But I pressed ahead, my voice filled with righteous indignation.
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But the International Olympic Committee and South Korea pressed ahead.
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Brushing aside warnings, Macron pressed ahead and defeated the opt-out.
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But senators, given the green light by their leaders, pressed ahead.
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Harley-Davidson executives acknowledged the president's disappointment, but pressed ahead with their plans.
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But Dr He pressed ahead anyway and in a way that is totally unnecessary.
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But activists and opposition groups pressed ahead with demands that Bashir's close associates leave.
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The Fed has pressed ahead with rate increases this year as the economy has strengthened.
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The Fed has pressed ahead with rate increases as the economy has strengthened this year.
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It later pressed ahead with a deal to buy U.S nutritional supplement supplier Vitamin World.
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Nonetheless Kim Jong-un has pressed ahead on his main goal: an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Her government also pressed ahead with signing a controversial military intelligence sharing pact with Japan.
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Mexican officials continued to say they would retaliate if the United States pressed ahead with tariffs.
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China has pressed ahead with longer-term efforts to get its economy to burn more cleanly.
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The Fed has indeed pressed ahead with rate hikes, but these have been relatively benign so far.
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And although the company was warned these banking products could flout regulatory obligations it nonetheless pressed ahead.
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Then, when Mr. Trump pressed ahead, insisting he wanted to give the speech, Ms. Pelosi disinvited him.
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When Mr. Trump pressed ahead, insisting he wanted to give the speech, Ms. Pelosi promptly disinvited him.
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But the attorney general pressed ahead, saying it would help ensure public accountability for those accused of fraud.
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Debenhams pressed ahead with seeking agreement from bondholders and said on Thursday that they had backed its plan.
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But the North pressed ahead, and today analysts believe it uses uranium for many of its new warheads.
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The day before Bounds' hearing, the Senate pressed ahead with a proposed rules change to speed up judicial confirmations.
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It was deemed that Robinhood&aposs foray into banking services might not meet regulatory scrutiny but pressed ahead anyway.
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If they pressed ahead, it would make for a fascinating dynamic at the top of Credit Suisse's shareholder register.
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On Thursday, Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 22 percent for aluminum.
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As he pressed ahead, he was confronted with the question of whether to incorporate this changed reality into his novel.
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Teachers pressed ahead with the walkout despite a promise by the governor to increase their salaries 20 percent by 2020.
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Huawei pressed ahead with the launch regardless, betting that the Mate 9903's design and hardware would still win fans.
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Despite the lobbying and pleas, Trump has pressed ahead with tariffs as well as pulling out of the Paris climate accord.
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Despite the change in leadership, hundreds pressed ahead with protests overnight, rallying near the Cabinet office with picket signs and flags.
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Nestle's trading operating profit margin improved by a better-than-expected 17.1% as the company pressed ahead with its premiumisation strategy.
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Then, when Mr. Trump pressed ahead last week, insisting he wanted to give the speech on Tuesday, Ms. Pelosi disinvited him.
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Meanwhile, trade hostilities broke out between America and its allies, after the Trump administration pressed ahead with tariffs on steel and aluminium.
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Low-tax Ireland, currently favoured by tech firms, would be an estimated €160m a year worse off if the EU pressed ahead.
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Taliban leaders pressed ahead believing the talks could yield an agreement on the departure of foreign forces, one of their main aspirations.
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A previous series of negotiations that included Mnuchin, Kudlow and other top economic officials fell apart as Trump pressed ahead with tariffs.
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Mr. Erdogan has pressed ahead with the offensive despite warnings from the United States that it would further destabilize war-torn Syria.
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Many sources said they expected the issue would end up in court if Trump pressed ahead with it instead of working with Congress.
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Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with slapping import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, effective later this month.
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Moon said it would be a "mistake" if North Korea pressed ahead with a launch, after promising Trump it would halt such activity.
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Instead, she has pressed ahead with a vote she looks set to lose after failing to win over her nominal Northern Irish allies.
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The organizers pressed ahead because holding the races near the large population of the Northeast corridor could pay dividends in revenue and attention.
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Nixon, ever the diligent student (they called him "Iron Butt" in law school), prepared assiduously even as he pressed ahead on the campaign trail.
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Republicans pressed ahead Thursday with a controversial plan to slap the Obama administration with a regulatory budget that would restrain its rule-making abilities.
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After acquiring Wolves, Fosun and Mendes pressed ahead with their broader plans to create a network from soccer training academies to clubs, according to emails.
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Samsung likely pressed ahead because it wanted to be viewed as the first—the first big phone maker to release a big, gorgeous folding smartphone.
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At the same time, provincial governments have pressed ahead with approvals for building more coal-fired power plants, including ones that would use coal gangue.
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The President pressed ahead with an effort to repeal Obamacare, which fizzled in a humiliating defeat for the White House and the GOP House leadership.
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Despite weeks of ferocious criticism from other nations and from independent scholars, Mr. Duda's right-wing Law and Justice Party pressed ahead with the bill.
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Defying many predictions of her demise, she nevertheless pressed ahead, determined as she said many times to deliver the Brexit the British people voted for.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey pressed ahead with the offensive despite warnings from the United States that it would further destabilize war-torn Syria.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey pressed ahead with the offensive despite warnings from the United States that it would further destabilize war-torn Syria.
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As the European Central Bank has pressed ahead with its bond buying programme Italians have preferred foreign assets, diversifying away from negative-yielding government bonds.
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A previous series of negotiations that included Mnuchin, Kudlow and other top economic officials fell apart as Trump pressed ahead with plans to impose tariffs.
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The Catalan regional government called a referendum on independence and pressed ahead with it even after Spanish courts and the national government declared it illegal.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, prompting volatility in global markets.
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House Democrats pressed ahead with plans to vote later today on $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to address the plight of migrants at the southern border.
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Yet, as Mr. Trump has pressed ahead with this dangerous campaign promise, he has missed his own deadline to unveil a secret plan to defeat ISIS.
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In the past, he said, there had been a bit of a stalemate - industry and political leaders each deferred to one another, and none pressed ahead.
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The driver of the lorry and spotters following him in an Audi and a BMW made several stops, but they pressed ahead despite the brewing catastrophe.
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But he pressed ahead, purchasing a package of Samsung smart appliances and other gadgets; only the installation of the security alarm system required a technician's help.
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The Ethereum coders immediately pressed ahead with just such an application and created, in April, a sort of venture-capital fund without venture capitalists, called the DAO.
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That was the expansion of the British Empire, and it seemed an especially timely topic as Britain pressed ahead with Brexit, its withdrawal from the European Union.
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Then members of parliament pressed ahead with a measure designed to prevent him from taking Britain out of the European Union on Oct 31 without a deal.
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It's not like the WSJ's Mike Bird has been warning that exactly this was going to happen when the country pressed ahead with its sales-tax hike.
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On Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with import tariffs on steel and aluminum, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies.
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The Conakry government is no longer party to the Geneva criminal case, but Mascotto pressed ahead after six years of investigation and multiple requests abroad for legal assistance.
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For all the controversy surrounding its Nigerian ID card project, Mastercard has pressed ahead with similar schemes in South Africa and with Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.
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But the warnings went unheeded and PREPA pressed ahead with the October deal -- disregarding lawyers' recommendations, including terms for canceling the contract, ceiling prices and breach of contract.
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"They have pressed ahead since 2010 with new moves ever day that hurt democracy in some way," Robert Ferenczi, a 55 year-old protester from Budapest, told Reuters.
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The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on steel imports on Thursday, but exempted Canada and Mexico.
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Despite condemnation from the commission and protests that brought tens of thousands of people to the streets, the governing Law and Justice Party pressed ahead with the purge.
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When the government failed to respond to a huge protest march on June 9 and pressed ahead with a second-reading of the bill days later, it exploded.
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On Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with import tariffs on steel and aluminium, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies.
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Until Thursday morning, the White House pressed ahead with Dr. Jackson even as several senior Republican senators did everything they could to signal that it should cut bait.
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Image 2 of 2 ELLESBOROUGH, England – President Donald Trump pressed ahead Friday with his complaints that European immigration policies are changing the "fabric of Europe" and destroying European culture.
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Barbara Underwood, who took over for Schneiderman but declined to run for the office, has pressed ahead with lawsuits against the Trump administration, including against the Trump family charity.
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Outside Europe, there have been signs of that happening: Uber said it planned to leave Quebec this month if the government there pressed ahead with tougher standards for drivers.
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He pressed ahead with his presidential campaign following that conversation, visiting the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this past weekend along with many of the other presidential candidates.
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James Benamor's Richmond Group, Amigo's biggest investor with a 2300% stake, has pressed ahead with plans to appoint two board members, after speculation it is vulnerable to a takeover.
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His departure had fanned fears of a potential global trade war if U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with proposals for tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminium.
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Indicating it expected the situation to stabilize, the Kyrgyz government pressed ahead with plans to host a meeting of prime ministers from several ex-Soviet nations including Russia on Friday.
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Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, raising the prospect of a global trade war.
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Some major investors in Britain, such as carmaker Nissan, have said their investment plans will hinge on the country's future trading arrangements, but others have pressed ahead with expansion and takeovers.
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China has pressed ahead with efforts to internationalize the yuan in the past year, regarding this as a crucial element of its future place in the global economic and financial hierarchy.
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President Maitripala Sirisena's coalition government, which has pressed ahead with unpopular fiscal reforms since coming to power in 2015, has been hesitant to implement the fuel price formula before local elections.
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"They have pressed ahead since 2010 with new moves every day that hurt democracy in some way," Robert Ferenczi, a 55-year-old protester from Budapest, told Reuters in Heroes' Square.
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Despite the sanctions, North Korea has pressed ahead with its nuclear and missile development, and said it had succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead and launching a submarine-based ballistic missile.
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Earlier this month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appeared to threaten to disrupt oil shipments from its neighbors if Washington pressed ahead with trying to force countries to stop buying Iranian oil.
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China has pressed ahead with efforts to internationalise the yuan in the past year, regarding this as a crucial element of its future place in the global economic and financial hierarchy.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of people pressed ahead with protests in Jordan's capital on Wednesday and some unions went on strike despite King Abullah replacing his prime minister to defuse public anger.
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ABB pressed ahead with cost-cutting efforts in the second quarter, including consolidating more than 60 service centers into two sites in India and Poland to handle finance and personnel issues.
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Both detained men had recently encouraged mass protests against the government after it pressed ahead with elections for a powerful new legislative organ Sunday, despite broad opposition at home and overseas.
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Still, while the administration offered China an olive branch on its currency, it pressed ahead on Monday with new plans to scrutinize foreign investment that were devised with China in mind.
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Toshiba Chief Executive Satoshi Tsunakawa expressed regret that the auditor could not form an opinion, and said Toshiba pressed ahead with submitting its results rather than seek an unprecedented third delay.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sales of nuclear shelters and radiation-blocking air purifiers have surged in Japan in recent weeks as North Korea has pressed ahead with missile tests in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
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CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities pressed ahead Thursday with a case against the founders of two prominent human rights organizations, part of a crackdown on civil society organizations that have documented government abuse.
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In the meantime, the theater has pressed ahead with its current season, and this month it presented a new play by one of its resident artists, the Guinea-born playwright Hakim Bah.
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As commander in chief, he often appears in fatigues when overseeing military parades, which have become more prominent as he has pressed ahead with a modernization program for the People's Liberation Army.
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The Journal ultimately reported that while Justice Department officials did not authorize subpoenas, the F.B.I. in fact had pressed ahead with the case — a detail that if anything was damaging to Mrs.
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Mr. Mnuchin has been considering the possibility since assuming his role in 20173, and his staff has pressed ahead in recent months after a call by President Trump to "refinance" America's debt.
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He comes to office at a time of heightened tension with isolated North Korea, which has pressed ahead with its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of U.S. pressure and United Nations sanctions.
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The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminium on Thursday, but exempted Canada and Mexico.
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Nestle's trading operating profit margin improved to a better-than-expected 17.1% as the company pressed ahead with its premiumization strategy, selling more products with fatter margins and more resilient to economic downturns.
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Jeong Joon-hee, a South Korean government spokesman, said he suspected that the North Korean military pressed ahead with the doomed tests to help glorify Mr. Kim's image ahead of the party congress.
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ZURICH, July 21 (Reuters) - Industrial robot maker ABB on Thursday reported earnings in line with expectations during its second quarter as the power equipment and automation company pressed ahead with its turnaround plan.
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The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday, but exempted Canada and Mexico.
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Despite the advice, Luciano Cepeda, the dam's former general manager, said top Ecuadorean officials pressed ahead anyway because "a new study would have taken several years" and they didn't want to slow down.
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Ties between the two countries had frayed recently as North Korea pressed ahead of with its nuclear weapons and missile tests, and Beijing joined American-led efforts to impose sanctions on the North.
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But even as his senators deliberated under extreme political pressure, McConnell pressed ahead with an aggressive effort to bring the drama to a successful close, ahead of a decisive procedural vote on Friday.
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And while some countries have pressed ahead with large offshore projects such as the Kashagan oil field off Kazakhstan's coast, disagreement over the sea's legal status has prevented some other ideas from being implemented.
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Image 603 of 2 BEIRUT – Syrian government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the country&aposs south on Monday despite threats by the Islamic State group to kill civilians it recently captured there.
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The mood had already brightened a little after Trump pressed ahead with tariffs but offered conditional exemptions for Canada and Mexico, offering at least the hope a full-blown trade war could be averted.
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At least 545 people were killed in violence in Venezuela Sunday as the government pressed ahead with hugely unpopular plans to elect a new legislative body, in a vote labelled a "sham" by Washington.
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At least 10 people were killed in violence in Venezuela Sunday as the government pressed ahead with hugely unpopular plans to elect a new legislative body, in a vote labelled a "sham" by Washington.
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Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries.
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Since earlier this year, when it pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal that was a centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's diplomacy, the Trump administration has pressed ahead with punishing sanctions against Tehran.
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Undaunted, they pressed ahead, and throughout that summer, the couple lived in their next-door neighbor's barn, sleeping on a mattress on the floor and running over to check on the progress each day.
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The raising of the alert level came a day after thousands of older Christian activists dismissed his government's appeals not to gather in large groups and pressed ahead with their weekly anti-government protest.
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Yet he has pressed ahead with the vote to create the all-powerful assembly despite the threat of U.S. sanctions and months of opposition protests in which more than 115 people have been killed.
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The country has regularly test-fired missiles in recent years – last year it launched 25 missiles and two nuclear tests as Kim pressed ahead with developing a nuclear-equipped ballistic missile at unprecedented pace.
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But IfZ pressed ahead with the initiative, which a group of historians had argued was necessary to provide an authoritative version for educational purposes – and to pre-empt neo-Nazis from disseminating their own versions.
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Toyota would have pressed ahead with fresh U.S. investment even without its China plans, but there was much internal planning around how the announcements should be timed, company sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff for aluminum on Thursday, but exempted Canada and Mexico.
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Economists said the import duties implemented so far have affected only a small portion of the American economy, but warned this could change if President Donald Trump pressed ahead with additional tariffs on Chinese imports.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pressed ahead with the vote against the objections of Democrats who wanted to delay the vote until the release of 3,000 emails detailing correspondence between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies.
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When the Hong Kong government pressed ahead, tens of thousands of protesters successfully blocked the city's legislature from holding a second reading, and in June, Lam agreed to suspend it, but not fully withdraw it.
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Bolsonaro has also appeared to soften his objection to the privatization of state-owned oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA , or Petrobras, and the government has pressed ahead with the sale of ports, airports and railways.
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"What the President wanted was to give a convincing message at the market open that the agreement is done," said the official, saying Argentina had pressed ahead before the IMF was ready with its statement.
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The Syrian army has pressed ahead with a major campaign, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power, to take full control of Syria's largest city, divided between rebel and government zones since 2012.
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MI priced its 3.5 billion euro ($2021 billion) rights issue at a 37 percent discount on Friday as it pressed ahead with plans to strengthen its balance sheet to help cope with falling oil prices.
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France, Germany and the United Kingdom (the E85033) pressed ahead this month with their efforts to support the Iran nuclear deal by creating a special purpose vehicle aimed at facilitating trade between Europe and Iran.
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Career staff warned the efforts would run afoul of the law requiring 123 agreements, but Flynn and Harvey, then the head of NSC's Middle East and North African affairs, pressed ahead, according to the report.
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It's not yet clear if Kavanaugh has the votes needed for confirmation, but Senate Republicans expressed confidence on Thursday that the FBI did not uncover any damaging information as they pressed ahead to a vote.
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New York pressed ahead with the signs anyway and remains embroiled in a disagreement with federal regulators, who have raised the prospect of penalties ranging from withholding federal approval of highway projects to withholding funds.
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Investors weighed the prospects of a likely inflationary boost to the U.S. economy if Trump pressed ahead with higher tariffs on imported goods coinciding with growing expectations of a U.S. interest rate later in the year.
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The mood had already brightened a little after Trump pressed ahead with tariffs but offered conditional exemptions for Canada and Mexico, offering at least the hope that a full-blown global trade war could be averted.
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President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Shops and pharmacies closed in Jordan's capital on Wednesday as some unions pressed ahead with a strike protesting against tax hikes, after King Abdullah replaced his prime minister to try to defuse public anger.
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North Korea, though, has pressed ahead with its effort to develop a weapon that can reach the U.S. That led Trump last week to give sweeping new powers to the Treasury Department in an executive order.
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The deals flyaround • Darwin Deason, one of Xerox's biggest shareholders, asserts in an amended lawsuit against the company that its C.E.O., Jeff Jacobson, pressed ahead for a deal with Fujifilm that would keep him in control.
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The Iraqi army last week dislodged the insurgents from the main Christian region east of Mosul and its elite unit, the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) has pressed ahead with operations to clear more villages since Saturday.
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President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminium on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries.
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Colonel Vindman, who apparently came prepared for the criticism, pulled out a copy the performance evaluation Ms. Hill wrote about him in July, read aloud from it and pressed ahead with his account of what transpired.
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On Thursday, President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries.
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In a further blow to the Westminster government, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, pressed ahead with plans for a second referendum on Scottish independence; 55% voted to stay in the UK in the first vote in 2014.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead in March with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminium, describing the dumping of these products in the U.S. market as "an assault on our country".
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A core group of six nations, who have the bulk of fighters held in Kurdish prisons, including France, Britain and Germany, have now pressed ahead with narrowing options after ruling out a fully international "ad hoc" tribunal.
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Since the deal he has pressed ahead in his quest to become an autocrat, rejecting European criticisms with threats to scupper the refugee deal and let hundreds of thousands of refugees make their way to Greece again.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve pressed ahead on Wednesday with plans to shrink its $4.5-trillion portfolio, mapping out a very gradual approach to shedding assets that allows it to begin the tricky process as soon as September.
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DIGITAL PIVOT Conze, who joined ProSieben last year from UK home appliance maker Dyson, has pressed ahead with a pivot to digital forms of entertainment while looking to strengthen content production and build its e-commerce portfolio.
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Turkish artillery on Tuesday pounded suspected Syrian Kurdish positions near the town in northeast Syria amid reports that Kurdish fighters had retaken the town as Turkey pressed ahead with a military incursion that has drawn widespread condemnation.
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The North has defied U.N. sanctions since conducting its firth nuclear test in 2006 and has pressed ahead with the development of weapons programs including a range of ballistic missiles, which it says it needs for self-defense.
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The allegations, first reported by Israel's Channel One television on Wednesday, surfaced as Russia pressed ahead with an offer by Putin, made last month, to host a meeting in Moscow between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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As the country takes measures to help the struggling currency, fresh negativity hit the lira after President Tayyip Erdogan pressed ahead with the purchase of defense systems from Russia, further pressuring Turkey's fragile relations with the United States.
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Elijah Cummings never stopped believing in the American dream and pressed ahead until his last days to give every citizen, aspirant and actual, access to that dream as well as all of the blessings of our great republic.
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Last week, Trump pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead earlier this month with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminium, describing the dumping of these products in the U.S. market as "an assault on our country".
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"Despite widespread international concern from corporations and rights advocates for more than a year, Chinese authorities pressed ahead with this restrictive law without making meaningful changes," Sophie Richardson, China Director at Human Rights Watch, said in an emailed statement.
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"Despite widespread international concern from corporations and rights advocates for more than a year, Chinese authorities pressed ahead with this restrictive law without making meaningful changes," Sophie Richardson, China Director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on all countries.
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Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 2719.97 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminium, but backtracked from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance and exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies.
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Turkey pressed ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria's Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by U.S. forces.
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During the 1990s, President Jiang Zemin pressed ahead with changes that shut down thousands of struggling state-owned factories, encouraged private entrepreneurs to join the party and prepared for China's entry into the World Trade Organization in late 2001.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The potential reopening of a probe into the murder 12 years ago of a Mongolian model could spell more trouble for former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, as the new government pressed ahead with investigations into alleged corruption.
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Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with the imposition of 20616 percent tariffs on steel imports and 2000709 percent for aluminum on Thursday, though he announced exemptions for Canada and Mexico, and said exceptions could also be made for other allies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell on Friday and was headed for a fourth consecutive week of losses as British Prime Minister Theresa May pressed ahead with plans for a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal despite warnings it could topple her government.
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Diplomats in Myanmar say they have been quietly trying to persuade Suu Kyi to allow aid access for some time, with some voicing frustration that she has pressed ahead with a busy schedule of long overseas trips during the crisis.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead on Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German and French officials on Thursday pressed ahead with plans to jointly develop a next-generation fighter jet, a drone and a maritime airborne warfare aircraft, saying the projects showed European unity and strength in an increasingly uncertain world.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans lawmakers on Thursday pressed ahead in trying to strip down U.S. regulations, with the House of Representatives passing a bill that requires Congressional approval of major rulemakings that could affect areas ranging from the environment to education.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum, but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminium but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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Republicans were undeterred: They pressed ahead with the hearing over how platforms handle conservative content, grilling three Silicon Valley executives: Facebook's head of global policy, Monika Bickert; Twitter's senior policy strategist, Nick Pickles; and YouTube's head of policy, Juniper Downs.
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A U.S. Senate panel took Trump's proposal, announced on Wednesday, a step forward by unveiling a budget plan for the coming fiscal year that acknowledges lost revenues from tax cuts, while Trump pressed ahead with selling the plan to the public.
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Since then he has pressed ahead with plans to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, announced he will pull out of the Paris climate accord, and accused countries including Canada, Germany and China of unfair trade practices.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea pressed ahead with talks to include its northern neighbor in next month's Winter Olympics Wednesday, but Seoul's allies are voicing concern Pyongyang may be using the talks to buy time to pursue its weapons program.
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After the United States and South Korea pressed ahead with the deployment in Seongju, 135 miles southeast of Seoul, the capital, in April, Chinese customers boycotted South Korean cars, movies and television dramas, as well as South Korean-run supermarkets.
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Bombed-out buildings and destroyed roads, the result of ground fighting and air strikes, could be seen in the footage released on Thursday as the army pressed ahead with an offensive to retake all of Aleppo, once Syria's most populous city.
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The advocate general's advice is non-binding, but the prospect of a route out of the Brexit process cheered the market, even as Prime Minister Theresa May pressed ahead with plans for a parliamentary debate on her proposed divorce deal.
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Trump on Thursday pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminium on Thursday, though he announced exemptions for Canada and Mexico, and said exceptions could also be made for other allies.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve pressed ahead with plans to shrink its $4.5-trillion portfolio on Wednesday, mapping out a very gradual approach to shedding assets that allows it to begin the tricky process as soon as September.
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"Since the deal he has pressed ahead in his quest to become an autocrat, rejecting European criticisms with threats to scupper the refugee deal and let hundreds of thousands of refugees make their way to Greece again," the Economist writes.
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Organisers pressed ahead with the protest to demand the bill's full withdrawal, as well as to mark their anger at the way police handled a demonstration against it on Wednesday, when more than 53 people were injured by rubber bullets and tear gas.
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U.S. President Donald Trump raised fears of a trade war on Thursday when he pressed ahead with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminium but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp lifted its full-year profit guidance after posting its first quarterly net profit in more than two years as the Japanese liquid crystal display (LCD) maker pressed ahead with cost-cutting measures under new owner Foxconn of Taiwan.
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Lavrentiev made his comments as Turkey pressed ahead with its offensive in northern Syria despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria's Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by U.S. forces.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead on Thursday with import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent for aluminum but exempted Canada and Mexico and offered the possibility of excluding other allies, backtracking from an earlier "no-exceptions" stance.
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The Times ** A former Barclays Plc trader, Christopher Ashton, faces becoming the first individual to be fined over allegations that he rigged the foreign exchange market after U.S. regulators pressed ahead with moves to impose a penalty of more than $1 million. bit.
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President Trump used two events at the White House with the president of Finland on Wednesday to challenge Democrats as they pressed ahead with their investigation into whether Mr. Trump had abused the power of his office in seeking political dirt from Ukraine.
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LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battered again on Wednesday as lawmakers from his own party and the opposition pressed ahead to stop his plan for leaving the European Union without an agreement — and then turned down his call for an election.
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As Britain continued to grieve on Friday after an attack earlier this week at an Ariana Grande show in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people, investigators pressed ahead with efforts to unravel the network that is believed to assisted the bomber, Salman Abedi.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two inmates from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Serbia on Monday as the Obama administration pressed ahead with its long-held goal of shutting the widely condemned facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
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Organizers pressed ahead with the protest to demand the bill's full withdrawal, as well as to mark their anger at the way police handled a demonstration against it on Wednesday, when more than 53 people were injured by rubber bullets and tear gas.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, and the U.S. administration left open the possibility of "alternative remedies" for other countries.
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Valdis Dombrovskis, who is also vice president of the European Commission, said "lots of time and energy" would be spent on negotiating new trading terms if British Prime Minister Theresa May pressed ahead with a so-called "hard Brexit" plan to leave the single market.
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The United States has warned that it would impose sanctions on Turkey if it pressed ahead with the S-400 deal, but Ankara has said it would not back down and has so far dismissed the warnings, as relations between the NATO allies strained.
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After a long stretch in which Brazil pressed ahead with affirmative action policies, Mr. Temer's critics point out the lack of Afro-Brazilians in his cabinet, especially when nearly 51 percent of Brazilians define themselves as black or mixed race, according to the 2010 census.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday the Iran nuclear deal was not enough given that Tehran had increased its influence in the region and pressed ahead with ballistic missile tests, and offered to mediate between the United States and Iran.
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Turkey pressed ahead with its offensive against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and calls for it to stop, while Syria's Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by U.S. forces.
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If he rejects it, he risks further alienating an energy lobby that has accused him of wanting to wreck their industry as he has pressed ahead with plans to strengthen the environmental assessments of major new energy projects at a time of low prices.
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By evoking Article 49 of the French constitution, despite nationwide protests from the public for months, Hollande and his cabinet pressed ahead with changes to the workforce that include scrapping France's 35-hour week, as well as making it easier for employers to hire and fire employees.
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Trump has stood by the tariffs, despite resistance from his fellow Republicans and other countries, which have vowed to respond with levies of their own, and on Thursday, Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum.
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On Thursday the British government pressed ahead with what was supposed to be one of the easy parts of quitting the 28-nation bloc, introducing a parliamentary bill that essentially cuts and pastes European Union law onto the British statute book to ensure continuity when Britain leaves.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans pressed ahead in their deregulatory push on Tuesday, with the U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee officially adding a regulation on methane and one intended to root out pay discrimination to the list of rules the whole chamber will vote to kill on Wednesday.
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Michal Meidan, director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, said in a research note that China would probably impose charges on most, if not all, of its U.S. imports, including oil, if Trump pressed ahead with new tariffs at the start of September.
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ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish authorities on Tuesday suspended 12,800 police officers accused of having links to Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in exile in the United States, as Turkey pressed ahead with its sweeping crackdown on a network it says was behind the country's failed military coup.
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President Emmanuel Macron imposed on March 17 a lockdown to slow the spread of the virus, but doctors say they expect a wave of cases next week after the government pressed ahead with local elections and thousands of people mingled in parks and streets before they were confined at home.
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Rather than using the judgment to strengthen democracy in a country that descended into ethnic bloodshed after a disputed election in 2007, the government and electoral commission pressed ahead with a vote due on October 26th (after we went to press) that will be even less credible than that of August 8th.
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Despite concerns about reaching Indigenous communities, the Census Bureau, working with a tight budget, has pressed ahead with a plan to prioritize an internet-based head count; much of the country will get an invitation to fill out information online, and those who do not respond will be contacted in other ways.
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PARIS — Violent clashes erupted in Greek refugee camps among panicked migrants as Greece and the European Union pressed ahead on Friday with their intention to expel them from Europe and deport thousands back to Turkey, despite strong objections from rights groups and United Nations relief officials who say the plan is illegal and inhumane.
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LONDON — Weakened by the loss of her parliamentary majority, Britain's prime minister, Theresa May, pressed ahead on Thursday with legislative plans to extract her country from the European Union, publishing a dense, technical bill that will ultimately test her fragile grip on the job she wrested from a pack of rivals a year ago.
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But even as one arm of the federal government sought his help, another pressed ahead with his deportation, in a move that New Orleans officials, immigration advocates and labor lawyers said could have a chilling effect on immigrant workers who encounter safety violations and could also hamper the investigation into the Hard Rock Hotel collapse.
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Biden's advisers said the former vice president will be ready to take on Sanders and prevail against his attacks onstage just as he did when opponents Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julián Castro, and Bill de Blasio went after him, only to see their critiques fall flat as they lost ground and exited the race as Biden pressed ahead.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday brushed aside comments that he and Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) look like "weak leaders" after a majority of Republicans ignored their advice and pressed ahead with a plan to gut an independent ethics office.
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"We do not know how the new duties would impact global steel markets, as it is unclear how many products will be excluded," Yasuji Komiyama, director of the metal industries division of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, told a news conference U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead last month with higher import tariffs on steel and aluminum but temporarily excluded six trade partners, including Canada, Mexico and European Union.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE initially threatened Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with sanctions that would "destroy" the Turkish economy if Ankara pressed ahead with the incursion, but on Wednesday announced that the U.S. will lift sanctions after Turkey agreed to a cease-fire with Kurdish forces in the region.
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