Escalations of attacks — and particularly extended escalations, such as the intifadas — seriously diminished Israelis' political tolerance.
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"One of the main escalations channels that we have is a press escalations channel," James Mitchell, the leader of Facebook's Risk and Response team, said.
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And while judging what will provoke American escalations against Iran is not straightforward, she said, those escalations have come steadily enough as to seem almost inevitable.
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If poorly timed, these escalations could worsen a student's symptoms.
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It urged all parties to show restraint and stop escalations.
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He's sent in about 263 escalations since December, he said.
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But the impact of Trump's latest escalations go beyond just agriculture.
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Those escalations become very significant, again, because of the margin squeeze.
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Events like military escalations cause uncertainty, which pushes traders to sell.
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We have seen these periodic de-escalations in tensions in the past.
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Trudeau said he was very concerned about escalations in tensions with Iran.
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Critics call it a shoot-first law that encourages escalations of violence.
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WM: I don't question that, I'm saying what if escalations involve disruptions?
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Countering those escalations would require an even greater commitment of U.S. troops.
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That's trickier because it's harder to imagine dramatic escalations under the current situation.
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In the last month, both sides reached a temporary ceasefire on new escalations.
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The twist is how that leader's response can lead to further unexpected escalations.
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WM: What about if there were further escalations that involved Qatar's LNG output?
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Gabriel told reporters that Jubeir agreed it was critical to avoid further escalations.
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Between the lines: Previous escalations between Iran and Israel in Syria have been contained.
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International tensions threaten unpredictable new escalations like Turkey's recent incursion on the northern border.
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You will coach our existing team, be POC for escalations, and onboard incoming team members.
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Read more: Trump ramps up his criticisms of China's trade policies as tariff escalations loom
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President Trump Saturday suggested that US allies should not be overly worried by recent escalations.
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The bride's father, a lawyer, retired as the escalations director in accounting, in Mundelein, Ill.
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One caveat is that the survey was done in June, before the recent tariff escalations.
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Second, unlike previous escalations, this gambit could push Iran's nuclear program into dangerous uncharted territory.
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It is crucial to avoid any further escalations, which would be in no one's interest.
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Small escalations of danger are actually embedded into the narrative progression of the game itself, too.
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The big picture: This was only one of three substantial U.S. escalations against China this week.
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European stocks closed lower on Monday as investors monitored escalations in the U.S.-China trade war.
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There is a gloomy pattern to these repeated escalations, the last of which occurred in May.
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Israel has not commented in other recent escalations about the existence of any agreements with Hamas.
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Lam briefly stood was itself a reminder of one of the protest movement's most dramatic escalations.
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Markets have experienced months of volatility amid mixed signals around tariff escalations and positive Sino-U.
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"Russia will ultimately bear responsibility for any further escalations in Syria," Haley said in a statement.
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"The important point is that escalations in the separation-of-powers game are likely to produce further escalations, especially when the stakes are high and politically salient, and especially in a particular domain — judicial confirmations — where escalation responding to escalation is already the established dynamic," Primus writes.
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" But it added that the "window to avoid further escalations in US/China tensions is closing fast.
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And despite significant escalations, the two sides have managed to avoid a sustained large-scale conflict. How?
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At least one trade advisor — China hawk Peter Navarro — has generally supported the trade war escalations. Sen.
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As Kozak says, Assad had lost ground for most of 2015 before the Russian and Iranian escalations.
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It allows us to not just make positive progress, but also to avoid unnecessary escalations or confrontations.
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Most experts agree that the most dangerous part of this approach has been Mr. Putin's unprovoked escalations.
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Salman told the Arab meeting that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" in the region.
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The developments mark the most significant escalations in the prolonged standoff over Catalonia's secessionist ambitions so far.
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The State Department has called on Russia to cease its escalations and attacks on civilians in northwest Syria.
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Automate your contributions, and set up auto-escalations to increase your contribution percentage every six months or year.
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The outbreak is one of the most significant escalations in violence since 85033, according to The Associated Press.
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He said he was ready to work with regional actors to prevent further escalations, including across the region.
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The tentative signs of rapprochement come following announcements of tariff escalations from both sides in the trade war.
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The band makes a deeply rooted form of experimental jazz, tending toward dark, viscid harmonies and patient escalations.
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The disaster and subsequent unrest comes amid one of the biggest escalations between Tehran and Washington since 1979.
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Khan observed that neither country could afford any "miscalculations," warning that further escalations could spiral out of control.
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When rival nations have large nuclear arsenals, mistakes or unintended escalations or stupid decisions by leaders can be catastrophic.
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When the video was flagged again, it escalated to the Silicon Valley team, as most escalations reportedly still do.
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Iran has at times responded to American escalations by announcing it will no longer comply with certain nuclear restrictions.
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On top of all that, Wang said those Chinese technology conglomerates will be resilient against any trade war escalations.
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The government has blamed many violent escalations and deaths on unidentified infiltrators it says aim to stir up sedition.
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But the president realized that securing America's regional position required a strong and visible response to Mr. Suleimani's escalations.
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But nor should they be confused with Tehran's much more gradual nuclear escalations from previous months — for two reasons.
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Israel brought escalations to a boil by closing the mosque for Friday prayers last week and installing metal detectors.
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Further delays or cost escalations could weigh on Abans' rating, despite the progress made in pre-sales and debt funding.
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Escalations in trade tensions or economic uncertainty would make a case for gold, which is considered a safe-haven asset.
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Trump is now simultaneously pursuing two major military escalations, one on the Korean peninsula and the other in the Mideast.
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That's potentially scary, as now there may not be an off-ramp for Washington and Iran to avoid further escalations.
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Further escalations of violence will take a terrible toll on Afghans in a country already reeling from record civilian deaths.
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"The biggest thing we found is that there's nothing intrinsic to nuclear that leads to cost escalations," Lovering told me.
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There, they agreed to a 90-day ceasefire on tariff escalations while the two sides continued to negotiate a potential agreement.
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If you contribute up to the match and you're still financially comfortable, Sipes recommends auto-escalations at least once a year.
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But markets' tendency to reel in the face of trade-war escalations suggests a growing concern that the present is prologue.
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"Korean government bonds could offer good broad protection against escalations in global trade disputes," said Radhika Rao, economist at DBS Bank.
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The North Korean standoff is just the latest in a series of military escalations prompted by the shifting regional power structure.
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Asia Expert Gordon Chang weighs in on the latest escalations in the China- U.S. trade war and the Hong Kong protests.
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Assad had lost ground nationwide for most of 2015 before the Russian and Iranian escalations helped him launch the Aleppo offensive.
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Critics call them "shoot first" laws and say they encourage escalations in violence and make it harder to punish some wrongdoers.
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Nevertheless, as the protests and violence continued to worsen, the U.S. and Iran confirmed these suspicions by undertaking their own escalations.
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The blitzing narrative asks that some sharp emotional turns be taken with alacrity; Mr. Cokorinos often made the quick escalations seem natural.
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In particular, "fresh vegetables prices increased nonstop on reduced output," it said in an August update warning of more expected price escalations.
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Chada said Trump's anti-Fed tweets have occurred before tariff escalations, particularly in April just before the recent increase in China levies.
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"We hope for all parties concerned will refrain from taking further actions that may lead to escalations of the tensions," Wang said.
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Traders continue to monitor tensions on the Korean peninsula, any escalations of which could give the perceived safe-haven yen a lift.
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Ironically, these recent pronouncements and crisis escalations help to crystalize three approaches to pressure President Trump to stay in the Iran agreement.
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She said that there will most likely be more "flip flopping" moving ahead but probably no more escalations in terms of tariffs.
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Third, the NDAA requires the Pentagon to submit reports to Congress and the public documenting Chinese escalations in the South China Sea.
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The FTSE 100 is on course for its steepest monthly fall in four years, hammered by sharp escalations in the Sino-U.
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Escalations The February attack prompted retaliatory measures by India, who said last week that it had struck a JeM camp within Pakistan.
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What's notable, however, is that other countries had very different experiences with nuclear — they didn't always see the same catastrophic cost escalations.
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The two world leaders agreed to put any escalations to their trade war on pause at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires.
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That could mean challenging hardliners, particularly National Security Advisor John Bolton, the official behind many of the recent U.S. escalations in recent weeks.
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The idea was to develop long-term licenses for their content and, until they were in place, stave off any potential legal escalations.
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Our diplomats build relationships with foreign counterparts, negotiate on behalf of U.S. interests, and resolve disputes to preserve peace and prevent military escalations.
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The North Korean issues are long-standing and have shown a cyclical pattern for many years, and occasional escalations have not been uncommon.
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After plans for the latest escalations jolted financial markets last month, he delayed one stage of tariffs until after the holiday shopping season.
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Though they plan on organizing a single, simultaneous mass disruption, the strike would also include a series of escalations leading up to it.
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U.S. and German benchmark bond yields have risen on recent trade war de-escalations, but remain susceptible to persistent macroeconomic and geopolitical pressures.
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The U.S. government's restrictions on technology sales to Huawei added more anxiety for traders already worried about further escalations in the trade dispute.
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Iran's escalations are expected to be asymmetric, which means using proxies or small attack groups to target American forces, allies or economic interests.
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The strike followed a series of escalations that included the death of an American contractor in Iraq, which U.S. officials blamed on Iran.
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That would set up a classic scenario whereby misunderstood signals and careless escalations can drag two adversaries into a conflict neither really wants.
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With the Taliban unable to win outright but the Americans unwilling to admit defeat, she said, each side has privileged short-term escalations.
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As in past escalations that ended with Egyptian mediation, Israel denied it had agreed to a ceasefire with groups it views as terrorists.
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But if the initial tit-for-tat causes further escalations, in the form of higher or more tariffs, then it becomes a trade war.
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The group will also host training sessions every morning throughout the week of the convention on how to protest peacefully and avoid violent escalations.
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But a similar study by Axios last week found that Trump's recent escalations could wind up affecting more than five times as many workers.
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European markets recovered steadily Thursday but remained on course for the year's biggest monthly decline amid persistent escalations of the U.S.-China trade war.
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Escalations in its trade dispute with the U.S. not only could dent China's economy but also impact its credit standing, according to ratings agencies.
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The continued tariff escalations on both sides make it "much harder to get an agreement," said El-Erian, former CEO of Allianz-owned Pimco.
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These escalations have captured overseas attention, and American businesses — some operating in both Hong Kong and China — have found themselves entangled in the standoff.
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The rules of cyberwar are unsettled, and US officials worry that more aggressive measures could trigger a series of quick escalations from the Russians.
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These sudden and epic escalations will disorientate viewers until, in an outright assault on the mind, they start to occur multiple times a minute.
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The funding gap rendered it far riskier to pursue the project, the statement said, because it could make the government vulnerable to cost escalations.
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The franc has recently hit more than two-year highs against the euro as escalations in the Chinese-American trade war spook financial markets.
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Analysts have predicted further escalations following President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which will see U.S. sanctions re-imposed on Tehran.
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Against that backdrop, it's easy to see why Dalio is worried about this latest development and how deepening escalations could lead to a disaster.
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The main FTSE 100 bourse had suffered its worst monthly fall this year in August when markets witnessed sharp escalations in the Sino-U.
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From the American response to these escalations, Iran has learned that Mr. Trump is anxious not to back up his bullying language with force.
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Specifically, the team notes, it is interested in authentication bugs, potential privilege escalations and remote code execution bugs in the kubelet and API server.
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The step was among several recent de-escalations in the tense trade war, including a Chinese decision to purchase 10 cargos of U.S. soybeans.
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The last year has seen a series of escalations including attacks on commercial tankers and oil facilities in the Gulf widely blamed on Iran.
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Those figures haven't changed significantly since February despite recent escalations in rhetoric from the President against the investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller specifically.
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It was the third time in six months that Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, had outlined a careful series of escalations of Iran's nuclear capacity.
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This year, she introduced a weekly meeting in which team leads come together to discuss the best ways to deal with content-related escalations.
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"All escalations must be avoided," Merkel told reporters after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
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Washington and Beijing agreed in early December to pause tariff escalations, but headlines about the ongoing negotiations have continued to send jitters through the market.
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What happens if he goes beyond what his advisers think is prudent, demanding that they balloon their military escalations into something they couldn't have anticipated?
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Recent escalations in the trade war between China and the U.S. have led to market volatility as investors brace for a new round of tariffs.
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"For now, the Iranian escalations seem to be calibrated to raise the temperature but to avoid a full boil over (the) situation," the report said.
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Since the beginning of large-scale protests along the Gaza border in late March, there have been multiple rounds of hostilities, often in sharp escalations.
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Negotiations on renewing a trade deal last month produced few results, and the escalations are straining expectations for an upcoming high-level talks in September.
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The fresh escalations in the protracted trade war between the U.S. and China rattled financial markets around the world, driving investors towards safe-haven assets.
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The outlook for JGBs also depends on the situation in North Korea, she said, with safe-haven buying expected to underpin demand on any escalations.
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And a summit raises the stakes, so a failure could trigger angry new escalations on each side, leaving us worse off than where we started.
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That attack, combined with a series of prior escalations, set off a spiral of events that led Trump to order a deadly strike on Soleimani.
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While the two countries temporarily agreed in early December to pause tariff escalations, headlines about the ongoing negotiations have continued to send jitters through the market.
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Detectives describe Monday's violence as a series of escalations, beginning with a domestic dispute between Cashe and his girlfriend at her home shortly after 6 a.m.
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"However, should future depreciation pressure continue to mount due to further escalations in the trade war, the authorities could step up capital control measures," he added.
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It could also lead to miscalculation on Iran's part, or a series of escalations that get out of control as neither side wants to back down.
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But in a sign of recovering relations, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the NATO allies believed they could overcome recent escalations in tension through dialogue.
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Long-off-patent emergency rescue drugs delivered by auto-injector — not just epinephrine, but also naloxone to reverse opiate overdose — have seen particularly perplexing price escalations.
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"We urge both sides to avoid further escalations, get back to the negotiating table and reach a high-standard, enforceable and sustainable agreement," Mr. Neuffer added.
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WORST MONTH IN YEARS The FTSE 100 is on course for its steepest monthly fall in four years, hammered by sharp escalations in the Sino-U.
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In her op-ed, Kelly wanted to emphasize the risky escalations between the two countries that have manifested in strikes on military targets and heated threats.
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It came after a number of escalations in the region, culminating in the death of an American contractor in Iraq that the U.S. blamed on Tehran.
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But this has seemingly gone even further — with police sometimes shuttering stations door during violent escalations with protesters, using it as a type of makeshift shelter.
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In addition, there have been a series of sharp escalations involving exchanges of rocket fire by Gaza militants and air-strikes by the Israeli Air Force.
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In the Bronx and Staten Island, rents are holding steady because those boroughs did not experience the same rapid rent escalations or volume of new development.
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Durant faced more criticism, too, when Dallas coach Rick Carlisle pointed him out specifically in a complaint about "nonbasketball physical escalations" by the Thunder in Game 3.
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"We haven't named the state, but we hope that we can further work with our friends and partners in preventing such escalations from moving forward," he added.
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Kim also reaffirmed that he would not use military force against the South and raised the need for an institutional mechanism to prevent unintended escalations, Yoon said.
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As a result, several of the president's advisers have reportedly urged him to make a deal with China and avoid any escalations that further hit American's wallets.
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Later, Johnson delicately registered his objections to the trade escalations, saying the U.K. is in favor of "trade peace" and would support dialing back the trade war.
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During previous escalations over the past few months, the UN and Egypt have often stepped in to put in place short-term ceasefires between Israel and Gaza.
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"The Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is the reason we have massive price escalations despite the promises they were going to reduce the cost of care," Gardner said.
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With dozens of disputes now raging, Wayuu leaders say they hope mediation will head off escalations in violence, as brawls break out between neighbors and within families.
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Researchers at Goldman Sachs said this month that the latest round of tariff escalations could reduce economic growth by as much as 0.15 percentage points this year.
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With all these forces on a collision course, several recent escalations have raised fears of a direct confrontation between the United States and Iran, or even Russia.
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Qassem Soleimani that justified the need to kill him, and they called for Congress to seize back its constitutional authority to sign off on new military escalations.
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Such offers are not as prevalent in the Bronx or Staten Island, however, because those boroughs have yet to see the same rapid development and price escalations.
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Unlike the real estate market, where lightning escalations in price are rare, values in art can be suddenly boosted by intangibles such as fads and personal taste.
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CAIRO – Foreign ministers and chiefs of intelligence from Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are meeting in Cairo to discuss the latest violent escalations between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The sudden escalations of US-Iranian tensions have raised concerns about the future of the nuclear accord with Iran, which put stringent limits on the country's nuclear program.
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Nine in ten emergency visits are because of escalations in symptoms, such as breathlessness; most of these patients could be treated better, faster and more cheaply at home.
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For example, in the construction and infrastructure sector, companies were already highly leveraged and have been affected by issues such as project delays and cost escalations, he said.
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That's the question many analysts are grappling with in the wake of recent escalations involving an Israeli strike inside Syria that targeted a weapons shipment meant for Hezbollah.
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Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to back off previous escalations in the trade war, announcing a 90-day pause on new tariff actions over the weekend.
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While armed citizens do occasionally use their guns to end violent crimes, more frequently what we see is how guns turn escalations into more violent and lethal encounters.
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TRADE PRESSURE August saw dramatic escalations in the bitter year-long trade row, with Washington announcing 15% tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods from Sept. 1.
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Activating IEEPA would instead cause more economic uncertainty at a time when recession fears are growing and almost certainly lead to further escalations in his ongoing trade war.
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"In the current context, France is determined that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon, but also that we avoid all military escalations in the region," Macron said afterwards.
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Further sharp escalations of tension in the Middle East could cause significant damage to the world economy, the bank said, adding it assumed this risk would not materialize.
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"Those kinds of escalations get into targets that could be producing targets in the region," he said, such as the Strait of Hormuz and other oil transit routes.
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"It has been disastrous in Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador," Navarro said, of the drastic crackdowns that have sparked escalations of the violence in other Latin American countries.
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But the Chinese economy is slowing, and escalations in the trade war over the last week between China and the United States could mean a worse slowdown than expected.
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It's just after 3 am in Kashmir, where fresh escalations in the 70-year conflict between Pakistan and India have the 2 nuclear powers on the brink of war.
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Escalations in hostilities in Libya have prompted this sharp decline as the threat to stability from Islamic State continues to be felt across the Middle East and North Africa.
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The first escalations in May and July upped its uranium stockpile and enrichment level, initiating gradual reductions in the "breakout" time to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.
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Organizers have long feared that the North might test a missile or a nuclear weapon during the Games, perhaps even provoking a chain reaction of escalations leading to war.
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Regardless of how the accident occurred, to the IRGC and Iran's leadership it was an act of war, and a harbinger of escalations to come if the war continued.
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Israel and Gaza have been locked in a cycle of clashes quickly followed by de-escalations, with Egyptian-brokered talks repeatedly achieving a temporary cooling off along the border.
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Even as the threat of open war appears to have temporarily subsided, building a broadly popular, working-class coalition that can effectively oppose future escalations remains a critical project.
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If you think of those developments as warning shots, a test to see how Congress might respond to further escalations, then the White House learned a lot this week.
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Many believe equipping even more people to go on the cyber offensive will lead to escalations of conflict and more collateral damage for only a negligible gain in security.
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In the past, significant escalations of fighting were quickly met by the White House or the State Department with strongly worded statements condemning Russian aggression and supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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While both the US and North Korea have frequently used strong rhetoric as a strategic messaging tool, analysts warn that verbal escalations pose the risk of causing a catastrophic miscalculation.
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Serious escalations of violence, particularly in 1990 and again a decade later in the wake of Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, show the explosive power of the place.
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"The labor market has not weakened in a meaningful way since the escalations in trade policy a few months ago," said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
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This could not only raise the risk for military escalations in those areas in the short term, but could allow militias to resurge once the global health crisis eventually subsides.
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Once you have a retirement account in place, set up automated contributions from each paycheck, as well as auto-escalations each year, if you're financially comfortable enough to do so.
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And since Trump's initial moves have been met with foreign retaliation, you can imagine a series of tit-for-tat escalations that get us to something like such a collapse.
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Heffron should know—he came through ECW during its high point and, while he didn't work a particularly dangerous style, he was around one of the big wrestling-wide escalations.
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Syria Recent escalations in the nine-year Syrian civil war have left hundreds of thousands of Syrians without a home and millions more stuck in the middle of the conflict.
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Yet Comey's firing, and the subsequent week of dizzying disclosures and scoops and escalations — few favoring Trump — have led to a revival of 4-D-chess talk on the right.
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Negotiators from the two countries are currently trying to hammer out an agreement ahead of a December 15 deadline on tariff escalations, and Trump could be loathe to jeopardize that.
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The hermit nation has also made other escalations, saying recently that it carried out a "very important test" at a satellite launch facility and that denuclearization is off the table.
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Nuclear deal threatened The sudden escalations of US-Iranian tensions have raised concerns about the future of the nuclear accord with Iran, which put stringent limits on the country's nuclear program.
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President Donald Trump's assertions about the U.S.-China agreement to pause tariff escalations that emerged over the weekend do not appear to match the White House's official description of the agreement.
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The Guarani-Kaiowa have been among the hardest hit communities from recent escalations in land-related violence, said Cleber Cesar Buzatto, a researcher with the Conselho Indigenista Missionario (CIMI) advocacy group.
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But upper-middle-class people like Ms. Cornwell and her husband are expected to pay full price, feeling the blunt force of what experts and health economists agree are unbearable escalations.
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But Mr. Modi's blend of development and Hindu nationalism — clearly aimed at a larger national audience — has often been unsettling in Varanasi, and has sometimes resulted in dangerous escalations in tensions.
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In testimony earlier this month before the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Dr. Gottlieb said he intended to solve the problem of rapid escalations in generic drug prices.
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The combination of democratic backsliding, power grabs by the executive, and the militarization of policing is a problem by itself, and a precedent for future escalations and abuses of executive power.
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Either one of those should at least dictate the direction of travel into the weekend and whether or not either side is willing to put a lid on further escalations for now.
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Film and television constantly chase new areas of expansion and escalation, and the term "jumping the shark" is one of the ways we've come to easily identify undeserved escalations in those media.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Saturday to proceed with negotiations after a series of escalations to their nations' trade war threatened to disrupt the global economy.
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"China's apparent ending of the informal nonincursion agreement might be an effort to test Taipei's response, and it could compel Taipei to seek negotiations on avoiding escalations from such encounters," said Stratfor.
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There is a common liberal argument that our present polarization is the result of constant partisan escalations on the right — the rise of Newt Gingrich, the steady Hannitization of right-wing media.
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Thus according to this account the killing was seen as a severe punishment for the loss of an American life, signaling Iran had crossed a red line and warning against future escalations.
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Each cycle of tit-for-tat escalations has, rather than forcing the other side to back down, instead led the other to ramp up, triggering another round more costly than the last.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has done what he threatened, hiking tariffs to 25% from 10% on a swathe of imports, in one of the most dramatic escalations of the months-long spat.
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I condemn Iran's recent escalations and its breach of the nuclear deal, but we would not be in this situation in the first place if it was not for President Trump's irresponsible actions.
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China has not publicly committed to join a new round of negotiations, but in the past it has pulled back from the prospect of talks in the face of escalations in the dispute.
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Araqchi met Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Doha, where the two sides "expressed their concern about escalations and problems in the region", a Qatar Foreign Ministry statement said.
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Other escalations might include: pulling mothballed centrifuges out of storage to increase the amount of enrichment it can do; restarting enrichment at Fordow, an even deeper-buried and thus harder-to-bomb plant.
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Both the Pulwama attack, the bloodiest such incident in the disputed territory of Kashmir in over three decades, and the strikes on Balakot, which lies outside the region, marked escalations from previous incidents.
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Nothing about the American Health Care act made sense—not the content of the bill, not the timing, and not the series of dramatic escalations Trump made over over the past three weeks.
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If the executive accepts escalations, then tries to make a tie-breaker decision: non-optimal decisions get made, because again the executive is, out of the three people, the least qualified to decide.
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The Interpreter WASHINGTON — Russia is conducting a series of military and rhetorical escalations toward Ukraine that have anxious Western analysts once again looking for clues as to President Vladimir V. Putin's next move.
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Dorian's threat piles on to a significantly rough year for farmers across the country, who have struggled through record flooding, heatwaves and trade war escalations that have lowered prices and profits this year.
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Sanders often talks about Yemen, and the importance of Congress's war powers (especially with respect to Trump's escalations with Iran), on the national stage as one of the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
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Context: In the past year, Israel and Gaza have been locked in a cycle of clashes followed by de-escalations, with Egyptian-brokered talks repeatedly achieving a temporary cooling off along the border.
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Context: In the last year, Israel and Gaza have been locked in a cycle of clashes followed by de-escalations, with Egyptian-brokered talks repeatedly achieving a temporary cooling off along the border.
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The central bank's return to the spot market, dipping into some $360 billion of international reserves, comes amid surging market volatility, which has been linked with recent escalations in the central bank's interventions.
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Rice disputed Trump's assertions, noting that Tehran's nuclear program was held in check in the immediate aftermath of the deal's signing and that no significant escalations on other fronts were seen from Iran.
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But the 176 people killed on Ukraine Airlines flight 752 that took off from Tehran on the night of the attacks — shot down by an Iranian missile — are casualties of these reckless escalations.
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The recent protests mark significant escalations between workers and management at the Staten Island warehouse, which opened its doors last October—and could become the first Amazon warehouse in the country to unionize.
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The political mood in Brussels is souring day by day, U.S. pressure will increase with small escalations in the region and Washington will pressure the E.U. to bring Iran to the Security Council.
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Now that the militant group has been driven from most of its territory, the conflicting interests are leading to increasing friction and unpredictable escalations, like Turkey's recent assault on a Kurdish-controlled region.
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"I am deeply worried about hard-to-foresee escalations in the whole region," Guterres told reporters in his native Lisbon, also referring to Israel's concerns about various militia groups in Syria approaching its borders.
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That outreach, along with Trump's recent remarks that he wants Iran to call him, are fueling speculation that Washington is seeking a diplomatic path after a series of troubling escalations in the Middle East.
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Regional military sources said while the U.S. navy had extensive capabilities in Asia to stage blocking operations with ships, submarines and planes, any such move against China's growing naval fleets would risk dangerous escalations.
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A.P. Moller-Maersk has changed the route its ships sail through the world's busiest transit lane for seaborne oil shipments, citing safety concerns amid a rapid series of escalations between the U.S. and Iran.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Despite the collapse of Islamic State last year and a widespread international perception that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is winning the war, there have been major new escalations around the country.
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Those who fear canceling drills could "invite further escalations" from Kim Jong Un's regime, and those who think "drills are an unnecessary provocation" and suspending them or calling them off would significantly lower tensions.
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Money from the rate cuts was now flowing into high-yielding stocks, allowing investors to overcome fears over a devastating season of bushfires in Australia, escalations with Iran and even the ongoing Sino-U.
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This week, the ongoing demonstrations and street battles saw new escalations: In an effort to discourage the protests, Hong Kong's government used an emergency rule to introduce a ban on wearing masks in public.
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The primary purpose of the meeting was to avoid further escalations in the raging trade war between Washington and Beijing, which has seen billions of dollars of tariffs placed on US and Chinese goods.
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Iran is ramping up its uranium output, a provocative step that threatens to further inflame simmering tensions with the United States and deepen regional conflict following a series of dangerous escalations in the Middle East.
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Iran called out its regional rival Saudi Arabia in response to accusations that Tehran is a leading state sponsor of terror, accusing Riyadh and the United States of fomenting 'dangerous escalations' in the Middle East.
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Trump's "they won't be around much longer!" tweet and North Korea's interpretation of it are the latest in a series of escalations between the two powers that have set the international community on high alert.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that a decisive stand was needed to stop Iranian escalations in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets this month.
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Earlier on Friday, King Salman told an emergency Arab summit that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as U.S. officials said a military deployment had deterred Tehran.
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While China and its Asian trading partners began to work on an agreement before the recent escalations in trade tensions between the US and China, analysts say the timing of the announcement is politically charged.
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Meanwhile Trump himself is far more publicly unmastered and privately ignorant than J.F.K. But in fairness, Trump also has confined his real bellicosity to Twitter, without ordering any Kennedy-esque military misadventures or escalations yet.
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Warming relations with Russia could signal to the Kremlin that Europe will let it get away with escalations, such as the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, over time, setting a dangerous precedent, said Przydacz.
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Read more: Trump ramps up his criticisms of China's trade policies as tariff escalations loom"The uncertainty, the hour-by-hour 'where is this president going?' has everybody in the business community on edge," Walsh said.
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In coordination of Israel and the United Nations, Qatar has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to various Gaza projects that the partners say are designed to stave off Palestinian poverty and prevent escalations in violence.
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Many of the latest escalations between Iran and the West have been taking place in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that sees $1.2 billion worth of the world's oil flow through it every day.
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After gradual escalations of sanctions and halting progress in trade talks this year, the two sides are working toward what they say will be a preliminary agreement to pave the way for tackling more complex issues.
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In this case, an accounting of the major gains and losses on each side, compiled below, suggests that at nearly every turn, escalations by the United States and Iran have ultimately left each side worse off.
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Recent escalations in which people have been beaten, knifed and even set on fire during protests could affect this support but, for now, do not appear to have affected offers to help activists in online groups.
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Khatib said the escalations were occurring as the war entered a new phase, with the U.S., Iran, and Russia all attempting to project power in eastern Syria to assert control over territory being lost by ISIS.
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The threat on Guam follows a series of rapid-fire escalations between Washington and Pyongyang this week after the UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose new sanctions that will further curb North Korea's international trade.
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The top chart showed that the prices of natural gas and crude oil have underperformed in the weeks after past escalations in the war, while Asian stocks and the United States and Canadian dollar pair has outperformed.
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China's exit piles on to a devastating year for farmers, who have struggled through record flooding and an extreme heat wave that destroyed crop yields, and trade war escalations that have lowered prices and profits this year.
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What you tend to see on other platforms is recurring problems and escalations of catastrophes, and they all can be boiled down to this one problem that the company's incentives do not align with the community's incentives.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. soybean futures plunged 2.5 percent to a one-year low on Friday on concerns that escalations in a trade fight with China would threaten shipments to the biggest buyer of the oilseed, traders said.
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Saudi Arabia's king told an emergency Arab summit that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a U.S. military deployment had deterred Tehran.
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The threat on Guam follows a series of rapid-fire escalations between Washington and Pyongyang this week after the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose new sanctions that will further curb North Korea's international trade.
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"Trade tensions and tariff escalations, financial tightening, uncertainty related to Brexit outcome and spillover impact and an accelerated slowdown of the Chinese economy" are all "clouds" on the horizon, she told the World Government Summit in Dubai.
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A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's largest shipping firm, said Thursday that it had changed the route its ships sail through the Strait of Hormuz, citing safety concerns amid a series of rapid escalations between the U.S. and Iran.
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Lower-level commanders and officials might take this rhetoric as instruction or permission for more aggressive action on the ground, leading to unintended escalations in Iraq, Syria, the Gulf or other places where both countries have military forces.
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Still, new tariffs will go into effect next month on about half of Washington's $300 billion target list of Chinese goods, and analysts say the chance of any durable trade deal after the recent escalations has sharply receded.
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"We are vulnerable to further escalations of this conflict because we ship products from the U.S. to Europe and from Europe to the U.S.," Wolf-Henning Scheider, the chief executive of ZF Friedrichshafen, said in an emailed statement.
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Consequently, unlike the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the PIJ is considered a terror organization whose mission is to shed blood and create escalations on a regular basis, and to torpedo any understandings that Hamas and Israel might reach.
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The pan-European Stoxx 2.63 was provisionally 0.3% lower at the closing bell, with tech stocks up more than 1.3% while oil and gas stocks gave back 0.5%, having previously surged on the back of U.S.-Iran escalations.
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A "phase one" trade deal between the U.S. and China now agreed and is expected to be inked in January, offering the global economy some respite after a bruising 18 months of tit-for-tat trade tariff escalations.
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Saudi Arabia's king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a U.S. military deployment had deterred Tehran.
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"There are significant catalysts for gold with the escalations on the trade-war front yesterday, but it is surprising we have not seen a significant follow through," said Stephen Innes, head of trading and market strategy, SPI Asset Management.
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Escalations of the trade conflict, and fears over its impact on global growth, drove the FTSE 100's worst fall this year in August, and it continues to be buffetted by Britain's chaotic efforts to leave the European Union.
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He also said the issue was how to implement a law that required annual increases in fuel economy standards through 2020, and then set criteria for decisions about whether to require any further escalations in the years after that.
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Jeweler Pandora leaped 11.9% after issuing a muted trading update but confirming its financial guidance for 2019, while Britain's John Wood Group led the bounce for oil stocks on the back of escalations in the Middle East, climbing 4.2%.
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Iran fired at Americans forces early on Wednesday in retaliation for a United States airstrike on Friday that killed a top Iranian general and the leader of Iran-backed Iraqi militias — the latest in a long sequence of escalations.
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But two administrations have already failed to anticipate Syrian chemical weapons use and Russian escalations, he added, suggesting that American policy makers may not understand Syrian or Russian decision-making well enough to anticipate how they read American strikes.
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"That is certainly valuable in itself for the Russian economy, since what causes damage is not so much particular sanctions measures in themselves, but lack of visibility of what new sanctions escalations might be on their way," Granville said.
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"It's the wrong policies that are being followed, not only by Saudi Arabia but by its allies in the West who have given it a blank check to continue to make these very dangerous escalations in the region," Zarif added.
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"There are significant catalysts for gold with the escalations on the trade-war front yesterday, but it is surprising we have not seen a significant follow through," said Stephen Innes, head of trading and market strategy at SPI Asset Management.
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" Tehran has denied any responsibility for the tanker attacks, and the country's president responded angrily on Tuesday to recent escalations, saying his country does "not wage war with any nation" but the entire nation "is unanimous in confronting U.S. pressures.
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The gains from the earlier in the week have placed the FTSE 100 on course for its best month since January, after it suffered its first monthly fall in May this year due to escalations in the U.S.-China trade war.
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Yet so far, the U.S. reaction to the Saudi-Iran showdown has been characterized more by a desire to halt further escalations rather than jump into the fray to back an old ally or try to steer toward a certain outcome.
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Investors were also wary of further escalations in trade disputes between Washington and Beijing after U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China after a review period that ends on Thursday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman told an emergency Arab summit on Friday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as U.S. officials said a military deployment had deterred Tehran.
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The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz warned of "total war" as a theoretical construct in which, by rationally following the escalations of war to their conclusion, war outstrips its strategic logic and becomes irrational, therefore requiring limits in practice.
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Both moves will almost certainly be seen by Iran's clerical leaders as further escalations by Washington one year after Mr. Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear containment deal, to which Iran was adhering, and reimposed harsh sanctions on the country.
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He also said the issue was how to carry out a law that required annual increases in fuel economy standards through 2020, and then set criteria for decisions about whether to require any further escalations in the years after that.
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Though many in Washington and around the world viewed the tests as breaches of UN resolutions against such launches, Trump appeared unbothered, called Kim a "friend" and added that his personal relationship with the North Korean leader could prevent further escalations.
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While the mood now isn't as "dire" as it was after the weekend's escalations, "there remains doubts with regards to how concrete the latest turn is," wrote Jingyi Pan, a market strategist for IG Group, in a research note Tuesday.
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However, Currie highlighted that the precious metal could have further upside potential, with spikes in geopolitical tensions historically leading to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement, most often seen during wars or military escalations.
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"If the world does not take a strong and firm action to deter Iran, we will see further escalations that will threaten world interests," the crown prince said in an interview with the CBS program "60 Minutes" over the weekend.
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The pair of libertarian-leaning Republican senators stormed out after a classified briefing with top Trump administration officials and declared they'd back a Democratic bill that would force Trump to go to Congress before any further military escalations towards Iran.
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By April 2017, President Trump mentioned the theory in an interview with the AP. Trump Jr.'s tweet, Paul's and Gaetz's comments, and the Real Clear Investigations story are further escalations in a right-wing information war against the whistleblower.
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The Business Roundtable said Tuesday that the Trump administration was right to go after China's discriminatory trade practices, but its unilateral use of tariffs is the wrong approach and the latest escalations threaten further harm to U.S. businesses and workers.
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An agreement could avert a sharp increase in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods that President Donald Trump has threatened to impose on Friday, which Beijing has threatened to retaliate against in what would be major escalations in the countries' bruising trade war.
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But some investors are still holding out hope that Trump will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a G20 summit later this month and at least agree to suspend further escalations, similar to a truce they reached at December's G8.13 in Argentina.
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"Negotiations may take time, but my expectation is that the government will ultimately move towards a compromise on some of the union's demands to prevent further economically damaging escalations," said Coline Schep, a Middle East and North Africa associate at consultancy Eurasia Group.
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"We need to stop the escalations of this problem and not allow enemies of the region and enemies of Islam to lead the region to a war in which everyone would lose," Mr. Jaafari said, according to a BBC transcript of his remarks.
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"It's of course the trade concerns here, we are looking for more escalations on trade dispute," said Jakob Christensen, head of EM research at Danske Bank, adding markets were closely watching countries like India and Russia planning counter measures against Washington's trade actions.
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It remains to be seen whether this is a largely symbolic, one-off operation, or if this attack is going to ensnare Trump in a series of escalations, which is what tends to happen when you let the U.S. military get a taste.
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Significant Master-Lease Income: In 2016, 27% of ART's gross profits stemmed from master leases with fixed rentals and in most cases built-in annual rent escalations, while a further 13% of gross profit stemmed from management contracts with minimum guaranteed rental income.
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Trump's escalations struck raw nerves in China, and the already-strident rhetoric emanating from Beijing reached a crescendo earlier this month, when the Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman declared that China was "prepared to pay any cost" to respond to the American threats.
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"Short-term, its difficult to expect markets to recover fast (from North Korea related jitters)," Hwang said, adding that his team will be on stand-by to provide policy responses to any escalations that occur over the long Chuseok holiday from Oct.
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After four months of spiraling unrest, the question now is whether police officers can handle more escalations in violence without escalating it further themselves — or if the city's thinly stretched force is bound to continue adding to the protests' chaos and frenzy.
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In the early 1980s, there were similar dour predictions about Ronald Reagan's confrontational approach toward the Soviet Union, a reversal of the Carter administration's soft pedal diplomacy that set the context for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan among other Cold War escalations.
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Such escalations might include the shelling of South Korean-held islands off of his coastline, the insertion of landmines into the Demilitarized Zone, attacks on the South Korean navy, or even commando attacks on the Blue House (the home of South Korea's president) in Seoul.
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Twitter's former Head of News, Government, and Elections Adam Sharp shot back:To my understanding, none of the violations taken individually warrant permanent suspension and while we have escalations for repeat offenses of some types, we don't have a blanket 'three strikes you're out'-type policy.
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"To my understanding, none of the violations taken individually warrant permanent suspension and while we have escalations for repeat offenses of some types, we don't have a blanket 'three strikes you're out'-type policy," wrote Adam Sharp, then Twitter's head of news, government, and elections.
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Kataib Hezbollah has been involved in 12 rocket attacks against coalition forces in the last six months, including a December attack on Kirkuk that killed an American contractor and led to a series of escalations that brought Washington and Tehran to the brink of war.
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Nor is it a strategy that does much for Americans' safety: Every minute in the White House Situation Room that Trump or his senior national security team spends managing escalations with Iran is time not spent fighting the life-and-death pandemic at home.
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The killing of Soleimani is the latest in a series of escalations and retaliations that began with Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal former President Barack Obama struck with Iran and includes Iranian attacks on American assets within the Middle East.
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"It's still too soon to offer any meaningful prediction on how this all plays out, but investors are clearly incorporating a degree of concern that further disruptive escalations may be in the offing," wrote Ian Lyngen, head of rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets.
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"It suggests that both sides have determined that further escalations are not desirable right now, so they are trying to create positive atmospherics before the October round of negotiations, in the hopes that those talks will at least forestall any further deterioration," said Olson.
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Novak pointed to two developments this month: an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and Trump's decision to tighten sanctions against Iran, which is meant to cut the Islamic Republic's oil exports to zero and has set off a series of dangerous escalations in the region.
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Trump and Xi's meeting at the G20 will be the first time the two men have been face-to-face since the trade war escalations, and a great deal of pressure will be on them to find a breakthrough where negotiators from both sides have previously failed.
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It has figured out, for instance, that ISIS's seizure of Palmyra and France's first airstrike in Syria were both escalations in the civil war there but also that in one of those cases, ISIS was the aggressor while in the other case, it was on the defense.
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Cover image: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is seen at a United Nations Security Council meeting regarding the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and its escalations amid a worsening cholera epidemic and ongoing militarized conflict, at U.N. Headquarters in New York, NY, on July 12, 2017.
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Anxiety about the next fatal step, the cries of revenge and war, and the military escalations all will continue haunting India, Pakistan and the broader world as long as everyone insists on looking away from the issue driving the crisis: the long, bloody dispute over Kashmir.
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Instead of moving towards a deal, one "can easily imagine gradual escalations of the US-Mainland China trade war, if China slow-walks negotiations and triggers another tariff hike on the assumption that its regime can manage another year of economic stress, but Trump cannot," they wrote.
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The Financial Times reported Monday that the EU will not take Trump's escalations lying down, and lawmakers have already made a written submission to the U.S. Department of Commerce outlining almost $300 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods should Trump continue on his protectionist path.
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Investors, bond markets and Wall Street analysts appear increasingly alarmed by the potential slowdown in growth that could result from Mr. Trump's trade escalations, including his plan to impose tariffs of up to 22008 percent on Mexican goods and to tax everything that China imports into the United States.
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Senators made pious noises and partisans bemoaned the state of the republic, but the widespread Washington wisdom was that this was a fait accompli: After decades of "Butter Battle Book"-style escalations in the judicial wars, a minority veto was simply too antiquated, anachronistic and pre-ideological to survive.
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Back on the trading desk, after picking out one group of events — the 27 incidents of ''Escalations in the Syrian civil war,'' say — a sales trader can pick from a series of drop-down menus that narrow the search to a specific time period and a specific set of investments.
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But when you hear that -- you know, the E.U. is now going to be buying more soybeans -- you know, that obviously is a hope to keep the farmers happy here in the United States that there aren&apost going to be any escalations in auto tariffs, at least not right now.
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The Chinese yuan has also been in focus during recent escalations of the trade war, and the People's Bank of China on Wednesday set the official midpoint reference for the currency at 7.0312 per dollar, stronger than expected but above the psychological 7 per dollar barrier for the fifth consecutive session.
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The subsequent few months saw no further escalations amid repeated rounds of talks in both Washington and Beijing, but that pause ended in May when Trump unexpectedly said on Twitter that his administration would be levying new taxes on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods — and he threatened even more to come.
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Stock investors had been bracing for weeks for Washington and Beijing to place the tariffs on $22018 billion of each other's goods, and share prices were occasionally hurt by escalations in rhetoric along the way, with certain sectors taking a bigger hit than others as traders avoided companies seen taking the heaviest blows.
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"We are preparing to introduce a new, privileged resolution in September invoking the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from engaging in the Saudi-led coalition's conflict with the Houthis should additional escalations continue and progress fail to be made towards a peace agreement," the lawmakers said in a joint statement.
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However, Trump will be skipping the Paris Peace Forum, a gathering intended to help world powers and institutions avoid past mistakes including the miscalculations and escalations that led to World War I. This Veterans Day, all American leaders should consider how confrontation can spiral out of control, especially given tensions with Russia and China.
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Though the upward momentum in Brent prices suggests some expectation that the recent escalations will lead to oil supply disruption, Goldman analysts suggested that the range of possible outcomes is too large for this to be accurately priced in, meaning actual disruption is now necessary to sustain current oil prices at around $2600 per barrel.
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"Generally, if our press team is working with a journalist externally, all of those inquiries that have to do with content or ads etcetera are going to come through our escalations channels, because we know, hey, well, this is [a] sort of time-sensitive, important, high sensitivity issue that we need to deal with," he added.
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The sanctions were imposed through an executive order signed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE Tuesday and follow similar escalations against officials from Cuba and Venezuela.
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In the latest escalations in the widening trade row, the U.S. said this week it had banned American companies from selling parts to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE for seven years, while China on Tuesday announced hefty anti-dumping tariffs on imports of U.S. sorghum and measures on synthetic rubber imports from the U.S., EU and Singapore on Thursday.
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Even though the president's own foreign policy doctrine of non-intervention in Middle Eastern civil wars clearly advises against just such an intervention, he nonetheless took various half-measures that, collectively, have deeply involved the United States in Syria, helped inspire counter-escalations by Iran and Russia, and threaten to involve the US further in the Syrian civil war.
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"When I speak to C.E.O.s of leading Chinese and global companies, everyone is fretting about what the latest escalations mean for their businesses in the short term, and more worrisome, for their long-term strategy and investment plans," said Fred Hu, founder of the investment firm Primavera Capital Group and former head of Goldman Sachs's greater China business.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE has appeared unbothered by the recent launches, calling Kim a "friend" and adding that his personal relationship with the North Korean leader could prevent further escalations.
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But despite gains in oil prices on Monday, the risk premium for current Middle Eastern tensions were "incredibly low," said Juerg Kiener, managing director and chief investment officer of Swiss Asia Capital in Singapore, "I've never seen escalations, geopolitical (tensions) in the Middle East like we see them today and the oil price has hardly moved from the bottom," Kiener told CNBC's Capital Connection.
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But the $20 trillion United States economy is a slow-moving beast, and just as the trade rift between the world's two largest economies didn't cause a major disruption overnight, neither do a few conciliatory comments make everything O.K. We are only starting to see the delayed economic impact of a series of trade escalations over the summer and of a slowdown in the global economy.
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These increases reflect contractual rent escalations; --$1 billion, $600 million and $1 billion of unsecured bond issuances in 0003, 2017 and 2018, respectively; --Equity issuances of $700 million and $250 million in 2016 and 2018, respectively; --Acquisitions of $20 million, $1.5 billion and $1.5 billion in 103, 2017 and 2018, respectively; --Divestments of $900 million, $1 billion and $500 million in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively.
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Indeed, the current U.S. approach is driving events toward one of three unpalatable outcomes: further Iranian progress toward a bomb; a European-Iranian deal on sanctions relief that effectively restores the status quo-ante of the JCPOA and flouts the entire U.S. sanctions regime; or renewed negotiations under the shadow of Iran's nuclear escalations and serious rifts between the United States and its diplomatic partners.
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As well as responding tit-for-tat on trade war escalations, Xi has shored up an alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin and visited Pyongyang for a successful meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The US President is due to fly to South Korea following the G20, during which he is expected to pay a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the de facto border with North Korea.
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GOP response: "The Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is the reason we have massive price escalations despite the promises they were going to reduce the cost of care," said NRSC chair Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerPoll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (R-Colo.).
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These increases reflect both contractual rent escalations and participation by way of overage rents; --Annual investments of approximately $700 million to $800 million (net of the CNL transaction) through 7503, with a yield of 9%; --Sufficient unsecured bond issuances for 2017 and 2018; --Annual public equity issuances between $200 million to $300 million from 2017 to 2018, though issuance is at management's discretion; --Approximately $5 million to $10 million of capital expenditures annually through 0003.
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These increases reflect both contractual rent escalations, rental renewal rates and occupancy assumptions; --Net annual investments of $1.15 billion in 2017 and $625 million annually from 2018-7503 with a yield of 8%; --Unsecured bond issuances of $450 million for 2017, $400 million in 2019, and $1 billion in 2020; --Equity issuance of $850 million in 2017 and $0003 million in both 2018 and 2019; --Approximately $5 million-$10 million of capital expenditures annually through 2020.
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In an effort to execute on these objectives, operations will be organized in the following departments with the following leaders reporting into me: · Broker services (all of our insurance operations) - Stephanie Ho o Group services (combining BOR, renewals, AM, enrollments, custom plan loads) o Member services (combining member processing, COBRA, carrier resolution, insurance support) · Insurance marketplace (combining carrier operations and relations) - Colin Rogers · Payroll services (payroll support will now report to payroll services) - J Zac Stein · HR and Ancillary services (combining templates, FP, ancillary and HR/ancillary support) - Alli Tiscornia · Quality (combining quality, audits and escalations) - Sarah Blanchard There is a lot of change for all of us.
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As 5th & final REMEDIAL step under paragraph 36 of JCPOA, there will no longer be any restriction on number of centrifugesThis step is within JCPOA & all 5 steps are reversible upon EFFECTIVE implementation of reciprocal obligationsIran's full cooperation w/IAEA will continue These assurances are not likely to pacify the country's critics, but the fact that Sunday's announcement leaves room for a new deal and contains some safeguards against the open weaponization of the country's nuclear work suggests a measured approach from Iran on nuclear policy in a moment marked by a tense process of military escalations with the US. The Obama-era deal between the US, Iran, Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany and the European Union put tight restrictions on Iran's nuclear program and in return, eased some international sanctions against the country.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within our rating case for the issuer include: --Annual same-store NOI growth of negative 1.5% in 2017 due to declining same store occupancy and positive 1.5%-2.0% growth in 2018 and 13 reflecting flat same store occupancy, contractual rent escalations and positive rent spreads; --Net acquisitions of $1 billion in 2017 and $800 million in 2018 and 2019; --Equity issuance of $560 million and $500 million in 2017 and 2018, respectively, used to fund external growth on a leverage-neutral basis; --Common share dividends of $0003 million in 2017 are expected to grow by $30 million-$40 million per year as the company issues additional equity; --$900 million of unsecured bond issuances in 2018 and $500 million in 2019; --Approximately $100 million of maintenance capital expenditures in 2017 and 7503 declining to $35 million per year in 2019.
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