But toward the end of the decade, Exxon changed tack.
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Corbyn, a lifelong peace campaigner, has changed tack on defence.
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Corbyn, a lifelong peace campaigner, has changed tack on defense.
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On the brink of a humiliating elimination, the hosts changed tack.
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Like Weinstein, he quickly changed tack and made the encounter sexual.
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More recently, North Koreans seemed to have changed tack once again.
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This time, some companies that had sold guns for years changed tack.
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Whenever the audience applauded one of her feats, she coolly changed tack.
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Earlier this month the city sharply changed tack, introducing measures to curb speculation.
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" Had Mr Schulman not changed tack, "PayPal could have been dead by now.
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The Obama administration changed tack and pursued employers mainly by inspecting their paperwork.
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On October 16th it changed tack, abandoning its denials and loudly defending the internments.
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But in recent days, several Democrats, including front-runner Joe Biden, have changed tack.
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The carmaker has now changed tack, prioritizing profitability by reducing incentives and slashing inventories.
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Meanwhile, Japan changed tack and announced that it would enter into trade talks with America.
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WHEELER: We have already changed tack in the sense that we're being much more transparent.
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In 1983, Bowie changed tack again, signing a multimillion-dollar five-album deal with EMI.
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But weeks later he changed tack, saying North Korea would fire a long-range rocket.
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In 1983, Bowie changed tack again, signing a multi-million-dollar five-album deal with EMI.
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Orban, a former critic of Moscow, changed tack after returning to power in a 2010 landslide.
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But when Racing was relegated after a single season in France's top flight, Lagardère changed tack.
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" But early on in Nadella's time as CEO, Microsoft changed tack and proclaimed, "Microsoft loves Linux.
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It has since changed tack, raising the bar in order to maintain its position in league tables.
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The Federal Reserve changed tack, taking interest-rate increases off the table, at least for this year.
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" But then he changed tack, tweeting that if Congress fails to act, "I will revisit this issue!
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In early 2018, it changed tack to crack down on private efforts — including a Tencent-run trial.
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It changed tack in July, as Ethiopia and Eritrea's rapprochement gained pace, offering to buy Bisha too.
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A Philippine presidential spokesman, Ernesto Abella, assured the Chinese side that Mr. Duterte had not changed tack.
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When he realized this would never meet the cost of bringing over his family, he changed tack.
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Then they changed tack, accusing Mr. Teltumbde and the other academics and writers of instigating the unrest.
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Trump changed tack and agreed to honor the "one China" policy during the call, prompting jubilation in China.
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The Turkish Competition Authority, who is conducting the investigation, initially declined Yandex's complaint but changed tack on Monday.
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Trump changed tack and agreed to honour the "one China" policy during the call, prompting jubilation in China.
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But in March it changed tack and proposed a law to make it easier to build wind turbines.
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The Turkish Competition Authority, which is conducting the investigation, initially declined Yandex's complaint but changed tack on Monday.
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Sanchez's leftwing government took few steps at first to impose tough measures and changed tack only this week.
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" He then quickly changed tack by asking, "Were there any other themes that we want to get through?
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It was unclear why the group changed tack after clamping down on civilian movement only a few days ago.
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Facing more delays, TAPI countries have changed tack to attract financing and make progress in the past two years.
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" The head of the Russian central bank also changed tack, saying they were "the definition of a pyramid scheme.
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Rivera says he won't strike an alliance with Sanchez, but the party has changed tack on such issues before.
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Soon after this episode, Trump changed tack, openly attacking Sessions on Twitter and hoping to pressure him to resign.
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Pakistan, accused of harbouring the Taliban and sabotaging previous peace efforts, also appears to have changed tack, Western officials say.
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It later changed tack, describing them as vocational centres teaching minorities useful skills, as a means to quell religious extremism.
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Since then it has changed tack, taking the southern path over Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Mediterranean (see second map).
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But in 1998 Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change emerged as a serious threat to ZANU-PF, and Mugabe changed tack.
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He said trade negotiations were 95 percent there when China changed tack and backtracked on some of its previous commitments.
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But since Mr. Sánchez took office, the party has changed tack, claiming that Mr. Sánchez is unnecessarily reopening old wounds.
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His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has changed tack on trade, backing away from a Pacific trade pact she previously endorsed.
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But it changed tack on March 16 after an expert report suggested this would lead to the health system being overwhelmed.
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We started making positive impacts only when we changed tack, designating drugs as a social problem and not a military one.
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The next day South Korea reported that Russia had changed tack, expressing "deep regret" and blaming the incident on a technical glitch.
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But the central bank abruptly changed tack early this year, as warning signs began to emerge that the global economy was slowing.
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Now, it has changed tack again, appointing in Mr. De Sousa, an insider who has served in the department for 30 years.
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So when publishers designed their corporate strategies around the whims of the Facebook News Feed, their traffic sometimes plummeted when Facebook changed tack.
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By nightfall, however, the protesters changed tack and attempted to cross a different bridge and were met with more force by the authorities.
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But he suddenly changed tack in January and appealed to the Supreme Court to freeze the inquiry, claiming a right to legislative immunity.
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Cree said last year that it planned to list Wolfspeed separately but changed tack after several potential buyers made approaches, the U.S. company said.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was ready to write off the district for 2020 but changed tack in January following De La Isla's announcement.
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But this year, Curbelo changed tack, introducing a bill that would tax carbon emissions and, in the process, raise $700 million for infrastructure spending.
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Renzi acknowledges that personalizing the vote was a mistake and in August he changed tack, refusing to discuss his future while on the campaign trail.
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But after Mr. Ramaphosa's son denied involvement in the transaction, the president changed tack and said that the donation had been made without his knowledge.
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At first he was depicted as a country yokel, but by the end of that first season the puppet's operator, Caroll Spinney, had changed tack.
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But Mr. Saatchi now appears to be relinquishing control of the institution, which has recently changed tack to display more art from outside his own holdings.
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Later, however, they changed tack: they began examining the motivations of individual criminals and asking how potential wrongdoers, as "agents," might be dissuaded from committing crimes.
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Aid agencies changed tack from dealing with a situation mostly involving damage to property and infrastructure caused by the cyclone to facing something much more serious.
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The company has changed tack after its only fully battery-powered car, the i3, failed to gain traction with the public, with only 25,000 sales last year.
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Trump changed tack last month, however, and agreed to honor the "one China" policy during a phone call with Xi, reviving the island's concerns about its vulnerability.
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Now he is president, they and industry bosses have changed tack, pledging support for the popular new leader and his plans to revive the economy from the bottom up.
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Rather than engaging with the substance of the testimony, afterward senior Republicans and allies of the president changed tack and dismissed the proceeding as too "boring" to merit attention.
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But in the past couple of decades the city has changed tack, built a dense network of cycle lanes, widened pavements, pedestrianised streets and squares and imposed traffic restrictions.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Romania's anti-corruption chief Laura Codruta Kovesi will become the European Union's first fraud prosecutor after EU countries changed tack and backed her, despite opposition from Bucharest.
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They were still AWOL on Tuesday when a top Democrat suddenly changed tack and said that the climate bill did not have enough support to pass in any case.
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But when too many of them fell into tantrum mode at the same time, she changed tack and set up the portable chalkboard at the front of the room.
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"I note that the Saudi authorities have changed tack, admitted the facts and accepted some responsibility, so we're making progress," Le Maire said on France 3 television on Sunday.
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In 2016 she asked the boards of CBS and Viacom to consider a deal, but changed tack after determining the two companies would be more valuable as separate entities.
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Originally, Virgin Galactic planned to use LauncherOne with its WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, which shuttles SpaceShipTwo to high altitude, but in 2015 it changed tack and picked up the 747 for modification.
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The authorities changed tack from 2015, EBA said, which led to the disclosure by Danske Bank last year of alleged money-laundering activities at its Estonian branch between 2007 and 2015.
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At which point the AI changed tack and asked about wait times, earning its owner and controller, Google, the reassuring intel that there wouldn't be a long wait at the elected time.
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But under pressure from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, SPD leader Martin Schulz has changed tack and signalled his willingness to discuss a way out of the political impasse in Europe's biggest economy.
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Mr. Kim abruptly changed tack in January with diplomatic overtures, first to South Korea and later to Mr. Trump, who stunned the world by abruptly agreeing to talk directly to Mr. Kim.
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Trippier quickly changed tack, playing the ball back and inside to Jesse Lingard who, with a different angle for the cross, found the unmarked Dele Alli to head in the second goal.
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But in the early 20th century many European liberals, and their progressive cousins in America, changed tack, seeing progressive taxation and basic social-welfare systems as necessary interventions to limit the market's failures.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential election candidate Francois Fillon changed tack on public healthcare on Tuesday, saying he would ensure universal access to free eye-glasses, hearing aids and false teeth if elected.
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"We have time in these negotiations, we have changed tack once and we can change again," he said in his resignation speech to parliament on Wednesday, more than a week after he quit.
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As protesters fled underground last week, fearing arrest, their leaders changed tack, calling for a general strike and a campaign of civil disobedience in an effort to pressure the military to back down.
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The Maltese Armed Forces had been surveilling the situation and the Italians got involved, an armed forces spokeswoman said, before the government changed tack some hours later and announced the migrants could dock.
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Realizing that a frontal assault wasn't securing the votes needed for India's biggest-ever tax reform, Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley changed tack this spring, government and ruling party sources have told Reuters.
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So despite internal divisions over Brexit — with many supporters favoring a second referendum in hopes of overturning the first — Labour has rather desperately changed tack, emphasizing its commitment to Brexit, rather than offering opposition.
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After a series of movies ("In the Company of Men") and plays ("Fat Pig") that explored the exploitation and humiliation of the weak with ruthless determination, Mr. LaBute has changed tack in recent years.
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However, the Trieste-based group has now changed tack and wants to use Tranquilidade as a platform to step up its game in Portugal, they said, adding it retained Barclays to make a competitive bid.
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After placing the blame at the feet of users, Samsung eventually changed tack, pushed back the April release date indefinitely and tried to get to the bottom of what was going on with the product.
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Trump also changed tack and agreed to honour the longstanding "one China" policy during a phone call with China's leader, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing which brooks no criticism of its claim to neighbouring Taiwan.
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But I was (am) horny, and in need of someone to split an chocolate lava cake with on Valentine's, so I changed tack, and headed for a record store, where meet-cutes always happen in films.
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In addition, Trump changed tack and agreed to honour the longstanding "one China" policy during a phone call with China's leader, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing which brooks no criticism of its claim to neighbouring Taiwan.
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Samwer has now changed tack for his Amazon clones, shifting from buying and shipping their own stock - more suited to countries with well-established logistics - to providing a commission-based marketplace for third-party retailers, like Alibaba.
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With international criticism growing and street protests at home, the Polish government has not changed tack even though it risks losing billions of euros in aid from the European Union, which has expressed similar worries to the OSCE.
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The Daily Mail initially went with the angle that fans "were drunk and violent and their actions were vile," but later changed tack and started to present the disaster as a 'tragedy', which should now feel rather familiar.
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All 28 EU members except Britain, which is leaving the EU, backed the one-year access proposal in December after the Commission changed tack from an original proposal in November for unlimited Swiss access, which won member approval.
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A longstanding advocate of state control over key strategic assets like government-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA and Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, Bolsonaro has recently changed tack, falling more closely in line with key advisors who favor privatizing assets.
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In a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, Trump changed tack and agreed to honor the "one China" policy, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing, which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan.
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Invisio, whose share price soared 500 percent last year, started in mobile phone headsets but changed tack in 2008 as its main customer Motorola suffered big losses to focus on products for the military, law enforcement agencies and firefighters.
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Earlier this month, the European Central Bank changed tack by pushing out the timing of its next rate increase until 2020 at the earliest and said it would offer banks a new round of cheap loans to help revive the economy.
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Last year, powerful labour chief Bernd Osterloh changed tack, telling a German newspaper that the dispute with Diess over how to implement reforms at the brand has been laid to rest and that the two sides aimed to "enter calmer waters".
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Now the White House -- perhaps recognizing that its executive privilege invocation would likely fail on the legal merits -- has changed tack and instead made an even broader claim that Congress cannot ever compel testimony from a senior adviser to the President.
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The Fed changed tack again barely two weeks later after May's weak jobs report, the latest in a string of factors that have repeatedly forced the Fed to pause in its efforts to nudge interest rates further away from zero.
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But Berlin has changed tack, according to summit documents seen by Reuters, endorsing "work on the conditions, the incentives and the enabling framework to be put in place to support the fair transition to a climate-neutral EU by 2050".
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While the central bank took a more dovish tilt at its August review and sparked speculation of a possible near term rate cut, it changed tack in the last meeting in September with a slightly more upbeat statement on the economy.
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LONDON — Outside 10 Downing Street this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain launched his election campaign with a broadside against his opponents — joking that delays to Brexit made him want to chew his necktie — but then abruptly changed tack.
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It initially tried to avoid an IMF bailout by securing loans from friendly countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates but has since changed tack and said it had agreed in principle to turn to the IMF.
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Now Mr. Corbyn has changed tack, proposing a four-year transition period during which Britain will keep its full membership in the customs union and the single market, presumably ensuring that the free movement of labor continues, at least temporarily.
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Soeder has at times sought to woo right-wing voters from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) with tough rhetoric on migrant policy but he changed tack, attacking the AfD and striking a more centrist line, before a disastrous state vote in October.
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Since the 2005 approval of the same-sex marriage bill by the parties of the left, center-left and center-right, even the main conservative People's Party (PP) which vehemently opposed it has changed tack, approving various bills in defense of LGBT rights.
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A few days after the federal government changed tack, a team of civil-liberties groups, advocacy organisations and private law firms launched a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the attorney-general's office for failing to provide migrant children with representation in deportation proceedings.
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The number of unauthorized immigrants detained far from the border — on the job, at home, in public spaces — more than tripled, to nearly 350,000 from 2007 to 2011, after which Mr. Obama changed tack to focus more narrowly on unauthorized immigrants with criminal records.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank changed tack on its tightening plan on Thursday, pushing out the timing of its first post-crisis rate hike until 2020 at the earliest and offering banks a new round of cheap loans to help revive the euro zone economy.
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A group called the Operations Room and its allies have been fighting the Anas al-Dabbashi brigade, a major facilitator of migrant smuggling that recently said it had changed tack and struck a deal with the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli to stop boats setting off across the Mediterranean.
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An organization called the Operations Room and its allies have been fighting the Anas al-Dabbashi brigade, a major facilitator of migrant smuggling that recently said it had changed tack and struck a deal with the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli to stop boats setting off across the Mediterranean.
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In Germany, where the government had taken a more hands-off approach to curbing the coronavirus, the health minister changed tack on Sunday, urging that large-scale events be called off or postponed, although he stopped short of delivering a formal ban, as was imposed last month by Switzerland.
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But on Sunday night, he changed tack, suggesting on Twitter that the economic toll of sending workers home could have a more devastating effect than letting the virus rip through the US population unchecked by social distancing: WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.
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After months of sticking to a position little different from the governing Conservative Party's pursuit of a clean break with the EU, Labour changed tack last month by saying, if in power, the party would press for full access to the single market during a transition - something that could continue beyond.
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Having first demanded new rules stipulating that 50 percent of automotive content under NAFTA must be from the United States, Trump's negotiators have changed tack and are now pushing a plan to try to ensure that a certain percentage of work in the industry is sourced from "high salary" areas.
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On Tuesday, Mr. de Blasio changed tack again: For nearly 20 minutes after a news conference on crime statistics and plans for a new police precinct in Queens, he sat alone behind a blue curtain-draped desk and answered questions from reporters who traveled from City Hall to the precinct, near the city's eastern border.
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He feigned an explosion, then crossed back over to the top of the paint; just as the entire building was squared up for him to shoot, and just as Dragic's man, Kyle Lowry, changed tack and swivelled toward Wade with psychic panic in his eyes, Wade fired the ball to Dragic for a wide-open corner three.
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Whereas the GOP changed tack under Trump, as the protectionist stance gained traction, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE also started to sing from a different hymn sheet.
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The plane maker just this week changed tack, saying it would recommend pilots do simulator training before they resume flying the 737 MAX - a major shift from its longheld position that computer-based training was sufficient as the plane was similar to its predecessor the 737 NG. The release of the messages, which highlight an aggressive cost-cutting culture and disrespect towards the FAA, is set to deepen the crisis at Boeing which is struggling to get its best-selling plane back in the air and restore public confidence.
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Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said the party was ready to be "the grown-ups in the room" and take charge of negotiations to leave the EU, cautioning against taking anything off the table when looking at Britain's future ties with the EU. After months of sticking to a position little different from the Conservative Party's pursuit of a clean break with the EU, Labour changed tack last month by suggesting that, if in power, it would press for remaining in the EU's single market for a transition period to smooth Britain's departure in March 2019.
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