I chipped away at the wall she had put up.
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Utah chipped away at the deficit throughout the second quarter.
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The Angels, though, chipped away against Oakland starter Daniel Gossett.
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The companies chipped away at Medtronic's dominance over the years.
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In Hungary, an authoritarian leader has chipped away at democracy.
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The building was loud, and then we just chipped away.
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A strong dollar also chipped away at the company's sales.
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At the same time, Iran chipped away at the JCPOA.
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Wade upheld, but that precedent keeps getting chipped away at.
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Each laugh chipped away at my illness's hold on me.
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Minnesota chipped away at the deficit by getting to the paint.
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Everyday, more and more of our civil liberties are chipped away.
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He chipped away at parliament's authority and exercised almost unlimited power.
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Widespread corruption and government mismanagement chipped away at the country's resources.
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A recently passed bill, SB-1421, chipped away at this problem.
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Every flippant comment made at school chipped away at my confidence.
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Conservatives also have chipped away at the Obamacare mandate in court.
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Other injuries and underperformance have further chipped away at the team.
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Chicago chipped away in the eighth against Marlins reliever Fernando Rodney.
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The Silverswords, named after a plant, chipped away at the lead.
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They suavely, and convincingly, chipped away at the black tie wall.
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Russia had already chipped away at embassy programs, anyway, he noted.
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This episode, yet another piece of her old life is chipped away.
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They chipped away at the paint until Monterrosa's name had disappeared.◼
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After other subsequent iOS updates, Apple slowly chipped away at Boxcar's usefulness.
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Declines in U.S. healthcare stocks chipped away at the indexes gains, however.
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The Pacers built a 270-216 lead, but the Sixers chipped away.
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Over the course of three months they chipped away at the dirt.
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But little by little, some great inequities were being chipped away at.
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Under China's current leader, Xi Jinping, those freedoms have been chipped away.
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Digital technologies have already chipped away at our ability to remain anonymous.
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Democrats chipped away at Republicans' supermajority in 2018, giving Cooper veto power.
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Under Trump, the administration has slowly chipped away at the refugee cap.
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But, in recent elections, smaller parties have chipped away at their influence.
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They chipped away at Short's resolve with a combination of threats and flattery.
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Past imbalances have left large debts that are only slowly being chipped away.
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The Mountain Hawks chipped away at the deficit early in the second half.
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Xavier gradually chipped away until tying the score on Goodin's first free throw.
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But the prime minister has chipped away at many of the charter's byproducts.
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They also chipped away at concrete columns to reveal the original steel beams.
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Those arguments, and the passage of time, have chipped away at public support.
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The land they use is being chipped away, said Amnesty's spokesman Craig Benjamin.
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Utah chipped away and momentarily overtook Golden State after a Hood 3-pointer.
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The Tigers chipped away but could never get closer than the final margin.
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But the Wildcats gradually chipped away, and Kansas led 35-34 at halftime.
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Republican lawmakers have chipped away at abortion access in the state for years.
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However, political limbo around E.U. entry has slowly chipped away at the ideological ceasefire.
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The Pistons chipped away in the third quarter and got as close as nine.
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Accordingly, they've chipped away at Faretta with decisions like the one in my case.
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They both chipped away at the Reagan consensus even as they lived within it.
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The Wolverines chipped away at reduced their deficit to seven, 39-32, by halftime.
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To our right, a few carvers chipped away at other blocks with small tools.
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Since 1973, lawmakers have chipped away at Roe by introducing hundreds of state-level regulations.
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There were other technical demands that chipped away at the decentralized nature of the internet.
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Our confidence in collective action has been chipped away, partly because of ideology and rhetoric.
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All of the things we once held sacred are being chipped away at and destroyed.
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The Lions chipped away and got within 44-29 on a layup by Marlain Veal.
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But now their resilience is being chipped away, says Adirak Sangnut, the slum's elected leader.
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Alabama slowly chipped away thanks to Obasohan, who also had six rebounds and two steals.
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After Roe has been duly chipped away at, an outright reversal would look more plausible.
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As more material is chipped away during the carving process, the more fragile they become.
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Netflix and other streaming services have chipped away at viewer interest in cable VOD services.
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Protesters chipped away at the face of the statue, while alumni made their opinions heard.
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But the arrival of President Trump on the political stage has chipped away at that.
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She had saved $23,2000 and chipped away at that to make monthly student debt payments.
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With every violent push, the protesters chipped away at the barriers standing in their way.
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For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth.
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Questions, inconsistencies and a lack of evidence chipped away at Mr. Smollett's version of events.
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However, I missed out on feeling like myself, and that chipped away at my self-confidence.
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Since then, the company has chipped away at Intel's dominant position in the server chip market.
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Buffalo then chipped away and cut the Orange's lead to 248-23 with a Harris basket.
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But details soon emerged, one by one, that chipped away at the Garden Bridge's utopian pitch.
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"In recent decades, the courts have chipped away at the nation's age-discrimination laws," said Sen.
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The Hoyas chipped away and tied it with 8:37 left on an Akinjo 103-pointer.
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The Pirates chipped away with a run apiece against Vargas in the third, fourth and fifth.
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The Terrapins chipped away in the second half, finally tying the game again at 54-all.
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A rare progressive neurological disease chipped away at her memory, cognition, balance, speech and muscle control.
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Democrats slowly chipped away at the Republican advantage, largely thanks to strong turnout from Hispanic voters.
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The iPhone is the company's profit engine, but the strong dollar chipped away at its power.
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And she chipped away at some of Mr. Biden's aura of dominance in the Democratic field.
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"We cannot allow this to be chipped away each time someone purchases beachfront property," Padilla says.
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Partisanship on the left and right has chipped away at the its legitimacy in the past.
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I'm not categorically opposed to an amendment to section 230, which ... It's already being chipped away.
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Golden State chipped away and tied it at 97 on Andre Iguodala's dunk with 1:29 left.
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MBS has chipped away at this too, telling government officials to stop arbitrarily imposing restrictions on women.
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But over time, technology — and our choices about said technology — has slowly chipped away at that certainty.
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In-between my kid's naps this weekend, I chipped away at Minit, one death at a time.
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Chicago chipped away at a game-long deficit, pulling to within 90-85 with 9:02 left.
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The Pelicans chipped away at the lead in the second quarter to get back into the game.
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Detroit led by 133 early in the third but the Knicks chipped away behind Anthony and Porzingis.
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New Orleans chipped away and got within 71-67 at halftime with a 40-point second quarter.
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Gradually, though, the costs of playing the sport at the NBA level chipped away at his happiness.
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The company has chipped away at the problem in recent years, but much remains to be done.
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The Gators chipped away and pulled within one point on Johnson's 3-pointer with 363 seconds left.
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He argues that Beijing has slowly chipped away at the "high degree of autonomy" it promised Macau.
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Desperately slowly, one tiny step at a time, Ms Harman and her comrades chipped away at this culture.
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I was stuck in a rut, and my self-worth chipped away with each rejection email I got.
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The Nets chipped away midway through the third, getting within 74-62 on consecutive 3-pointers by Johnson.
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Decision biases eventually chipped away from superior fund-level returns once delivered by the Rock's and the Perkins's.
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Even on the Android side, companies like Huawei have steadily chipped away at Google's once-significant camera advantage.
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I had $473,000 saved up which I slowly chipped away to $2,000 until I got a better job.
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The other theme, I'd say, would be Axe and Chuck's empires of dominance being slowly chipped away at.
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First, it has chipped away at Republican congressmen's dogged reluctance to investigate Mr Trump's ties with the Russians.
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Every day, the lewd and threatening comments chipped away at my sense of safety and peace of mind.
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But over the past few decades, behavioural economists like Richard Thaler have progressively chipped away at this notion.
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Since then successive governments have chipped away layers of rules that had "protected", but also stifled, India's economy.
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The Bulls chipped away and Butler's 3-pointer with 2:38 left cut Toronto's lead to two points.
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N) Pizza Hut is being chipped away by third-party food delivery services such as GrubHub Inc (GRUB.
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The Spurs chipped away in the fourth, getting as close as 11 points with about three minutes left.
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But behind guard Dexter McClanahan, Nicholls State chipped away at the Illinois lead over the final 21974 minutes.
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Without mentioning the email controversy, Mr. Obama pointed to the political attacks that have chipped away at Mrs.
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The Pacers held a 10-point lead late in the first quarter but the Nets gradually chipped away.
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She had been scratching so urgently, and for so long, the paint was chipped away from the doorjamb.
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Michigan chipped away and got its deficit down to six on a Simpson layup with 8:38 left.
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Thursday's gains chipped away at the market's massive two-day sell-off to start off the fourth quarter.
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HAVANA — The makeshift nets were a tangle of wires, and the white lines were almost completely chipped away.
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But I've also often wondered if they worked against him, chipped away at some of what made him relatable.
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As in the case of the original Reconstruction, the accomplishments of the Second Reconstruction were also slowly chipped away.
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Trump has exited deals (Paris and TPP); chipped away at them (Iran); and unilaterally signed a lot of EOs.
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As rock was slowly chipped away, a fossilized dinosaur that Mitchell described as "very wide" and "very fat" emerged.
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The economic swoops and comebacks of the last three decades have chipped away at many measures of well-being.
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The feeling among Turkey's progressives is that our lifestyle is under siege and secularism is being systematically chipped away.
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But Benjamin Johnson, the executive director of the immigration lawyers association, said the directive chipped away at due process.
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Colorado State (218-244.4) chipped away at the deficit in the second half with its own intense defensive effort.
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Just outside Lubbock, Texas, the structure was built up and torn down many times as Bruno chipped away at it.
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Over the past few years, a string of events has chipped away at our right to keep our location private.
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The Wildcats chipped away and got the deficit down to six on Law's 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer.
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Driven by Musk's infectious ambition, SpaceX engineers have continuously chipped away at the high cost of launching payloads to space.
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Orlando chipped away and Payton hit a jumper that cut the Cavaliers' lead to 223-52.33 with 252.3 seconds left.
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Let's look back and see all the ways big companies chipped away at our privacy bit by bit in 2017.
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The fallout has chipped away at the company's reputation in a community that's been its home for nearly 140 years.
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The Hornets then chipped away in the third quarter and wound up leading 88-86 going into the fourth quarter.
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We chipped away here, got a couple back there, but kind of like what happened in the Detroit game, too.
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Next that his delegate totals could be chipped away by a coalition of anti-Trump forces working in separate states.
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The spending, combined with his loans, chipped away at that nice paycheck, and he became more beholden to the job.
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Activists have already begun campaigning to end the guardianship system, which has been chipped away at slowly over the years.
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The lead grew to 23 before the Cajuns chipped away and Wilson's 23-pointer cut the lead to 240-230.
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Those investigations chipped away at Clinton's credibility and popularity at a time when she was running for the White House.
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"Hello, I Am Fat" chipped away at the notion that you can "help" fat people by mocking and shaming us.
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Purdue (216-6) chipped away late, as Michigan missed a slew of free throws, but it was much too late.
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The last two reconstructive presidencies — FDR and Reagan — chipped away at the foundations of party politics without dislodging core structures.
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But Liang noticed subtler changes in his friend, signs that his time in custody had chipped away at his spirit.
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Many of these democratic planks, like voting rights and equal participation in elections, have been chipped away at for years.
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Part of Bungie's initial promise of an expansive living world chipped away that day, and it wouldn't be the last.
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Texas survived a Mariners lineup that chipped away at the lead all night but never mustered the go-ahead hit.
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In the decades that followed, the GOP chipped away at the Democratic stronghold, winning landslide elections in 1994 and 2008.
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But the affair has chipped away at Abe's support, according to opinion polls, and it looks unlikely to fade away.
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But the Cardinal chipped away, finally drawing even at 44-all on a Davis layup with 5:17 to go.
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From that point forward, Atlanta's drives ended punt-fumble-punt-punt, while New England repeatedly chipped away at the lead.
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I think it's been chipped away over issues of FOSTA and ... Yeah, there's only one chip in it so far.
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But even that swath of the United States is not immune to the market forces that have chipped away at coal.
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Then, along came the copyright hawks, and Spotify, and the record companies, and other jerks who chipped away at SoundCloud's glory.
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Sixteen other states have passed similar laws as conservatives have chipped away at the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v.
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As casual Friday chipped away at corporate dress codes, women felt empowered to wear their coveted denim pieces straight to work.
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American officials complain that the WTO's appellate body has chipped away at their country's sovereignty and has strayed beyond its remit.
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The authorities have also chipped away at the demographic majority of the Shias, who once made up 60% of the population.
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The Terps chipped away and a 241-pointer by Dion Wiley pulled them to within 133-213 with 221:261.9 left.
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She never fully took Jimmy's plan seriously, and perhaps that chipped away at Jimmy's confidence in presenting it to the boss.
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But just as impressive is how she determinedly chipped away at her degree, one class at a time, for nine years.
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As they steadily chipped away at the stone surrounding the skeleton, they encountered a surprise in the reptile's stomach: another reptile.
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The tide continued to turn in the third as Nishikori chipped away at the faltering Cilic with a third successive break.
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But Trump axed the individual mandate with the tax bill, and has chipped away at other parts of the law's foundation.
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Brooklyn chipped away at the lead and cut the deficit to 2521-5223 on back-to-back baskets from Trevor Booker.
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The Pistons chipped away, however, and Tony Snell's jumper late in the quarter sent the Pistons into halftime trailing 63-61.
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Decades of corruption, ranging from low-level bribes to high-level fraudulent activity, have chipped away at public trust of government.
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Since then, congressional Republicans repealed the individual mandate and the Trump administration released new regulations that further chipped away the law.
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Then, I saw what needed to be done at the label, and I chipped away at those things little by little.
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Over the course of his eight years in power, Prime Minister Orbán has chipped away at the foundations of Hungarian democracy.
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When Caroline graduated from grad school, she had $60,000 of student debt, and she proudly chipped away at it for years.
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But Oklahoma State gradually chipped away until the Cowboys grabbed the lead with Likekele's two free throws with 213 seconds left.
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Behind a game-high 24 points from Malachi Flynn, San Diego State chipped away at the deficit over the closing minutes.
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Michigan then chipped away, closing within five points twice in the first four minutes of the half on Livers' 3-pointers.
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Milwaukee jumped ahead to lead 37-25 after one quarter, but Orlando chipped away at the deficit over the middle quarters.
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This phenomenon, termed an "intensity gap," would make sense if reproductive rights weren't constantly being chipped away at the state level.
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At the same time, National Front candidates have steadily chipped away at the left's power, making significant gains in local elections.
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But Dean chipped away, and by the summer of 2003, Dean and Gephardt were easily outpacing the rest of the field.
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The Pistons chipped away and got within four at 93-89 when Morris tossed in a 3-pointer with 1:24 remaining.
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Detroit gradually chipped away in the fourth and finally pulled ahead 23-78 on a Griffin hook shot with 5:25 remaining.
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The Nittany Lions chipped away and got within 57-55 on a 3-pointer by Rasir Bolton with 773:55 to go.
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The authorities have steadily chipped away at those restrictions in recent years, including ending a ban on women driving cars last year.
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At his workshop in Colorado, Magovern chipped away at the stone and discovered between six and eight giant, crushed oblong eggs inside.
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Northwestern chipped away in the final five minutes and claimed a 28-27 lead on McIntosh's 45.33-pointer with one minute showing.
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Ginsburg's comments chipped away at that perceived distinction, thus making it more acceptable for political actors to critique judicial actors and actions.
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After the Jazz carved out a 19-13 lead behind back-to-back baskets from Crowder, Portland chipped away at the deficit.
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"It is a patriarchal system that is beginning to feel a little bit that its foundation is being chipped away," she said.
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The AfD's rise has chipped away at support for Germany's established parties and may complicate their efforts to form stable coalition governments.
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The Cavaliers slowly chipped away, got within 49-40 and then crept closer at 49-43 with 58:00 remaining before halftime.
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But with Monday's decision, the Supreme Court chipped away at the discretion states have to exclude religious entities from certain government programs.
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But Amazon has steadily chipped away at skepticism of its seriousness in video by expanding the amount of content available for streaming.
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Both works portray people who were once in love but whose mutual affection is chipped away at by petty and bitter transgressions.
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As The New York Times has reported, Britain's extended stretch of austerity measures has chipped away at the country's social safety net.
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Walt Disney envisioned his theme parks as not having classes, but Disney [the company] has chipped away at that over the years.
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The yen has also gained from a scandal involving a land deal that has chipped away support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Lin scored 153 points in the second quarter as the Hornets chipped away at the deficit to trail 51-36 at halftime.
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The Sixers chipped away and got within 2101-216.2 when Burks scored in the paint with 1:08 remaining in the third.
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Memphis led by as much as 2105 in the first half but the Pistons chipped away, as their reserves scored 23 points.
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Mason Plumlee's dunk gave Denver a 44-28 lead with 8:28 left in the first half, and then Phoenix chipped away.
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United Airlines posted higher profits in the first three months of the year, but higher costs chipped away at the airline's bottom line.
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Petty's three-point play gave Alabama the first points of the second half and the Crimson Tide slowly chipped away at the deficit.
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It means major mergers going through without restrictions, net neutrality being chipped away — if not outright removed — and less concern for consumer privacy.
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That decline in yields chipped away at the spread between 2-year Treasuries US2YT=RR, which yield 2.282 percent, and longer-term bonds.
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Scientists led by Jun Liu, a paleontologist at the Hefei University of Technology in China, chipped away at the stone encasing the skeleton.
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The margin reached 03 in the second quarter and was 69-47 at halftime before the Pistons chipped away in the second half.
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Danny Green made two 3-pointers and Anderson and Forbes made one each as the Spurs chipped away and got within 79-65.
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We're told cops were shown photos of the damaged door, which looked like someone chipped away at it with some sort of instrument.
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" But discrimination and a lack of understanding chipped away at that stature, Peters said, leaving the hijra minority "on the margins of society.
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Nemanja Bjelica's layup gave the Kings a 59-244 lead with 230:23 remaining in the second quarter before Atlanta slowly chipped away.
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The moves have concerned worker advocates, who say the changes have chipped away at the earnings gains employees appeared to make last year.
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As injury and age chipped away at the aura of invincibility that Federer and Nadal once enjoyed, Djokovic surged into the top position.
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However, Apple's Greater China revenue dropped 14 percent in the first three months of the year, as cheaper rivals chipped away at sales.
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The Trump administration has chipped away at one Obama-era initiative expanding the FCC's Lifeline program to subsidize broadband for low-income Americans.
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But Stanford (214-210, 210-8) chipped away at the deficit, going on a 19-8 run that lasted more than eight minutes.
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But the Suns chipped away before halftime, then set the tone for the second half by scoring the third quarter's first 213 points.
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But the Suns chipped away before halftime, then set the tone for the second half by scoring the third quarter's first 13 points.
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Washington chipped away as Beal scored 17 straight Wizards points at one stretch before Antetokounmpo fouled out with 1:36 left in regulation.
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Taiwan only has 17 diplomatic allies left around the world as the Chinese government has slowly chipped away at the island's international relations.
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LSU chipped away at the lead and was back within six after a Brandon Rachal dunk with five minutes left in the half.
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Even though Republicans will maintain control of the Senate next year, Sinema's victory has chipped away the durable majority they were hoping to cement.
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The various subsidies stacked together along with this avoided tax chipped away at the incremental cost of an EV compared to a conventional ICEV.
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The Vols then went nearly 143 214/219 minutes without scoring, allowing Alabama to rebuild a double-digit advantage before Tennessee slowly chipped away.
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However, Joshua never lost his composure, varied his attack, and chipped away at Povetkin's energy reserves by targeting the Russian's body with clever shots.
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Gandini, who began his tree carvings around five years ago, chipped away at his 66th stump in the huge Villa Pamphili park on Friday.
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Before Judge's blast, the Yankees, who were expected to be a team that heavily relied on home runs, had simply chipped away against Toronto.
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The Buffaloes gradually chipped away at the deficit and got within seven with 1:35 to go, but by then it was too late.
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Airbus's cheaper A7873 has also chipped away at 2787 sales and low fuel prices have allowed airlines to keep flying older, less efficient planes.
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The Pelicans significantly chipped away and outscored the Nets 2125-26 the rest of the quarter to get within 104-98 entering the fourth.
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However, the Bobcats (223-23) chipped away to force a halftime tie, led by preseason Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year Nijal Pearson.
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They have passed laws like so-called "right-to-work" that actively chipped away at workers' ability to unionize and bargain for wage increases.
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They have chipped away at our institutions with an eye on consolidating and entrenching their power, regardless of the will of the American people.
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He took out a pocket knife, chipped away at the paint on the frame, and examined the screws that were embedded in the metal.
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But the Raptors dug deep, chipped away at that lead and then went on the 12-0 run with the game on the line.
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While reading their assigned article, students should keep track of ways a leader and his ruling party chipped away at democratic institutions and values.
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At one of the only remaining original spurs of the old town, residents had been moved out and earthmovers chipped away at historic houses.
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The region's dense coastal mangrove forests help absorb destructive tides, but these seaside bulwarks are being chipped away by development and unscrupulous firewood collection.
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Still, arguing that Guantánamo was too expensive and fueled anti-Americanism, Mr. Obama chipped away at its population; 41 remained when he left office.
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Dallas held a 34-18 lead at the end of the first quarter, but Orlando chipped away at the deficit in the middle periods.
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For months she chipped away at the shells and barnacles crusted onto its surface, storing it in a lunch box cooler filled with water.
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But the Coyotes hung in and gradually chipped away at the deficit, trailing 49-45 on a Tyler Peterson with 8:42 to play.
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The Thunder steadily chipped away at Chicago's lead, tying the game on Danilo Gallinari's 3-pointer with a little more than five minutes remaining.
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A ruling by the conservative-majority Supreme Court upholding the Alabama measure could have chipped away at the Roe decision, which legalized abortion nationwide.
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I chipped away at it, and the rest of the dishes, before admitting defeat, barely a dent in the food to show for my efforts.
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Scientists estimated an origin around 3,900 years ago in Central America, but emerging lines of evidence in recent years have chipped away at this interpretation.
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But each day, rumors chipped away at my certainty, even as party officials on television assured us that the "fire" in Chernobyl was under control.
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Many activists are calling for an end to the guardianship system, which has been chipped away at slowly over the years but remains in force.
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However, the greenback remained mired near a three-year low against a basket of currencies on lingering concerns about its yield advantage being chipped away.
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HSBC dropped 4 percent after the bank reported a disappointing annual profit as higher costs and a stocks rout chipped away at its trading businesses.
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As an elected official, you stood by and watched our historic stronghold in Louisiana being chipped away, and finally taken outright by the Republican party.
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Morant chipped away at Brooklyn's late eight-point lead, converting a driving layup, a pair of free throws and a short jumper on consecutive possessions.
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Donald Trump's victory in U.S. presidential elections and Britain's vote to leave the European Union have further chipped away at their faith in opinion polls.
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Boston chipped away at the lead, cutting it to 2139-2134 on a 210-point play from Thomas with 23 seconds remaining in the half.
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Instead, they see significant parts of Dodd-Frank chipped away, in an effort to spur growth while avoiding the pitfalls that led to the crisis.
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Wyoming chipped away at the deficit with a 35-yard touchdown pass from Josh Allen to Tanner Gentry at the end of the first half.
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The Volcker Rule, which was part of the Dodd-Frank regulatory legislation, is being chipped away at by Republicans, which doesn't sit well with him.
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Several people said that weariness from weekly protests — and a growing reluctance to attend potentially violent demonstrations — had chipped away at the number of protesters.
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If you listen to [Netanyahu and his allies], they seem to believe they had successfully chipped away at the international consensus that settlements are illegal.
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But as his team carefully chipped away the rock surrounding the fossil over the course of about a year, distinctly dinosaurian features began to emerge.
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The A.N.C. has especially chipped away at agencies and posts that hold the powerful accountable, like the national police, prosecutors and the public protector's office.
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Behind Beal's season-high tally, Washington chipped away at the gap over the course of the late second quarter and into the third and fourth.
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Porter stretched the lead to eight with one of his four 3-pointers but Houston chipped away to get within three with 3:24 left.
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My husband and I kept our children inside, away from the smoke, while the guilt and fear chipped away at my love for the city.
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Three corruption investigations and the Israeli attorney general's announced intention to charge Netanyahu with fraud and bribery have also chipped away at his seeming invincibility.
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Over the years, bill after bill has chipped away at the changes we made, and people today once again see unfairness everywhere in the code.
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The chaos surrounding the Trump administration has chipped away at the president's leverage, he said, making it harder for Republicans to woo red-state Democrats.
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The Giants chipped away at the deficit with single runs in the second and third, scoring on sacrifice flies by Brandon Crawford and Kevin Pillar.
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The Sooners maintained the lead throughout most of the first half, but the Wildcats chipped away until taking a 21986-21990 lead with 7:45 left.
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But Kentucky chipped away, with Quickley canning three free throws after Lee bumped him on a 3-point attempt with 35 seconds left before the break.
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Yes, the Trump administration has chipped away at the ACA, but a lot of that was baked into the system a year ago, when premiums skyrocketed.
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It took more than a decade of dogged and sometimes defiant persistence as Klapper and her colleagues chipped away at layers upon layers of narco bosses.
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The weak data has also chipped away at one of the last supports for the pound: the possibility of a Bank of England interest rate hike.
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Apple once led the pack with its intelligent assistant Siri, but in just a few years, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have chipped away at its lead.
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Oregon State chipped away at the deficit, getting as close as 64-58 on a pair of free throws by Eubanks with 8:06 to go.
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The King of Pop was financially and physically drained in 2009 – just four years after a high-profile molestation trial chipped away at his musical legacy.
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Among those in the red was HSBC, which reported a disappointing annual profit as higher costs and a stocks rout chipped away at its trading businesses.
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The Pistons chipped away in the third quarter and pulled within six at 79-73 on Harris' 3-pointer in the final minute of the quarter.
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The Red Sox chipped away, scoring an unearned run in the third, and Martinez added his solo shot in the fourth to make it 5-2.
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This is the question we spend our lives answering and on the song 'i,' I chipped away at it the best way I know how: sound.
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Apple's revenue from the Greater China region fell 14.1 percent to $10.73 billion in the quarter, as cheaper rivals in the region chipped away at sales.
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But there are indications, too, that some of the resistance is being chipped away and that French attitudes toward gender relations and workplace harassment have shifted.
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Wieskamp gave Iowa its biggest lead of the half at 33-22 on a 3-pointer, but Michigan gradually chipped away during the next eight minutes.
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" These revelations chipped away further at any Democratic advantage because they tapped into what James Sidanius, a Harvard sociologist, calls "white resentment of the liberal establishment.
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Aldridge's 232-pointer early in the third quarter gave the Spurs their largest lead of the season at 216-220 before New York slowly chipped away.
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Illinois slowly chipped away and, when Lykes picked up his fourth foul with 12:30 left trying unsuccessfully to draw a charge, Miami led 67-50.
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Under President Donald Trump, the administration has slowly chipped away at the refugee cap, which dictates how many refugees may be admitted to the United States.
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Chelsea's lead in the Premier League has been chipped away in recent weeks by a resurgent Tottenham, but Saturday's fiery Cup win had clearly boosted Conte's side.
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They have seen their mobile market share chipped away by new companies like Golan Telecom and Hot Mobile, as well as a number of virtual mobile operators.
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Mrs Pelosi, who was a highly regarded Speaker between 2007 and 2011, making her the first woman to hold the job, chipped away at the first group.
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They methodically increased the lead to 22 on Harris' 253-pointer with 2107:33 left in the third quarter, but New Orleans chipped away at the deficit.
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Over the course of Trump's presidency, the administration has chipped away at the refugee ceiling -- the number of refugees who may be admitted to the United States.
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Or has being a husband and father chipped away at a little bit of that "America's boyfriend" image burned in our hearts from the boy band era?
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The Celtics led 1.93-21.9 after three and expanded the lead to 23 points with eight minutes left in the fourth before the Knicks chipped away again.
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The Mavericks' shooting cooled in the third as the Blazers chipped away at the deficit, riding the hot play of Hood and McCollum before Lillard took over.
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She worked in Ohio; Michigan; Richmond, Va.; and Chicago before settling in New York City, as she chipped away at her debt from her trip to America.
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Also, aggressive discounting to attract customers in the U.S. market, where demand has shifted to larger SUVs from sedans, drove up expenses and chipped away at earnings.
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The Trump administration has chipped away at the post-crisis regulatory system, moves that could expose financial system vulnerabilities if the economic threat from the virus intensifies.
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Steinhauer concludes that they have already "chipped away" at the goal of advancing legislation that assists those they represent, as well as mitigating harm their communities face.
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With the taxes chipped away and the mandate gone, though, the law becomes somewhat more palatable for many in the GOP, even if they would prefer repeal.
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Monday's news will pile pressure on Walmart and Target, which in recent years have chipped away at Amazon's lead with their own offers of free two-day shipping.
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However, UCLA chipped away over the ensuing six-plus minutes, taking its first lead since the first half on a David Singleton 3-pointer with 7:14 remaining.
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The Raptors led by as many as 14 before the Knicks chipped away in the third quarter, cutting the lead to 1 on a floater by Lance Thomas.
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Already, Ofo and arch rival Mobike have chipped away at Didi's share of short journeys and struck deals with local governments with the aim of solving congestion problems.
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"It is incredibly painful," Clyburn told me when I asked about how it felt to see all this progress chipped away at in the span of a year.
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The results come less than a week after TBC's former chair, Mamuka Khazaradze, stepped down following money laundering charges, which chipped away nearly 17% off TBC's market value.
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The Democrat represents nearby Flint, Michigan — a Democratic stronghold that Trump chipped away at in 2016, winning 42.59% of the vote versus Mitt Romney's 35.24% in Genesee County.
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South Carolina made just two of its first 19 shots in the second half and went scoreless for nearly five minutes as Georgia chipped away at the deficit.
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The women's rights movement changed gender norms; anti-racism and civil rights movements chipped away at old racial hierarchies; gay rights have led to a redefinition of marriage.
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Since being elected Cook County State's Attorney in 2016, Foxx has chipped away at the traditional "law and order" system that progressives find excessive, expensive and unnecessarily punitive.
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That's why the Pirates held a 20-7 lead with just under four minutes remaining in the first half, but the Terrapins chipped away in the final minutes.
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Through the centuries, such relics have been chipped away and disseminated across the globe, leading to a secondary market of fake relics which some say spurred the Reformation.
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Baltimore chipped away with four in the eighth, two coming on a Chance Sisco double, and put runners at second and third with no outs in the ninth.
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It was the sixth straight month of price gains and a decisive end to a two-year price slump that had chipped away at consumer wealth and confidence.
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The case is familiar to those who've been listening to American Public Media's podcast "In the Dark," which chipped away at key elements of the prosecution's case. 6.
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Monday's news will pile pressure on Walmart and Target Corp , which in recent years have chipped away at Amazon's lead with their own offers of free two-day shipping.
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The Wildcats steadily chipped away at the deficit in the second half and tied the score at 52 on an inside bucket from Olah with five minutes to play.
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The comparative immunity from legal liability of digital platforms—for the posting of inflammatory content on Facebook, say, or the vetting of drivers on Uber—is being chipped away.
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Since taking power in late 2016, the PSD has chipped away at the independence of the judiciary, prompting criticism from the EU and the largest street protests in decades.
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We're starting to see the wall being chipped away in cities like New York, San Francisco, London and Barcelona, thanks to local government agencies' growing willingness to rethink procurement.
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Even as states have chipped away at abortion access over the past several years — through strict requirements on clinics, providers, and women seeking abortions — the issue rarely feels urgent.
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"The reason I agreed to Annie was because I thought I still looked cute enough, and my charm was not totally chipped away," Finney joked to PEOPLE in 1982.
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Wade was decided, abortion opponents started passing new restrictions on the procedure — many of which were upheld in later court cases that chipped away at some of Roe's protections.
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But the Raptors, coming off a 212-point win over Cleveland, chipped away constantly in the second half, and had a chance to go ahead in the final minute.
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Bowling Green chipped away at the deficit and pulled within seven before Mays' three-point play with five seconds left sent LSU into halftime with a 46-36 lead.
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However, budget cuts and other reforms have chipped away at special education programs for gifted children in some parts of the country, making them far from a sure thing.
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It is a move that has given Trump more of a voice, and more of a public persona, and chipped away at the mystery of who she really is.
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"With each trade, they chipped away at the savings of thousands of retirees whose pensions they were charged with safeguarding," Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in a statement.
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As the day wore on, and the Europeans chipped away at their deficit, the level of frustration, and a few blood alcohol levels, rose discernibly in the gargantuan galleries.
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The Lakers used runs of 27-20 and 9-0 during the second quarter to gain a 13-point advantage before the Pistons chipped away in the final minute.
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Since 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court has slowly chipped away at harsh, mandatory sentences for kids, ruling in 2012 that it's unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to life without parole.
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Divers finally had a breakthrough, literally, when they chipped away at rocks and enlarged a passageway that had been too small to pass through while wearing an air tank.
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Since the late 1990s, conservative activists — often with the help of conservative presidents — have steadily chipped away at sex education by funding and mandating abstinence-only policies in schools.
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The Wizards chipped away at the lead and when Ish Smith made a 3-pointer with 4.4 seconds left to complete the first-half scoring, Toronto led 103-51.
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The Cornhuskers led by eight points, 64-163, with 2:15 remaining, but the Tigers chipped away at that lead and pulled to 66-64 with 57 seconds left.
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Atlanta chipped away, drawing within 66-64 by halftime and then going up by as many as eight in the fourth quarter before the Heat's late surge forced overtime.
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It also was the season-long focus of a podcast that chipped away at key elements of the prosecution's arguments and was cited by Mr. Flowers's lawyers in court.
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If we don't speak out loudly when even minor threats against our freedom of expression are made by elected officials, then little by little that right will be chipped away.
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But behind Nick Rakocevic, who scored 213 of his 221 points after halftime, USC (221-212, 6-4) chipped away to cut the gap to as few as three points.
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"For me, living in constant fear of Rob's anger and being subjected to his degrading tirades for years chipped away at my independence and sense of self-worth," she wrote.
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The aide said Booker is running on the idea that America needs to restore justice and fairness in a time when the Trump administration has chipped away at it. Sen.
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While his administration has chipped away at regulations, the coal sector remains in the doldrums, under pressure from cheaper and cleaner natural gas, more than a year into Trump's presidency.
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Now that's getting chipped away, but when you're allowed complete immunity, you tend to ... I think there's a bright line between that and what happened to Facebook last year. Yeah.
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Since taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has chipped away at negotiations with teachers and other unions, but the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association contract was still a major sticking point.
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If this happens, the Trump administration will have chipped away one of the main legacies of President Obama, and Republicans will have won their years-long battle for healthcare reform.
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The Court has further chipped away at federal and state campaign finance laws in areas such as overall contribution limits and effective public financing in elections with big-money candidates.
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But social mores are changing, and much as the #MeToo movement has taken hold in the US, the culture of silence in Japan is also being chipped away, albeit slowly.
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The Cubs chipped away, closing within 6-3 in the last of the fifth on an RBI single by Rizzo and a run-producing error by Diamondbacks third baseman Descalso.
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This has slowly chipped away at our markets and created growing unease across the countryside, especially as farmers are facing their bankers, seeking loans to put in next year's crop.
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In recent weeks, as France debated the burkini, Turkey again chipped away at old taboos, allowing female police officers, for the first time, to wear head scarves on the job.
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The advocates blame decades of inadequate funding for in-home and community-based services across the country -- a lack of funding that has chipped away at the mental health system.
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As he chipped away at the coalface, a sense of frustration grew as he saw other Australian baseball players who he grew up with making it in the United States.
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Soon, you've got silver and gold blocks to contend with—the former eventually break once you've chipped away at their shiny exterior for long enough, but the golds are indestructible.
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The Knights chipped away, with Edge hitting a 3-pointer and a layup in the last minute of the half to reduce the deficit to 41-34 at the intermission.
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When that does not happen, they warn, countries risk following in the footsteps of Venezuela, Hungary, Turkey and other nations where elected leaders have chipped away at democracy from within.
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But the financial sector chipped away at the bill's "Volcker rule"—which set limits on the proprietary trading that had generated the huge losses—and at the regulations for derivatives.
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But the Yankees chipped away at Houston starter Zack Greinke, who has lost two consecutive starts in the postseason and has given up five home runs in the two games.
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Most of my acne scarring resides in the center of my face, resembling oversized pores, and although I'm passionate about skin positivity, these scars have chipped away at my confidence.
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They spent much of Trump's first year in power trying to do so, and although they have chipped away at major pillars of Obamacare, the law remains on the books.
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But since emerging from the ruins of the Soviet Union as an independent country in 1991, Kazakhstan has steadily chipped away at the legacy of Moscow's political and cultural hegemony.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday chipped away at a $20 million judgment The Chamberlain Group Inc won in a patent case against a rival maker of electronic garage door openers.
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After defeating ISIS in Raqqa, the SDF advanced south to Deir al-Zour, where the SDF chipped away at ISIS territory, finally taking the very last ISIS holdout in March 21.
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Versions of the Senate bill have chipped away at those protections, but moderates have made it clear that they are opposed to changes that go as far as the House's did.
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Among the stocks in the red and pulling indexes down was HSBC, which reported a disappointing annual profit as higher costs and a stocks rout chipped away at its trading businesses.
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Like Harris, Klobuchar was among the most effective cross-examiners that Barr faced on Wednesday, setting up a crisp chain of questions that chipped away at the reliability of his analysis.
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"We knew it was in there somewhere, so we were careful as we chipped away at something like 40 tons of concrete until we got to the very bottom," Trout said.
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Atlanta chipped away with runs in the third, fourth and sixth innings before Washington's Matt Adams hit a pinch-hit homer in the eighth to cut the lead to 4-2.
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That was the fourth straight month of gains and a boon for the economy after a two-year downturn chipped away at household wealth and confidence, undermining consumption and business earnings.
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The Giants chipped away, with two runs charged to starter Nathan Eovaldi in the seventh after he had thrown more than 100 pitches while trying to give the bullpen some rest.
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After Deschamps-Braly made an incision between Abby's nostrils and peeled back her skin to reveal the structure of her nose, Byalaya handed him a small hammer, and he chipped away.
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"Our membership has stated unequivocally that we are opposed to situations where our military and veterans' financial protections are chipped away to increase the profits of the big banks," Rohan said.
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Sun Diamond Growers of California chipped away at the government's ability to prosecute officials for taking what are known as gratuities — or minor gifts given to them by businesses or allies.
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The combination of mid-single-digit health-care inflation and the proliferation of high-deductible plans has increased consumer direct health-care costs and further chipped away at our discretionary dollars.
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The filibuster has been chipped away at in recent years, with the party in control of the Senate deploying what lawmakers call "the nuclear option" to unilaterally change the chamber's rules.
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Republican-controlled legislatures have chipped away at abortion rights, turning the tide in a broad swath of the country's middle and the South: Six states are down to one abortion clinic.
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Startups like Harry's and Dollar Shave Club — which was acquired last year by Unilever for $1 billion— have steadily chipped away at that dominance with similar razor cartridges at a lower price.
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Barbs from President Donald Trump have chipped away at the prestige of work that some consider already tarnished by leaks and the belief that "enhanced interrogations" is another way of saying torture.
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Some might argue that it should be reassuring, since the election, to see more people talking about, even preparing in case the worst comes to pass and democracy is gradually chipped away.
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In June, a report from New Food Economy surfaced the domain-buying issue, a move that effectively inflated its own bottom line and chipped away at potential profit margins of local businesses.
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This year, Frieze Masters has chipped away at PAD's fine arts lineup; the Richard Green and Mazzoleni galleries, both first-time exhibitors at the pavilion fair in 270, defected to Frieze Masters.
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The Wizards led 51-40 at halftime but the Celtics chipped away, and two free throws from Tremont Walters pulled Boston within 63-61 with 4:333 remaining in the third quarter.
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Many of the GOP proposals to repeal Obamacare last year would have chipped away at or eliminated the law's ironclad defense of those with pre-existing conditions in hopes of reducing premiums.
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The Bluejays made 7 of 10 from long distance in the first half and tallied 14 assists, building a 22-point advantage before the Mustangs chipped away behind their own solid shooting.
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But the tides began to turn in the second half of the decade as a flood of scandals chipped away at the idea that tech companies — and tech founders — are inherently good.
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Congress did pass legislation last month that chipped away at the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which for decades has guarded internet-based companies from liability for what users post on their platforms.
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But press reports, and now this latest indictment, have chipped away at that explanation to the point where her clandestine link to a Russian government official has resulted in a criminal charge.
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These browsers were faster and more advanced than Internet Explorer and they slowly chipped away at Microsoft's browser market share, prompting Microsoft to essentially kill IE in 2015 and replace it with Edge.
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Over the next year and a half, negotiators chipped away at Chinese recalcitrance towards policy change to their drug market, and their belief that fentanyl enforcement was only a political whim of Trump's.
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Congress has chipped away at the cases subject to mandatory review by the Supreme Court, but it has kept it for redistricting cases where an election looms and time is of the essence.
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While there is legislation in place protecting older workers — the Age Discrimination in Employment Act — a series of Supreme Court rulings since the law's enactment in 1967 has chipped away at those rights.
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It has chipped away at a number of environmental regulations and Zinke himself has overseen aspects of that process, with the Interior Department working to advance Trump's goal of boosting domestic energy production.
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The difference Wednesday was the Warriors chipped away at the Cavaliers' lead and tied the score 26-26 on a pull-up jumper by Durant with 32.6 seconds left in the opening quarter.
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"Even if you don't clear it at the end of that zero percent, if you've made a good effort, you'll have chipped away at a significant portion of that debt," says NextAdvisor's Baird.
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Trump, since taking office in January, has systematically chipped away at numerous decisions made under Obama, including moves to undermine the former president's sweeping health care law and his nuclear deal with Iran.
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Milwaukee led by 235 at halftime, but the Wizards chipped away in the third quarter and trailed by nine after Jeff Green's two free throws with 250:37 left in the third quarter.
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Since taking office in 2016, the Social Democrats have chipped away at the independence of the judiciary, also triggering sharp criticism from the European Union and the country's largest street protests in decades.
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But paying his legal teams, led by Blair Berk in Hollywood and Benjamin Brafman in Manhattan, and his ongoing divorce, have chipped away at that fortune, said several people close to Mr. Weinstein.
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Yet again and again she has chipped away at the practice, previously considered a real tool of soft power, a way to subtly support local industry or suggest outreach to a host country.
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In recent weeks, Mr. Ramaphosa chipped away at Mr. Zuma's support with an undeniable argument: The prospects of the party and its members would be better in a government led by Mr. Ramaphosa.
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But the Republicans pressing the Iowa legislation are making a decisive turn away from the smaller, more incremental measures of the past that have, in their view, merely chipped away at abortion rights.
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Denver chipped away, getting within 97-96 on two free throws by Jokic with 2:23 left, and after Davis split a pair from the line, the Nuggets missed two chances to tie.
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Trump hasn't shied away from blasting decisions Obama made during his tenure, and has steadily chipped away at key pieces of Obama's legacy like the Paris climate accord and the Affordable Care Act.
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Mr. Pai has already chipped away at more than a dozen regulations, including aspects of net neutrality and the program, known as Lifeline, that provides subsidies for broadband users in low-income households.
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The Wizards led by as much as 2111 in the second quarter but the Pistons chipped away as four of their players had at least nine first-half points, led by Morris' 23.
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Golden State appeared headed for an easy win with a 239.8-point lead late in the third quarter, but the Timberwolves chipped away, getting within six on multiple occasions in the fourth period.
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Gradually the lead eroded as the Yankees chipped away, first with four runs against Nick Martinez (3-3) on a single by Judge and a three-run homer by Sanchez in the fifth.
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But the bills that Congress came up with in 2017 in the Republicans' failed attempt to repeal and replace the law would have also chipped away at the protections for those with preexisting conditions.
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As Game of Thrones chipped away at Jaime's familial responsibilities and relationship with Cersei, a real human being emerged — and he even made an actual friend through his road trip with Brienne of Tarth.
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Several rulings since then have further chipped away at worker rights; according to the Economic Policy Institute, the share of workers subject to mandatory arbitration provisions has more than doubled since the early aughts.
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"There was a time Seventh Generation owned this market, and little by little, competitors chipped away at it," said Joel Makower, chairman of GreenBiz, a media company that tracks corporate sustainability and green marketing.
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Last week, bigger telecoms player Bharti Airtel posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit as the drop in interconnection fees, which are set to be abolished entirely from 2020, chipped away at its earnings.
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Oklahoma led by 23 early in the second half but the Cowboys chipped away, with a chance to take the lead after Michael Weathers' steal with 251:153 remaining and Oklahoma State down one.
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Abortion care is a normal and at times necessary medical procedure, but anti-choice activists have strategically chipped away at abortion rights and access for decades, with the hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Banks that were on the brink of failure ten years ago are now boasting record profits and have steadily chipped away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform law signed by Obama in 2010.
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What binds them, I think, is how each one chipped away at a coat of armor I'd been using my whole life to avoid emotional release, a way of preventing myself from being vulnerable.
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More openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were elected Tuesday night than in any previous election, signaling a shift in cultural attitudes even as the Trump administration has chipped away at L.G.B.T. rights.
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Policy shift While Netanyahu and Trump chip away at long-established norms about not playing in other countries' politics, they've also chipped away at decades of US policy supporting a negotiated, two-state solution.
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Wade's provisions have been steadily chipped away by state laws that ban the procedure after a specified number of weeks, or impose mandatory waiting periods, or effectively forbid online purchases of misoprostol and mifepristone.
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At the same time, Fitbit's dominant share of the fitness tracking sector continues to be chipped away by cheaper offerings from companies such as China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK).
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Besides the disagreement between France and Germany, it is also the nature of negotiations between the eurozone countries that grand ideas get chipped away at until a compromise is reached that satisfies all parties.
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Their votes have become even more critical in the Senate after the special election in Alabama this month sent a Democrat to the upper chamber and chipped away at the GOP's slim majority there.
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The tech behemoth has already chipped away at Walgreen's, who is facing difficulties in the front of the store and the pharmacy, and CVS, which is nursing its health care strategy with Aetna, Cramer said.
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Qualcomm claimed that Apple stole "vast swaths" of its "confidential information and trade secrets," and it's chipped away at Apple with small but meaningful court victories, leading to partial iPhone bans in Germany and China.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians protested across the country on Sunday after the government passed an emergency decree that critics said chipped away at prosecutors' independence in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.
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These Supreme Court decisions over the years have chipped away at key safeguards, including the Voting Rights Act and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, both put in place to protect the integrity of our elections.
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A deal for Fitbit would come as its dominant share of the fitness tracking sector continues to be chipped away by cheaper offerings from companies such as China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Xiaomi Corp.
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A deal for Fitbit would come as its dominant share of the fitness tracking sector continues to be chipped away by cheaper offerings from companies such as China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Xiaomi Corp.
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Utah chipped away at the lead quickly in the second, and the teams went back and forth until the Jazz finished the half on a 5-0 run and led 50-33 at the break.
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At a mountain cabin in the woods in Murphy, North Carolina, the air grew cold as the moon slowly chipped away at the sun before blocking it completely, leaving only a surrounding halo of light.
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Even vehicle-related deaths have declined dramatically, as improving car-safety technology, stricter enforcement of seatbelt laws, and a nationwide crackdown on driving under the influence have chipped away at this stubbornly high fatality rate.
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The swift, global spread of the coronavirus has chipped away at one of the cornerstones of the financial system: the vast market for bonds, where companies and governments go to borrow money to fund operations.
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But when ISIS began to lose its caliphate — its territory chipped away by Kurdish groups, Shia militias, the Iraqi army, and US-led airstrikes — the narrative of victory and invincibility began to collapse as well.
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Atlanta chipped away at a double-digit deficit before forging a tie at 102 after Collins sank a 3-pointer and a jumper on consecutive possessions and Bembry made a jumper and subsequent foul shot.
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Congress's track record does not bode well: it will likely fail to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program before its September 30 deadline, and it has chipped away funding for other block grants over time.
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Looming corruption charges - he has denied any wrongdoing - have also chipped away at Netanyahu's seeming invincibility, 10 years into consecutive terms as prime minister marked by a sharp focus on security that resonated with voters.
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Even as Bloomberg's proposal puts him well within the mainstream of a Democratic Party that has fiercely defended the regulatory framework enacted by former President Obama and which has been chipped away at by Republicans.
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For more than a year, courts close to Mr. Maduro have chipped away at the powers of opposition lawmakers there, overturning laws like a measure to release political prisoners and stripping it of budgetary oversight.
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Her proposed "Great Repeal Bill", which will get rid of all existing EU law from the statute book, will in fact merely translate it into British law, to be chipped away later at leisure if desired.
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"Our membership has stated unequivocally that we are opposed to situations where our military and veterans' financial protections are chipped away to increase the profits of the big banks," said American Legion National Commander Denise Rohan.
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MBS has chipped away at the wilaya (guardianship) system, which puts women under the thumb of male relatives, and curbed the religious police, who used to hound young Saudis for such offences as wearing nail polish.
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The dollar's losses on Thursday chipped away at its gains since May 18, when minutes from the Fed's April policy meeting signalled the central bank had edged closer to a rate increase in the near term.
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A 234-pointer by junior forward Troy Williams gave Indiana its largest lead at 21-219 with 03:20 to play before the Golden Gophers chipped away and pulled within 234-234 with 1:45 left.
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Photographs of the mural – which showed one of the EU's golden stars being chipped away at – appeared on Banksy's own website and verified Instagram account on Sunday, indicating that the street artist was behind the artwork.
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He presided over the largest rollback of federal land protections in US history, started the process of opening nearly all US coastal waters to drilling, and chipped away at environmental regulations like the Endangered Species Act.
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After Stanton's 447-foot homer on Keller's full-count fastball went off the facing of an advertisement in left-center, the Yankees chipped away further in the sixth by opening the inning with three straight singles.
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It's time for policymakers to stand up for working people, restoring the rights that have been chipped away at for the past four decades and instituting new ones to adapt to the changing nature of work.
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The vote marks a challenge to China and would require annual reviews of Hong Kong's special status under U.S. law to assess the extent to which China has chipped away at the city's autonomy (Bloomberg News).
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Building a nine-point halftime lead, the Buckeyes were up 48-27 before Rutgers chipped away and got the deficit to eight before the game slipped as the Scarlet Knights trailed by as many as 20.
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In jeopardy for them and that it would be removed or it's been sort of chipped away at on certain topics, but now brought more broadly, you think there could be... Well, they just love 248.
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While McFarlane Toys hasn't chipped away at the oligopoly of the toy industry the way Image did with comics, it has moved more than 100 million blood-drenched, weapon-wielding figures since it hit the scene.
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"If we want to stop the trend of women's access to safe, legal abortion being chipped away, then we need to commit to electing pro-choice Democratic women at EVERY level of office," the email reads.
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Williams' formidable serve sprung her from peril four times in the deciding set but the bullet-proof confidence which has defined her career was gradually chipped away as Wang defiantly dragged her into a tense dogfight.
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Habits for thrift and smaller but more often shops then stuck, leaving Britain's big four grocers, also including No. 4 Morrisons, scratching their heads over how to better compete as their market shares were chipped away.
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But the Cavaliers, seeking to win for just the second time in 10 games, chipped away, eventually getting as close as 27-23 on a Larry Nance Jr. 251-pointer with still 236:220 to play.
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What I don't fully get is the approximate sum of, oh, about £40,000 [$51,632] currently being chipped away, with all the power of a wooden toothpick at an iceberg, by monthly contributions taken directly from my paycheck.
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"It was really important for us to show all the ways that this right that women have taken for granted for so long has been chipped away at and the consequences of that long opposition," says Fisher.
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It's not just the immediate political challenges, though they are plentiful, but the specter of Cerdà, whose own egalitarian vision was chipped away by greed, myopia, and the dictates of commerce — and remains unfulfilled to this day.
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Chinese banks, among the world's biggest by market value, also face rising volumes of sour debt, forcing a quicker pace of write-offs - even as a series of rate cuts has chipped away at their interest income.
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Any deal would be the latest tie-up in Switzerland's fragmented private banking industry, under pressure after global prosecutors chipped away at Swiss bank secrecy rules that enabled the wealthy to keep cash hidden from the taxman.
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Britain's Mark Cavendish, culpable for the crash, chipped away at Viviani's lead in the standings, as did charging 123 champion Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark, but Viviani showed admirable composure in the heat of an attritional battle.
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With the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) having chipped away at support for Merkel's conservatives by attacking her open-door refugee policy, alarm is growing over the influence of bots and fake news on potential voters.
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She was a passionate advocate for the environment and for peace, a woman whose own struggle with mental illness chipped away at deep stigma, and a star whose most famous role tells us much about feminist progress.
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The controversy over a sweetheart land deal at the school has chipped away at Abe's support and sent Japanese shares briefly lower on Thursday, and any questions over the donation could cast further doubt over the deal.
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The process alienated committee chairmen, whose work took a back seat to the efforts of the elusive chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina, and it chipped away at their authority.
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Since entering office in 2010, Mr. Orban has gradually chipped away at the country's democratic framework, reducing judicial independence, taking control of most state and private media and reshaping the electoral system to favor his party, Fidesz.
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These restrictions have chipped away at abortion access for years — for example, a Texas law regulating the state's abortion clinics forced 21 of the state's 40 abortion clinics to close in just three years, the Texas Tribune reported.
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AfD and the liberal Greens surged by about 9% in both states, suggesting that the strength of the German establishment — as we've seen all over the world in 2018 — is being chipped away by an ever-polarizing electorate.
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The Padres chipped away at the deficit, with Tatis blasting a two-run homer, his third, off Bumgarner in the fifth, and Myers a solo shot, his third, to make it a 5-3 game in the sixth.
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Higher R&D spending, increased material costs and a weaker automotive market chipped away at ZF's operating profit in 2018, with a fall of 9 percent to 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) on sales of 36.9 billion euros.
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Taking up several rooms of this sprawling hilltop museum, "Twilight Over Berlin" chronicles how Nazism chipped away at the creativity and reputation of dozens of artists who hit career highs in the waning years of the Weimar Republic.
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Over the years the groups have chipped away at the nation's pro-immigrant consensus, lobbying on Capitol Hill for greater enforcement at the southwestern border, a reduction in legal immigration and sanctions against employers who hire unauthorized immigrants.
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The Supreme Court chipped away Monday at the traditional wall separating church and state, ruling 7-2 that states cannot exclude religious institutions from state programs that have a purely secular intent — in this case, making playgrounds safer.
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Her older son was disciplined about working and graduated with less than $25,000 in loans, but her younger son racked up so much debt he had to live at home after graduation while he aggressively chipped away at it.
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But even as the military campaign chipped away at the Islamic State's caliphate, the group was branching out, founding and supporting new franchises and cultivating relationships in Afghanistan, Libya, the Philippines, the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere.
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Democrats see healthcare as central to their efforts to win back the White House and build on gains in congressional races in 2020 after Republican President Donald Trump chipped away at Democratic predecessor Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.
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A long-standing headache caused by outstanding debts in Venezuela eased, as deliveries of five cargoes under an oil-for-debt deal chipped away 45% of what it was owed during the first half of the year, Imaz said.
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Boston led 80-73 entering the fourth period, but the Pacers, playing at home for the first time in the series, chipped away, getting within 88-87 with 6:05 to play when Wesley Matthews made three free throws.
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In the meantime, new regulations — issued pursuant to the president's Inauguration Day executive order — have chipped away at the A.C.A., leading to a drop in enrollments through the exchanges from 12.7 million in 2016 to 11.4 million this year.
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Mr. Brat is hardly alone among Tea Party-aligned Republicans who are now in highly competitive races in Texas, California, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New York and other states where the swelling suburbs have chipped away at the rural Republican strongholds.
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Feinblatt said Everytown took a cue from the architects of the marriage-equality movement, which chipped away at state restrictions on same-sex marriage until scoring a historic victory in 1981 when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.
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Gradually, too, other explanations have been chipped away, he said: For example, some people might say that perhaps a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia led some people to use cannabis and this is the reason for higher rates of psychosis.
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Gradually the Democratic leadership chipped away at the Stupak coalition of pro-life Democrats, culminating in Bart agreeing to vote for the bill in exchange for an executive order that primarily just restated the accounting gimmicks in the bill.
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Her decision comes after significant losses by the CDU and its coalition partners during recent state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and liberal Greens have chipped away at the coalition's ruling majority.
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The entire history of his family, the world itself, the solar system and galaxy, swirled around him now in weird silence, and he felt blood dribble down inside his body and the clock, the clock, chipped away at his existence.
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Since taking power in late 2016, the PSD has chipped away at the independence of the judiciary, prompting criticism from the EU. Voters punished the PSD in a May 26 European Parliament election, which the party lost to centrist groupings.
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"As we talked about this more and more, and shared more examples of how it is possible for museums of all sizes to pay more of their interns, with the goal of paying everyone, the resistance has chipped away," she said.
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Over the past month, the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have chipped away at ISIS' control around Mosul, the largest city it controls and the place where ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared the "caliphate" two years ago.
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Despite the 90-day expiration date on the travel ban, its path has been littered with a series of false starts and stops for the last eight months as federal courts have chipped away at its original intent and scope.
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Parker tells me "searching to not feel lonely isn't what I was looking for, but it was what I found on the Internet — something that was since destroyed, that was chipped away" by the very social network he helped create: Facebook.
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It was in this manner — percussively, repeatedly — that he helped bolster the case for an invasion of Iraq and chipped away at Republican support for a bipartisan 2007 path-to-citizenship bill that later perished in the United States Senate.
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In his front yard in Poland, Jaroslaw Kurski flies the European Union flag, blue with a circle of yellow stars, and he carries one during street protests against a nationalist government that has chipped away at his country's young democracy.
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These overhauls have reversed or chipped away at years of French social and economic policy, making the labor market more flexible, lightening the fiscal burden on the rich, ending the protected status of railway workers, and making universities mildly selective.
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These tensions — coming at a time when the nation is once again battling over the effectiveness of school integration — are the latest development in a series of changes that, in recent decades, have steadily chipped away at Louisville's original integration plan.
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Billing itself as a modern, progressive league of the future, MLS has slowly chipped away at the stereotypical notion of the stodgy pro sports boardroom in its first 25 years, recently adding its first female majority-owned team to its ranks.
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Dallas chipped away before Harrison Barnes sank a 3-pointer with 24.5 seconds left to cut the deficit to 112-223, and Mavericks rookie Luka Doncic scored off a drive to tie the score at 26-29 with 210 seconds remaining.
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Analysts worry that India's attempt at marrying a pluralist society with a secularist system of governance will continue to be chipped away at as the ideas proposed by Hindu nationalists gain mainstream credence and support from citizens and public institutions.
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A 3-pointer by Ingles made it an 11-point game with 9:232 to go, but the Warriors chipped away, rallying to get as close as 230-212 on a jumper by Kevin Durant with 212:25 to go.
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As Seton Hall chipped away at a 9-point deficit, the fans grew more raucous, reaching a deafening level when Angel Delgado (19 points and 16 rebounds) gave the Pirates a 42-543 lead with 12 minutes 15 seconds left.
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To varying degrees, there's been some sympathy in some of the opinions that have been handed down by courts on this matter, so I think that is one thing that may be chipped away at over time through the legal process.
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Minnesota held an 11-33 lead after six innings on Saturday but Detroit chipped away, drawing within one run on Jose Iglesias' two-run homer in the eighth and walking off with the win on Justin Upton's two-run blast in the ninth.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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They celebrated the passage of a revised version of the No Child Left Behind education law that chipped away at reviled, high-stakes standardized school testing, a long-term infrastructure bill and legislation granting Mr. Obama enhanced power to negotiate major trade agreements.
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Instead of building on this island of success in the sea of red ink in other government programs, Congress has chipped away at the unique features that have produced its success—a judicious use of regulation, genuine market competition, transparency and consumer choice.
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San Diego State (215-6 overall, 2-0 MW) led by 13 points early in the second half, but Utah State chipped away and pulled within 65-64 with 163:04 left when guard Chris Smith made 1 of 2 free throws.
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But the specter of McDonnell is here nonetheless: The case was tried in the shadow of a Supreme Court that repeatedly chipped away at criminal bribery laws, and seems overly concerned about protecting lawmakers, especially when engaged in activities that have become routine.
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After surviving an early barrage of 3-pointers by Harper and Doughty to put Auburn ahead 11-4, the Bulldogs chipped away, ultimately going up 383-20 on a 3-pointer by Jordan Harris with 11:20 left in the first half.
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The Nuggets, who were playing their second home game in as many nights, led by 23 with about eight minutes left in the second quarter and took a comfortable 323-point halftime lead, but New York slowly chipped away in the third quarter.
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The estate tax (the "death tax" label is dishonest) — which is a clear solution to a widening wealth gap, based on centuries of evidence and decades of policy work, gets chipped away at constantly, without enough defenders rising up to support it.
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Placing lawmakers on this scale helps us better organize the groups that have chipped away at Speaker Paul Ryan's majority — and it shows why it's been so difficult for Ryan to find strategic ways to appease certain factions to pass this bill.
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The dollar had recovered from earlier losses after U.S. senators struck a deal to lift a three-day government shutdown but it remained mired near a three-year low against a basket of currencies on lingering concerns about its yield advantage being chipped away.
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Swiss banks have paid billions of dollars in fines in recent years as global prosecutors, led by the United States, chipped away at the secrecy rules that for decades enabled the world's wealthy to keep their cash in Switzerland, out of sight of the taxman.
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Newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai has already chipped away at net neutrality, slowed a program that assists low-income households with broadband access, and hurt efforts to reform exorbitant calling fees for inmates — and that's just his first two weeks on the job.
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Language chipped away through drafts The Trump administration has taken measures to avoid supporting efforts and organizations that provide abortion services to women, including victims of rape, and sources say such language is now viewed by the US as a veiled reference to that.
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Even before the latest twist in her legal woes, a lackluster performance in television debates, a campaign that has been more focused on her main rivals and a misstep over France's role in World War Two had all chipped away at her poll ratings.
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A steal and free throw by Brito gave the Aggies their largest lead, 56-713, with 12:45 remaining, but Nevada slowly chipped away and closed to within two, 65-63, on a pair of Jazz Johnson free throws with 4:22 to go.
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In recent years, Swiss banks have paid billions of dollars in fines as global prosecutors, led by the United States, chipped away at the secrecy that for decades enabled the world's wealthy to keep their cash in Switzerland, out of sight of the tax man.
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"After hours of begging him for scraps of honesty, I chipped away just enough to confirm that this is not the first time he's remorsely [sic] cheated on me," she wrote in another post, listing some of the other women she had questioned him about.
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U.S. tariffs on foreign steel, aluminum and more than $360 billion of Chinese goods have chipped away at profits for companies that depend on imported goods and parts, slowed business investment and weighed on households, particularly those on the lower end of the income scale.
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Representative Robin Kelly, Democrat of Illinois, said she opposed the measure at first but Mr. Jeffries chipped away, asking a fundamental question: If there are people in prison who should be free, then why shouldn't lawmakers take every step possible to help them now?
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While Representative Nancy Pelosi of California has relentlessly — and successfully — chipped away at the Democratic insurgency demanding a change in leadership, the caucus vote this week will provide the first official glimpse of how strong her position is in her quest to regain the speakership.
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Background: Pressure in Hong Kong has been building for some time, as China has slowly but steadily chipped away at its special status, calling into question Beijing's commitment to the "one country, two systems" formula that constituted the foundation of the territory's 1997 handover.
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At the same time, reality TV shows featuring North Korean women — called "defector beauties" — telling all about their lives back home or participating in "The Bachelor"-type searches for love have chipped away at the sense of the North as a land of innocents.
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Mr. Trump's demand for an investigation into the F.B.I.'s scrutiny of his campaign "is the culmination of a lot of moments in which he has chipped away at prosecutorial independence, but this is a direct assault," a professor at New York Law School said.
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Berkshire Hathaway recently made investment headlines with its agreement to purchase the power-transmission company Oncor for $9 billion in cash, a would-be coup for the legendary billionaire, as it would have chipped away at Berkshire's bloated cash balance (of nearly $100 billion).
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In recent years, a handful of fat people have slowly but surely chipped away at the stone walls faced by fat people who want to be seen, who want to ascend to the heights normally reserved for those who have earned visibility through thinness.
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They're citing a new poll from NPR and PBS News that suggests the dramatic confirmation process for Kavanaugh — who has been publicly accused of sexual assault and misconduct by at least three women — has chipped away at the enthusiasm gap between Republican and Democratic voters.
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Or at least, that's the way it seems some YouTubers, many of whom, as both Craig and D'Angelo point out, have grown up in a pretty anti-organized-labor period of American history, a time when many unions have been chipped away into oblivion or toothlessness.
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The WIldcats held an 11-point lead with as little as 5:29 left in the game, but UNC chipped away with timely threes and forced a key turnover with some pressing defense to get the lead down to one point with a minute to play.
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With this exhibition Kautz, a prolific Mexican curator, is using his ongoing Jippies Asquerosos ("dirty hippies") project to investigate the nature of making and curating art in the 21st century, when the boundary between creators and organizers is being steadily chipped away by the chisels of digitalism.
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Chlorofluorocarbons, which were once the preferred propellants for putting the 'spray' in 'hairspray,' chipped away at the ozone layer for decades before someone noticed and put an end to it; huffing remains a common (not to mention deadly) concern; and unemptied cans are still considered hazardous waste.
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Since taking power in 2010, he has steadily chipped away at Hungary's checks and balances, stacking the Constitutional Court with loyalists, reshaping the electoral system to favor his party and placing dozens of watchdog institutions — including the judiciary and prosecution service — under the leadership of his allies.
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Oregon State led by as many as eight points with 12:11 left in the first half, but the Wildcats chipped away and took a 28-26 lead after a back-to-back punch of a Nnaji alley-oop dunk and a 3-pointer from Max Hazzard.
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A day after the prosecution's key witness in the Harvey Weinstein trial dissolved into tears on the stand, defense lawyers on Tuesday again chipped away at her allegation that he raped her — portraying her as an opportunist who had a long romantic relationship with the movie mogul.
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The reasons why individual judges have moved on from their posts on the bench vary, but in interviews with judges who left in recent months, one theme ties them all together: frustration over a mounting number of policy changes that, they argue, chipped away at their authority.
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Though the courts have chipped away at the N.C.A.A.'s powers, they have largely refrained from upending the amateurism model that was put in place long before lucrative television contracts, shoe company deals and sponsorships agreements for football and men's basketball built college sports into a billion-dollar empire.
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Yet time and again, the country's courts — packed by leftist loyalists of Mr. Maduro only days before they handed over power — have fiercely chipped away at the new legislature's efforts, leaving some here wondering whether Venezuela's lawmakers who are pushing for change have any real power at all.
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But Seattle, thanks to a nearly flawless day from Russell Wilson, chipped away at that lead, and in the fourth quarter, Winston paid for his good fortune in the first half by having the ball jarred free from his hand on a sack, resulting in a vital turnover.
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They are also seen as examples of digital services interfering in the labels' relationships with artists, a connection that in decades past was absolute but has already been chipped away by declining record sales and the rise of the concert business as a major source of revenue for artists.
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"By diverting more than 35 percent of the annual corn harvest to fuel additive, the RFS has raised the cost of livestock production, increased food price volatility and insecurity, decreased fuel efficiency, damaged small-engine equipment, hurt the environment and chipped away at household budgets," the letter said.
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Background: Critics say that by appointing Hindu nationalists, scrapping the statehood of what had been India's only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, and passing a citizenship law seen as widely discriminatory against Muslims, Mr. Modi and his allies have slowly chipped away at the country's secular priorities.
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"People are complaining, but I have yet to figure out a better way to do it," a black moderator whose user name is Nasjere told a reporter as he chipped away at a backlog of thousands of forearm photographs one recent afternoon, using various methods to root out fakers.
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Instead of encouraging Trump to fire Mueller or pressing for the Russia investigations to end in the next few weeks, Senate Republicans have chipped away at Mueller's credibility, which might soften the political blow if he issues a damning report on the activities of Trump's campaign and inner circle.
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But $1,200 annual supplement subscriptions, and notions about cutting out entire food groups that target suffering women speak to the importance of taking women's pain seriously within the medical establishment, otherwise, their time, money, and actual health and happiness are at risk of being chipped away by opportunists.
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Mr. Erdogan has already chipped away at Turkey's democratic institutions, purging the courts and civil service of suspected opponents, bringing the media to heel, and leaving in place a state of emergency after a failed coup in 443 that has added a new level of precariousness to the campaign.
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On Monday, Amazon said it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart Inc and Target, which in recent years have chipped away at Amazon's lead with their own offers of free two-day shipping.
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While the words would come, there was a pulsing delivery attached to them, as if primitive human language could never convey the pieces the Kim regime had chipped away from his soul, or the anger that wrapped around him, like a blanket of terror, that he could never shake off.
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The Cardinal chipped away, getting field goals by Ryan Sanborn from 40 yards and 73 yards to cut the lead to 7-6, but Price kicked a 34-yard field goal for Colorado with 32 seconds left in the first half to give the Buffaloes a 10-6 lead at intermission.
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In the decades since Roe, states have also passed laws that have chipped away at abortion access in the US.Many restrictions have made women's' ability to get an abortion increasingly dependent on where they live or whether they have the means to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest location.
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So in the end, a settlement is not just the land it's on, it's also what the location does to the movement of people, what it does to the ability of a road to connect, what it does to the sense of statehood that is chipped away with each new construction.
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"It was surprising" to see how much of the time people devoted to exercise seemed to have been "chipped away from other physical activities," but not from the hours spent sitting in front of the TV, says Charles Matthews, a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute who led the study.
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Fitbit has struggled to gain a foothold in the smartwatch category as Apple and Samsung have cornered a bigger share of the market with more sophisticated devices, while its dominant share of the fitness tracking sector continues to be chipped away by cheaper offerings from China's Huawei and Xiaomi , among others.
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Related: Foreign fighters in Syria turn their weapons on Turkey Where ISIS went For much of 2017, the Syrian Democratic Forces (of which the YPG is the leading element) and the Syrian regime chipped away at ISIS' territorial holdings in northern Syria, culminating in the fall of Raqqa and Deir Ezzor.
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Since being appointed by President Trump in January to lead the commission, Mr. Pai has abolished a plan to open the cable box market, suspended several participants from a program for low-income broadband subsidies, and chipped away at net neutrality, which guarantees consumers equal access to all internet content.
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Down by 281 early in the fourth quarter, the Cavs chipped away and then put the ball in the hands of Irving, whose step-back 25-pointer over Stephen Curry on June 19 helped seal Game 7 of the finals and gave Cleveland its first major pro sports championship since 1964.
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The women in The Handmaid's Tale don't lose their freedom overnight — their liberties are gradually chipped away, law by law — but perhaps of the point of no return is the day they are removed from the workforce, their money and property confiscated, and they are forced to rely on men for financial support.
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Efforts to restrict access to abortion by the Trump administration, and the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, have heightened concerns among many Democrats that federal protections of abortion rights could be chipped away or eventually overturned — and that the next president needs to be a dependable ally on abortion issues.
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Some of the scandals that have hit big programs as well as all the bad press directed at the N.C.A.A. for exploiting college football and basketball players — reaping millions from broadcast fees while the athletes are paid only in easily revoked scholarships — have chipped away at the myth of innocent collegiate competition.
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Especially people who call themselves Punslayin' Tiger Woods: Her confidence soon waned as the game progressed and New England chipped away at the lead, while fans checked in to see if she was getting nervous: And then the Pats actually did it, and pulled off the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
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Republicans in Congress were unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but the Trump administration has chipped away at the law by expanding insurance options that do not comply with the health-care law's rules, cutting funding for outreach to help people sign up for coverage, and shortening the sign-up period (The Hill).
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Now a new type of crisis has emerged — one seemingly promulgated by a federal government that slowly but surely has chipped away the rights of LGBTQ+ people including the ban on transgender soldiers serving in our military or the permission of health-care providers to deny us service under the false guise of religious freedom.
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As the popularity of living alone or with roommates has slowly chipped away at the percentage of people living with a spouse or lover, the demographic shift is largely the result of a "dramatic" decrease in the number of people who choose to "settle down" before they turn 35—not our failure to assimilate into adulthood.
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"I became overwhelmed by so many of the world's problems and my own that it made me want to lay down on the ground in the fetal position, but instead of doing that and waving the white flag, I chipped away at one thing at a time and I realized that things were slowly shifting," the singer explains.
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Before the announcement, the Washington Post's Paul Waldman outlined how dark things could get: That might sound alarmist, but even before Kennedy's retirement, the Supreme Court had gutted regulations intended to fight political corruption, stripped away key components of the Voting Rights Act, chipped away at unions, and came close to striking down the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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So in the end, a settlement is not just the land that it's on, it's also what the location does to the movement of people, what it does to the ability of a road to connect people, one community to another, what it does to the sense of statehood that is chipped away with each new construction.
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In addition to sections of the wall that appear around the city and small pieces chipped away by souvenir-seekers, portions of the wall are displayed in several institutions, including in Freedom Park at Fort Gordon in Georgia (US), at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, and of course, at the Wall Museum and Eastside Gallery in Berlin.
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After years of staying quiet as Hindu lynch mobs killed Muslims with impunity and Mr. Modi's government chipped away at their political power, India's Muslim population awoke in December and poured into the streets, along with many other Indians, to protest the new immigration law, which favors migrants belonging to every major religion in South Asia — except for Muslims.
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As David Sweat and Richard Matt chipped away at the wall of their tunnel located between two cell blocks of Clinton Correctional Facility last spring, the pair were reminded of the critically acclaimed 53 film, which tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a man wrongly convicted of murder who spends 20 years tunneling his way out of prison using only a rock hammer.
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The Bears, who trailed by 232 points in the first half, took a 224-23 lead early in the second half on a McNeill 226-pointer before the Beavers chipped away, taking a 224-103 lead on Seth Berger's tip-in with 210:236 remaining McNeill hit a 228-pointer on the Bears' next possession, and Cal never trailed again.
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The Braves raced out to a three-run lead on a two-run single in the first by Ozzie Albies and an RBI double in the third by Dansby Swanson, but New York chipped away with a solo homer by Dominic Smith in the third and RBI doubles by Jeff McNeil in the fourth and sixth to tie it at 13-3.
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The House bill Republicans introduced last year to replace the ACA would have chipped away at protections for those with pre-existing conditions, though: While it required that people with pre-existing conditions be offered insurance, it didn't control how much insurers could charge people who disclosed conditions.. According to a separate Fox News poll, which surveyed 1,007 registered voters Oct.
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Forced to start a game without Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers for just the eighth time in the last 25 years, the Packers got a decent first half from Brett Hundley, but as the game wore on the Saints chipped away, going ahead to stay when Wil Lutz hit a 44-yard field goal with 10:26 left in the fourth quarter.
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African-Americans had long protested these statues, from young black schoolgirls, who chipped away at the proslavery John C. Calhoun's statue in Charleston so that it had to be put on an 80-foot pedestal, to the 15-year NAACP boycott of South Carolina for flying the Confederate battle flag on state grounds that ended in 2015, after the flag came down.
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Over the last two years, Federal District Court judges in the state have chipped away at Mr. Obama's legacy by striking down or suspending no fewer than five regulations, executive orders or actions, and guidelines, including an action that would have allowed illegal immigrants who are parents of United States citizens to remain in the country, and guidance that would have expanded restroom access for transgender students.
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Minnesota increased its lead to 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Adrianza, but the A's chipped away with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly by Chad Pinder in the sixth and cut the lead to 5-4 an inning later when Marcus Semien walked, advanced to third on a double by Chapman and scored on a wild pitch by reliever Trevor May.
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A world with highly favorable treatment of pass-through income could create a dynamic where the traditional definition of a job is chipped away at the high end, with the best-compensated executives seeking to redefine their work relationship as a contract between a company and an S corporation or L.L.C. For every child who grows up dreaming of having a limited liability company of his or her own, President Trump's tax plan promises a dazzling future.
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