But that will do little to mollify conservatives' existing suspicions.
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It was if he felt that he had to mollify
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The delay did not mollify critics of the trade barriers.
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But, Pelosi knew, nothing would mollify her caucus like victory.
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That month, Lambert hosted some community meetings to mollify fears.
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The time to mollify the American Muslim community is long gone.
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That explanation did not mollify his critics on Twitter and elsewhere.
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As a way to mollify the centrists, an amendment from Reps.
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In that case, Mr. Bush was attempting to mollify his critics.
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Apple likely needs to do more here to mollify this base.
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There is a sense that this will not mollify her for long.
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While nonbinding, they could mollify the critics enough to win their vote.
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Skeptics dismissed that as "virtue-signaling" to mollify the anti-business left.
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Hogg wrote on Twitter that an apology just to mollify advertisers was insufficient.
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The WSJ's latest revelation won't mollify those upset professionals in the intelligence community.
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To succeed, she may have to do more to mollify its component parts.
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It's as if Teddy Roosevelt had undercut Henry Ford's automobiles to mollify aggrieved
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But they say the greater priority is to mollify restive liberals backing Sanders.
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Philip a Prince, to mollify his complaints that even his young son outranks
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The rhetoric with which Cedar Fair attempted to mollify the activists was troubling.
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Zuckerberg's attempt on Thursday to mollify the market and the press was predictably unsuccessful.
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But the Democratic Party moved at every level to mollify and tamp down dissent.
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The meeting is seen as an effort to mollify impeachment hardliners within her caucus.
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It also didn't mollify the American Federation of Teachers, which represents locked out faculty.
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Across the globe, world leaders are trying to take steps to mollify Mr. Trump.
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But she's also a liberal lioness and felt sure she could mollify the crowd.
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Whether such a distinction will mollify Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners remains unclear.
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He told Politico last July that the Treasury was looking into ways to mollify critics.
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But it was not clear that the new plan would immediately mollify Mr. Obama's critics.
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The state of Rio is nearly insolvent, struggling to pay salaries and mollify enraged employees.
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Barr said he would make administrative changes to the law to mollify the president. Rep.
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The first question was about Algeria's political system, and candidates tried to mollify the opposition.
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The only reason for them to go through with this is to mollify the President.
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The administration attempted to mollify fiscally-minded Republicans, while ensuring Democratic and moderate Republican opposition.
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While Wirth's answers did not seem to mollify all analysts, several thanked him for talking.
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The firm will be hoping that a relatively swift response will mollify regulators, customers and investors.
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But Egypt's contention that authorities were conducting a transparent investigation has done little to mollify critics.
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He may have also been trying to mollify a rabid anti-Clinton contingent within the FBI.
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Her doctors prescribed her Buprenorphine, a common semisynthetic opioid medication specifically designed to mollify opioid dependency.
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They had tried to mollify Mr. Doyle by arranging for him to stay in the building.
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When Edith answers the door and realizes what has happened, she tries to mollify her friend.
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It is also unclear what exactly the Chinese government could do to mollify the Trump administration.
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This time, Mexican authorities were under similar pressure to find something that would mollify Mr. Trump.
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And Dr. He's presentation Wednesday afternoon did not seem to mollify many of his colleagues' concerns.
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But they've also said they have yet to see significant changes that would mollify their concerns.
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Duque on Tuesday attempted to mollify critics by including provisions for disadvantaged populations in the bill.
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Sanders also sought to mollify some disappointed backers and face down the most dogmatic among them.
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Celery's bright, citrusy flavors mollify with heat, and its stalks provide a prodigious range of textures.
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But all it took was a phone call from the wunderkind future president to mollify Harriot.
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To mollify her and give her the attention she craves, Quinn brings her on live television.
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Mylan has tried to mollify critics by offering coupons to some customers that reduce the cost.
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To mollify the politicians in exile, the fighters insisted they were there to talk only about ceasefires.
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It is unlikely Twitter's response will mollify those who believe that social networks express a liberal bias.
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First lady Melania Trump spoke first, perhaps as a strategy by the administration to mollify the public.
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"These conditions are the forced tribute that the company must offer to mollify the Capitol," he said.
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Bush said the right things, and backed them up with substantive policy often enough to mollify them.
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It accused Moonves of destroying evidence and seeking to mollify accusers with promises of jobs at CBS.
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Facebook has struggled throughout the year to mollify conservatives who fear the company may be censoring them.
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Sansa clearly has to mollify these lords; she's right that she can't afford to lose their support.
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"Joan" pleased neither French audiences nor clerical authorities and was recut to mollify the Archbishop of Paris.
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For months the Pentagon has urged the YPG to mollify Turkey by pulling back from the border.
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Jeffrey, of the Washington Institute, said there are a few things Trump could do to mollify Turkey.
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For some in law enforcement, the message has done what it intended to do: mollify, soothe, inspire.
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In an attempt to mollify his critics, Mr. Moon removed his two top economic policymakers in November.
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Besides being necessary, such probes would help mollify the many Democratic activists who want to impeach the president.
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Nor did it mollify gun-rights advocates and conservatives commenting online, who are sure that he is lying.
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Critics say the new policy is nothing more than a stunt to mollify and distract an anxious public.
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Nearly two weeks of protests have roiled Chile, and concessions by the government have failed to mollify demonstrators.
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This week, European Union leaders found a way to mollify the Walloons that was also acceptable to Canada.
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Mr. Trump also had to mollify a rattled ally, Japan, which got no advance notice of his decision.
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For Huawei, British scrutiny has come to serve as a badge of trustworthiness that helps it mollify concerns elsewhere.
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To mollify the truckers, President Michel Temer's government dismantled a free-market fuel pricing policy and reintroduced fuel subsidies.
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It could also mollify Germany, where lawmakers want assurances that the fund will be comfortable participating in the bailout.
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The Senate Finance Committee is reportedly considering last-minute changes to the bill that could mollify Johnson and Sen.
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The team also wanted to mollify Mr. Bannon, and to that end, the official statement mentioned Mr. Bannon first.
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Most S.J.P. members saw Visions of Peace as an attempt to mollify their group and vowed to skip it.
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The promise of steadily rising production seems likely to mollify investors who have driven down the company's share price.
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In the early days of their announced merger, the two companies have had to answer questions and mollify critics.
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She suggests that talking to Ben and asking him to get back on his meds will mollify the crisis.
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But those concessions did not mollify some protesters, who have little trust that the government will honor its promises.
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Though in a move that would mollify the military, he also announced that defense spending would rise from 2018.
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EBay gave Elliott seats on its board to mollify the activists, and a major strategic review was initiated, he added.
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And it's also designed to mollify the people on the ground who have also been calling for her immediate resignation.
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If the goal was to "mollify lawmakers," as The New York Times reported beforehand, it doesn't seem to have worked.
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Sessions and Rosenstein faced a strikingly similar situation late in February, in which they engineered an effort to mollify Trump.
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A few days after the attacks, his aunt called him in tears, begging him to apologize and mollify the mob.
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We cannot mollify ourselves with some ideal of neutrality or objectivity as if white supremacy deserves anything but resounding contempt.
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Closing the United States prison at Guantánamo, whatever else might be said for it, will not mollify the next Abedi.
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Obama's selection of Joe Biden in 2008 did more than strategically mollify voters spooked by his race and relative inexperience.
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His death inspired many to resist more forcefully, but many other blacks felt the safest course was to mollify whites.
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But in an effort to mollify their fears, Trump made a dramatic move that it's hard to find a precedent for.
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This strategy was chosen to mollify wary moderates (and is generally opposed by conservatives who just want a straight repeal vote).
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Including that could help Trump appeal to his base and mollify critics who say the plan is a giveaway for millionaires.
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But it backfired: each attempt to mollify one party provoked the other, and all sides attacked her inability to achieve peace.
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This executive actions, designed to mollify upset customers, had the perverse effect of keeping more people out of the insurance market.
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Physicians are just as guilty of overprescribing antibiotics — even to mollify hypochondriacs — as patients are of demanding the drugs too often.
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There are several provisions built into the law as safeguards to mollify those who worried that the system could be abused.
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Those apparent concessions did little to mollify Netanyahu, who derided Kerry's speech as "biased against Israel" and "obsessively focused" on settlements.
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The Iranian government has also reportedly cracked down on social media use in the country in order to mollify the demonstrations.
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But that pledge did little to mollify lawmakers worried about his existing financial ties and the global reach of his business.
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To mollify Wall Street, Mayer announced a plan last summer to spin off Yahoo's Alibaba shares into a new holding company.
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Still, it's likely that McGahn is happier now that the job to mollify Trump regarding Russia matters now falls to Cobb.
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There is little else that Beijing can do in the meantime to mollify its people and businesses or the broader markets.
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To mollify Wall Street, Mayer announced a plan last year to spin off Yahoo's Alibaba shares into a new holding company.
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It is one way to try to mollify some conservatives angered by the inability of the Republican-controlled Congress to deliver.
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The president stepped in just as Mr. Rosenstein appeared to mollify three key committee chairmen who were also demanding internal documents.
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" Groombridge, the former aide, said, "John is thinking, To the extent I can modify or mollify the President's actions, I will.
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Lam's attempts to mollify protesters have so far fallen flat, and protesters have responded to several of her decisions with increased violence.
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But Trump's comments signaled a sign of progress that appeared to mollify nervous investors, as U.S. stock futures surged before Monday's open.
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Facebook, attempting to mollify critics, has pledged to hire thousands of workers to ferret out bad actors trying to corrupt our elections.
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Even after he canceled his excursion to mollify the demonstrators, they refused to leave and insisted on staying to guard his palace.
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Democrats had settled on Charleston in order to mollify Southern members and ensure a united front heading into the fall presidential election.
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But they also said Mr. Joko's attempts to mollify hard-line Islamic groups, which plan to hold another protest march on Nov.
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Google portrayed its announcement Friday as one that would mollify privacy regulators without infringing too much on the sanctity of its platform.
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That did not mollify victims of sexual assault and their supporters, who staged a protest outside the Education Department headquarters Thursday morning.
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American officials have tried to mollify the Turks by insisting that their support of the Kurds is limited in time and resources.
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The decision appears to have put a sudden halt to hopes that Trump was beginning to mollify some of his hardline campaign promises.
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Trump also might have been looking for a way to mollify McConnell, with whom he had been feuding but whose support he needs.
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Its position is unlikely to mollify customers like Stephen Larkin, who has purchased Volkswagens since he bought a used VW Derby in 1988.
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Though she has sent Tim Kaine, her vice-presidential nominee, to mollify funders of charters, they are braced for a change of tone.
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Yet because the Democrats are associated with the immigrant communities Mr Trump attacked, his tactic also turbocharged partisan enmity, which helped mollify them.
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To mollify the middle class, he has called for extra public spending of $14bn over four years, or 1.4% of GDP per year.
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Germany hopes its plans to build at least two LNG terminals on its north coast, confirmed this week, will help mollify the administration.
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But it's unclear whether Musk's explanation will mollify federal regulators, who are reportedly looking into whether his statements from last week were misleading.
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On a visit to Seoul last year, Trump reportedly suggested South Korea drop its ambition for reunification as a way to mollify Pyongyang.
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The move failed to mollify investors, who had their first chance to react to trade-related news after returning from a long weekend.
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Instead of seeking ways to mollify and address the pent-up fears that are driving these voters, efforts are focused on disenfranchising them.
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Beijing's "Northern Link" charm offensive is designed to mollify concerns, with President Xi Jinping visiting Finland, Alaska and Iceland in May last year.
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A letter that day from Justice to state employees announcing the formation of a PEIA task force did not mollify many of them.
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It has enabled the coalition in many ways, including selling arms to the Saudis to mollify them after the nuclear deal with Iran.
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That might not be enough to mollify her ardently euroskeptic colleagues if she is felt to be dragging her feet over the process.
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That may not do much to mollify Pompeo's fiercer critics, who see any service in the Trump administration as proof of moral ignominy.
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In some ways, offering up a right-leaning fact-checking organization to mollify Ted Cruz might seem like the least of its worries.
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As home secretary, he has tried to ease the government's hard-line anti-immigration approach and mollify police leaders angry over budget cuts.
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It was not clear whether the changes that Mr. Putin outlined in his speech would be sufficient to mollify widespread anger and unease.
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That is unlikely to mollify her critics on the left, who say she did not work hard enough to force Speaker Ryan's hand.
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When the conventions really started gaining power in the 1840s, they looked to decide the nominees and also to mollify the losing party.
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The need to mollify the religious right saw a gradual shift toward the anti-abortion stance today's millennials most associate with the party.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi tried to mollify her critics by saying she was committed to restoring peace and the rule of law.
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Mr. DeWine's pre-Trump establishment background as a well-known state official could mollify suburban voters uncomfortable with the president's more unruly instincts.
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Ground floor accommodations made for community assets like health clinics won't mollify the jails' opponents but can help mitigate the stigma of incarceration.
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While the Republican nominee makes surface statements to mollify the pro-life movement, he is the opposite of everything the movement stands for.
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The highlight of every episode was when the couples were asked about "making whoopee" - the euphemism the show used for sex to mollify censors.
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It was stripped in the Senate version that ultimately became law, so President Barack Obama signed an executive order to mollify Stupak and others.
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Uber Movement is part of the company's wider plan to mollify regulators by sharing valuable data with them after years of abrasive business tactics.
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In a move clearly intended to mollify the president, Sessions on Tuesday asked the Justice Department's inspector general to look into the alleged abuse.
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But those moves failed to mollify critics, and several members of Congress ordered the company and Ms. Bresch to answer questions about Mylan's actions.
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At the Philadelphia convention, Ms. Kleeb helped mollify and motivate delegates supporting Senator Bernie Sanders, who carried the Nebraska caucuses during the primary race.
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But instead of pointing to the ongoing formal review and letting it run its course, Facebook intensified its efforts to mollify right-wing critics.
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This was a huge change after the Obama administration, which used the EPA to issue volumes of job-killing regulations to mollify environmental extremists.
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She also sought to mollify Sanders supporters by saying "thank you" to those who had "poured their heart and soul" into her competitor's campaign.
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Beijing (CNN)Beijing is promising new measures to protect foreign companies operating in China, its latest apparent move to mollify US President Donald Trump.
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It may have been enough to mollify those listeners for the moment, but the premier clearly didn't address some major elephants in the room.
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But the tweet did little to mollify American intelligence officials past and present, especially related to Mr. Putin's offer to aid the Mueller investigation.
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Antitrust lawyers say Singapore-based Grab could try to mollify regulators by offering concessions such as price restrictions and subjecting itself to greater regulations.
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That did little to mollify Democrats, who also rejected Esper's characterization that the reprogramming was nothing more than a delay of project funding. Rep.
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In this, he succeeded — though, under the deal, the emergency brake will end after seven years, which seems unlikely to mollify Mr. Cameron's euroskeptic critics.
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His pitch was this was as much as they could do to mollify as many concerns as they could, at this point in the process.
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Facebook's first-ever State of the (Measurement) Union event in New York City today is meant to mollify marketers still worried about issues with transparency.
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And so, create your own moral code to live by, but don't be fooled into trying to make concessions that you think will mollify them.
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Citigroup has failed to mollify critics of its executive pay scheme even after the bank introduced a new cap on bonuses to address their concerns.
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Throughout the ISIS period, in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, the Iraqi government has carried out mass executions in order to mollify an outraged public.
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Last week, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. went to Ankara, the capital of Turkey, in an attempt to mollify Mr. Erdogan and his government.
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President Trump's first federal budget proposal is unlikely to mollify defense hawks who fumed when the administration announced the base defense budget request last month.
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Albayrak has promised $12 billion in new savings and revenue for 2019 under the government's new economic program, but that has failed to mollify investors.
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But the wealthy New York real estate developer has already floated names of conservative potential nominees in a bid to mollify some on the right.
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In other dioceses, bishops have struck a conciliatory tone, describing the releases as a gesture meant to help victims heal and mollify an unsettled flock.
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Mr. Macron promises include tax cuts and wage increases to mollify the protesters after more than a month of violence that left eight people dead.
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Goodell has tried to mollify the players by visiting Philadelphia, Miami and other cities to speak to them and witness their work in the community.
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Jackson traded for Rose's expiring contract to mollify Dolan and to keep himself employed with a playoff push while pinning the future on Kristaps Porzingis.
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The Chinese government often tries to mollify public anger by suspending or firing officials, even when the rights and wrongs of a case are unclear.
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" Just like Obama and May, D'Antonio says, "a lot of people over the years have tried to mollify him and accommodate him day by day.
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To mollify moderate Republicans, he is considering restoring some money to Medicaid or keeping a tax on the investment income of the most affluent Americans.
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And it failed to mollify right-wing rivals who say that Mr. Gantz's reluctant-warrior hesitancy and command miscalculations had actually cost Israeli soldiers' lives.
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The removal of the two officials on Saturday, however, did not mollify the country's powerful army, and seemed to have the opposite effect. Maj. Gen.
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In a move clearly intended to mollify the president, Sessions on February 27 asked the Justice Department's inspector general to look into the alleged abuse.
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The consumer data comes a day after a report that holiday sales were the strongest in years helped mollify concerns about the health of the economy.
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It's likely that the draft deal will be amended to clarify Spain's involvement in future talks regarding Gibraltar's status in any future relationship to mollify Spain.
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All of that might mollify Trump, though questions remain about whether he would try to remove Powell should the Fed not do as the president likes.
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As grieving families buried victims Tuesday, Iraq's government scrambled to mollify public anger over what was seen as a critical failure of the country's security services.
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The plan then, to mollify the vote-sapping effects of the third-party candidates Stein and Johnson, would be to appeal to such millennial sensibilities – i.e.
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Those efforts to mollify concerns appear to have failed, though, with Sherrod Brown, the most senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, labeling the project delusional.
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A White House official said this week that the administration's position has not changed even after some changes were made to the bill to mollify critics.
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Some Conservatives believe the bill does not go far enough in dismantling Obamacare and have not been satisfied by the White House's attempts to mollify them.
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The 60-day ultimatum was considered an attempt by the Trump administration to mollify European fears that the Continent would bear the costs of the decision.
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And though Keurig's new K-Cups may not mollify all of its critics, the company says it is trying its best to manage an unsavory situation.
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But Mr. Philippe failed to mollify the unions opposed to the proposals — and he angered more moderate ones that had been cautiously supportive of the overhaul.
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That makes "disavow" perfect to mollify nagging reporters: You demonstrate your willingness to repudiate racists, but in a way that won't actually leave racists feeling repudiated.
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So to mollify anti-immigration voters in his party, he promised a referendum on British exit from the European Union if he won the 2015 election.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that he would urge the company to "retain its Israeli identity," words that seemed to mollify no one.
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Each team locked arms during the national anthem in a tepid show of "unity" that appeared designed to mollify Kaepernick's critics as much as support his message.
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Both Driscoll and Clark, as well as others on social media, said store employees handed out free drinks and snacks in a bid to mollify angry customers.
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They are the engine of the Trumpian insurgency, the group Republicans will find hardest to mollify if it fails, and a source of heartache for Democrats, too.
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But that's done little to mollify the U.S.'s major trading partners, who say their exports to the U.S. pose no threat to the country's national security.
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This would satisfy Congress, mollify the industry and, ironically, give consumer groups another opportunity to shape the outcome, even though they are pleased with the status quo.
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Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party in Netanyahu's coalition, says the soldier is being condemned "to mollify B'Tselem and the world".
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"The central bank may still attempt to mollify investors by putting a modest, so-called insurance cut in place," said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com.
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To mollify conservatives, House committees are to begin considering a series of bills that would cut an estimated $100 billion from social programs over the next decade.
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Attempts to mollify them were largely unsuccessful: Ms. Murkowski, for example, was awarded a special provision to compensate for the expected explosion of premiums in her state.
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In South Korea, protesters who want facilities earmarked as quarantine centers moved away from residential areas threw eggs and insults at a minister trying to mollify them.
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The Iranian government has reportedly cracked down on social media use in the state in order to mollify the demonstrations that have spiked up across the country.
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It did not decrease interest in her relationship with Wall Street, or mollify voters concerned about her ability and willingness to handle big banks and the financial industry.
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For Trump's lawyers to see the report before anyone else, including Congress, only adds to suspicions that Barr is taking great pains to mollify Trump throughout this process.
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On trade, Mrs Clinton offers what my colleague Lexington calls "homeopathy politics": giving voters just a little of a bad idea, hoping, naively, that it will mollify them.
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Mr. Mnuchin defended the administration's approach and insisted that economic growth remained Mr. Trump's priority, which did nothing to mollify Mr. Hensarling, a close ally of the president.
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Mexico has said it could consider adding new chapters to the agreement covering issues such as labor standards to mollify U.S. trade unions anxious about cheaper Mexican workers.
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His critics question whether that apology was genuine, suggesting that it was intended to mollify black voters, an important constituency in Super Tuesday voting, and left-leaning Democrats.
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That explanation has done little to mollify critics in the media and on Twitter who point out that "Exile" contains a note making clear that it is nonfiction.
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The company largely confirmed Ms. Watts's account earlier in the day in a response to her on Twitter that did little to mollify the concerns of its critics.
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To mollify the lawmakers, Mr. Rosenstein made scores of documents related to those inquiries available, moves that ran counter to law enforcement's reticence to share information about investigations.
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The move will likely mollify families, many of whom have already invested thousands of dollars in their own home air purifying systems and masks to combat pollution at home.
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The size of any potential NATO mission has not been debated, but the diplomats said they would need to be substantially more than the current team to mollify Trump.
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DNC Chair Perez opened the executive committee meeting on the first day seeking to project an image of unity and to mollify concerns that members were losing their power.
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Since then, there has been little news to mollify those concerns - a fact driven home by Trump's shock Tweets on Thursday threatening more tariffs on the remaining Chinese imports.
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Democratic leaders hoping to mollify restive liberals through aggressive oversight of the Trump administration are facing early warning signs from the pro-impeachment crowd that it's simply not enough.
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GOP leaders in the Senate will sweeten the deal by adding billions of dollars for Hurricane Harvey relief, but that won't mollify the right on and off Capitol Hill.
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Countless cute GIFs mollify our view of cats and dogs, while the occasional video of a bird snatching its prey can make hawks and owls appear vicious and cruel.
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Mr. Zhao's speeches as party leader show him trying to mollify ideological conservatives, alarmed by the spread of liberal ideas and dissent, while preserving the momentum of economic adjustment.
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The government eventually surrendered, but in an earlier attempt to mollify prosecutors, IBM eliminated its practice of bundling hardware and software, a shift that essentially created the software industry.
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The three strategists have clashed with Maya Harris since the campaign got underway over whether to mollify the left, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the internal debate.
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At the same time, they must mollify the wealthy benefactors who help keep the lights on and would rather not see their donations open them up to public examination.
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But that failed to mollify the protesters, leaving France in a familiar place: unable to jolt a stalled economy with spending, and unable to bolster aid for poor people.
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This is largely a symbolic issue meant to mollify President Trump, since this will not, by itself, affect the United States trade deficit with China in a durable way.
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It is the same reasoning behind the Republican push for their health care bill — they need to mollify the base even at the risk of alienating other voting blocs.
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That appeared to be an effort to mollify Republican critics of the deal, which President Trump has called a "disaster" and said he would have negotiated far more skillfully.
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"Uncut Gems" may not mollify critics of the Safdies' tendency to appropriate styles and poses from real life, or to let their characters make bad decisions without authorial censure.
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At the same time, Graham said he understood why Trump remains frustrated, and he suggested the president was using a strategy of criticizing congressional leaders to mollify his base.
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Pressure is mounting among Democrats to impeach, and Pelosi planting the image of the 45th President behind bars after his term ends might mollify a portion of the Trump critics.
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In search of the votes needed to repeal and replace Obamacare, Republican leadership in the House released a package of amendments Monday night meant to mollify critics of the plan.
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Given that Mr Abe is only pulling together existing investment plans, some companies fear that rather than mollify the president, any pledge could become a baseline Japan has to exceed.
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They emphasized Clinton's broader energy plans for the presidency, which would include infrastructure programs with enough spending and job creation to mollify specific labor groups, including ironworkers, boilermakers and electricians.
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And he said that he believes he's best positioned to emerge as the compromise candidate that would mollify the fractions in the party if the race goes in that direction.
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"All right, Carly, I'm sorry—good job, really," she says, only vaguely aware of how ridiculous it is to try to mollify a computer or worry about hurting its feelings.
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The critique from conservatives, in contrast, casts the big tech companies as censorious and oppressive, all too eager to stifle right-wing content in an effort to mollify liberal critics.
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But without agreement or a clear list of goals from the American side, the Chinese may try to mollify officials by meeting only the most modest of their trade demands.
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Facebook has indeed sought to mollify conservatives convinced that the major US giants, often run by apparently liberal-leaning CEOs and execs, show bias to right-wing viewpoints and publications.
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It is unclear whether the president might mollify three major allies — Britain, France and Germany — by allowing them to maintain economic relations with Tehran without penalizing any of their firms.
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Most of them were to study and improve the system, but some were to mollify skeptical investors and potential customers who didn't believe a payload could withstand the extreme forces.
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Mr. Abe's government has been floating proposals, like using Japanese pension money to fund Mr. Trump's infrastructure plans, that might mollify the president and help offset Japan's large trade surplus.
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The Trump administration also prevented a Security Council meeting requested by other members on North Korean human rights abuses, in what was interpreted as a gesture to mollify North Korea.
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The sudden reversal in relations with Washington has been a shock to Beijing who thought they had Trump's number, running a long campaign to mollify and flatter the US leader.
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The critique from conservatives, in contrast, casts the Big Tech companies as censorious and oppressive, all too eager to stifle right-wing content in an effort to mollify liberal critics.
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Mylan has said it will begin selling a lower-cost, generic version of the EpiPen before the end of the year, an effort to mollify critics of its high prices.
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In an attempt to mollify the protesters, he offered prayers for those killed and announced plans for economic reform under the new government, which has yet to be fully formed.
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That ought to mollify MPs from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, who have threatened to vote down any Brexit deal that erects new trade barriers between the province and the mainland.
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Yet it will do little to mollify those who say liberal capitalism has neglected human needs beyond the yen for economic advancement—for community, say, or a sense of wider belonging.
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In mid-June Lam responded to huge protests by suspending the bill, but that move failed to mollify critics, who continued to demonstrate against the bill and call for Lam's resignation.
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But the 2017 report may not be the breakthrough many NATO diplomats believe they need to mollify Trump, who as the alliance's de-facto leader has made defense spending a priority.
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Mindful of the watchful skepticism of hardliners within his own country, and the qualms of Chinese leadership, Kim Jong Un's intent may be to mollify the U.S. president for the moment.
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The Democratic Party's various appeals designed to mollify the race-based rancor of angry white men all quite uncomfortably echo the Republican capitulation to anti-Reconstruction forces in the nineteenth century.
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If the combination of the American military presence and their trade surpluses with the United States weren't enough to mollify Asian leaders, no free trade deal would significantly change the situation.
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While the selection of Ms. Warren could help mollify liberal supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, there are ample reasons a Clinton-Warren ticket is unlikely to come to fruition.
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Google and Facebook — which is also working on a news product that could help drive subscriptions to news outlets — may be extending olive branches in an effort to mollify their critics.
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Ryan praised the package Wednesday for "breaking the logjam on a number of priorities for the American people" and, in an attempt to mollify his right wing, promised future fiscal reforms.
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Even so, Chinese officials have tried to mollify some of the US government's concerns about IP in the past as a way to move the two countries toward a trade deal.
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Cohen was named personal attorney to the President in a bid to mollify him after he was not offered a position at the White House, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Debate will center on the steps required to mollify regulatory concerns, said Martin Moore, the director of the Center for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College London.
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Morey deleted the tweet and sent out an apology that failed to mollify the NBA's Chinese partners and infuriated politicians in the US who accused the league of prioritizing profits over values.
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But it's not clear if this will be sufficient to mollify critics — predominantly on the right — who object to the very concept of trying to weed fake news out of the newsfeed.
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"If Republicans go forward with this plan, they may mollify their base, but they will ostracize and hurt the American people, and ultimately lose in the court of public opinion," he said.
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Through some back-channel miscommunications by Garfield's lieutenants, the candidate's need to mollify Conkling's faction resulted, absurdly, in a proffer of the Vice-Presidency to the dismissed collector of the Custom House.
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But European leaders have been working hard to mollify Tehran -- UK Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to assure him of her support for the deal.
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HDC's Park said the cash-rich firm may need to announce a buyback of between 2 trillion won and 3 trillion won in order to mollify shareholders whose nerves have been jangled.
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"In an environment where people are a little bit on edge concerning future inflation, tariffs don't exactly mollify those concerns," warned Chuck Carlson, chief executive at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana.
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Officials at the airport, which is run by the city of Atlanta, sought to mollify customers on Sunday with thousands of free meals, water and parking spots as power began to return.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump's long-term relationship with Wall Street is just getting started, but he has already demonstrated that he can not only shake up but also mollify the market.
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The ranks of protesters dwindled after Mr. Macron this week promised tax cuts and wage increases to mollify the Yellow Vests, who are angry over the cost of living and high taxes.
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It's unclear whether such efforts will mollify Zhao's critics, or if the release of "Blood Heir" this fall will ignite another cycle of outrage — a backlash to the backlash to the backlash.
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And the contest does little to prove that software can mollify an angry co-worker, write a decent poem, raise a well-adjusted child or perform any number of distinctly human tasks.
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As the controversy snowballed, the filmmakers delayed the release date by two months and moved to make a number of changes to the film to mollify the protesters, including changing the title.
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VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - The organizers of the Venice Film Festival signed a pledge on Friday to work toward gender equality, hoping to mollify critics who have accused them of sidelining women filmmakers.
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The president of Sudan has ordered the release of dozens of political prisoners, the state-run news agency Suna reported on Tuesday, an action that appeared intended to mollify human-rights critics.
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In an effort to mollify the growing pro-impeachment faction, Pelosi will hold a special members-only meeting Wednesday morning to fully brief lawmakers on House Democrats' sprawling oversight efforts and investigations.
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Antoinette knows how to fight, and Stephen knows how to mollify; together they form an alliance that provides one of the few pleasures Antoinette takes in the job she once passionately coveted.
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But that isn't likely to mollify the president or his allies, who have railed against the proceedings as biased and unfair since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the formal inquiry in September.
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Twitter's unveiling of its political ads policy did little to mollify its critics, such as conservatives who have said the barring of such ads is an attempt to suppress right-wing voices.
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To mollify that complaint, this year Iowa Democrats will make public both counts — how voters align on their first choice and then the results after supporters of unviable candidates make a second choice.
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That is why she has taken more pains to promote and mollify the concerns of the many new Democratic members elected in competitive districts last November than lefties such as Ms Ocasio-Cortez.
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Iraq election and letter The size of any potential NATO mission has not been debated, but the diplomats said they would need to be substantially more than the current team to mollify Trump.
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"Facebook continues to fall victim to the right wing's work the refs gambit and remains way too willing to do counterproductive, and even sometimes strange, things to mollify right-wing critics," Carusone said.
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Further, Saudi Arabia and Russia recently agreed privately to boost supply before telling other OPEC countries in an effort to mollify U.S. President Donald Trump, who has focused his anger on rising prices.
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The scorching light didn't waver until the blackened rocks began to mollify under the herd's plodding steps — until even their ashen wake came to life again with flames and flashes of searing gas.
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As examples, he pointed to French President Emmanuel Macron's hosting Trump during Bastille Day celebrations, or Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's gifting of a golden golf club that helped mollify the American president.
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The government remains knotted up on how to manage the economy, continue trading goods with the European Union -- its biggest export market -- and mollify businesses and investors who demand answers about future trade.
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A number of people, particularly on so-called mommy blogs, are giving specific recommendations of goody bags containing items like gum, a candy bar and earplugs to mollify seat neighbors on a flight.
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Some Jordanians regard the trial with scepticism, saying it will fail to mollify anger over perceived rampant corruption among senior officials in a country whose economy has also been hit by regional conflict.
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The prime minister's simultaneous decision to cancel another proposed pipeline between Alberta and British Columbia — which was already on life support after a legal challenge by indigenous groups — did nothing to mollify environmentalists.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Brussels on Wednesday seeking to mollify European allies, again finding himself in the familiar position of mending relationships frayed by President Donald Trump's policies.
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Before she can fully turn to taking on Mr. Trump, Ms. O'Malley Dillon first must work to mollify Mr. Sanders and, in what may be an even greater challenge, his die-hard supporters.
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To mollify that complaint, this year Iowa Democrats will make public both counts — how voters align on their first choice and then the results after supporters of unviable candidates make a second choice.
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The interpreter Friend and foe alike are left puzzled over what President Trump aimed to achieve by killing a top Iranian general, what he might do next or how Tehran could mollify him.
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Sources had told Reuters on Tuesday that Germany's flagship bank had begun looking for a new CEO to replace Cryan to mollify investors frustrated by the slow turnaround of the loss-making lender.
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In the June call with analysts, Kimberly Clark CEO Thomas Falk, set out to mollify analysts' concerns that potential price hikes either would not stick or would cause it to cede market share.
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ET. Clinton's meeting with House Democrats comes amid the party's transition to the general election campaign, and continues Clinton's effort to unite the party and mollify Bernie Sanders supporters after the fractious primary campaign.
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Lifting the de facto ban on gun violence research was an attempt to mollify a country still reeling from the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, just weeks before.
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Two oil-field services companies, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, which agreed a year ago to a $35 billion deal, have pushed back the deadline for approval while they find new ways to mollify regulators.
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And late last year, Spotify had to hammer out a way to mollify a pair of investors who had issued debt to Spotify that would only convert to equity when the company officially IPO'd.
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Details: Uber has been banned outright in multiple countries and a number of U.S. cities and states, and faces partial bans in others as local governments seek to mollify taxi drivers and other unions.
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But Powell moved to mollify financial markets, saying that while economic momentum is solid, the Fed is sensitive to the risks highlighted by investors and will be patient with its monetary policy in 2019.
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The secretary aims to mollify such critics and rally supporters just as the Republican face high-stakes midterm Congressional elections this fall against Democrats trying to retake control of the U.S. House and Senate.
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Prime Minister David Cameron, who is trying to head off that danger, is in the awkward position of having proposed a referendum back in 2013, largely to mollify euroskeptic sentiment among his fellow Conservatives.
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Even if leadership can offer the Freedom Caucus enough cuts to mollify them without alienating too many moderates, which Farrier cautions is very tricky calculus to begin with, the group may pick other fights.
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If Obama opts against removing the ban for now, another option that might mollify the Vietnamese would be creating a "working group" to map out the path toward doing so, one U.S. official said.
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For its part, KUB has taken steps to mollify some of those neighbors, including positioning 150 Wooster so that its walls do not block windows at 423 Wooster, according to residents of that building.
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Her promise last week to formally withdraw the extradition bill that sparked demonstrations since June failed to mollify protesters, whose demands have expanded to include direct elections for the city's leaders and police accountability.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — Stymied legislatively, President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell are turning their attention to one way they can skirt Democratic roadblocks and mollify unhappy Republicans — by filling scores of federal court vacancies.
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His testimony did little to mollify lawmakers, who called for new regulations that would limit Facebook's ability to collect data on users without permission and to make privacy policies clear to better empower consumers.
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The comments seemed designed to mollify Xi, whose government has challenged what it considers U.S. meddling in domestic affairs and threatened retaliation if the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act were to pass.
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Still, Mr. Trump's promise to repeal the law fulfills a campaign pledge — one that became a centerpiece of his effort to mollify the religious right, which was slow to warm to his insurgent candidacy.
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It could also help mollify American farmers and ranchers, who have complained about Mr. Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multicountry trade deal that included Japan.
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But that did little to mollify critics, some of whom wanted the lead musician at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz stadium to be from Atlanta, now acknowledged as a hub for hip-hop and rap groups.
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Sanders announced Friday that the bipartisan deal failed to mollify his concerns, saying the proposal lends too much sway both to the oversight board and to the Republican leaders who would help fill it.
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Seeking to mollify public anger at a news conference on Sunday, Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters that body camera footage from the encounter clearly shows Smith pointing a gun at the officer who shot him.
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JUBA (Reuters) - The president of South Sudan said on Monday that soldiers who rape civilians should be shot, trying to mollify citizens outraged by abuses by security forces and quell growing international anger over attacks.
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Two centuries on, President Emmanuel Macron, often criticized for a monarchical manner, is also calling a national debate to mollify "yellow vest" protesters whose nine week uprising has set Paris ablaze and shaken his administration.
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In the days preceding Mr Pompeo's visit, it announced a large order of long-range patrol planes made by Boeing—a gesture that was presumably intended in part to mollify Mr Pompeo's boss, Donald Trump.
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In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron announced back in 2013 that he would hold a referendum on E.U. membership largely to mollify euroskeptics in his Conservative Party, presuming that Britons would vote to stay in.
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The Dow surged more than 1,000 points for the first time overnight, leading a broad Wall Street rebound after a report of robust holiday sales helped mollify concerns about the health of the U.S. economy.
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Mr. Hollande's government had slightly backtracked on the citizenship proposal in January, largely to mollify his critics on the left, in deciding that the bill would not contain any language explicitly referring to dual citizens.
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Mr. Trump later tried to mollify his critics, saying that if Turkey "does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate" its economy.
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In some cases, Chinese leaders appear to be acknowledging people's fear, anger and other all-too-human reactions to the crisis, showing how the party can move dramatically, if sometimes belatedly, to mollify the public.
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Separate sources had told Reuters on Tuesday that Germany's flagship bank had begun looking for a new CEO to replace John Cryan to mollify investors frustrated by the slow turnaround of the loss-making lender.
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Hard as it may be to accept, the inconvenient truth is that China's leaders prefer the status quo, and there is nothing that the U.S. can do to change their minds or mollify their concerns.
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To mollify such concerns, Vestager has subsequently said she was looking to update various elements of EU competition rules to meet digital and green challenges and also reviewing guidelines on state aid and agreements between companies.
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To mollify dissenters in his own party and stop the rise of the far-right UK Independence Party, Cameron promised to hold a referendum on leaving the EU if his Conservative Party won the 2015 election.
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To mollify such concerns, Vestager has subsequently said she was looking to update various elements of EU competition rules to meet digital and green challenges and also reviewing guidelines on state aid and agreements between companies.
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Having renounced the Kyoto Protocol on emissions within months of taking office in 2001, an action that outraged some Western allies, Mr. Bush knew he could not do anything on that issue to mollify the Europeans.
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Under pressure to mollify farmers hit by three straight crop failures due to bad weather, Modi's government has imposed a cut of around 70 percent in royalties that local firms pay Monsanto for its cotton technology.
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He also made no secret of his eagerness to salvage the summit, suggesting he was willing to mollify his stance in trade negotiations with China if it meant securing Beijing's support on the North Korean front.
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Clinton were also trying to mollify a growing backlash from the left against his record of support for global trade deals, which many voters in Rust Belt states blame for the loss of American manufacturing jobs.
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But the moves did not mollify critics of Mylan because the company did not lower the list price of the EpiPen, which has risen to $600 for a pack of two from about $100 in 2007.
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Mr. Trump, officials said, is expected to sign the waiver but couple it with recognition of Jerusalem as the capital — a move that the White House hopes will mollify evangelicals and other staunchly pro-Israel supporters.
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Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday clung to power, going so far as to discuss whether reneging on a new Brexit deal she rolled out two days earlier could mollify cabinet ministers eager to replace her.
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These included allowing the museum to use the dock five minutes away from the Watershed, in Piers Park, completed by Massport in 1995 in part to mollify long-simmering tensions among East Boston residents overLogan Airport.
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Those explanations did little to mollify the players, who successfully pushed for language in the new C.B.A. that U.S. Soccer would meet with the union to "consider players association input" on where games would be hosted.
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Deputy Governor Urjit Patel is currently seen as a top contender, a decision that would likely mollify investors because he penned the report that laid out recommendations for the new monetary policy framework adopted by Rajan.
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" She and other advocates accuse the mayor and the police of a "blame the victim" mentality, and complain that they are trying to mollify the public by dismissing the problem as simply an issue of "runaways.
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However, similar vows to investigate protester deaths during the rule of ousted former President Omar al-Bashir were insufficient to appease demonstrators at the time, and the committee's creation does not appear likely to mollify them now.
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The deal is important not just because of the massive amount of cash that would change hands, but also because the deal would trigger a series of reforms meant to mollify the warring factions in Uber's boardroom.
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" Mr. Bacow's words did not appear to mollify the prime minister, however, who told The Herald on Tuesday that "if they fail to engage meaningfully, we will be forced to pursue all legal remedies available to us.
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The movie begins with some interesting relationship dynamics, from the commented-upon age gap between the central couple to the sacrifices made and slights endured to mollify a partner so committed to and protective of his craft.
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To give this process a greater sheen of democracy, the party took some power from superdelegates, in part to mollify Sanders supporters, who were still smarting after superdelegates helped deliver the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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When the Trump administration decided to prohibit fruit, mint and dessert flavors in refillable cartridge-based e-cigarettes like Juul, it carved out a few exceptions to mollify the vape shop owners and adult consumers who complained.
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The previous day the White House had confirmed a Chinese commitment to buy more American agricultural products—one of the ways in which China had hoped to mollify Mr Trump, who resents China's large bilateral trade surplus.
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Last month, Trump attempted to mollify the corn industry, telling a roomful of Iowa farmers that he was close to lifting the ban, drawing cheers in the state and surprise in Washington from those unaware of the plans.
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When the presidential election of 2014 produced a stalemate between Mr Ghani and his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, America brokered a vague "power-sharing agreement" by which Mr Abdullah became chief executive (a post invented to mollify him).
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The meeting with about 60 mayors from overseas territories - some of them having traveled 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) to see him - was part of a two-month "great national debate" Macron launched to mollify the "yellow vest" movement.
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In fact, aside from a law degree earned at least in part to mollify his parents — which he undertook after completing a self-designed undergraduate degree in enigmatology — Mr. Shortz has spent his professional life pursuing little else.
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An American retreat from Northeast Asia might eventually induce South Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear arsenals, but even then both countries would be likelier to mollify you with bribes than risk war over this or that crisis.
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In a bid to mollify an anxious opposition bloc, he said the framework for any negotiations would be a road map laid out in 2012, called the Geneva Communique, which envisions a transitional governing body with full executive powers.
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After his inept first response to the killing of a woman in Charlottesville by a white supremacist, he eventually delivered a speech to mollify those who said he had given racists the impression that he was on their side.
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But if the perception emerges that policymakers are merely looking to mollify President Donald Trump, then the central bank's credibility, and its veil of political independence, could be torn asunder, resulting in damage that could take years to fix.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hastily set up a committee to propose new legislation to mollify the law's critics but no amendments have been enacted since the its passage in July shortly before Parliament went on its summer recess.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey sharply cut its growth forecasts for this year and next on Thursday, a reduction that failed to mollify investors who wanted a more sober assessment of the fragile economy and a sweeping plan to help banks.
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The antigun, pro-abortion rights, immigrant-friendly and "stronger together" message in Philadelphia is no doubt intended to mollify both the Bernie Sanders loyalists and the minority groups that are expected to turn out heavily for Clinton in November.
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Prime Minister Hani Mulki stepped down after two years in office, but there was no sign that his departure would mollify the protesters or change unpopular austerity policies proposed by the government and backed by the International Monetary Fund.
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Mr. Trump will also have to mollify another bruised ally, Britain, after he told reporters on Monday that the departure agreement Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the European Union might bar Britain from trading with the United States.
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For instance, dropping the repeal of the individual mandate from the bill would mollify the concerns of some but could alienate others who wish to see it included, while also upending the delicate fiscal math behind the Republican plan.
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Pinera has sought to mollify protesters with a spending package and a vote on a new constitution, but the marches continue and spiked last week when doctors confirmed in a statement they had been unable to save Gatica's eyes.
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The Trump administration has been trying to put a positive spin on the talks, in part to help mollify jittery investors who have sent financial markets tumbling in response to any signs of negative news on the trade front.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Just months after a stunning election victory, Malaysia's prime minister has had to step in to mollify the country's majority Malay Muslims in recent weeks, underlining a weighty challenge confronting his multi-ethnic, reformist coalition: race.
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Carefully-choreographed sessions and the leaders' dinner in a Brussels museum on Wednesday night are unlikely to mollify Trump, NATO diplomats say, as they found out to their dismay in May last year at a special dinner to welcome the president.
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In 2014 on "Squawk Box," Jackson stuck up for Tesla, saying it should not have to modify its practice of selling its electric cars directly to consumers in company-owned showrooms to mollify state governments, which want cars sold through dealerships.
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HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since its civil war began, but the move was unlikely to mollify Arab allies angry over Washington's cautious approach to the conflict.
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Albayrak announced sharply lower growth forecasts for this year and next and promised $21 billion in new savings and revenue for 26.2690, but failed to mollify investors who wanted to see Ankara move quickly to stem worries about the banking sector.
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Weaving in elements of spirituality and faith, it was the near-perfect end to a less-than-perfect series, one that HBO renewed for this third and final season as much to mollify critics as due to its commercial credentials.
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The proposal follows weeks of talks between the State Department and European powers as they try to mollify the Trump administration, which is split between those who want to tear up the agreement and those who wish to preserve it.
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In the 1990s, the task of dealing with Barr fell to then-ABC Entertainment president Ted Harbert, who recalled being summoned to Barr's house to hold meetings -- and seek ways to mollify her -- while Barr and Arnold sat in bed.
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To mollify skeptics, developers front-loaded community benefits like a new senior center, new quarters for the Chinese-American Planning Council, which offers early childhood education programs, and for the Lower East Side's Henry Street Settlement to do work force development.
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Mr. Sanders tried to intervene by sending a text message asking delegates "to not engage in any kind of protest on the floor," while Clinton and Sanders campaign officials worked on the convention floor to mollify delegates who might be disruptive.
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The title delivers: The book has recipes for pretty much every dish you'll ever need for simple suppers, dinner parties, brunches, lunches and cocktail parties, all delivered in sensible, clear-as-glass sentences that instruct and mollify in equal measure.
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Eighteen months before the next Belgian federal election, there have already been tensions over Catalonia within the coalition, where Flemish nationalists sympathetic to the Catalans are a major force and Michel, a French-speaking liberal, has lately tried to mollify Madrid.
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First, they must mollify a mercurial president and Republican voters who will no doubt be incensed at the very idea of a Senate trial giving credence to the accusations that Mr. Trump improperly sought foreign help against a political rival.
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He tried to mollify Arab voters outraged by his embrace of the Trump peace plan, which suggested redrawing the borders to give a proposed new Palestinian state sovereignty over the so-called Arab Triangle, a predominantly Arab part of Israel.
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None of those changes are likely to mollify critics who worry that politicians and their campaigns will use Facebook to distort the truth and mislead voters — especially as campaigns prepare to spend a record $3 billion on digital advertising this year.
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To further mollify the Turks, most of the fighters who will be involved in the assault on Raqqa are expected to be Arabs, and the Pentagon said the Y.P.G. would not occupy the city after Islamic State fighters had been ousted.
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More recently, China has made a big show of gradually loosening its grip, an effort meant to mollify critics like Mr. Trump and experts who have long urged Beijing to let markets fix financial problems in the world's second-largest economy.
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Nancy Pelosi gets this, and it's possible that some of the House Democrats who keep muttering about impeachment get it, too — and are either fulfilling what they see as their constitutional obligation or trying to mollify a restive Democratic base.
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"President Moon Jae-in and his government are ignoring North Korea's grave human rights abuses in a misguided effort to mollify Kim Jong-un and improve relations with Pyongyang," said Phil Robertson, the Asia deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
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But it remains to be seen if the move, like the central bank's greater-than-expected tightening, will be enough to mollify investors, who have helped send the lira TRYTOM=D3 down by 40 percent against the dollar this year.
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White House aides sought to defuse the situation, but found it impossible to mollify the president, who was angered that Mr. Sessions's recusal paved the way for the appointment of a special counsel to lead the investigation now threatening his team.
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But her dramatic gesture failed to mollify a city increasingly outraged over the prospect of legislation that lawyers and judges say risks exposing people to the mercy of a mainland justice system plagued by torture, forced confessions and arbitrary detention.
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For a quarter of a century, the labor movement has wisely opposed NAFTA-style deals, which set up rules protecting corporate rights, with meaningless verbiage about labor and environmental safeguards slapped on as a microscopic Band-Aid to try to mollify critics.
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It came after weeks of progressives openly fretting that his plan would seek some sort of "middle ground" in an attempt to mollify labor unions and other industry groups concerned about the economic impact of a massive shift away from fossil fuels.
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To mollify concerns in East Harlem, the M.T.A. has invested in a brightly lit information center on 125th Street where detailed explanations of the phases of construction, in English and Spanish, are offered on video screens on the walls or on iPads.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose changes to the system for letting new countries into the EU to give existing members more say, in a bid to mollify France which has vetoed expansion of the bloc to six countries in the Balkans.
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He now claims to be strongly anti-abortion—a way to mollify the evangelicals who supported his candidacy—but is apparently relieved that big changes in the law—and an accompanying outcry from women and civil libertarians—are not immediately on the horizon.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 0.53,20.5 points for the first time on Wednesday, leading a broad Wall Street rebound, after a report that holiday sales were the strongest in years helped mollify concerns about the health of the economy.
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But these steps seemed to do little to mollify many Mexicans, who accused the president of humiliating the nation, first by inviting Mr. Trump and then by failing to use the opportunity to push back against the candidate's criticism of Mexico and Mexicans.
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Moving swiftly to unite his party after a primary campaign that has left many of Mr. Sanders's supporters bitter and disillusioned, Mr. Obama, according to his aides, tried to mollify the maverick senator while prodding him to reorient his efforts against Mrs.
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The push by Color of Change got the attention of the Coca-Cola executives, who quietly reached out to Mr. Robinson, the group's executive director, and, in a series of previously undisclosed telephone calls and email exchanges, sought to mollify the activist group.
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By agreeing to limit senior leaders to three, two-year terms, which would apply retroactively, Pelosi hopes to mollify a small group of Democrats who had opposed her bid for the top job in the House and wanted a new generation of leaders.
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But her gesture failed to mollify the protesters who have become increasingly outraged over the prospect of legislation that lawyers and judges say risks exposing people to the mercy of a mainland justice system plagued by torture, forced confessions and arbitrary detention.
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His ban on visitors from predominantly Muslim countries, he wrote, should be "far larger, tougher and more specific" — a statement that seemed calculated to mollify his political base after a week in which Mr. Trump suddenly began playing dealmaker with Democrats on immigration.
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Mr. Philippe is expected to lay out the specifics of the pension proposals in a speech on Wednesday, but it is unclear whether that will mollify the striking workers, some of whom have vowed to continue until the plans are scrapped altogether.
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The American military hopes it can mollify the Turks by making sure that the majority of the force that takes the city is Arab, and making clear that only local fighters will occupy the city after the Islamic State is driven out.
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But that is unlikely to mollify critics who argue that someone with such close industry relationships should not be in charge of an agency whose mission is to protect consumers and uphold safety standards for products from lipstick to lifesaving cancer therapies.
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A measure of U.S. consumer confidence posted its sharpest decline in more than three years in December, deflating some optimism a day after a report that holiday sales were the strongest in years helped mollify concerns about the health of the economy.
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To the Editor: Re "Britain Furious as Trump Pushes Claim of Spying" (front page, March 18): How long do we as a nation have to mollify Donald Trump in his accusation that former President Barack Obama tapped his phone at Trump Tower?
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Washington (CNN)A meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement intended to mollify lawmakers who are concerned one week after a round-up of nearly 700 undocumented immigrants had the opposite effect Thursday, as organizers expelled rank-and-file members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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Roger Ailes helping Donald Trump ahead of presidential debates Donald, Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump have been influential advisers in the campaign and key mediators between Trump and Manafort, often also guiding their father to mollify his rhetoric and run a more conventional campaign.
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"Relentless monitoring" and co-optation of literary sites, outlets, and works became the US state-funded norm to counter, mollify, moderate, neutralize, and defuse resistance and thus keep any form of "armed militancy" (especially black or Third-World affiliated) at foreign bay (130-23).
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Mnuchin's outreach to the Senate on Tuesday would come after his muddled attempt last week to mollify outraged House conservatives over a deal Trump brokered with Democratic leaders to tie three-month extensions of government spending and the debt ceiling to hurricane relief funds.
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It was the beginning of a five-month high-wire act in which Mr. Zelensky tried to mollify Mr. Trump and his messengers, yet hang on to the support of members of Congress and diplomats who told him not to get mired in American politics.
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Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, who managed Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, suggested Clinton could make concessions on the party platform to mollify Sanders and his supporters — partly because it has been some time since the official statement of policy mattered to either major party nominee.
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Over the weekend, Palestinian terrorists bombarded southern Israel with more than 6900 rockets aimed at millions of innocent civilians, just two weeks after three former Israeli security officials once again proposed convincing Egypt to cede land to Hamas to mollify their appetite for violence.
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Obamacare was a market-friendly health insurance reform designed in part to mollify conservatives; their response was scorched-earth opposition, followed by a series of attempts to exploit public confusion about how the Affordable Care Act works and what it will take to sustain it.
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Ukrainian officials and intermediaries in touch with the Ukrainian government and Mr. Giuliani tried to find some way to mollify Mr. Giuliani and the Trump administration with an informal meeting or a phone call, Mr. Leshchenko said, but Mr. Zelensky vetoed all their proposals.
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" As a commissioner, Pai voted against the merger—not because he objected to the merger itself, but because he thought the restrictions on the companies in the deal were too harsh, describing them as "the forced tribute that the company must offer to mollify the Capitol.
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Then, as now, this aversion is abetted by political exigency: Johnson, who was far ahead of Barry Goldwater in the polls, and who had already earned the enmity of segregationists by signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, sought to mollify Southern Democrats by opposing the MFDP.
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Republicans have sought to mollify Democrats by emphasizing that a $200 million aid program for Flint is also included in a separate water projects measure that has cleared the Senate and will be negotiated with the House, where a measure without the Flint money is advancing.
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The industry's biggest attractions, however, have faced ingrained skepticism from Oscar voters, which explains the "popular film" trial balloon, which many saw as an act of desperation and pandering intended to mollify ABC, the network that televises the awards, after a sizable dip in last year's ratings.
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No developments have so far shown any signs of dampening the protests, with a new rally already planned for Yuen Long this weekend, but nor is there any sign the government is ready to make the kind of concessions that could mollify enough anger to restore calm.
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Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said the relatively modest increase in military spending was partly a gesture to mollify China's neighbors about its intentions in the South China Sea — specifically, the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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But by urging only probation and a brief period of house arrest, Mr. Thompson, wittingly or not, has created a situation in which a sentence that includes any time behind bars could seem a tough penalty and perhaps mollify some of those who opposed his recommendation.
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Some of his top advisers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, believe that naming a running mate before he is the nominee could not only mollify voters concerned about his age but also send a message about the sort of administration he would put in place.
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HONG KONG — China has made a big show of gradually loosening its grip on the value of its currency, an effort meant to mollify critics like President Trump and experts who have long urged Beijing to let markets fix financial problems in the world's second-largest economy.
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Clearly recognizing a threat, Mr. el-Sisi moved swiftly to rally his supporters, shift blame to government functionaries and mollify working-class Egyptians ground down under his economic policies and austerity measures, whose discontent over soaring prices and subsidy cuts is believed to be driving the protests.
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In recent days, Mr. Trump's aides have gently prodded him to drop the attacks on the intelligence community and mollify nervous Republicans by showing that he was moving ahead with forward-looking reforms of the sprawling intelligence-gathering bureaucracy, according to two people close to the discussions.
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It is hard to say what might mollify the Trump administration, which is split between those who would like to tear up the agreement and those who wish to preserve it and which has said inconsistent things about its demands to keep the accord, U.S. and European officials said.
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OTTAWA, June 12 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing the threat of a trade war from U.S. President Donald Trump, has unanimous domestic support for now but to keep a firm hold on power must wring concessions from an unwilling powerful dairy lobby in order to mollify Washington.
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Panels focused on "privilege," speakers discussed "upending the existing power structures," and infusing corporations with "community- and socially focused set of goals(.)" It's no stretch that discussions today lamenting that bitcoin miners are currently 97 percent male will tomorrow lead to censorship or firings to mollify these goals.
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Some of the legislation has been bipartisan, some purely partisan, but all of it stems from promises that Republicans have made — and found themselves often struggling to keep — to create a functional Congress and mollify voters who consistently say they are sick of a Washington that does not work.
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RELATED: Essential Health Benefits and why they matter To mollify moderates, the bill also contains language that would give $15 billion in funding for maternity care, mental health and drug rehabilitation programs, as well as requiring individual states to set their own versions of essential health benefits by 2018.
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More likely, with the president having made a typically grandiose and poorly thought-through political gesture to domestic supporters — in this case, those who staunchly back Israel's hard-line Likud government — wiser heads in the administration are trying to mollify Palestinians and other Arabs antagonized by his posturing.
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But in a prime-time address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Trump was expected to deliver the equivalent: a speech intended to set the course for his near-term policy agenda and mollify concerns on Capitol Hill after his uneven first month in office.
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The lengthiest of his recent Twitter rants came in the last three mornings, after he spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago venting with allies and fielding the concerns of conservatives who worry he hasn't done enough to mollify his political base's demands for action on illegal immigration.
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They try to mollify us, arguing that we're being watched for our own good and that in fact we're the ones in charge of the scale and scope of all the watching, but deep down most of us are confused and suspicious about this sudden state of affairs.
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Her nomination to lead the IMF has been seen by some as a way to mollify eastern European countries in the EU's 28-nation club, after no candidate from the former communist bloc were selected for any of the five EU top jobs up for grabs after May's European elections.
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Sources familiar with the company's thinking say the letter should be read as an attempt to mollify French unions who are resisting the Hinkley Point project, and also a sign that the government, which owns an 13 percent stake in EDF, has already agreed in principle to give this support.
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" The radical Whigs, though they, too, were implanted within establishment circles—grouped around William Pitt and the pro-American Marquess of Rockingham, with the devilish John Wilkes representing their most radical popular presence—were sympathetic to Enlightenment ideas, out of both principle and self-protection, as analgesics to mollify "the mob.
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It has also been unable to deal with the small issues—in a recent attempt to mollify the roughly eighty per cent of Europeans who dislike daylight-saving time, the E.U. Commission proposed that each country choose its own time zone, a move that would seriously disrupt the single market.
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It's kind of amazing because it's the exact opposite of the approach taken by EA recently, who seem like they've been trying to downplay gacha mechanics in order to mollify increasingly annoyed audiences and—more importantly—to reduce the attention on the issue so that politicians might leave it alone.
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While Arsenal has finished in the English Premier League's top four for 20 consecutive seasons — an astonishing run in one of the world's most competitive leagues — last year's runner-up campaign was viewed as yet another disappointment, and it did little to mollify fans eager for the club's first league title since 2004.
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In fact, the National Association for Gun Rights, which bills itself as more conservative than the N.R.A., is angry with Mr. Coffman for, in its view, trying to "mollify" supporters of gun restrictions — perhaps as good an indication as any of how much power some Republicans perceive those voters to have now.
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After days of fast-moving developments, here's where things stand in Mexico: Mexico's new offer to migrants: Stay here The tense situation has forced Mexican authorities to walk a political tightrope -- trying to mollify the US government while also sticking to a strategy more in line with their own country's policy goals.
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Fighting back against Cruz Trump certainly did not mollify his tone or blunt his attacks as voters headed to the polls in Indiana -- now his final contested primary election -- when he suggested Tuesday morning on Fox News that Cruz's father was somehow involved with Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
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It's not yet clear if the new bill will mollify its wide range of GOP critics, including conservatives who deride it as too similar to Obamacare and more moderate members who blanched at the CBO's projection that 24 million fewer Americans would have health coverage in a decade if the bill were to become law.
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The list appeared to be an attempt to mollify critics — including Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland — who said that the administration had not moved quickly enough to punish a key American adversary, using legislation passed by Congress in July and signed by President Trump in August.
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" In response, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, referred the matter to the department's independent inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, and issued a statement clearly intended to mollify Mr. Trump: "If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.
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In 2019, meme creators are abandoning the typical resolution, which so often feels like a list of personal failings, for something more technical, informed, and designed to hack the human psyche: a quest for subtle shifts that will radically change the way you perceive your world, a kind of psychic weighted blanket to mollify 2019's inevitable crises.
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"The Administration may hope that the addition of North Korea and Venezuela to the list of nations with restricted travel will mollify the courts, but no amount of repackaging can disguise the fact that the intent behind the ban was and remains a noxious attempt to ban people based on their faith," the California Democrat said.
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A faster path to Medicaid cuts, new work requirements for Medicaid recipients and potentially smaller tax credits for the working poor could mollify conservatives who are pressing for a smaller government footprint on the health care system, but they would cut deeper into the benefits that many Trump voters have enjoyed under the Affordable Care Act.
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In other moves meant to mollify the right wing, Mr. Netanyahu's office announced that some 220 acres of land in the center of the West Bank had been declared "state land," making it eligible for more settler housing, and that technical difficulties had been removed, allowing the marketing of some 2,000 housing units out of the 5,700 recently approved.
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As Ross Douthat and others have pointed out, if liberals really believed that Trump was a threat to the constitutional order or a harbinger of fascism, they would begin doing what many liberals did after the 2004 election: making rhetorical and political gestures toward conservative churchgoers in order to mollify them and win the next election.
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Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, said in a fundraising note Democrats were rushing out "rapid-response ads" targeting swing voters to capitalize on the concerns, while Kevin Brady, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said on CNBC on Tuesday his party's leadership was working on ways to mollify Republicans in blue states.
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And while the new travel ban is encouraging for those looking to come to the U.S. from Iraq, the question remains as to whether the revised order "did enough to mollify the prospective traveler from Canada, Europe, or elsewhere around the world who may have been put off by the initial travel ban, " said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow.
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The Democratic leader needs to keep his caucus together -- even as several face potential electoral fallout for voting against the nominee -- while helping to persuade at least one Republican to vote against a pick that will tilt the court to the right, all as he attempts to mollify an agitated base that questions whether Democrats are adequately fighting Trump and McConnell.
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So the resultant frenzy to try to pinpoint the true source of the media-shy Leonard's supposed discontent has been nonstop, whether it is dismay with how his injury was initially diagnosed, fears that he won't be offered the most free-agent money San Antonio can give or the fact that the Spurs have done so much to mollify Aldridge.
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Of course, the Senate could try to strip that rider, or President Trump could veto the bill, but if the House held firm, the administration's choice would be to mollify the House by turning over subpoenaed information, accept the defunding of the counsel's office, or accept the partial government shutdown that would come with failure to pass the appropriations bill.
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Though Mike Pence went on television Sunday to try to mollify all parties by asserting the call was simply "a moment of courtesy," his attempts to diffuse the tension fail to address the fact that, given the personalities and context involved, Trump's move has the potential to grow into a perfect storm: a downward spiral, where Beijing retaliates and Taipei stiffens its resolve in response.
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Some argue such a move could mollify supporters of Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE after a bitter primary fight against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Simon Morrison, the author of a new book, "Bolshoi Confidential," and a retired Bolshoi official who was not authorized to speak publicly both said there was an argument to be made that by allowing Mr. Dmitrichenko back to practice, the Bolshoi management was finding a way to mollify his allies while not giving him any kind of official status that would alarm his foes and bring yet more bad publicity.
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Cost: $39 a bottle of 500 ml Athletic Brewing Co. Run Wild IPA Back story: Tired of nonalcoholic beers that he found watery, flavorless, and metallic in taste, Bill Shufelt started Athletic Brewing Company in 2018, envisioning a serious, hop-head-certified craft brew fashioned from organic grains to mollify beer snobs who were too busy with work, family, or early-morning gym commitments to wake with a foggy head.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.) will soon make moves to mollify restive liberals and unify the Democratic Party behind Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Jessica Barth (2011) The Ted actress met Weinstein at a Golden Globes party, and found that the subsequent "business meeting" he set up was him in his hotel room, "alternat[ing] between offering to cast her in a film and demanding a naked massage in bed": When she moved toward the door to leave, Weinstein lashed out, saying that she needed to lose weight "to compete with Mila Kunis," and then, apparently in an effort to mollify her, promising a meeting with one of his female executives.
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Erik PaulsenErik Philip PaulsenHopes dim for passage of Trump trade deal Fight over Trump's new NAFTA hits key stretch Blue states angry over SALT cap should give fiscal sobriety a try MORE (R-Minn.) and Jason LewisJason Mark LewisRepublicans must push through genuine health care reform Investigation concludes marijuana, medication impaired driver involved in GOP train crash The 31 Trump districts that will determine the next House majority MORE (R-Minn.) had urged Pawlenty to run for his old job, confident that a steady hand would mollify suburban voters who might otherwise want a change.
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