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In the meantime, they lose nothing from pressing for bipartisanship.
Lawmakers are still pressing for the procedure to be free.
He said he had no interest in pressing for Mrs.
Mary Rezaian was in Tehran pressing for her son's release.
Unsurprising, then, to hear Lebanese leaders pressing for their return.
The Germans are alive, and now pressing for a second.
He's been pressing for such legislation since he became governor.
An activist investor is pressing for changes at the firm.
He is pressing for a 15 percent corporate tax rate.
Venezuela has been pressing for an emergency meeting of cartel members.
The exhibition's environmental concerns are pressing for the museum as well.
That could mean pressing for a sale, or replacing Mr. Dauman.
This week, he will return to pressing for more gun restrictions.
A social media campaign, #JusticeForRocky, has been pressing for his release.
Pressing for jobs, not pellet guns, departs radically from prior approaches.
"It was obvious what the president was pressing for," Holmes said.
Those pressing for Burgos to resign from his post include Rep.
President Obama remains committed to pressing for gun violence prevention measures.
Mr. Trump, he added, kept pressing for actions beyond his authority.
First lady Melania Trump and congressional leaders were pressing for action.
Trump has also been pressing for Congress to confirm his Cabinet nominees.
She kept messaging, pressing for details under the guise of professional curiosity.
The Bank of England and the FCA are pressing for a compromise.
T-Mobile's shareholders are pressing for better terms with a lower price.
"Throughout the '80s we were pressing for this stuff," Mr. Eisenstein recalled.
He said the U.S. has been pressing for inspectors on the ground.
Lawmakers are insistent they will keep pressing for answers from the administration.
Mariah, we're told, is pressing for the original in all its glory.
The family is also pressing for a lawsuit against the American government.
"The revenue side of it doesn't seem pressing for them," he said.
The business community began pressing for a halt to the extradition bill.
Boca Juniors is now pressing for the same sanctions for its rival.
Biden's camp denied that it was pressing for a sit-down debate.
They are also pressing for reviews of licensing agreements and joint ventures.
Insurers have been pressing for certainty as they plan for next year.
American friends of Europe should be bold in pressing for EU reform.
"Of course the president is pressing for a Biden investigation," Holmes said.
The White House is pressing for a cease-fire in the region.
All retailers must adapt, but the urgency is more pressing for some.
U.S. negotiators are pressing for more access to Canada's protected dairy market.
Steve King, R-Iowa, vowed to personally continue pressing for the ethics reforms.
Facing internal resistance, those pressing for change shift to an "arm's-length model".
But climate, particularly, is far too pressing for any of us to ignore.
Even more pressing for UPS is the changing nature of the delivery business.
Other LNG buyers, including top importer Japan, are also pressing for better terms.
Der Spiegel didn't name the investors it said were pressing for the change.
Stakeholders in the $1.3 trillion North American market should keep pressing for progress.
On the other is a growing group that is pressing for further opening.
Of the 276 regions, some are pressing for independence or much greater autonomy.
For decades Aboriginal Australians have been pressing for the return of the bones.
Airport workers in Orlando and Denver also are pressing for $153 minimum wages.
The company is still pressing for involvement in the project, according to sources.
The Enciso family have been pressing for government action more than a decade.
That said, pressing for on-the-record sessions is always the preferred route.
The developments have encouraged liberal groups pressing for higher taxes on the wealthy.
Another senior U.S. official said Washington would go on pressing for full accountability.
Democrats in a number of states have been pressing for gun control legislation.
London has been hoping and pressing for this to happen at the summit.
He endorsed the bill that immigration advocates and Democrats have been pressing for.
If every group pressing for change took the same approach, it would become unmanageable.
Engagement China has been pressing for the US to adopt yet another approach: engagement.
The crown prince is pressing for progress in modernizing GCC societies socially and economically.
Ravich was part of a dissident shareholder group pressing for changes at the company.
The scientists are pressing for a permanent ban on gill nets in the region.
But those hurdles may not be enough to sway governments pressing for banking consolidation.
Scott pressing for a concession Scott would like to get on with his life.
Senators who have been pressing for leadership to include the repeal hailed the decision.
Remaining inside the chamber while pressing for improvements would be a more worthwhile approach.
More pressing for Flynn might be what he told the FBI about the calls.
Some liberal Democrats potentially complicated matters by pressing for cuts in homeland security spending.
The litigants pressing for payment, the judges determined, had no right to the technology.
He took advantage of his stay to continue pressing for press freedom in Bangladesh.
But the Scottish National Party has delayed pressing for a second referendum on independence.
Former Conservative cabinet minister Josee Verner is among those pressing for Scheer to quit.
Mr. Lighthizer has said little in public while pressing for a comprehensive trade deal.
As Beauchamp notes, the forces pressing for Kashnuv's admission to be rescinded were bipartisan.
The protesters are also pressing for Palestinians' return to lands in what is now Israel.
McMaster was pressing for a faster decision-making process from the Pentagon and State Department.
The IMF and western donors are pressing for an independent audit of the secret loans.
They are also pressing for the release of transcripts of the FBI's interview with Clinton.
Democrats have been pressing for future open hearings, but there have been no agreements reached.
Republican members of Congress, however, want more, and they're pressing for a second Special Counsel.
With steel being diverted to Canada, Canadian steel groups have been pressing for safeguard measures.
The suggestion outraged members of Congress who have been pressing for more restrictions on ZTE.
She is determined to pursue this effort by pressing for an improved security clearance process.
President Trump has sent mixed signals, swerving between defending Saudi Arabia and pressing for answers.
Alexander has cited the risk of premium hikes or exiting plans in pressing for action.
Mr. Kaapehi, the councilor pressing for the removal, acknowledged that it was a difficult fight.
"FX volatility makes it more pressing for Turkish banks to want to offload," said Beckett.
Turkey is sending reinforcements into northwest Syria and pressing for a Turkish-controlled zone there.
"Scam" callers, he said, are apt to disconnect once the consumer starts pressing for details.
Instead, he said, he had been pressing for a broad anti-corruption crackdown in Ukraine.
So he's pressing for a sunnier tale: the monster defanged, the nation safe and sound.
House Democrats have been pressing for McGahn's testimony dating back to the start of 2019.
Transit advocates, who have been pressing for new revenue sources for months, praised the plan.
The Canadian envoy was pressing for a declaration on the illegitimacy of Mr. Maduro's government.
That last question is especially pressing for Ben, who also narrates the New York chapters.
President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi caused a crisis last year by pressing for a third term.
Grassley has been pressing for more information on any settlement between Mylan and the Justice Department.
He is working on a project pressing for a governance coordinating committee that would oversee development.
And with Labour leaders pressing for an early election instead, she is unlikely to secure them.
Legislators in nearly a dozen states are already pressing for greater state control over public lands.
" More than anything, Prescott said he is pressing for new solutions, and for "doing something different.
"Probably more pressing for the U.S. markets is the threat of another government shutdown," Twidale added.
Activist investors are now pressing for them to merge to avoid the same fate as Hanjin.
For now, despite Trump's aid, farm groups are still pressing for a change in trade policy.
That goal was followed by 35 minutes of England pressing for more and Wales digging in.
The proposed reforms are getting favorable reviews from Sanders supporters who had been pressing for change.
The Democrats say they never received a substantive response and are now pressing for answers again.
As recently as October, Denham had indicated he would keep pressing for debate on his bill.
His only real issue is pressing for quick yards after he already has taken a beating.
Tailwind veterans united in fierce protest, then began pressing for recognition of men like Sergeant Rose.
But Trump and some others within his administration have been pressing for a full bilateral meeting.
PRESSING FOR AID France and Germany have also said they stand ready to help their carriers.
South Korea is pressing for a goal now, but has failed to get many good chances.
" The White House and Republican leadership has been pressing for a group of the congressional "No.
Iran was not the only country pressing for the escape to be closed west of Mosul.
Even as the Ukraine crisis deepened, Exxon continued pressing for deeper involvement in Russia's oil industry.
Protesters and parliamentarians are pressing for courts to fast-track rape cases and demanding tougher penalties.
Cunningham and Blackwell ask him to contact his supervisor, as he continues pressing for Cunningham's identification.
The most powerless of economic players, low-wage workers, kept pressing for a $15 minimum wage.
Airlines have been pressing for planes that deliver savings on fuel — and therefore on emissions — for years.
Domestic protesters and foreign diplomats were also pressing for a parliamentary vote on the change of government.
Nadler still isn't publicly calling for an impeachment inquiry, but he's reportedly pressing for one in private.
But as those contracts expire, service companies have been pressing for price increases, and increasingly obtaining them.
The push accelerated in early and mid-250, with salespeople pressing for larger dollar amounts from members.
Then the administration of George W. Bush decided to settle the case without pressing for a breakup.
But the issue has become less pressing for voters than it was immediately after the Florida shooting.
Does he now start pressing for indictments so that it looks like he&aposs doing his job?
Germany had taken the lead among the many Western countries that had been pressing for her release.
For more on GE's stock performance, click That performance has some pressing for more urgency from Immelt.
Trump, via Twitter and talks with the Saudi King, is pressing for the New York Stock Exchange.
Such considerations will surely lead Ms Sturgeon to think hard before pressing for a second independence referendum.
Democrats, though, are pressing for an immediate infusion of $920 million outside of the regular appropriations process.
Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) is one of the Democrats pressing for Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate Barr.
He's pressing for a "clean" hike, free of extraneous provisions that could threaten passage of the bill.
While some lawmakers are pressing for a deal, there was more evidence on Sunday of positions hardening.
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is pressing for a civil lawsuit against Barclays (BARC.
With London pressing for action, Mr. Trump called foreign counterparts to see if they would join, too.
B. Xuma, was pressing for the recognition of black citizenship rights in terms of the Atlantic Charter.
The second goal opened up the game and both teams are pressing for a go-ahead goal.
That has lobbyists and influence peddlers pressing for some of the money, the NYT's Ken Vogel writes.
In her announcement pressing for Ms. Pelosi, Ms. Pressley pointedly noted that she also supported Ms. Lee.
They are by far the most effective and reliable voices pressing for good governance, accountability, and transparency.
House Republicans close to President Trump have been pressing for access to material related to the informant.
Democrats do not have subpoena authority, and Republicans have shown no interest in pressing for fuller records.
The United States is also pressing for full market access for U.S. pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
The United States is also pressing for full market access for U.S. pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
London is not part of the initiative but British officials have been pressing for third country involvement.
That's given leverage to Collins, who has been pressing for a number of changes to the bill.
Mr. Flynn said in October that he went to Moscow only to continue pressing for better relations.
Perhaps more pressing for Van Drew, however, was the difficult path to reelection he faces in 2020.
Brussels is pressing for an early notification but officials acknowledge Britain cannot be forced to give notice.
A group of moderates are also pressing for rules changes to loosen the speaker's control of legislation.
Local press reports taxi unions have been pressing for laws to be passed to regulate ride-hailing rivals.
They demonstrated in large numbers over the past three days, pressing for a rapid handover to civilian rule.
But that defeat, which had been widely expected, did not stop the government from pressing for an election.
But that defeat, which had been widely expected, did not stop the government from pressing for an election.
Consumer advocacy groups around the world — from Europe to Asia — are pressing for an investigation into the slowdown.
The Trump administration is standing with the Venezuelan people in pressing for an end to Maduro's illegitimate rule.
Although the Trump administration has been pressing for a quick deal, several major topics remain to be settled.
Pablo Iglesias, Podemos's leader, has been pressing for a formal coalition—a first in Spain's post-Franco era.
The result has been a demoralizing setback for those pressing for regulation of the billion-dollar-plus industry.
Democrats have been pressing for all of Trump's Cabinet picks to provide their tax returns to Senate committees.
STARBOARD VALUE LP AMASSES 4 PERCENT STAKE IN ZAYO GROUP HOLDINGS INC, SENDS LETTER PRESSING FOR COMPANY SALE
Netanyahu has been pressing for the United States to recognize its claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Henriksson said Scania was also pressing for faster payment as sanctions could potentially close financing networks by November.
It started with students pressing for speakers to be disinvited from graduation speeches—sometimes liberals, but often conservatives.
Jordan isn't the only celebrity pressing for black Georgians to make it to the ballot box on Tuesday.
Mr. Sondland "responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for."
She became a Christian preacher and grew increasingly political in pressing for abolition, women's suffrage and prison reform.
Democrats are pressing for a two-year deal on raising both the spending caps and the debt limit.
Alexander initially only wanted to fund the payments for one year, while Democrats were pressing for two years.
His allies have been increasingly vocal in pressing for the president's retirement to make way for Mr. Mnangagwa.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah cites the digital currency's volatility in court documents pressing for the sale.
Many of the ballot measures were concentrated in the West, where leaders are pressing for new transit options.
However, U.S. ethanol producers, who have been pressing for a total end to the tariffs, criticized the decision.
After five years of pressing for parity, the collective known as the Kilroys says it is seeing progress.
Warren takes aim at corporate executives while pressing for class solidarity among workers across race and immigration status.
As of Wednesday night, Mr. McConnell's aides were pressing for the combination, according to a senior Democratic aide.
Williams has also said that "time is pressing" for a rethink of the Fed's 2 percent inflation target.
But by late August, Admiral Rogers, its director, was pressing for a more muscular response to the Russians.
Ambassador Sondland responded that president Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for.
Of course, the president is pressing for a Biden investigation before he'll do these things the Ukrainians want.
For more on GE's stock performance, click [L24N22020IB2.13OI] That performance has some pressing for more urgency from Immelt.
Sylvester Turner, the mayor, said he was pressing for Houston to return to normal as quickly as possible.
The United States was pressing for the agreement to specifically welcome the use of so-called clean coal.
"New York can do even more" in pressing for energy efficiency, said Paul Gallay, the president of Riverkeeper.
The government is pressing for the liquidation of KCM which it has accused of breaching its operating licence.
Many of the students have been pressing for government to pass gun control laws following the school shooting.
" Mr. Wu said, "The missile launch just isn't as pressing for China as a nuclear test might be.
Democrats evoked President-elect Donald Trump, a working class hero in coal country, in pressing for more benefits. Sen.
After ignoring OPEC in 2017, Trump has tweeted at the cartel numerous times this year, pressing for lower prices.
So Germany and northern countries in particular are pressing for more "risk reduction" before "risk sharing," Mr. Dombrovskis said.
The Jats have been pressing for the reclassification for years, but India's Supreme Court rejected their request in 2015.
NGOs pressing for greater transparency in Congo, such as Belgium-based Resource Matters, say that would be long overdue.
Urging a speedier cut in national budget deficits rankles in some countries; pressing for more defence spending irritates others.
Burr and Warner have been pressing for the meeting with Mueller since he was first appointed a month ago.
The term "hostage justice" refers to holding the suspect in custody while pressing for the "ransom" of a confession.
Trump, seeking elected office for the first time, has touted his business acumen in pressing for change in Washington.
They are pressing for a more serious discussion on 5G before the auction process begins, the senior official said.
At the same time, Washington is pressing for ratification of a new continental trade pact with Canada and Mexico.
Activist investors are now pressing for them to merge to avoid the same fate as the South Korean line.
Before the Algiers meeting Bouterfa had been pressing for a 1 million bpd OPEC production cut to stabilize prices.
Democrats have been pressing for an immigration vote in the House and would be expected to back the petition.
Berlin is pressing for more EU cash for Ankara, beyond an agreed 3 billion euros, which Italy is blocking.
In his brief remarks, Mr. Trump leveled the accusation — which his supporters have been pressing for weeks — that Mrs.
In point of fact, powerful commercial interests are often at the forefront of pressing for competition-stifling new laws.
"Taylor said Sondland "responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for.
As the EU initiative, known as Permanent Structured Cooperation, has gained momentum, British officials have been pressing for involvement.
Gunn was pressing for weekend time, and protesting about not being included on the planned reunion trip to Ethiopia.
A lawyer could go beyond Mr. Marsh's guilt or innocence, by pressing for solutions like treatment instead of jail.
And while he speaks with urgency about the need to continue pressing for change, one feeling has stayed constant.
They were also pressing for additional safeguards to prevent companies from taking federal funds and then laying off workers.
The demonstrators are pressing for a right of return for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.
Speaking of regulating tech … • Yelp is using the moment to continue pressing for a tighter rein on tech giants.
Because Belgium is pressing for a second goal, Panama gets a strong counter opportunity, but Courtois handles the rush.
But the shortfall this year is especially pressing for Republicans — and increasingly appears to be based on ideological rivalries.
Is it more likely that Mr. Trump was earnestly concerned about protecting American interests by pressing for the investigations?
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)Saudi Arabia is not pressing for war, but its options to avoid one are narrowing.
Since USA TODAY Network published its investigation in June, elected officials across the country have been pressing for action.
After GM's bankruptcy in 0003, workers told CNN Business, the job became harder, with management pressing for less downtime.
So newsrooms large and small are pressing for the info -- from 675 agencies in all 58 counties so far.
As Trump limps forward, unable to shake the Russia scandal, Republicans must join Democrats in pressing for faster answers.
He advocated a policy of containment of Iran's power, pressing for allies in the region to isolate the country.
They have demonstrated in large numbers over the past three days, pressing for a rapid handover to civilian rule.
They might hear about the budget snub the next time they are pressing for an administration official to turn up.
U.S. senators in Washington are pressing for economic sanctions and travel restrictions targeting the Myanmar military and its business interests.
California State Teachers Retirement System and Hermes Equity Ownership Services are among the five investment groups pressing for the changes.
During Kardashian's appearance on Thursday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the host couldn't resist pressing for information on Jenner.
But the League is pressing for a fiscal gap at least 2 percent to carry out its ambitious tax plans.
The company diversified its business by licensing content to streaming services and pressing for higher fees from pay TV operators.
When Bush was pressing for passage of a budget plan months into his tenure, he navigated Air Force One west.
Republicans are pressing for perjury charges against the former secretary of State over her testimony to the House Benghazi committee.
Fleming and other members of the House Freedom Caucus have been pressing for a vote on Koskinen's impeachment for months.
Mr. Schwirtz: Reverend Risher, what has it been like to be directly involved with the gun issue, pressing for legislation.
Bannon-allied primary challengers to other GOP incumbents could affect the Senate debate by pressing for a higher top rate.
He also appeared to win an internal fight with others in the administration pressing for a harder line on spending.
Meanwhile, Trump administration officials have been pressing for a clean reauthorization of the program, characterizing it vital to national security.
Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee who has been pressing for Manafort's appearance since the summer.
"Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," Taylor testified.
On the Democratic side, Mr. Sanders has been pressing for an additional debate in New York, a wish that Mrs.
More pressing for the teachers' unions, the ruling jeopardizes a funding stream that has made them political heavyweights for decades.
His White House also has been pressing for the Taliban to sit down for direct talks with the Afghan government.
Mr. Mueller is investigating whether Mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice in pressing for an end to the Flynn inquiry.
On Friday, Nicole and Victor joined hundreds of Facebook cafeteria workers in unionizing in hopes of pressing for higher wages.
His message seemed at odds with the administration's repeated claim that it is not pressing for regime change in Iran.
With Peter Bergmann, there are no loved ones that we know of, and only professionally concerned advocates pressing for answers.
They have been pressing for safer schools, lobbying for more restrictive gun laws and demanding a ban on assault weapons.
Democrats said the Bolton manuscript made it all the more pressing for the Senate to call Bolton as a witness.
This is particularly pressing for Democrats because the best argument against centralized price setting is that it will slow innovation.
He has previously said that compromising on border security now and not pressing for a wall would betray his conservative base.
Eldorado's debt hovers around 8 billion reais, and J&F's lenders are pressing for a sale, the sources said in May.
Back in Washington, U.S. senators are pressing for economic sanctions and travel restrictions targeting the Myanmar military and its business interests.
Pablo Iglesias, Podemos's leader, has been pressing for a formal coalition, which would be a first in Spain's current democratic period.
He said the Parliament was still pressing for more from London on guarantees for the rights of EU citizens in Britain.
And states that have been damaged recently by heavy flooding are pressing for federal aid to be added to funding resolution.
That's nearly double the $22013 billion President Trump is now pressing for to build the wall on our border with Mexico.
Beyond improved vaccines, equally pressing for the future of public health will be addressing pandemics that have not yet even begun.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pressing for a vote this week before lawmakers leave town for the July 4 recess.
Republicans also are pressing for policy wins on blocking environmental regulations such as Obama's sweeping expansion of the Clean Water Act.
Even more pressing for everyday Americans is the pharmaceutical industry's increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its death grip on drug markets.
It is not hard to see why the crown prince is pressing for quicker results driven by an Aramco share sale.
In Liberia, a women's nonviolent social movement played critical roles in pressing for a ceasefire and negotiating for a democratic transition.
Mylan has drawn scrutiny in the past for its sharp price increases for EpiPens, with lawmakers pressing for answers in 2016.
Some of Mr. Corbyn's allies have been pressing for "mandatory reselection" of all candidates in every district before another British election.
Rick Snyder testify on Capitol Hill — while also pressing for a federal criminal investigation into state officials at the highest levels.
A closer Senate vote might have strengthened Pelosi's hand in pressing for the more explicit protections for migrant children, they argued.
Sanders has long positioned himself as a democratic socialist, railing against wealth inequality, pressing for universal healthcare and combating climate change.
Most pressing for the company right now, however, is a coming FTC ruling stemming from complaints received as early as 2015.
The shift is stark enough that Democrats are pressing for victory in Arizona and Georgia, two historically Republican strongholds, while Mrs.
By pressing for change while contending for championships, Williams, Rodina and all the other tennis-playing mothers are empowering younger players.
Officials at Amtrak, which owns Penn Station and the existing tunnels, have been pressing for it for years since former Gov.
On Wednesday, CNN reported that Barr had also been pressing for a sentence for Flynn that would spare him from prison.
Meanwhile, the state of Georgia has temporarily closed two facilities and lawmakers there are pressing for the closure of a third.
The National League of Cities will also be on the Hill on Wednesday pressing for Congress to actually get infrastructure done.
" A Justice Department spokeswoman said Parnas' allegation that Barr was "on the team" pressing for the Biden investigation was "100% false.
The United Nations is pressing for increased humanitarian access to other parts of Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya remain.
Lawmakers are pressing for the full whistleblower complaint that was filed in August and raised concerns about Trump's interactions with Ukraine.
President Trump is reportedly pressing for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit next month in Germany.
Increasing the credit could be a response to the growing movement pressing for a higher minimum wage or a living wage.
People pressing for the statues to be moved argued it was wrong to celebrate generals who had fought to preserve slavery.
He is pressing for a simpler tax code, a lower corporate tax rate and the closing of loopholes for special interests.
Freeland, Lighthizer and Mexico's Ildefonso Guajardo are pressing for a quick deal to avoid clashing with Mexico's July 1 presidential election.
He said Wednesday he plans to reintroduce the measure in 2019, while automakers plan to keep pressing for extension of the credit.
All of these anxieties, over Islam, refugees, the EU and globalisation, are as pressing for European voters today as they were yesterday.
Mr Trump's threat to withdraw America's security umbrella provides a useful argument to those Europeans pressing for more defence spending at home.
Democrats have responded by pressing for new gun laws that make it harder for people with suspected terrorist links to buy weapons.
The array of global challenges is one reason why the U.S. military has been pressing for an upgrade of America's nuclear infrastructure.
It would remain deeply fractured, with different segments vying for control and angry Trump supporters looming in the background pressing for change.
Paul, Cruz, and Mike Lee, are pressing for a full repeal of the ACA and a replacement that looks nothing like it.
Yet in pressing for action, they show that their voice matters, that the party cannot direct all social change from the top.
On the investigation into the alleged embezzlement of Venezuelan aid funds, the president said his acting government was pressing for an update.
Corker said after the vote that he would keep pressing for the Senate to pass stand-alone legislation on Trump's tariff authority.
She is also pressing for a refundable tax credit for adult dependent care, paid for by closing a loophole on carried interest.
Cubans have grown bolder in pressing for reforms to Cuba's centrally planned economy, as well as for broader access to the internet.
The tensions forced Pelosi to balance those concerns with those of advocacy groups pressing for a more aggressive approach to environmental protection.
While the Trump administration is increasingly looking to the skies and pressing for a Space Force, DARPA is focusing on operations underground.
But if Wednesday's hearing is anything like the one from July, lawmakers will be pressing for specific answers and commitments from Zuckerberg.
These trends are even more pressing for younger Latinx voters, who have less family wealth to rely on than their white peers.
No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general's dismissal.
Now, some of the most influential militia leaders are working directly with the Americans and pressing for a continued American military presence.
In fact, multiple countries were pressing for the firing of the prosecutor, who they thought was turning a blind eye to corruption.
The Trump administration had been pressing for a total ban on Huawei products, alleging that Beijing could use the equipment for snooping.
Yet perhaps most pressing for Google leadership right now is the company's past and current handling of sexual harassment and labor activism.
Decades ago, many of the same people pressing for marijuana legalization argued that the risks of opioid addiction could be easily managed.
But other sources said Verizon was pressing for a higher amount that is likely to settle between $300 million and $350 million.
Making this timing all the more pressing for T-Mobile is the fact that 5G is supposed to start rolling out in 2020.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, in pressing for answers from the Department of Justice and supporting public hearings.
He's pressing for the overall number of cars — private or public taxis — to be limited, so they don't disrupt the overall transportation market.
Similarly, even Fed officials pressing for higher rates have said the data will have to hold up to get the Fed to move.
Italy's second-largest party, the Five Star Movement (M5S), is pressing for one, as are two of the three parties on the right.
What's next: Farrar is pressing for governments to create a commercial impetus for companies to figure out how to navigate the new age.
He took care to start with less controversial matters, such as the protection of external borders, before pressing for new euro-zone institutions.
That's when people first started pressing for US commitments not to use the bomb except in retaliation, if the Soviet Union bombed us.
Cameron is also pressing for Britain to able to hold up euro zone legislation if it feels its vital interests are at risk.
At his own expense, and against considerable resistance from the legal community, Herman began pressing for Hawkins's posthumous reinstatement to the Florida Bar.
Apart from other demands on trade and reforms, U.S. negotiators are believed to be pressing for assurances China will not devalue the yuan.
Pressing for consistency is the key moving forward, while also assuring major voting blocks of the base of the Party are not ignored.
Eldorado's debt hovers around 8 billion reais ($2.4 billion), and J&F lenders are pressing for a sale, sources told Reuters last month.
Since 1776, when Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations", those pressing for global openness have won more battles than they have lost.
In 2009, Mr. Icahn took a stake in the drug maker Forest Laboratories and spent the next five years pressing for changes there.
Critics say those guidelines have hampered business, and members of Congress started pressing for a rollback shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration as president.
While Barr nevertheless appears on track to get confirmed given the Republican majority in the Senate, Democrats are still pressing for more answers.
An article last Sunday about the Broadway musical "Hamilton" misstated the point at which the show's performers began collectively pressing for profit-sharing.
Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of [Joe] Biden, which [Trump's personal lawyer Rudy] Giuliani was pressing for.
Ms. Constand's decision to file a civil suit against Mr. Cosby before pressing for criminal charges also "impacts her credibility," Ms. Agrusa said.
But some in Congress, including Jordan, appear at odds with the administration, which is pressing for a permanent authorization of the current law.
Tourists and local business owners have long been pressing for stronger measures against feeding the gulls than mere warning signs, he told Reuters.
That study points out ten area of research deficiency that are very pressing for military caregivers, ranging from the issues that face children.
The Sunshine in Government Initiative, a group of press organizations, sent a letter to every senator last week pressing for a quick vote.
But a year later, as the city pursues an appeal, members of the City Council and activists are still pressing for the information.
The sugar industry has been pressing for a new agreement after they say a 85033 deal failed to rein in Mexico's trade violations.
The coronavirus outbreak has sparked a scramble in Washington as major industries and companies are pressing for aid to weather the economic downturn.
The Trump administration said it was pressing for unspecified reforms from the agency, while also seeking to get Arab countries to contribute more.
County elections officials throughout New York had been pressing for a delay, pointing to logistical difficulties tied to the state's growing coronavirus crisis.
A last-ditch push to repeal the Affordable Care Act is underway in the Senate: Republicans are pressing for a vote next week.
The ACLU announced the results of its test in pressing for passage of a bill to ban the technology in police body cameras.
But in round two, the pending threat of bull penis proved more pressing for the Biebs than possibly upsetting his wife, Hailey Bieber.
Trump said he is looking forward to meeting Kim "very soon" and indicated the North Koreans are pressing for talks to begin immediately.
Democrats have been pressing for testimony from White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former Trump national security adviser John Bolton and others.
In pressing for bail, McDuff repeatedly cited prosecutorial misconduct and accused Evans' office of a "pattern of favors" in securing testimony against Flowers.
Collins has been pressing for a provision that would allow taxpayers to deduct up to $10,000 in property taxes from their tax bills.
Democrats are also pressing for a new enforcement measure that would allow inspections of Mexican factories accused of violating the agreement's labor rules.
But in the aftermath of the temporary reauthorization last month, lawmakers are pressing for more debate over a long-term solution before Dec.
"We have many, many layers of questions that need to be answered, and I have been pressing for a public hearing," she said.
Matilde Sandoval, a 57-year-old merchant from Ureña near the Colombian border, attended a recent rally pressing for the delivery of aid.
But top BJP lieutenants, such as its President Amit Shah, have been increasingly vocal in pressing for a new temple on the site.
Macron says taxing big tech more heavily is a matter of social justice and is pressing for a universal tax code for digital services.
The federation is pressing for an expedited resolution ahead of a four-team tournament it has scheduled for the women's team in early March.
With that in mind, Zervos agreed to meet up with Trump at a Beverly Hills Hotel soon after to keep pressing for a contract.
Democratic leaders are pressing for votes on gun control, college affordability, campaign finance, and other party priorities but are unlikely to get much traction.
If there was ever a time that fans were pressing for Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak to get back together, it was last night.
Workers are pressing for talks on closure terms, which can improve on guaranteed worker provisions in a contract, said CEVA local Chairperson Keith Poulin.
They are now pressing for an end to the conflict that has killed more than 10,000 and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
Many Democrats, too, are pressing for actions like creating a no-fly zone and trying to bring war crimes charges against the Syrian leader.
And JK2 Westminster kept pressing for the rest of the money, sending out one process server after another to present Warren with legal papers.
Michigan has been pressing for higher levels of government support, even after Obama signed an emergency declaration for the Flint crisis over the weekend.
McConnell is pressing for a vote next week, even though he can only afford to lose two Republicans in order to pass the measure.
The domestic sugar industry has been pressing for a new agreement after they say a 2014 deal failed to rein in Mexico's trade violations.
Policymakers responded by pressing for more conservation, encouraging the development of overseas reserves, reserving domestic supplies for future military needs, or experimenting with alternatives.
This month, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli sent a letter to Exxon Mobil describing that report as insufficient and pressing for more details.
Labor and environmental groups are pressing for the Trump administration to reopen the negotiations, arguing that the implementing legislation can make only marginal changes.
Mr. Khan said he would begin pressing for the same sort of devolved powers that the national government has granted to Scotland and Wales.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill had also sounded the alarm, sending letters to the company and to the Food and Drug Administration pressing for answers.
Some Democrats are pressing for changes, saying Congress should be consulted on any nuclear weapons launch, since it would take the country into war.
Connecting markets has become more pressing for ASEAN - a grouping of 10 regional economies - as competition from financial market connections elsewhere in Asia grows.
"Influential supervisory board members" are pressing for CFO Lohr to be appointed CEO before the annual general meeting on May 11, the magazine said.
We hope they will join us in pressing for the Trump administration to reverse course and ensure sports aren't turned into a political tool.
Still, company executives have expressed confidence in the speed of the process, and Mr. Smith is likely to keep pressing for a timely conclusion.
Goodlatte is also pressing for information about whether the Justice Department under the Obama administration slow-walked the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
And those conditions continued under Mr. Kania, causing more turmoil, with Solidarity pressing for greater freedoms and the Soviet Union calling for a crackdown.
Mr. Johnson is also pressing for several other new regulations, including a move to set minimum pay rules for drivers working for app services.
Japan, still pressing for a victory, forced two saves from Courtois in stoppage time — including one that would eventually lead to Chadli's winning goal.
In fact, no evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general's dismissal.
Gerrymandered maps were once part of an unspoken agreement between rivals that pressing for political advantage was, within limits, part of the electoral game.
Mr. Trump blindsided the Republican leaders, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who were pressing for an 18-month deal.
In Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner reiterated on Wednesday evening that he was pressing for the city to return to normal as quickly as possible.
The Committee will continue investigating, litigating and legislating regarding these matters—including pressing for answers to our prior requests about the G7 selection process.
"Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," Taylor told Congress on Wednesday. Rep.
Pelosi's appearance, pushed leaders into pressing for Conyers's resignation from the House, though a significant portion of the Congressional Black Caucus disagreed with this.
American officials repeatedly returned to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with intelligence reports on remaining chemical stocks, pressing for further action.
After the Watergate cover-up began unraveling in mid-1973, a cadre of Democrats on the Judiciary Committee started pressing for President Nixon's impeachment.
After the Watergate cover-up began unraveling in mid-1973, a cadre of Democrats on the Judiciary Committee started pressing for President Nixon's impeachment.
And JK2 Westminster kept pressing for the rest of the money, sending out one process server after another to present Warren with legal papers.
House Democrats are now investigating whether Trump attempted to slow-walk millions of dollars worth of foreign aid to Ukraine while pressing for investigations.
Byrne is pressing for changes in how Congress deals with sexual harassment charges so that members follow the same rules as the private sector.
Older member states in the West like France and Germany are pressing for a European Union that allows countries to integrate at different speeds.
The effort is not explicitly about climate change, but it's likely to promote many of the climate-friendly practices that advocates are pressing for.
House Freedom Caucus leaders have been pressing for a transcribed interview with Rosenstein, not just a meeting with him to explain his comments. Rep.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is pressing for a deal in principle to avoid clashing with Mexican presidential elections on July 1.
Ms. Park's conservatives, in power for four years, had joined the United States in pressing for a hard line against North Korea's nuclear program.
More immediately, Boeing is pressing for licenses to conclude sales of 109 aircraft to Iran, including leased jets, despite opposition from some in Congress.
And in Britain, lawmakers are pressing for stronger rules to ensure that women will never again be forced to wear high heels at work.
" The aide told Taylor that Sondland subsequently relayed "that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which [Rudy] Giuliani was pressing for.
Three House Republicans, including Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, sent a letter to Mr. Trump on Wednesday pressing for new leadership at the Fed.
Britain's main opposition Labour Party is pressing for a new election and for May to rule out the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.
There are growing calls for Charchal to resign and activists are pressing for widespread reforms of a judicial system that they say has been politicized.
It was not immediately clear whether, in his remarks at the summit, Trump was referring to that Justice Department action or pressing for further steps.
Instead, the officials say, Beijing is pressing for targeted sanctions against individuals in the North Korean nuclear complex, which are unlikely to have serious repercussions.
But others argued that climate campaigners should be less focused on shaming individual flyers and more on the pressing for research on low-carbon travel.
The GOP keeps pressing for it because they don't want it to work - they want to enrich corporations off the backs of the working class.
Verizon Communications is pressing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, the New York Post reported, citing sources.
Some call it a thinly veiled attempt to squelch political criticism of Israel, including student movements pressing for divestiture or boycotts against the Jewish state.
Detroit-based GM has been pressing for a deal barring those legacy Opel models from markets including China, Russia and Latin America, sources have said.
The U.S. is pressing, for instance, to change phrases such as "gender-based violence" to "violence against women" in a draft paper about sex trafficking.
Stop The HIT — a 28503-member-plus coalition representing small business owners, their employers and the self-employed — is among those pressing for immediate action.
Both they and the South Korean government were pressing for talks at the DMZ and were encouraged by Trump's public endorsement of holding them there.
Waters will lead the Financial Services Committee, and has been pressing for an investigation into potential money laundering, particularly involving Trump's loans with Deutsche Bank.
Threatening tariffs, the Trump administration is pressing for increased access to Chinese markets, reduced protection for Chinese exporters and greater protection for American intellectual property.
The president and his administration have riled some in Silicon Valley by pressing for access to devices like the iPhone during criminal and terrorism investigations.
Many scientists and others pressing for a more sustainable human relationship with the environment had latched onto the word and idea as a rallying point.
EU governments have failed so far to agree on launching formal trade talks, Germany pressing for a quick start, and France bidding for more time.
But, that didn't stop him from pressing for a fight against Joshua in his own back yard and calling his future foe out on Showtime.
Throughout, women's speeches were the stars of the show, defined by their clarity in pressing for tangible change -- not merely in Hollywood, but across society.
The Patriots trailed the Chiefs, 33-30, with five and a half minutes left and were pressing for a touchdown at the Kansas City 403.
Mr. Kleinfeld was ousted from that job this year after making veiled threats to an activist investor who was pressing for changes to the company.
Wallace shows how plutocrats like J.P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt joined political leaders in pressing for the merger of Manhattan with the four other boroughs.
And even if he flat-out cheated you, are you sure it's worth pressing for the full commission (before you line up a replacement gig)?
In three decades of pressing for prison abolition, the activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, above, has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
In a statement issued after the indictments, Mr. Sam Rainsy called on the European Union to continue pressing for a return to democracy in Cambodia.
The union is pressing for more job security as well as the reopening of plants in the United States that the company has recently idled.
It was only after clearly wounded troops began complaining of poor treatment that Congress got involved and military leaders began pressing for better diagnostic technology.
The state of play: 2020 Democrats are pressing for protection against workplace discrimination, advocating for LGBTQ rights abroad, and changing HIV-specific criminal exposure laws.
This was not out of lack of respect for the American game — as Russell suspected — but because there were other issues pressing for my attention.
JOSEPH GIUSTRA, NEW YORK To the Editor: The argument that we need more proof before pressing for impeachment proceedings against President Trump belies the facts.
A group of Democrats is pressing for details on whether major cogs in the financial system are prepared to weather a major financial storm. Sens.
May, who was home secretary for six years before becoming prime minister, has been pressing for a tougher line against Islamist extremism for some time.
Wyden is pressing for additional information about how the NRA spent foreign contributions and whether that money could have been aimed at influencing American audiences.
Those insiders promptly set about propping up a deeply inequitable economic system rather than pressing for the "change" Obama had made central to his campaign.
Small oil producers revolutionized the sector through advances in horizontal drilling and fracking, but their stock prices have languished with investors pressing for higher returns.
He led a group of about a dozen Democrats in pressing for changes in the bill to prevent federal subsidies from being used for abortions.
Boutrous is currently pressing for the release of details related to a grand jury subpoena sent by Mueller to an unnamed foreign-government-owned company.
Indeed, Moscow has already started applying military, media and economic pressure, mainly through manipulation of its energy subsidies and pressing for military bases in Belarus.
The Senate majority leader is pressing for a short trial and a vote on the articles of impeachment sometime soon after the trial gets underway.
Those steps included sending a U.S.-led military coalition officer to a key military base there and pressing for an interim Kurdish governor of Kirkuk.
Many doctors are pressing for primary care providers to strongly recommend the HPV vaccine in tandem with the other two that preteen children now typically receive.
Image 2 of 2 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is pressing for negotiations involving the sides in the Yemen conflict so the humanitarian crisis doesn&apost worsen.
In pressing for dismissal with prejudice, Schmack cited an appeals court's findings that the FBI and police reports from 1957 could have come into the trial.
The opposition has long called Lopez a political prisoner, and leaders around the world, including U.S. President Donald Trump, had been pressing for his full freedom.
Chances of closing a deal with an investor are small, one of the sources said, because Kumruian is pressing for a valuation that is considered unrealistic.
As suggested by Rudy Giuliani's publicity tour, Mueller is still pressing for an interview and evidently willing to subpoena the President if it is not forthcoming.
Rock megastar and international aid advocate Bono dominated the spotlight in the Senate on Tuesday, pressing for additional support for global refugees during a subcommittee hearing.
Two Democratic Massachusetts lawmakers are pressing for legislation that crack down on the use of so-called "gay panic" and "trans panic" defenses in federal court.
A Democratic lawmaker pressing for Congress to act on gun safety bills says her colleagues need to change the "conversation" about guns to change the laws.
The company now has more than 500 employees, and Mr. Collison is part of a group of Silicon Valley executives and investors pressing for immigration reform.
The topic was second only to the economy when Gallup asked Americans last month what challenge is the most pressing for the next president to address.
Many Pacific islands are pressing for the region to embrace limiting global temperature rises to no more than 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
"We ask that the United States play a leading role in pressing for the strong consideration of qualified women," the seven Democratic senators wrote to Obama.
The family of the teenager, Ramarley Graham, has waged a public battle, pressing for Officer Richard Haste, who shot Mr. Graham, to be held to account.
New York taxi drivers, emboldened by five suicides in their ranks and desperate financial straits, are pressing for laws to protect them against ride-hailing companies.
MSF, which lost 12 staff members and 10 patients in the bombing, has called the Pentagon's internal investigation insufficient, and is pressing for an international inquiry.
In addition, the bodies are pressing for a procedure whereby consumers would be notified before their content is removed or given an opportunity to challenge it.
President Obama on Tuesday will announce new steps to ramp up the fight against opioid abuse while pressing for millions more dollars to stem the epidemic.
The National Retail Federation, meanwhile, secured a tweak to the Republican tax law that it had been pressing for since shortly after its passage in 2017.
When the screws tightened again in Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, she and other Moscow intellectuals risked their lives to keep pressing for freedom and human rights.
For Republicans, now in the minority, the retirement of Speaker Paul D. Ryan has created jostling among conservatives pressing for a younger or harder-line leadership.
The White House is also pressing for the resignation of Claire Grady, the acting deputy secretary, who under law would normally fill in for Ms. Nielsen.
"And in order to help poor, expectant mothers and families, we are pressing for the expansion of the child tax credit to include the unborn child."
More important, the legislators pressing for the passage of this bill are dishonest in their motives and willfully blind to the consequences of its probable passage.
The system must be resilient enough so that sharing does not spike during disease crises and taper off when other problems seem more pressing for governments.
Croft told the House committees conducting the investigation that she received phone calls from Livingston in the summer of 1303 pressing for the dismissal of Yovanovitch.
Defense hawks are pressing for the BCA caps to be repealed and are expecting a deal to be worked out between Republicans and Democrats by September.
To the chagrin of some House and Senate liberals, Republicans made Democrats back down by pressing for a simple extension of government funding at existing levels.
Vladeck said DOJ appears unlikely to succeed in the appellate court but can still take its time in pressing for additional judicial scrutiny on the case.
" In a release published on Wednesday, Northeastern said they were still pressing for information and "have not received a satisfactory explanation from Customs and Border Protection.
Giuliani and Trump had been pressing for an investigation into whether Biden, as vice president, pressured a Ukrainian prosecutor to drop a probe of the company.
Both the White House and congressional aides have said in recent days that a deal could come shortly, and are pressing for a vote before Christmas.
"He's filling it with bigger swamp creatures," said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, who is pressing for nominees to be required to disclose tax returns.
Mr. Grillo, a former comedian, said that Italians should waste no time pressing for a new electoral law and for the dismantling of the old order.
The Trump administration, Republicans and business groups have been pressing for Congress to put the deal up for a vote before the end of the year.
They are pressing for a right of return for refugees to the villages and towns where their families lived before 1948 in what is now Israel.
Andrew M. Cuomo is pressing for congestion pricing, a proposal to toll cars entering the busiest parts of Manhattan to raise money for the transit system.
The White House's acting budget chief is pressing for parts of the US's Huawei ban to be delayed an additional two years, The Wall Street Journal reports.
That agreement did not address the citizenship status of Rohingya, and Bangladesh has been pressing for a repatriation process that provided Rohingya with more safeguards this time.
May's deal has come under fire from all sides — with opponents of the EU seeking a cleaner break and many pro-Europeans pressing for a second referendum.
Centrist Republicans, meanwhile, are pressing for permanent protections that could lead to citizenship for the "Dreamers," immigrants who were brought illegally as children to the United States.
During campaign rallies, Trump often fired up his supporters by calling for pressing for investigations of Hillary Clinton, spurring chants of "Lock her up!" by the crowd.
France, Renault's biggest shareholder with a 15% stake, had been pressing for its own guaranteed seat on the new board and an effective veto on CEO appointments.
Icahn, who has been pressing for a sale of Caesars, held a 513% stake in the company as of March 251, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has dismissed media reports that the government is pressing for a merger of the country's two main banks before May as "speculation".
With the Blue Jackets pressing for the equalizer in the third, the Avs put the game out of reach with Nieto's goal at the 18:25 mark.
Although the ministers are pressing for a quick deal to avoid clashing with a July 1 presidential election in Mexico, major differences remain on several U.S. demands.
Yet, not demanding serious explanations and justifications for the current U.S. trade approaches and not pressing for immediate adjustments as merited could well cost the U.S. dearly.
"We know the Trump administration is strongly pressing for short timelines and quicker progress," Mair said at the event showcasing ties between Germany and the United States.
The women are pressing for more immediate action, asking the E.E.O.C. to throw out the old contract and to force U.S. Soccer to match the men's compensation.
"Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," Taylor testified, referring to Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
GOP lawmakers are also pressing for action on reforms that have been under discussion for months by the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Reform. Sen.
A House Democrat is pressing for a congressional investigation into a mobile network flaw that could allow hackers to eavesdrop on phone conversations all over the world.
The activists had been pressing for the release of a village leader, Lin Zuluan, who was sentenced last week to three years in prison on corruption charges.
A bipartisan pair of senators is pressing for more information on the Trump administration's approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.  Sens.
Things began to change in 22016, when the left-leaning general Omar Torrijos seized power and began pressing for Panama to gradually assume control of the canal.
GOP lawmakers are struggling to hash out a disaster bill, and some have expressed frustrations to the White House, pressing for Trump to agree to a deal.
"Time is pressing for victims of homosexual persecution to get their unfair convictions lifted and see their dignity restored," Der Spiegel Online quoted the association as saying.
Ahead of another Rust Belt primary next Tuesday in Wisconsin, Mr. Trump is pressing for "fair trade" with foreign countries, while Mr. Cruz has adopted similar language.
Ireland has been pressing for assurances from Britain that it would, if necessary, accept a "backstop" solution for the Northern Ireland border, contained in the draft treaty.
The floor was wet and a large crowd had gathered, including some prominent people such as Mr. Misra who were pressing for recovery efforts to move faster.
This year, Mr. Evans brought Tom Steyer, the billionaire liberal activist who is pressing for impeachment, to the commercial strip of black-owned businesses along Ogontz Avenue.
Raytheon executives were relentless in pressing for sales to Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates even after American officials had held up sales over humanitarian concerns.
The Scottish National Party, which hopes to advance its own cause, independence for Scotland, is pressing for a quick election, calculating that would be to its advantage.
The group is pressing for a common architecture for the software and hardware that run 5G networks — an idea that has gained traction with some U.S. policymakers.
Passengers isolated in their cabins have been checking their phones for news updates and social media posts, while their families back home are frantically pressing for information.
Giuliani and President Trump had been pressing for an investigation into whether Biden, as vice president, pressured a Ukrainian prosecutor to drop a probe of the company.
German officials say they are not pressing for a Merkel visit to Washington any time soon because they are so unsure of what the outcome might be.
In her private deposition, Williams described Pence's conversations with Zelensky, which took place while Trump and a group of trusted diplomats were pressing for the new investigations.
Several said other issues seemed more pressing for Japan than climate change: a stagnating economy, a declining population and tensions in East Asia, to name a few.
In 2013, he nearly torpedoed a $50.7 billion relief bill in the wake of Hurricane Sandy by pressing for draconian spending cuts to offset the emergency funds.
That gives immigration officers the broad authority they have been pressing for, and no longer requires them to receive a review from a supervisor before targeting individuals.
In September, the independent senator sent a letter to the California-based Unicode Consortium pressing for the emoji, highlighting the crustacean's economic and cultural value to Maine.
Icahn, who has been pressing for a sale of Caesars, held a 493% stake in the company as of March 31, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon.
Dozens of family members — teenagers in T-shirts, grandmothers in head scarves, bearded men in jeans — were there, squeezed together and pressing for information from overwhelmed officials.
But the Democratic-led House of Representatives has sought more time to review the deal, with Pelosi pressing for improved enforcement mechanisms for labor and environmental standards.
May's deal has come under fire from all sides, with opponents of the EU seeking a cleaner break and many pro-Europeans pressing for a second referendum.
On mobile, the app utilizes long-pressing for its drag-and-drop functionality and other gestures, like swipes, for marking items as "to do later," among other things.
In the meantime, producers are braced for cost inflation, with the major oilfield services firms pressing for price increases by the end of the year and into 2018.
CNN has reported that he will corroborate key elements of Taylor's account that Trump was pressing for Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into Biden, and his son Hunter.
North Korea, which has suspended nuclear tests and missile launches, has been pressing for sanctions relief but has not taken meaningful steps toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) put up a billboard in the heart of Silicon Valley pressing for big tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google to be broken up.
More than 600 public housing agencies, or about 20 percent of 3,200, have banned indoor smoking since 2009 when the federal department began pressing for smoke-free policies.
He also said Corbyn would meet lawmakers from both Labour and the governing Conservative Party who are pressing for a close economic relationship with the EU post-Brexit.
With the Islanders, playing their fourth game in six nights, pressing for the tying goal, Danton Heinen hit the empty net with 24 seconds remaining in the game.
"I think pressing for the EIS is good; it's just the timing and all the pressure and what the president has said makes it very difficult," Tobias said.
But some military officials are pressing for more, saying nearly two-thirds of hardware dates from the era when the country was in the Moscow-led Warsaw Pact.
The groups are pressing for $85003 million in spending and argue that the nation will run out of time to protect its elections if the funding isn't won.
The groups are pressing for $2628 million in spending, and argue that the nation will run out of time to protect its elections if the funding isn't won.
Lawmakers pressing for changes to the updated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have focused on ways the renegotiated agreement could end the outsourcing of jobs and pollution.
That would ensure that delegates not allocated through the presidential nominating process would not have a disproportionate role in choosing the nominees, say those pressing for the change.
Lawmakers will be pressing for more details on President Trump's Afghanistan strategy when the military's top brass head before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the coming week.
While Trump sought to defuse the exploding political crisis by signing an executive order on Wednesday to end family separations, lawmakers are still pressing for a legislative fix.
Outside groups are also pressing for regulators to step in, with a coalition led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) outright urging them to nix the deal.
But the only mortuary school in New York City, the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Services, had been pressing for a veto from Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat.
Boxer has been pressing for an amendment that would limit cargo plane pilots to flying no more than nine hours a day — the same standard for passenger pilots.
The Umbrella Movement of 2014 marshalled a peak of about 100,000 dedicated demonstrators, pressing for implementation of a somewhat ambiguous promise of "universal suffrage" in the Basic Law.
Turkey is also pressing for an end to the limited effort by the alliance to combat the smuggling of migrants in the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.
The current administration is not interested in pressing for higher fuel efficiency in the nation's fleet, despite the fact most carmakers would support regulations calling for incremental improvements.
Democrats in Congress have been pressing for passage well before early March, when an Obama-era program is due to be completely phased out by the Trump administration.
That problem, according to OCAP, goes up to Toronto mayor John Tory—whom they're pressing for more affordable housing and emergency shelters in a protest later this week.
This is almost double the $44 billion figure the Trump administration requested recently and come in response to efforts Republicans from Texas and Florida pressing for additional resources.
Not content with the prospect of trying to prove the president mentally unfit or pressing for impeachment, the book's fictional aides opt for another course of action: murder.
Mr. Smith, 221, a former Marine who built FedEx from a small package delivery service into a global logistics giant, was no stranger to pressing for lower taxes.
It was obvious what the president was pressing for, and Ambassador Taylor, as you've just outlined, had all those other interactions with all these [crosstalk 00:08:16].
Conservatives tend to favor close political and military ties between Tokyo and Washington and would not want to jeopardize the relationship by pressing for an apology, he said.
As of Monday, "Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation," Berman said at the event hosted by Safe Horizon, a group pressing for more legal protection for abuse victims.
Lawmakers from those states are pressing for roughly $1 billion in federal money for the project, which is in addition to the money that the states are providing.
Why, we've been asked in the past days, are we still pressing for familial DNA searching if an arrest has been made in the murder of Karina Vetrano?
The Freedom Caucus members are pressing for double the budget's $2628 billion in proposed cuts to mandatory spending, and they want details on a coming tax reform package.
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), had been pressing for Zuckerberg to testify, though its initial talks with Facebook centered on Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as a possible witness.
The European Union has faced a delicate balancing act between the interests of EU manufacturers and those pressing for a reduction in the cost of solar power generation.
North Korea, which has suspended nuclear tests and missile launches, has been pressing for sanctions relief but has not taken meaningful steps toward dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
There is no consensus yet on when to address the issue, but conservatives are pressing for action soon and view the reconciliation process as the place to tackle it.
While she led Europe in pressing for tough sanctions against Russia for its seizure of Crimea and incursions into Eastern Ukraine, Putin respects her toughness and longevity in office.
The Vermont independent, who has been pressing for the U.S. to move toward socialized medicine, was asked to respond to comments Schultz made about the plan in another interview.
Labor is still pressing for a parliamentary vote to allow gay marriage; but that now seems unlikely to happen unless Labor wins the next general election, due in 2019.
They added, however, that Myanmar had also committed to restore aid access and launch a probe into allegations of rights abuses, the key points they had been pressing for.
The ruling coalition has since won all local elections, but the Democrats have complained they were cheated out of victory and are pressing for reforms to guarantee fair elections.
It said the Twitter account used to spread the data had been deleted, but that it was still pressing for the deletion of links to data on other platforms.
Kaine and Schiff have been two of the most vocal Democrats pressing for Congress to pass a new war authorization, known as an Authorization for Use of Military Force.
"I realized that leading a protest is often a battle for the microphone," he said, adding that he hoped the movement's approach to pressing for change would inspire others.
Sturgeon is pressing for a referendum between the fall of 2018 and spring of 2019, before Britain leaves the European Union but when details of the divorce are clear.
Republican senators from states that expanded Medicaid enrollment under ObamaCare are pressing for their home-state governors to be involved in the Senate talks over a new healthcare bill.
Andrew M. Cuomo have the opportunity and responsibility to do a better job pressing for reforms and ending disenfranchising statutes — like New York's inane rules for changing party enrollment.
Officials then took away some prisoners' phones, fortified the prison walls and began pressing for names of those who had organized the revolt or spoken to the news media.
People briefed on the discussions told the Journal that pressing for a delay to the elections, currently set for April, is one of several options U.S. officials are considering.
The move comes as some lawmakers are pressing for tighter disclosure requirements in the wake of Facebook's revelation that it had uncovered 3,000 political ads purchased by Russian actors.
That doesn't exactly fit the script some in Congress and the president laid out when pressing for passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in late 28500.
The move comes as some lawmakers are pressing for tighter disclosure requirements in the wake of Facebook's revelation that it had uncovered 85033,000 political ads purchased by Russian actors.
At the same time, lawmakers are pressing for action to be taken in order to prevent a data breach like the one that impacted Capital One from happening again.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest indicated Vice President Joe Biden, a former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, would lend his voice next week to administration efforts pressing for Garland's confirmation.
Experts say that wait times for these organs can last years and that a months-long closure could be especially pressing for patients near the top of the lists.
Mr. Xenophon said he supported foreign investment but was considering pressing for new laws that would give tax breaks to Australian pension funds to help them buy Australian assets.
" The latter is one of the issues that Kolb believes will be most pressing for the fashion industry in the Trump administration, as well as "immigration, economy, human rights.
" He added that Mr. Franceschini had been pressing for new measures and incentives to improve the relationship between the two sectors, though these were still at an "embryonic state.
A number of Democrats have been pressing for years for tougher guns laws, amplifying their calls in the wake of mass shootings at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Lawmakers will also keep pressing for answers on President Trump's claim, without evidence, that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" at Trump Tower ahead of the presidential election.
DEM PRESSURE ON DERIVATIVES: A group of Democrats is pressing for details on whether major cogs in the financial system are prepared to weather a major financial storm. Sens.
Dr. Tyndall aggressively questioned her about her sexual activity, she said, pressing for details about how often she had oral sex and whether it was with men or women.
Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo, a leader of the centrist Republicans, said that the group will keep pressing for its goals if the legislation being crafted does not satisfy them.
Mr. Cuomo deserves credit for seeking out an alternative to shutting down subway service for months, and for pressing for this new approach at some political risk to himself.
The International Olympic Committee, which had been pressing for the two countries to cooperate during the Games, is expected to ratify the agreement at a meeting Saturday in Switzerland.
Liz Hill, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, blamed the delay on the swirl of lawsuits filed by advocates pressing for a more generous response to loan-relief applicants.
But given how their tournament has gone, expect Argentina to keep pressing for a second, for a third, for more, until they know for sure they're in the knockouts.
The digital director of a prominent Democratic presidential campaign recounted how he was shut down by an older consultant when pressing for shorter, pithier ads that could drive clicks.
When he asked Sondland what Trump thought of Ukraine, "Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," Taylor said.
"If G20 nations fail to publicly press the Chinese government to free Liu, they would lose credibility in pressing for human rights everywhere, not just in China," Wang said.
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, wrote a letter to the chairman pressing for the committee to share its transcripts with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Some lawmakers have been pressing for the release of the documents, which they argue show the existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers involved in the Sept.
Big banks, emboldened by President Trump's deregulatory agenda and a more favorable political climate in Washington, have begun pressing for changes to several postcrisis rules, including the Volcker Rule.
Saudi Arabia is pressing for a substantial cut in oil production when Opec and its allies meet next week, as global energy producers clamber to respond to coronavirus outbreak.
Caligan, which owns a 10.3% stake in Amag, had been pressing for a change at the company since last month, including the removal of four directors from the board.
His lawyers continue to take advantage of the protracted nature of litigation, especially now, as Democratic House leaders are pressing for an impeachment vote by the end of December.
Their lawyer, Stephen Castor, maintained that Mr. Trump was not pursuing his interests, but rather was concerned about corruption in Ukraine in pressing for investigations into his Democratic rivals.
A number of the Democratic governors pressing for a stronger sales pitch on jobs are seen as potential presidential candidates, among them Mr. Inslee, Ms. Raimondo and Mr. Hickenlooper.
A group of alumni and donors, Bears for Leadership Reform, has been pressing for more transparency, including the release of materials collected by Pepper Hamilton over its monthslong investigation.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told members at a closed-door meeting that bipartisan talks are moving in the right direction, and he was pressing for separate action on DACA.
In an interview with CNN, Warren described these conversations as some of the best opportunities to get a raw sampling of the issues that are most pressing for voters.
Though Merkel has signalled limited support, other states have made clear their disagreements, pressing for an end to integrationist policies, even for a return of powers to national parliaments.
But climate activists, who say more than 40,000 Poles die prematurely annually because of poor air quality, are pressing for bolder measures by the government to protect the public.
Clearly, it's a topic that has become more pressing for people, whether they are consumers, or just people who like fashion, or people who are interested in the environment.
Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China have been pressing for a resumption of the peace process between the Western-backed government in Kabul and the Taliban.
The United States is among several governments pressing for the release of two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been held in Myanmar since December.
The three ministers are pressing for a quick deal to avoid clashing with a July 1 presidential election in Mexico, which would mean overcoming major differences on several U.S. demands.
"This is something that I am confident the administration will keep pressing for even as it keeps its eye on the priority, which is denuclearization -- the immediate priority," he added.
The independent tribunal asked the FRC in March to open an investigation into its own operations after news leaked that the watchdog was pressing for a 6 million pound fine.
What we do know, however, is that #MeToo has raised an array of questions that are particularly pressing for this next generation of women graduating college and entering the workforce.
"I'm hopeful that I'll get my renewal but also hoping for something more permanent like a clean DREAM Act," Claudia said, referring to legislation that Democrats have been pressing for.
The opposition is pressing for full humanitarian access to rebel-held areas and for detainees to be released - terms set out in a U.N. Security Council resolution passed in December.
Biden's tributes to his longtime colleagues often strike a bipartisan, unifying tone, pressing for a restoration of civility in politics -- a tenet that has become central to the Biden brand.
One victim's family supports clemency, helps Williams meet granddaughter While Boren's widow plans to attend the execution, the family of another victim is pressing for clemency, Williams' attorneys said Thursday.
German industry executives are pressing for quick answers, given that the already high cost of keeping the Tornado jets flying could rise once Britain and Italy phase out their fleets.
The issue has become pressing for central and eastern European Union members who already fear losing influence within the EU as Germany, France and other western states consider closer integration.
The U.S. should not be propping up the privileged elite of the Communist Party, but rather pressing for liberties and rights desired by the vast majority of the Vietnamese people.
In 2014, a group pressing for more autonomy in eastern Libya shipped crude from Es Sider terminal, but U.S. special forces boarded it off Cyprus and forced it to return.
Lauer asked the 2012 GOP presidential nominee three times about his 2016 ambitions, pressing for an "unambiguous" response after Romney appeared to leave the door to a bid slightly open.
Bulgaria, which holds the rotating EU presidency, is pressing for a compromise in the Council that could pave the way for a final deal by the end of the year.
Britain's closest EU allies, led by the Netherlands and the Baltics, are pressing for a deal to allow British industry into lucrative EU military projects and tap into EU funds.
Manufacturers are watching closely and pressing for a dialogue that centers on promoting economic growth and reforms that will lead to tangible and lasting improvements to India's challenging business environment.
Bolton was a leading figure in the Trump administration in pressing for Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro to step down so that US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido could assume power.
Vice President Mike Pence has labeled him as "a dictator with no legitimate claim to power," and senior administration officials are pressing for a new government to take over Venezuela.
I was desperate to do another big piece on her with access and with an interview in the weeks leading up to the election, and I was pressing for it.
The U.S. should not be propping up the privileged elite of the Communist Party, but rather pressing for liberties and rights desired by the vast majority of the Vietnamese people.
But his promise was not enough for many Democrats, and on Monday morning, moderate Senate Democrats were still pressing for more in exchange for their votes to end the shutdown.
"First things first," he said in dismissing Sanders' most far-reaching ideas in favor of using the federal government to address the immediate crisis rather than pressing for radical change.
Newcomers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist from New York, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts will almost certainly take the lead in pressing for a liberal agenda.
Indeed, by pressing for the removal of the corrupt prosecutor general, Mr. Biden backed a policy that increased the likelihood that a responsible replacement might pursue Burisma's owner and others.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been pressing for a full investigation into the plane downing, said on Friday that Iran should send the black boxes to France for analysis.
When the staffer asked Sondland what Trump thought of Ukraine, "Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," Taylor said.
Members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus have been pressing for a vote on the matter for months and intend to force a vote if leadership won't schedule one.
He talked in general terms on Egypt, and pressing for greater human rights, but said nothing about what leverage he would use to encourage change in an increasingly authoritarian government.
It offers a range of free support services for both families and released hostages, from psychological counseling to assistance in dealing with debt collectors pressing for payments of delinquent bills.
Congress passed a collection of bipartisan bills in 2018 aimed at fighting the opioid crisis, though advocates have continued pressing for more funding and further action to reduce overdose deaths.
He added that his would-be constituents are pressing for Medicaid expansion in his state, and said if he won he wanted to work with Trump to boost infrastructure spending.
He had made his name prosecuting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage — and pressing for their execution — and acting as Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting right hand in the 1950s.
Britain's closest EU allies, led by the Netherlands and the Baltics, are pressing for a deal to allow British industry into lucrative EU military projects and tap into EU funds.
They said they see Sanders as an advocate for racial justice through the issues that are most pressing for them — college debt, climate change, health care, and drug-sentencing changes.
The White House statement on declassification cited several congressional committees in the decision to release the materials — and Trump's Republican allies have been pressing for the materials to be released.
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement was signed in November 2018 but formal U.S. approval has been held up by Democratic lawmakers pressing for changes, including steps on drug protections.
It is pressing for a status-quo transition period, which Brexit campaigners fear will see Britain subject to new EU laws that could threaten the status of London's financial centre.
During the recent tumult at the company, employees formed a group, the WeWorkers Coalition, that, among other things, is pressing for severance packages for departing employees that it considers equitable.
We're not alone: pressing for adequate and predictable funding, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis assured Congress the Pentagon would "spend the money wisely" if two-year funding could be enacted.
Though the Trump administration and Republicans have been pressing for a vote on the deal by Thanksgiving, Pelosi declined to rule out that a vote could slip to next year.
But now, with the selfie-takers pressing for their pictures, too, we've become part of the free for all — ironically making it much harder for us to get good pictures.
Conservatives pressing for the repeal of Obamacare want to give states the right to enact whatever health care plan they want — as long as it's not government-run health care.
The president was unorthodox for a Republican during his campaign, pressing for more active government intervention on an issue that Americans routinely cite as their most pressing health care concern.
"Our priority remains to support our clients and pressing for the Woodford Equity Income Fund to reopen as soon as is practicable, whilst protecting the interests of all investors," Hill said.
Vintimilla has been pressing for the Ecuadorean government, however, to stop shielding Assange even if it results in him being extradited to the U.S. to stand trial on unspecified criminal charges.
Mr. Macron is pressing for more spending on European defense, especially on French armaments, as a way for Europe to counterbalance a long-term trend of American retreat from multilateral obligations.
The campaign is pressing for rights to land that Palestinians lost to Israel in the 1948 war of its foundation, and for an end to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza.
So in the overwhelming majority of cases, prosecutors are charging people and pressing for plea deals even though they lack vital information which might have led them to toss the case.
The United States has been pressing for such a deployment for some time, but the South has resisted, largely because of opposition from China, which is the South's leading trade partner.
Mahdi's moderate Islamic Umma party is among opposition groups who have been pressing for a transition to civilian rule in talks with the TMC that ground to a halt last month.
Democrats in Congress have pledged to continue pressing for the full Mueller report to be released and they might call Barr in front of House committees to testify about the findings.
As it stands now, with leadership pressing for a vote before July 4, senators could have less than a week to review a bill overhauling one-sixth of the US economy.
In comments that some EU diplomats took as Moscow pressing for sanctions relief, Lavrov said on Sunday he hoped the United States would be willing to compromise on the Minsk process.
" His remarks stopped short of pressing for additional legislative action, calling instead on companies to "reexamine their security practices to make sure this type of avoidable event does not happen again.
Defense hawks had been pressing for $640 billion in defense spending, but agreed to the slightly lower number along with assurances for 5% growth to defense in the years to come.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has begun considering running mates, while Bernie Sanders and his allies are pressing for a significant role in drafting the platform for the Democratic Party convention in July.
With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded and led several women's groups and suffrage organizations and played a central role in pressing for what would become the 323th Amendment granting women's suffrage.
Pro-Palestinian students called the statement the latest in a series of efforts to muzzle political criticism of Israel, including student movements pressing for divestiture or boycotts against the Jewish state.
Other than those indictments we&aposve had related to charges that have nothing to do with either of those two central topics or anything that the press is actively pressing for.
In his New York Times article, and in an interview with NPR on Thursday morning, Shulkin said much of the conflict came from political appointees within the VA pressing for privatization.
The Israeli government then reached out to the Trump transition and asked for help in pressing for a veto of the resolution, a senior Israeli official told CNN at the time.
On Friday, he escalated his previous critiques of the Fed by pressing for it to resume the type of stimulus campaign it undertook after the recession to jump-start economic growth.
Netanyahu has meanwhile been pressing for an emergency unity government with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz, following three inconclusive elections and more than a year of political deadlock.
Since then, he has been consumed by one word: sustainability, which is to say, promoting the changes that he and his fellow protesters had been pressing for, like criminal justice reform.
When other news in the West threatened to push Mr. Khashoggi from the headlines, Turkish allies of Mr. Erdogan reached out to Western journalists, pressing for ways to keep it alive.
"Historically, social change comes about when 3.5% of the population is pressing for it, and that's amazing because we always think you need 100% of people and you don't," Figueres said.
Democratic lawmakers and newspaper industry officials said they suspected that Mr. Christie was pressing for quick passage of a bill that would eliminate the requirement for public notices to be printed.
In 2014, a group pressing for more autonomy in eastern Libya shipped crude from Es Sider terminal, but U.S. special forces boarded the vessel off Cyprus and forced it to return.
But Democrats are dubious that Flynn acted on his own, and they're pressing for a bipartisan probe to uncover any potential conflicts of interest between the White House and the Russians.
Trump made another plea for tax reform Wednesday at a rally in North Dakota, pressing for a simpler tax code, lower corporate tax rate, and closing of loopholes for special interests.
But that runs counter to the goals of the Trump administration, which has been pressing for a total ban on Huawei products, alleging that Beijing could use the equipment for spying.
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are pressing for the Fed and other financial regulators to reduce the constraints on financial institutions imposed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Lawmakers are pressing for a U.S. military option to help end the Syrian civil war, a so-called "Plan B," as the Obama administration's last-ditch diplomatic effort with Russia flounders.
Ford has called for an FBI review of her allegations since she came forward, and ultimately agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee while still pressing for an FBI review.
Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who controls the subway, is pressing for congestion pricing, a proposal to toll cars entering the busiest parts of Manhattan to raise money for the subway.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is pressing for four Trump aides to testify, including Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, and John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser.
Fiscal conservatives in the Republican Study Committee are pressing for their own budget to be added as an amendment ahead of Friday's vote, a move to go on record with their concerns.
The Lakers and 76ers are both pressing for the San Antonio Spurs to trade franchise player Kawhi Leonard as they jockey for position in James' eyes, according to The New York Times .
Maurits Bruggink, secretary general of the Critical Raw Materials Alliance, which represents European companies that produce and trade critical raw materials, said his group was pressing for increased primary production in Europe.
BERLIN – German business groups are pressing for clarity from Britain on its plans for a post-Brexit relationship with the European Union, and urging London to allow companies&apos employees "uncomplicated" access.
Speaking out against and developing policies for how to support our members and employees threatened by these bans is imperative for a company like ours, but is equally pressing for any company.
On Sunday, Pompeo said Washington urged "all countries to join us in pressing for an immediate end to this repression" and provide safe refuge and asylum to those seeking to flee China.
Democrats are furious they were not told ahead of time about the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and are now pressing for a full briefing on what happened.
That means that when new produce packets are made available, software updates can be sent to the device to adjust the speed, force and length of the pressing for the new recipe.
The way countries' environmental commitments are to be measured and reported under the accord is still being discussed; without America pressing for diligence and openness, the provisions are certain to be weaker.
That transfer never happened, so now, Republicans on a state land commission are pressing for a $14 million lawsuit to claim 31.2 million federal acres of canyons, scrub desert and rolling mesas.
Taylor's opening statement also alleged that Trump was pressing for Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into the Bidens before he would greenlight US security assistance and a White House meeting with Zelensky.
Some Democrats are pressing for changes to the Export-Import Bank board to get around GOP opposition to confirming open slots on the board, which is disrupting some operations of the bank.
The Greek government is pressing for at least an outline of medium-term measures after reaching the long-awaited agreement on a package of bailout-mandated reforms with its creditors last week.
Chairman Chuck Grassley has emerged as an aggressive force, pressing for Comey's written notes of his conversations with Trump and leaving the door open Tuesday to a possible obstruction of justice probe.
Senior clerics, including the Archbishop of Armagh and all-Ireland primate Eamon Martin, had been pressing for the inclusion of Northern Ireland on his itinerary as a contribution to the peace process.
Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) walked away from pressing for impeachment.
Desperate for a victory on major legislation, Trump is now pressing for enactment of a health-care bill that would impose hardship on the white working class voters who powered his campaign.
Those pressing for impeachment had to win the support of two-thirds of the 240 deputies in the lower house; the decisive 222nd vote for impeachment happened at about 216:10 p.m.
The announcement came as one lawsuit pressing for release of immigration detainees because of the virus got a court date and another suit was filed in a bid to spur such releases.
France, which is pressing for a common euro zone budget to deflect external economic shocks, described the agreement as "important for the stability and future of Franco-German relations, but especially Europe".
A Canadian government official, asked whether Ottawa would be pressing for an exemption, said "Our efforts have never diminished nor altered" since the question of possible steel tariffs first emerged last year.
Some cabinet members are pressing for a different course, calling for nonbinding "indicative votes," in which members of Parliament can freely express their preferences for the various Brexit plans being bandied about.
"I kept pressing for the view that I had had throughout, that we must get this story out, get the truth out, whatever and whoever it is going to hurt," Nixon said.
And they are likely to try to gum up the plans of the pro-Europeans, pressing for more power to go to the nations rather than to a bureaucracy they consider elitist.
Read more: CNN's report on the Flynn review ordered by Barr On Wednesday, CNN reported that Barr had also been pressing for a sentence for Flynn that would spare him from prison.
The latest news about a U.S. probe into Chinese trade practices could lead to steep tariffs and comes as Trump is pressing for China's cooperation in reining in North Korea's nuclear program.
This logic has indeed deterred many American political leaders from pressing for strong actions against Iran for fear that it may unleash violence against American bases and personnel through all its proxies.
But Greece's debt isn't manageable in the long-run without being either extended or forgiven, according to the IMF, which is pressing for easier budgetary targets for Greece while simultaneously undertaking reforms.
If I am right, the president should be pressing for a rapid vote on the ultimate issue of acquittal, not contesting the underlying facts in a futile effort to be wholly vindicated.
Taliban officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. delegation was pressing for a six-month truce as well as an agreement to name Taliban representatives to a future caretaker government.
And with respect to the military aid, in the absence of any other explanation, and in light of the President's own record of pressing for these investigations, two plus two equals four.
Eventually, the coming out en masse that the activists had been pressing for since the start of the movement did occur, and as they'd predicted, it changed the nature of the dialogue.
"I was not going to play follow the leader," Mr. Miller declared in 1987, explaining why he was pressing for a much larger income tax cut than the governor said was possible.
She'd been pressing for awhile, according to news reports, and the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back may well have been an increase in tensions between Lewandowski and her husband, Jared Kushner.
With Trump pressing for an expansion of the fleet to 350 ships during the presidential campaign last year, the Navy released a new force structure assessment in December seeking a 355-ship Navy.
Business leaders are pressing for a meeting with Trump to brief him on the negative repercussions of the tariffs on companies that use steel and aluminum, a source familiar with the matter said.
Gaza's health ministry says more than 220 Palestinians have been killed in the past year by Israeli troops in weekly protests along the border, billed as pressing for an end to the blockade.
Western states, some of which supply arms and intelligence to the coalition, are pressing for an end to the conflict, seen in the region as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Witnesses in the impeachment probe have testified to Giuliani's outsized influence on Ukraine policy, including pressing for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's work with Burisma.
Regulators in Germany are pressing for the head office to be moved to Frankfurt as they don't want it to be based outside the European Union given Britain's decision to leave the bloc.
The Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is pressing for improved enforcement mechanisms for labor and environmental standards before she signs on to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement.
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital said in January it was in talks with SunEdison regarding a board seat and that it was pressing for asset sales or even the sale of the company itself.
Transport issues are especially pressing for the city as London's population is forecast to reach a staggering 10.8 million by 2041 — which would mean around six million additional trips being generated per day.
Members of her caucus are already planning hearings on the Saudi-led war in Yemen and are pressing for an early vote in January on legislation to withdraw U.S. support for the war.
Senate Democrats are pressing for a package of amendments to the long-term reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration that would beef up airport perimeter security following the deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Lawmakers who represent districts in the metropolitan Washington area are pressing for faster production of new train cars that are scheduled to replace the oldest cars on Washington, D.C.'s, Metrorail subway system.
But Harris said his family is pressing for more information about why Daniel Kevin Harris was shot near his Charlotte home Thursday after what police say was a roughly 7-mile vehicle chase.
An October 9 letter from Trump to Erdogan, leaked Wednesday, also shows Trump pressing for negotiations to end for hostilities by telling his counterpart not to be a "tough guy" or a fool.
While party leaders continued pressing for their favored stand-alone Zika funding bills Tuesday, they have not ruled out tacking the item onto that broader continuing resolution, where it may find passage easier.
The parties pressing for arrest were World Fuel Services Inc and OceanConnet Marine PTE Ltd, and Hanjin's attorney said the company expected to work out an arrangement to release the ship next week.
In the following decades, the United States took a leading role in pressing for more robust international agreement on the rules governing the conduct of war — what became the Hague and Geneva Conventions.
But Mr. Trump's sympathies lie with those like Mr. Johnson and Nigel Farage, former leader of the pro-Brexit U.K. Independence Party, who are pressing for a cleaner break with the European Union.
At the last minute he and Mr. Sweeney reached a compromise to raise taxes on those making $5 million or more, instead of the $1 million threshold Mr. Murphy is still pressing for.
Crucially, both Mr. Sanders and his wife, Jane, consistently expressed reservations about going negative on Mr. Biden, preferring to stick with the left-wing policy message they have been pressing for 40 years.
Democratic leaders have been pressing for any larger spending deal to include more funding to combat the crisis killing thousands of Americans each year, but GOP leader have not committed to more funding.
No issue may be more pressing for the FDA than Trump's looming ban on flavored vaping products, which he announced almost two months ago but has faced considerable resistance from his conservative allies.
But the price of my entertainment is having to accept that the uncertainties of real life may be too pressing for scripted television — or old age — to ever really provide a reliable escape.
Joe Biden emerged as the point man for the Obama administration in pressing for stronger action on corruption in Ukraine as governments in the European Union and other institutions pushed for a change.
The whistleblower alleged that Trump sought to "solicit interference" from Ukraine in the 2020 election by pressing for an investigation into Biden and that the White House tried to cover up the call.
But Democrats are unconvinced, pressing for Barr to release the entire report, along with the underlying documentation, so the public can reach its own verdict about the appropriateness of Trump's dealings with Russia.
But the big New York banks, with the support of the Reagan administration, kept pressing for permission to re-enter the business of securities trading for the first time since the Great Depression.
He is pressing for changes like further tightening up extra sign up periods that insurers say people use to game the system and repealing the Health Insurance Tax, which could help lower premiums.
The couple, who wore their gas masks while outside during the height of the leak, are among those pressing for a study to be completed and for the depot to remain shut down.
Worse, from the standpoint of groups that have been pressing for an infrastructure bill, the legislation did include provisions that could actually hurt efforts to upgrade U.S. roads, bridges and other public works.
And plenty of opportunities remain for the commissioners to keep pressing for a more aggressive posture: The FTC has begun an antitrust probe of Facebook, and it is making inquiries related to Amazon.
Ryan has long insisted that any DACA fix be dealt with outside the spending debate — a notion backed by Trump and other GOP lawmakers pressing for tougher enforcement measures, including a border wall.
WASHINGTON — As the Census Bureau finalizes the questions for the 2020 census, key voices in the Trump administration are pressing for surveyors to ask one critical question: Are you a United States citizen?
In a call with reporters, a senior Trump administration official said the president was still pressing for $5 billion for a wall or barrier along the border with Mexico and other security enhancements.
The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, insisted on Wednesday that Britain must stop pressing for immediate parallel talks with the bloc on a post-Brexit free trade deal, and first agree on withdrawal terms.
Avolon last year came under scrutiny over its ultimate ownership by cash-strapped Chinese conglomerate HNA Group with credit ratings analysts pressing for tougher safeguards against it being forced to bail out its parent.
For those that don't remember, Notch bought Aphex Twin's unreleased Caustic Window test pressing for $46 million on eBay, so a love of electronic music is clearly a recurring theme in the Minecraft world.
It is also pressing for full market access for U.S. pharmaceutical products and medical devices, which would require changes to Britains National Health Service (NHS) pricing restrictions and could increase the cost of drugs.
This is pressing for Google considering the fake news issue running rampant not just on Facebook and Twitter, but on YouTube as well and especially in the aftermath of fast-moving breaking news events.
In his statement, Abromavicius singled out a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of blocking the ministry's work and pressing for powerful jobs for placemen, with the support of the president's office.
Cashin suggested the president might feel more comfortable pressing for "a bit tougher" trade deal with China, knowing a rate cut could help support the U.S. economy in the event that talks remained stalled.
But the hope is that by pressing for more evaluations and making their results easily and publicly accessible, the legislation will expand the evidence base policymakers can use to devise reforms in the future.
That's why Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney told Politico's Michael Grunwald that "he plans to keep pressing for Medicare and Social Security retirement reforms, even if Trump keeps shooting him down" and why Rep.
Ryan, a former budget chair, has been sympathetic to those pressing for major deficit reduction, but he is also balancing the challenge of shepherding a major overhaul of the tax code through the House.
On Tuesday, Britain said it remains deeply concerned about Lee Bo, a British publisher of books critical of China's leaders who went missing in Hong Kong, and is pressing for information about his welfare.
That underperformance had some pressing for more urgency from Immelt who's led a transformation at GE to focus on its core industrial businesses and selling off units, including the divestiture of GE Capital's operations.
"The Americans are in fact pressing for very rapid results," Haber said at an event to unveil plans for more than 1,000 events in the United States next year aimed at strengthening bilateral ties.
But Paul could find support in both parties from the corner of the Capitol that has been pressing for a new war authorization since the US began military operations against ISIS in 2014. Sen.
Sou, elected a lawmaker in September 2017, has been pressing for greater government accountability in a push by the New Macau Association, a pro-democracy group whose members are in their 20s and 30s.
Hurricane aid weighs in the balance and Democrats are pressing for legislative protections for immigrants known as "Dreamers," even as conservative Republicans object to including the issue in the crush of year-end business.
Jonas Kron, of Trillium Asset Management, an investment firm focused on profitable but responsible ventures, hailed the move, noting that his firm and other investors have been pressing for industry to cut such emissions.
The protesters, who are pressing for Puerto Rican independence, set up an encampment near the end of an avenue named for Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla, an early advocate of this cause.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which has joined health campaigners pressing for change, said smaller nations Togo and Benin were waiting for Nigeria to act, while Ivory Coast had not progressed at all.
Republicans say that the president's leadership was key to getting the new tax law enacted, and he is likely to play a crucial role in pressing for any additional action on taxes as well.
Indeed, The New York Times reported in March that Mr. Icahn was pressing for a change in a requirement that refiners be held responsible for ensuring that corn-based ethanol is mixed into gasoline.
The divisions in Britain's opposition Labour Party over Brexit were also on display on Wednesday, when its deputy leader, Tom Watson, said he supported pressing for a second referendum before an early national election.
But hard-line conservatives say that would amount to an amnesty program for lawbreakers, and some Republicans in Congress have been pressing for other immigration changes before they will support legislation for the Dreamers.
Democratic state legislatures and big-city mayors should fight back, pressing for statutes and state constitutional amendments that would strengthen municipal "home rule" rights and embody new federalist principles of city-state power sharing.
The European Union is pressing for binding measures that would require chargers to accommodate all types of mobile devices, with the goal being to reduce electronic waste and make the lives of consumers easier.
Here are five times Andy Murray showed his feminist credentials: * Pressing for equal pay in sport Murray has pushed for changes to rules that can see women players given smaller cash prizes than men.
With Japan, the Trump administration has been pressing for American agricultural products to gain some of the same access to its markets that would have happened under the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Around the same time, Mr. Trump was told about a whistle-blower complaint filed by a C.I.A. officer on the issue, and separately members of Congress were pressing for the aid to be released.
Some lawmakers are pressing for a one-year waiver from the Jones Act, arguing that the 10-day exemption will do little to help goods get more quickly and cheaply delivered to Puerto Rico.
UNIFIL's mandate is up for renewal at the end of the month and Israel is pressing for the force to have an increased presence to better monitor and prevent the alleged Hezbollah arms buildup.
Instead they are pressing for a sequence that would see a ceasefire, direct talks with the Taliban and a security guarantee, and only then U.S. troop withdrawals - a sequence that Taliban leaders strongly reject.
Republicans and lobbying groups are pressing for House Democrats to hold a vote as soon as possible, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce saying last week they believe it can get done by Thanksgiving.
Risch initially made the decision to hold off on pressing for the sanctions legislation during that visit, after an at times contentious White House meeting between Erdoğan, Trump and a group of Republican senators.
She also appears to have played a key role in pressing for and ultimately destroying videotapes of the torture of another detainee, Abu Zubaydah, whose detention at the same site began before she arrived.
Mr. Giuliani had been pressing for that commitment and for Mr. Trump's request that Mr. Zelensky's government look into whether Ukrainians, not Russians, were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
The idea came from a young lawyer who had grown up in an orphanage and was pressing for governmental subsidies to widowed mothers, whose poverty often forced them to place their children in orphanages.
By then, Russia was engaged in a surreptitious hacking and social media campaign to bolster Mr. Trump, who was publicly pressing for warmer relations with Russia, including signaling a willingness to consider lifting sanctions.
With the Pentagon saying the Islamic State's fast-growing force now numbers between 5,000 and 20113,500 fighters, some of Mr. Obama's top national security aides are pressing for a second American military intervention in Libya.
The protest campaign is pressing for an end to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza and for the right to return to land that Palestinians lost to Israel in the 1948 war of its foundation.
Steve Beshear delivered the Democratic Party's response to President Donald Trump's address Tuesday night, criticizing Trump for not living up to his populist campaign trail rhetoric and pressing for compromise solutions on health care reform.
The family said it was pressing for the search area to be widened and would continue "to ascertain the well-being or otherwise of all those in the climbing group," until they had further news.
Last year, the police raided the offices of the anticorruption commission, the license of a crusading news organization was suspended and Mr. Najib purged his deputy prime minister, who had been pressing for further investigations.
And with the United Nations special envoy, Staffan de Mistura, pressing for a national cease-fire, the local truces are often perceived and portrayed as United Nations-approved and as steps toward a broader accord.
" Pelosi presses for yet another Hill inquiry -  AP:  "The top Democrat in the House is pressing for an 'outside, fully independent investigation' to expose Russia's meddling in the election and the involvement of Trump officials.
The government is pressing for the liquidation of KCM, which it has accused of breaching its operating license, in a case that has stoked broader concerns among international miners about a rise in resource nationalism.
But opposition parties are pressing for parliament to call the school principal, who resigned his post on Friday, and others to answer questions about the deal, a demand Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is resisting.
Radical economists such as Ann Pettifor, who is close to the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, are pressing for a vote, arguing that Brexit is a right-wing movement to roll back regulation and workers' rights.
It is also pressing for $21 billion in further increases to help stem losses on some 300,000 long-term care insurance policies, which cover costs for services such as in-home or nursing-home care.
Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the conflict amid international concern that half the population, or some 14 million people, could soon be on the brink of famine.
Already rattled by the slow progress of Brexit talks, businesses operating in the world's fifth largest economy have been pressing for months for details about what any transitional EU trade deal will actually look like.
Doxycycline, for example, rose from $20 for 500 tablets to $1,849 between October 2013 and May 2014, according to Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who had been pressing for action on high drug prices.
When Mr. Holmes inquired after the call what the president thought about Ukraine, Mr. Sondland "responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for," in Mr. Taylor's telling.
Pressing for massive tariff increases, ditching trade agreements that protect U.S. economic interests and undercutting the post-World War II trade system we helped create in order to open markets will not eliminate these deficits.
But despite being billed as a press briefing, and taking place in the briefing room, Trump did not deliver a briefing (he took no questions) and instead gave a statement pressing for his border wall.
"You could see him pushing hard and pressing for an immigration bill that gets more Democrats to get to 218," he said, referring to the number of votes needed to pass legislation in the House.
But not all party members back him and many are pressing for "Anyone But Boris", seeing his decision to back the Leave campaign as a betrayal of his former ally Cameron, according to media reports.
In March, Gulf officials said the six GCC states were pressing for an early agreement on free trade with Britain to secure preferential arrangements after Brexit and could have a draft agreement ready within months.
Concerned opposition MPs are left tweeting into the regulatory abyss — decrying the 'coup' and forlornly pressing for action… Though if the political boot were on the other foot it might well be a different story.
Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Cory Gardner of Colorado, both Republicans, together with a handful of Democrats, are pressing for crippling new sanctions on Russia to increase the penalty for its past aggression.
Some Fed officials are already pressing for the Fed to raise the rate into restrictive territory, arguing that inflation is likely to rise if the central bank does not begin to step on the brakes.
Mr. Trump's secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, started a tour of the Middle East in Saudi Arabia, urging Europe to limit dealings with Iran and pressing for a solution to a regional feud with Qatar.
Female executives in their first year on the job are also more likely to be targeted by an activist investor pressing for a change in strategy, according to a separate study at Arizona State University.
Perhaps pressing for a run-scoring hit in the ninth with runners on the corners and one out, Yoenis Cespedes swung on a 3-0 pitch, grounding into a double play to end the game.
Democrats clamored for a special counsel to take over the Russia inquiry, and they believe they helped influence Mr. Rosenstein's decision by successfully pressing for his closed-door appearance before the full Senate on Thursday.
Even more pressing for Europe is the fate of its Kurdish ally and a potential resurgence of Islamic State militants, which the Europeans are especially sensitive to after several major deadly attacks in the bloc.
But when an institution stands still while its citizens are pressing for change, how long can the borders hold before everyone outside is let in, or everyone inside decides it's not worth staying, and leaves?
Britain and France, both members of the Security Council, voted for the resolution on settlements, and France has been extremely active in pressing for a kind of peace conference, to which the Israelis have objected.
In their plan, Democrats also are pressing for the implementation of an outsourcing tax on U.S. companies that move jobs and factories abroad, while creating tax incentives for companies that relocate foreign jobs back here.
The minority Socialist government relies on support of the two hard-left parties in parliament which have been pressing for more ambitious increases in public spending, in what some analysts say could compromise political stability.
Ms. Yellen has also faced repeated questions about the Fed's lack of diversity at recent congressional hearings and protests by Fed Up, a coalition of liberal groups pressing for greater diversity at the central bank.
The United States has recently imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials and Spain is pressing for the European Union to follow suit as international pressure grows on Maduro over his record on human rights and democracy.
Perhaps the defenders of Confederate monuments will demonstrate their good faith by pressing for funding for new monuments to Southerners, white and black, who fought on behalf of the Union or otherwise opposed the Confederacy.
He will be pressing for North Korea to take concrete action to back up its broad commitment to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula made at the June 12 summit between Kim and President Donald Trump.
The shootings follow a month of violence along the Israel-Gaza border, where Palestinians have been holding protests every Friday pressing for the right of return for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.
Last year the lira weakened nearly 30% against the dollar over worries about diplomatic tensions with the United States and the central bank's independence, with President Tayyip Erdogan pressing for lower borrowing costs to boost growth.
CHIEF executives in the West share some familiar gripes: quarterly-results-obsessed analysts who make it impossible to think about the long term; activists pressing for change before investments come to fruition; and sluggish economic growth.
The U.S. government is pressing for an end to practices and policies it argues have given Chinese firms unfair advantages, including alleged subsidizing of industry, limits on access for foreign companies and theft of intellectual property.
But some lawmakers had doubted agreement was likely between those who want to maintain close ties with the EU, and others who are pressing for Britain to strike out alone and diverge from the bloc's rules.
"As far as BZ WBK is concerned, their owner is pressing for the deal while the local management is not enthusiastic, as it questions the quality of the assets put up for sale," the banker said.
Over the past year, Avolon has come under scrutiny over its links to HNA and credit ratings analysts have been pressing for tougher safeguards against it being forced to bail out the cash-strapped Chinese conglomerate.
Trump had signaled his desire to get U.S. forces out of Syria in a speech last week, and officials said he had privately been pressing for an early withdrawal in talks with his national security aides.
Emily Haber, Germany's ambassador to the United States, told reporters a working group formed after the Trump-Juncker meeting had convened for the first time this week, and U.S. officials were pressing "for very rapid results".
Speaking with CNN's Campbell Brown in 20093, Trump noted that Obama "pulled back" on pressing for a health care vote after Brown unexpectedly defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a Massachusetts special election on January 19, 2010.
The U.S. government is pressing for an end to practices and policies it argues have given Chinese firms unfair advantages, including subsidizing of industry, limits on access for foreign companies and alleged theft of intellectual property.
In pressing for government approval, Mr. Trump proved to be the quintessential insider, at least through his father: The elder Mr. Trump was a major contributor to and friend of Mayor Abraham D. Beame and Gov.
He is pressing for the appointment of "an eminent person or persons" to review what has become a steady stream of potential evidence about the events of September 1961, in or over the woodlands outside Ndola.
Amid speculation about a possible Saudi role, several members of the House and Senate have joined the victims' families in pressing for declassification of the pages, which are part of government documents compiled on the Sept.
Spain's Development Ministry issued the news the taxi industry had been pressing for yesterday, in a press release, following a meeting of the National Transport Conference that had been forward as a result of the strikes.
Democrats are pressing for changes to bolster enforcement of labor and environmental provisions of the new agreement that will replace the current North American Free Trade Agreement, but are also seeking to adjust some pharmaceutical provisions.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, speaking alongside May at a news conference, said he welcomed her assurance that Kenyan duty free exports would continue after Brexit and said Kenya will be pressing for an increase in exports.
Both Kenney and Notley blamed Trudeau for a lack of progress on new oil export pipelines, saying he was pressing for excessively stringent environmental standards at a time when energy producers were clamoring for more capacity.
Velázquez and Thompson have been pressing for a federal review of the death count since October, after Vox and other media outlets found evidence that dozens of hurricane deaths were not included in the government's count.
"We can only hope it will improve the lives of so many women not only on paper but in reality," said Ms. Bautista, who has been pressing for better working conditions for more than 30 years.
Separately, the Taliban are pressing for a timetable for American troop withdrawals so that they can present their membership with a significant achievement from their 17-year insurgency: the removal of what they consider occupying forces.
The liberal group Take Back the Court countered by pressing for Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, to drop off any cases involving the president because of his wife's close ties to the Trump White House.
These are great masterings that are more convenient than ever before to access — you don't have to hunt down a vinyl release or some obscure CD pressing for the best presentation of an album you love.
By pressing for maximum partisan advantage, Democratic and Republican leaders will only defer the important work that needs to be done to heal our nation and, in doing so, pave the way to their own demise.
Ending the policy, he added, is a reflection of Mr. Obama's view that, ultimately, the rise of a new generation of Cubans pressing for change in their own country is vital to bringing about change there.
Dr. Bethune and her close friend, Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady, were just then pressing for the creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which would admit a cohort of women for training as Army officers.
We are considering our next steps in the litigation around the FCC's 2018 Order, and are grateful to be a part of a broad community pressing for net neutrality protections in courts, states and in Congress.
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Republicans plan to keep pressing for Mr. Biden to be called to testify, both to highlight the issue of Hunter Biden's consulting work and to suggest that Mr. Biden is being protected by Democrats in Washington.
The education minister, Naftali Bennett, is pressing for legislation — not yet fully embraced by Mr. Netanyahu — to take the drastic step of the first annexation of a West Bank settlement, Ma'ale Adumim, just east of Jerusalem.
But as the New York Times reported at the time, "[n]o evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general's dismissal" back in 2014.
Defense lawyers have been pressing for the release of the lower-ranking soldiers, since in many cases they were ordered out to the streets unarmed or told they were protecting the state from a terrorist attack.
Russia and the Syrian government have been pressing for an agreement with the rebels in the area to restore government authority, including over the commercial crossing with Jordan that has been out of its control for years.
Emily Haber, Germany's ambassador to the United States, told reporters that a working group formed after the Trump-Juncker meeting had convened for the first time this week, and U.S. officials were pressing "for very rapid results".
Bennet is distinguishing himself from rivals, such as Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who are pressing for more aggressive plans to fight global warming, by making land management and agriculture a large part of his climate platform.
Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the disastrous conflict, which has unleashed the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis with 8.4 million people believed to be on the verge of starvation.
The opposition was pressing for a delay on the grounds that it would be impossible to ensure that the official list of voters was accurate and that other safeguards were in place by the original election date.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran anti-war campaigner, has called for a United Nations-led inquiry into the chemical attack and said he preferred to continue pressing for a political solution rather than a military one.
But OPEC and non-OPEC producers were thought to be unlikely to immediately respond to Trump's demands, after Saudi Arabia and its allies decided against pressing for an official increase at a meeting in Algeria last week.
It would be the start of four years of phone calls and follow up phone calls to officials in Antigua and the UK, he said, pressing for Martin-Cramp to stand trial in Antigua, starting with extradition.
Australia's competition watchdog is also pressing for much tougher scrutiny - as well as a new regulatory body - to check the dominance of Facebook and Google in online advertising and news distribution, something the companies are actively resisting.
For defense hawks, the $621.5 billion topline for defense is a compromise, as House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry and Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain have been pressing for at least $640 billion for the military.
DE, at the center of a takeover battle between two private equity consortia, has raised its medium-term forecasts, pressing for a higher valuation after telling suitors their 4.7 billion euro ($5 billion) bids were too low.
Ben Cardin, said he had yet to receive a formal response to a letter he and McCain wrote to the administration late last month pressing for a comprehensive plan for implementing the sanctions required by the law.
"Peace talks [are] out there, regional players pressing for peace, the Taliban talking about peace, the Afghan government is talking about peace," Miller told NATO soldiers gathered at Resolution Support headquarters in Kabul for an exercise session.
But activists kept up their demonstrations, pressing for the military to speed up the move to civilian rule and calling for justice for people killed during a raid on a sit-in protest in Khartoum in June.
As negotiations over a rescue picked up in Washington last week, it was Republicans pressing for direct cash assistance to Americans, irritating progressive Democrats who feared the GOP was out-flanking the Democratic Party on the left.
"We are pressing for the search area to be widened and continued until such time as firm evidence is found to ascertain the well-being or otherwise of all those in the climbing group," the statement said.
And in an additional response, it broadly welcomed the Commission's SME strategy — while pressing for a strong focus on startups as independent actors in the implementation of the strategy, rather than as a sub-category of SMEs.
The watchdog group pressing for the memo's release, the Protect Democracy project, contends that the privilege was waived after special counsel Robert Mueller included a summary of the conversation in his report that was published last year.
Second, progressive candidates and activists are pressing for a new conception of economic citizenship: universal health and family leave, free higher education, access to union membership and other workplace protections against the power of owners and bosses.
The states surrounding Yellowstone National Park — Idaho, Montana and Wyoming — have been pressing for the delisting for years, so that they can assume management of the bears outside the boundaries of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks.
This is the latest in a string of investments by Nestle Health Science targeting gastrointestinal health, and comes as the world's biggest food group is targeted by activist investor Daniel Loeb who is pressing for improved returns.
As part of the trade plan, Democrats are pressing for a renegotiation of the the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a step beyond the commitment made by the Trump administration and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
Editorial Habituated to pressing for tax cuts no matter how unjustified they are, House Republicans have marred their corporate-tax plan with a ploy that would slash taxes for the rich and pile up more federal debt.
In Abbas' mind, pressing for statehood will improve his position in negotiations; he believes that this will allow Palestinians to negotiate over what their state will look like, instead of being forced to negotiate over statehood itself.
A fixture on the national and international political stage, Bloomberg has raised his profile by crisscrossing the country to promote his anti-Trump agenda, announcing grants to cities fighting climate change and pressing for sensible gun laws.
The administration remains committed to its strategy of pressing for peace talks while providing funds and military advice, training and equipment to Afghan forces, said Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who indicated the U.S. troop drawdown would resume.
Mr. Flake, along with Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, and others, has been pressing for Congress to exercise its exclusive constitutional power to declare war against the militant group, but congressional leaders have been reluctant to act.
But a lot of the intellectual energy on the left has gone into pressing for more conceptually ambitious changes, including most notably abandoning the consumer welfare standard and returning to a more Brandeisian concern about concentrated economic power.
He said Bahceli now sees himself as Erdogan&aposs "co-equal," and the anti-Western party could hold the AKP hostage by pressing for its nationalist and populist interests that are further to the right than Erdogan&aposs.
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk has asked British regulators to investigate the identity of shareholders pressing for an overhaul of the board only a year after a previous revolt forced change, sources close to the company said.
In pressing for passage of the bill, Dole — the new majority leader of the Senate that year — spoke out about his support for the legislation, highlighting the conservative argument for it in the wake of the 1994 elections.
The high-profile attack came as officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China have been pressing for a resumption of the peace process, interrupted last year, between the Western-backed government in Kabul and the Taliban.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's job market is the tightest it's been in more than 22012 years, giving leverage to labor unions pressing for bigger pay hikes at annual wage negotiations and raising prospects for higher consumer spending and inflation.
The United States has stopped unauthorized sales of Libyan oil in the past, sending special forces in 2014 to board a tanker off Cyprus loaded with crude shipped by a group pressing for more autonomy in eastern Libya.
He agrees to press for his friend (Rob Morrow) from the Justice Department to take over Wilcox's place on the federal bench, in exchange for his friend pressing for a Chuck-friendly candidate to take over his position.
And Democrats on the Senate health committee, led by Senator Patty Murray of Washington, have been pressing for a bill to improve medical services for victims, including the development of the first national standards for care after assaults.
In fact, China's support for EVs has been so swift that implementation of the new regulations was pushed back a year to 2019 to give automakers more time; the Chinese government was originally pressing for implementation this year.
Defense contractor Raytheon is pressing for a green light to go ahead with the sale of 60,000 smart bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which is also participating in the bombing of targets in Yemen.
It wasn't until this year, for instance, that the US Dietary Guidelines finally recommended people keep their consumption of added sugars below 10 percent of their total calorie intake — decades after health advocates began pressing for the measure.
While pressing for a military response to the use of chemical weapons, Mr. Macron has also said he wants to work on a peace deal for the region, creating a dual-pronged strategy that has support in France.
Critics of the program argue that it often ends up repeatedly paying for damaged properties instead of pressing for mitigation of flood risks and relocation, and thus ends up encouraging people to build — and rebuild — in risky places.
It was particularly pressing for state lawmakers, because Thursday was the deadline reportedly set by the NCAA to either repeal HB2 or risk losing the state's chance to host college championship games that can bring millions in revenue.
But, over time, if the financial industry keeps pressing for looser regulations, and Washington obliges, there is concern that the absence of a strong leverage ratio could reduce confidence in the financial system, particularly in periods of stress.
Mr. Sondland's "special assignment" from Mr. Trump was never formally announced, but it was instrumental in the negotiations with Mr. Zelensky's team and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, who was pressing for these essentially political investigations.
Booker, of New Jersey, had previously demanded further probes by lawmakers into Trump's conduct and Russian interference in the 2016 election, pressing for members of Congress to receive special counsel Robert Mueller's underlying investigatory materials and public testimony.
Last year was the biggest on record for campaigns by new activist investors as newcomers joined seasoned veterans like Nelson Peltz, Daniel Loeb, Barry Rosenstein, Jeffrey Smith, Jesse Cohn, and William Ackman in pressing for changes at corporations.
The news that administration officials are pressing for Hill's inclusion in the meeting followed a New York Times report that Trump aides are worried about what the president will say to Putin when the two meet on Friday.
Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) declared the results of Monday's election proof that the country is a democracy, but one of the new opposition lawmakers said their tiny numbers meant pressing for democratization would be a long process.
The Trump administration has been pressing for swift approval of the trade deal, but House Democrats are demandingbetter mechanisms to enforce labor and environmental standards, and to ensure that the deal does not lead to higher drug prices.
M&G is among a growing number of asset management firms now pressing for changes at their portfolio companies, willing to flex their muscles a little more in an area long dominated by so-called activist hedge funds.
The stance could complicate U.S.-China trade talks set to resume next week, as Chinese officials have been pressing for a full lifting of U.S. tariffs as part of any deal, people familiar with the talks have said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will likely declare U.S. support for NATO's mutual defense doctrine while pressing for increased spending commitments from NATO allies at a high-stakes summit in Brussels, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
In a sign of possible progress that a disruption to government services could be averted, Cornyn said discussions were underway between GOP leaders and Manchin of West Virginia, the lead Democrat pressing for changes to the health insurance program.
EU officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were pressing for 2025 — the year already agreed by the G7 — at Wednesday and Thursday's energy talks, which will be attended by European Energy and Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete.
But with the alliance's main architect Ghosn beginning his final term as Renault CEO, the government has been pressing for a tie-up to secure the future of Renault-Nissan, the world's largest carmaking group by sales last year.
The new wave of gun-control advocates, many of them students, has vowed to keep pressing for gun control measures, and the advocates say they will be mobilizing for November's mid-term elections to support politicians in their camp.
WASHINGTON – Amid fresh uncertainty over his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is committed to pressing for the country to abandon its nuclear program as part of any meeting.
Finance ministry officials have been pressing for some time for spending cuts to reduce the budget shortfall, but implementing cuts could be politically damaging because Russia votes in a parliamentary election in September and a presidential election in 2018.
France, which owns 15 percent of Renault and backed the resolutions, has been pressing for a deeper tie-up with Nissan to ensure the carmakers' 19-year-old alliance can survive the eventual departure of Ghosn, its main architect.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military has maintained ties with North Korea, even though the civilian-led government denies any cooperation, and the Trump administration is pressing for a complete break-off of remaining links, current and former U.S. officials said.
The US is pressing for passage of a resolution to curtail shipments of oil to North Korea on the rationale that it would put severe pressure on Pyongyang, which gets most of its oil from China, the officials said.
While the Fixers are urging the president to adopt their "decertify, waive, slap, and fix" plan, the Walkers are pressing for what could be called, a "wave, slap, and walk" approach: Wave goodbye, slap on sanctions, and walk away.
The Chinese developer that bought the property, Fosun International, paid $126,000 to Mr. Capalino's company to lobby the city in 2015 and 2016, including pressing for the deed change to construct entrances for new retail space below the plaza.
He joked with reporters who asked him questions about what the White House would do if the bill failed, asking his questioners why they were being so gloomy and pressing for someone to be optimistic about the bill's chances.
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been pressing for increased spending after Scholz's previous longer-term plan called for military outlays to edge lower after reaching 1.3 percent of economic output in 2019, up from 1.2 percent now.
Ever since Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor, came forward about sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh a few weeks ago, Murkowski has been among the most vocal in pressing for a delay and, subsequently, an FBI investigation.
Yet President Trump, who is scheduled to meet Ms. Yellen on Thursday, says he is still considering whether to nominate her for a second four-year term, and key White House aides are pressing for her to be replaced.
WASHINGTON — President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has prompted a stampede by foreign countries and companies and their American partners pressing for exemptions and exclusions that could be worth billions of dollars in trade.
Women in Hollywood might have stepped to the fore in 2018, advocating for their rights and pressing for equal treatment and better representation, but new research finds that they are making little headway securing key positions in top films.
He has insisted that Mr. Trump's pressing for "a favor" from Ukraine's neophyte president wasn't a quid pro quo, which it obviously was because it followed directly the Ukraine president's request for the military aid that Congress had approved.
As part of legislation to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Trump and GOP leaders are pressing for new restrictions on the ability of U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents to bring relatives into the country.
Walton's comments came at a hearing where the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the Mueller compendium, was pressing for a less-redacted version of it to be released by Jan. 17.
Another market slowdown has made this more pressing for the Dubai government-owned company, whose projects include a 200-hectare mixed-use development in Dubai's Jebel Ali, as well as, according to its website, schemes in Vietnam and Russia.
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners called for the European Union to curb the number of small hydropower projects in the Western Balkans by pressing for more stringent environmental legislation and a more cost-effective subsidies system as soon as possible.
The women who make it out must contend not only with their families' efforts to force them home, but also with the Saudi government's extensive and well-financed efforts to do so, often involving local diplomats pressing for repatriation.
Lewis said that the accounting is particularly important now as the Republicans are pressing for cuts in important social-safety-net programs including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, as well as government services for the unemployed, women and children.
Sanders, who has yet to officially suspend his Democratic presidential campaign, said he'll continue pressing for the policies that animated his failed presidential bid before the party's 2016 platform is locked in at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next month.
Matteo Renzi, the former prime minister and leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), who has been pressing for an early election, seemed to have reached an agreement with the other main parties on an electoral law similar to Germany's.
But Riyadh decided against pressing for an official increase now as it realized it would not secure agreement from all producers present at the talks, some of which lack spare production capacity and would be unable to boost output quickly.
LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Britain remains deeply concerned about a British publisher of books critical of China's leaders who went missing in Hong Kong and is pressing for information about his welfare, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.
But with Ghosn, the alliance's main architect, now beginning his final term as Renault CEO, the government has been pressing for a tie-up to secure the future of Renault-Nissan, the world's largest carmaking group by sales last year.
While Haley is pressing for a human rights discussion April 18, two other permanent members, Russia and China, are not interested, meaning the idea might have to come to a vote to see if the required nine countries support it.
LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Britain is pressing for U.S. plane maker Boeing to drop its trade challenge against Canadian rival Bombardier and seek a negotiated settlement to try to protect jobs at a plant in Northern Ireland, its business ministry said.
One senior House GOP leadership aide insisted that the conference was still on track to pull together the budget but said conservatives were the sticking point, pressing for a broader deficit reduction number than some committee chairs were comfortable signing onto.
Canada also is considering duties on exports from Oregon such as wine, flooring and plywood, a source close to the matter told Reuters, citing the role played by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, in pressing for the lumber tariffs.
There's more than $3.6 trillion invested in state pension funds Some states are pressing for fuller fee disclosures, including the California Public Employees Retirement System, which said in 2015 it would begin breaking out additional costs in its annual reports.
The initiative to force Jammeh out will likely be viewed as a triumph for African diplomacy and could set a precedent in a region where democracy advocates have spent decades pressing for fair elections and an end to authoritarian regimes.
Most lawmakers sat quietly through a recap of what the EU deal entailed, but broke out in cheers when Cameron mentioned the date of the referendum - something many of his own lawmakers have spent most of the last decade pressing for.
A timeline to pass a healthcare bill this week always seemed optimistic, but White House aides had been pressing for the possibility in the hopes of giving Trump a significant legislative achievement before next Saturday – his 100th day in office.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party said on Tuesday it was pressing for a new national election because its alternative plan for leaving the European Union was the only one that could pass through parliament and unite the country.
Two House Democrats wrote to the White House on Monday pressing for documents that could show whether national security adviser John Bolton disclosed his prior connections to the Russian woman who's been arrested and accused of infiltrating political U.S. organizations.
Lawmakers: We don't know how widespread sexual harassment is on the Hill Meredith McGehee, now executive director of Issue One, a nonprofit advocacy group pressing for government reforms, was part of the lobbying effort to establish the Office of Compliance.
But Riyadh decided against pressing for an official increase now as it realised it would not secure agreement from all producers present at the talks, some of which lack spare production capacity and would be unable to boost output quickly.
Seventeen public-sector employees in Puerto Rico are pressing for a day in local court to argue that they should be allowed to retire early over the objections of the island's government, which says it cannot afford to let them go.
Time may not be pressing for Intesa, which received a 19.5% stake in Rosneft as collateral for the loan on January 3, according to Reuters, and in February Fallico told Reuters that there was 'no rush' in closing the syndication.
But Gaddafi loyalists outside Libya as well as some in the east of the country, where military commander Khalifa Haftar has been building power, have been pressing for Saif's release amid a push from former regime figures to reassert influence.
But South Korean officials not only did not make rights a major feature of last week's summit, they also agreed to stop propaganda broadcasts and leaflet distributions on their border, disappointing some defectors pressing for better rights in the reclusive country.
Britain's minister charged with negotiating Brexit, David Davis, said last week that it was pressing for a "unique" deal with the EU to restore sovereignty, reduce immigration by controlling its borders and boost trade with the bloc after the split.
A second former senior U.S. official argued Russia needs New Start extended more than the United States does, in part because of its budgetary constraints, and worried Trump could agree to this without pressing for Russian compliance on the INF pact.
The U.S. is pressing for a U.N. Security Council vote by Monday on tough, sweeping measures against North Korea, including an oil embargo, the authorization to board its ships, and a freeze on the assets of the leader, Kim Jong-un.
The U.S. is pressing for a U.N. Security Council vote by Monday on tough, sweeping measures against the North, including an oil embargo, the authorization to board its ships, and a freeze on the assets of the leader, Kim Jong-un.
Meanwhile, lawmakers pressing for changes to the surveillance powers regrouped on Wednesday after Mr. Trump pressed Republicans at the White House a night earlier to draft a set of changes that could pass Congress and he could sign into law.
Others are pressing for a high-level appointment for Gary Gensler, the campaign's chief financial officer and a former chairman of the CFTC who is beloved by Warren and her allies despite having worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years.
Nair's departure comes after several high-profile business leaders and politicians have quit or been fired in the past year following accusations of sexual harassment, with the social media movement known as #MeToo pressing for more accountability in corporate cultures.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Eurosceptic parties could expand their strength in the European Parliament by over 2 percent at elections next May, adding pressure on EU leaders pressing for deeper integration after Brexit, a survey by Reuters of national opinion polls suggests.
No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the dismissal of that prosecutor, whose ouster was being sought by other Western governments and institutions concerned about corruption in the Ukrainian government.
BAGHDAD, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Iraqi police fought running street battles with anti-government demonstrators on Tuesday, firing tear and rubber bullets to try to disperse stone-throwing youths pressing for an overhaul of a political system they see as deeply corrupt.
Citing potential conflicts of interest, seven of the 11 Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee submitted a letter on Thursday to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, raising concerns about Mr. Noreika's client list and pressing for clarity on his recusal plans.
Rival Rio Tinto is also weighing up the future of three aluminium smelters in Australia and a smelter in New Zealand, pressing for cheaper and more reliable power, as the Australian grid becomes more dependent on intermittent wind and solar power.
Democrats are trying to build a case that President Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky by withholding the aid and a White House meeting — at the same time he was pressing for a public announcement that Ukraine would investigate his political rivals.
New York prosecutors pressing for access to President Donald Trump's tax returns are drawing attention to the Justice Department's refusal to back up a claim by Trump's personal attorneys that he is immune from the state-run criminal justice process.
I mean, look, you've got to be talking about the issues that are pressing for American working people, and you've got to be talking directly to them as well, and I don't think we were really doing much of either one.
And although Biden may not have mentioned his son, in pressing for Shokin to be replaced by a prosecutor more interested in anti-corruption work, he was placing his son and Burisma in more danger of being investigated, not less.
Following Bouteflika's departure in April, the protesters have been pressing for the exit of the entire elite in control since the North African country's independence from France in 1962 - the same cause the jihadists took up arms for in 1991.
"Peace talks (are) out there, regional players pressing for peace, the Taliban talking about peace, the Afghan government is talking about peace," Miller told dozens of NATO soldiers who had gathered at RS headquarters in Kabul for an exercise session.
Organizers expect many to come back on Friday, when schools and businesses are closed for the Muslim sabbath, and rejoin the planned six-week protest pressing for right of return for refugees and their descendents to what is now Israel.
It was also a firm rebuke of both Netanyahu, who had strongly argued against the resolution, and Trump, who had taken the highly unprecedented move of weighing in on Thursday, before the vote, and pressing for the measure to be vetoed.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians, pressing for a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel, gathered along the fenced 65-km (653-mile) frontier where tents were erected for a planned six-week protest, local officials said.
Belgium, the most federalist of EU members, was pressing for a clause to ensure the deal with Britain would automatically cease to exist in case of a vote to leave - to make sure there was no possibility of a second renegotiation.
They not only insisted that half the events be held in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, but they also wanted top billing, pressing for the Games to be renamed the Pyongyang-Seoul Summer Olympics, with the opening ceremony in Pyongyang.
"This issue with the U.S. sugar industry is not over," Juan Cortina, the head of Mexican sugar industry group (CNIAA), told reporters at an event in Mexico City where he said the group would keep pressing for a fructose probe in Mexico.
And while some advocates were pressing for a quick resolution — bringing cases to the court regularly that posed the question — Breyer has not taken the fact that the court has not done so as a sign that he should give up the effort.
Lawmakers and foreign officials have been pressing for the appointment of a special representative, saying the secretary of state has too many other concerns to be the point person on delicate and time-consuming negotiations with North Korea over that country's nuclear program.
"Whether it is pressing for stronger and more inclusive growth or pushing back against the forces of protectionism, Christine's approach is a combination of tireless effort and a focus on solutions," U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a statement to Reuters.
"The day of action was already a success prior to it starting." said Lenny Sanch, an Uber and Lyft driver in Chicago who helped organize fellow drivers to rally outside City Hall, where they are pressing for support from the mayor's office.
Far-right party leader Marine Le Pen, who according to opinion polls could top the first round of the 2017 French presidential election but then lose the run-off, has been pressing for France to hold its own referendum on EU membership.
But it was a vote in parliament on Tuesday that left her seemingly at the mercy of two groups in the Conservative Party - those who want to maintain the closest possible ties with the EU, and others pressing for a clean break.
This marks the second time in six years that Loeb, one of the world's highest-profile activist investors, has targeted the Japanese electronics maker - although last time he pushed for a radically different shake-up, pressing for a spin-off of entertainment assets.
Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has built a stake worth $2.5 billion in SoftBank Group Corp and is pressing for a $20 billion share buyback and is pushing for changes at Masayoshi Son's technology conglomerate, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The EFF has filed a court filing pressing for warrants be required for searches of mobile phones, laptops and other digital devices by federal agents at international airports and U.S. land borders — describing these as "highly intrusive forays into travelers' private information".
Objections aside, the government is likely to withdraw as planned a few kilometers back from where they are currently stationed in Hodeidah's outskirts, while pressing for neutral port management by professional staff and law enforcement officials employed before the Houthi takeover in 2014.
But Modi's Make-in-India drive runs the risk of conflicting with U.S. President Donald Trump's America First campaign under which he has been pressing for companies to invest in the United States and create jobs instead of setting up factories abroad.
Vincent Bollore's Vivendi had been pressing for cost cuts at Telecom Italia after building up a 24.9 percent stake in what analysts view as part of a wider plan that could also involve Italia broadcaster Mediaset to rival Sky and Netflix in Europe.
Earlier this month South Korean President Park Geun-hye said she would consider allowing the U.S. to deploy an advanced missile-defense system—the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery, or Thaad, something Washington has been pressing for and which China has opposed.
"The administration seems unwilling to settle for further symbolic, cosmetic victories in terms of access to China's markets and is pressing for more specific and time-bound commitments from China about opening up its markets to U.S. exporters and investors," he added.
Beyond Bernie Sanders's call for a political revolution, a broad array of state-level citizen movements are pressing for reforms against Citizens United, gerrymandering and campaign megadonors to give average voters more voice, make elections more competitive, and ease gridlock in Congress.
By pressing for change now, Trump merely solidifies the regime's motivation to resist, allows it to delegitimize the protestors by connecting them to Washington, and will make the US look weak when it turns out that in fact no regime change occurs.

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