"He does not need an additional power base," he said.
|
|
I believe the power base is truly in the middle.
|
|
He strengthened his power base in a parliamentary election last month.
|
|
Trump must not forget his power base is the American worker.
|
|
Google has as entrenched a power base as any tech company.
|
|
Mosul is the terror group's last major power base in Iraq.
|
|
Wall Street's traditional power base is shifting away from investment banks.
|
|
It's a very large power base that we can tap into.
|
|
But the predominantly white power base wasn't receptive to the sudden change.
|
|
The Series 7 comes with a self-cleaning and charging power base.
|
|
"When people see themselves as having their own power base," Sarandon said.
|
|
That's because his power base is not economic; it's cultural and ideological.
|
|
Inexorably, it seems the power base of English soccer is shifting south.
|
|
It's not clear what Cuomo's power base would be for a primary fight.
|
|
Matter movement, which sit outside the political power base and can criticize the
|
|
Warren also has her own large and energized power base within the party.
|
|
His power base was among the tribal groups that joined the national guard.
|
|
It can only float five inches above its power base, but still, no battery.
|
|
He lacks any power base of his own and is widely seen as weak.
|
|
They feel like they're losing their power base, or their importance in American culture.
|
|
The most innovative feature of the Tempur-Pedic Ergo Power Base is the Sleeptracker.
|
|
But Northern California, the Bay Area in particular, has remained a Democratic power base.
|
|
Remarkably, some criticism is coming from some within the government's hard-line power base.
|
|
President-elect Donald Trump is ascending to the presidency with a uniquely consolidated power base.
|
|
It's not clear what Cuomo's power base would be for a primary fight. 2202. Sen.
|
|
The south-west region of Jeolla is the power base of the leftish Minju party.
|
|
In 2006 he was elected by piling up votes in Katanga—Mr Katumbi's power base.
|
|
She has found a much safer power base than the nation-state: the global city.
|
|
China's biggest oil company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), was a power base for Zhou.
|
|
But with his main power base now gone, there may be a breakthrough in negotiations.
|
|
The headphones can be charged on the go when it's not on a power base.
|
|
Mr. Kim's geographical power base was modest, essentially limited to his native region of Chungcheong.
|
|
Shehbaz Sharif is currently the chief minister of Punjab Province, Pakistan's most crucial power base.
|
|
In the same period, he moved to consolidate his present — and perhaps future — power base.
|
|
Things went sour for Yukos when Khodorkovsky tried to build a political power base for himself.
|
|
Lahore is the capital of Punjab, the provincial power base of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
Since 2010, the PCC has sent a lot of members to Paraguay to build this power base.
|
|
The Democratic Party has been developing a power base in Dallas County, in the solidly Republican state.
|
|
Critics say the sweep is aimed at consolidating the Crown Prince's power base, rather than targeting corruption.
|
|
Rather than one large cup and power base, the Magic Bullet gives you a few smaller ones.
|
|
Perhaps it makes sense to try to make a friend out of the new power base in Washington.
|
|
His family were prosperous pistachio farmers, and his power base was as much the bazaar as the mosque.
|
|
This let him build up his power base while being seen as a potential ally to every side.
|
|
His power base is the Corps Commanders Conference, the group of generals he regularly chairs to decide strategy.
|
|
The bank's bondholders include tens of thousands of Italians, many of them part of his political power base.
|
|
The station broadcasts material supportive of Abbas's Western-backed Authority, whose power base lies in the West Bank.
|
|
CHICAGO — For more than three decades, Michael Madigan has cultivated an unrivaled power base in Illinois Democratic politics.
|
|
Its power base shifted to the Sun Belt and its dominant constituency became small business and religious voters.
|
|
Croft said the crown prince is crafting a new power base and has growing support among everyday Saudis.
|
|
Critics say that the sweep is aimed at consolidating the Crown Prince's power base, rather than targeting corruption.
|
|
Like others, he thinks that unions, a traditional Democratic power base, need to get more aggressively behind the policy.
|
|
The armed Islamist group is the main internal rival to Abbas, whose power base is in the West Bank.
|
|
Seen by critics and some ministers as a remote technocrat given to micromanaging, Ghani lacks a clear power base.
|
|
The president has shored up his power base amongst pious voters with frequent statements and policies attacking female autonomy.
|
|
Mr. Erdogan cannot afford to lose the big cities, especially Istanbul, his hometown and power base, Mr. Cagaptay said.
|
|
"Even if he's no longer the president, as the Constitution is structured, Mahinda will be the main power base."
|
|
It would place much of soccer's developing world in Infantino's debt, cementing his position and securing a power base.
|
|
Their power base was eroded by the emergence of two newcomers, anti-austerity Podemos (We Can) and centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens).
|
|
Take a drive through the industrial, Soviet-era city of Luhansk — Plotnisky's urban power base — and the paranoia is palpable.
|
|
Congress' power base shriveled in the 2014 election in the face of the popularity of now-Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
|
|
Xi is expected to cement his power base this weekend as a reform to remove term limits is pushed through.
|
|
However, Myanmar's military retains a strong hand in its politics through a military-drafted constitution and an economic power base.
|
|
Diem was a genuine Vietnamese leader, but he was also rigid and vindictive, relying on a narrow Catholic power base.
|
|
Or save up to $700 on select Power Base mattresses, plus receive a $300 instant gift with any mattress set.
|
|
Zintan emerged as an important military power-base in the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi seven years ago.
|
|
Our Europe soccer correspondent observes that the power base of English soccer is shifting south, largely thanks to London's affluence.
|
|
Breitbart News, the outrage-stoking far-right website that Bannon made his personal power base, cut ties with him today.
|
|
The combined business will have 21,000 employees, an installed power base of 69 gigawatts, and will be headquartered in Spain.
|
|
Under the nuclear deal, international sanctions were lifted in January opening up the Iranian economy, thereby threatening the IRGC power base.
|
|
So the decision this weekend to remove Prince Miteb has eliminated the last remaining independent power base within the royal family.
|
|
In the city of Daegu, Ms Park's power base, the Minju candidate is about ten points up on his Saenuri rival.
|
|
The result is that Tillerson lacks the domestic power base and strong persona that could insulate him from Trump's capricious nature.
|
|
At the same time, he has shifted the power base away from the military and back to the ruling Worker's Party.
|
|
Such moves are seen as him building his own power base in preparation for any internal struggles at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
|
|
The first and second elements are inextricably entwined- Ayatollah Khamenei and his power base, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
|
|
Seizing the angry mood, the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood created an armed Palestinian branch - Hamas - with its power base in Gaza.
|
|
The LNA has taken of much of the south in past two weeks, expanding from its power base in the east.
|
|
The officials said Mr. Jones feared that adding members in higher education would threaten his power base among blue-collar workers.
|
|
Kim Jong Nam lacked anything close to a power base in Pyongyang, according to Michael Madden, an expert on the country's leadership.
|
|
He referred to the LNA as "army" as it is known in eastern Libya, the power base of its commander Khalia Haftar.
|
|
Some suspect he might in future use the martial law which he has declared in Mindanao to build an impregnable power base.
|
|
This tech demo only has the drone flying about five inches above its wireless power base, with minor side-to-side movements.
|
|
Mr. Sharif, 66, who underwent four bypasses on May 31, landed at Lahore, the eastern city that is his political power base.
|
|
The sad reality is that nobody in government is checking for those of us without money or a concerted political power base.
|
|
Evangelical Christians, ardently pro-Israel, give Jerusalem a power base in Washington that is larger and stronger than the American Jewish population.
|
|
The Tempur-Pedic PRObreeze Mattress with Ergo Power Base is for people who are willing to spend extra on their sleeping experience.
|
|
Costing more than many decent used cars, the PRObreeze with Ergo Power Base is going to be outside of most consumers' budgets.
|
|
Its power base was in Najaf and the massive Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, which is home to more than 2 million Shias.
|
|
But Mr. Cox has built up a significant power base of his own in the Capitol, just a few blocks from his office.
|
|
"I think President Trump has done a great job, he has aligned his power base producing great results for his constituency," Barrack said.
|
|
Its power base was in Najaf and the massive Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, which is home to more than 20103 million Shias.
|
|
They have put out feelers to the west, where some have voiced support for Haftar, but their power base is in the east.
|
|
Xi was also thought to be a pliable candidate because he lacked a power base, one source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
|
|
But he never hesitated to form alliances across the political spectrum, because he knew his modest regional power base limited his own ambitions.
|
|
The Ergo Power Base with Sleeptracker is a high-tech adjustable frame that tracks and analyzes your sleep, neutralizes snoring, and massages you.
|
|
Plus, the durable extractor blade and 900-watt power base will grind through even the toughest seeds, fruit skins, and stems with ease.
|
|
After giving Mr Bouteflika a final push, the army set out to dismantle the power base he built over the previous two decades.
|
|
This era's influencers, more diverse in gender and race than the lions of the past, reflect how the city's power base has evolved.
|
|
Expansion is sure to be popular in the vote-rich confederations of Africa and Asia that serve as any FIFA president's power base.
|
|
It is a geopolitical imperative of the highest order to keep Russia as a separate power base, not a little brother to China.
|
|
It turns out Harvey wanted me to do another Vanity Fair, and he really wanted me to do another Vanity Fair, I then realized, as I got into it, to grow his own power base, to assign stories that would then keep them from writing about him, and to basically have a media power base which enabled him to wield power over journalists.
|
|
Now he is the creative director for the Working Families Party, a small political organization with national ambitions and a growing northeastern power base.
|
|
Netanyahu could also call a snap election to try to stall legal proceedings during the campaign and rally his rightwing power base behind him.
|
|
Sanders, as always, is the firebrand, though now he comes with a power base of passionate supporters the party is desperate to win over.
|
|
"The essence of the main headline changes is it's MBS strengthening his power base and if not directly undermining certainly sidelining MBN," said Henderson.
|
|
To protect the family's power base, he made Ippolito, then 18, a cardinal, which was a serious obstruction in his path to the dukedom.
|
|
Many Dominican leaders support Ms. Alcantara, in the hopes of consolidating a political power base rooted in Washington Heights, the city's main Dominican enclave.
|
|
And even in this polarized political age, the President's failure to reach out beyond his own core power base of political support is remarkable.
|
|
It establishes him as a legitimate city executive with an independent power base who cannot just be treated as an interloper in City Hall.
|
|
Balili's proximity to Albania's political power base has, according to US and Greek officials, proven key to his success as a major drug smuggler.
|
|
That pitch might work in the big cities, which seem to be the only power base the party of the Clintons and Obama has left.
|
|
Ms Nahles is a pugilistic orator who hails from the SPD's left but as labour minister from 2013 extended her power base through the party.
|
|
"All things being equal, we feel we are probably closing in on some sort of shift in the power base of the government," Liang said.
|
|
With a 900-watt power base and a tough blade, the Pro will easily cut through whatever you throw in, including seeds, nuts, and ice.
|
|
The ruling comes as a relief to organized labor because unionized civil servants in states without right-to-work laws comprise its main power base.
|
|
This hypothetical new media outlet could give Trump a power base to help shape the discussion over the Republican Party's future, if he so desires.
|
|
Its power base is in four poorish states, including Oaxaca; it says a country-wide exam is unfair on those who teach in demanding places.
|
|
General Hifter, in particular, uses the army formed by the House of Representatives as a power base to compete with his political rivals in Tripoli.
|
|
Netanyahu could also call a snap election to try to stall legal proceedings during the campaign and rally his right-wing power base behind him.
|
|
Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party, once Rajapaksa's power base, now governs in coalition with the United National Party (UNP), led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
|
|
They would very quickly abandon him if he lost influence and control over his own power base and became an obstacle to achieving those goals.
|
|
The nomination of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Agnew signaled a final defeat for moderate and liberal Republicans, as the party's power base shifted South, forever.
|
|
As Mr. Sharif plans to visit Lahore on Wednesday, his political power base, party members and supporters there are making elaborate arrangements for his welcome.
|
|
Both men, who dispute the allegations, have long had a power base in the Colón Free Trade Zone, which is next to the Panama Canal.
|
|
"He definitely has ambitions," with regards to future leadership, Liewerscheidt added, though explaining that Osinbajo would need to grow a power base of his own.
|
|
Yet for nearly a century, the grass-roots context that spawned the party meant that its democratic power base remained grounded in the industrial regions.
|
|
Nearly 0003 in 3 voters now support Salvini's League — known in Italy as Lega — as its popularity has expanded well beyond its traditional northern power base.
|
|
The nation of 1.3 billion people also agreed to boost the share of renewable electricity capacity to 40 percent of its installed power base by 2030.
|
|
Meanwhile, Mr Meciar, a traditional clientelist party boss, sought autonomy for Slovakia and to use his access to state assets to maintain his political power base.
|
|
Sun was not considered part of Xi's power base and was seen as more of a technocrat, not affiliated with any major party faction, Lam said.
|
|
With that avenue closed, the opposition coalition has raised the stakes, using its power base in congress to threaten legal action against Hugo Chavez's unpopular successor.
|
|
Lee said these included shifting the country's power base to create rivalry between the elites so Kim the younger could play one group off against another.
|
|
Yet, with the Ergo Power Base, my wife and I fall for the temptation of streaming shows on my tiny 15-inch laptop screen in bed.
|
|
The bottom lineThe PRObreeze and Ergo Power Base are the best mattress and bed frame combination I've ever slept on, but the price is a lot.
|
|
With that avenue closed, the opposition coalition has raised the stakes, using its power base in congress to begin legal action against Hugo Chavez's unpopular successor.
|
|
That has worried Trump loyalists who see the vice president forging his own power base, possibly with an eye on an unpredictable presidential election in 2020.
|
|
And they just don't want to get there because it gets votes, it gets attention, they think they have a power base either on the extremes.
|
|
Among those detained is Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, who was replaced as minister of the National Guard, a pivotal power base rooted in the kingdom's tribes.
|
|
Hillary Clinton won Massachusetts's Democratic primary, according to multiple media reports — striking a blow in the heart of the Northeast, which has been Bernie Sanders's power base.
|
|
But like his foreign minister, he is another technocrat without a power base, and the M5S is more interested in economic and social affairs than foreign policy.
|
|
Frosty ties Another country that has expanded its power base by thumbing its nose at the United States -- Russia -- also grabbed the spotlight during the G20 summit.
|
|
With a broader power base than military dictatorships, monarchies have less need for the repression more often seen in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Algeria to keep power.
|
|
It is a tactic designed to appeal to the next generation of North Koreans, who will serve as the fledgling leader's power base for decades to come.
|
|
And those who've succeeded are gathering to support others, which is giving them power as a group, and a power base from which they can impact policy.
|
|
He wants to avoid a messy break up, which could affect Lega's local government power base and ability to absorb Forza Italia voters (Salvini's longer-term ambition).
|
|
Like the US president, she plumbed resentment towards elites from a power base in small towns and rural areas that abhor voters in more cosmopolitan, liberal cities.
|
|
If the opinion polls showing a surge in support for Yisrael Beitenu are correct, his message is also now resonating with secular Israelis outside his power base.
|
|
Case in point: Erica Hanks, 42, who has been building a power base in Charlotte, N.C., far from the fashion capitals of New York and Los Angeles.
|
|
Grigorian is a parliamentary deputy from the Republican Party, the power base of former prime minister Serzh Sargsyan who resigned in April in the face of massive protests.
|
|
In his speech Abbas restated his demand that Hamas relinquish full control of Gaza to his western-based Palestinian Authority, whose power base is in the West Bank.
|
|
You'll also get a $300 instant credit on a new TEMPUR-Ergo Extend or TEMPUR-Ergo power base when you buy one with a mattress during the sale.
|
|
That news comes as Ivanka Trump and her husband, key Trump adviser Jared Kushner, are looking at Washington as a new power base from their native New York.
|
|
In the early 2000s, after evolving into the DA, it took power in Cape Town, then became the kingmaker in the Western Cape, which remains its power base.
|
|
Whether that would start crumbling should Mueller produce a damning report that causes a fracturing of Trump's political power base as an election approaches in 2020 remains untested.
|
|
All FIFA countries have the same number of votes, and Blatter secured his power base by playing to the numerous smaller nations rather than a few big fish.
|
|
Mitt Romney -- who has an independent power base and may be looking to his own place in history -- defected and voted to convict the President of impeachable crimes.
|
|
But the support of Infantino and FIFA, should they grant it, could shift control of club soccer away from its usual power base in continental federations like UEFA.
|
|
Sanders, thanks to his previous campaign's grassroots work, has a network of thousands of volunteers and a power base among young and blue collar voters in New Hampshire.
|
|
JIUQUAN, China — On the edge of the Gobi Desert, the Jiuquan Wind Power Base stands as a symbol of China's quest to dominate the world's renewable energy market.
|
|
The general opposes the rule of the UN-backed Tripoli government and has indicated he might try to extend his power base to the Libyan capital, said St John.
|
|
When Mr Duterte, whose power base is in Davao, the largest metropolitan region in Mindanao, became president in 2016, he said he was determined to complete the peace process.
|
|
By replacing Mr Mattis with a much less commanding figure, Mr Trump has signalled his preference for loyalty over stature in the most independent power-base within the government.
|
|
But he has not built up a political power base of his own in the parliament, which was elected in 2014 and where Maliki's faction is still the largest.
|
|
Punjab, long the Sharif family's electoral power base, in turn accounts for more than half the 272 elected seats in the National Assembly, making it the key election battleground.
|
|
While several LNA units returned this month to Benghazi, Haftar's power base, some units went to Jufra, a city in the desert straddling east and west, LNA sources say.
|
|
Kovind, a lawyer by training who has practiced in both the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court, has never held popularly elected office and lacks an independent power base.
|
|
Jang, previously one of the most powerful men in North Korea, was purged and executed in 2013 after he reportedly built up an alternate power base to his nephew.
|
|
Purchase any Tempur-Pedic non-closeout mattress plus a foundation or TEMPUR-Ergo power base and get $300 in free accessories of your choice using the promo code "300FREE".
|
|
Just so, in "Ink" the cheeky mass-appeal formula of The Sun assembled an audience that then provided a power base for Murdoch's turn into a conservative political influencer.
|
|
The set includes a 1200-watt power base with a smart nutrition sensor, two colossal cups, one extractor blade, two flip-top to-go lids, and two lip rings.
|
|
Critics say the government's campaign amounts to a shakedown and is aimed at shoring up the crown prince's power base as he exerts control over the world's leading oil exporter.
|
|
On Tuesday, the army deployed troops, artillery and helicopter gunships in an unprecedented use of force by the military in Punjab, the political power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
The move means Min Aung Hlaing has consolidated his power base among the military leadership and would allow the army to avoid a top-level reshuffle at this sensitive period.
|
|
MbS, as he is known, was expected to follow at least by removing Prince Miteb from leadership of the National Guard, a pivotal power base rooted in the kingdom's tribes.
|
|
Behind each cleric lies an important power base —the Evangelicals for Trump in the United States, and the pro-AKP/Erdogan Turkish citizens who vehemently oppose Gulen and his movement.
|
|
One veteran GOP lawmaker speculated that Lee knew his bid would fall short and launched it anyway to rally conservative groups behind him, building his power base for the future.
|
|
In the last election cycle, the party endorsed more than 1,000 candidates up and down the ballot, notching victories everywhere from Mississippi to Wisconsin and across its Northeastern power base.
|
|
Pros: Power outlets are a game changer; more options for personalized presets; adjustable height legs Cons: Like the Reverie 9T, the Purple Power Base is very expensiveRead our full review
|
|
Mr. Thaksin was unseated in a 2006 coup, amid whispers that he was building a power base that challenged the authority of Thailand's monarchy and political forces close to it.
|
|
During his 14 months as interior minister, Mr. Salvini solidified his power base through a steady stream of proclamations that often singled out migrants as the biggest threat facing Italy.
|
|
This is a delicate maneuver, which cannot be executed by fiat, because Hefazat has a committed power base among its members and people who sympathize with its aspirations for Shariah.
|
|
For $39.99, you get the power base, one cross blade, three different sized cups, two comfort lip rings, two resealable lids, one to-go lid, and an additional recipe book.
|
|
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his intimates have erected their power base upon similar offshore networks—and may well remain reliant on American anonymity to help launder their dirty billions.
|
|
Chen Xitong, who ruled Beijing in the years spanning the Tiananmen unrest, was purged in 1995—ostensibly for corruption but more likely for cultivating an independent power-base in the capital.
|
|
The Barzanis compete bitterly with the Talabani clan, who have their own power base in the city of Sulaymaniyah, as well as their own storied history in the struggle for independence.
|
|
Historian Khoo Kay Kim, Professor Emeritus at University Malaya, says politicians play the race card because their survival is dependent on ensuring their power base -- the division of races -- remains intact.
|
|
To the relief of most Turks, the military is no longer the alternative power base it once was, and the coup had the support of only part of the officer corps.
|
|
Via appointments, Duterte could, potentially, build a grassroots power base, adding to the majority support he holds in the lower house and Senate, and his fervently loyal following on social media.
|
|
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's power base appears to be hanging on a thread after the leader of her long-term coalition partner reportedly offered to resign because of differences over immigration.
|
|
As Prince Mohammed, or MbS as he is widely known, consolidates his power base, he is keen to ensure those he seeks to weaken cannot skirt his crackdown through offshore routes.
|
|
Macron and his party have, however, discovered early on that enacting broad social and economic reforms without a traditional power base can have its price, losing two by-elections in February.
|
|
In Kandahar Province alone, the Taliban movement's original power base, about 300 preachers have been killed since 2004, according to Mawlawi Obaidullah Faizani, the head of the provincial Ulema Council there.
|
|
The impasse poses a test for the Trump administration, whose aggressive challenge to the Maduro regime has wide bipartisan and international support but has yet to peel away Maduro's power base.
|
|
He became the latest key foreign policy official to cross an invisible red line for Trump -- seeming to have an agenda and power base that is distinct from the President's own.
|
|
Though Mr Duterte, whose power base is in Davao city in Mindanao, is not challenging a system as cosmic as the Thai monarchy, he has openly confronted the landed and political elites.
|
|
The development has also fueled speculation that Netanyahu, 68, will call a snap election to try to stall legal proceedings during the campaign and rally his right-wing power base behind him.
|
|
After the Communist Party Congress in October — when Xi consolidated his power base — the Chinese president has been projecting himself as a steady, stable leader with a set vision for the nation.
|
|
" The report said Pence had not only kept a full political calendar but also had created his own independent power base, including a political fund-raising group called the "Great America Committee.
|
|
Such a ruling would be a blow to organized labor in those states, because unionized teachers and other civil servants in states without right-to-work laws comprise its main power base.
|
|
We have allowed a wealthy consolidated power base (tech billionaires and the companies they control) to build our present, and our future, based in part on fantasized stories of a mythical future.
|
|
I like Tempur-Pedic's PRObreeze Mattress ($4,699) with the brand's Ergo Power Base ($2,398) because it dissipates heat, has impressive motion dampening properties, and works well for stomach, side, and back sleeping.
|
|
Before Mr. Xi came to power in 2012, a political rival, Bo Xilai, openly encouraged "red" nostalgia for the Mao era as part of an effort to build a populist power base.
|
|
" The report said Pence had not only kept a full political calendar but also had created his own independent power base, including a political fund-raising group called the "Great America Committee.
|
|
A trio of dominant environmental political groups are joining forces to form a fundraising power base for the eventual Democratic nominee and to boost candidates who embrace bold climate action during the primary.
|
|
Signer, who wrote a book on demagogues -- a category in which he places the billionaire -- said such politicians play to prejudices to set up a power base that follows them and them alone.
|
|
The LNA has been sending troops and material to Gharayn by road from Haftar's power base in Bneghazi, the main eastern city, or via the central air base in Jufrah, military sources say.
|
|
Donald Trump, standing on the verge of a potentially stunning victory on Monday night called his Republican rival Ted Cruz a "liar" and made a play for the Texas senator's evangelical power base.
|
|
A ruling favoring the non-union teachers would be a blow to organized labor because unionized teachers and other civil servants in states without "right-to-work" laws comprise its main power base.
|
|
Special credit has to go to Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate in 22006, for demonstrating that a power base located on Facebook could take you all the way to the White House.
|
|
Despite having lost his power base and control of the military, Mugabe insisted he was going nowhere and even claimed he would see the ZANU-PF through its congress in a few weeks.
|
|
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moved to shore up his power base with the arrest of royals, ministers and investors, which an official described as part of "phase one" of the crackdown.
|
|
The son of a millionaire, Mr. Ford built his power base among mainly blue-collar, right-wing voters — "the Ford Nation," he called them — in five former municipalities that joined Toronto in 1998.
|
|
A ruling in favor of the teachers would be a blow to organized labor because unionized teachers and other civil servants in states without right-to-work laws comprise its main power base.
|
|
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan rebels on Monday rejected a peace plan to reinstate insurgent leader Riek Machar as vice president, saying it failed to dilute the strong power base of the country's president.
|
|
Chris Christie returned home last month to the comfort of his power base in Trenton, only to find old statehouse allies brandishing pitchforks and torches, not the legislative favors he had hoped for.
|
|
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moved to shore up his power base with the arrest of royals, ministers and investors, which an official described as part of "phase one" of a crackdown.
|
|
From Trump's point of view, can he trust Romney to share his worldview, and to be a team player, given that he would come into the job with his own power base and reputation?
|
|
Melvin Laird, a former congressional colleague of Nixon's, was a grounded man with an independent power base who was prepared and clever enough to find ways to prevent bad presidential orders from taking effect.
|
|
This versatile 11-piece set comes with a power base, a cross blade, two party mugs with comfort lip rings, three stay-fresh resealable lids, and a tall cup that's ideal for making smoothies.
|
|
The official said Hadi, who has no personal power base and has long been out of favor with the United Arab Emirates, a coalition member, may be sidelined if a new deputy is named.
|
|
Some west Libyan armed groups, including from the key military power base of Misrata, see France as too close to their rival Haftar and stated their opposition to the Paris talks before they began.
|
|
The Warren case holds that the Senate is a more natural place for a political figure who has her own power base, values her independence, and intends to use political influence in consequential ways.
|
|
That's because he solidified his power base during the first term by waging an aggressive campaign against corruption and dissent, silencing political rivals and stacking the ruling Politburo with loyalists reluctant to speak up.
|
|
Losing Paris would be a blow to Macron's plan to build a local power base for his party and make inroads into the last bastion of the old establishment dominated by socialists or conservatives.
|
|
Over the past four years, as chief minister of Punjab Province, Pakistan's most crucial political power base, Shehbaz Sharif, 65, has presided over a high-profile campaign of infrastructure improvements and social development programs.
|
|
Despite his huge urban base, Mr. Khan has found it hard to prevail over Mr. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Party, especially in Punjab, the former prime minister's power base, and two other provinces.
|
|
Just push down on the top of one of the Magic Bullet's included cups (which are dishwasher-safe) and its 250-watt power base will chop, grate, mix, and blend your ingredients to your liking.
|
|
With his fast wit and charm ever on display, he ran for mayor as a Republican in 1974, and his defeat of the entrenched Democratic power base made him the city's first Italian-American mayor.
|
|
You'll get the power base, one 24-ounce cup, one 32-ounce "colossal" cup (for when you're prepping multiple servings or just want a lil' extra), an emulsifying blade, one flip-top lid, and more.
|
|
The Nationals, whose power base is in the rural areas, are currently in coalition with the Liberal Party in WA, a traditional arrangement that is mirrored in other states and at the federal government level.
|
|
Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former deputy whose power base mainly lies in the military and security sectors, has tried to associate himself with the successes of the Mugabe era and distance himself from his ruinous economic legacy.
|
|
Any Republican politician who lacks their own national power base and who wants a future in the GOP ranks has no political running room to question Trump's behavior in Ukraine or ultimately to support impeachment.
|
|
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro's Socialist Party announced on Monday that its lawmakers are taking back their seats in Venezuela's congress after a three-year boycott, targeting the power base of the president's chief rival.
|
|
As the results were rolling in on Thursday night, it looked a lot like US election night in 2016 as a Trump wave swept across the former Democratic rust belt power base in the Midwest.
|
|
The operation to flush out the gangsters entered its ninth day as 1,600 security officials, including police officials and paramilitary Rangers, battled for control of the island in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's power base of Punjab.
|
|
However, it will be difficult for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to back any diplomatic solution, because doing so could undermine his credibility among his hardline power base, who reject any detente with the West.
|
|
The new power base in the Democratic Party is led by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who aren't likely to join in any of the Ryan-Trump agenda when it comes to taxes and immigration.
|
|
Brought up in Melbourne, the son of Jewish immigrants, Mr Kosky has cultivated the image of (in his words) a "gay Jewish kangaroo"; as the intendant of Berlin's Komische Oper he has an influential power base.
|
|
But for the fourth-term prime minister, failure to support the bill would have ceded ground to Bennett in their pursuit of conservative voters that form the power base of both Jewish Home and Netanyahu's Likud.
|
|
Meanwhile, a path is being cleared for Mr Sharif's younger brother, Shahbaz, chief minister of the province of Punjab, the family's power base, to enter the lower house of parliament, and then be made prime minister.
|
|
"With each change of leadership, there has been a shift in policy — movies and TV are employed as part of the media campaign to help disseminate the new leader's priorities to his power base," said Lee.
|
|
ALEC's power base has been weakened at the corporate level, too: Over 100 corporate members and funders have cut ties to the group over the past several years, as criticism of the "bill mill" has spread.
|
|
At least 29 children enjoying an Easter weekend outing were among those killed when the suicide bomber struck in a busy park in the eastern city of Lahore, the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
In fact, immigration is an issue that changed the face of American politics, since it was used deliberately by Trump to build an insurgent power base that eviscerated the Republican primary field in the 2016 campaign.
|
|
Once Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's power base, Fort Bend County has added more than 200,000 new residents since the 2010 census, making it the 85033th-fastest growing county in America in the past decade.
|
|
Seeking to regain the initiative, he has recently waged a crackdown on Hamas, cutting salaries due to them from the Palestinian Authority and refusing to pay for electricity in the militant group's power base in Gaza.
|
|
Her outspokenness about corporate tax breaks and her decision to live in Camden, a city seen as the Norcross family's inviolable power base, made her a ready target for opponents long before the contentious Senate hearing.
|
|
Most of the nationwide unrest seemed concentrated in neighborhoods and cities populated by low-income and working-class families, suggesting this was an uprising born in the historically loyal power base of Iran's post-revolutionary hierarchy.
|
|
Samia Shahid, 28, a beautician from Bradford who had gone to visit her family in Pakistan, died last week in the village of Pandori in northern Punjab, the political power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
At the Jiuquan Wind Power Base, Mr. Zhou oversees a small wind farm for a branch of China Resources Power Holdings, a state-run energy company based in Shenzhen that operates two wind farms in Gansu.
|
|
But they will be announcing growth numbers and goals for 2017 — that could signal what China's intentions are as it looks to expand its power base into the vacuum left by Trump's, "America first" foreign policy.
|
|
Many foreign policy experts believe the President cannot afford to go into the election with tariffs still causing pain for US consumers -- and with Chinese retaliation targeting farmers into Midwestern states that form his political power base.
|
|
RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director of National Nurses United, an early union backer of the Sanders campaign and growing power base in progressive politics, said DSA's recent spike in membership underlined growing dissatisfaction with the Democratic establishment.
|
|
"All emergency duty personnel of Taishan Nuclear Power have been on the job, all preparations have been implemented, and the Taishan Nuclear Power Base is ready," they said in a statement on WeChat, a Chinese internet service.
|
|
In the years since President Trump's election, candidates backed by the Working Families Party have won congressional, state and local races across the country, expanding the group's power base from the Acela corridor to the West Coast.
|
|
Mr. Griveaux was central to Mr. Macron's efforts: Over the past few months, he attempted to build a local power base in the French capital and rally support among local politicians from both the left and right.
|
|
Along with several other White House communications specialists appointed on Thursday, the pair will wage daily battles with legislators on Mr. Trump's behalf while seeking to preserve the president's political power base among voters outside the capital.
|
|
Since Ms. Lam lacks a power base of her own, were she to win the election, she would be susceptible to the influence of the Tang people surrounding her, including perhaps even to Mr. Tsang's conciliation agenda.
|
|
"From their power base in Berlin they attempted to expand not only throughout the entire state of New Hampshire, but also nationally," write Eric Leif Davin and Staughton Lynd in The Forgotten History of the Local Labor Movement.
|
|
He has ties with the wealthy Dhammakaya Temple, which is dogged by a scandal of its own and which some devotees claim is a power base for ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his red-shirted supporters.
|
|
The ebbing support for Macron among retired workers was a factor in the by-election defeat his party suffered last month, just eight months after winning the seat, underlining the challenges he faces with no traditional power base.
|
|
It also sent out this very powerful deterrent message to anybody else in the regime who might be thinking about growing their own power base: I have no compunction of getting rid of anybody, even my own relative.
|
|
Trump's most loyal supporters stand as a warning to more conventional Republican conservatives and lawmakers that he has his own passionate power base, ahead of likely policy clashes over issues like Medicare or taxes in years to come.
|
|
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian and U.S. police have launched a coordinated crackdown on a Sicilian Mafia family that was seeking to rebuild its power base after years of exile in the United States, Italian investigators said on Wednesday.
|
|
So Cersei had to accept being shamed, but once safely back inside the Red Keep, she and her brother/lover Jaime could safely rebuild their power base, aided by the animated corpse of Gregor "The Undead Mountain" Clegane.
|
|
The concern is aggravated by the pusillanimity of the Republican majority in both Houses, who seem content to "let Trump be Trump," ignoring his many assaults on constitutional norms as the best means to perpetuate their power base.
|
|
With his new title and wide power base, Xi may be planning to stay on as China's leader after the end of his second term in 2022, some experts suggest, breaking a tradition followed by his two predecessors.
|
|
By attracting thousands of zealous young new supporters and re-engaging hard-left activists who had abandoned the party under Blair, Corbyn created a power base that helped him survive an attempted coup by party moderates last year.
|
|
Analysts say taking a leadership position in the party instead of a ministry will give her the opportunity to build a power base — even if she resisted the idea of moving onto the national political stage for years.
|
|
Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has found it difficult to balance the competing demands of groups from his nationalist Hindu power base and those Indians striving to build a modern, secular country befitting its growing economic influence.
|
|
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian opposition lawmaker began a hunger strike on Monday, accusing central government of inaction in allowing trash to pile up in the picturesque western city of Lviv, the power-base of his Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party.
|
|
Tinubu, whose power base lies in the ethnic Yoruba southwest, played a crucial role in helping Buhari to win last year's election and to become the first opposition candidate to oust a president in Nigeria through the ballot box.
|
|
There was one more factor weighing on Trump's mind as he considered Romney: The former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP nominee was, as one source put it, "an independent player with his own power base" who Trump couldn't control.
|
|
Mr. Allen's morning newsletter, Politico Playbook, serves as a kind of agenda for those in politics and the news media, not to mention a diary of the comings and goings of those who make up the city's power base.
|
|
The three-part demo rig — which includes another big slab of machined aluminum serving as the power base — that I heard was hooked up to a pair of Stax SR-009 electrostatic headphones, which cost $3,825 just by themselves.
|
|
Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Center for China Studies, said Xi turned his five years in Zhejiang province into a major advantage, building a power base that sustains him to this day.
|
|
A recent redrawing of the electoral map has skewed representation away from urban areas and Chinese communities, both of whom have largely boycotted the government, toward rural, ethnic Malay voters that have traditionally formed the ruling coalition's power base.
|
|
A former governor of Henan province who earned a doctorate in economics at Peking University, Prime Minister Li was a protege of former President Hu Jintao and rose to power through Hu's power base in the Communist Youth League.
|
|
Analysts say the government sometimes uses a tough stance towards Saudi Shi'ites to mobilise its Wahhabi power base, while perceived weakness in acceding to any demands made by the minority can prompt anger that Sunni militants seek to exploit.
|
|
The way the First Policeman relates to Billy gives their scenes a new depth: is he an Uncle Tom, currying favor with the white power base he polices the town for, or does he truly despise Billy's shady ways?
|
|
Walloon premier Magnette, whose power base is ailing post-industrial cities that once made Belgium a global manufacturing hub, said Canada was a friend but that CETA undermined standards for citizens and shifted too much power to big corporations.
|
|
The dizzying episode has highlighted a gradual shift within the House GOP conference, with Republican Catholics in the north dwindling in numbers and the party's power base increasingly consolidated among conservative evangelicals in the South and the West. Rep.
|
|
The French president's power base there is not yet commensurate with his dominance among national leaders; he long dragged his feet on his party's incorporation into the liberal group, considering himself above the contest between the EU's party groups.
|
|
To compensate for its nuclear concessions and concerned that Washington might not honor its commitment to the agreement, Iran followed its signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by intensifying the consolidation of its regional power base.
|
|
The guard formed a power base for King Abdullah for decades as a sort of parallel army, serving as a bulwark against any possible military coup and providing the country's powerful tribes with their main link to the government.
|
|
Opposition leader Imran Khan - whose threats of street protests pushed the Supreme Court to launch a probe into Nawaz's wealth - is seeking to build on the success of his anti-graft crusade by making inroads into Sharifs' power base in Punjab.
|
|
The President's appearance will mark a milestone in his transformation of a Republican Party that finds its traditional social, economic and national security constituencies infused with his power base of blue-collar supporters who were electrified by his populist rhetoric.
|
|
His authoritarian manner and origins on the left; the combination of a nationalist agenda and a lower-middle-class power base; the hostility to outsiders and ethnic minorities: it all adds up to a profile disturbingly reminiscent of the 1920s.
|
|
Pre-approved candidates take part in a process designed to give the system a mandate while, at the same time, preventing anyone acquiring a power base that might challenge Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for the past 2013 years.
|
|
Others were also critical of the bill, according to the New Light of Myanmar, arguing that the new government's priorities should lie in enacting laws that benefit the public, such as releasing political prisoners, rather than shoring up its power base.
|
|
This critique suggests that in singling out Muslims for new immigration checks, Trump is again seeking culprits for America's woes and trying to put a face on a new enemy that could capture public opinion and enhance his political power base.
|
|
" According to Peter, the idea that Senenmut wielded influence over Hatshepsut is completely backwards: "Senenmut seems to have had no other power base but her —indications are that his stature grew by association with the queen, rather than vice versa.
|
|
Conquering cities such as Marseille, Lyon or Bordeaux is crucial to building a local power base for his party, La Republique En Marche (LREM), which he created with a handful of aides in 2016 as a vehicle for his presidential campaign.
|
|
North Korea was getting ready on Thursday for its first congress of ruling party members in nearly 20133 years, at which leader Kim Jong-un is expected to consolidate his power base and lay out his vision for the country.
|
|
North Korea was getting ready on Thursday for its first congress of ruling party members in nearly 40 years, at which leader Kim Jong-un is expected to consolidate his power base and lay out his vision for the country.
|
|
And unlike the south, with its mixture of esoteric sects, foremost the Druze, who remained largely loyal to the regime, the north was also more uniformly Sunni and hostile to the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Alawite power base.
|
|
Lee said while it is always incredibly difficult to read the power dynamics of the North Korean regime from outside the country, Kim was a young leader who had to set up a power base to potentially rule for decades.
|
|
Even as he laces his public remarks with praise for the president, Mr. Pence and his influential chief of staff, Nick Ayers, are unsettling a group of Mr. Trump's fierce loyalists who fear they are forging a separate power base.
|
|
What it doesn't do is eliminate the Shinawatras' power base: the largely poor and provincial Thais who have had the numbers to deliver them victory in every election since 2001 despite the best efforts of pro-army and deeply royalist conservatives.
|
|
"I think Kim Jong Un has been making good use of the existing system, while strengthening his power base and dictator regime in a very shrewd manner," said Lee Su-seok, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy.
|
|
The Democratic Party now has the potential — by no means guaranteed — to turn five of the six states in the southwest corner of the country (the exception is Utah) into a power base rivaling the party's bastion in the Northeast.
|
|
Even as he laces his public remarks with praise for the president, Mr. Pence and his influential chief of staff, Nick Ayers, are unsettling a group of Mr. Trump's fierce loyalists who fear they are forging a separate power base.
|
|
The declaration was the mayor's first real challenge to Mr. Erdogan and the powerful vested interests that have supported him since he took control of Turkey's largest and wealthiest city, long the power base for the president and his governing party.
|
|
As Thomas Juneau, an expert on the region who has authored a book on Iranian foreign policy, has noted, the Houthis have their own power base and their own interests in Yemen, and are not a pure proxy for Iran.
|
|
Instead, the sport's European power base has shifted west to Madrid, which, in two of the last three seasons, has gone where no city has gone before and seen its two biggest teams, Atlético and Real, contest the Champions League final.
|
|
It is not clear if Afridi would change tack if he were to be confirmed as JuA leader, but there are concerns within the group about his power base among the ethnic Pashtun tribes who live along the Afghan border.
|
|
Without his own power base or credentials from fighting in the revolution and subsequent conflicts, Díaz-Canel will have to prove himself as a leader who can bridge the divisions within the Cuban government "He wants consensus," said former Cuban diplomat Carlos Alzugaray.
|
|
Michael Madden, an expert on the country's leadership, wrote after Kim Jong Nam's death that while he did not have much of a power base inside North Korea, his heritage would have made him a threat were he to challenge his half-brother.
|
|
BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Chinese solar power developers have made their lowest bids so far in a tender to build a one gigawatt solar power base in Inner Mongolia, aiming to accelerate a transition to renewals, China Business News said on Friday.
|
|
Estimating sales of the drug were worth about 25-30 percent of a $60 billion U.S. illegal narcotics trade, Vigil said the CJNG's power base and absorption of local expertise meant it had the potential to become the new "superpower" in crystal meth.
|
|
" Why it matters: "Even as he laces his public remarks with praise for the president, Mr. Pence and his influential chief of staff, Nick Ayers, are unsettling a group of Mr. Trump's fierce loyalists who fear they are forging a separate power base.
|
|
He refers to them generally as the members of cemaat, a fellowship of Islamists, and he is not a fan, joining other critics in accusing them of using underhanded tactics in past years to infiltrate the government and expand their power base.
|
|
In firing Mr. Mnangagwa, Mr. Mugabe — Zimbabwe's leader since independence in 1980 and, at 93, the world's oldest head of state — might have finally overreached, singling out an erstwhile ally with liberation-war credentials and a deep power base of his own.
|
|
By Sarah Almukhtar and Alicia DeSantis In return for their donations, board members gain admission to an exclusive cultural club others yearn to join; give arts organizations their cachet and connections; and provide a power base that commands the attention of public officials.
|
|
Bernie Sanders, for whom Ocasio-Cortez is a top surrogate, building an alternative power base to the Democratic establishment in the coming years will be key for progressives who want to enact policies such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
|
|
It was the prelude to a much bloodier time, from 1983 to 1985, when Mr. Mugabe sent his North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into the western area of Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland, Mr. Nkomo's political power base, to hunt down so-called dissidents.
|
|
Jacques Chirac, who molded the legacy of Charles de Gaulle into a personal power base that made him one of the dominant leaders of France across three decades and a vocal advocate of European unity, died on Thursday at his home in Paris.
|
|
All this in spite of the males being physically larger and ensconced within a kin network of automatic allies (female bonobos leave their families, their natural power base, at sexual maturity, in order to join another troop and better avoid in-breeding).
|
|
The promotion comes shortly after Min Aung Hlaing decided to stay on as army chief for the next five years, and appears aimed at consolidating his power base as he forges a delicate relationship with new government leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
|
|
"Several former U.S. officials said the half brother, who had lived outside of North Korea for many years and had no known power base in Pyongyang, was unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country's inner workings," the Journal said.
|
|
In op-eds, blog posts and other writings, Warren accused Biden -- nicknamed back then by critics as "the senator from MBNA," the name of a credit card issuer -- of catering to the industry, which had its power base in his home state of Delaware.
|
|
Like many observers, Professor Farrell said he believed that Sinn Fein was playing the long game, content to develop a power base, over decades if necessary, rather than enter a coalition government as a junior partner forced to compromise for the sake of power.
|
|
A Protestant woman in a mainly Catholic and male-dominated party, at least when she became its leader in 2000, Merkel never built up a regional power base but over the years she has sidelined her main male rivals and has no obvious successor.
|
|
This idea that being progressive means being pro-immigration has unfortunate political consequences, because it tends to create a split between liberal intellectuals and political leaders (who share these assumptions) and their natural power base among blue- and white-collar workers (who do not).
|
|
MILITANTS-LINKED PARTY Opposition leader Imran Khan - whose threats of street protests pushed the Supreme Court to launch a probe into Nawaz's wealth - had sought to build on the success of his anti-graft crusade by making inroads into Sharifs' power base in Punjab.
|
|
Once again — as he did when he faced down a widespread street revolt in 2013 and to win elections, for himself as president and in Parliament for his Islamist Justice and Development Party — Mr. Erdogan relied on his power base of Turkey's religious conservatives.
|
|
Malema formed the EFF, known for its trademark red berets and rowdy behavior in parliament, four years ago, and the party plans to hold a birthday bash next week in the port city of Durban in the heart of Zuma's Zulu political power base.
|
|
The municipalities represent the core of his working-class, conservative power base and a source of income for his party, said Aykan Erdemir, a former member of Parliament and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a research institute in Washington.
|
|
After leaving the White House last month, Mr. Bannon returned to his perch at Breitbart News, and has been using the hard-right website and his close ties to the Mercer family, New York-based conservative donors, to create a new, insurgent power base.
|
|
The Plebeian faction expanded during the first decade of this century, under the leadership of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao: They tapped their power base in the Communist Youth League, a boot camp for commoners wishing to be credentialed for Party membership.
|
|
It was the highest-ranking visit by a U.S. official to the region since Trump's Jerusalem declaration and gave Pence and Netanyahu an opportunity to highlight their own warm relationship for a conservative Christian American community that serves as a power base for the U.S. administration.
|
|
A Protestant woman in a mainly Catholic and male-dominated party, at least when she became its leader in 2000, Merkel never built up a regional power base but over the years she has rid herself of her main male rivals and has no obvious successor.
|
|
ISIS executes some who flee The warning to residents came hours after ISIS started telling wounded fighters in Mosul that they could go to the group's power base in Syria as Iraqi forces and others prepared to retake the city, a source inside Mosul told CNN.
|
|
Meloni's policies are similar to those of League leader Matteo Salvini, but while the League's power base is in the industrial north, Brothers of Italy is stronger in the center and under-developed south - where it is proposing a dedicated investment plan with tax breaks for companies.
|
|
The operation involving more than 2,000 security forces has been ongoing for two weeks and the army's push to deploy troops, artillery and helicopter gunships is an unprecedented use of force by the military in Punjab, which is the political power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition figure Imran Khan on Sunday vowed to sweep to power in upcoming elections, promising radical change for the poor at a campaign kick-off rally in the city of Lahore that has long been the power base of ousted premier Nawaz Sharif.
|
|
Tackling corruption has been a major priority for Xi, but it has previously been focused on party bodies and the military, attracting considerable public support even as some critics accused him of using the campaign to go after potential rivals and shore up his power base.
|
|
For the first time in 25 years, since Mr. Erdogan first won power as mayor of Istanbul in 1994, his Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., has lost control of his home city and power base, along with four other major cities, including the capital, Ankara.
|
|
She carved out her own power base through a multibillion-dollar foundation that created a philharmonic orchestra by recruiting musicians from 30 countries, built an $8 billion research hospital and brought branches of American universities, including Georgetown, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M, to Qatar.
|
|
Those accusations, and others, became grist for social media outrage in Malaysia, frequently on private WhatsApp groups, but it seemed Mr. Najib still underestimated how much he was losing: a public that still valued some semblance of moderation, his once unbreakable Malay power base, even family members.
|
|
Though it is customary for vice presidents to keep a full political calendar, he has gone a step further, creating an independent power base, cementing his status as Mr. Trump's heir apparent and promoting himself as the main conduit between the Republican donor class and the administration.
|
|
After postponing a trip to Tripoli over safety concerns, the ministers and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell held talks in Brussels to call for a ceasefire as Libya's internationally recognized government struggled to fend off a military offensive on its power base in the capital.
|
|
In his northern power base - the down-at-heel town of Gorakhpur near the Nepalese border - Adityanath's more conciliatory comments have done little to dispel unease among members of the Muslim community, who make up nearly a fifth of Uttar Pradesh's 19993 million or so people.
|
|
Six months away from the March municipal elections, his move clouds Macron's prospects for conquering the French capital to build a local power base for his party and make inroads into the last bastion of the old establishment dominated by socialists or conservatives: 35,000 town halls nationwide.
|
|
As one Ukrainian analyst noted in December, control of these forces make Avakov extremely powerful and Poroshenko's presidency might not be strong enough to withstand the kind of direct confrontation with Avakov that an attempt to oust him or to strike at his power base could well produce.
|
|
Bayer's proposal, which would be its largest and dwarf the 17 billion euro takeover of drugmaker Schering in 2006, comes less than three weeks after Werner Baumann took over as Bayer chief executive officer, a sign of the power base he built in his previous role as strategy chief.
|
|
TIKRIT/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - At the gates of Tikrit under a giant billboard of a Shi'ite militia commander, hundreds of Iraqi Sunni Arabs wait in the scorching sun for hours to be searched before being let into the city that was once the power base of Saddam Hussein.
|
|
Analysis: Stakes for Iraq's future couldn't be higher The warning to residents came hours after ISIS started telling wounded fighters in Mosul that they can go to the group's power base in Syria as Iraqi forces and others prepare to retake the key city, a source inside Mosul told CNN.
|
|
But it gave Pence, a conservative Christian, and Netanyahu, a right-winger who has hailed U.S. evangelicals for their support of Israel, an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the visit and their own warm relationship for a community that serves as a power base for Trump and his vice president.
|
|
And in renewing his bonds with his loyal, vocal supporters, who chanted "Build the Wall" and "Lock her Up" in reference to Clinton, he sent a warning to opponents in Washington, even members of his own party, that he plans to marshal his unique political power base throughout his presidency.
|
|
There are four elements in Iran that bear on United States foreign policy interests: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the "Supreme Leader;" his theocratic power base, the Revolutionary Guards and its Quds Force unit; President Hassan Rouhani and his elected government; and the Iranian people themselves, which includes a broad middle class.
|
|
While Mr. Puigdemont is facing a fight for his own political survival — hard-line separatists have denounced his failure to deliver a clear message of independence — Mr. Rajoy appears to have consolidated his power base in Madrid, where he has been in charge of a minority government since late 2016.
|
|
Her words make all the more stark the realization that from fashion, the third pillar of Mr. Weinstein's power base, an industry in which he made major investments going back more than 15 years, and with which he hoped to burnish his empire, the overwhelming response has been a ringing silence.
|
|
RELATED: White House wanted to publicly shame Tillerson, source says And Tillerson's alienation of his own department amid savage cost cuts prompted many seasoned diplomats to quit, stoked severe criticism from Foggy Bottom alumni, and left him as a man with few friends in Washington and no personal power base.
|
|
"Let's remember where Prime Minister Abe comes from: He's a conservative, he's a hawk, he comes from the right of the LDP and that traditional power base has been the farmers," Andrew Staples, global editorial director and Southeast Asia director at The Economist Corporate Network, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Friday.
|
|
Clinton and the power base inside the DNC responsible for the 2016 debacle, much of the public is still being distracted from realizing this problem thanks to the running conspiracy theories blaming the Clinton loss on a garden variety of conspiracy theories including the Russians, FBI Director James Comey, and white supremacists.
|
|
Feinstein has a significant power base in California, but she is a political moderate at a time when the Democratic rank-and-file is spoiling for fights with President Donald Trump -- and jabbing at each other over the direction of the party -- leaving her vulnerable, progressives believe, to being unseated next year.
|
|
The parade at the Zhurihe base in Inner Mongolia featured troops and advanced weaponry, and was another forceful indication of Xi's iron grip over the PLA and every other political power base within the party ahead of a pivotal congress this autumn that will award him a second five-year term as leader.
|
|
Najib came under fire from opposition parties and civil society groups for a redrawing of electoral lines that skewed constituencies heavily in favor of his ruling coalition, towards the rural ethnic Malay-Muslim voters that have traditionally formed Barisan Nasional's power base, and away from the urban voters that have largely abandoned his coalition.
|
|
"It is the clear constitutional right of the president to nominate a prime minister," he said, adding that Ms. Shhaideh "is unknown in the country and also doesn't have a power base in the party, so it is difficult to see why the party would fight for someone who doesn't mean much to them."
|
|
For the past six years, black mayors have presided over Denver and Kansas City, Mo. Since 1974, there has been only one white mayor in Atlanta, which, like other Southern cities, has continued to nourish generations of leaders who came of age in the wake of the power base established by the civil rights movement.
|
|
The Real Deal: While the box office failure of last year's Solo: A Star Wars Story made it look as if fans would never get any closure for the tease of Darth Maul being the head of a criminal underground, with Qi'Ra seeking to build her own power base in his organization, reality—read: "Lucasfilm"—might have other plans.
|
|
Dostum, a general in the Afghan army during the Soviet war in the 1980s, has been an integral part of the political scene in the years since, with a power base in the Uzbek minority of the north and an image polished by the TV cameras that accompany his frequent trips to the frontline in combat fatigues.
|
|
Mr. Oyelowo was careful, almost cagey, in discussing the election and the recent "Brexit" vote, but he did return several times to the idea that while these contests were about "so much more than race," the winning voters in each expressed a hankering for a time when "the power base as it pertains to people of color was different," he said.
|
|
However, they are divided not just by geography but by long-standing and bitter divisions between President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA), whose power base is in the West Bank, and the PA's Islamist rival, Hamas, which controls Gaza A 22016km long "safe passage" through Israel between Gaza and the Hebron in the West Bank was envisaged by interim peace deals in the 303s.
|
|
The activist organization's new initiative -- which, as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit political organization, is not required to disclose its donors -- arrives as part of a broader effort on the left to channel anger at the Trump administration into a lasting power base, with the ability to influence policy debates within the Democratic Party while boosting candidates on the local, state and federal levels.
|
|
The rapid industrialization and sustained economic development necessary to provide jobs for this growing population simply cannot be achieved on a weak power base We have been encouraged by the increasing awareness among both African and U.S. political leaders on these issues, and by the willingness of the private sector to invest alongside governments in meeting the growing demand for power on the continent.
|
|
However, they are divided not just by geography but by long-standing and bitter divisions between President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA), whose power base is in the West Bank, and the PA's Islamist rival, Hamas, which controls Gaza A 22016km long "safe passage" through Israel between Gaza and the Hebron in the West Bank was envisaged by interim peace deals in the 303s.
|
|
On the Lower East Side, two candidates from the newly formed Grand Street Democrats — Lee Berman and Caroline Laskow — capitalized on changing neighborhood demographics and grass-roots activism to beat incumbent candidates backed by the Harry S. Truman Democratic Club, the power base of former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, who first took office in 1976 and held his seat until his conviction on federal corruption charges in 2015.
|
|
In her study of classical reception within Italy under the reign of Mussolini, Lorna Hardwick, a professor emerita of classical studies at the Open University, noted the dictator's appropriation of Roman symbols, buildings, and texts so as to conjure legitimacy and forward racist propaganda: From the establishment of Mussolini's power base in 1922 until the proclamation of the dictatorship in 1925, ancient Rome was appropriated as a model for current political and military organization and as a symbol of Italian unity.
|
|
The northern sector is an enclave of white wealth that would be familiar to any New Englander, with historic stone churches and elite preparatory schools cultivating vaunted lacrosse programs, but the city is predominantly black, with mostly black political leaders, and if you're a kid like me, who came up through the public schools downtown and spent several years writing news and opinion pieces for a prominent black paper, you can gain a certain alternate privilege and entree with the city's other power base, which we might call the black establishment.
|
|