commission bowed to requests by victims groups' to allow them to watch Pell, 74, give evidence in person.
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They appeared calm after the verdict was delivered, and Chan bowed to supporters clapping for them outside the court.
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In 403 the UNHCR and the Somali government bowed to Kenyan pressure and backed returns for Somalis in Dadaab.
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United, American, and Delta airlines bowed to pressure from the CCP to refer to Taiwan as part of China.
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He has bowed to the reality of this White House: There is really only one audience member who counts.
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President Obama, who bowed to the Saudi king, continued to afford the regime its undeserved standing as our ally.
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So on Thursday morning, Nunes bowed to the criticism and announced he'd temporarily step aside from the House investigation.
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He has bowed to advice from his lawyers by not attacking Mr. Mueller, but at times his instincts prevail.
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On the Court, the liberals bowed to the conservatives and agreed to keep the courts out of political thickets.
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And, in other sexual harassment news, Meehan bowed to the inevitable and announced he won't run again in 2018.
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Flake bowed to the inevitable in the fall of last year, announcing he would not run again in 2018.
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A party statement said the court had bowed to the wishes of Brazil's elites to stop Lula returning to office.
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Fastjet bowed to pressure from Haji-Ioannou on Monday, announcing that Chief Executive Ed Winter would step down this week.
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He bowed to Republican demands that Mr Thomas testify both before and after Ms Hill, giving the judge an advantage.
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I stood at the altar, white-dressed, holy, and bowed to the preacher as my head was anointed with oil.
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The movie bowed to a massive $181.8 million weekend, meeting analysts' lofty expectations and becoming the fifth-biggest opening ever.
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Greg Abbott ran the allegedly fraudulent business out of the state or bowed to Donald Trump by avoiding a lawsuit.
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Verhofstadt "should be ashamed of himself because, like a coward, he bowed to the pressure from the establishment", Grillo wrote.
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Tanooka's parents bowed to the doctor and hospital staff before taking their son into a silver van and driving away.
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After three years of protests, the ruling coalition bowed to pressure and appointed Abiy in April 2018 to drive reforms.
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"[Deschamps] has bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France," Benzema told Marca, as quoted by the Mirror.
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The Film Arcade's "Don't Think Twice" bowed to $90,126 in a single location, representing the year's highest per-screen average.
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President Trump bowed to pressure from intelligence agencies to withhold thousands of additional documents, pending six more months of review.
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Mr. Surmain even bowed to skeptical reviews and lowered the prix fixe lunch price from a scandalous $8.50 to $6.50.
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Before taking his oath of office, Mr. Modi arrived on stage and bowed to the audience who applauded and cheered.
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The father bowed to Dutch pressure and did not attend the wedding; his wife chose not to go without him.
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Management there, and at various companies big and small, looking around at all the empty desks, bowed to the inevitable.
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But Mr. Perriello allows that he is no Barack Obama, and he has bowed to some of those same gatekeepers.
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After two decades in power, the country's octogenarian ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika has bowed to mass protests and relinquished the presidency.
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After that hearing, Trump bowed to pressure from moderate Senate Republicans and ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to further investigate.
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In both cases state governments have not only bowed to public anger at the court's rulings, but ridden and amplified it.
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The last movie in the franchise, 2017's The Fate of the Furious, bowed to an impressive $541.9 million global opening.
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When President Obama bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia earlier this year the White House rushed to spin it away.
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Motörhead have never bowed to any musical trend over their career and this is one rule that Mindsnare has always followed.
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As a nuclear power, Pakistan could also be offended further at Trump's implication that it has bowed to his administration's pressure.
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Wheeler bowed to the pressure, dropping virtually all of the agenda items from Thursday's open meeting, including The Mobility Fund expansion.
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika bowed to demonstrators last week by announcing that he had reversed a decision to stand for another term.
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At the end of the game, fans showered the ice with soft toys as the Korean players bowed to their coaches.
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Whatever their political inclination, European governments have steadily bowed to domestic pressure and have begun to erect barriers to further immigration.
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Even China, locked in a bitter trade war with the United States, bowed to pressure from Washington and dialled back imports.
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He bowed to Tea Party mania and did not bail out homeowners in the way that banks had been bailed out.
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State-owned TV channels stopped playing his movies, but eventually bowed to popular demand and broadcast them without using his name.
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However, the local authorities soon bowed to international pressure and allowed her to travel to the US, where she now lives.
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Hammerson then bowed to shareholder pressure and dropped the Intu deal the following week, when it also launched a strategic review.
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Players bowed to the intense criticism they faced in their own locker rooms, from the media, and from sponsors and police unions.
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On Wednesday, Trump finally bowed to pressure from the international community and US lawmakers from both parties by announcing the temporary ban.
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NATO actually bowed to the Kremlin when Germany and France blocked a straight path to membership for Georgia and Ukraine in 2008.
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Between the lines: In Trump's mind, Sessions bowed to political pressure and gave an opening to his enemies (Democrats and the media).
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He bowed to protesters by reversing a decision to seek another term and putting off elections that had been set for April.
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Soon enough, however, they bowed to convention and agreed to do so, also consenting to give airtime to the Pelosi-Schumer response.
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He was gifted a general's uniform, she said, and that at the party, real generals bowed to the eight-year-old Kim.
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Two months after the protests began, Macron bowed to public pressure and scrapped the fuel tax at the heart of the matter.
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When the exchange concluded, the two men bowed to each other, a fitting gesture to celebrate the bridge from Japan to Cooperstown.
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Unfortunately, Congress bowed to the special interests and passed the Durbin Amendment, putting government price controls on interchange fees charged by banks.
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At a press conference, the mayor bowed to days of public pressure and followed the lead of school districts across the country.
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"They told us they didn't think the information was there and we bowed to their wisdom on this thing," Mr. Marquardt said.
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The news that the prize would, instead, be postponed prompted speculation that the academy had bowed to pressure from the Nobel Foundation.
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But Mr. Corbyn has not bowed to considerable pressure from all sides to declare what side he would take in that referendum.
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Kataeb Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia targeted by the U.S. airstrikes, initially refused to leave but later bowed to demands to disperse.
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But by 2011, Mr. El-Gamal bowed to public pressure, little of it local, and abandoned the idea for the cultural center.
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Amid the postwar tumult, he bowed to demands by France's mainly Communist-led unions to let different professions control their pension plans.
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Apple needs to increase its market share in China, but it shouldn't have bowed to the country's smartphone demands to do so.
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I'll say it again: Trump will pardon Flynn, Manafort, & Stone b/c the GOP cowards in the Sen bowed to his feet.
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"@Hallmarkchannel has bowed to anti-family activists who seek to erase our community," LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign said on Twitter.
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Bouteflika, who has ruled for 20 years, bowed to the protesters last week by announcing he would not stand for another term.
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In 2014, in opposition, he had bowed to Islamist pressure to retract an invitation to Mr Mian to be his prospective finance minister.
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Dory now stands as the biggest animated U.S. opening of all time, overtaking Shrek the Third, which bowed to $121.6 million in 2007.
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Ryanair has been struggling with labor relations since it bowed to pressure to recognize unions for the first time almost a year ago.
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Overall ticket sales were essentially flat with the same weekend last year — a period when "Kung Fu Panda 3" bowed to $41.3 million.
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Agayn bowed to pressure from politicians to quit just before Bulgarian legislators interrupted their holidays for an extraordinary parliamentary session on the issue.
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"Deadpool" bowed to a massive $2135 million opening this weekend, shattering records and outperforming many of the super hero cohorts that preceded it.
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But companies like DoorDash still have not bowed to public pressure, even as workers are now boycotting companies that employ such tipping practices.
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Production was restored only after the government bowed to a request by Alcoa for a $182 million aid package to defray power costs.
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Goldman has now bowed to the challenging environment, later than most of its rivals, by making significant cuts to its fixed income unit.
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At his eighth birthday party, he was given a general's uniform and real generals bowed to him to pay their respects, she said.
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And then, after vowing to limit the numbers and locations of those sent back to Mexico, the nation bowed to pressure on that.
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Neumann also bowed to pressure from several members of his senior leadership team to negotiate an exit for Lapidus, sources told Business Insider.
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Bouteflika, 82, bowed to weeks of mass demonstrations against his 20-year rule on Monday and promised a transition to a new leadership.
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The Republican lawmaker bowed to mounting pressure from within his own party to postpone a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, originally set for Thursday.
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That didn't take, obviously, and HuffPo in December bowed to the fact that Donald Trump was a genuine presidential candidate with a large following.
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Europe's largest budget airline has struggled with labour relations since it bowed to pressure to recognise trade unions for the first time last December.
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Saudi Arabia ultimately bowed to U.S. pressure, but its hesitation speaks to an erosion of the U.S.–OPEC relationship as Russia's influence has grown.
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Bouteflika, 82, bowed to weeks of mass demonstrations against his 20-year-long rule on Monday and promised a transition to a new leadership.
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The Australian government last week bowed to opposition pressure and called the inquiry, which has the power to compel witnesses and recommend criminal charges.
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Both Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo wanted a fight in between the mandatory fight against GGG and the WBC bowed to their demands.
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But doing so risks making the Fed look like it bowed to political pressure — which, unlike its Chinese counterpart, it isn't supposed to do.
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In recent months, several major manufacturers have bowed to government pressure, putting temporary halts on planned price increases, although few have lowered list prices.
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Pinterest and The Knot Worldwide have bowed to pressure from a civil rights group, and are changing the way they promote plantation wedding venues.
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Ryanair suffered a series of damaging strikes last year after the airline bowed to pressure in late 2017 to recognise unions for the first time.
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Kikuchi, who moved to the MLB before this season, bowed to Ichiro before weeping as he buried his face in the 45-year-old's shoulder.
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Ryanair suffered a series of damaging strikes last year after the carrier bowed to pressure in late 2017 to recognise unions for the first time.
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One day earlier, officials had bowed to widespread civil unrest and postponed a single-candidate presidential runoff vote that was to be held on Sunday.
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Bouteflika earlier this month bowed to protesters by reversing a decision to seek another term and putting off elections that had been set for April.
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Even Ronald Reagan bowed to the consensus — his famous "there you go again" dismissal of Jimmy Carter was Reagan denying his previous opposition to Medicare.
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Washington (CNN)On Thursday morning, Ronny Jackson bowed to the inevitable: He withdrew as President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The Irish budget airline has struggled with labour relations since it bowed to pressure to recognise unions for the first time almost a year ago.
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But on Monday Ivanov bowed to the European Union, the United States and opposition demands and revoked his decision to pardon the remaining 34 officials.
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By giving Mr. Xi the honor in a formal document, senior Communist Party officials have shown that, willingly or not, they've bowed to his dominance.
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Both Rousseau and Rosenthal said they have never faced or bowed to pressure from the Arnolds — or even heard from the Arnolds about their coverage.
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika bowed to pressure from protesters and the army and abruptly ended his rule of 20 years, according to the state news agency.
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If A-listers and hotel managers bowed to this man's commands without question – how does one find courage under such a force without more consequence?
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The team's management bowed to that reality by trading away four veteran players and turning toward 2018 with the call-ups of two top prospects.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government bowed to increasing pressure from lawmakers on Wednesday by bringing forward a planned reform of gambling regulations by six months.
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" When he bowed to King Abdullah, of Saudi Arabia, the Washington Times said that he had "belittled the power and independence of the United States.
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When the country's president bowed to Russian pressure and tried to walk away from the EU deal, a pro-European revolution drove him from office.
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Europe's largest low-cost carrier has struggled with labor relations since it bowed to pressure to recognize trade unions for the first time last December.
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By 1965, Johnson saw Vietnam for the unwinnable quagmire that it was, but he feared and ultimately bowed to the short-term consequences of withdrawing.
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Wiz Khalifa closed the book on his nasty feud with Kanye West -- but before he did, he made it clear that Yeezy bowed to him.
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Thyssenkrupp, born of the merger of two German conglomerates in 1999, has bowed to frustrated shareholders: on September 30th it said it would split in two.
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After shaking hands with Japan the Korean foursome came together and bowed to the crowd, blowing kisses to wild applause as they walked off the ice.
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It's worth noting that after back in 2004, Nintendo bowed to pressure from consumers and offered to fix any dead pixels on its DS handheld system.
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American farmers first: Warren wrote that legislators in D.C. have "bowed to powerful foreign interests" by repealing the mandatory country-of-origin labels for meat products.
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After a reading by a priest, chief mourners laid offerings of ritual greenery at an alter after which others approached and bowed to pay their respects.
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After election losses, Merkel bowed to demands by her Christian Social Union (CSU) Bavarian allies for a limit on the number of asylum seekers Germany accepts.
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She represents the left-wing of Louisiana's Democratic Party and has not bowed to intense pressure to drop out in favor of her more conservative counterpart.
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Since then, BHP has bowed to shareholder pressure for a shake-up by announcing it will sell its loss-making U.S. shale oil and gas business.
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Bouteflika, 82, last week bowed to demonstrators who say he unfit to run Algeria by announcing he had reversed a decision to stand for another term.
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I bowed to my altar and left it to my cat, Rainbow Dash, who promptly spilled the water across the floor and batted at the incense.
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But it was 10 seconds of silence that sticks in the mind, when the three executives bowed to the audience in a public display of penitence.
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Washington (CNN)Rick Santorum said Monday that President Donald Trump "bowed to the elite in Washington" by picking Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee.
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And it did so only after Clinton bowed to a key Republican demand: submitting a seven-year balanced budget plan scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
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Last year, the Obama administration bowed to this pressure, restricting the amount of biofuel that can be sold, rather than expanding it, as the law required.
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The finance minister has already bowed to pressure and given the police force and prison officers a 230 percent wage rise and bonus for 210/2018.
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The head of the National Assembly bowed to restore independence in the troubled nation and called for new elections Wednesday before throngs of supporters in Caracas.
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The decision to cancel Monday's hearing comes less a week after Grassley bowed to intense pressure and announced that the panel would hold a public hearing.
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The last tax havens to resist the global crackdown on evasion have bowed to intensifying political pressure over the leaked Panama Papers, experts said on Wednesday.
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In 230, Carol, widely known as the "playboy prince," bowed to his family's fury over an affair he was having with a woman named Magda Lupescu.
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Instead, he said, politicians bowed to pressure from the hotel lobby, on an island that is home to four of Spain's five largest international hotel operators.
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Mr. Trump, after two days of issuing equivocal statements, bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody weekend demonstrations in Charlottesville.
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Barely three weeks after the Vinson's visit, the Vietnamese government bowed to Chinese pressure and canceled a major oil drilling project in disputed South China waters.
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In the starkest such move, he bowed to American objections in February to the appointment of a former Palestinian official for a senior United Nations post.
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If Schumer had waited a few days, Republicans might have folded and bowed to the public pressure to keep the government open and protect the dreamers.
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As mayor, Mr. de Blasio bowed to public pressure and established an open-records clearinghouse to help citizens file requests and track how quickly agencies respond.
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But earlier this year Weibo, a Twitter-like platform, bowed to the demands of activists and gave up plans for a "clean-up" of gay-related material.
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To avoid being labeled overly liberal which could lead to a flight of conservative users, Twitter has bowed to the abusers and weakly enforced its own rules.
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Mr Buell points out that America's Department of Justice could have bowed to popular pressure by prosecuting senior bankers for selling mortgage-backed securities and the like.
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I thanked her, we bowed to each other, and I left with my crew to film the rest of the museum and prepare for the following day.
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However Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, snarled at Mr Trump, via Twitter, that he would be "worm food" before the Islamic Republic bowed to his demands.
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Over a week ago, Governor Ricardó Rossello bowed to 12 days of mass protests sparked by offensive chat messages and said he would resign at 5 p.m.
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Surrounded by tens of thousands of supporters, Modi, who is seeking a second term as premier, bowed to the crowd with folded hands from an elevated podium.
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Over the last few months, Airbnb has bowed to pressure from regulators on the issue of "illegal hotel" listings, which are a frequent target of neighbors' ire.
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The sequel to "Top Gun" appears to have bowed to China's powerful Communist party by changing the jacket of its titular character, Maverick, played by Tom Cruise.
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The company, which makes the EpiPen, a device used to treat life-threatening allergy attacks, on Thursday bowed to political pressure over the affordability of the treatment.
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Mexico, under the threat of punitive U.S. tariffs, has bowed to Trump's demands to contain mass movements of migrants traveling through the country toward the U.S. border.
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Here's what would probably happen if the Iowa Democrats bowed to the demand by the Democratic National Committee's chairman to double-check the results from the caucuses.
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Mr. Zarem, who, when asked to comment for this article, said, "I hope it's for an obituary," added that as Ms. Smith rose, people bowed to her.
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Republican leaders bowed to public outrage after the measure initially died, ostensibly because it would have interfered with a lawsuit challenging the legality of same-sex marriages.
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It is one of many Western companies to have bowed to pressure from Chinese consumers in recent years — a testament to the China market&aposs enormous clout.
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Since the election, Merkel has bowed to pressure from her Bavarian allies to put a cap on the number of people Germany will accept on humanitarian grounds.
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While WhatsApp will likely introduce an India-based government relations head to deal with issues in the country, it hasn't bowed to the government's biggest demand: message traceability.
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Other states quickly moved in the same direction, and on Tuesday the N.C.A.A., the governing body of college sports, bowed to the inevitable after long opposing the move.
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He also talks about how ashamed he is that he bowed to pressure to minimize questions about Bill Cosby's sexual assault allegations in an interview with Cosby's biographer.
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After four carefully worded statements in four days, Cameron bowed to pressure and admitted that he had benefited from selling his share in his father's fund in 2010.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to political reality Tuesday afternoon: Postponing a planned vote this week on the Senate's health care bill, according to CNN.
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Bouteflika, 82, rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke five years ago, bowed to the protesters last week by reversing plans to stand for a fifth term.
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His defeat comes only days after deeply unpopular French President Francois Hollande, also a leftist, bowed to political realities and announced he would not seek a second term.
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But Zuma in December bowed to pressure within days and appointed Pravin Gordhan, who held the job from 2009 until 2014, to replace Van Rooyen as finance minister.
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He bowed to pressure on Tuesday night and the government published a file of 12 memos, totalling more than 50 pages, outlining a months-long internal decision process.
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Azeri President Ilham Aliyev bowed to advice from the International Monetary Fund last year and ordered that its balance sheet be cleaned up and the bank sold off.
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She joined the large group of journalists, supporters and curious members of the public assembled in the courtroom as they bowed to the judge as the proceeding began.
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The tech giant, following Google and others, has bowed to Russian demands that its apps not show Crimea as belonging to Ukraine on digital maps seen in Russia.
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In World War II, it bowed to claims of unfettered executive authority and allowed American citizens to be locked up for years simply because of their Japanese heritage.
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He bowed to Mr. Trump's pressure last month in barring two Democratic members of Congress from visiting Israel, reversing his own decision and inflaming politics in both countries.
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On Tuesday, Gunnlaugsson bowed to the will of his constituency and appealed to Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to sign for his release and hold a recall election.
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On January 14, Varadkar bowed to the inevitable, calling a snap election he hoped would return him with a strong mandate to seamlessly continue the next phase of Brexit.
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On 26 September, Churchill bowed to this pressure and declared the bout to be illegal (Johnson would eventually fight on European soil in France and Spain, but never Britain).
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Change Healthcare – backed by private equity heavyweight Blackstone – bowed to investor pressure and scaled back a controversial equity claw provision that had ruffled the feathers of many portfolio managers.
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Some MPs grumbled after Mrs Merkel bowed to her party, but the SPD is more concerned to shore up its fragile support than to bolster Mr Macron's European dreams.
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In the day that followed, Zoom first defended the use of a web server that enabled this functionality, then bowed to pressure and updated its app to remove it.
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Before they walked, her models bowed to an onstage musician (a griot, in Ms. Wales Bonner's telling) who played the kora, a West African harp, and set the tempo.
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Ushioda bowed to investor pressure and said last week he would step down in May - but not before publicly putting the blame on Seto for Lixil's bleak financial performance.
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Each bowed to the other in awe after finishing their song and as the cameras cut to break — Maluma even mimed the classic Wayne's World "We're not worthy" move.
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The ride-hailing services co-founder bowed to shareholder pressure after a series of scandals at the company including evidence of a workplace rife with sexual harassment and discrimination.
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Two years ago, the International Center of Photography bowed to the realities of Manhattan real estate, giving up its Midtown home on Avenue of the Americas and going dark.
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After they were done writing it, Mr. Tosatti said he accompanied Archbishop Viganò to the door and bowed to kiss his ring, only to see the hand pull back.
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"There will be lawsuits because it looks like the agency has bowed to political pressure," said Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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It was a different mood in the main auditorium, where Mr. Schiff, wearing a three-piece suit, looked every bit the distinguished master as he bowed to the audience.
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Ms. Sinema also bowed to Mr. McCain and placed herself in his tradition of "always putting country over party," saying that Arizonans need "an independent voice" in the Senate.
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BEIJING — One of the world's oldest and most respected publishing houses, Cambridge University Press, has bowed to pressure from Beijing and removed sensitive content on its site in China.
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Lawmakers voted 282-140 to approve the main text of the bill after the government bowed to pressure from governors and removed tougher limits on states' spending on employees.
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Chinese stocks, which have been resilient to losses on Wall Street and Asian markets for much of the week, bowed to pressures from the global sell-off on Friday.
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The local government immediately removed it, saying it had been placed there without permission, but bowed to public pressure two days later and allowed it to be put back.
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So, in Taylor's account, Sondland is telling the Ukrainians about investigations-for-military-aid, he's saying this came from Trump personally, and the Ukrainians finally bowed to the pressure.
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Upon being introduced to warm applause on the first tee, Choi bowed to the fans on three sides of the tee box before settling into his pre-shot routine.
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Cameron is widely considered responsible for allowing the referendum to take place, having bowed to pressure from politicians in his own party and other parties further to the right.
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The political action committees of dairy products giant Land O'Lake and Purina, the pet-food subsidiary of Nestle, bowed to online pressure and announced they would not longer support King.
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For students of etiquette, there was much debate over whether Kneissl had curtseyed or whether she had bowed to the Kremlin leader at the end of their short waltz together.
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If you've already bowed to your dog's every whim, buying them a highly opulent Moncler parka, a water bottle you can share, and a sexy, calming leotard, why stop there?
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As he walked out of the room following his speech and officials were taking away the imperial regalia in a box, Akihito turned around, paused and bowed to the audience.
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In April, the administration bowed to pressure from Republicans and diverted almost $600 million in previously approved funds, including more than $500 million in remaining Ebola money, toward fighting Zika.
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Australia's government bowed to criticism from human-rights groups and said it would move refugee children and their families from a detention centre it operates in Nauru to Australia itself.
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What is it about gamers that is making them so aggrieved while patrons of other Western companies that have bowed to Chinese politics have generally seemed to simply not care?
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The Republican state assemblyman initially said he would not resign, but bowed to pressure from other state lawmakers who threatened a special session to oust him if he didn't quit.
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On Wednesday, Moscow bowed to international pressure when it announced a daily, three-hour, full cessation of hostilities in Aleppo to allow safe passage for aid convoys into the city.
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Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, suffered a series of damaging strikes last year after the carrier bowed to pressure in late 2017 to recognise unions for the first time.
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Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, suffered a series of damaging strikes last year after the carrier bowed to pressure in late 2017 to recognize unions for the first time.
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The 82-year old, who has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, bowed to the protesters last week by reversing plans to seek re-election.
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U.K. drug store Boots has bowed to pressure and cut the prices on some of its products after it emerged it was charging women more than men for similar products.
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His administration adopted the family separation policy as part of its effort to discourage illegal immigration, but Trump bowed to intense political pressure and abandoned the policy on June 20.
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A former NBC producer has accused NBC of attempting to shut down Ronan Farrow's investigation into Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct, claiming that the studio bowed to pressure from Weinstein affiliates.
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Demers pointed to the FARA registration of RT America, one of four Russian-linked media companies that bowed to Justice Department pressure and registered in late 2017 and early 2018.
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He didn't like it—he thought that it would hurt Republicans in swing districts—but he bowed to the Party leadership's imperative to keep the base energized for the midterms.
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Sources say that is a far bigger package of sales than originally planned as the company bowed to regulatory demands in its quest to buy Europe's biggest capacity steel plant.
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And his travel agenda suggests he has not entirely bowed to cold political reality: Mr. Trump is scheduled this week to campaign in upstate New York and Southern Maine. Mrs.
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The 82-year old, who has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, bowed to the protesters this month by reversing plans to seek re-election.
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Despite its earlier mistakes, Japan has bowed to the basic reality that any realistic carbon neutral society needs lots of reliable energy, which only nuclear fission can supply enough of.
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He reportedly bowed to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on virtually all cabinet appointments for his second term in office, even though they are supposedly the immediate purview of the president.
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Temer bowed to pressure from the farm lobby to modify the decree at a time when he is relying on the group's votes in Congress to block corruption charges next week.
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Earthjustice and the Sioux contend that in complying with the memorandum, the Army Corps of Engineers bowed to political pressure from an administration much cozier with fossil fuels than the last.
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Earlier this week the government bowed to pressure to hand 5 billion reais ($1.5 billion) in fines from an asset amnesty program to states struggling to pay their employees and bills.
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Instead of encouraging his reporters to tackle controversial issues head-on, Baron bowed to bad-faith campaigns spurred on by sites like Breitbart that, in Sonmez's case, led to death threats.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday that the United States would not back down from the trade dispute, and might even double tariffs, unless Beijing bowed to U.S. demands.
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There was no indication Abbas, who governs in the West Bank while Hamas militants rule Gaza, bowed to pressure on the issue, especially with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.
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By now, she has learned to live among his ever-expanding collection of art, fabric and furniture, and like good Americans, they have bowed to the necessity of a storage unit.
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Although there is no indication that the President ordered Whitaker to take any specific actions, or that the acting attorney general bowed to any pressure, there remains great cause for alarm.
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The order that started this: President Trump bowed to intense bipartisan pressure Wednesday and signed an executive order intended to end the practice of separating families who cross the border illegally.
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Karim Benzema says the decision to leave him out of the French squad for Euro 2016 came because boss Didier Deschamps "bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France".
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The public mood is sufficiently jumpy that on June 13th Mrs Clinton bowed to that pressure and assured a television interviewer that she was willing to use the words "radical Islamism".
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Milo Yiannopoulos is demanding 8-figures from publishing giant Simon & Schuster ... claiming it bowed to pressure from celebs like Sarah Silverman and Leslie Jones, and pulled the plug on his memoir.
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Uber has bowed to regulators in Asia once again after the U.S. ride-sharing giant halted its service in Macau, the gambling mecca that is a special administrative region of China.
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The Communist Party has bowed to his wishes, last year naming him China's "core leader," a designation that places him on the same pedestal as Mao, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
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As President Trump bowed to pressure and signed an executive order haltng separations, a judge acceded to a lawsuit seeking to reunite families, paving the way for Constantin's return to Romania.
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And in June, just as the Jewish Agency was meeting in Jerusalem, Mr. Netanyahu bowed to fierce pressure from his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners and announced he was suspending the agreement.
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A week after the primary there, Mr. Colyer bowed to Mr. Kobach after losing ground in the counting of provisional ballots and concluding that Mr. Kobach's 345-vote lead was insurmountable.
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Bouteflika, 82, who has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke five years ago, bowed to the protesters last week by reversing plans to stand for a fifth term.
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The companies bowed to pressure from union leaders and employees who called for protection from the pandemic that's spread to more than 2114,000 people in nearly every country across the globe.
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Gatlin, booed by the huge crowd before the race because of his history of doping suspensions, still took a knee on the red track, extended both arms and bowed to Bolt.
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Having finally bowed to his disillusionment with British tennis, he turned fully professional – gentleman tennis players were almost exclusively amateurs at the time – and moved to the USA in late 1936.
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Britain's biggest telecoms group bowed to pressure to legally separate its Openreach networks arm in March, a move regulator Ofcom has said it hoped would lead to more investment in faster broadband.
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When Jakarta's taxi drivers protested violently against ride-hailing apps like Grab and Uber in April, the government bowed to pressure and forced the tech firms to partner with local transportation companies.
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Mr Kaine opposes the death penalty in person but bowed to the law as governor of Virginia, a once-rural state with a stern conservative heritage, now trending more towards suburban moderacy.
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Besides CERN's price hikes, Microsoft also came under scrutiny for wanting to charge its reseller partners for their use of software, too, but it eventually bowed to pressure and abandoned the plan.
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Even as polls showed the country at-large overwhelmingly opposed to the House legislation, individual lawmakers in lopsided districts bowed to a tiny group of highly partisan voters to vote for it.
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Jacky Rosen has run TV ads featuring a clip of the President pressing Heller on health care to suggest the senator bowed to political pressure when he voted for the GOP plan.
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The passengers on Bangkok's Metropolitan Rapid Transit system were still not dressed as colorfully as usual, and they occasionally bowed to the in-train video monitors showing scenes of the king's life.
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Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona said he would not support final confirmation until the F.B.I. investigates the accusations, a request Senate Republicans bowed to, delaying the vote by up to a week.
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Prime Minister Theresa May bowed to pressure from Brexit supporters in her governing Conservative Party on Monday, accepting their changes to a customs bill that underpins Britain's departure from the European Union.
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The Western media hardly carried a word until Monday when, after 11 days of massive demonstrations in the country's capital of Yerevan, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan bowed to protesters' demands and resigned.
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While U.S. President Donald Trump bowed to political pressure on Wednesday and issued an executive order ending the separations, the administration has been silent on plans to reunite parents split from their children.
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Snap has bowed to pressure from the government of Saudi Arabia to censor a news channel operated by the Qatar-based news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, from the Snapchat Discover section of its app.
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Earlier this month the government bowed to pressure from MPs to publish the analysis, including comparing May's Brexit deal to remaining in the EU, before parliament votes on the deal on Dec. 11.
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Seems like the President finally bowed to concerns over the damage that the tank tracks could do to the pavement, as well as the exorbitant costs of securing and sustaining a parade route.
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In one, farmers and local officials in a district near Tashkent, the capital, were made to stand in a watery ditch, heads bowed, to show contrition for failing to irrigate wheat fields properly.
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Still, Franken, who has largely denied the allegations, bowed to pressure to step down immediately, while other elected officials who have been accused of — and in some cases, admitted to — misconduct have not.
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Earlier this month, Cameron bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the EU once talks had been completed, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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The appointment of a special counsel followed a chain reaction launched when Sessions bowed to political pressure and recused himself from involvement in the investigation, allowing the deputy attorney general to appoint Mueller.
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Sources told CNN that Trump has remained frustrated with Sessions since he bowed to political pressure and recused himself from involvement in the FBI's investigation into ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest telecoms group BT has bowed to industry and regulatory pressure and agreed to legally separate its national network, as the government seeks to deliver faster broadband speeds for millions.
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Airbus bowed to weak demand for its A330 passenger jet on Friday, announcing a cut in production for 2019 after a series of bruising defeats to Boeing in contests for wide-body jets.
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The result comes just six weeks after the Japanese games maker released its first own-brand smartphone title, Super Mario Run, having bowed to investor pressure in 2015 to enter the mobile market.
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Airbus bowed to weak demand for its A330 passenger jet on Friday, announcing a cut in production for 1003 after a series of bruising defeats to Boeing in contests for wide-body jets.
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More than 40 companies, including Britain's biggest supermarkets, Coca Cola, Nestle and Procter & Gamble, have bowed to growing pressure to tackle pollution by committing to cut plastic use over the next seven years.
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"The random acts of kindness to so many is something extraordinary," Judge Preska said after Mr. Ho expressed remorse for his actions and bowed to the judge at the end of his statement.
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Bouteflika late on Monday bowed to weeks of mass demonstrations against his 20-year rule but also postponed an election due in April, promising social and economic reforms in the former French colony.
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She said she did not know whether Mr. Putin had made his Kremlin comments only as a public relations ploy or had bowed to other forces in the system that favored harsh crackdowns.
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Swift made "1989" available on Apple Music last year, but only after the tech giant bowed to pressure from her demanding that artists be paid during free trial periods for online music streaming services.
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In recent weeks, Trump bowed to tremendous political pressure and issued an executive order ending his administration&aposs practice of separating migrant children from their parents when families cross the border with Mexico illegally.
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Shares in Thyssenkrupp have fallen 26 percent since September when it bowed to long-standing pressure to separate its elevators, car parts and plant engineering from steel, naval vessels and metals distribution, lagging German .
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Keeping rates steady was seen by many analysts as proof the central bank bowed to political pressure to avoid more harm to an economy expected to shrink nearly 8 percent between 2015 and 2016.
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But some investors want BP to go further and follow the lead of rival Royal Dutch Shell, which bowed to years of lobbying and set the toughest industry targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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But some investors want BP to go further and follow the lead of rival Royal Dutch Shell, which bowed to years of lobbying and set the toughest industry targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Transparency took a hit recently, when the Obama administration bowed to Congressional pressure and delayed the release of a new "five star" hospital rating system based on health outcomes for patients treated under Medicare.
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In recent decades, as the N.R.A.'s political power has grown, it has also taken on more of an absolutist position against any new regulations and politicians largely have bowed to the group's stance.
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Shares indicated up 2.2% Sunrise Communications Group bowed to investor pressure on Tuesday and scrapped a rights issue needed to complete its 6.3 billion Swiss franc ($13 billion) acquisition of Liberty Global's UPC business.
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Earlier this month the government bowed to pressure from lawmakers to publish the analysis, including comparing May's Brexit deal to remaining in the European Union, before parliament votes on the deal on Dec 11.
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Italy has bowed to pressure from Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei Technologies and ZTE and will drop emergency legislation strengthening state powers to intervene in the development of 210G services, lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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In December 2015 he bowed to pressure from within the ANC and appointed Gordhan as finance minister after markets tumbled when he replaced respected economist Nhlanhla Nene with little-known lawmaker David van Rooyen.
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Opposition leaders, and some dissident judges, say many of Ortega's prosecutors have bowed to political pressure in the last few years, peddling fabricated evidence and exaggerated accusations to aid repression by the Maduro government.
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The producers of "Hamilton," a show that could well make hundreds of millions of dollars, on Friday bowed to pressure and said they would share some of the musical's profits with original cast members.
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Exondys 51 was approved in September last year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bowed to patient pressure and went against the recommendation of its top scientists and a panel of outside advisers.
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The Trump administration bowed to rising pressure from Midwest lawmakers last week, assuring them in letters and phone calls that it would ditch proposals, supported by the refining industry, to overhaul the biofuels policy.
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Reports that Italy's government had bowed to pressure to scale back its spending plans put a spring in the euro's step and Wall Street was expected to open strongly due to the trade signals.
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The animated story about a rabbit who joins the police force ranks as the biggest Disney Animation launch (though not the best Pixar debut), outstripping "Frozen," the 2012 blockbuster that bowed to $67.4 million.
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Siniora, an alumnus of the university, sat impassively on the front row as audience members erupted in chorus against him but eventually bowed to the pressure and left the concert hall with his bodyguards.
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Siniora, an alumnus of the university, sat impassively on the front row as audience members erupted in chorus against him but eventually bowed to the pressure and left the concert hall with his bodyguards.
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Earlier this month, the government bowed to pressure from lawmakers to publish the analysis, including comparing May's Brexit deal to remaining in the European Union, before parliament votes on the deal on Dec. 11.
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Activists say federal and state governments have for decades diluted land rights for indigenous people and bowed to pressure from mining companies in the mineral-rich central and eastern states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
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Kerkhoff's reversal bowed to months of pressure from investors who have demanded more radical steps to turn around the steel-to-submarines group and realise shareholder value - in particular by floating its profitable elevators business.
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Netiwit and his colleagues, however, strode out in front of the students and bowed to the statue during the ceremony, and university authorities took that gesture as a show of defiant disrespect for the tradition.
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Submarines-to-elevators group Thyssenkrupp bowed to shareholder pressure this year and said it would scrap its multi-layered structure, which has long been criticized by investors for adding costs and slowing down decision-making.
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Europe's largest low-cost carrier has faced multiple strikes since it bowed to pressure to recognize trade unions for the first time in December, with staff stepping up pressure in talks over pay and conditions.
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than 40 companies, including Britain's biggest supermarkets, Coca Cola, Nestle and Procter & Gamble, have bowed to growing pressure to tackle pollution by committing to cut plastic use over the next seven years.
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She said Facebook had now dramatically cut down on the information about users which apps can access, appointed independent data protection officers, bowed to GDPR rules in the EU and created similar user controls globally.
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Verizon is believed to have bowed to the same behind-the-scenes diktat a couple of weeks later, and American intelligence agencies have issued unanimous advice to the country's citizens to avoid using Huawei phones.
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Rose McGowan is disgusted at the people who posted racist comments about Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks, but she's even more pissed off at the CMA honchos who bowed to the "deplorables" by scrubbing CMAWorld.
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Kerkhoff's reversal bowed to months of pressure from investors who have demanded more radical steps to turn around the steel-to-submarines group and realize shareholder value - in particular by floating its profitable elevators business.
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"There is no other way to put this: the library has bowed to the political pressure of the moment," Republicans wrote in a May 10 letter to David S. Mao, the acting librarian of Congress.
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"Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation's independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism," he tweeted.
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Such tactics have been successful before: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was poised to give Mike Pompeo's nomination as secretary of state an unfavorable recommendation until Mr. Paul bowed to pressure and gave his approval.
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House Democrats on Tuesday issued a subpoena to a central witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump after he bowed to a State Department order to skip a deposition earlier in the day.
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The company has never turned over customer encryption keys, bowed to political pressure to remove a website, worked with law enforcement to store monitoring software, or turned over customer information to the government, Prince said.
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"Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation's independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism," he said.
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"The fact that a UN Secretary General has bowed to threats and intimidation from the Trump administration to protect Israel from accountability, yet again, is hardly news," BNC's general coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa said in a statement.
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" While the president eventually bowed to pressure and condemned racism, he later reverted to his initial insistence that "both sides" were to blame, arguing that some of the white nationalist protesters in Virginia were "fine people.
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After facing an uproar at home and abroad, Trump bowed to intense pressure on Wednesday and signed an order ending the separation of children from their families while parents were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally.
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Trump, a Republican, bowed to Democratic demands that the spending bill not include money to start building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border he said is needed to fight illegal immigration and stop drug smugglers.
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"Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation's independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism," wrote Arizona Gov.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy has bowed to pressure from Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei Technologies and ZTE and will drop emergency legislation strengthening state powers to intervene in the development of 5G services, lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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On Thursday, Cameron bowed to pressure and said he had profited from selling his shares in the fund in 2010 and on Sunday he published a summary of his tax records for the past six years.
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But this year, buybacks have hit a record, with SoftBank Group Corp, Sony and Nintendo all among the cash-rich companies that have bowed to pressure from investors and government to boost returns and improve governance.
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Oracle has bowed to years of shareholder unrest by halving the pay of co-founder Larry Ellison, who for years has been at or near the top of rankings of the highest-paid US business leaders.
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Unveiled (ahem) in settings as romantic as a wisteria-hung garden (Monique Lhuillier) or as slick as a glamorous penthouse (Elie Saab), the most eye-catching looks bowed to tradition while reaching for freshness and relevance.
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Temer opponents said he bowed to pressure from the farm lobby to modify the decree at a time when he is relying on the group's votes in Congress on Wednesday to block corruption charges against him.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ Banks: U.S. banking regulators on Tuesday bowed to financial institutions by easing trading regulations applied to Wall Street banks, known as the "Volcker Rule," handing them one of their biggest wins under the Trump administration.
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Burgess was introduced to RuPaul through a mutual friend at an Emmys event and when RuPaul approached for the introduction, Burgess got down on his knees and bowed to the drag legend for about 40 seconds.
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Now, nearly two months later, the sheen has mostly worn off, replaced by workaday concerns of daily commuters, who most often have their heads deeply bowed to their phones as the train lurches along Exposition Boulevard.
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In the 1990s, when Washington linked the granting of China's most favorable trading status with human rights, the Chinese government bowed to the pressure by relaxing its political control and releasing me and several other dissidents.
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In the book, published in 1974, Mr. Leboyer argued that the modern delivery room bowed to the needs of doctors, women and procedures while often overlooking those of a primary player in the birth: the baby.
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This was an early victory for the vocal public: Equifax bowed to pressure and began to offer free credit freezes, and the company will refund fees for people who paid for a freeze after 5 p.m.
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Rights activists say federal and state governments have for decades diluted land rights for indigenous people and bowed to pressure from mining companies in the mineral-rich central and eastern states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
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Charlie's parents fought a long and public battle to prolong his life, but bowed to the consensus of medical experts who said there was no realistic chance of saving him: The child had irreversible brain damage.
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On Wednesday, government ministers bowed to mounting pressure and told Eskom to remove its chief executive Brian Molefe, a Zuma ally, after senior politicians and the public reacted with anger at his re-appointment two weeks ago.
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Scrutiny on RBS is sure to intensify after fellow banking giant HSBC bowed to investor pressure before its annual meeting on April 12, and cut payments given in lieu of pensions to top executives down to 10%.
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Activision Blizzard, one of America's biggest gaming companies, just bowed to Chinese censorship in a disturbing way: suspending a professional player of Hearthstone, its digital card game, over a statement supporting the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.
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The sequel to "Top Gun," a film that boosted US Navy aviation recruitment by 500%, appears to have bowed to China's powerful Communist party by changing the jacket of its titular character, Maverick, played by Tom Cruise.
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Last year the company bowed to state pressure in China and removed major VPN apps from its App Store — saying it was complying with a local regulation that requires VPN apps to be licensed by the government.
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The network's swift and severe response drew coverage throughout the media world, and prompted some journalists to question whether CNN had bowed to political pressure and overreacted on a story it has never explicitly said was wrong.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. rule aimed at protecting retirement savers from profit-hungry brokers turned out to be much weaker than an initial proposal after the Obama administration bowed to pressure from the financial services industry.
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Last summer, United bowed to the overwhelming trend of the modern era and decided to appoint a technical director, someone to fill the role occupied by Txiki Begiristain at Manchester City and by Michael Edwards at Liverpool.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday bowed to pressure to allow government ministers to campaign to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, heading off the prospect of multiple resignations from his top team.
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In his brief speech, Mr Trump wagged his finger at the courts and at "far-left-wing" activists but bowed to the judgment that the citizenship question had not been adequately justified under the strictures of administrative law.
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The government owns 67 percent of Statoil — which bowed to investor pressure for increased shareholder payouts by introducing quarterly dividends in 2014 — but takes an arms's-length approach that gives the board the freedom to make commercial decisions.
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The bloody partitions of India and Palestine—and the ongoing conflicts they produced—might have been avoided if only Mountbatten had not been in such a rush, if only UN delegates had not bowed to bribes and threats.
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Virginia Republicans have attacked his stance against the death penalty, though he fought back by explaining that his beliefs flowed from his Catholic faith—and as governor he oversaw 11 executions, saying that he bowed to the law.
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The company in October bowed to the demands of activist investors D.E. Shaw and Continental Grain, adding four new board members and creating a strategic review committee that would explore all options for the company, including selling itself.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook has bowed to pressure from the European Commission and consumer authorities by revising its terms, making it clear what it does with users' data and taking responsibility when data has been mishandled by third parties.
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After some 6,000 people signed an internet petition in a matter of days, angrily demanding that Microsoft not take away a valuable perk — resellers' rights to use Microsoft software — Microsoft has bowed to the pressure and reversed course.
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The finale came a year after the company bowed to pressure from animal rights activists and agreed to stop using elephants as its featured attraction in its performances, which it said affected ticket sales amid high operating costs.
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After months of torturous negotiations, acrid insults, internal tensions and enough social media airtime to fill a Netflix series, Italy's populist leaders bowed to the demands of the European Union to roll back its expensive, rules-flouting budget.
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"With the recent consolidation in the brokerage space, it is reassuring to work at a firm that has not bowed to purchase offers and instead chooses to continue pushing ahead with its own expansion and development," Grierson said.
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After the sentence was handed down, Pell signed paperwork related to his registration as a sex offender, bowed to the judge and then, aided by a walking stick, was escorted out of the court by five corrections officers.
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Eventually swayed by studies showing that distributing clean needles was the most effective infection-prevention policy, Governor Pence begrudgingly bowed to the altar of fact and lifted the state's ban on needle-exchange programs, slowing the HIV crisis.
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On March 25th Lixil, a conglomerate best-known for its toilets, bowed to a demand from some long-standing investors to hold an extraordinary general meeting to flush the chief executive, who has lost their confidence, down the pan.
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The FA have bowed to public pressure and agreed to lead a study into brain disease among former footballers this week, while officials from the NFL acknowledged a connection between American football-related head trauma and CTE in March.
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Their narratives enabled several mostly smaller outlets to identify the retired American professor living in London, leaving the big organizations protecting a secret that is no longer secret (the Post bowed to reality last night and named the informant).
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But on October 13th—amid much bluster—President Donald Trump finally bowed to reality and the advice of his national security advisers and backed away from campaign promises to unilaterally abandon the deal to freeze Iran's nuclear weapons programme.
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At its annual policymaking meeting, the nation&aposs largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand on gun violence — a problem the organizations says is as menacing as a lethal infectious disease.
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The world No. 22015 miner bowed to pressure from investors and credit rating agencies to give up its "progressive dividend" policy, under which it promised never to cut its payout from year to year, to better reflect commodity cycles.
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Karim Benzema, a French striker of Algerian origin, charged that he was left out because the manager, Didier Deschamps, bowed to racist pressure (a claim undercut by the fact that half of those who made the team are black).
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Anyone with common sense knows that Bernie bowed to the outrage mob because the woke elements of the California Democratic Primary already had their knives out for Cenk, and he desperately wants to win that state come super Tuesday.
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Even the British Parliament bowed to current reality, with John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, telling members it was no longer necessary to wear a tie, acknowledging that looking "businesslike" did not have to involve neckwear.
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Having called for dialogue in the face of Mr. Trump's vows to build a wall during the American presidential campaign, President Enrique Peña Nieto ultimately bowed to public pressure in Mexico to respond more forcefully to his northern neighbor.
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It shows the extent of Cameron's dereliction of leadership, and his complacency, that he bowed to party pressure to call this referendum at a time when the preconditions for rank emotion to influence the outcome were running so dangerously high.
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Pai has a reputation as a conservative ideologue—his speech announcing the net neutrality rollback was sponsored by the right-wing activist group FreedomWorks—and it would be a startling turnabout if he bowed to public pressure and scrapped his plan.
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The plane maker's two largest unions said lawmakers had "bowed to Boeing" by failing to the pass a measure that sought to ensure Boeing would "maintain and grow" employment in the state, as the 2013 legislation granting the tax breaks specified.
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Initially opposed by the center-right government, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull eventually bowed to public pressure to hold the inquiry after years of scandals at the big banks including poor financial advice, interest-rate rigging, and accusations of money-laundering.
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Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment—where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd—is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
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Bouteflika, one of the veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France who dominate the country, bowed to protesters this month by reversing a decision to seek another term and postponing elections that had been scheduled for April.
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BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - A leading British academic publisher that bowed to pressure from Beijing to block online access to hundreds of scholarly articles in China reversed its position and reposted the material on Monday, following an outcry over academic freedom.
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Exondys 51 is Sarepta's other DMD drug that was approved in September last year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bowed to patient pressure and went against the recommendation of its top scientists and a panel of outside advisers.
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Lieutenant General Gaid Salah's comments were the strongest hint yet that the military would play its traditional role as kingmaker after the ailing 82-year-old Bouteflika bowed to popular pressure and quit on April 2 after 20 years in power.
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The world No.2 miner bowed to pressure from investors and credit rating agencies earlier this year and scrapped its payout policy, under which it promised never to cut its dividend from year to year, to better reflect commodity cycles.
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Why it matters: Zinke responded to last week's scrutiny by branding it "a little B.S." — but his comment came a few hours before former HHS Secretary Tom Price bowed to the intense pressure surrounding his own government jet flights and resigned.
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To be sure, journalism has often bowed to the whim and will of the rich and powerful, so some might argue that it is only fair that those who feel dispossessed and disenfranchised have their turn at calling the journalistic shots.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has bowed to political risks once already this year, deferring a possible interest rate hike in part due to Britain's European Union vote, and it may do so again as November's U.S. presidential election looms.
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Earlier this month the commission's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, bowed to trade-wary governments and agreed to send a mooted EU-Canada deal to national parliaments for approval, even though lawyers had said ratification could be limited to the European Parliament.
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In July, the United States' three major international carriers, United, American, and Delta, bowed to the pressure from China and reclassified how they referenced Taiwan on their web sites—a change that Beijing said still did not go far enough.
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Even though American taxpayers have seen woefully little return on their forced investment in wind energy over the past 20+ years in terms of long-term job creation or economic viability, lawmakers bowed to pressure from green energy lobbyists yet again.
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The President has already bowed to Chinese demands that he agree to abide by the "One China" policy, after he suggested he could use the status of US relations with Taiwan as a bargaining chip in trade talks with Beijing.
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President Obama not only bowed to the pressure from those members and the activists opposing the pipeline, he said that his administration was looking at ways to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline to accommodate the concerns of "Native Americans", i.e.
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Ryanair has struggled with labour relations since it bowed to pressure to recognise unions for the first time almost a year ago, contributing to a rare profit warning this month and a warning of worse to come if strikes continue.
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The British government bowed to pressure to publish its plans for a no-deal Brexit on Wednesday night, revealing warnings of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes which would impact the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods.
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Monday, with the Alabama House of Representatives finally poised to vote on articles of impeachment, Bentley bowed to the inevitable, resigning as part of a plea deal that also included pleading guilty to two misdemeanors, a suspended sentence, and community service.
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So I was encouraged when three tasting-menu places that were among my 10 favorite restaurants this year bowed to more moderate budgets by adding a shorter, cheaper meal (Aska and Günter Seeger NY) or an à la carte option (Agern).
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On the same day the president bowed to pressure, the special counsel indicted a decades-long adviser of his, Roger Stone, and revealed the most direct link yet between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks' effort to release hacked Democratic Party emails.
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COPENHAGEN/ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss logistics group Panalpina has bowed to an increased 4.6 billion Swiss francs ($4.6 billion) bid from Danish rival DSV, ending a more than two month takeover battle designed to build scale in the consolidating transport sector.
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Under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ottawa on Sunday bowed to long-standing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to grant more access to the highly protected dairy market.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Banks in the euro zone will get more time to set aside cash to cover for loans that have gone or will go unpaid after the European Central Bank bowed to pressure from Brussels to ease its rules on the matter.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to pressure tonight from conservatives — and President Trump — to bring up a straight repeal of most of the Affordable Care Act as the next step now that the Senate health care bill appears to be dead.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini bowed to demands on Tuesday to address parliament on allegations that his right-wing League party had sought illegal funding from Russia, saying he would take questions on the topic in regular question time.
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President Barack Obama almost certainly supported gay marriage as early as his state Senate days in Illinois—he answered a questionnaire to that effect in 1996—but as Obama aspired to national office he bowed to the prevailing public opinion at the time.
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The probe is unlikely to reveal any new information, but it would give cover to Republican senators like Flake who are inclined to vote for Kavanaugh but have bowed to public pressure following the riveting testimony of his accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
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Guyger's lawyer Robert Rogers on Monday night said the department had "bowed to pressure from anti-police groups and took action before all of the facts had been gathered and due process was afforded," according to the AP. Rogers reportedly said the Sept.
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A pledge to broadcaster ABC to keep the show to three hours was wrecked last week when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bowed to protests and scrapped plans to hand out four of the 24 Oscars during commercial breaks.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a late pivot on Monday evening, approved the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state, after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure from President Trump and dropped his opposition.
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In the past, Ms. Pelosi and her leadership team have bowed to the party's moderate wing, which was a critical force behind decisions to punt on releasing a budget resolution and to pull legislation that would have effectively given members a pay bump.
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On the same day the president bowed to pressure, the special counsel indicted one of his longtime advisers, Roger Stone, revealing the most direct link yet between the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks effort to release hacked emails from the Democratic Party.
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Trump earlier bowed to Democratic demands that the spending legislation for the rest of the fiscal year not include money to start building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border he said is needed to fight illegal immigration and stop drug smugglers.
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Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said March 18 they would shut down their North American plants to stop the spread of the virus, as they bowed to pressure from the union representing about 17.33,000 hourly workers at those facilities, Reuters reported.
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In September 2017, during a time of high tension between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the parent company of Snapchat bowed to pressure from government officials and removed the Al Jazeera network, which is funded by Qatar, from its platform in Saudi Arabia.
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Last August, Balding launched an online petition calling for Cambridge University Press (CUP) to refuse all censorship requests from the Chinese government after the publisher had bowed to pressure from Beijing to block online access to hundreds of scholarly articles in China.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a new statement Tuesday as the sports league battled accusations from lawmakers in both parties that it had bowed to pressure from China in expressing regret over an executive's tweet of support for demonstrators in Hong Kong.
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Their champion – former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE – routinely apologized for America and bowed to foreign leaders.
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Also speaking to the at times tenuous state of LGBTQ acceptance -- to how America isn't as reliably evolved as it assumes itself to be -- is the fact that Hallmark so quickly bowed to conservative pressure (and from a generally unsuccessful group, at that).
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I didn't expect to like this EP so much, but because it hasn't bowed to recent trends (there's a nod to tropical house on "September Song" but that's kind of it), and has also kept to the Girls Aloud formula of relative timelessness, it works.
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Germany removed a key obstacle to progress on the project last week when it bowed to French demands and excluded Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter from a multibillion-euro tender to replace aging Tornado fighter jets that are fitted to carry U.S. nuclear weapons.
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At the time of writing The Daily Stormer appears to be offline again — and there's a good reason for that: Cloudflare, which had been providing denial of service protection to the website, has apparently also bowed to public pressure and terminated the site's subscription.
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Months after angering a gathering of Jewish Republicans by fudging his views on the status of Jerusalem, Mr Trump bowed to conservative pressure and pledged that he would move the American embassy to that divided city, calling it "the eternal capital of the Jewish people".
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Germany removed a key obstacle to progress on the project last week when it bowed to French demands and excluded Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter from a multibillion-euro tender to replace ageing Tornado fighter jets that are fitted to carry U.S. nuclear weapons.
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By the time the doomed project was abandoned in 2014 after the Lamar Utilities Board bowed to political pressure and agreed to a settlement with environmental activists (which effectively closed down operation of the new plant), the city had approved $155 million in debt funding.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the long-awaited release on Thursday of more than 19663,21966 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but bowed to pressure from the C.I.A. and F.B.I. by withholding thousands of additional papers pending six more months of review.
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Last month, Springer Nature, one of the world's largest academic publishers, came under criticism for self-censorship after it bowed to Chinese government requests to block hundreds of articles on its Chinese website that touched on delicate topics like Taiwan, Tibet and Chinese politics.
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Party officials bowed to pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders and his team to release three sets of results rather than just the traditional delegate count — yet they didn't design a system that could handle the additional work of twice collecting the total vote count.
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Past governments had blocked the burial, because they were either led by enemies of Marcos or bowed to public opinion, and the body had lain in a refrigerated mausoleum in Marcos's hometown of Paoay since its return to the Philippines in the early 1990s.
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With Senator Mitch McConnell on the telephone, rank-and-file Republicans in revolt and televisions in the White House showing air traffic slowing in the Northeast because of the shutdown, Mr. Trump bowed to the inevitable and agreed to reopen the government until Feb.
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WASHINGTON — After a heated back-and-forth, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, bowed to the wishes of the acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, that he not issue a subpoena while Mr. Whitaker testifies before the committee as scheduled on Friday.
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Major global companies in recent years have bowed to pressure from the Chinese government over business practices, including Apple changing its customer service following intense criticism in the press there and Google agreeing to censor search results on topics forbidden by the Chinese government.
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In 2009, the CPSC helped Yamaha implement a free repair program to improve the safety issues involved with the Rhino ATV, it advised the public not to use the vehicles, and eventually, in 2013, the company bowed to pressure and discontinued production of the deadly product.
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Earlier this week, Facebook bowed to pressure from conservative groups and lawmakers and agreed to undergo two separate audits, one to vet its processes for protecting civil rights and the other to assess whether its policies and algorithms entrench liberal bias at the expense of conservative voices.
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"The provocative gesture of solidarity with London by these countries, who have bowed to the British authorities in the so-called Skripal affair and did not bother to understand the circumstances of what happened, is a continuation of the confrontational path to escalation," the statement said.
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Months after angering a gathering of Jewish Republicans by fudging his views on the status of Jerusalem, Mr Trump bowed to conservative pressure and pledged to AIPAC that he would move the American embassy to that divided city, calling it "the eternal capital of the Jewish people".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Bruce Springsteen tribute band bowed to pressure on Monday and backed out of performing at a gala on the evening before Donald Trump's inauguration, saying it was doing so out of respect for the New Jersey rocker, a vocal critic of the president-elect.
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The first, brought about by the Depression of the 1930s, ended an era in which governments bowed to the gospel of the gold standard and were expected to butt out of the battles between labor and capital, letting markets function on their own, whatever the consequences.
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Rio Tinto, the world's second-biggest mining company, after BHP Billiton, bowed to pressure from investors and credit ratings agencies this year and scrapped its payout policy, under which it had promised never to cut its dividend from year to year, to better reflect commodity cycles.
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President Donald Trump bowed to pressure from moderate members of his Republican Party on Friday and ordered the probe after Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor, detailed her allegations at a Senate hearing that Kavanaugh assaulted her in 1982, when the two were in high school.
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NBA commish shifts message: Earlier Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a new statement as the league battled accusations from lawmakers in both parties that it had bowed to pressure from China in expressing regret over an executive's tweet of support for demonstrators in Hong Kong.
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In the midst of a Senate investigation, a federal grand jury inquiry in Arizona, two federal lawsuits and criminal charges in California accusing Backpage's operators of pimping children, the website abruptly bowed to pressure in January and replaced its sex ads with the word "Censored" in red.
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Nearly three-quarters of the high-tech cars on the road today use Chinese-designed 5G mobile chips for these data transfers, after foreign carmakers bowed to Chinese pressure to adopt its technology as part of a deal to allow greater access to the mainland's vast car market.
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For the last two and a half years, Ryan has repeatedly bowed to pressure from the right of his party and has, with the notable exception of the immediate aftermath of the Access Hollywood tape, refused to speak out against the president, let alone act to restrain him.
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Hastings was asked directly at the New York Times DealBook Conference why his company bowed to pressure and took down the episode, which contained critical commentary regarding Mohammed Bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, after the Saudi royal family sent the company a letter requesting its removal.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump accused federal investigators on Wednesday of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the "biggest political scandals in history," as administration officials bowed to political pressure to change plans to share information about the informant with Congress.
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A few years ago when Transneft, the state-run pipeline behemoth, proposed building an oil pipeline along the shore, the vociferous public response led President Vladimir V. Putin to order the pipeline moved away from the lake — one of the rare occasions when he bowed to a protest.
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His predecessors, even when reluctant, bowed to necessity, obligation or a grandiose sense of destiny in staying engaged in the Middle East — the region is, after all, a major source of the oil that lubricates the global economy as well as the terrorists that attacked America on Sept.
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"Bernie Sanders, who loved to talk about how 'true progressives' never bow to political realities or powerful interests, had long bowed to the political reality of his rural state of Vermont and supported the NRA's key priorities, including voting against the Brady Bill five times in the 1990s," she writes.
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Johnny, who co-hosts the "High Society Radio" news and current events podcast, said he was "horrified" after Motherboard informed him that Backpage had finally bowed to legal pressure to remove the section of its website where escorts and other sex workers were once able to post advertisements offering their services.
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The letter in its entirety reads: Open Letter on Indigenous Peoples' Day, 2016 To: Mayor de Blasio, New York City Council, and the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History Decolonize This Day Many American cities have bowed to the obvious and renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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In June 2016, after not being selected for the European Championship in France that summer, Benzema, who is of Algerian descent, told the Spanish sports publication Marca that Deschamps had "bowed to pressure from a racist part of France" while saying that he did not believe Deschamps was racist himself.
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Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, who has kept a low profile since her latest public apology over a week ago, bowed to public pressure and suspended the bill a day after the violent protests but stopped short of cancelling the measure outright and rejected repeated calls to step down.
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Dr. Charles Drew, an African American doctor, developed a system of getting blood plasma to the battlefield that saved the lives of untold numbers of Allied soldiers in World War II — despite the fact that the Red Cross bowed to popular ignorance and agreed to segregate blood "by race" throughout the war.
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At the end of the 1990s Mandela, against his own instincts, bowed to pressure from within the ANC, and anointed Thabo Mbeki as his successor rather than Mr Ramaphosa, who went into business, one of a small number of well-connected black South Africans to benefit from the policy of "black economic empowerment".
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These crops, which include ubiquitous ingredients in our food supply, such as corn and soy, make news regularly whenever yet another food company decides to take a stand against them: Chipotle, Del Monte, and Hershey Foods are among the biggest names that have bowed to consumer pressure to offer non-GMO products.
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Her daughter, Annis, was born prematurely in December 1921, and Eastman spent most of 1922 looking for a job in New York, but by the end of the year, she had bowed to Walter's desire to live in England, where she had little choice but to support herself as a freelance journalist.
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Pairs skaters Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, the only North Korean athletes who qualified for the Games instead of being allowed to take part, drew the loudest roars from the crowd for their routine to a song whose title means "Nice to Meet You," during which they waved and bowed to the arena.
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In the past, some U.S. elected leaders have bowed to an irrational and misleading minority that uses fear as a motivating factor for political action, be it the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the creation of "China Towns" to segregate Chinese-Americans, or the McCarthy trials of the Cold War era.
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"Bush was as captive to the evangelical right on social issues—and thus a decidedly Republican president—as was his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, who cultivated religious conservatives as a potent political force and bowed to their anti-LGBTQ agenda as the AIDS epidemic mushroomed in the 1980s," Michelangelo Signorile writes in the Huffington Post.
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It is a remarkable turnaround considering that in 2013, the Johannesburg-based Lions were ousted from the competition by the Southern Kings when the South African Rugby Union bowed to political pressure to give the Eastern Cape region a Super Rugby team in a push to increase the number of nonwhite players in the sport.
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The suggestion that the FAA had bowed to political pressure was fueled in part by the Boeing CEO's call to Trump on Tuesday to reportedly lobby on behalf of his airline, while U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and her entire staff flew on a 737 Max 8 to show their support for the beleaguered airline.
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This rather conciliatory closing, along with the lack of a full-throated condemnation of Mr Obama's position, may owe something to squabbling inside the White House over the move: it appears that Betsy DeVos, the new Education secretary, opposed the change but bowed to the demands of Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, after Mr Trump intervened.
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As she waved to fans she will be seeing, summers and winters, as long as she wants — the Lynx have committed to her for as long as she wishes to play, though she is taking it year-by-year — her teammate, the 2017 W.N.B.A. Most Valuable Player Sylvia Fowles, bowed to her, "I'm not worthy"-style.
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He was on the July 25 call where Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyThe White House sent a letter to Kupperman directing him not to comply with a subpoenaHe was acting national security adviser when Trump bowed to pressure and unfroze the Ukraine aidHis shares a lawyer, Charles Cooper, with John Bolton, so it's thought they share a subpoena strategy too.
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Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashLawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Sanford headed to New Hampshire amid talk of challenge to Trump MORE (R-Mich.) slammed President Trump following his address on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, saying he "bowed to [the] military-industrial establishment" with his open-ended plan.
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The past three decades have seen a steady erosion of the privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, as a majority of the court has bowed to the practical realities of crime control and continued to diminish the scope of the most important remedy for privacy violations by government agents, the exclusionary rule, which demands that evidence unconstitutionally seized be suppressed.
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First, in order not to risk his hold on power, Netanyahu bowed to the demands of the Orthodox parties and canceled a 2016 agreement to create a distinct egalitarian prayer space adjacent to the Western Wall of the ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem — the holiest site of the Jewish faith — where men and women of the non-Orthodox movements could pray together.
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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 bowed to intense bipartisan pressure Wednesday and signed an executive order intended to end the practice of separating families who cross the border illegally.
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Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) hit 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 for nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, saying Trump "bowed to the elite in Washington" with the selection.
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Even as revolutionary Americans rebelled against the British monarchy, declaring all men created equal, the founding fathers at the Constitutional Convention bowed to the South with three slave compromises that still haunt our nation: permitting the international slave trade; counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for congressional representation; and establishing the Electoral College, giving the South congressional representation disproportionate to its voter eligibility.
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Trump, who bowed to a right-wing revolt and forced the fight by digging in on a dispute over funding for his border wall, addressed the crisis by tweeting a picture of himself signing already-passed bills -- a number of which concerned the naming of post offices -- while also complaining that he was staying in Washington instead of heading out on his 16-day Florida golf vacation as planned.
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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 on Thursday said the U.S. remains committed to the NATO alliance after a summit in which he said allies bowed to his demands to increase defense spending.
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"These are the hands that will comfort you when grief or fear fills your mind, that even when wrinkly and aged, will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch," Mr. Kim said to the couple during a portion of the Celtic handfasting ritual, which was followed by a Korean tea ceremony, during which the bride and groom bowed to their parents.
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The pound fell to an intraday low of $1.3223 on news that May had bowed to pressure from Brexit supporters and accepted their changes to a customs bill that underpins Britain's exit from the EU. "The move in sterling is pretty contained at this point but this [accepting of amendments] is being viewed by the market as a step towards a leadership contest," said Jordan Rochester, currencies strategist at Nomura.
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Ominous &aposRight to be Forgotten&apos Case With Global Consequences Heads to Europe&aposs Highest CourtFollowing the laws of individual nations becomes a hell of a conundrum when your business…Read more ReadThe New York Times reports that an influential think tank called The New America Foundation appears to have bowed to pressure from Alphabet's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, and dismissed one of its scholars following a critical statement that called out Google's monopolistic practices.
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Two days before his wiretap tweet, Trump's earliest Senate supporter, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, had just bowed to mounting attacks regarding inaccuracies in his confirmation hearing testimony and recused himself from the investigation into whether the Trump campaign team had cooperated with Russian intelligence.
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Then, in a chapter about gun violence, Clinton again dredges up primary disputes to portray Sanders as a phony who does the NRA's bidding: Bernie Sanders, who loved to talk about how "true progressives" never bow to political realities or powerful interests, had long bowed to the political reality of his rural state of Vermont and supported the NRA's key priorities, including voting against the Brady Bill five times in the 1990s.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE just made his first big mistake: he ignored his gut, bowed to misguided advice, and choose a running mate who is not just misaligned with his message, but also adds no real tactical value to the GOP ticket.
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Y.) said Thursday that he is "amazed" at how quickly 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 bowed to the National Rifle Association (NRA) after he threw his support behind a proposal to arm trained teachers.
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