I think we have to pull the plug on her.
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And it will soon pull the plug on another quarter.
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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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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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Equally abruptly, the powers-that-be pull the plug on the operation.
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"Stop letting them pull the plug on your people," Winkfield said of doctors.
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It's all been enough for Google to pull the plug on the prank.
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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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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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Will the decision to pull the plug on the computerized vote counting improve integrity?
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In August, we asked if it was time to pull the plug on PC Music.
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The bills don't pull the plug on possible criminal enforcement for scofflaws and repeat offenders.
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Uber wants a 4.6 average or they will pull the plug on you [sic] driving.
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Morgan Stanley was the first to pull the plug on its participation in the protocol.
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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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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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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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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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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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President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull the plug on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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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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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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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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But the call to pull the plug on CNCS underscores the administration's misplaced values, and should be resisted strongly.
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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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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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The couple split a year ago but took no action to pull the plug on the marriage until Thursday.
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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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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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He says the mystery condition is forcing him to pull the plug on his one-man play version of 'Twain.'
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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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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