And that leaves the public to exert pressure on YouTube.
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This means they exert pressure on any surface exposed to them.
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"It's a way for Beijing to exert pressure on him," Zhang said.
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Material deteriorations of its liquidity profile could also exert pressure on the ratings.
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"We will exert pressure on the government by all possible constitutional means," Khoshtaria said.
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The UAE has asked U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths to exert pressure on both sides.
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That could exert pressure on the yuan, pushing it to 7 per dollar or beyond.
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Last year Mr Abbas slapped his own sanctions on Gaza to exert pressure on Hamas.
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Material delays in grant disbursements by donor countries would also exert pressure on the ratings.
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On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Trump repeatedly "used" Pence to exert pressure on Ukraine.
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"This is the best time for the president to exert pressure on the Chinese president," he said.
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It was a similar argument activists had made to exert pressure on tobacco and big oil companies.
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The ECB will continue to exert pressure on market prices, though "not distort them of course", he said.
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Trump tried again on Monday to exert pressure on the Fed to move even further in lowering rates.
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Mr Netanyahu thinks Arab countries, now friendlier to Israel, will exert pressure on Mr Abbas to moderate his demands.
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This is likely the most effective way to exert pressure on American adversaries without resorting to kinetic military action.
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What kinds of companies might have more freedom to exert pressure on customers, as a result of this decision?
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Competition One major problem is that patients are neither positioned nor incentivized to exert pressure on drug prices directly.
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The French ambassador to the UN called on Russia to exert pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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Trump has been working with Xi to exert pressure on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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If customers find it hard to exert pressure on companies through the courts, you might expect governments to step in.
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As a net importer of oil, higher prices would theoretically increase India's import bill and exert pressure on the rupee.
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China is North Korea's closest partner but had previously helped the U.S. exert pressure on Kim over his nuclear program.
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Much of Europe relies on natural gas from Russia, which has cut off supplies to exert pressure on other countries.
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One government official said he saw the report as a way for the NDRC to exert pressure on the central bank.
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Some analysts in the United States have called for new policies that exert pressure on a wider array of Chinese companies.
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Wielding a pulpit like no other, the president can exert pressure on Congress and the states to do the right thing.
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Hackers sometimes approach the media in an attempt to generate coverage, which in turn may exert pressure on their extortion victims.
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The sanctions were first implemented by the Obama administration to exert pressure on Iran's leadership to negotiate limits on its nuclear program.
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As Moody's recently warned, it can also exert pressure on other nations in the region to restrict trade or commerce with Taipei.
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One anonymous organization that goes by the name of Sleeping Giants has taken to Twitter to exert pressure on advertisers, including Amazon.
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One analyst said such instances of China using economics and supply chains to exert pressure on the political front were not new.
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He said the United States and Russia must exert pressure on all sides in the conflict in order to secure a ceasefire.
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The Taliban fighters, many of them retreating from Nawa, shifted to exert pressure on the center of the neighboring district of Garmsir.
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Meanwhile, Trump signaled in August that he would exert pressure on South Korea to up financial contribution to support US troops there.
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It would be more difficult to exert pressure on an AG who is certain to outlast the presidential administration that appointed them.
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Pence's office said they believed the abrupt cancellation was a sign that US attempts to exert pressure on the regime were working.
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Pence's office said it believed the abrupt cancellation was a sign that US attempts to exert pressure on the regime were working.
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The Kremlin can change facts on the ground, stage quasi cease-fires and create zones of influence to exert pressure on other nations.
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"The Chinese people do not welcome those who make unwarranted attacks, wantonly exert pressure on China ... " the embassy's spokesperson said in the statement.
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"The Chinese people do not welcome those who make unwarranted attacks, wantonly exert pressure on China ... " the embassy's spokesperson said in the statement.
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Democrats have vowed to exert pressure on the group to break with their party on witnesses and other issues, such as obtaining documents.
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Rates will not be finalized until the fall, and in some cases states can exert pressure on insurers to lower their proposed price hikes.
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Fueled by a guaranteed stream of revenue, unions have established massive political war chests, often used to influence elections and exert pressure on lawmakers.
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He also told Reuters that he would exert pressure on the Chinese, one of North Korea's closest allies, to help curb its nuclear ambitions.
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Now, with the newly available information, employers will be able to exert pressure on these entities to drive more cost-effective contracts with providers.
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Police unions exert pressure on policymakers, too, opposing and obstructing transparency efforts, and thereby maintaining control of what the public knows about police violence.
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" When asked if she'd exert pressure on her partner to propose, the rapper said, "I don't gotta put the pressure, you know what I'm saying?
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Fadel Gheit, senior energy analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., on Tuesday also said that record high gasoline stockpiles would continue to exert pressure on oil prices.
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Asked about Qatar's alleged support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, Emadi said propaganda is being used to exert pressure on Qatar from the international community.
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S. trade relations and so it cannot be ruled out that the United States is seeking to exert pressure on China through sanctions against ZTE.
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The prospects of further U.S. monetary tightening "would certainly exert pressure on the stock market," said Alex Fan, strategist at GF Holdings (Hong Kong) Corp.
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But since the central bank has no jurisdiction over the offshore markets, it has tried to exert pressure on global banks through their Malaysian operations.
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Democrats tried to exert pressure on vulnerable Republicans up for reelection in 2020 by forcing them to take repeated votes against subpoenaing the Trump administration.
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It would appear that the United States can exert pressure on the Egyptian government on human rights issues while also conducting other important bilateral business.
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"Since 2018, the U.S. has repeatedly drawn on its domestic law to exert pressure on Chinese high-tech enterprises," the English-language editorial read in part.
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The U.S. is not a signatory to the agreements, Buzzfeed noted, so the direct line helped Washington exert pressure on Moscow to fulfill the document's pledges.
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While it may not dramatically hurt the bottom line in the short term, a boycott is still a lever for consumers to exert pressure on brands.
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Brazil differs from some other countries in Latin America where presidents can easily exert pressure on prosecutors and judges, with the judiciary steadily growing more independent.
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Even though the Republicans control Congress, the congressional minority still has a bully pulpit and can exert pressure on the GOP to deal with issues that emerge.
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"The authorities continue to exert pressure on the media and even intervene directly to get editorial policies changed," Reporters Without Borders said in a report this year.
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While these new standards don't directly influence policy, they get sent out to individual countries' health ministers, who can exert pressure on governments to reform their laws.
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" Separately, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in Durban, South Africa that the European Union needed to "exert pressure on national governments to implement ... much-needed reforms.
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Over the past few weeks, there has been a push to exert pressure on the Republican electors to cast their votes for a candidate other than Trump.
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Even though the frantic push to exert pressure on Republican electors isn't expected to change the outcome, it's still put the Electoral College under an unusual spotlight.
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China said the timing of his arrival was coincidental, but his presence was a reminder that the U.S. needs China's cooperation to exert pressure on North Korea.
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But other countries have targeted his and other politically important states in an effort to exert pressure on lawmakers and Mr. Trump ahead of the midterm elections.
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Guaido, in a videotaped message to the crowd at Florida International University, called it a "decisive moment" to exert pressure on Maduro from inside and outside the country.
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Given the proclivities of policy makers, the historian's real role is, in fact, to speak to the public, so that people may exert pressure on their elected representatives.
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LASTING CHANGES Trump has bipartisan support on taking a tough stance on China, although not for his use of tariffs as a tool to exert pressure on Beijing.
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It provided an opportunity for Obama to subtly exert pressure on his successor, while seeking to calm the turmoil that has swept through the country since the election.
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Transparency International said this year that the ECB used the 'technical task' of ELA to exert pressure on Athens, without publicly communicating the details of its ELA decisions.
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Analysts suggested that the change would exert pressure on the Kremlin, which once ruled Kazakhstan and was the model for its repressive system, to address the succession issue.
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The political standoff between China and other countries on cross-border M&A is likely to be resolved as both parties have means to exert pressure on one another.
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As your editorial says, Mr. Carter's plan to strengthen the United States' military presence in Central and Eastern Europe will exert pressure on its NATO peers to do likewise.
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These devices work through a collection of tiny airbags, or "cells" in the patent, that are there to exert pressure on the wearer's arm and cut off blood flow.
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They telegraphed a long game to reverse requirements that make citizens furnish extensive documentation to register, and they vowed to exert pressure on Republican-controlled committees who draw districts.
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"It's high time to realize that threats and attempts to exert pressure on Russia will not make it change its course or sacrifice its national interests," the statement read.
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We're trying to resort to creating jobs, if we cannot cover all, then we're forced to exert pressure on the private sector, like what was done, the Saudisation programme.
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The lawyers with green groups exert pressure on the FERC review processes using legal strategies on federal endangered species, clean water and environmental review laws, said Chatterjee, a Republican.
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Several lobbyists and political observers note the benefits of greater Council independence: another set of ears to listen to concerns; a new way to exert pressure on City Hall.
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The Global Times made clear that strategy would not work, saying: "It is suggested that Canada drop the illusion that this is the way to exert pressure on China."
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In a response to Morgan published Wednesday, HL CEO Chris Hill documented the stockbroker's efforts to exert pressure on Woodford to reduce the percentage of illiquid holdings in the fund.
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While the frantic push to exert pressure on the Republican electors isn't expected to change the outcome of Monday's vote, it has put the Electoral College under a rare spotlight.
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Democrats are investigating, among other things, whether the Trump administration held up U.S. military aid to Ukraine in order to exert pressure on Ukraine to launch investigations sought by Trump.
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Jeff Sessions is still head of the department conducting the Russia investigation — which means that if he did want to continue to exert pressure on it, it might be possible.
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We have a negative sector outlook for the French life insurance market because of difficult operating conditions, with low interest rates and keen competition continuing to exert pressure on margins.
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Mr. Trump has said those issues will be addressed in future talks and has said the remaining tariffs will continue to exert pressure on China to accede to America's demands.
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The senior administration officials denied that the White House was attempting to exert pressure on the FBI, insisting the White House was not discussing a pending investigation, simply the news story.
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Opinion among market-watchers is divided on the tone Yellen would set in her speech, with some expecting that a hawkish tone could exert pressure on assets perceived to be risky.
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Maybe it's the fact that for many months now someone has been holding much of the LME inventory and using that position to exert pressure on shorts rolling their positions forwards.
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Some Taliban sources added to Reuters that Pakistan's "support" for U.S. forces involved detaining family members of Taliban militants to exert pressure on those who do not cooperate with U.S. negotiations.
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This means they have the potential to exert pressure on the very companies that could either moderate or enable Mr. Bolsonaro's threats to the future of the Amazon — and the climate.
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Wall Street (and in particular activist investors) can exert pressure on the company to do just that — and force other events like board shakeups, much like what happened to Yahoo this morning.
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Xi made the comments in a phone conversation with Trump, who urged the Chinese leader to exert pressure on North Korea after Pyongyang said it successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Continuously high raw material prices for Norwegian salmon and prawns, combined with unfavourable FX variations and strong buying power from highly concentrated food retailers should continue to exert pressure on gross margin.
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Beatriz Leycegui, the former undersecretary of foreign trade for Mexico, says that the reported executive order was probably a move to "exert pressure" on Canada and Mexico to reach a deal soon.
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However, R&F's rating may come under pressure if more than 2852% or more bondholders do not approve the waiver, or if weak churn and margin continue to exert pressure on leverage.
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In addition, a weak economic growth outlook and more policy easing by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) will exert pressure on the yuan, erasing the 211 percent gains made this week.
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Supporters of Mr. Sanders used similar tactics to exert pressure on Ms. Lange, who has received more than 1,000 calls since Saturday night and as many as three text messages per minute.
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"It's high time to realize that threats and attempts to exert pressure on Russia will not make it change its course or sacrifice its national interests," the ministry said in a statement.
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It will have even more power to strong-arm independent distributors not to carry rival brands and exert pressure on retailers to cut back on, or even refuse to carry, competitive brands.
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Japan also would like the US to continue to exert pressure on North Korea to fully account for "abductees," Japanese citizens who were kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Clinton had a "legitimate" criticism of Mr. Comey, and her advisers felt they had no choice but to exert pressure on the F.B.I. director in order to reframe a potentially damaging narrative.
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But this development comes as China increasingly seeks to exert pressure on multinational corporations as the country seeks to assert global power and recapture aggressive growth to turn around its flagging economy.
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The former Soviet Union is dotted with at least five frozen conflicts that Moscow occasionally heats up to exert pressure on independent states it once controlled, including Georgia, Moldova and most recently Ukraine.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Monday he and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson agreed to cooperate closely in order to exert pressure on North Korea through the United Nations.
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Still, leaders at APEC, and two other regional summits to be hosted by the Philippines in the coming days, are expected to exert pressure on Suu Kyi to do more to stem the crisis.
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At a G7 meeting in France, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he and his counterparts had agreed they must exert pressure on those responsible for the upsurge of fighting in Libya, especially Haftar.
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That issue is likely to loom large over this weekend's planned meeting between Mr. Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, she said, adding that she expected the administration to exert pressure on China.
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"The political uncertainty could exert pressure on the valuations and the liquidity of U.S.-listed Chinese stocks for a long long time," said Frederick Shen, partner at Chinese venture capital firm New Vision Capital.
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The financial crimes committed by Manafort in his dealings with the Ukrainian government are merely the lever by which Mueller and his special counsel team were able to exert pressure on Manafort to flip.
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The dollar retreated on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a downbeat tone in congressional testimony, saying trade uncertainties and concerns about the global outlook continued to exert pressure on the U.S. economy.
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Pro-active Management Fitch takes a positive view of Piemonte's commitment to fiscal consolidation by addressing the region's cost structure, especially on healthcare, which will continue to exert pressure on expenditure given an ageing population.
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After meeting Cameron in Amiens, 120 km (75 miles) north of Paris, Hollande also said there would be consequences for Britain if it left but did not want "to exert pressure on the British people".
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Speaking in the waning weeks of the Obama administration, Kerry on Thursday reiterated long-standing U.S. policy on Syria, and called on the international community to exert pressure on all parties to end the war.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Three Catalan independence leaders being held in pre-trial detention have lodged a complaint against their imprisonment with a U.N. panel, hoping to exert pressure on Madrid to free them, lawyers said on Thursday.
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The announcement also signals a slight evolution in The Dark Overlord's strategy, which has expanded on leveraging the media to exert pressure on victims, to now distributing its threats and stolen data in a wider fashion.
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U.S. experts have located more than half of an estimated 20 secret sites in North Korea, findings that exert pressure on Trump, who initially embraced Kim's assurances of cooperation during their historic June summit in Singapore.
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"I would request all of you to discuss Rohingya issue with utmost priority and exert pressure on the Myanmar government to stop the persecution of its citizens and take them back at the earliest," she said.
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"They will exert pressure on us and cause pain, but we will certainly come out of the end of this healthier," he said about the penalties that went back into effect at 12:01am ET Tuesday.
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And worse, the rules also allow authoritarian regimes and politically troublesome governments to exert pressure on how Americans, who frequently use the Oscar nominations as a starting point for what to watch, will view those countries.
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"TSMC has long used its dominant market position to exert pressure on its smaller competitors, and the retaliatory litigation filed today is in keeping with that history," Santa Clara, California-based GlobalFoundries said in a statement.
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BERLIN, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Germany must exert pressure on auto companies to accelerate the transition to electric cars, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday as German firms try to mend their reputation after a diesel emissions scandal.
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Judging by the relatively low occupancy rate of the 2016 new projects, Fitch expects the occupancy rate for stabilised assets to further decline in 2017, which will exert pressure on CNLP's EBITDA margin and pace of expansion.
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The decree altered the way prosecutors are appointed and supervised, part of what critics of the governing Social Democrats say is a two-year campaign to exert pressure on the judicial system, undermining the rule of law.
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Rahman did not believe that the Irish would veto trade talks, however, as he believed the other EU nations would exert pressure on the country to allow progress to be made at the EU summit next month.
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However investors have been concerned that Erdogan, a self-described "enemy of interest rates", could exert pressure on the central bank to curb borrowing costs following his re-election last month to a newly empowered executive presidency.
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Medvedev, speaking to Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve of talks between major powers on Syria in Munich, said the United States and Russia must exert pressure on all sides in the conflict to secure a ceasefire.
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While these projects may benefit developing economies, "they have raised concerns that Beijing could use these networks to exert pressure on other states or engage in electronic surveillance," The Economist Intelligence Unit said in a recent report.
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Since she came to power, the Chinese government has increasingly tried to exert pressure on Taiwan, known officially as the Republic of China, to unify with the People's Republic of China, as the mainland is officially known.
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The aim of the latter attacks, according to one person familiar with the Israeli intelligence, was to hike up the price of oil to exert pressure on the United States to ease its economic sanctions on Iran.
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When the upper and lower forms of a painting curve inward from the top and bottom edges, and exert pressure on a band horizontally bisecting the canvas, the shapes feel sculptural and soft — gentle billows of color.
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Why it matters: Schellenberg's case and death sentence are considered to be a public attempt by China to exert pressure on Canada to release Meng, as it has warned of "severe consequences" should she remain in Canadian custody.
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The dollar recovered some lost ground against a basket of major currencies, rising off over two-and-a-half month closing lows clocked on Monday, to exert pressure on emerging currencies which had broadly firmed in recent sessions.
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In particular, the White House expects Saudi Arabia to increase its own output to offset any shortfall from Iran and Venezuela because of U.S. sanctions policies and will exert pressure on Riyadh to ensure it falls into line.
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ENTSO-E urged European governments and policymakers to take swift action and exert pressure on Kosovo and Serbia to resolve the issue, which is also hampering integration of the western Balkans energy market required by the European Union.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar retreated on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a downbeat tone in congressional testimony, saying trade uncertainties and concerns about the global outlook continued to exert pressure on the U.S. economy.
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But he has struggled to unite Labour's elected ranks behind his political vision or convince the wider public of his leadership credentials, diminishing the party's ability to exert pressure on issues like Britain's exit from the European Union.
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Analysts suspected the flurry of military activity by Pyongyang was an attempt to exert pressure on the United States to give ground in negotiations to end the North's nuclear program after a summit in February ended in failure.
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The statement came a day after the test firing, which analysts interpreted as an attempt to exert pressure on Washington to give ground in negotiations to end the North's nuclear program after a summit in February ended in failure.
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"The violence will increase because [the traffickers] want to use this global event to exert pressure on the police to retreat," said Liliane Sabio, a teacher who works in a library in a favela in Rio's Santa Teresa neighborhood.
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Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData, said Friday oil prices can fall farther as the market remains trapped in a vicious circle, in which economic concerns exert pressure on crude, which in turn eggs on economic concerns.
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The adoption of IFRS9 could exert pressure on EFGInt's equity as it would require the bank to account for its life insurance investment portfolio at fair value, which stood at CHF0003 million below the current valuation at amortised cost.
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Activists and some Democratic members point out that the must-pass spending deadline could be the party's best opportunity to exert pressure on Republicans who don't want a government shutdown to occur when they control all levers of government.
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He had previously resisted mounting calls for him to invoke the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era statute that gives the president broad procurement powers in national emergencies, instead seeking to exert pressure on manufacturers to act voluntarily.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A planned trade agreement between the European Union and Latin American countries allows the bloc to exert pressure on Brazil to do more against fires engulfing the Amazon rainforest, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday.
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A continual downgrade drift would exert pressure on lower parts of the capital structure and could eventually increase the size of the high-yield bond market — a cohort that has also been struggling this year as interest rates have gone up.
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Syrian rebels say Turkey has played a main role in getting Russia to exert pressure on Damascus to abide by the deal after it was delayed on Wednesday and they blamed a surge in shelling on Wednesday on Iranian-backed militias.
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Separately on Tuesday, in a move to cushion a possible liquidity squeeze during the upcoming holiday, which may exert pressure on the yuan to deprecate, China's central bank resumed 28-day reverse bond repurchase agreements operations to pump in cash.
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Presidents never were intended to be the unique representative or voice of the people, and they certainly never were meant to set legislative agendas, unilaterally take the country to war, or use their office to exert pressure on the other branches.
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Mr. Kaczynski was also undeterred by the threats of sanctions by the European Union, which he accused of trampling on Poland's sovereignty, with the larger members of the bloc using their power to "brutally exert pressure" on smaller and weaker ones.
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The possibility of CKP undertaking a large investment may exert pressure on its financial profile, but as CKP continues to generate positive operating cash flow from its existing businesses, Fitch expects this risk to diminish in the next two years.
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Also, one way to make an indefinite U.S. military presence more palatable to Americans would be for President Trump, or the next president if not Trump, to exert pressure on our NATO allies to assume a greater role in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was deeply disturbing that Syrian forces were continuing attacks in areas such as Aleppo and the Damascus suburbs and urged Russia to exert pressure on the Syrian government to halt such attacks.
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But if he falls short of the required 1,237 delegates, raising the risk he could lose out in a contested convention, they said they plan to do all they can to exert pressure on party leaders to prevent someone else getting the nomination.
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That decision or action may include using his official position to exert pressure on another official to perform an "official act", or to advise another official, knowing or intending that such advice will form the basis for an "official act" by another official.
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And another part of the Trump administration strategy, getting Pakistan to exert pressure on the Taliban to force them to the negotiating table, has also not been as successful as officials had wanted, despite the US suspending over $1.66 billion in military aid.
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The news gives insight into how hacking groups may be evolving in their extortion efforts; opting to drip out stolen material bit by bit, while generating public interest through the media and their own announcements, all to exert pressure on the ransom victim.
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As well as discussing a possible future free trade deal in Ottawa on Monday, May and Trudeau are likely to unite over plans to exert pressure on Boeing in order to convince the U.S. aircraft maker to drop its dispute with Bombardier.
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"I impressed on her that she is an individual of high moral standing in the international community and she must use that and every means at her disposal to exert pressure on the military to end this operation," he said in an interview.
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On a conference call last month organized by Our Revolution, the Sanders-aligned group, Ms. Jayapal and Mr. Cohen both urged activists to exert pressure on House Democrats to support "Medicare for all" while highlighting the common ground of the two presidential hopefuls.
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Badriddine's killing is allegedly the work of Sunni insurgents, backed by Saudi Arabia, and comes as the Saudis, in an effort to reaffirm their relevance, have looked to intensify support for Sunnis in Iraq and Syria as well as exert pressure on Lebanon. Why?
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The conventional wisdom was that Obama's refusal to make such a public declaration was intended to exert pressure on Netanyahu to tone down his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, and later to punish him for it or hold it out to secure concessions.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an elaborate shipping network that Iran uses to sell oil, and unveiled a $15 million reward to anyone with information that disrupts the scheme, stepping up its effort to exert pressure on the Iranian economy.
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The statement from Bolton — who has remained relatively quiet since Trump fired him last year — hands Senate Democrats a new weapon as they seek to exert pressure on Republicans to call witnesses and seek documentary evidence to add to the House's articles of impeachment.
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Those witnesses outlined a broad campaign by Mr. Trump to use the levers of his government to exert pressure on Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and claims that the Democrats colluded with Ukraine in the 2016 election.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross signaled on Friday that Washington may flex its muscle with additional trading partners in order to exert pressure on China to open its markets, saying that a "poison pill" provision in the recently completed pact with Canada and Mexico could be replicated.
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The justices said that merely "setting up a meeting, hosting an event, or calling an official" is no longer sufficient -- the politician must put his or her thumb on the scale in an ongoing proceeding, lawsuit or controversy, or "exert pressure" on someone else to do so.
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Despite this, a "compact" of Afghan commitments negotiated with the U.S. government includes both the resolution of the contracts and the launch of a new round of tenders in January 2018 — something which is bound to exert pressure on the Afghan government to close the deals.
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Behind the scenes, Geithner enlisted President Obama to exert pressure on Merkel and other European leaders to mimic some of the steps that the United States had taken in 2008, encouraging them to create a proper bailout fund and turn the European Central Bank into an effective crisis fighter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross signaled on Friday that Washington may flex its muscle with additional trading partners in order to exert pressure on China to open its markets, saying that a "poison pill" provision in the recently completed pact with Canada and Mexico could be replicated.
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The State Department announced an arms embargo against South Sudan today in an effort to "stem the violence and to exert pressure on" both the South Sudanese government and rebels to abide by a ceasefire signed last December in the country's ongoing civil war, a State Department official told Axios.
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In that case, the justices said that merely "setting up a meeting, hosting an event, or calling an official" is no longer sufficient -- the politician must put his or her thumb on the scale in an ongoing proceeding, lawsuit or controversy, or "exert pressure" on someone else to do so.
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Mr. McAuliffe, a close friend and ally of the Clintons, said that in his new capacity as chairman of the National Governors Association he would convene an infrastructure summit meeting with the nation's governors immediately after the election to build momentum for a bill and exert pressure on congressional Republicans.
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During the past two weeks, nearly a dozen current and former officials in the Trump administration testified before Nunes and the rest of the Intelligence Committee about what they say was a far-reaching effort to exert pressure on Ukraine to announce the investigations Trump wanted, up to and including withholding congressionally appropriated foreign aid to the war-torn country.
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Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiGiuliani tears into Democrats after House opens probe into whether he pressured Ukraine to target Biden House Democrats launch probe into whether Trump, Giuliani pressured Ukraine to target Biden Ted Cruz fires back at Lori Lightfoot: 'Mayor, your anger is misplaced' MORE lit into Democrats on Monday following the announcement that three House committees are launching a broad investigation into whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE, Giuliani and others sought to exert pressure on the Ukrainian government to target former Vice President Joe Biden.
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House Democrats are launching a broad investigation into whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE, his personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiGiuliani tears into Democrats after House opens probe into whether he pressured Ukraine to target Biden House Democrats launch probe into whether Trump, Giuliani pressured Ukraine to target Biden Ted Cruz fires back at Lori Lightfoot: 'Mayor, your anger is misplaced' MORE and others sought to exert pressure on the Ukrainian government to help Trump get reelected in 22019 by targeting a possible political opponent, former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat MORE.
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