Government was gridlocked, and no matter what happened, it was likely to stay gridlocked.
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" Despite election outcomes, Ristuben contends that Washington, D.C., is "gridlocked and will probably remain gridlocked.
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Whatever happens, roads in and around Dover will be gridlocked.
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Parliament is gridlocked and this has been clear since July.
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During that evacuation, roads out of the area were gridlocked.
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The idea that we are really hopelessly gridlocked is absurd.
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With Congress gridlocked, state policies are becoming ever more important.
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Washington is gridlocked and nothing good is going to happen.
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Is this why we elected Democrats to replace gridlocked Republicans?
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LONDON — Trucks parked along freeways or stuck in gridlocked ports.
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When Johnson became president, Congress was as gridlocked as today.
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In the meantime, there is no escape from gridlocked streets.
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Since then, a gridlocked Congress has done little to spur growth.
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And for most of that time, Congress has been really gridlocked.
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Many are frustrated by high house prices and increasingly gridlocked roads.
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Stormont is gridlocked and has been suspended for over a year.
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Sat in gridlocked traffic as the only passenger on the bus.
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The margin of error was small in this gridlocked summer playground.
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Should big business step into the breach where politics is gridlocked?
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The ensuing duplication leads to one of the airport's hallmarks: gridlocked queues.
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Years and years of trains and planes and buses and gridlocked cars.
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Traffic was jamming up in intersections but it wasn't gridlocked, he said.
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Congress is hopelessly gridlocked — or so we've been told for years now.
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Our gridlocked, contentious country needs this kind of leadership more than ever.
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It's neither geese heading south, nor agitated drivers sitting in gridlocked traffic.
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"It's turned into kind of a gridlocked city for me," he said.
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Yet almost every multiplex on the planet was gridlocked over the weekend.
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Tennessee, which would've been the 36th state to pass it, was gridlocked.
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Streets are also often gridlocked with old cars, adding to pollution levels.
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The Senate has been increasingly gridlocked and partisan in 2017 and 2018.
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But today, that's sometimes overshadowed by images of aggressive paparazzi and gridlocked freeways.
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It also may leave a sharply understaffed and gridlocked commission in her wake.
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Sooty underpasses teem with the unhoused, and the freeways are potholed and gridlocked.
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It's mathematically impossible, and it's the reason Congress remains gridlocked on even mundane issues.
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The federal government is too gridlocked to make anything happen, these policy makers say.
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Ms Nors, in contrast, turns her gridlocked human traffic into a transport of delight.
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British politics are more polarized and gridlocked than at any time in recent memory.
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So, for the last two years, stocks have risen because Washington was not gridlocked.
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But now we're expected to believe stocks will go up because it is gridlocked.
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Streets are gridlocked, property prices have jumped and lakes and open spaces concreted over.
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Inslee's experience has left him a realist on governing in a polarized, gridlocked era.
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We have seen that a hyper-partisan, gridlocked Washington is bad for the country.
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Gridlocked over whether to enact reforms, U.S. lawmakers briefly let that Patriot Act lapse.
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This isn't just a governance challenge or gridlocked politics, as most commentary has emphasized.
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Because the federal legislature is so polarized and gridlocked, that could take some time.
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But they did not attack a school or a concert or a gridlocked freeway.
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And he ran a campaign rooted in breaking the mold of the gridlocked capital city.
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Since an inconclusive election more than three months ago, Moldovan political life has been gridlocked.
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But how will AVs interact with our existing transportation landscape in our current gridlocked cities?
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Families scrambled to find shelter, gas stations were gridlocked, and stores ran low on supplies.
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Several people died as thousands and thousands attempted to flee the storm in gridlocked traffic.
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The American people have been left at the mercy of a gridlocked and inefficient government.
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And that informs her own pet theory on why Washington is so gridlocked these days.
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For years, Congress has been gridlocked on the issue and unable to provide meaningful solutions.
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It was not clear whether the bill would gain momentum in an otherwise gridlocked Congress.
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ROME — President Sergio Mattarella took Italy's gridlocked politics into his own hands on Monday night.
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Amid the gridlocked traffic, boys swung cannisters of holy smoke, and older men hawked wares.
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But the proliferation of ride-hailing vehicles appears to be contributing to increasingly gridlocked streets.
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It is a reminder that the gridlocked politics surrounding the Supreme Court have real-world effects.
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As the skies above London became gridlocked, Ataturk Airport in Istanbul seemed certain to overtake it.
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Lorries gridlocked across Kent and the Pas-de-Calais will not be the only logistical problem.
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In Metro Manila, one of Asia's most gridlocked mega-cities, passengers can sit there for hours.
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On other than a few exceptions, government seems gridlocked as private money and lobbyists dominate politics.
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Mitch McConnell, the lead architect of a permanently gridlocked Washington, should be pleased with his handiwork.
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There were gridlocked intersections, fluttering pigeons and jackhammers loud enough to interfere with dog-owner communication.
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But as Americans have realized for years, our Congress is horribly gridlocked thanks to hyper-partisanship.
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But for now, at least, Washington will be gridlocked (which is better than where we were!).
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That takes a lot of cooperation: something that is in short supply in gridlocked Washington today.
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The hustle and bustle of Kenya's capital Nairobi, with its pollution and gridlocked traffic, seem worlds away.
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Traffic ground to a halt in downtown Windsor, where lines for gas stations spilled into gridlocked roadways.
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Other lawmakers said that, with Congress gridlocked on far less complicated issues, a resolution seemed highly unlikely.
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The famously gridlocked chamber approved a measure that would authorise small changes to quicken the security process.
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The second and more challenging task, however, is rallying a potentially gridlocked Congress around an infrastructure package.
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These are incremental steps, but in the gridlocked world of gun control politics, they count for something.
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The inconvenience of a gridlocked infrastructure pales in comparison to the horror of increasingly commonplace traffic fatalities.
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These policies came at a terrible price: housing is no longer affordable and traffic is practically gridlocked.
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It is cheap and fast, and you can break the laws of the gridlocked traffic at will.
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California's proposal continues an effort by governors to pass laws on the issue while Congress is gridlocked.
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Instead of acknowledging facts, Republicans continue to perpetuate the racially-tinged myths that have gridlocked our government.
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It is more enjoyable to work together civilly than to remain gridlocked and unable to move forward.
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Much of the rail network remained gridlocked on Monday as days of traffic chaos continued across France.
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When I returned, Parliament Square had been closed off by the police and the traffic was gridlocked.
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Much of the rail network remained gridlocked on Monday as days of traffic chaos continued across France.
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The building housing Moon Rise's office is situated along a particularly gridlocked stretch of the Sunset Strip.
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Essentials drying up, travellers stranded, motorways gridlocked: these things bring down governments and undermine faith in democratic politics.
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If Congress remains gridlocked on immigration, the long-term court process may provide the definitive answer on DACA.
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Reports on the ground paint a chaotic scene, with roads gridlocked with people trying to flee to safety.
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That style could have felt too heady and gridlocked, if not for the deftness of Mr. Okazaki's designs.
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In the meantime, everyone is left scratching their heads and looking to an increasingly gridlocked Congress for answers.
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The film deserves some credit for accurately reflecting America's gridlocked military politics, but it never dramatises the issue.
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Small majorities can lead to gridlocked Congresses, with party leaders struggling to rally their members for every vote.
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Green Commuter joins Tesloop in using Tesla vehicles as shared and carpooling vehicles for chronically gridlocked Los Angelenos.
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That a great many people in the world live under governments they wish were capable of being gridlocked.
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Hardly a day passes when headlines and cable news programs tell us that partisan disagreements have gridlocked Congress.
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Congress is gridlocked, and much of the cable news coverage depicts Republicans and Democrats shouting at one another.
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Then they will stop and wait for a light to turn green or a gridlocked intersection to clear.
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Musk created The Boring Company to dig a network of tunnels below Los Angeles to avoid gridlocked freeways.
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Will the House and Senate be able to pass much new legislation or will Congress be largely gridlocked?
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Police motorcycles, their sirens blaring, surged through gridlocked traffic as caravans of entrepreneurs and investors tried to keep up.
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In addition, they no longer suffer the agonies of the daily commute: the cramped railway carriages or gridlocked roads.
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As the world's most populated country, China's gridlocked traffic is legendary, especially in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Freeways often remain completely gridlocked during peak periods while parallel highways, arterials and transits operate with relatively minimal usage.
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Washington can feel pretty gridlocked these days, with the impeachment proceedings against President Trump dividing politicians by party lines.
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But their small size means they can zip through Karachi's five lanes of frequently gridlocked traffic at high velocity.
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The student-led Umbrella protests that gridlocked the city for 79 days 2014 failed to wrest concessions from Beijing.
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With Washington hopelessly gridlocked, how can Americans get in to a doctor's office before they die waiting in line?
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However, the chairman has also said passage of the non-controversial minibus could inject new life into gridlocked negotiations.
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It is unlikely that a divided, gridlocked Congress will offer clear answers to questions about security and privacy anytime soon.
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Will you construct an efficient interstate for the endless traffic of colorful cars, or trap them in a gridlocked dystopia?
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On Monday aviation workers joined a strike that gridlocked Hong Kong, forcing airlines, including Cathay, to cancel hundreds of flights.
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A gridlocked Parliament should accept that under those circumstances, its duty now is to enable a second referendum to happen.
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A surge in support for the far-right Sweden Democrats has overturned decades of stable politics and left parliament gridlocked.
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The narrow road leading from the crossing to the main road and on to the centre of Israel is gridlocked.
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Coaxing a gridlocked Congress to engage in advance planning has become an event almost as rare as financial crises themselves.
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Paradise, California (CNN)Kevin McKay drove the school bus along gridlocked, dark roads as pockets of fire burned all around.
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Many rushed to evacuate on gridlocked roads or were forced to shelter in place amid blowing flame and choking smoke.
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Now, with Congress often gridlocked by Republicans from those safe districts, the initiative on reform has shifted to the states.
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With Congress hopelessly gridlocked, the bulk of policymaking now happens in state capitals and municipalities, where the GOP is dominant.
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Clinton's promise is, effectively, that she is the best suited to grinding out incremental victories within a broken, gridlocked system.
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Meanwhile, Kennedy's airfield became "gridlocked" and "passengers were stuck on inactive planes for unacceptable periods of time," the report said.
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Echo Park is on the east side of Los Angeles, just a mile from the gridlocked mess surrounding Dodgers Stadium.
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She estimates cyclists notch up 16 km/h in gridlocked traffic versus an average of 13 km/h by cars.
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Bills on the issues that women dominate are often gridlocked in committee, so they never make it to a vote.
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"It was one of the few bipartisan bills passed in an otherwise deeply divided and gridlocked Congress," Mr. Russo said.
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You might hope that governments would enact reforms to deal with this, but politics in many places is gridlocked or unstable.
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Traffic around the bridge, which is one of the busiest in the country, was gridlocked for hours on four consecutive days.
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The legislative branch has become so gridlocked that no president can expect to sign more than one or two significant laws.
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Even if Congress remains gridlocked, this means that the presidential and Senate elections in November will be high-stakes contests indeed.
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The two buses were racing to collect passengers, a common occurrence in the city, which is regularly gridlocked by traffic chaos.
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As the 2016 election moves forward, you'll hear this concept again and again: That a gridlocked government is good for stocks.
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The court prides itself on keeping a safe distance from the gridlocked political branches across the street and down Pennsylvania Ave.
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He claimed that, as a businessman, he had the skills to get things done in a Washington gridlocked by professional politicians.
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This month's action led to huge queues for buses in central London while many major roads in the city were gridlocked.
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And when it did, it gridlocked on whether Conard should be punished or let off with the equivalent of a warning.
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They did not tell local officials, who were soon overwhelmed by traffic, with ambulances, school buses and commuters gridlocked for hours.
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"There is a war against women in this country," Muñoz explains, trudging from courthouse to courthouse in San Salvador's gridlocked traffic.
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Perhaps he has not been watching the same gridlocked Congress that we all have been watching for the past six years.
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So Washington is gridlocked until at least January 2021 — meaning that this is it for signature legislation in Trump's first term.
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But the snow started falling in flakes bigger than she'd ever seen, the highway became gridlocked, and their car kept overheating.
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With Congress largely gridlocked, the rules often are the only way to change policies, even if they're often challenged in court.
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But Congress is so gridlocked that the chance of this happening are virtually nil, a fact Pai is presumably aware of.
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The streets were still gridlocked with vehicles, from battered buses and little tuk-tuks to the four-wheel-drives of the elite.
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Remember, much of the benefit to stocks in the last two years has come because we were not in a gridlocked environment.
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But many southern Republicans feel beleaguered by more than one ruling: they see Washington as at once insidiously liberal and hopelessly gridlocked.
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We believe that the people also are very, very upset with the dysfunctional Congress, the gridlocked Congress that is not addressing issues.
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If we are gridlocked again for the next four years, the election of 2020 will make the election of 2016 look tame.
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But Congress has been too polarized and gridlocked to act, essentially acquiescing to the executive branch's interpretations of what the authorization covers.
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In one section of the game, you clear out an entire gridlocked freeway by situating your hole at one end of it.
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During morning rush hour the streets of São Paulo, usually gridlocked with some of the worst traffic on the continent, were quiet.
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By the same token, Mr. Obama ran as a postpartisan antidote to the "same old fights" that had gridlocked Washington for years.
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Still, it faces an uphill battle to pass a gridlocked Congress, which has sent no major legislation to President Donald Trump this year.
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By moving unilaterally on the issue of guns, Obama is working to sidestep a gridlocked Congress that remains politically divided on the issue.
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With local political actors gridlocked on new housing and transportation infrastructure, it's likely these companies will eventually take matters into their own hands.
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The Thai capital, Bangkok, was hit by heavy rain at the weekend, with gridlocked traffic bringing parts of the city to a standstill.
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In this gridlocked scenario, the fact that Democrats don't currently have a concrete, agreed-upon legislative wish list will end up being moot.
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As the road became gridlocked, it took motorists five hours or longer to cover 12 miles to evacuation centers at the work camps.
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It sounds like an overstatement, but to behold the gridlocked streets of Dhaka is to see distress in action, or rather, in inaction.
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I would much prefer a functional FEC run by someone who might not share my views to the gridlocked body we have now.
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It's an idea that could gain steam, especially as both lawmakers and the public grow increasingly frustrated with a gridlocked and polarized Congress.
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An hour or two later and the adventurous ostrich would have been hemmed in by gridlocked traffic, just like the rest of us.
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The two buses were reportedly racing to collect passengers at the time of the deaths, a common occurrence in a city regularly gridlocked.
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This transformation occurred in California as it evolved from majority-white to gridlocked to majority-minority to functional over a 20-year-period.
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Journeys that usually involve hours stuck at gridlocked roundabouts, with police officers facing down honking matatu buses, now take a snappy half-hour.
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In Washington, reporter Sam Sweeney of CNN affiliate WJLA tweeted that traffic was gridlocked in the morning and police had made some arrests.
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But with economy softening and its politics gridlocked, an increasingly besieged China seems less and less likely to realize all of its goals.
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His critics point to warnings that it might leave ports gridlocked, and lead to shortages of fuel, medicines and some kinds of food.
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His critics point to warnings that it might leave ports gridlocked, and lead to shortages of fuel, medicines and some kinds of food.
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Since most power is generated in less populated areas, certain lines that carry it downstate during times of peak demand can become gridlocked.
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The controversial proposal faces an uphill climb in a gridlocked Congress during an election year and would likely be opposed by Silicon Valley.
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First, some facts: the US is the most congested developed country in the world, with 11 cities in the top 25 for most gridlocked.
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With hours to go, the city's freeways were either closed or completely gridlocked as well over a million people made their way to watch.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would decide whether Obama acted lawfully in creating the program by executive order, bypassing a gridlocked Congress.
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But when those officials are actually given time to work: Republican presidents with a gridlocked government have averaged just a 1 percent annual return.
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More recently, progressives have pursued their priorities at the state and local levels, when Congress proved too gridlocked to allow meaningful legislation to pass.
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The heated exchanges were clear evidence that the high-priority bills were gridlocked and would have to wait until at least September for action.
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Meanwhile, several blocks away, Zachary Quinto was ditching his taxi in the gridlocked traffic of Friday afternoon before the long Fourth of July weekend.
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A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday said they have reached an immigration deal as lawmakers try to break through a gridlocked floor debate.
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Unlike the Trump Administration and a long-gridlocked Congress, state and city policymakers have long recognized the value of young Dreamers to their economies.
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Which left Britain utterly gridlocked -- a Prime Minister unable to push through a plan to institute Brexit and an opposition unable to replace her.
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More than three weeks later, with Washington still gridlocked over President Trump's demand for a wall along the southwestern border, that is still true.
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Kokhta has a lift that starts just outside of town, but traffic was gridlocked there when we passed through, and the parking lot full.
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But the three lawmakers each faced more questions about their policy platforms and how they were going to maneuver legislation through a gridlocked Congress.
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Its location is inconvenient for those who don't live on the west side of the city, and the traffic surrounding it is frequently gridlocked.
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Some ride-hail drivers, he says, would circle around the gridlocked terminal roadways, hoping the high demand for rides would financially offset their wait.
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She told me that "Point Taken" is meant to be "counter-programming" to the mean-spirited and gridlocked political conversations you find everywhere else.
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Under different conditions, too much policymaking in the executive branch alongside a gridlocked Congress might be cause for a reckoning over the lawmaking process.
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With winds still blowing and freeways still gridlocked on Sunday, officials said that they planned to open other shelters as far south as Marin County.
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And in recent decades, it has caused the Senate to become completely gridlocked, which is why it's become an issue in the 2020 presidential election.
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The bypass is vital for a city that is regularly gridlocked, but it will also serve as a footnote in the tale of Carillion's demise.
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They are also trialing different ports in case Dover, Britain's main gateway to Europe, becomes gridlocked, delaying the daily movement of up to 16,19603 trucks.
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With a gridlocked Congress, presidents are less and less able to push through enormous legislative changes that would substantially shift the course of the economy.
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Strange as it might sound in a gridlocked Washington, it appears that some version of the Personal Care Products Safety Act could pass next year.
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That caused chaos in Sao Paulo's already clogged traffic, as commuter trains were partially shut down, and buses and cars were stuck in gridlocked streets.
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Horn thought of the notoriously gridlocked I-93 near Boston, which he regularly endures on his drive from rural New Hampshire to the Cambridge university.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, is aimed at easing the congestion on Manhattan's gridlocked streets, while also providing another source of funding for the failing subway system.
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The justices have dodged the issue of gerrymandering for decades, gridlocked over whether it is even possible to distinguish acceptably partisan maps from unconstitutional ones.
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"We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill," the activists write on the website strikedc.org.
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That's because a gridlocked government — hamstrung from passing either party's initiatives or reforms — tends to generate better returns than when one political party controls Congress.
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The CEO of the construction materials supplier said that with Congress gridlocked over more contested issues, any federal infrastructure policy would take time to pass.
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"We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill," the organizers said on the event website.
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He frequently employs the hashtag #MayorsGetThingsDone on Twitter, part of his argument that his experience compares favorably with that of lawmakers in often-gridlocked Washington.
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We discussed the state of the House race, the forces helping Democrats in 210, and why Congress will be somehow even more gridlocked come January.
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The European Union is, of course, a swamp, but more important for us, deepening polarization of political parties in the United States has left Congress gridlocked.
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The proposed legislation, which is expected to continue facing strong opposition from the technology sector and privacy advocates, faces an uphill battle in a gridlocked Congress.
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"It was one of the few bipartisan bills passed in an otherwise deeply divided and gridlocked Congress," Bill Russo, a spokesman for Biden, told the Times.
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There's another possibility as well, which is that politicians are increasingly seeing a gridlocked Congress as a dead end when it comes to getting things done.
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All across the country, roads are gridlocked and potholed; poor and middle-class kids are denied preschool, and medical advances are stalled for lack of funding.
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But the path to a modern La Guardia was not supposed to include travelers dragging luggage through gridlocked traffic on a highway to catch their flights.
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As the 2020 election nears, a gridlocked Congress will have to contend with an electorate that increasingly supports the removal of assault weapons from civilian life.
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While legislative action on issues is often gridlocked amid Washington partisanship, democracy reform efforts are being led by citizens in grassroots campaigns that yield significant wins.
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The truckers' protest left South America's biggest city and economic hub Sao Paulo, and hundreds of communities across the country, without fuel, emptying normally gridlocked roads.
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This often results in a fractured and gridlocked government and society, most vividly manifested in a bloody 15-year civil war that only ended in 1990.
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SYDNEY By Sandy Jenkins It was a hot summer morning in Sydney, and I was behind the wheel, stuck in gridlocked traffic approaching the Anzac Bridge.
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An ambulance, with its siren wailing and lights flashing, was unable to move, stuck in gridlocked traffic one recent afternoon along Eighth Avenue in Times Square.
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And a gridlocked grocery market provides few incentives for new stores — which might offer more local jobs, because they are more fully staffed — to move in.
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By early 220, with Washington gridlocked, the Federal Reserve looking to end quantitative easing and equities appearing cheap relative to bonds, the S&P gained upward momentum.
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As passionate as both sides of this debate are, bypassing a gridlocked Congress to do that which could not be done legislatively is not the right path.
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The fact is, this technology absolutely could bring potential benefits to gridlocked cities like Atlanta, with the scooters' environmentally-friendly energy consumption, tiny physical footprint, and convenience.
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ATHENS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Traffic was gridlocked in parts of Athens on Tuesday as Greek transport workers joined a 24-hour public sector strike over pension reforms.
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Pethokoukis also said past societal changes that have benefited the United States are no longer as strong, hampering growth that a gridlocked Washington is only making worse.
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The fast progress of legislation, introduced in August, has alarmed lobbyists and company representatives who initially predicted it would not go far in an otherwise gridlocked Congress.
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As Congress has become more gridlocked, and as presidents have pushed the boundaries of executive authority, the courts have weighed in more often on boundary-stretching rules.
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But if you don't believe there are any useful projects or if your country's political system is simply too gridlocked to find them, there are easy alternatives.
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Although a formal complaint was filed in January 2018, the FEC, which is notoriously gridlocked, likely won't rule on the complaint until after the 2020 presidential election.
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But that's because the subways don't work, the streets are gridlocked, the housing is unaffordable, the shelters are overcrowded, and the schools are segregated and often inadequate.
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As we cross through the gridlocked Manhattan streets, dodging delivery trucks and waving to other Via drivers, he tells me he is at peace with his job.
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They gridlocked many of President Obama's nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, who was never even allowed a hearing, let alone a vote on the Senate floor.
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Why it matters: Government, especially one divided and gridlocked, is incapable of setting the rules and parameters for technologies that will transform our lives along these big trends.
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Purnama has plenty of supporters, especially among the large middle class who liked the way he cut bureaucracy, tried to de-clog gridlocked streets and spoke his mind.
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The vote for the presidency could yet yield the reshaping of the two main parties and a political realignment that leads to a less stagnant and gridlocked government.
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That's a welcome change from his experience earlier in the week, when an unexpected storm snagged his motorcade in gridlocked traffic on its way from Joint Base Andrews.
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Those include a dispute over whether to finance a wall along the southern border with Mexico, which left Washington gridlocked in the longest partial government shutdown on record.
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Congress — which is arguably more gridlocked than ever — is actually doing a pretty decent job so far at the task that's eluded it for years: passing spending bills.
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With more than 200,000 bike drivers on its platform, it goes beyond helping passengers weave Jakarta's gridlocked cities to get from A to B faster than four wheels.
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In contrast to notoriously aggressive and gridlocked traffic back in Washington, the Cairo traffic maintained a constant motion in which everyone seemed to know his or her place.
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The Republican president delayed the end of the program until March 5 and gave a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of almost 800,000 young people.
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New York will allow Amazon, DHL and UPS to park cargo bikes in commercial loading zones as a way to get some trucks off the city's gridlocked streets.
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Negotiations between Kim and the U.S. have remained gridlocked in recent months, as North Korea is trying to secure relief from sanctions in exchange for steps toward denuclearization.
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For the first time in recent memory, a vote had been demanded on every amendment in a spending package, extending an already unwieldy and gridlocked process painfully late.
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In the pages discussed, Black Widow has to make a daring escape in gridlocked traffic, and Samnee plays with the structure of the page to keep the reader engaged.
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Any deal to fund nine hobbled federal agencies hinges on the gridlocked negotiations surrounding the wall; as a result, the partial shutdown has now become the longest on record.
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Still, the Burr-Feinstein effort is expected to face a steep climb in a gridlocked Congress wary about tackling such a complex and controversial issue during an election year.
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Fiscal policy, which has been gridlocked for years in Washington, needs to be "one, two, and three" on the list of reforms to jump-start the economy, said Greenspan.
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Gridlocked legislatures, low trust in the press, and judiciaries challenged by expansive executive power have all called attention to the many ways in which Western institutions can become dysfunctional.
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But we will see the same kinds of patterns that we saw during my presidency, a progressive president but a gridlocked Congress that can't move an agenda for us.
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With Congress gridlocked and legal challenges uncertain, it's up to states to fill the leadership void – through programs that promote affordable small-dollar loans and protect financially vulnerable consumers.
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It was the two leaders' 21st meeting, but Russia-Japan discussions remain gridlocked, and there is little confidence that upcoming meetings could improve the situation, according to one expert.
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At a time when Congress seems gridlocked and dysfunctional, it's nice to see the Senate moving in a bipartisan way to address an issue that affects America's most vulnerable.
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Their authoritarian system can stifle dissent and quickly redirect resources, and they expect Washington to be gridlocked and come under pressure from voters feeling the pain of trade disruptions.
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Negotiations over billions of dollars for recovery efforts have been gridlocked, primarily because lawmakers have struggled to reach a consensus over the amount of funding allocated for Puerto Rico.
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The Democrats today are reacting not only to Mr. Trump but to the Tea Party-dominated Republican Party that preceded and prepared the way for him with gridlocked government.
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Now the failure to grapple with how to pay for the increased spending bodes ill for our government's ability to resolve the multitude of pressing — but still gridlocked — issues.
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Click here to view original GIFBeverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica; all great reasons to visit Los Angeles that are unfortunately overshadowed by the city's overwhelming traffic and perpetually-gridlocked highways.
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Yet the system and laws appear likely to remain this way for now: Despite a bipartisan push, a relatively mild bill has failed to get anywhere in America's gridlocked Congress.
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Finally, egg eaters also enjoyed a 12% reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, which is diagnosed in those who show the early signs of gridlocked blood flow to the brain.
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President Jose Mario Vaz sacked his Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira in August 2015 sparking infighting within the ruling PAIGC party that has left the West African nation's institutions gridlocked.
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For 20 of the previous 40 days, the mayor wrote, his borough was "completely gridlocked" and a "hostage to traffic" — language that seemed to mirror his testimony earlier this week.
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Presidents can't just invent new laws, but Obama has already demonstrated willingness to tweak enforcement in ways that alter the legal environment, particularly on issues that remain gridlocked in Congress.
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If climate hawks ever want to change the maddening, gridlocked political status quo in the US, they need to start thinking about how to bring those traits to the surface.
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The big picture: With federal policy gridlocked, advocates are pushing an ever-growing list of long-shot lawsuits blaming big oil companies and the government for the planet's hot mess.
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Israel: Parliament missed a deadline to form a majority government, ensuring that the politically gridlocked country will have a record third election in less than a year, likely in March.
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Thousands, young and old, had gathered peacefully at a harborside park to mark the fifth anniversary of the "Umbrella" pro-democracy movement which gridlocked streets for 79 days in 2014.
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The good news is that making a national monument of the web wouldn't have to fight through our gridlocked political system because only the president can unilaterally decide to do it.
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And in 2014, an otherwise hopelessly gridlocked Congress passed, and President Obama signed, the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act in response to a petition signed by over 100,000 Americans.
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Particularly at a time when the federal government is gridlocked, the state level is where we can get far more done and deliver the kind of change that improves people's lives.
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To explain why democracy feels gridlocked, Mr Kasich points to partisans who now consume political news like a "hobby", and who use primary elections to punish legislators who cross party lines.
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The non-committal stance reflects a political calculus that any encryption bill would be controversial and is unlikely to go far in a gridlocked Congress during an election year, sources said.
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He has 25 years of experience in Congress, including negotiating policy on behalf of Democratic leadership and forming bipartisan relationships that helped move key pieces of legislation through a gridlocked Congress.
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Much like his predecessor, President Donald Trump has adopted a favorable view towards executive power as a method of achieving policy goals quickly without needing to go through a gridlocked Congress.
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Kennedy had solid majorities in both houses of Congress, but on many issues legislation was just as gridlocked as it is now, thanks to the conservative Democrats who ran leading committees.
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Policymakers did begin to more meaningfully consider regulating internet giants in 2019, but a gridlocked Congress and powerful lobbying forces have so far prevented any meaningful internet regulation from getting passed.
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Like so many efforts, the project is likely to face an impasse in the largely gridlocked Senate, with ample pearl clutching over how we're to pay for these basic societal essentials.
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Hong Kong protesters were rebuilding "Lennon Walls" of anti-government graffiti on Saturday as they marked the fifth anniversary of the "Umbrella" pro-democracy movement that gridlocked the territory for weeks.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Transport to and from Hong Kong International Airport was disrupted for hours Sunday as protesters barricaded roads, leaving traffic gridlocked and stranding hundreds of tourists at the terminal.
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With the federal government largely gridlocked against gun policy reform, policy moves to prevent the scale of mass shootings seen in 2017 are likely to fall to the state and local level.
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The vote, with an unexpectedly wide margin in a Senate typically gridlocked along partisan lines, underscores growing anger over American involvement in a war that is currently the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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As for America, its government is often gridlocked thanks to partisan animosity, while the campaign for November's presidential election has plumbed depths of personal abuse, mendacity and barely disguised racism and sexism.
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The surviving Republican members in the House, too, will have little interest in cooperating with the new Democratic majority, leaving Republican congressional power focused in the Senate and the government largely gridlocked.
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And right now, everything suggests that the next four years will be just like the last eight: a gridlocked, toxic, Sunni-Shiite, Democrat-Republican civil war, with little search for common ground.
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Although he still has a Republican primary to win on Tuesday against GOP opponent Mike Kennedy, he is already touting his experience in a blue state as a plus in gridlocked Washington.
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Congress should be stepping up, but it is gridlocked, and in the absence of any independent probe, the news media have become the main conduit through which the investigation is being handled.
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As it stands, the Williamsburg Bridge, an overpass most FHVs would need to cross, is gridlocked during morning and evening rush hours—a worrisome sign eight months out from the shutdown's start.
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But the region has also suffered from many of the consequences of the industry's immense wealth, including sky-high housing costs, gridlocked traffic, overstuffed transit systems, and displacement of non-tech residents.
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As a result, the system has become gridlocked and the process to update product labels with new safety information, approve new ingredients, or make other changes can take several years or more.
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If the bill passes the House as expected, it will head to a gridlocked Senate, where more than a quarter of the lawmakers, including No. 2 Republican John Cornyn, has endorsed similar legislation.
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Thailand's capital city of Bangkok is legendary for its gridlocked traffic, but it looks like things have taken a turn for the worse since Pokémon Go launched in the country on Aug. 123.
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It is a rarity in today's largely gridlocked Congress: compromise legislation that has been carefully written over months of hearings, passed through the energy panel on a bipartisan vote of 18 to 4.
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Traffic had ground to a dead halt in downtown Windsor by early Saturday afternoon, where lines for gas stations spilled into gridlocked roadways and radio stations blared orders to evacuate by 303 p.m.
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Ultimately, Kloza feels that oil will remain gridlocked as institutional investors with long positions will fight to keep oil above $50, amid more OPEC infighting coupled with seasonality pulling down on the price.
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Donald Trump's election to the presidency was many things: a cry for help from Americans who've felt left behind, a populist roar of anger against globalization, a repudiation of a gridlocked political system.
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Trump has struggled to assert his authority on Washington since taking office -- after telling his fired up and loyal voters he would do just that and change the way the gridlocked capital works.
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With legislators gridlocked, there is a huge opportunity for socially-minded entrepreneurs to step up and close the empathy gap that is keeping legions of Americans from getting the health care they need.
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If you've ever visited capital city Jakarta, with a population of 10 million and gridlocked roads, you'll see why a bike gets you from A to B far, far quicker than a taxi.
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But as Skelley, the Washington Post, and the Cook Political Report have all predicted this week, it's now all but guaranteed that Republicans will keep the House — and keep Congress gridlocked into 113.
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With libertarian Austin Petersen her only declared foe, McCaskill's sales pitch back home focuses less on her votes in the gridlocked Senate and more on her less-heralded bipartisan achievements — opioid oversight included.
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The idea has emerged as potential compromise among GOP and Democratic lawmakers -- who are sharply divided and therefore gridlocked on gun control issues -- as they search for a response to shooting in Parkland.
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Despite gridlocked traffic and huge houses, the East End of Long Island is still farm country, as it has been for centuries, with fields of corn, seasonal produce stands and, more recently, wineries.
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The idea dates back decades, with supporters often pointing to an array of health, safety and environmental benefits, including reducing air pollution and pedestrian injuries, and alleviating the stranglehold on gridlocked city streets.
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In 2011, Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time after a gridlocked Congress waited until the government was possibly within hours of defaulting on its debt to raise the ceiling.
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Uber said it respected the decision, even though it went against its goal of getting more people into fewer cars, which it said would be a plus for a notoriously gridlocked city like Manila.
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For managers who priced in the last few weeks, the risks are limited by the fact that many were able to pick up cheap loans in February, when the CLO market was largely gridlocked.
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And what President Trump is saying is that if Congress is gridlocked right now, which it is on this topic, then he wants to start a dialogue about what it is he stands for.
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For all its messaging, personnel and operational struggles, Mr. Trump's team has relentlessly executed a branding strategy aimed at projecting the image of a man of action fighting against gridlocked and corrupt Washington elites.
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He commuted to work by copter, flying to Lakers home games and to practices, covering a distance in 20 minutes by air that could take two hours on the gridlocked streets of Los Angeles.
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Tens of thousands of people were stranded for hours on gridlocked highways on the east coast of Australia Thursday as they tried to escape bushfires ravaging the region before conditions worsen again on Saturday.
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LA was the most gridlocked city in the world, with drivers spending 25 hours in congestion in 21 during peak time periods, according to a massive review of global traffic data by analytics firm INRIX.
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Diamniadio is meant to free up Dakar's gridlocked roads by moving the nerve centre of the capital, which is home to more than 3 million people, off the spindly peninsula at Africa's western-most point.
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Not only has the entire agenda he laid out at the beginning of the year fizzled, but Ryan cannot get agreement on emergency measures, which even the most gridlocked Congresses of the past could manage.
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Initiatives such as the ambitious $45 billion Eastern Economic Corridor project to draw investment into the country's industrial east could be delayed if the coalition is unable to work together and the budget is gridlocked.
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With Congress gridlocked and likely to remain so after the election, the mortgage machine is a largely off-balance-sheet way to funnel money to ordinary Americans, most of whom still want to own homes.
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Mr. Armstrong, a 66-year-old Democrat who mostly dealt with a Republican City Council, said stagnant wages, a shrinking middle class and frustration with a gridlocked government made Columbus voters as angry as any.
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As a gridlocked Senate precludes much near-term hope for legislative advancements, Porter has become a surprising hero to progressives and economic populists, a legislator who uses her platform as effectively as anyone in Congress.
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With Congress gridlocked and unable to pass major legislation regarding public lands, greens, Democrats and local advocates near the proposed monuments are calling on Obama to keep bypassing Congress to protect land and water areas.
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Diamniadio is meant to free up Dakar's gridlocked roads by moving the nerve center of the capital, which is home to more than 3 million people, off the spindly peninsula at Africa's western-most point.
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Washington (CNN)Gridlocked about how to end the longest shutdown in US history, the White House is reaching out to rank-and-file moderate Democrats to try and peel off support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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The investor enthusiasm that began with President Trump's unexpected victory in November has burst out anew on Wall Street, even as Washington remains gridlocked and evidence of any real pickup in the economy is scarce.
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With Congress gridlocked by partisan disagreements, including how to reduce our debt and deficit, we need to focus on commonsense solutions and find ways to come together to fix the budget issues we currently face.
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Earlier this month, Trump rescinded an Obama-era program that shielded Dreamers from deportation, but gave the Republican-controlled Congress - long gridlocked over immigration - six months to come up with legislation to address the issue.
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We agree that raising money for re-election is an essential part of public office, but find it embarrassing that the Federal Election Commission, which is in charge of enforcing our laws, is permanently gridlocked.
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On the longest stretch of passenger rails in New Jersey without a stop, the proposed station would address a glaring need, providing public transit to a bustling area and easing congestion on chronically gridlocked highways.
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December 2015, for example, saw an unusual spurt of legislative activity in a gridlocked era with both a major overhaul of federal K-12 education policy and a massive budget agreement passing with bipartisan majorities.
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But in the April 22016 Morgan Stanley speech, Clinton suggested that Democrats who call for higher taxes while rejecting restraints on spending contribute to Washington's "gridlocked dysfunction" because they leave no room for compromise with Republicans.
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But LoveYourself—a not-for-profit offering no-cost HIV tests in the heart of steamy, gridlocked Metro Manila—is making waves amid the silence surrounding the country's HIV epidemic with edgy taglines like this one.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's public school system on Monday proposed a "balanced" $5.75 billion operating budget for fiscal 2017 that relies on rosy assumptions of union give-backs and added funding support from Illinois' gridlocked state government.
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The proliferation of cheap taxis using the ride-hailing apps in frequently gridlocked Jakarta has made the traditional pick-up and drop-off taxi services unprofitable, threatening the business models of the country's top taxi firms.
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Surely some signposts of unrest were discernible many exits ago — the rise in income inequality, scraping away at the middle class; the preponderance of partisan news media; congressional functionality morphing from labored to gridlocked to hopeless.
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With good news a rarity in a gridlocked Washington these days, you may have overlooked a positive development at the end of last year when Congress passed a historic overhaul of the outdated military retirement system.
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There's undoubtedly a segment of the country that would be happy to have a return to normalcy after Trump, even if that meant Congress remained gridlocked thanks to a Republican Senate minority with effective veto power.
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The big picture: These types of lawsuits, which allege oil producers are liable for billions of dollars worth of damages caused by climate change, are proliferating across the country as Washington remains gridlocked on the issue.
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week face a reckoning with an unwelcome reality of a gridlocked Washington: the lame-duck session's growing pile of unresolved, but critical, legislation and a narrow window to act.
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Normally gridlocked cities like Los Angeles and Chicago have seen much faster traffic speeds during so-called rush hour—22020 percent and 212 percent, respectively—as residents hunker down and hope social distancing does its work.
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Less than a week after Representative Tom MacArthur helped legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act clear a gridlocked House, he faced hundreds of outraged constituents and protesters on Wednesday in his district's Democratic stronghold.
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If the Obama Administration is truly serious about instituting change in the housing market that ensures affordability for all, while protecting the American taxpayer, it must realize that a gridlocked Congress will not act anytime soon.
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While Congress remains gridlocked on health care reform, a significant change is making its way through the regulatory process that could dramatically reduce affordable access to prescription therapies for some of the nation's most vulnerable patients.
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Even as Congress remains gridlocked, GOP states have enacted a number of conservative priorities, including cutting union rights, reducing access to abortion, dampening efforts to raise the minimum wage, and stymieing implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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"It's dependent on their policy preferences: If they want a moderate government, and think Clinton is way off to the left, they may use their split ticket to preserve a centrist — or, really, gridlocked — government," Mebane says.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Singapore is launching a six-month trial of an on-demand public bus service, using technology to reduce congestion and costs in what could be a model for gridlocked cities in the region.
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The proliferation of cheap taxis using ride-hailing apps Grab and Uber in gridlocked Jakarta has made the traditional pick-up and drop-off taxi services unprofitable, threatening the business models of the country's top taxi firms.
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New York City is considering implementing a per-ride fee on ride-sharing services like Uber in Manhattan as well as a congestion pricing plan in order to unclog its gridlocked streets, per the New York Times.
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To suggest that Beijing should follow the likes of London and Stockholm, by charging drivers 265-22010 yuan ($285-22003) to enter the capital's busiest areas in the hope of easing traffic flow in the gridlocked city.
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With Congress gridlocked by partisan disagreements, including over how to reduce our debt and deficit, we need to focus on common-sense solutions and find ways to come together to fix the budget issues we currently face.
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The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), one of the few institutions with public support, has been wisely instructed by just-resigned Prime Minister Saad Hariri to uphold the right to protest while they attempt to unblock gridlocked roads.
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Locals complain of gridlocked streets, crowds of drunk spring-breakers, and occasional violence during high season, while in the winter months, they gripe about job scarcity and an influx of homeless people from colder cities further north.
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He is snaking his way through traffic to a hospital in Ikeja, a district in the gridlocked megaccity with an estimated population of 24 million, and one of the most stressful cities to live in the world.
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A witness said that thousands on Monday fled from the Idlib towns of Ariha and Saraqib, with trucks and cars seen crawling in gridlocked traffic toward areas, including the town of Azaz, close to the Turkish border.
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Depending on the time of year, you'll catch (straight) couples walking the streets, and nannies with kids, and joggers working through morning routines, weaving along culs-de-sac gridlocked by Allen Parkway and Shepherd and the Southwest Freeway.
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But three years into the massive construction project, traffic at the airport has been so gridlocked on some days that travelers have resorted to exiting their vehicles and dragging their luggage between cars to get to the terminal.
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Trump arrived in Rome Tuesday evening, his motorcade closing a busy Italian highway just after rush hour and prompting hundreds of onlookers to briefly step out of their gridlocked cars to gawk at the fleet of armored vehicles.
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With police doing their best to direct gridlocked traffic and with helicopters whirring overhead, dust billowed up from packed roadways for hours, mixed with the odors of livestock and chemicals, as the mass exodus proceeded in slow motion.
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Seek the reason for the failure of the ingenious financial solutions that have been proposed, and it is difficult not to detect the hand of vested interests, or indeed simply the sheer inertia of a gridlocked congressional system.
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Absent an electoral landslide that hands Democrats control of the House as well, considerable wooing may well be necessary if Democrats win the White House and Senate and hope to bring a new spirit to a gridlocked Congress.
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Federal climate politics in the US remains as gridlocked as ever, but the past few years have seen a remarkable flourishing of climate and clean energy policy at the subnational level, in states and cities across the country.
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The Crescendo, two six-story buildings on Bruckner Boulevard, overlooking gridlocked traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway, has leased about 85 percent of 130 luxury units since mid-2017, said Naomi Eisenberg, who led leasing with Mdrn. Residential.
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Visitors and residents alike can now glide for miles along the river banks on a bike, protected from the cars by granite separators, or all the way across the city, from Concorde to Bastille, beating the gridlocked traffic.
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Some states might sue to block these changes, but they are grounded in existing legal authorities and are likely the most feasible parts of his climate agenda, especially if Congress remains just as gridlocked after the next election.
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The proliferation of cheap taxis using ride-sharing apps Go-jek, Grab and Uber in gridlocked Jakarta has made the traditional pick-up and drop-off taxi services unprofitable, threatening the business models of the country's top taxi firms.
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Though nowhere near as potent, the various protests come as France prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the student-led riots of May 1968, which gridlocked the country and led to the adoption of more progressive social policies.
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In this perfect world, Siri argues, the supposedly unhackable and absolutely transparent blockchain will ensure that no centralized election authority is required to tabulate a vote, and no corrupt politician or gridlocked legislature can interfere with the popular mandate.
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Think about what it would take to pass some of the radically liberal legislation Sanders proposes in a polarized and gridlocked Congress that has for years now tried to squash even Obama's moderate initiatives -- and has been largely successful.
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Knight Frank said it had sold two properties in Nairobi worth more than $2 million each since November, signaling a shift by the wealthy from the suburbs to the city center to avoid spending hours stuck on gridlocked roads.
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A few flip remarks here and there that made for some greedy "gotcha" headlines — not all of them true to the intent, but hey, if you're gonna walk through a minefield ... It's all just a glaring, gridlocked, Gordian knot.
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The proliferation of cheap taxis using ride-hailing apps Go-jek, Grab and Uber in gridlocked Jakarta has made the traditional pick-up and drop-off taxi services unprofitable, threatening the business models of the country's top taxi firms.
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Washington (CNN)There is a tendency after mass casualty events like the Las Vegas shooting last month or the Texas church shooting on Sunday to ask if now, finally, things will change in the gridlocked politics of gun control.
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We have seen over the past decade, even amid a gridlocked Congress, growing bipartisan support to move away from traditional fee-for-service health care delivery to value-based care that is patient-centered, high-quality care under Medicare.
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And the same hot-button issues that have consumed a gridlocked Washington in recent years have also played a central role in races that in the past would have been dominated by talk of taxes, transportation spending and education.
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White House officials have described the federal spending in the to-be-proposed plan as a floor, not a ceiling, and said Trump would be willing to spend more money to get the plan through a largely gridlocked Congress.
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RELATED: Immigration tops the list of issues for Trump's first State of the Union Immigration talks remain gridlocked, with aides and members saying that a group of congressional whips has yet to have a significant breakthrough on DACA negotiations.
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That increase in traffic has made the interchange of Interstate 23 and New Jersey Route 22, about a half-mile from the George Washington Bridge, the country's most gridlocked stretch of highway for trucks, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.
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Americans understand the limits of what a president can do and the problems of our gridlocked political system, but they want to hear from candidates who are going to at least try to push for big changes from the start.
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Gridlocked on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok; on long Tube journeys in London, or the New York City Subway; en route to training, or returning to base, even in the most mundane and innocuous setting, you can make time to meditate.
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The news outlet said Republicans are considering a fix to the law to correct the unintentional error, but there are worries that the correction would not pass through a gridlocked Congress where lawmakers have one eye on this year's midterm elections.
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It was not the first time one of us had asked a question about a minor issue during our study tour of the bustling, gridlocked capital Jakarta and been treated to a largely unrelated exposition on an entirely different idea.
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Trump will not hear proposals to resist such encroachments because he believes they reflect badly upon his election triumph, and our politics are already gridlocked, so 2018 will be a year of increasing vituperation on the Hill and the nation.
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"It's still an uphill battle and given how gridlocked Congress is generally, it's not going to be easy, but there's a growing consensus on, at the very least, ending the conflict between state cannabis laws and federal cannabis laws," he said.
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The use of executive power has dramatically expanded under both Republican and Democratic presidents in the last eight decades — and Congress has essentially ceded much power to the White House when it comes to lawmaking as its become more gridlocked.
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A van from Tri-City Regional Medical Center, now Gardens Regional Hospital in southern Los Angeles County, had driven more than 20 miles through gridlocked traffic to drop her off there, according to a lawsuit filed against the hospital last April.
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When a reporter first asked the Port Authority in mid-September about the closings, which came without notice to the public or to local officials in Fort Lee and gridlocked the town, Mr. Wildstein forwarded the inquiry to Mr. Drewniak.
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After all, divided government under high partisan polarization is really just gridlocked government, and whatever oversight comes out of it might wind up as an endless fishing expedition to find something, anything, that can bring down the opposing party's president.
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HONG KONG, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters have set themselves a busy schedule for Saturday, rebuilding "Lennon Walls" of anti-government graffiti and marking the fifth anniversary of the "Umbrella" street movement that gridlocked the city for weeks.
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In the wake of the mass shooting last week, there have been renewed calls on lawmakers for gun control measures, and Roberts' comment was the latest indication of a shift in the dialogue surrounding the issue, which many see as gridlocked.
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The protesters, most of them young people dressed in black, erected barricades as they prepared to hunker down for an extended occupation of the area, in scenes reminiscent of pro-democracy "Occupy" protests that gridlocked the former British colony in 2014.
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But those smart vehicles of the near-future don't quite have the huge computing power to process the data necessary to avoid collisions, chat with nearby vehicles about optimizing traffic flow, and find the best routes that avoid gridlocked or washed-out roads.
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The protesters, most of them young people dressed in black, had erected barricades as they prepared to hunker down for an extended occupation of the area, in scenes reminiscent of pro-democracy "Occupy" protests that gridlocked the former British colony in 2014.
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The board of education, appointed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, will also be voting next week on a $5.45 billion operating budget for fiscal 2017 that relies on optimistic assumptions of union givebacks and added funding support from Illinois' gridlocked state government.
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But perhaps even more usefully than backing such efforts personally, he could try to persuade his fellow members of the CEO class that it's against their long-term interests for the United States to have such a broken and gridlocked political system.
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In a fugue, or a dream, they float over mountain peaks, green gullies, surging seas, oceans of gridlocked cars, landfill, and smoldering tires—from Heaven to Hell, or, in Toller's mind, from God's creation to the unforgivable mess we have made of it.
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There is significant unfinished business in Mr. Obama's Asia policy, including the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that appears gridlocked in Washington and an expanding North Korean nuclear weapons program that he and other world leaders have failed to halt.
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The protesters, most of them young people dressed in black, had erected barricades as they prepared to hunker down for an extended occupation of the area, in scenes reminiscent of pro-democracy "Occupy" protests that gridlocked the former British colony in 1003.
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That date looms as analysts continue to warn that without a deal, the exit could be deeply damaging to Britain's economy, leaving ports gridlocked and causing some supplies of food and medicines to dry up, and even plunging Britain into a recession.
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Tourists have been flocking to Lake Elsinore in Southern California to see a stunning display of golden poppies that are in bloom along its hills, but the influx of people has gridlocked the area and caused a massive headache for the short-handed city.
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For the two calendar years following each national U.S. election, the S&P 500 had a mean annual increase of 12 percent under Republican-controlled governments, compared to an increase of 9 percent for Democratic-controlled governments and a 7 percent rise for gridlocked governments.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era program that protects from deportation immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, delaying implementation until March and giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of almost 800,20163 young people.
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I might be a grizzled and cynical political observer, but a politician engineering a photo op while overlooking the perpetually gridlocked Cross Bronx Expressway would get my attention, especially if it were scheduled in the hours just after frustrating and infuriating commute to work.
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Billionaire real estate developer Trump has racked up wins in two of the three early-voting states by channeling the disillusionment many Americans, especially the white working-class, feel with stagnant wages, globalization, the influence of corporate money in politics, and a gridlocked government.
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So unless Clinton delivers a wipeout of historic proportions, Washington in 2017 will likely look much like Washington of the last few years, a gridlocked mess incapable of agreement on tax reform, infrastructure spending or immigration reform, leaving a softening economy to fend for itself.
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Amobi's latest album, "Paradiso," released by NON and UNO NYC in May, conjures a decrepit metropolis that runs on chaos—shattered glass, gridlocked traffic, scorched beaches—along with the parallel histories of the NON founders' native cities and the populations that have travelled through them.
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Top party operatives are poll-testing messages aimed at winning over voters who are fed up with a gridlocked capital, searching for ways to build an advantage among swing voters who may still like Trump, but not the senators who are seeking reelection in 28503.
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In a departure from Hong Kong's 2014 pro-democracy "Occupy" protests, which gridlocked parts of the city for 79 days, these protesters managed to mobilize several million people on to the streets thanks in part to social media and encrypted messaging apps like Telegram.
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A key priority is making it as palatable as possible to commuters from the suburbs and boroughs outside Manhattan without undercutting the primary goals: providing a dedicated funding stream for the transit system, while reducing traffic squeezing onto some of the country's most gridlocked streets.
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Google and the city of San Jose have a vision for a new Silicon Valley: compact, walkable and accessible by public transportation, a stark departure from the suburban sprawl that has brought the cradle of American technological innovation to the brink of a gridlocked meltdown.
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While other car-sharing services, like Daimler's Car2Go and BMW's Reach Now, have set their sites on the outer boroughs (namely Brooklyn) when launching in New York City, Maven is taking the risky step of concentrating its service in the city's most popular and gridlocked borough, Manhattan.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce executive actions on Tuesday intended to expand background checks for some firearm purchases and step up federal enforcement of the nation's gun laws, White House officials said Monday, once again trying to sidestep a gridlocked Congress on a politically divisive issue.
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Read: Why online political ads won't be regulated in 2018 Google successfully lobbied the FEC in 93 to qualify for the exemption and the commission gridlocked in 2011 when Facebook and other internet companies did the same, effectively allowing the companies to follow the guidance Google received.
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Because of a visa snafu, he had just 71 hours in Beijing, so his hosts careened him across town in a rush to compress, distill, purify an impression of the city—an experience echoed in one character's mad dash across a Beijing gridlocked by a mass demonstration.
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Their all-electric air taxi boasts a 21962 km range, speeds up to 22062 km/h (as fast as a Formula One car), and even on-demand service (think: Uber for the skies), and seeks to alleviate 21st century unavoidables like noise pollution and gridlocked traffic.
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg are all running on a theory in which the force of their personality, or the strength of their movement, or the popularity of their agenda breaks the polarization that has gridlocked US politics.
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While Republicans are gridlocked in their efforts to destroy healthcare for millions of Americans with bills that are disastrously unpopular with voters, the Sanders Medicare-for-all bill will ignite a great debate about one of the most important reforms that Congress will consider in a generation.
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But first of all the idea that Arnie was "highly effective" because he did some things that liberals like is a little strange, since he spent his second term presiding ineffectually over a period of constant, gridlocked budget crises and left office with approval ratings in the 20s.
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" — Editorial in the newspaper Le Monde "Last night's results lay bare the scale and depth of the realignment that has been taking place within the country for almost a generation: a polarization of left and right that has made elections more volatile, politics more gridlocked and discourse more shrill.
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"The Australian Labor Party, the Greens and some of the crossbenchers have worked as political elites to deny the people a say on what is the biggest and most radical social change in a generation," he said, adding he thought the issue would now be gridlocked for years.
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The come-from-behind economic recovery in Canada may be partly chalked up to fiscal stimulus more easily achieved in Ottawa than in gridlocked Washington, as well as the willingness of banks to lend, said Mark Chandler, head of Canadian fixed income and currency strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
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And these rapid changes are taking place when our politics has never been more gridlocked and unable to respond with just common sense — like governments borrowing money at near zero interest to invest in much-needed infrastructure that creates jobs and enables us to better exploit these technologies.
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As such, it was only fitting that after he walked off the 18th hole on Sunday, his one-stroke victory secure, his path to the official scoring office was gridlocked with well-wishers, including many of the golfers he vanquished over four grueling days at Augusta National Golf Club.
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The idea of shrinking the highway to four lanes from six is a remarkable shift for the city, which, like the nation, has been shaped by a car-centric culture and is now wrestling with the consequences, including gridlocked streets, polluted air and rising pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
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When Alexander and Hill fled the scene, they hijacked Frank's UPS truck as their getaway vehicle, bringing Frank along as a hostage as they led police on a miles-long chase from Coral Gables into Miramar, where the truck was eventually forced to stop because of gridlocked traffic.
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While they may have fallen short of their stated goal of bringing "the whole city to a gridlocked standstill," traffic was halted at nearly two dozen locations around downtown D.C. at various points on Monday morning, shutting down important intersections and streets heavily populated by lobbyists and elected officials.
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Banging five rounds on the pads at Fighting Spirit gym; doing roadwork in Lumpini Park; sitting on the back of a motorcycle taxi, zigzagging the gridlocked city streets; watching clinch practice from the long wooden benches of 96 Penang; eating a kebab with his mates in the Arab quarter of town.
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So before I hear from the angry anarcho crusties hate-reading this on their iPhones on McDonald's' wifi, yes, in many ways, Obama has been a traditional war-as-usual centrist, locked in a gridlocked system heavy on compromise, hungry for profit, prone to corruption, and slow to make lasting changes.
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That he should now want to saddle the House with a three-fifths vote rule to elect a speaker is perhaps the best revenge a former senator could visit on a Congress he left on grounds that it was gridlocked due in part to the Senate's inability to get to 60.
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Mr. Christie had struggled to bounce back from the scandal since January 2014, when a legislative subpoena revealed that his deputy chief of staff had sent an email calling for "some traffic problems" in the town that was gridlocked by the closings, to punish a mayor who had declined to endorse the governor.
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Read: 21 historic firsts from the 2018 midterms "I've been talking for over a year and a half about how critical new leadership is, how gridlocked Washington is, and how important it is that we move forward on these key issues," incoming New Jersey Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill said outside of an orientation meeting.
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But in a time where many are fed up with a gridlocked Washington that is more attuned to corporate America than the will of the people, running the consummate Washington insider against a populist outsider who wanted to fix Washington and bring back jobs, turned out to be a political blunder of epic proportions.
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The anger is driven by two factors: anxiety that has been created by the new normal in an economy where the middle class always feels insecure and the division between rich and poor keeps growing and a problematic political system that gives enormous power to wealthy candidates and contributors while Washington seems totally gridlocked.
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But Brooks, who considers himself to be "fairly conservative," is not optimistic that the next commander-in-chief will be able to make good on his or her promises to solve some of the country's most divisive issues if Washington remains gridlocked and the US continues to be as "polarized" as it is today.
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"In many cases, the solutions that help address climate change are what you have to do anyway in a city — transit options so the city doesn't get gridlocked, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions and unlocks a tremendous amount of economic competitiveness because you don't have thousands of people stalled in traffic," Mr. Adams added.
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As the great German sociologist Max Weber predicted about a century ago, the American version of presidentialism contains within it the seeds of a dangerous Caesarism, the yearning for a Great Man (or, now, Great Woman), who promises to take control of a dangerously gridlocked and malfunctioning political system and impose his or her own vision on it.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) is pushing stronger sanctions as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the debate has gridlocked.
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At a moment when many Americans believe that the nation faces incredibly difficult challenges — an economy where the middle class struggles to obtain security, an ominous threat of terrorism, and a gridlocked political system that will pose a huge obstacle to the next president — there is something appealing about the tough-as-nails, get things done attitude associated with New York.
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And weighty decisions about Israel's future await — on national security, with rockets from Gaza landing in the South and tensions with Hezbollah cranking up in the North; on how religious the Jewish state should be and who should be exempt from serving in its army; and on how to address other problems, including teeming hospitals, overcrowded classrooms and gridlocked highways.
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Mr. Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, a former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, are charged with closing access lanes to the bridge for four days in 2013 to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, the town on the New Jersey side of the bridge that was gridlocked by the closings, because he declined to endorse the governor for re-election.
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Days after the appointment, Mr. Christie cut Mr. Stepien loose, when documents from a legislative subpoena revealed that a deputy chief of staff to the governor, Bridget Anne Kelly, had sent an email calling for "some traffic problems in Fort Lee," the town gridlocked by the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge between the borough and Manhattan in September 2013.
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But now they, too, need to reckon with a reality that has confounded every kind of Republican reformer since Barack Obama was elected: Our politics are probably too polarized, our legislative branch too gridlocked, and the conservative movement too dysfunctional and self-destructive to build a new agenda from the backbenches of Congress up, or even from the House speaker or Senate majority leader's office.
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Meeting up with our driver, we were taken a gridlocked mile to a blockaded street (though motorcycles zigzagged through) and, my camera at the ready now, we stepped out into a stream of people passing kiosks selling firecrackers, chewing tobacco, incense, plastic figurines of Vishnu and Ganesh, and swamis with painted faces offering to pose for 50 rupees, about 75 cents, toward broad steps of the ghat, a word derived from the Sanskrit term for embankment.
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Angus KingAngus KingOvernight Energy: Senate seeks massive boost in conservation funding | White House raises objections over plan to reduce heat-trapping chemicals | Interior chief defends budget amid heated criticism Senate seeks massive permanent boost in conservation funding Overnight Energy: EPA revamps 'secret science' rule | Scientists warn rule still limits research | Trump calls for full funding for conservation program | 19 states sue over border wall funding MORE (I-Maine) emphasized that without this person, the EAC is "totally gridlocked" due to a balance between Republican and Democratic members.
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It shows a near-gridlocked, red Telsa-looking automobile weaving its way to the side of a busy street, only to wheel itself onto a futuristic metal platform that works like an elevator: Down the car goes into what is presumably an underground Los Angeles — the Boring Company is currently working to solve that city's infamous traffic epidemic: There we see a network interweaving highways that move cars around on what look like magnetic rails, at speeds of up to 124 mph: At the tail end of this conceptual demonstration, the video even hints at some public transport options, shaped like big glass rectangles, that could ferry numerous people, and even bicycles, through the underground tunnel network: This whole concept is, of course, years away from reality.
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