There was mostly silence — and an intense focus on rolling.
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Cruz has benefited most from the intense focus on these debates.
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This time the intense focus is on two GOP women Sens.
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But she was frustrated with the intense focus on her race.
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The intense focus on the Russia investigation has already been a distraction.
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"It was an intense focus group of millions of people," he said.
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Intense focus on trade The biggest fear continues to be the trade war.
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The cold open started by poking at the intense focus on Clinton's emails.
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Nadler suggested conservatives' intense focus on Clinton has impacted their ability to govern.
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Even so, there remains an intense focus on figuring out the shooter's motivation.
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And there's was always this intense focus that could feel a little angry.
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It's an intense focus, and at the same time, it feels very natural.
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And then, the war ramped up For about three years, there was intense focus.
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There has been an intense focus on the recent rally in crude oil prices.
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China's intense focus on technological superiority is illustrated by its spending on R&D.
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The result was a rejection of social norms and an intense focus on the self.
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Even with intense focus on redundancy, natural disasters can overwhelm even the best laid plans.
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At the core of craft, Koch said, is an intense focus on the customer experience.
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We The People's intense focus on crowdfunding comes at a fraught time for the industry.
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While everyone — politicians included — gets sick from time to time, the intense focus on Mrs.
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The intense focus on the accident has also prompted Uber's suppliers to evaluate its technology.
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One thing that will really dominate discussions is "Permania" — the intense focus on the Permian Basin.
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Jack Uhl plans to vote for Trump, but is skeptical of the intense focus on Ohio.
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He said it was like the intense focus of a 211-year-old building with Legos.
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The kids who usually hate to write and talk throughout wrote diligently and with intense focus.
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The intense focus on the summit outcome could then be used as bargaining leverage for negotiations.
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ET, a report that's taken on new attention with the Trump administration's intense focus on trade.
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Willem-Alexander said the intense focus needed for piloting took his mind away from other concerns.
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But it's seemed likely that Mueller has long believed otherwise, given his intense focus on Manafort.
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The particular form of artwork is a notoriously intricate process, taking artistic skill and intense focus.
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Applying her boundless energy, her unrivaled political acumen and her intense focus, she won back the House.
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"There is an intense focus at universities on, how do we get better at commercialization?" he said.
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Its intense focus on growth can impede it from pausing to consider the ramifications of its work.
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The standoff with Pyongyang over its missile and nuclear programs constitutes a major challenge requiring intense focus.
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After a few hours of intense focus, I kind of hit a wall and got real sleepy.
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Sure, he's a hard worker, a fast typer, and his intense focus quickly made him an indispensable coworker.
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Squabbling between U.S. authorities and Mexico over Guzman has put an intense focus on the issue of cooperation.
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Government structures will come into question and each of us will have intense focus for goals that matter.
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By prioritizing, you'll have intense focus on each project rather than sloppily attempting to tackle everything at once.
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This intense focus on what you're creating makes Snapchat extraordinarily versatile; it can be used however you choose.
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Trump's post was also seen as heightening an already intense focus on Trump's Twitter handle by market participants.
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I sort of prepare for these brief moments of intense focus when I can get so much done.
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Critics have called out Breitbart's intense focus on crimes committed by blacks and people in the country illegally.
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Since turning pro in 2015, he has quickly established himself as a player with intense focus and fight.
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But the 2020 presidential primary's intense focus on the issue has put single-payer backers on their heels.
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Speaking by telephone three hours before the intelligence briefing, Mr. Trump repeatedly criticized the intense focus on Russia.
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There has been an intense focus on immigration issues since Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.
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However, analysts and traders cautioned that the break from the intense focus on Brexit may be only be brief.
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The spellers' intense focus at the microphone, facing the crowd and the cameras in nervous perspiration, creates high art.
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SVA Curatorial Practice offers a New York-Based, immersive two-year program with an intense focus on professional training.
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China's intense focus on surveilling and identifying its 1.4 billion citizens has continued to ramp up in recent years.
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Part of the intense focus on seats in New Jersey involves the unpopularity of Mr. Trump and his policies.
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As I grew older, I learned to manage and overcome my stuttering, through much hard work and intense focus.
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"There's a new renewed, intense focus on breakfast," said Kevin Ozan, the chief financial officer for McDonald's, in Bloomberg's report.
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Actually, there is a logic to Mr Trump's intense focus on applause and acclaim—a logic that underpins his presidency.
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Why it matters: As we wrote on Friday, the price declines will fuel the already intense focus on the Dec.
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Again, small scale, intense focus on the story and a genuinely nerve-wracking plot make In Fear one to watch.
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They just seem to be under so much pressure – the intense focus all the time, with social media and paparazzi.
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With the intense focus on Russia, Maddow had less time to talk about other issues arising from the Trump administration.
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" He acknowledged the intense focus on the 2016 campaign, adding, "the other side may have some stuff to work out.
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In his view, the intense focus on the matter is mainly a partisan effort to undermine his legitimacy as president.
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Out of all the House committee chairs, Schiff is the one with the most intense focus on Trump and Russia.
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Now many are asking whether their country's intense focus on scientific achievement has come at the expense of ethical standards.
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"The momentum you're seeing in our business is really coming from our intense focus on efficiency and execution," Woodman said.
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An older priest modeled what was to become a signature of Cardinal Tobin's ministry: an intense focus on each person.
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But though we can't say for sure, it seems likely that Mueller believes otherwise, given his intense focus on Manafort.
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Delegates are also under a much more intense focus than past election cycles as the possibility of a contested convention increases.
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The militants' expansion became the subject of more intense focus in regional and Western capitals as Yemen's war reached a stalemate.
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Instead, there could be an even more intense focus on holding individuals within these enterprises accountable for any alleged corporate violations.
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The intense focus on the single idea seemed to come at the cost of deepening any other part of the game.
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To Mr. Haass, the intense focus on limiting the economic blow was understandable, given the carnage in the markets, but premature.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) neatly fused left-wing economic populism with Democrats' intense focus on President Trump's various Russia-related scandals.
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With its first-person narrative and intense focus on an interior consciousness, Brontë's novel isn't an obvious candidate for a ballet.
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It does that one thing well, which makes for an intense focus on Elizabeth Olsen's Leigh, her grief, rage and progress.
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Participants were asked to either complete simple tasks that required very little self-control or difficult tasks that required intense focus.
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Training starts at a young age and practices are long and grueling, with a particularly intense focus on teamwork and discipline.
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When you exhale, you enter a time of intense focus, digest what you have learned and making your vision a reality.
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We looked at how Mr. Trump's intense focus on reducing the trade deficit could actually hurt the U.S. economy over time.
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It's not the first time in recent memory that the media has trained such intense focus on on a criminal's appearance.
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Studies show this intense focus on grades can come from all sides — parents, teachers, similarly-driven friends — as well as from within.
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The temptation to return to something that was such an intense focus for so many years of your life is understandably strong.
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A dark gift of eradication campaigns is that their intense focus on a disease reveals things that research had never recognized before.
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The intense focus on a single court nominee seemed to underscore Justice Scalia's criticism that the Supreme Court had become overly political.
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"The treatment for diabetes includes very intense focus on reading labels, counting calories and carbohydrates, and limiting sodium and fat," she said.
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A more intense focus on Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election will limit Trump's ability to work with President Vladimir Putin.
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The ties to Weinstein open Bannon up to charges of hypocrisy given Breitbart's intense focus on the scandal and its political fallout.
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For all the intense focus on the roots and extent of income inequality today, most academics are leery of any easy solution.
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A quiet woman with a stylish purse and braces on her teeth, she finds herself intimidated by southerners' intense focus on success.
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Trump insisted that "millions" of Democrats will back his campaign because his intense focus on criticizing trade deals will win them over.
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You have -- a drug safety issue will come up, and then there will be a lot of intense focus around drug safety.
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Netflix has added fuel to the fire of late due to its intense focus on providing international content to a global audience.
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Now, what happens when that task is no longer new but still taps into intense focus because we haven't yet mastered it?
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Given the intense focus on Russia's election interference, which the Kremlin denies, both sides have postured publicly ahead of a possible meeting.
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His is an individual sport that demands intense focus, a zero-sum game where there is a winner and then everyone else.
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"This was a period of intense focus on improving the quality of care, with help from many health systems and national organizations."
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For all of the young people who had wanted to see Kennedy's vision through, it was a time of excitement but intense focus.
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Mr Tong's intense focus on climate change has made him a star on the international circuit, but his popularity is weaker at home.
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On this week's MashTalk podcast this week, Kiang reiterated this intense focus on the product, because that's a direct reflection of the company.
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Asperger syndrome, first coined in 1981, describes people who have problems with social interaction, repetitive behaviors, and an intense focus on singular interests.
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Many Chinese scientists said Dr. He's project was emblematic of their country's intense focus on scientific achievement and a disregard for ethical standards.
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The linking of aid to religious freedom would not be a surprising move by Trump given his administration's intense focus on the issue.
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The southern US border is an intense focus for Trump, who has promised to build a wall there and have Mexico pay for it.
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Lovecraft has fallen out of favor in recent years, coinciding with an intense focus on his racism, anti-Semitism, and vocal contempt for religion.
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Both disciplines require intense focus and Likeness is all the more remarkable for including work that shows Langberg developing his eye in real time.
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The investigation comes at a time of intense focus on sexual assault and harassment in U.S. institutions from Hollywood to the financial services industry.
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The intense focus required to comprehend the hints, sift through possible meanings and piece together different phrases fuels me with energy and an escape.
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Given the intense focus on Carol's character this week, I also have a very uneasy feeling that she won't be long for this world.
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If not for the intense focus on those races, Fischer said, the public might have never known whose cash was paying for the ads.
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A year, or even two, of intense focus does not provide sufficient alteration of a condition in a country that has developed over centuries.
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In a year with intense focus on improper sexual behavior by men, many of them in the entertainment industry, Bryant's victory caused a stir.
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There are a few problems with the intense focus on these so-called wet markets, featuring live and dead animals, farm-raised and wild.
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Critics of federal counterterrorism measures, and even some senior law enforcement officials, believe that the intense focus on the jihadist threat since the Sept.
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Most recently, the Nevada site has become the subject of intense focus after a viral Facebook event encouraged people to raid the military installation.
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With this has come a more intense focus on the problematic aspects of that era — Indian removal, slavery, and the construction of white supremacy.
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Emma Sulkowicz came into my life in 2012 as a sophomore in my advanced sculpture class, where her intense focus, creativity, and talent stood out.
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I used to have a very particular idea of what yoga should be — a quiet, zen and personal practice involving intense focus and deep breathing.
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Writers, entrepreneurs, and creative leaders of all types know that intense focus that happens when you're "in the zone": You're feeling empowered, productive, and engaged.
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Sorvino is speaking out, trying to draw attention to a cause that she says is getting overshadowed by the intense focus on the presidential election.
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HSBC's newly appointed chairman, Mark Tucker, has also had an intense focus on Asia, most recently as head of insurer AIA Group Ltd (1299.HK).
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Stevens attributed the performance to the strength of the company's product launch cadence, the strength of its truck line, and GM's "intense focus" on costs.
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He looked like any other laid-back young tourist, except for the intense focus—all senses cocked—with which he takes in a new environment.
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Scientists in China and across the globe are asking whether the country's intense focus on scientific achievement has come at the expense of ethical standards.
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Slick, colourful posters, pamphlets and documents highlight Islamic State's intense focus on dictating what it called proper Islamic behaviour for the citizens of its caliphate.
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But there's more to this story than just Amazon… A Bigger Trend The emergence of blockchain technology is an area of intense focus for me.
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Mueller's hallmark at every stage of his career has been his intense focus on detail, grilling his staff like they were hostile witnesses under cross-examination.
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Already she was displaying certain attributes common to most elite athletes—an obsessive love of her chosen sport, intense focus and an overwhelming desire to win.
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Today, developer Infinity Ward officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a reboot of the long-running sub series with an intense focus on gritty realism.
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Still, the intense focus on these two men and their troubled past was nearly overshadowed by two of the final four suitors' relationships with their mothers.
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The product is certainly inspired from Slack and other current campus communications tools, but with an intense focus on saving the time of teachers and faculty.
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The backdrop: There's been an intense focus recently on the performance of the White House political shop in general and its leader Bill Stepien in particular.
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But the 38-year-old candidate for the Colorado State Senate is running for a seat that has attracted intense focus — and spending — from both parties.
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What they all have in common is an intense focus on shapes, lines, and edges — formal issues not divorced from feeling in service of the imagination.
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It was a second week of thrilling games in the N.F.L., upstaged by the intense focus on whether players stood or knelt during the national anthem.
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"While Equifax fully understands the intense focus on patching efforts, the company's review of the facts is still ongoing," said the company in a statement released Friday.
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Super PACs, campaigns and the Republican candidates themselves have flooded Pennsylvania over the last week with an intense focus on supporting their delegates ahead of Tuesday's primary.
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There has been an intense focus on figuring out the shooter's motivation, but authorities are struggling to determine why he fired on a packed crowd of concertgoers.
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Some White House officials worry Trump's intense focus on the economic fallout of the coronavirus is distracting from efforts to limit the actual spread of the disease.
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When you think about what we're doing on our phones, we're very intensely focused on them, but what we're normally doing on them is not intense focus.
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While Democrats have downplayed the possibility of impeachment, Trump's request underscores his intense focus on who will be leading the fight against Democratic investigations into his presidency.
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Considering the intense focus of regulators and popular distrust of big banks "It really is crazy how stupidly Wells management has behaved," Sen said via e-mail.
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The past week brought intense focus on Kelly's tone-deaf dismissal as "politically correct" of the idea that African Americans take offense at white people in blackface.
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In the same interview, the actor said his "darkest period" was when Jon Snow died and came back to life because of the intense focus on his character.
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This is attributed in part to the intense focus on five sports in prime-time where American women dominate — beach volleyball, diving, gymnastics, swimming and track and field.
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Still, financial firms are connected to each other in ways that aren't always clear, which will lead to an intense focus on how large indebted companies are faring.
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Citing Cal Newport's popular book Deep Work, about the perils of distraction and multitasking, he says the software will enable workers to reach new levels of intense focus.
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Jon Tester will win a third term in the Senate, CNN projects, outlasting millions of outside spending and an intense focus on the race from President Donald Trump.
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The intense focus on racial identity in politics has left some in the Asian-American community considering what diversity really means — and how exactly they fit in. 93.
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I had always pursued my desires with intense focus, but there is a fine line between confidence and recklessness and I had crossed it a hundred different ways.
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It's a fair reaction, but I worry the media's intense focus on edge cases like Gates risks, perversely, making billionaires look a lot better than they actually are.
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The catastrophic fire conditions have put an intense focus on the Australian government's failure to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which traps heat when released into the atmosphere.
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Intense focus on real-time subscriber numbers from other creators within the community have led to forms of bullying online, including being used to mock creators who lose subscribers.
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Because of the intense focus Apple has on user experience, I tend to believe that the company will opt for a very personal "personal assistant" versus a shared one.
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Given Trump's approval rating -- which a poll put at 35% on Tuesday -- and intense focus on honoring campaign promises during a fraught year, many observers sense a political motivation.
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With a newly elected president and the 115th Congress being sworn in, there has been an increasingly intense focus on regulations and how they impact our government and economy.
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The California results also suggest that Trump supporters may be more committed than polls detected, and the intense focus on these districts guaranteed they would show up to vote.
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And instead of boasting of his country's military prowess, he is lashing out at poor management at the sites he visits, highlighting his intense focus on fixing his economy.
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And although Szalay's gender apartheid has the virtue of training an intense focus on a certain kind of male appetite, that emphasis can also render his fictional universe monochromatic.
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Most recently, Jared Kushner's ties to prominent Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, a close associate of Putin have fallen under intense focus amid the ongoing and ever-widening FBI probe.
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But the pods are made using sativa strands, which are often associated with feelings of alertness, intense focus, and creativity rather than the sleep-inducing effects of indica-heavy varieties.
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Keeping with its unsettlingly intense focus on the aesthetics and mechanics of hostility, episode 8 also functioned as a dark origin story for the presence of evil itself on Earth.
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In his remarks, Harald Krueger Chairman of the board of management for BMW, used the introduction of the visceral concept to highlight BMW's intense focus on preparing for the future.
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But there's also likely to be an intense focus Sunday on the week ahead in Washington as fired FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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At the time, he used the word "digital" 44 times — in other recent calls, that number has hit as high as nearly 70 mentions, highlighting his intense focus on technology.
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The recent Snap IPO, for example, has resulted in a bit of a crater, with the company now saddled with nervous investors and an intense focus on its stock price.
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For more than 100 years higher education has largely resisted change — and functioned reasonably well without an intense focus on the complex life needs of adult and part-time learners.
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The intense focus can backfire, too: One friend told me the day before his final exam, he accidentally spent hours alphabetizing his bookshelf and cleaning his apartment rather than studying.
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Some former diplomats argue that the intense focus on the peace plan misses the point: The Trump administration has utterly transformed the paradigm for American engagement in the Middle East.
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Jane Duckett, a professor of politics at the University of Glasgow, said the game show is an extension of the news media's intense focus on Mr. Xi in recent years.
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But what almost certainly convinced Pyongyang and Beijing that the Trump administration was playing for keeps was the president's unprecedented intense focus on the human rights situation in North Korea.
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The intense focus on the propaganda they produce means that pages calling for violence against the West and expressing support for terrorism are swiftly taken down, and their users barred.
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Gerber believes his clients have a better chance than most, because of the firm's policy of intense focus on the individual, a tactic that's not financially viable in most rehabs.
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Suss's obsessive rendering maintains intense focus on every detail of Esherick's carefully constructed interiors, from the upholstery to the floorboards to the stacks of notebooks and papers on his desk.
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But its intense focus on the inner workings of the human brain makes for a surprisingly fascinating watch that examines the roots of human darkness without seeming to revel in it.
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There has been intense focus on the Rules Committee for months, going back to when there was a possibility of no Republican candidate getting enough delegates to clinch the nomination outright.
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An intense focus on materials is key to his business, and he believes making something that will last and isn't too harmful to the environment should be an entrepreneur's top priority.
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His predictions about the S8 are backed up by the intense focus on the next iPhone, with its projected addition of an OLED display and a host of innovative new features.
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Clinton's intense focus on Mr. Trump came as a new ABC News-Washington Post poll showed the two neck-and-neck among registered voters in a general election matchup, after Mrs.
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Republicans fear that Trump's intense focus on the hot-button issue of immigration could alienate moderate voters in suburban districts that are home to some of the nation's fiercest House races.
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"(We) believe from this valuation, with Doug's intense focus, new management's ability to execute on the game plan and reinvigorated shareholder accountability, I think we can double our money," Hymowitz said.
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From her perspective, the intense focus on her friendship with weev and on her old tweets led to the larger context of her socially progressive past work and writing being dismissed.
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Although Mr. Peterson's business career, particularly on Wall Street, often overshadowed his intense focus on public policy, he campaigned for decades to restore what he regarded as America's lost fiscal integrity.
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Those results offer early evidence of who is generating excitement among the party's grass roots, an especially important factor this year given the intense focus on raising money from small donors.
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Jury deliberations are secret, and it's impossible to know the jurors' thought processes, but questions sent by the jury to the judge last week showed an intense focus on Sciorra's testimony.
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"It's come out in this moment where there is an intense focus on sexual violence in this country because of #MeToo, so there's a space for people to hear it," she said.
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His intense focus on the border ahead of the government spending negotiations comes after he faced backlash earlier this year from his supporters for not doing more to secure border wall funding.
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The intense focus on the FBI director just nine days from the November 8 election comes with Clinton's campaign hoping his letter to Congress won't be Comey's last word on the topic.
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And issues that have been hard to sell in other years, like voter registration, are attracting enthusiasm from the entertainment industry to go along with the intense focus on the presidential race.
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Pressed about the President's own language potentially fueling acts of right-wing harassment, Conway defended her boss and alluded to the intense focus on the words coming out of the White House.
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In previous years, starting with Hive and moving on to projects like Impala and SparkSQL (along with a number of other commercial SQL-on-Hadoop products), there was intense focus on these technologies.
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Paranoia Intense focus on the military in a cripplingly poor country like North Korea can cause much hardship, but Pyongyang justifies its policies based on a narrative of imminent threat from foreign forces.
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There has been an intense focus in the United States on the issue of police use of force arising from a series of shootings by officers in various locales, often involving unarmed suspects.
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Bush, lagging in the polls nationally and in the early voting state of New Hampshire but drawing energetic crowds during an intense focus on the state, insisted he would ultimately win the nomination.
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Aside from an intense focus on promoting his kingdom's interests, Prince Khalid's youth makes him a prime example of the type of modern Saudi official the kingdom wants to show the American public.
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At the same time, there are athletes — like those in the general population — who have ADHD and genuinely need Adderall to function, especially in a sport like baseball, which requires such intense focus.
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President Donald Trump on Friday night returned to the issue of the migrant caravan, a topic he placed intense focus on before the midterm elections but since then has remained largely silent about.
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There is intense focus now on how to reach a peace agreement in Afghanistan, but little on how to sustain peace, particularly in an area that bores so many policymakers and pundits: economics.
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Jennifer Morgan, the co-executive director of Greenpeace International who has attended every COP meeting, said this intense focus on trading mechanisms is a sign of how much polluters are shaping the agenda.
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Even among other martial-arts stars of his era, Lee stands out for his intense focus, the precision of his moves and the sheer fury of his fights, augmented by his signature screeching.
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The catastrophic fire conditions have put an intense focus on the Australian government's failure to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which traps heat when released into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming.
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The airline industry is anxious to maintain confidence in air travel after the intense focus on the accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia and a grounding that presented Boeing with its worst crisis in decades.
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The intense focus on Uber's internal workplace culture has sparked an investigation led by former US Attorney General Eric Holder and Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, and has prompted company executives to leave.
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It involves an intense focus on domestic politics, leading to a horror of deploying large numbers of American boots on the ground and a strong focus (at least in principle) on avoiding civilian casualties.
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It took 90 years for a woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars (Rachel Morrison of Mudbound), which sparked an intense focus on why cinematography has been so biased towards men.
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John Hickenlooper said Monday the intense focus by Hillary Clinton and her supporters on Donald Trump instead of the FBI clearing her came because the other option would be attacking FBI Director James Comey.
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A recent New York Times tech review of sleep aids argues that these apps and an intense focus on sleep data may make sleep worse as people obsess over data they can't properly interpret.
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GOP leadership aides say that intense focus on judicial nominations would begin next week and carry out for the next several weeks while waiting for negotiators to try to craft a major tax deal.
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One senior House GOP leadership aide brushed off the notion that Ryan would walk away after his intense focus on maintaining the majority and putting together a detailed policy agenda to pursue next year.
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The targeting of secretaries of state with campaign donations, corporate-funded weekend outings and secret meetings with industry lobbyists reflects an intense focus on often overlooked ballot questions, which the secretaries frequently help write.
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While there haven't been studies to test the benefits of A.S.M.R., and performers aren't licensed to administer tingles, Dr. Smith says the experience of it shares characteristics, like intense focus and relaxation, with meditation.
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Throughout the 2020 campaign, this bloc of voters has jumped around, landing with Elizabeth Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and others at different times amid intense focus on electability and beating President Donald Trump in 2020.
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"After three years of intense focus to reach our technical goals, we have moved beyond research into the serious work of building a commercial solution," said Xiaodi Hou, TuSimple founder and chief technology officer.
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The intense focus on nominations is evident in new figures compiled by Senate Democrats, who said that in 2019, there were 287 votes in the chamber related to nominations, compared with 98 regarding legislation.
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But the intense focus on securing a public announcement from Zelensky demonstrates that the scheme was really designed to maximize the political benefit to Trump, instead of a good-faith effort to investigate corruption.
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As Super Tuesday fast approaches, Bloomberg, one of several candidates I am seriously considering supporting for the nomination, will and should receive increasingly intense focus about the kind of candidate and president he would be.
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Members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, meanwhile, have maintained an intense focus on Flynn -- both issuing subpoenas for business and personal documents related to his overseas business deals and possible contacts with Russians.
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Pollsters say one of the most striking characteristics of this cycle's Democratic presidential primary is the relatively soft support for top-tier candidates, even after an intense focus on the race by the national media.
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The goal of the Iowa and Nevada plans -- to make caucuses more inclusive and increase participation -- is laudable and in keeping with our party's intense focus on guaranteeing every eligible voter's access to the ballot.
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In another sign of the intense focus on Pyongyang in Washington, the White House is expected to host U.S. senators for a top-level briefing on North Korea on Wednesday, a White House official said.
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For Cyber Monday and the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, in particular, Google Cloud has placed an intense focus on making sure websites do not crash — especially with the record sales that had been expected, Tharp said.
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The central government's intense focus on air quality means many local officials' careers are linked to the success of efforts to tackle smog, making it unusual to speak candidly about the challenges of meeting tough targets.
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The more intense focus among investors may be on the balance sheet, and the Fed's plans to stop reducing its holdings of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities each month by as much as $50 billion.
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Either he gets thrown under the bus and becomes subject to criminal prosecution, or he becomes a partisan football, the subject of intense focus in the media and on Capitol Hill over Trump's relationship with Russia.
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It has since also made Target the intense focus of conservative activists, lawmakers and consumers, who oppose the company's stance, highlighting the potential risks when a company takes a position on a hotly debated social issue.
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Why it matters: The intense focus on tech companies' troubles comes not just from policymakers and investigative reporters, but also from our culture's storytellers in New York and Hollywood — book publishers, TV producers, and movie directors.
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" (William J. Bratton is the police commissioner.) Mr. Grays, who speaks with an intense focus, has an elaborate tattoo on his right arm, a tribute to his paternal grandmother that says, "Willa May Grays 1928-2004.
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The details are especially incredible because of the intense focus and effort Ikeda puts into every inch of his illustrations, weaving together small swathes of hand-penned ink into grand landscapes over the course of years.
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As for Sanders and Biden, both candidates are gearing up for Tuesday as six states will hold primary or caucuses, with intense focus on Michigan, a key general election state that will dole out 125 delegates.
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PARIS — France paused from its intense focus on the presidential campaign on Tuesday to honor Xavier Jugelé, the veteran police officer who was shot and killed during a terrorist attack on the Champs-Élysées last week.
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Trump faces his highest expectations on the issue of immigration, given his intense focus on attention-grabbing campaign proposals like forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall, and temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country.
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China is such a vast, contradictory land that the most illuminating books often explore it through an intense focus on a single topic: the aviation industry, the one-child policy, the lives of migrant factory workers.
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Now, some close observers of North Korea say Kim may be using Trump's intense focus on his re-election next November as leverage to pressure him into lifting sanctions and striking a deal that favors Pyongyang.
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You can grind your way through levels with intense focus and addictive vigor, or by guilty spending real money on in-app purchases, or you can idly stare at your smartphone for 30 seconds on the subway.
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After years of intense focus on Internet services and software, chips are once again back in the spotlight, driven by the rise of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, cryptocurrencies and other technologies that require powerful hardware.
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Having seen the way fake news and technology's intersection have led to chaos and bloodshed in other countries, Nigerian journalists and researchers are diving into their campaign with all the intense focus of politicians running for office.
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When I think about it this way, and because of the intense focus Apple has on user experience, I tend to believe that the company will opt for a very personal "personal assistant" versus a shared one.
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One of these senior Democratic aides told CNN that the intense focus after the Comey letter could have put as many as a dozen Republican seats thought to be competitive out of reach for the party. Rep.
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While there is still an intense focus on the region for signs of any reemergence of the virus, it means that there's additional work to be done in order to continue to monitor and protect the region.
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Fitch still considers the defense outlook to be somewhat uncertain, partly due to the Pentagon's intense focus on lowering costs, which could impact the sector's profitability, as well as the continued risk of sequestration after fiscal 2017.
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The master of arts degree in Curatorial Practice, at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, is an immersive two-year program with an intense focus on professional training in every aspect of curatorial work.
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But beyond showing their own mettle, the vice-presidential candidates also have the task of defending their running mates — an especially critical job this time around with such an intense focus on the top of the ticket.
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Why it matters: Often described as a populist with an intense focus on the welfare of the poor, AMLO, as he is commonly known, ran on a platform of social welfare and non-interventionism, spooking business leaders.
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In fact, to assume that there isn't -- and wasn't -- any sort of political motivation for the intense focus on Joe (and Hunter) Biden by Donald Trump and his administration requires you to suspend all logic and reason.
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A more intense focus is on creating a national team capable of transforming itself from a punch line into a force that can compete with the best in Asia and, eventually, against the best in the world.
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Why it matters: The latest slide will fuel the already intense focus on the December 6-7 OPEC meeting, where the cartel and allied producers — notably Russia — will decide on potential output cuts aimed at tightening the market.
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The aversion to targets, meantime, surprised some industry insiders, who remarked that the company's backers, 3G Capital, developed a reputation for intense focus on numbers and a target-based compensation system that helps it achieve its aggressive goals.
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No one really cares about this weak financial performance — it's like caring that the crappy plumbing in an old house remains crappy — with the intense focus on the sale and also the looming proxy fight from Starboard Value.
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The intense focus on sleep may have less to do with babies and more to do with parents, especially middle-class mothers, who provide as much as or more child care today than housewives did in the 1960s.
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Lost worked through an intense focus on—and extensive backstory for—a relatively small number of central characters, which made us care about their struggles even when the mysteries turned out to be duds or were dropped altogether.
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CBT teaches people to use techniques that address the mental (or cognitive) factors associated with pain, such as intense focus or hyperawareness of discomfort, and to overcome the worry and other negative emotions that often accompany chronic pain.
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This is the message upheld by female power players like Sheryl Sandberg, and certainly seems central to the sort of feminism attributed to Hillary Clinton — whose marriage and "love life" have also been a site of intense focus.
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It's an intense focus on his feelings and those of others; it's his heart on his sleeve, in his outstretched hand; it's the way he owns his emotional intelligence, wearing it with an almost unnerving ease and assurance.
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"It's a bit fundamentalist in the U.S.," Ms. Arnott said, adding that the intense focus on children missed the potential utility of e-cigarettes for current smokers, often some of the poorest and least educated members of society.
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Russia and Exxon: Energy Minister Alexander Novak will be onstage for the opening plenary session at 1:35 pm Monday, an address that arrives amid intense focus — to put it mildly — on the Trump administration's relationship with Putin's regime.
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Trump will be tested not just on his cheerleading and empathy in the short term -- he will also be required to keep an intense focus on a rebuilding effort that he admitted will go on for a long time.
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One White House aide said the intense focus on family separation could put strain on immigration talks in the House, which Trump will attempt to facilitate on Tuesday when he heads to Capitol Hill and faces the GOP conference.
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Martin Shkreli reminded an investor of the autistic savant character from the movie "Rain Man" — but that was because of his intense "focus" on the stock market and not a belief that Shkreli is autistic, that investor testified Monday.
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Castle Rock Last week's episode of "Castle Rock" was widely and rightly hailed as one of the best TV episodes of 2018, although the intense focus on Ruth Deaver did leave the show with a bit of a problem.
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Yet the lack of vitriol and the intense focus on electability also owed to the nature of this campaign, which as the impeachment inquiry unfolds is becoming even more centered on finding the best candidate to defeat the president.
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Whatever the explanation, our intense focus on terrorism has helped spawn a veritable counterterrorism industrial complex, made up of new government agencies, private firms and an army of well-funded experts, who keep the issue atop the national agenda.
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When viewing a barrage of images, unless there's some sort of timeline, contextualization, or intense focus, we'll fail to place the image within an overarching story—and it becomes that much more difficult to retain the memory of the image.
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" The battle over Corinthian is emblematic of Warren's unique approach to power: an intense focus on microscopic details alongside an at times bullheaded push for the government to act as an agent of what her campaign now calls "big structural change.
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It reflects the long-brewing frustrations among young activists with the current immigration system and the way federal authorities enforce immigration policies — frustrations that started before Trump's presidency, but have been exacerbated by his rhetoric and intense focus on the border.
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And in Kesler's view, that sensibility has helped create not just the belief system of California-style conservatism but its intense focus on its own opposition — "the Left," which includes not only leftists but also Hollywood and the overarching media establishment.
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Trump Jr. has come under intense focus after press reports revealed that he met in June 2016 at Trump Tower with Russian operatives as well as the then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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Meanwhile, The Hill's Jonathan Easley reports that one of the most striking characteristics of this cycle's Democratic presidential primary is the relatively soft support for top-tier candidates, even after an intense focus on the race by the national media.
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As her work shows, that setup may unnecessarily cost those with higher BMIs who are healthy — and let those with normal weights and health problems off the hook, illustrating a potentially harmful side effect of our intense focus on BMI.
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Given Mr. Trump's intense focus on alleged widespread voter fraud in last year's election — the president has claimed that millions of people voted illegally, without evidence — Democrats are likely to pounce on the misstep to try to sink Mr. Gerrish's nomination.
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Sanders' considerable advantages here follow years of intense focus: He has been eyeing California's massive delegate share — 22020 pledged delegates, plus 22016 superdelegates — since he lost the state to Clinton by 22016 percentage points, with more than 360,000 votes separating them.
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Actress and activist Alyssa Milano was once again spotted sitting in the front row of the public gallery's balcony, where she watched with intense focus as House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) laid out the Democrats' case against Trump.
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She loved everything about it: the ancient lore, the long hikes in the woods, but especially, the intense focus and kinship necessary to bond with a creature whose every native instinct is to get as far from you as possible.
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Planned Parenthood's intense focus on abortion, as the recent unmasking of its failure to provide prenatal care at the vast majority of its centers underscored, is contrary to the letter and spirit of the rules Congress desired for family planning services.
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So these memoirs really struck me — reading about Patti Smith, and her experience with Robert Mapplethorpe, growing up in New York and developing her own artistry, and Andre Agassi's intense focus, and his struggles and success as a great athlete.
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Analysts have warned that the certification delays from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration due to partial government shutdown followed by the regulator's intense focus on re-certifying Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft might impact sales growth at the company in the short.
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Whether its the smell, the intense focus on what's actually happening when you're engaged with an opponent, the omnipresent threat of staph infections, or all the above, there are actually few things less sexy than grappling in any of its competitive forms.
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Wilmington Trust, which runs more than $90 billion and invests in hedge funds, has an "intense focus on keeping fees low" because of the firm's fiduciary duty to investors, Matt Glaser, the firm's head of equity, alternative investments, and manager research, said.
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The court issued the ruling at a time of intense focus on immigration issues in the United States as Trump seeks to increase deportations of immigrants who have committed crimes, though it was former President Barack Obama's administration that sought to deport Dimaya.
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Loving is perhaps a little padded — director Jeff Nichols never met a shot of the two gazing lovingly at each other he didn't like — but in its stripped-down simplicity and intense focus on the Lovings, it becomes deeply moving in the end.
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The man came to power playing Falstaff, a double-dealing, comically entertaining, shameless rogue; now he is suddenly onstage as Henry V, the wartime king whose solemn judgment, intense focus, charisma and conviction must lead his nation in a time of crisis.
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"In the last two years, intense focus on new seismic and relooking at the basins that we have in our portfolio already is really paying dividends," said Powell, a geologist who joined Shell in 1990 and became head of exploration three years ago.
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Progressives hit back at Buttigieg The more intense focus on Buttigieg's past work and his fundraising practices has also drawn the aggressive ire of progressive activists, who have tried to disrupt a pair of fundraisers he attended this week in New York City.
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One problem has always been that while the business world rewards leaders for an intense focus on a singular goal — maximizing profits as efficiently as possible — government yearns for the opposite: pleasing the largest number of people with methods that offend the fewest.
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"There's going to be such on intense focus on this for several days that it will reinforce some anxiety in the market that a lot of economic reforms, tax cuts, things like that are not at the top of the list of his priorities."
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To do that, the mayor -- whose rise was centered on the need for comity within the Democratic Party and an intense focus on how to beat President Donald Trump, especially in his native Midwest -- is beginning to take on his Democratic rivals with pointed critiques.
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However, the intense focus on sanctuary cities has distracted us from the many other strategies through which states can improve the lives of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States without necessarily getting into a legal tangle with the federal government.
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Bloomberg's strong showing — this is one of the first polls of any state in which he has broken 20 percent — reflects the intense focus that he has put on the states that vote March 3, both in terms of advertising and in-person appearances.
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The phenomenon of "third wave" coffee, with its intense focus on every step of the coffee chain — from identifying the farms that produce the best quality to roasting the beans and educating consumers — has begun to spread across the coffee-producing countries of Latin America.
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It moves fast, iterating as it goes and making changes based on failures quickly, whereas the industry has largely focused on more stop/start development cycles where things are mostly fixed with brief periods of intense focus on improvement between long-lived vehicle generations.
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In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, there was an intense focus on America's voting machines, particularly the pricey touch-screen devices that lack the paper trail necessary to audit random samples of the tallies or conduct a reliable — if slow — manual recount.
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Securing the release of America's longest-held hostage could provide Trump with a victorious photo opportunity in the middle of the intense focus on the impeachment inquiry into whether the president held up military aid to Ukraine in exchange for hurting his domestic political rivals.
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It's a brilliant day for deep and imaginative thinking, for connecting with people, for exploring your neighborhood, and for learning new things— especially about art or literature, but not so much for math or anything that requires intense focus… it is dreamy Pisces season, you know!
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After I spent time with Biles—I've rarely seen such excitement as when she hopped around her living room after her mother gave her permission to attend a G-Eazy concert—it became clear that her intense focus on the beam was more forced than the giggling.
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Daniel, a smuggler in Guatemala who helps transport migrants to the U.S., said the intense focus on the caravan was good for business: Mexican police and immigration officials were so busy monitoring the caravan that it became easier for the smugglers to travel across Mexico undetected.
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"We must not allow the intense focus on teen use — warranted though it is — to divert almost all attention from the benefits of vaping for adult smokers who are dying at the rate of 480,000 per year from a terrible habit," Satel said in her written statement.
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In a report published by Facebook on Sunday, auditors criticized Facebook's intense focus on "achieving consistency in review decisions," which they said "translates to a blunter set of policies that are less able to account for nuance" and cripples moderators' ability to properly police hate speech on the platform.
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"We are continuing our intense focus on cost and the reason for that is not only mindful of the current environment that we're in, but also I think preparing us even more for a downturn scenario," Chief Executive Mark Fields told analysts in a conference call at that time.
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Sure, House of Cards did the binge-release first, but OITNB just felt different from the rest of TV. The peculiarity and specificity of the setting, the intense focus on women's stories, the strange mix of humor thrown into a horrible situation—basically, the Jenji Kohan of it all.
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The evidence shows that, as early as the month Mr. Trump was elected president, a delegation close to the prince identified Mr. Kushner as the ideal insider, because he had little knowledge of the region, a transactional mind-set and an intense focus on reaching an Israel-Palestine deal.
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The evidence shows that, as early as the month Mr. Trump was elected president, a delegation close to the prince identified Mr. Kushner as the ideal insider, because he had little knowledge of the region, a transactional mind-set and an intense focus on reaching an Israel-Palestinian deal.
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The conversation surrounding mental health in professional sports is, at best, in its infancy, still struggling to reconcile centuries of narratives about intense focus, superhuman discipline, and giving 110% with the realization that even the most talented and driven professional athlete can't simply will themselves into a perfectly functioning psyche.
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The Red Cross made three fundamental changes since then: allowing refugees to bring pets into shelters, because many refused to be rescued without them during Katrina; an intense focus on coordination with government, a key failure in 2005; and a database to efficiently identify and deploy volunteers near any disaster.
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The single colors of Robert Rauschenberg's costumes — red for "Changeling," blue and yellow for "Suite for Two" — were vivid after the black-and-white film; the intense focus of Mr. Riener, Mr. Olk and Ms. Knouse showed us how today's artists honor old choreography while finding personal qualities within it.
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"The company will continue to have an intense focus on our global operations and customer base," a GE spokeswoman told the Journal, adding that 70 percent of the company's revenue comes from outside the U.S. Since taking over as CEO in August, Flannery has already halted the use of corporate jets.
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That has been the motivation behind Republicans' intense focus on two young, freshman members of Congress: Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from Queens who calls herself a democratic socialist; and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whose criticism of Israel led the president and others to condemn her as an anti-Semite.
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Mr. Booker's proposal furthers his campaign's intense focus on criminal justice reform with less than a week to go before the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential race, as candidates have been frenetically introducing new plans and policies to help them stand out in the two-night, 20-candidate showdown.
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The intense focus on Grindelwald as played by Depp has drawn criticism from Harry Potter fans to the point that director David Yates, writer J.K. Rowling, and even Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard (who filed a restraining order against him for domestic abuse) made public statements since the film's initial title announcement.
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Pro-choice Republicans in Congress are an endangered species, which is why there's intense focus on Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: These two GOP women could go against their party when it comes to confirming the judge who could provide a fifth vote to restrict abortion rights.
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Their world contracted to an intense focus on Father Superior's conferences, three a day, followed by an hour of private meditation, as they tried to engage each of their five senses in the day's topic: sin, Heaven and Hell, the life and teachings of Christ, the Gospel mysteries, the wonders of living the Christian life.
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House Democrats are preparing an all-out messaging blitz over the next three days to refocus Americans' attention on special counsel Robert Mueller's report, hoping to channel the intense focus on Mueller's congressional testimony Wednesday into a public outcry against President Donald Trump, as well as the prospect of future foreign interference in U.S. elections.
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Many leaks in the past have come from Apple's manufacturing partners in China, where low-wage workers could earn as much for selling one secret as they could in several months or even a year on the assembly line, so there's an intense focus on screening the workers to prevent anyone from smuggling out parts of the supply chain.
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But when I watch his fingers graze over lined paper as he spends dozens of minutes deciding how he wants to design his notes, when I notice every time he pulls on his pants and ruffles his hair—when I see his intense focus on the imperfections that nobody else sees, I know he's not regular.
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It was introduced amid an intense focus in the U.S. capital on relations with Russia, and investigations by the Department of Justice and congressional committees of whether Russia sought to influence the 2016 U.S. elections to help elect Republican President Donald Trump, and whether Trump associates colluded with Moscow as it sought to influence the election.
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The master of arts degree in Curatorial Practice, at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, trains curators in an immersive two-year program with an intense focus on teaching every aspect of curatorial work, so that our graduates enter the professional field with practical knowledge of how to do the work, as well as base it in theory and history.
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It would also allow Democrats to shift the conversation away from the intense focus on the many investigations into Trump, including special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's report, which they fear could alienate voters in crucial swing districts.
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The master of arts degree in Curatorial Practice, at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, trains curators in an immersive two-year program with an intense focus on teaching every aspect of curatorial work, so that graduates enter the professional field with practical knowledge of how to do the work, as well as base it in theory and history.
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Pence had originally planned to travel to Brazil in May, but postponed the trip because of the intense focus by the White House on upcoming talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Pence is slated to formally announce the trip, with the newly added stop in Ecuador, at a White House reception for members of the Organization for American States on Monday evening.
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In a conversation with Recode co-founder Kara Swisher, we'll ask the entrepreneur about the acclaim and controversy that comes with his intense focus on company mission — he gave away up to 10 percent of Chobani's equity to workers and his company employs hundreds of refugees — as well as the battle to stay independent as Greek yogurt competition has intensified and as Amazon and Walmart continue to squeeze consumer packaged goods brands on pricing.
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The Mueller questions suggest intense focus on what I call the collusion meeting at Trump Tower, at which highest-level Trump associates accepted an invitation from Russian agents for the purpose — explicitly stated in the request for the meeting — of giving the Trump campaign political dirt against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE, obtained by Russia through illegal means.
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When asked by a reporter about why VA hospital wait times had not improved over the past several years, despite VA's intense focus on improving this statistic, Secretary David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE answered that VA was focused on improving wait times for urgent care, which did improve, and then went on to talk about what he needed from Congress to make additional improvements.
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Ukraine and Zelensky have been the subject of intense focus in Washington since a whistleblower report detailed a July 85033 call between President TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report MORE and Zelensky in which the commander in chief asked the Ukrainian government to "look into" former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report Top Pence adviser was on Trump-Zelensky phone call at center of whistleblower complaint: report MORE, a call that came days after Trump suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Kiev.
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