But as sales slowed, Volkswagen decided to pull the plug.
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I think we have to pull the plug on her.
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I think when things are going well, pull the plug.
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"I generally wasn't going to pull the plug," he said.
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From his apartment he told them to pull the plug.
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Maybe Mr. Diller's decision to pull the plug is reversible.
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And it will soon pull the plug on another quarter.
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That night, the company decided internally to pull the plug.
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But now Netanyahu wants to pull the plug on the operation.
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Will he pull the plug on federal involvement in organic propaganda?
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Siradze and his partner Irakli Pruidze had to pull the plug.
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What manager dares to pull the plug on a hot streak?
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And if the prince hesitates, pull the plug on the arms.
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He'll pull the plug on the N.E.A. The joke's on him.
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On June 25th, 2019, they'll pull the plug once and for all.
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In fact, the administration could pull the plug as early as Monday.
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Pull the plug now and get it at its best price yet.
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"Nobody wants to pull the plug by 13th April," said the official.
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Equally abruptly, the powers-that-be pull the plug on the operation.
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Pull the plug So, did this finally convince you to leave Facebook?
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"Stop letting them pull the plug on your people," Winkfield said of doctors.
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One of Mr Swan's early acts as boss was to pull the plug.
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It's all been enough for Google to pull the plug on the prank.
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Weak sales led the fast-food chain to pull the plug in 2014.
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Most critics wanted to pull the plug on "Polar" long before it ended.
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And that may force Iran to pull the plug on the nuclear deal.
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At the end of August, Ms. Smagin-Melloni decided to pull the plug.
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Glenn Beck will pull the plug on his Blaze cable channel next month.
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We're told she has no plan to pull the plug on her marriage.
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The company grounded its operation, while Khosrowshahi weighed whether to pull the plug altogether.
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When it did pull the plug, the company pointed the finger at its naysayers.
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KDB's move to pull the plug was already having an impact on Hanjin's operations.
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This could "pull the plug," with nothing left to hold back the continent's ice.
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They will never trust you if you pull the plug just because you're unpopular.
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Will the decision to pull the plug on the computerized vote counting improve integrity?
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The Trump administration's decision to pull the plug only creates more uncertainty and chaos.
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In August, we asked if it was time to pull the plug on PC Music.
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Should I just pull the plug now and un-match him, I wondered to myself.
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I browse Amazon and look at ice rollers, but don't pull the plug just yet.
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The budget was imploding, and producers threatened to pull the plug towards the very end.
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The bills don't pull the plug on possible criminal enforcement for scofflaws and repeat offenders.
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Amid scores of advertisers dropping out of the show, Fox decided to pull the plug.
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But they warned members they would pull the plug if they couldn't find the votes.
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If a relationship needs to be cut off, you'll be ready to pull the plug.
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Uber wants a 4.6 average or they will pull the plug on you [sic] driving.
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Had to tell my sister to pull the plug if I ended up brain dead.
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Morgan Stanley was the first to pull the plug on its participation in the protocol.
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America did not violate the INF Treaty, but it did choose to pull the plug.
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Berlin could yet pull the plug if it believes a deal would be politically unpalatable.
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The cars will roam the streets, empty and underutilized, until the operators pull the plug.
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As a writer, it's difficult to know, when do I pull the plug on this?
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On a less personal note, it's interesting to see Amazon pull the plug on the show.
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Who would be able to emotionally handle deciding whether they should pull the plug on you?
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Falling profits and a dwindling population just made it easier for Nintendo to pull the plug.
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You never know when the platform owner might simply decide to pull the plug on you.
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If these people pull the plug on the Trump Organization, it would go down pretty quickly.
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That altercation was the last straw that caused Halle to pull the plug on her marriage.
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It has already caused some data-dealing businesses to pull the plug entirely or exit Europe.
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Even if Bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, reappeared tomorrow, he or she couldn't pull the plug.
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New York (CNN Business)It's time to pull the plug on Sears, according to its creditors.
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At 48:30: Here, I ask how AH decides to pull the plug on an investment.
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And if Bixby's not getting better, the company should pull the plug on its Galaxy Homes.
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Following a poor holiday shopping season, though, its owners decided to pull the plug for good.
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These days, some people are wondering, is it time to pull the plug on PC Music?
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Accounts generally agree that Smith was the one to abruptly pull the plug on his Fox career.
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The Independent sold the i last week and decided to pull the plug on its printing press.
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Sources familiar with Microsoft's Andromeda work caution that the company could pull the plug at any stage.
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi mulled whether to pull the plug before eventually deciding to continue the program.
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But liberal outrage wasn't what got CPAC to pull the plug or Yiannopoulos to resign from Breitbart.
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RIVERA: One critic wants to pull the plug on one of America&aposs reality TV guilty pleasures.
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Given their healthy appetite for risk, they'd need to pull the plug on losers—to fail fast.
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If the producer feels either party is incapable of giving consent, the producer can pull the plug.
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It can be hard to say goodbye—but lately, you're feeling ready to just pull the plug.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull the plug on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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"I know how difficult it is to pull the plug after so much hard work," said Rep.
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Berlin could therefore pull the plug if it believes a deal would be politically or financially unpalatable.
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Just yesterday, it announced it would pull the plug on Yahoo Labs, its in-house research lab.
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I have this absolute optimist's perspective on things and it's really hard for me to pull the plug.
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In competitive House races across the country, Republicans are beginning to pull the plug on their own candidates.
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Morano's upcoming Amazon show "The Power" is the first program to pull the plug on filming in Georgia.
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An offensive segment about blackface Halloween costumes led NBC News to pull the plug on Megyn Kelly's show.
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Here's why it's so hard, as a social network user, to pull the plug once and for all.
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Just pull the plug and go dead for a while as they're sitting two feet away from me?
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But as the response to the show spread online and beyond, the producers decided to pull the plug.
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Or Tesla's board could decide to pull the plug on Musk, if it decides it has had enough.
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Some bookstores found themselves under pressure to pull the plug on their events even before the publisher's announcement.
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Doug Jones of Alabama, a Biden supporter, said he wasn't surprised by Harris' decision to pull the plug.
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But the call to pull the plug on CNCS underscores the administration's misplaced values, and should be resisted strongly.
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It's harder for users to cancel the subscription if it would pull the plug for friends or roommates too.
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Soon after the backlash, the City of Orlando said it would pull the plug on the facial recognition program.
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A few hard-hit balls in the sixth urged Price and pitching coach Mack Jenkins to pull the plug.
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In May, Tencent (TCEHY) was forced to pull the plug on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds because of government restrictions on gaming.
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Do away with the crippling indecision over what to pull the plug on while shopping for the upcoming season.
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It's very important to dry your sponge after using them to pull the plug on any further bacteria growth.
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It took the resurfacing of a video in which Yiannopoulos explicitly defends pedophilia for Threshold to pull the plug.
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She enjoyed it, even found it helpful, but ultimately the cost ($59 month) led her to pull the plug.
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The couple split a year ago but took no action to pull the plug on the marriage until Thursday.
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It involved an intense campaign by Mr. Simmons and his supporters to get Ms. Winfrey to pull the plug.
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But industry experts I spoke to in recent weeks aren't quite ready to pull the plug on the trend.
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Indonesian authorities said it decided to pull the plug due to the "many channels" on Telegram containing dangerous information.
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Cornwell, for an inexplicable reason, demurs to her subordinate officer regarding when to pull the plug on the operation.
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TV news blogger Scott Jones asked on Wednesday if it's finally "time for MSNBC to pull the plug" on Reid.
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First of all, you can't pull the plug on the world's oceans, and if you tried, I would stop you.
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"If they pull the plug on this, there's certainly questions if any project will go ahead in Australia," said Farruggio.
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Kim Cattrall, who portrayed Samantha Jones, is widely seen as being the one to pull the plug on the project.
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It seemed like as good a time as any to finally pull the plug and permanently delete my Facebook profile.
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He says the mystery condition is forcing him to pull the plug on his one-man play version of 'Twain.'
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If the Huskies pull the plug, they won't just be eating $22017 million—they might be sabotaging a potential turnaround.
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The Trump administration acted unilaterally to pull the plug on 81 teenage pregnancy projects that already had strong supporting evidence.
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"If they pull the plug on Chevron, it's just a gift on a big platter to the Russians," one said.
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If it confirms a replacement for Sessions without demanding recusal, the Republican majority will pull the plug on the patient.
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But reports of vandalism and the difficulty of handing off the key caused the school district to pull the plug.
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In hindsight, my mother acknowledges that she wanted to "pull the plug" too soon because she became overwhelmed by fear.
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Russia last week tested shutting off the internet to make sure it can just pull the plug when it wants.
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Finally, there's virtually no Iowa outcome that would cause billionaire Tom Steyer to pull the plug, according to his team.
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He's shrewd to pull the plug on the discounted, thinly traded holding company while an epidemic threatens commercial property sales.
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Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids.
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Lil Wayne was so furious about his "Nightline" interview we're told his camp repeatedly demanded ABC News pull the plug.
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He held on for too long, toiling away for two years when he would have been better to pull the plug.
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The new app helps you pull the plug on yet another long and horrific day, and dispatches you off to slumberland.
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"I called my manager and said 'pull the plug'… cancel tv's cancel promo, cancel the single, cancel the album," he added.
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Do we want to be another business's cool new vanity project until they get tired of us and pull the plug?
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After a destructive twitter-spree that prompted ABC to pull the plug on her sitcom, Roseanne Barr is feeling the heat.
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The man everyone expects to help pull the plug this time is Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's pick to replace Justice Scalia.
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"I saw the market getting tight and we were one of the first companies to pull the plug," Newcomb tells me.
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"If they pull the plug on Chevron, it's just a gift on a big platter to the Russians," one source said.
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Trump knows full well that for Sessions to pull the plug on the Mueller operation would create an enormous political firestorm.
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He and Chloe have been inseparable ever since ... and clearly it's going well enough he's ready to pull the plug permanently.
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Unfortunately, the existence of those same locks are the precise reason that Microsoft can pull the plug on your books remotely.
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Payne wants Manilow to pull the plug on his Judy duet and fork over any profits he's raked in from it.
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You might even decide to pull the plug on a partnership—but, again, it's probably best to wait out the retrograde.
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"It is too early for the ECB to pull the plug on its asset purchases," Rabobank strategist Elwin de Groot said.
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I know that I will not go through with the adoption, but I am not sure when to pull the plug.
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We were about to record an album and we didn't want our label to question our future and pull the plug.
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Even Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince, who personally decided to pull the plug, thinks the answer should be "no" in the future.
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"Iranians are clearly worried that this time Trump will pull the plug on the J.C.P.O.A.," Mr. Kupchan said in an email.
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In Canada's single-payer, the courts grant the government the legal authority to pull the plug even against the patient's wishes.
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When Cyber Week ends, or more realistically tbh, when Amazon simply decides to pull the plug on a deal, it's over.
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U.K. fire and rescue services have called on owners to physically pull the plug on their devices to prevent fires and damage.
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Political insiders say Newsom is unlikely to pull the plug on the entire project but may force changes in the rail authority.
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Their anger made sense in the case of Daredevil, because it was Netflix that decided to pull the plug on the show.
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The initial decision to pull the plug on Link—Logitech cited an expiring security certificate as the reason—set off a firestorm.
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At this point, I've kept him alive for so long, I'd feel too guilty to pull the plug on my virtual spawn.
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That may be why Mr Leahy is threatening to pull the plug on the programme: to hold Emirates' feet to the fire.
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"She was a warrior, she was a fighter, and we didn't pull the plug on her," her mother, Esaw Snipes, told reporters.
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When harassment caused Matheny to finally pull the plug on the experiment, some followers refused to believe it was all a hoax.
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We're told Solange didn't feel like she could deliver a great show for Coachella ... and she ultimately decided to pull the plug.
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What those restaurants probably never considered is that within just a year, Valk Fleet's parent company Delivery Hero would pull the plug.
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If all I can do is wiggle a finger in response to a prompt, I think that they should pull the plug.
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Due to BEAM's lack of movement, NASA and Bigelow decided to pull the plug and review their data before making another attempt.
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But he is also consistently inconsistent when it comes to foreign policy, and he could just as easily pull the plug entirely.
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Zac was emotional as he explained how he had to pull the plug on touring ... something all artists are now dealing with.
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But he is also consistently inconsistent when it comes to foreign policy, and he could just as easily pull the plug entirely.
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But soon the two are allies, working to pull the plug on a terrorist plot and tripping across the rooftops of Paris.
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Iran has billions of dollars of foreign reserves in Omani banks and could pull the plug on promised projects in the sultanate.
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Three months later, with no end in sight for the sustained political pressure and negative attention, executives decided to pull the plug.
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In this sneak peek, Kendra's officially had enough, and she's giving her mother one final chance to pull the plug on her project.
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If you screw that up and lose their trust, the browsers can pull the plug on all of the certificates from that authority.
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Perhaps one day Facebook users will get sick of being jerked around and lied to and pull the plug on its conniving ass.
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Sheriff Graver says he was told the country duo even threatened to pull the plug on the concert if they saw any cops.
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As tempting as it may be to pull the plug, find out if you can survive on one income without causing financial jeopardy.
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They can't undo an edit that's already made, but the study suggests they could pull the plug on an edit that's in progress.
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Haley also said Iran was still supporting terrorism, conducting arms-smuggling, and violating travel bans — all reasons for Trump to pull the plug.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is defending his decision to pull the plug on the controversial website used by the El Paso shooting suspect.
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She was in L.A. on Monday when she was asked if she'd pull the plug on shows -- a la Bruce and Bryan Adams?
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After a strong ratings debut, the series was almost immediately greenlit for Season 2 before ABC made the call to pull the plug.
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At some point, these worlds are no longer popular and stop making money, so the companies running them decide to pull the plug.
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We're told a doctor on site recommended that she pull the plug on the performance because it could permanently damage her vocal cords.
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Berlin, which pushed the merger talks in the first place, could pull the plug if it believes a deal would be politically unpalatable.
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A lot of people thought Kim pushed him to exit politics, but we're told it was really his decision to pull the plug.
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Sources connected to the deal tell us Whitney's estate decided to pull the plug once they saw the finished product 2 days ago.
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Traditional banks may be feeling constant pressure from startups to innovate more quickly, but deciding when to pull the plug is equally important.
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Disney simultaneously said that it would pull the plug on Infinity, a costly video game and toy line that was introduced in 2624.
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For Italy -- one of the original participants in the experiment in European unity -- to pull the plug on the EU would be fatal.
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First of all, Congress can't fully repeal Obamacare tomorrow, but they can pull the plug on a lot of the funding for it.
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But despite having granted him a previous extension, the sugar association decided to pull the plug on Project 259 and eliminate its funding.
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Now, maybe Trump won't really pull the plug on Paris; or maybe he'll be gone from the scene before the damage is irreversible.
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"We've seen other retailers in the past just pull the plug and let themselves be declared bankrupt," said Jacqueline Twerda in a statement.
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And so, the North Koreans and the United States decided to pull the plug on the Agreed Framework in the fall of 2002.
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As such, we asked friends and co-workers to sum up what made them pull the plug on a relationship in six words.
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Every day, I want to pull the plug again and leave the "psychic crack-cocaine," as fellow VICE writer Drew Brown calls it, behind.
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And Pence himself has had transparency woes, after he was forced to pull the plug on a proposed state-run news service last year.
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MCCARTHY: Well, it should pull the plug on the aspect of the Mueller probe that deals with whether the president&aposs guilty of obstruction.
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Multiple sources connected to Ronda tell TMZ Sports she's "super happy" in her new career and isn't ready to pull the plug just yet.
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Ron Johnson House Republicans have long sought to pull the plug on the Obama-era rule, which they have characterized as unethical and illegal.
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Google's response in Spain was to pull the plug on its news service, to the detriment of publishers that relied on it for traffic.
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Nobody likes to be the one to pull the plug on a relationship and adding distance to the equation doesn't make things any easier.
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For instance, Xcel Energy (XEL) has shut down a quarter of its coal power plants and plans to pull the plug on another quarter.
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But two sources said the bank had dispensed around $20 million before deciding to pull the plug and will recoup none of its investment.
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And it took a big name like Burberry to finally pull the plug — the British heritage brand and Bailey both being trendsetters, of course.
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In this region the company had previously been forced to pull the plug on facial recognition after being leaned on by privacy conscious regulators.
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In 2011, erstwhile leader Geron Corp said it would pull the plug on its stem cell research and focus on its experimental cancer treatments.
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But if a bill introduced this week in the City Council passes, New Yorkers could freely pull the plug on off-the-clock communications.
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So, we're told the fight organizer, Samantha Goldberg, decided to pull the plug ... and immediately signed "Mob Wives" star Natalie DiDonato to replace Farrah.
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They note examples including the financial struggles of the Chinese EV startup Nio and Dyson's decision to pull the plug on its EV plans.
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Could China next threaten to pull the plug on its U.S. Treasury holdings to get the U.S. to back down on threats against Iran?
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Mr. Durham and his team worked amid speculation that the Justice Department would pull the plug on what was becoming a deeply embarrassing prosecution.
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Amazon executives met privately with RWDSU union officials in February before agreeing to pull the plug on its HQ2 headquarters in Long Island City.
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And the Democratic leadership has shown in the past that they'll pull the plug, if necessary, if things aren't resolved in a reasonable fashion.
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If the CBS Board of Directors reviews the report and believes Moonves violated his employment agreement ... it can pull the plug on that payment.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to pull the plug on an expected health care vote this week was somehow both inevitable and shocking.
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However, minor league teams have been lobbying for the Save America's Pastime Act as well, fearing that major league teams will actually pull the plug.
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This time around, it actually had to pull the plug on one of its pranks after it allegedly caused some people to lose their jobs.
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With Huawei sale struggling in the US, it may not seem like a big deal for Best Buy to pull the plug on the company.
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"She was a warrior, she was a fighter, and we didn't pull the plug on her," Snipes, Garner's mother, told the New York Daily News.
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Barry Schwartz, portfolio manager at Baskin Financial Services, said the company should gradually pull the plug on its struggling stores and sell the real estate.
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Nearly a month after the original September deadline, the company announced today that it's going to pull the plug in November — for real this time.
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But you spend every single day together and then suddenly you pull the plug on that — that relationship's just not gonna be the same anymore.
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But on February 10th it was South Korea's turn to pull the plug on the complex, for the first time since it opened in 2004.
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That simple fact has caused an entire country to consider banning the movie and an Alabama drive-in to pull the plug on the film.
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After eight years of stop-and-start monkey business, Fox might've been wise to pull the plug entirely and abandon the Planet of the Apes.
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Citing the cigarettes popularity with younger populations, Senate Democrats have filed a petition with the FDA, asking the agency to pull the plug on menthol.
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Southern has guarantees from parent Toshiba, but the utility faces uncertain liabilities of its own and may have to pull the plug on the plant.
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When North Korea backed away from the promise of denuclearization, even using harsh language to criticize administration officials, Trump was right to pull the plug.
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As Five Star's popularity has slipped, political observers have begun wondering when the party, or Mr. Casaleggio, might pull the plug on Mr. Di Maio.
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"Let's don't do in Afghanistan what Obama did in Iraq: pull the plug on the place and allow radical Islam to come roaring back," Sen.
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But Maldonado refused to "pull the plug" and pushed for his continued medical care, and doctors are still unsure why Gray was born without skin.
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Growing public concern over the coronavirus prompted the annual San Francisco trade show's organizers to pull the plug ahead of their March 16 start date.
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To account for the risk that the administration could pull the plug on CSRs, many states instructed insurers to submit two sets of rate requests.
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His decision to quit; pull the plug; to not put up a fight cost us not only his seat, but more seats throughout the state.
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Kim Kardashian was ready to pull the plug on her marriage to Kanye West after his "slavery" remark on TMZ Live ... or so, Kanye thought.
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Fans are now calling for a Roseanne spinoff series following Roseanne Barr's racist Twitter spree that prompted ABC to pull the plug on the popular sitcom.
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"When you entrust the integrity of your actual home to a company, you want to know they won't pull the plug on you," says SimpliSafe's Laurans.
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San Diego Gas & Electric in the far south of the state actually did pull the plug on 12,000 customers last December as Santa Ana winds raged.
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In the age of digital stores and multiplayer servers, entire games and communities truly disappear when a company decides it's financially responsible to pull the plug.
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It's certainly a much bigger business decision for Google to pull the plug on Google News across the whole of Europe, rather than just in Spain.
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Fourteen thousand signatures have graced a petition for Harvard to pull the plug, and some colleges (like Columbia) have stated they would look into the matter.
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There is no one person to pull the plug and considering the money-making engine it's already become thanks to micro-transactions, it's unlikely anyone will.
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Prominent conservatives are calling on the American Conservative Union to pull the plug on Milo Yiannopoulos' planned speech at the high-profile Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Sex workers familiar with the site aren't quite sure why the cops chose to pull the plug now, though some suspect that a second website—kgirldelights.
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But what happens when they do pull the plug and countless books are trapped in an insurgent app that will lose support if the company dies?
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So rather than just pull the plug when it doesn't need to be abrupt, giving it some time is a gentler way of having that conversation.
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"She was a warrior, she was a fighter and we didn't pull the plug on her," Esaw Snipes, Garner's mother, told the New York Daily News.
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Backstory: Uber was forced to pull the plug on its first round of self-driving Volvo cars after the DMV revoked the registrations of Uber's cars.
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But, there is a list of essentials you should have in your carry on or suitcase if you're unable to pull the plug on your plans.
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If you pull the plug on one field of research, getting it back up and running is not a simple matter of plugging it back in.
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"We would rather pull the plug than submit to repressive surveillance by our government, or any government," Riseup wrote in an earlier post on its website.
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Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ, Swift called Calvin from Nashville at some point after his car crash to pull the plug on their relationship.
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We got Clapton heading into LAX Wednesday ... a few days after he had to pull the plug on a couple of weekend shows due to severe bronchitis.
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Ilana decided to pull the plug out of caution ... especially on the heels of last weekend's horrific mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.
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The ruling coalition is due for a midterm review in the autumn, which could be an opportunity for the SPD to pull the plug on the alliance.
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Salvini is facing significant pressure from within his party to pull the plug on the coalition, which was formed in June 2018 after an inconclusive national election.
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President Donald Trump now reportedly wants to pull the plug on a big pot of Obamacare money — which could send insurance prices soaring for millions of Americans.
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Water quality tests at Odaiba Marine Park found fecal bacteria levels far exceeded accepted limits, organizers said, forcing them to pull the plug on the swimming events.
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The EU and Turkish authorities have been playing a game of chicken over which side will be the first to pull the plug on Turkey's accession process.
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As a result, it seems both Trump and Ratcliffe chose to pull the plug on the nomination, though the president blames the media for forcing his hand.
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U.S. officials said Trump would be prepared to quickly pull the plug on diplomacy if it becomes obvious that Pyongyang is just trying to drag out talks.
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Heading into Montreal last week, some officials had feared the United States might be prepared to pull the plug on the pact amid frustration over slow progress.
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It had developed a so-called companion phone named Project Gem, but carriers did not want to offer it, and the company decided to pull the plug.
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Given that the whole episode unfolded in writing, both Manchester and the White House may have felt like there was little choice but to pull the plug.
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Ivanka Trump, at the same time, was also letting it be known that she was trying to convince her father to pull the plug on zero tolerance.
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NBC News's Pete Williams and Julia Ainsley reported Friday that Trump appears poised to pull the plug on the program that would affect nearly 1 million people.
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It swiftly became clear that collaboration with Obama would profoundly anger the conservative base, which over time persuaded more and more Republicans to pull the plug on dealmaking.
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Image: Gene J. Puskar (AP)Starbucks has reportedly decided to pull the plug on viewing explicit imagery in its stores following pressure from an anti-pornography activist group.
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Most birth control, including condoms, targets the swimming portion of the baby-making biathlon; scientists haven't been able to pull the plug on the sperm drilling operation itself.
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Tension at a Donald Trump rally finally reached boiling point ... as multiple fist fights broke out in Chicago forcing the candidate to pull the plug over safety concerns.
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The BOJ kept monetary policy steady on Wednesday and its governor stressed that the bank won't pull the plug on monetary easing until inflation hits its elusive target.
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Salvini is the only one who could pull the plug and seek another coalition, but while there is an interest to stick together, the government will not collapse.
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" When her condition did not improve, Karl allowed doctors to pull the plug on his wife, which he told NBC News was the "hardest decision of my life.
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In a secret meeting on Monday night, House Republicans voted 119-74 to pull the plug on The Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog created in 2008.
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Sprint and T-Mobile shares fell Monday, on a Japanese media report that SoftBank is prepared to pull the plug on a proposed merger between the two carriers.
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President Trump's decision to pull the plug on payments to insurance companies helped drive Republicans to make a deal on health care, Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters today.
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In the run-up to the Saturday ceremony, 850 students at Texas Southern University had signed a petition urging the school to pull the plug on Cornyn's speech.
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Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly says ABC was right to pull the plug on the sitcom "Roseanne" following star Roseanne Barr's racist remarks on Twitter Tuesday morning.
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That same month, NASA had to abruptly pull the plug on the first all-female spacewalk in history because they didn't have enough spacesuits to fit the astronauts.
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Since the cheating scandal news broke, the comments left behind by reviewers have been scathing, with many urging the brand to pull the plug on the collaboration altogether.
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Then they evaporate as the chords come back, as if a test run with the Triton didn't quite go as expected, and Stott had to pull the plug.
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Opposition parties also criticized the decision by Sinn Féin to pull the plug, saying a new election will delay the inquiry, and their ability to curtail the costs.
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The North's leader, Kim Jong-un, may well wonder why he should negotiate with the U.S. if a subsequent president can simply pull the plug on any agreement.
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But, as the pandemic grows and health experts warn against public gatherings of any kind, the powers that be decided to pull the plug ... at least for now.
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Some officials worry that if the UN condemns the Houthis too loudly, donors will walk away from aid programmes or the rebels will pull the plug on them.
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"It sets a very dangerous precedent," she tells him, to which he argues that "it's only four people," and that she can pull the plug whenever she wants.
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The product line was called "Kardashian Beauty" and everything was just fine, until the girls decided to pull the plug on the deal just before the product launch.
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But then they do something so egregious, so harrowing, that you're ready to pull the plug on the whole situation: They ask you out to dinner and a movie.
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But Japan's economy has not strengthened enough to pull the plug on monetary support, Furusawa said, adding that continued ultra-loose policy was crucial to make the recovery sustainable.
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Kroger has a "Scan, Bag, Go" app similar to Sam's Club, while Walmart decided to pull the plug on its mobile express scan-and-go offering earlier this year.
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"If you could pull the plug on the world's oceans, then Zealandia would probably long ago have been recognized as a continent," New Zealand geologist Nick Mortimer told Nature.
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Of course, it seems just as — if not more — likely that handset makers will ultimately pull the plug on any devices that fail to catch the world on fire.
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If we're not happy with what we see, or how an AI reached a decision, we could simply pull the plug, or choose not to purchase a certain car.
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But the former general may not want to pull the plug entirely on the Iran agreement although he may push for changes, according to remarks he made in April.
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The commissioner has made it abundantly clear that if he doesn't see a significant decrease in underage use, he's willing to pull the plug on the e-cig industry.
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Once people started using bitcoin, it would be impossible for a government to pull the plug, as happened with previous attempts to create digital money, such as E-Gold.
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Charles announced the news in a YouTube post over the weekend, explaining that after speaking to friends and family, he came to the tough decision to pull the plug.
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Likewise, while 5-Star wants to pull the plug on the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link (TAV), the League fervently defends the multi-billion euro Franco-Italian project.
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Any decision to pull the plug on the iconic European double-decker after just 12 years in service must be approved by the Airbus board, which meets on Wednesday.
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The EPP suspended Fidesz in March amid concerns that it has violated EU principles on the rule of law, and either side could pull the plug on their association.
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Otherwise, Rome has threatened to pull the plug on the operation in the Mediterranean, where the United Nations says nearly 2,300 people perished last year trying to reach Europe.
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Horwitz shed some light on why there have been so many challenges with Obamacare, and what state legislatures can legally do should Congress pull the plug on federal funding.
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Shows that would have been axed after two or three episodes even a couple of years ago are running for full seasons — or longer — before networks pull the plug.
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"There is a deep concern amongst the Americans who want to see the American commitment to Afghanistan remain, that Trump is going to pull the plug," Mr. Blanc said.
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A House or Senate majority could defeat the motion and thereby pull the plug on the process before any debate takes place, let alone a vote on final passage.
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The Obama administration says it's working to boost renewable energy and head off the threat of climate change, but it's not ready to pull the plug on fossil fuels.
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The high cost of the show prompted HBO to propose reducing the number of episodes, and Milch -- feeling unappreciated -- opted to pull the plug rather than accept that perceived indignity.
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This week, for instance, a petition signed by a group of Amazon shareholders launched online asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to pull the plug on all of its Trump merchandise.
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To some extent Hannity is just being Hannity, and the onus lies on his handlers at Fox—in the name of ethical newsgathering, or just empathy—to pull the plug.
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Image: Wellcome ImagesFollowing the deaths of five patients, Juno Therapeutics has decided to pull the plug on an experimental cancer treatment that boosts the power of a patient's immune cells.
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At a press conference on May 18, the President was asked whether he had asked the FBI Director to pull the plug on the Flynn component of the Russia investigation.
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Sources close to both Patientce and Cardi tell TMZ, Patientce strongly believes Cardi is still in love with Offset and does not want to pull the plug on their marriage.
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" Yun, who is now a CNN global affairs analyst, said he believes Trump remains committed to the summit and "is not going to be the one to pull the plug.
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"You'll continue to hear that they just made significant updates to the system, and that no one is saying to pull the plug on the program," the tester told Politico.
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"There's a section of fans who worry that, if we push Becchetti too hard, he'll walk away, pull the plug completely and leave us totally in the shit," Tom laughs.
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Instead, the court demanded that doctors pull the plug on the baby's life support system despite heart-rending pleas from the child's parents to let them try to save him.
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One trade official close to the case said so much of the ruling had gone against Beijing that it had opted to pull the plug before the result became official.
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As those allegations came to light, Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective, was backing Mr. Wieseltier's endeavor, decided to pull the plug on it.
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As of Thursday, Kaiser had said he had NOT instructed the honchos running Coachella or Stagecoach to pull the plug -- but in light of this new development, that could change.
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Then the companies do their thing and people would live with greater confidence that, if there are abuses, they'll be made aware of that and can always pull the plug.
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"The worst thing that clients and investors can do with the market at current levels is pull the plug and go underweight equities," she told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Friday.
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She asked whether Twitter was different from a public town hall, where government officials would be unable to pull the plug from a microphone to mute speakers with unwelcome views.
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R. Kelly's had enough ... he's threatening to sue Lifetime if it doesn't pull the plug on airing its documentary that paints the singer as a sex-crazed and abusive cult leader.
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The two men met and Smith told Meyer "he would pull the plug on this thing" if Meyer wanted to continue as coach, but Meyer said that he wished to resign.
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We got the Massachusetts Senator on Capitol Hill Wednesday and asked if the decision to pull the plug on her was sexist, and it's pretty clear that's not in her head.
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But in a hard-hitting Facebook post on Thursday, 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio said there was no turning back after Salvini's move to pull the plug on the coalition.
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Climate change had become an unpopular subject among Republicans, and big donors like the Koch brothers were threatening to pull the plug on any candidate who favored regulation of greenhouse gases.
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Johnny Boufarhat was alarmed at the number of inquiries his start-up was receiving, as health concerns around the fast-spreading coronavirus forced major tech conference organizers to pull the plug.
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Damon Dash says he's not the cash register he used to be -- not by a long shot -- so he's asking a judge to pull the plug on his child support obligations.
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Insurance companies blindsided by the Senate GOP's decision to pull the plug on bipartisan talks and move forward again with ObamaCare repeal are scrambling to figure out how to move forward.
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Second, as noted above, the oversight board has repeatedly acted to delay and impede negotiations and even "pull the plug" on the deal the commonwealth nearly reached with the GO bondholders.
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These types of policies generally reimburse travelers 75% of their trip cost if they opt to pull the plug on their trip for any reason not otherwise covered by the policy.
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The heirs to Prince's fortune are calling out Tidal for allegedly lying about streaming data, and they're so pissed about it ... they want to pull the plug on a lucrative deal.
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Administration officials had threatened in recent days to pull the plug on subsidies for low-income people enrolled in the 2010 healthcare law, former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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They blame its demise on Amazon, and on the five hedge funds that were their lenders, saying they were the ones who forced the private equity firms to pull the plug.
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The onetime energy source of the future lost more ground this week, as the largest US nuclear power company said it will pull the plug on two money-losing plants in Illinois.
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To add insult to injury, Scully discovers her mother has had a change of heart about life-support without telling her, putting Scully in the position of having to pull the plug.
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Local organizers have cited declining ticket sales, viewership and tourist numbers for their decision to pull the plug a year early on a race that first appeared on the calendar in 1999.
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Other times it might be harder or you just won't care (your daily step count for five days last January?), but it's something to bear in mind before you pull the plug.
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An additional safeguard now comes standard in the new experimental CARs as well, in the form of built-in cellular "kill switches"; if Frankenstein goes crazy, researchers can just pull the plug.
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In that case, the usual recommendation is to pull the plug, load a bootable disk or USB drive with an anti-virus scanner on it, and then switch the computer back on.
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Sears' creditors committee, which represents some of those vendors and various mall landlords, wants the bankruptcy court to pull the plug on Sears and start the process of shutting down the company.
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After drawn-out negotiations with Brussels, Italy won permission to liquidate the two banks under national insolvency procedures rather than have European regulators pull the plug on their own, potentially harsher, terms.
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While the president said it is too late to cancel Wednesday's event, it is possible he could pull the plug on planned stops on Friday and Saturday in Ohio and Kentucky, respectively.
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Trump's decision to pull the plug on the Kim meeting demonstrates U.S. strength, which is a "good thing right now," said Burns, currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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So as we finally pull the plug on this ridiculous claim, let's have a look back at the many times Trump promised voters a foolproof (and original) policy to take down ISIS.
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Yungblud isn't ready to hit the panic button over coronavirus and pull the plug on upcoming gigs -- including a couple at Coachella -- but the decision might soon be out of his hands.
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Austrian yields held firm after a scandal prompted Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to pull the plug on his coalition with the far right at the weekend, raising the chances of a snap election.
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If elected mayor of Chicago next month, former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot may pull the plug on Elon Musk's proposal to build a high-tech rapid transit system in America's third-largest city.
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It was just a matter of time: Would he stay with Becca until After the Final Rose, or would he pull the plug beforehand, forcing Becca to live out a very public breakup?
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Linkin Park's impending tour has obviously hit a wall -- and we're told the band has not yet made a decision on whether to pull the plug in the wake of Chester Bennington's suicide.
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Lang claims his worst fears were confirmed when Dentsu then surprisingly decided to pull the plug on Woodstock 50 and notified the media it was canceling ... without any legal right to do so.
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Without explicit evidence of a breach by the Iranians, and given Europe's support for the deal, there appeared to be little appetite among Republican leaders to pull the plug on Mr. Trump's behalf.
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Meanwhile, in the Democrat-controlled House, the Judiciary and Intelligence committees have been working together for months on a bill that would pull the plug on the surveillance tool once and for all.
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That is, by increasing the size of the trial group in small increments in case the idea ultimately flops and Facebook needs to pull the plug before losing significant usage or ad revenue.
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David Perdue (R-GA), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) have long been among those pushing for McConnell to pull the plug on recess as part of their #MakeCongressWorkAgain initiative.
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As much as we venerate our totems and the pasts they are linked to, sometimes, as Rakim says, we also need to kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, and then jet.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is more likely to offer moderate Republicans some changes — like modifying the tax credits to boost coverage and softening the Medicaid cuts — than to pull the plug, Condeluci said.
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When they finally did pull the plug, according to that Washingtonian piece, NBC was scooped by CNN before they could make an official announcement — or even hammer out the details of Gregory's severance package.
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You can gauge a potential match from a safe and fairly anonymous distance, and you can decide when to pull the plug without the risk of them continuing to have unfettered access to you.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses the Senate on Tuesday, after it frustrated Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's attempt to pull the plug on his coalition with the 19803-Star Movement and trigger snap elections.
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The Obama administration's decision to pull the plug on talks with Russia was seen as an especially dispiriting low in its efforts to stem the chaos in Syria, which have so far been ineffective.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses the Senate on Tuesday, after it frustrated Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's attempt to pull the plug on his coalition with the 5-Star Movement and trigger snap elections.
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After a year's hiatus, the series returns with an abbreviated final season, which finds Finch (Michael Emerson) getting emotional as he wonders whether it's time to pull the plug on his crime-predicting Machine.
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Pacquiao dominated the fight -- pretty much everyone but Adrien agrees -- and Broner went on a tirade with Gray, who warned him to keep it civil or else he'd pull the plug on the interview.
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"Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," the website says.
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Indeed, the police were continuously "all eyes and ears" with Mellor frequently getting reports of drug taking and lewd sexual activity from undercover coppers, which threatened to pull the plug on the whole thing.
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If, for some reason, I want to separate myself from electricity, all I have to do is flip the switch, or pull the plug, or, if I was really serious, chop the cables altogether.
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But a former top International Olympic Committee official, Dick Pound, cast doubt on those plans on Tuesday, saying the organizers had about a three-month window in which to decide to pull the plug.
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Google's graveyard isn't just full of well-intentioned lab goofs; there are also real, ambitious projects that had a chance and failed, in part because the company was so eager to pull the plug.
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Centene CEO Michael Neidorff said he remains bullish on the Obamacare exchange business, and he's confident congressional leaders won't pull the plug on people who have gained health coverage over the last three years.
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"Did they really sit and talk to people who know this guy's character or did they just pull the plug because he said something that really was meant to be a joke?" he asked.
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After miraculously surviving everything he went through in S\season 5, and Carrie not following through on his dying wish for her to pull the plug, Quinn is now a hot heartbreaking mess of PTSD.
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The ultimate decision to pull the plug on the effort was made by the two key billionaires backing the transaction — Messrs Buffett and Lemann, who wanted to avoid a potentially dirty and public takeover battle.
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"They just pull the plug with no warning, no plans — it's crazy," said Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff, executive director of People Demand Change, a nongovernmental organization that carries out US-funded development work in northeastern Syria.
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For example, Marie Deveney, a trust and estates lawyer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, says some of her clients want it to be clear that if they're in a coma, their family should pull the plug.
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The only thing that might do that is for China to threaten to pull the plug on the fragile economy of the hermit kingdom by ordering its banks and companies to stop doing business there.
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However, showing a direct connection between usage and depression is a terrible smoking gun and, perhaps, it might encourage us all to pull the plug every few days for a little family time without screens.
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Reforms should aim to provide greater value over the long term, not just lower costs in the near term, which means achieving savings not because we pull the plug on countries, but because they succeed.
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"Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," the Alienstock website says.
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Microsoft and the Justice Department had been fighting over U.S. law enforcement's access to emails stored on overseas servers; but both parties have now asked the high court to pull the plug on their lawsuit.
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While there's speculation that drama between Fiddy and Randall Emmett is behind the decision to pull the plug ... we're told that's simply not the case, and there's no lingering beef between the fellow executive producers.
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And if Mr. Trump pulls out of the Iran deal, Mr. Kim may well wonder why he should negotiate with the United States if a subsequent president can simply pull the plug on any agreement.
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But according to Bradley Shear, a digital rights lawyer who has worked with several clients on Facebook-related issues, the company is totally within its rights to pull the plug on any content on the platform.
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Salvini's shock decision on Thursday to pull the plug on the 20203-month old government threw the euro zone's third-largest economy into deeper political uncertainty just as it was due to start 2020 budget preparations.
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While many supported ABC's decision to pull the plug on Roseanne after Roseanne Barr likened former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an "ape" on Twitter, her costar John Goodman didn't have quite the same reaction.
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During an appearance on The Viewon Wednesday, the former Barack Obama advisor addressed Barr's racist tweet from May in which she likened Jarrett to an "ape," prompting the network to swiftly pull the plug on Roseanne.
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But I'm glad I did, because it brought us closer, and now at least five other people know who to call should someone ever need to decide whether to pull the plug on me or not.
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But it became the most expensive failure in pharmaceutical history in late 2006, when Pfizer had to pull the plug on its $800 million Phase III program over an imbalance in deaths and other safety issues.
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They were full of bugs and vulnerabilities that plagued the internet for years — so much so that web browsers started to pull the plug on Java back in 2015, with Flash set to sunset in 2020.
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R. Kelly is on edge and federal investigators don't want to rock the boat ... so they've asked Joycelyn Savage's family to pull the plug on plans to conduct a welfare check at R. Kelly's Chicago home.
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But there's no guarantee global yield rises will be subdued, with the Bank of England and Bank of Canada joining others seeking to pull the plug on extraordinary monetary support deployed during the global financial crisis.
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A high domestic savings rate, underdeveloped capital markets, a relatively closed capital account and government ownership of banks and many large borrowers mean no one can easily "pull the plug" on its credit cycle, they said.
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A similar law was enacted in Spain — without a publisher opt-out and with a mandatory fee for displaying publisher snippets — leading to Mountain View to pull the plug on its Google News service in Spain.
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At a certain point, no one is responsible for what floats in this heated limbo, because no one — absolutely no one — wants to go in to that server room and pull the plug on a phantom.
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It seemed inevitable, but TMZ has learned later Tuesday Joel Osteen and Kanye West will pull the plug on their big plan to throw a massive service at Yankee Stadium ... at least for the time being.
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The guy who started the "Storm Area 51" Facebook event as a joke a few months ago, Matty Roberts, tried again on Monday to pull the plug on the festival that snowballed out of the joke.
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Mr. Gelb said the decision to pull the plug on "Forza" was "not a reflection upon my feeling about Calixto's talent as a director," and said he still hoped Mr. Bieito would work at the Met.
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TMZ obtained a letter Scientology's lawyer fired off to A&E, in which it scoffs at the network's decision to pull the plug on the 'KKK' show because producers paid some of the Klan members money.
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But over 22018 percent of the poll's participants who answered another question said the ECB should pull the plug on its 24 billion euros worth of monthly asset purchases by the end of September at the latest.
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A U.S. embassy spokesman said the decision by USAID, Washington's aid arm, to pull the plug followed a regular internal audit that uncovered "unusual activity" and "non-compliance" in the use of funds, without providing any details.
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Dungey's move to pull the plug on "Roseanne" was praised by Hollywood icons, with stars including Viola Davis, Kerry Washington and Star Jones taking to Twitter to praise Dungey for her quick decision to pull the show.
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The Game of Thrones star, 32, said that the surgeries were difficult and not always successful, nor was her recovery — at one point she wanted to "pull the plug" when she was unable to remember her name.
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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has its balloons flying high despite concerns ahead of time that the record-breaking chill in the Northeast would force the annual event to pull the plug on its eye-catching inflatables.
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In this history, THUMP runs through some of the most egregious examples of American lawmakers and institutions attempted to pull the plug on partying, and how these laws often reflected the morality and prejudices of the times.
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Barr on Thursday said she begged ABC executives not to pull the plug on her show following her racist remarks on Twitter earlier this week, claiming she sought to save the jobs of those working with her.
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Earlier this year, it moved to pull the plug on controversial internet forum 8chan, after it was discovered that the site was used by the El Paso shooter to post an anti-immigrant and anti-government screed.
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"Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management, and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," a message on AlienStock's website reads.
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So the Senate decided to pull the plug, voting to deny a request from House Republicans to call Lewinsky for another round of questioning and to schedule an end date for the trial without any new witnesses.
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By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.
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Some hawkish administration officials and advisers had hoped that the popular protests in Iran, which erupted last month but have largely quieted after a regime crackdown, might prompt Trump to pull the plug on the nuclear agreement.
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Yet, I am ready to pull the plug on my association with Brockman's agency—and would encourage other authors to consider doing the same—until and unless he clarifies the relationship between him, the Edge Foundation, and Epstein.
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PARIS (Reuters) - AccorHotels, Europe's largest hotel group, said on Thursday it would pull the plug on an online service that enables independent hotels to offer rooms on its booking website because the scheme had failed to meet expectations.
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Donald Trump has signaled that he'll back out of the Paris Agreement altogether, pull the plug on anything in the federal budget relating to climate change, and may appoint an oil executive to be his secretary of interior.
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Salvini is facing significant pressure from within his party to pull the plug on the government which took office last June after an inconclusive national election, with League officials accusing 5-Star of repeatedly thwarting their policy agenda.
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As is likely obvious at this juncture, social media at large is arguably broken beyond repair to the extent that in most cases, the only adequate response may be to pull the plug on the whole damn operation.
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According to Android Police, Google decided to pull the plug on its Photo service shortly after receiving a report from Twitter user Prashanth that he was seeing an enormous list of Google users in his linked accounts menu.
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Chaffetz has summoned Walter Shaub, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, to the Hill for a closed-door interview, and he's reminded Shaub that his committee has the power to pull the plug on his agency.
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"How fortunately ironic that it is Ajit Pai himself, as the Trump-appointed chair of the F.C.C., that will pull the plug on the ill-intended act called 'net neutrality,'" Mr. Stone wrote recently in The Daily Caller.
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Another approach is to increase pressure on Iran in non-nuclear areas, resulting in a crisis that would give hard-line opponents of the deal in Tehran cause to pull the plug — and let Washington off the hook.
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They are artfully hedging their bets: Should the inquiry not gain public support, forcing them to pull the plug — or should it go forward and assuredly fail in the Senate — they want substantive accomplishments to offset symbolic failure.
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A person close to Trump noted his loyalty to people who supported him in 2016, like Cain, and would prefer that Cain take himself out of the running rather than have the White House formally pull the plug.
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In terms of survival, Qoros may have a funding advantage over other electric car start-ups, which are mainly backed by venture capitalists who will be quicker to pull the plug if sales targets are missed, Zhang said.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull the plug on the insurer reimbursements citing the ruling, though the administration has continued to make the payments on a month-to-month basis, and will make them for August.
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However, they warned that if Lofven's government swings too far to the right they will try to pull the plug on him, suggesting he may struggle to deliver on an agenda that includes tax cuts and labor market reform.
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The band never returned to full-time status, instead opting to pull the plug again in 2013, having given new fans the chance to see them and allowing the band members to soak up the adulation one last time.
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Activists held a #DumpTrump protest outside Google last week, and today launched a Facebook ad campaign targeting some 10,000 Google employees and urging them to call on their Mountain View employer to pull the plug on a planned livestream.
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"The threat to pull the plug on the business could have softened the EU's opposition to a deal since the number of operators would have inevitably fallen to three," the French bank said in a research note to clients.
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The timing of the decision — just 12 weeks before the presidential election — came down to contracts: deals for Mr. Wilmore and several staffers were to be renewed in the coming weeks, prompting the network to pull the plug now.
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And whether the EC really would be minded to pull the plug on a data transfer arrangement that it worked so very hard to push into place in the face of concerns about the adequacy of the privacy protections.
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And because so much of the company's revenue derives from ads run on its free offering, Spotify should be commended for opting to pull the plug on a solid revenue stream as the campaign is entering the primary season.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Wednesday stressed that he won't pull the plug on monetary easing until inflation hits his 2 percent target, warning that escalating international trade disputes could inflict widespread damage to global growth.
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Why it matters: The past couple of years have been tough for NATO, with Europeans still struggling to pull their own weight on defense spending and warily watching President Trump to see if he'll pull the plug on the alliance.
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We find that Washington Township is the particular project of White Rose, who is so invested in whatever project he had going there that he had the previous CEO of Evil Corp killed for attempting to pull the plug on it.
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But Kim has been choreographing every move in this dance, and it appears that when Trump saw signs that he might be left at the alter (as [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo's statement indicates), he decided to pull the plug first.
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There were reports over the past few weeks that the AAF could fold, with owner Tom Dundon threatening to pull the plug if they couldn't make a deal with the NFL Players Association to get younger players to his league.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - There is no sign of a rise in the proportion of "zombie firms" in Germany despite low borrowing costs that reduce the incentives for banks to pull the plug on clients in arrears, the Bundesbank said on Monday.
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Netflix has shown in the past that it's not afraid to pull the plug on an underperforming series, and if interest in stand-up starts to slow down, the piles of cash being thrown at comedians could grow much smaller.
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But the scary thing is Jimmy Haslam is still running the show, and as the profile makes explicit, his most reliable contribution to the team has been to hastily pull the plug on something way too early on in the process.
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"The president is trying to pull the plug on congressional oversight power, and this is yet another assault on the legislative function when the witness suggests he will dictate a format of questioning," Mr. Raskin said Sunday in a telephone interview.
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Both demands are long overdue, and they should have been made by President Trump along with a concrete warning that the United States will pull the plug on the military assistance if the Saudis persist in their irresponsible and indiscriminate bombing.
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Ms. Winfrey initially said her decision to abandon the Apple film last week was a result of creative differences, but it also involved intense pressure from the hip-hop mogul and his supporters to get Ms. Winfrey to pull the plug.
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With no one seemingly willing to pull the plug on the special counsel, who knows when it will actually end; perhaps we'll find Mueller assistant Anthony Weismann, decades from now, wandering about in a jungle thinking collusion is still real.
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Meanwhile, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Wednesday stressed that he would not pull the plug on monetary easing until inflation hits his 2 percent target, warning that escalating international trade disputes could inflict widespread damage to global growth.
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But Governor Rick Scott and Florida's three elected cabinet members, all of whom who serve as members of the state's clemency board, have refused to pull the plug on archaic, draconian practices blocking former criminals from taking part in democracy.
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A group of state officials, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is threatening to sue the administration to end DACA if Trump doesn't pull the plug by September 5 — which could result in the program being put on hold in federal courts.
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So if you ever hope to see some of your favorite online-only titles return in the future, set aside some time to write a response to the Copyright Office, because who knows when a company might decide to pull the plug.[TorrentFreak]
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"There is still a shred of optimism, but I have to say the consensus around the room ... felt like it's not if, it's when he's going to pull the plug," Rona Ambrose, a council member and former Canadian minister, told CTV television.
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Fail, and leaders expect to have to meet her again to decide whether to give her a much longer extension -- or pull the plug and let Britain lurch out of the Union without a legal safety net at midnight next Friday, 11 p.m.
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A 2,400-tonne boring machine nicknamed "Federica" is already working around the clock more than 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) below ground on the French side of the border even though Rome is threatening to pull the plug as it reviews the project.
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But the Left Party said it would try to pull the plug on Lofven if his government swung too far to the right, raising that prospect that Lofven will struggle to deliver on an agenda that includes tax cuts and labour market reform.
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FFForget is envisioned as a fix for the data lock-in issue — by providing a mechanism to free users of major social networking platforms from the fear of leaving their information behind should they decide to pull the plug and close their accounts.
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But speaking alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after the allies met at Trump's Florida resort, he made clear that he'd still be ready to pull the plug on what is being billed as an extraordinary meeting between the leaders of longtime adversaries.
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The Pessamit oppose the power line because they say it will endanger their ancestral home, while the Yale activists believe that their university could pull the plug on the project by denying Eversource access to the swath of land under Wagner's management.
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The yen has gained 6 percent so far this year and is near a 1-1/2 year high versus the dollar thanks in part to bets that the Bank of Japan will pull the plug on its massive bond-buying programme.
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Finch (Michael Emerson), the owlish genius who created the crime-predicting artificial intelligence program called the Machine, wonders whether it's time to pull the plug: Is the existence of a program that could exterminate us "an existential risk the world can't afford"?
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Whether the proposal sprang from the chief executive's concern about a murder or came from Beijing, it now appears that mainland authorities counseled Chief Executive Lam to pull the plug on her extradition law when she consulted with them after the biggest demonstrations.
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He is at just 85 pitches, but the Indians have Andrew Miller up in the bullpen and may be looking to pull the plug on Kluber early in hopes of having him as rested as possible for an expected start in Game 4.
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Fewer than 203 hours after Republicans were forced to pull the plug on their second effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the party released a framework, held a bicameral news conference and discussed details about how they plan to revamp the tax code.
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A 2,400-tonne boring machine is working around the clock more than 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) below ground on the French side of the border, even as Rome threatens to pull the plug as it reviews the 8.6 billion euros ($9.8 billion) project.
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Festival organizers and government officials had come under intense pressure in recent days to pull the plug, with more than 50,000 people signing an online petition and a growing list of tech companies — among them Apple, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok — announcing their withdrawal.
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On New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world was preparing to ring in a new decade, employees of the German energy company EnBW were getting ready to pull the plug on one of the country's few remaining nuclear power plants.
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Mr. Diller said in an interview that he had only just learned about the extent of the Whitney project, but that neither the art installation itself nor the lack of information about it affected his decision to pull the plug on his island.
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Chris Gethard, a comic and writer who confesses he's been depressive since he was a preteen, confronts with a bruising and sometime hilarious frankness his longstanding urge to pull the plug on himself in this dark if often outrageously funny solo show.
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For its part, the SPD may refuse to work with right-wingers Merz or Jens Spahn - especially if one of them was to replace Merkel as chancellor before an election - and pull the plug on the coalition, sending Germany to the polls.
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The book dives into questions like why we see caring minds in some animals (like dogs) but not others (like cockroaches), why we can dehumanize enemies, and how we make moral judgments, such as when to pull the plug on a comatose patient.
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The news comes after many fans called on Netflix to pull the plug on its original series following a report from Buzzfeed News in which actor Anthony Rapp alleged Spacey, then 26, made a sexual advance on him when he was 14 years old.
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The tennis icon was facing 19-year-old Canadian phenom Bianca Andreescu in Toronto for the 2019 Rogers Cup Final -- and after playing four rounds ... Serena was forced to pull the plug and remove herself from contention due to back spasms she was experiencing.
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Clearly upset by having to pull the plug on his ambitious project, Malago said Italy had not only been made to look stupid by backing out at this late stage, but had also missed out on a golden opportunity to attract badly needed foreign investment.
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It's not normal for the President to make a deal with his Russian counterpart for an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit," let his Treasury Secretary out on a Sunday show to enthusiastically defend the idea, then pull the plug that night after ridicule from fellow Republicans.
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Getting the opportunity to actually play these games, often in an unfinished state, provides a very rare opportunity to glimpse into the behind-the-scenes process of game development: oftentimes you can get a feel for why someone might have opted to pull the plug.
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When the camera pans to her she is often staring into the middle distance, glassy-eyed and giving away nothing beyond the possibility that she might be thinking about which of her loved ones she would pull the plug on if push came to shove.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymakers see little to cheer in successfully defending their yield target as European and U.S. central banks start to pull the plug on ultra-cheap money, casting doubt on their view that global bond yield gains will be short-lived.
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There have been conflicting reports about which company ultimately decided to pull the plug, but this does seem to be part of a broader corporate rift, with Disney ending its overall deal with Netflix and producing Marvel shows for its yet-to-launch streaming service.
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"The White House isn't ready to pull the plug on Huawei because that would do almost as much harm to U.S. companies, but they're keeping it in reserve," said James Lewis, a technology expert with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Andy, you&aposve been writing for months about the special counsel investigation and in The National Review, and you say that the inspector general&aposs report only adds to the argument that Justice -- the Department of Justice should pull the plug on the Mueller probe. Explain.
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The Canadian city of Calgary on Tuesday became the latest to pull the plug on its 2026 Games candidacy after more than 56 percent of citizens voted against the project in a plebiscite, unconvinced the benefits of the Olympics were worth the multi-billion dollar investment.
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Perhaps because the restaurant's days are numbered—he plans to pull the plug in 2020 to start a new ten-seat venture in Fukuoka, Japan—or perhaps to keep up with its raised profile, the place has seen some dramatic changes in the last few months.
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Orgeron didn't exactly say he was getting ready to pull the plug on Etling, who threw for just 76 yards in the first half and missed wide-open tight end Foster Moreau on a simple pass in the flat that would have gone for a touchdown.
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That it took a full week of Twitter roasting and negative national coverage for the organization to pull the plug illustrates not only its lack of social conscience but also a wider industry ignorance about the history of women's wrestling and those truly worthy of honor.
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And in a real-time illustration of just how ineffectual this rhetorical mopping-up operation was, YouTube was forced to pull the plug on its comments system, which became overrun with vicious hate speech ... as congressional investigators addressed the malignant spread of racialized hate speech on YouTube.
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" Haf Elgar, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, said that the government's decision to pull the plug on its support for the project was a "kick in the teeth for the region — and a massive blow for the development of Wales' huge renewable energy potential.
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Sharing her story for the first time in an essay for The New Yorker, Clarke said that the surgeries were difficult and not always successful, nor was her recovery — at one point she wanted to "pull the plug" when she was unable to even remember her name.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Action movie producer Joel Silver has upwards of 120 films to his name — including blockbuster franchises Predator, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and The Matrix — but he wants to pull the plug on a project he's already sunk $3.23 million into.
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Mr. Salvini is well suited by having a weakened Mr. Di Maio as his wing man, and he made clear this week that he could pull the plug on the coalition should another Five Star leader, the more aggressive and mercurial Alessandro Di Battista, take the helm.
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She kicks off the episode by telling someone who appears to be the head of MI6 (but who I can only see as Madame Hooch from Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone) that Operation Manderlay is going just fine, thank you, and they don't need to pull the plug.
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That's where this deal-making process is going to get really interesting for the GOP leadership: How far off the conservative talking points of the Reagan era will Ryan and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus be able to stomach seeing Trump go before they pull the plug on any alliance?
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Because the songs were so adventurous, Walterbach never understood them, thus beginning a daily string of phone calls to Horus Sound Studio in Hannover where he often threatened to pull the plug on the entire production if Celtic Frost didn't get back on the thrash straight-and-narrow.
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In a New York Times op-ed published Saturday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned Amazon for its decision to pull the plug on its HQ2 expansion in Queens, calling it a byproduct of massive economic power concentrated in the hands of few wealthy corporations.
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And while solo shows about tough times and garden-variety depression are not exactly rare flora on the theater scene, Mr. Gethard, who confesses he's been depressive since he was a preteen, confronts with a bruising and sometimes hilarious frankness his longstanding urge to pull the plug on himself.
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It provides an all-too-brief look at the kind of single-player Star Wars game fans have been demanding since EA gained control of the series in gaming form, and why so many were crushed when the company decided to pull the plug on Amy Hennig's adventure game.
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He felt that they are kept on machines for way too long, that their lives amounted to nothing, that if he had it his way it would be our job as physicians to pull the plug — to make the decision for them, regardless of what the family wanted.
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It's what's commonly known as the network effect and helps explain why a lot of us find it difficult to quit Facebook (your mileage may vary)—we've got so many connections built up there, across so many different parts of life, that to pull the plug completely would be a wrench.
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"If you pull the plug on that (F-35 program) it's going to be 15 years before we have something else to put in its place," said David Ochmanek, senior defense research analyst at the RAND think tank and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense in two presidential administrations.
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People connected to "Marriage Boot Camp" say they now think there's a chance WE tv might pull the plug on the plan -- although that has not happened yet -- because after TMZ posted the story that they were offered a spot on the show the network was flooded with negative comments.
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Buenos Aires (CNN)President Donald Trump was only a half-hour into his nine-hour flight to the G20 summit here in the Argentine capital when he decided to pull the plug on the most hotly anticipated moment of his trip: a lengthy face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Most often it's scary and unpleasant, but sometimes telling a loved one that you don't want to be eaten alive by ants, oh and maybe also pull the plug if you ever have to get put on life support, can pay off when the ol' Reaper comes calling for you.
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It's unclear whether your subscriptions would have saved magazines like Pacific Standard—a nonprofit funded primarily by one rich person, who abruptly decided to pull the plug—or Governing, which appears to offer free subscriptions, based on a model of attracting advertisers who wish to reach state and local officials and policy-makers.
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More From PCmag Qualcomm Spins Out 3 New Midrange Chipsets Qualcomm Doubles Down on Kids' Smartwatches Venezuela Tries to Stamp Out Access to Tor Network Facebook Will Permit Some Cryptocurrency Ads To Return Facebook decided it is time to pull the plug on Aquila and leave it to others to continue development of internet drones.
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Well before he decided to pull the plug on the June 12 summit plan, concerns were growing that the gap between the two leaders on the most fundamental issues was so wide that the potential danger of a major breakdown outweighed the whatever benefits might come from simply sitting down together for what would be a historic first.
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It might not exactly be a complete Windows Phone experience on your Android device, but you can get so close to it, it's not hard to understand why Microsoft decided to pull the plug on developing an entire mobile OS of its own when it can just build on what Google and Apple are doing instead.
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Trump directed Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Friday to pull the plug on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the GOP plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, amid Republican divisions over the proposal. Sen.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 210 (Reuters) - The decision by Norway's Equinor to pull the plug on plans to drill for crude off Australia's south coast raises two issues for future exploration projects, namely the economics must stack up and environmental concerns cannot be ignored.
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However, in the event, and given the mounting PR nightmare of even replacement Note 20163s having a demonstrable risk of an exploding battery — coupled with the model being namechecked as a safety hazard at airports and on flights all over the world — it's hardly a surprise Samsung has decided to pull the plug and put the Note 7 out of its misery.
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Perhaps the story of Yik Yak and a group of women at Mary Washington, a public university in Fredericksburg, Va., with about 203,000 undergraduate students, will finally convince Mr. Droll and Mr. Buffington that Yik Yak needs to change, or at least persuade its blue-chip investors at Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson to pull the plug on the company.
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During the conversation, recorded this week in Philadelphia, where he was on hand to perform at the Democratic National Convention, Simon said the "imbalance" he felt as the songwriter and guitarist, combined with Garfunkel's interest in pursuing an acting career, created tensions and led him to pull the plug on their partnership after five of the best-selling albums in history.
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My guess is that whatever revelations are forthcoming from Mueller will fit a similar pattern — most people already have a negative view of Trump, so it's hard to move the needle too much more on public opinion, and the whole GOP has already wagered so heavily on the Trump experiment that they're not going to pull the plug regardless of what happened.
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The choice left to Taylor was stark and simple: Mason Cap could stay committed to Doug's project, mounting a quixotic challenge to the bureaucracy while hemorrhaging other clients who wanted no part of the battle; or it could pull the plug on the project, and on Doug, sending him packing with a check while selling his life's work to the government.
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Image: Disney+We've got a little more than two months before the launch of Disney+, meaning many of us may be weighing whether to pull the plug on some of our other streaming services and instead opt into Disney's enormous catalog of movies, television, and originals—particularly given that its subscription price comes in lower than Netflix's most affordable tier.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, brokered the deal to allow medical marijuana at the end of the 2014 legislative session, but did so with a decided emphasis on security, asking for a provision that would allow the state to "pull the plug" on it at any time if public health or safety became threatened by the drug, which is still considered illegal by the federal government.
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He or she used this information to approach people I knew in the cryptocurrency space with a story that was, arguably, quite ludicrous: the hospital would pull the plug on my Dad if they didn't get payment of a bill and that I, in my anguish, needed to borrow and sell 10 bitcoins immediately and would pay the friend back 15 the next morning.
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" Above all, the ethos of that 1988 campaign centered around a cross-racial, cross-gender emphasis on economics, the exact same thesis of Sanders' 603 campaign: "When they close down your factory or foreclose on your farm," Jackson said then, "and comes the time when they pull the plug and the lights go out, we all — we all — look amazingly similar sitting there in the dark.
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The late October decision to pull the plug on the partially-built airport for Mexico City left investors fretting over how Lopez Obrador will manage the economy, leading to sharp falls in the peso and stockmarket.. Asked whether Lopez Obrador had done anything to make markets nervous, Gerardo Esquivel told local broadcaster Foro TV that the president-elect's airport decision was one of the reasons behind economic uncertainty facing Mexico.
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The bottom line: With so much at stake, the U.K. might decide to pull the plug on the entire Brexit enterprise to avoid the costs of exiting the EU. Barring such an outcome, British politicians could at least pursue the deal that May has reached, since it would limit the damage done by ensuring an orderly Brexit and paving the way for the next phase of discussing the future U.K.–EU relationship.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE reportedly worried that North Korea could pull the plug on a planned summit with the country's leader Kim Jong Un, and decided to cancel the meeting on Thursday before Kim got the chance.
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Other close observers expressed doubt that the Iraqi government would pull the plug on the deals but instead see it as another message to the Trump administration that the executive order — which the State Department memo relates "was both surprising and insulting to Iraqis" — is causing serious harm in a relationship that is foremost focused on fighting the Islamic State, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria and is seen as the biggest U.S. terror threat.
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Now, with Israel and the Hamas militants who control Gaza in a fresh cycle of violence that analysts fear could escalate into a full-blown war, Mr. Kushner and his partner in Middle East peacemaking, Jason D. Greenblatt, are threatening to pull the plug on Plan B. Declaring that no foreign investors are willing to pour money into Gaza during what they label a Hamas-driven conflict, Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt, the president's special representative for international negotiations, are rethinking their efforts to rebuild Gaza's economy as a way of opening the door to a broader peace accord.
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John McCain recovers from a surgery for a blood clot July 53 Trump's approval rating drops to 36% in a Washington Post/ABC News poll July 18 McConnell refuses to pull the plug on stalled Obamacare repeal planTrump and Putin meet for nearly an hour in their second G20 meeting July 19 Trump tells senators 'inaction is not an option' on health care July 20 Trump trashes Sessions in New York Times interview McCain reveals brain cancer diagnosis July 21 Spicer resigns as Anthony Scaramucci takes over as White House press secretary July 22 Trump tweets about having the power to pardon July 24 Trump calls Rep.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) said he has received "assurances" that Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE won't be fired, as questions swirl around whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE will pull the plug on the special counsel.
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Meanwhile, boy starts hearing terrifying voices in his head, beset by demons from within and without (his sadistic tyrant of a father, his asshole cousin) boy loses mind and, eventually, the confidence of his band mates who pull the plug on his game-changing "teenage symphony to God" originally called Dumb Angel, but later re-titled Smile, boy retreats into a years-long bedroom hermitage of Herculean drug consumption, morbid obesity and sweet insanity; columnated ruins domino, family hires Mephistophelian psychiatrist/psychic vampire Dr. Eugene Landy, who switches out boy's steady diet of cocaine, Scotch, sloth, and self-pity for a zombie-fying regimen of prescription narcotics, fitness Nazism, and 24-7 mind control; boy meets girl (Melinda Ledbetter, his soon-to-be second wife) at a Cadillac dealership and falls in love, girl rescues boy from the clutches of the evil doctor, boy lives happily ever after, or a reasonably close approximation thereof.
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