Well, here's your portable, wearable chess board for spontaneous showdowns.
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Three, the rewards will be useful for Horizon's final showdowns.
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It wasn't these showdowns in main street kind of stuff.
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If the police do not act astutely, armed showdowns could develop.
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Our tests ranged from grueling power showdowns to practical everyday web browsing.
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Obamacare, in contrast, has survived two major showdowns in the Supreme Court.
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On the show, minuscule shifts in allegiances could result in expletive-filled showdowns.
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Interest in who the candidates are bringing to the showdowns has jumped dramatically.
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The courtroom showdowns come amid a flurry of activity to accelerate wall construction.
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Compared directly against Google Assistant, Bixby Voice is in for some embarrassing showdowns.
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The arena showdowns will be available to watch on Blizzard's Warcraft Twitch channel.
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Same reliance on real NBA rosters, same highly stylized players, same 2v2 showdowns.
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Debt ceiling showdowns in the past have evolved into bitter fights over spending.
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That fight could foreshadow showdowns between the incoming administration and Republicans in Congress.
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Democrats have recoiled from these demands, and high-stakes showdowns tend to ensue.
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Some of Trump's clashes with California have reached the level of court showdowns.
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But showdowns between rival warplanes in the Baltic and Black Sea are intensifying.
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This is probably one of the most anticipated showdowns in Game of Thrones history.
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But, unlike those Dynasty-ready showdowns of the past, today's encounters aren't bloody battlefields.
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The disruption might be worth it if America's budget showdowns led to better policy.
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Such showdowns at large U.S. corporations have cost eight CEOs their jobs this year.
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There are potential showdowns ahead over tax policy, health care, environmental regulations and more.
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Republicans point out that the last two impeachment showdowns did begin with such a step.
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"[Gustaf] and I have a few showdowns," Hemsworth explained when asked about Skarsgard's upcoming character.
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A McCaskill-Hawley matchup is expected to be one of the nation&aposs top showdowns.
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One of the key showdowns is over augmented reality — mixing the virtual and real worlds.
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Today, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the moderators for the upcoming Trump-Clinton showdowns.
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In 2016, one of Politicon's biggest showdowns was between Ann Coulter and CNN's Van Jones.
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Unlike many previous showdowns, however, this funding lapse would affect only part of the government.
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Eliminating the debt ceiling to avoid calamitous legislative showdowns over spending is a no-brainer.
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The Appropriations Committee historically has been the anchor in the storm of congressional budgetary showdowns.
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And one of the largest corporate tech showdowns in history has come to a close.
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All that makes the current confrontation less predictable than the showdowns of the Soviet past.
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Mostly, it sticks to milestones and showdowns up until the handshake deal that changed everything.
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But that's precisely what has plunged the region into one of its most dramatic showdowns.
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Dreiband has represented big companies in their legal showdowns with pregnant women and elderly workers.
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We had plenty of happy moments, far fewer sad moments, some knockdown arguments and tense showdowns.
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Since World War II, Democratic primaries have often ended up as showdowns between progressives and populists.
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Their differences aren't "Crossfire"-style left-right showdowns but gently needling exchanges about confrontation vs. incrementalism.
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While Congress punted to avoid confrontations this time, multiple potential showdowns loom in the near future.
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The equivalent showdowns in the country's national soccer league regularly struggle to attract four-figure crowds.
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I checked: The better team still won all but a handful of those long-ago showdowns.
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We're left with two final showdowns, the first between Dake and new AG Waylon Jeffcoat (Clancy Brown).
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But many high-stakes showdowns still lie ahead -- for the President, Justice Department, Congress and the courts.
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Ryan also faces a series of showdowns in the coming year over familiar issues like the debt limit.
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But in an election year, such showdowns can become a strategy, a way of trying to mobilize voters.
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The Haggler The Haggler wins so many showdowns that you might think he doesn't know how to lose.
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The CNN debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was not, substantively, much different from their previous showdowns.
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Many countries, including France, Germany and Greece, have recognized the genocide, each time provoking diplomatic showdowns with Turkey.
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With November tournaments creating key early season showdowns, many players are taking advantage of fresh opportunities to produce.
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Senate candidates are gearing up for debate showdowns as the race for the majority nears the finish line.
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But the hot-button politics associated with the ACA often produce constitutional showdowns even from meritless legal arguments.
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Despite several successes, however, the showdowns over airtime, prize purses, training and match conditions, and all around respect continue.
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Between the lines: Schiff's warning comes amid the tensest showdowns between the presidency and the press in our lifetimes.
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Given how crazy this election season has been so far, we're guessing you won't want to miss these showdowns.
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That, and, it sounds like they're already planning some more Scorchedbeast Queen showdowns: there's more loot to be won.
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The memory of Mutter's Ridge put everything, even terror investigations and showdowns with the Bush White House, into perspective.
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Biden has consistently polled ahead of other Democrats and Trump in a number of surveys about potential 2020 showdowns.
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The stalemates that have come to define the budget process have helped set the stage for repeated shutdown showdowns.
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There are narrative scenes, of course, but they function mostly as connective tissue for the brawls, showdowns and dances.
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Rugby is a brutal sport on the field, but its warm-up showdowns can apparently be just as intense.
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But one of the most contentious showdowns between an activist hedge fund and a public company just got bizarre.
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But the DCCC is brushing aside concerns about those special election losses and any negatives related to primary showdowns.
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He's moving his chess pieces into place for showdowns in the upcoming final two books, and doing so rather clumsily.
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He never thought he would prevail in those early showdowns—in some ways, it was actually better that he didn't.
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Both men are grandmaster shit-talkers, so these verbal showdowns may very well be more entertaining than their actual fight.
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For several of the remaining candidates, Tuesday's debate could be their last, given tightening criteria for entries into future showdowns.
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Such a vote did take place, however, in the previous two impeachment showdowns, involving Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
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In Europe, any debate about government borrowing threatens to revive the disastrous political showdowns of the euro-area debt crisis.
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While the formats have never been perfect, these showdowns provide the most revealing insights into the candidates of any conceived.
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The themes of superhero stories can be applied to more than standard costumed showdowns for the fate of the world.
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WWE said his career spanned the better part of 40 years, and featured showdowns with wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan.
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New Hampshire is just one of the battleground states where Democrats have been spotlighting the issue in the gubernatorial showdowns.
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Wray first joined the Justice Department in 2001 under Bush, and found himself in the midst of several stressful showdowns.
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Regardless of the outcome, however, the Buy America fight may foreshadow future showdowns between the incoming administration and Republican leadership.
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Two of the changes may slightly improve the federal budget outlook, while another may help avert destructive debt limit showdowns.
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If history is a guide, these showdowns are overly hyped and will not alter the basic contours of the race.
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As long as the current system remains in place, and partisan volatility remains high, these showdowns are likely to recur.
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IBM's Project Debater became a hit last year when the technology took part in its first verbal showdowns with humans.
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It would also raise the federal debt limit, moving to end the cycle of short-term showdowns on government funding.
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Anyone who visited Nigeria from 2012 to 2016 likely saw evidence of one of the continent's early e-commerce showdowns.
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In the short term however, the showdowns over Syria and China that are likely to prove especially vexing for Trump.
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Speaking of trade showdowns: E-bikes have been officially excluded from tariffs related to the US trade war with China.
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Western regulators have had showdowns over antitrust with tech firms before, including IBM in the 1960s and Microsoft in the 1990s.
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It may surprise you to learn that Samurai Shodown, which released last last month, is a game about samurai having showdowns.
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The hourslong public showdowns are Democrats' best shot to drill down nominees' positions on various issues relative to the president-elect's.
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The Trump administration has reportedly begun filling important positions in preparations for potential legal showdowns with a House controlled by Democrats.
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Aviña, whose research focuses on state violence and the drug trade in Mexico, pointed to other showdowns like that in Culiacan.
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Over the summer, conservative- and establishment-aligned outside groups poured millions into primary showdowns between far-right and center-right candidates.
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The increasingly messy budget process has led to showdowns over appropriations and poison-pill policy riders that contribute to Washington gridlock.
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He would explain the weekly challenge to the contestants and then evaluate their performances in one of his infamous boardroom showdowns.
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Regional showdowns in North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand will decide who wins how much from the Stage 2 prize pool.
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With Martin O'Malley out of the race, the rest of the debates will be head-to-head showdowns between Clinton and Sanders.
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Now that the cast of DWTS season 24 has been revealed, Emma Slater is ready for some fiancé showdowns in the ballroom!
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Still, despite the lack of household names, some of the lower-profile races may offer insight about the coming presidential-year showdowns.
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Trump lost virtually every legal challenge brought against the order, including key showdowns in the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.
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Gone was the thin-skinned, jittery counterpuncher of the first two showdowns, when Mr. Trump could not resist lashing out whenever Mrs.
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A common assumption is that Trump hasn't learned anything from previous showdowns, but perhaps he's just learned the wrong lesson from them.
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Add it all up, and the scarce inventory of slots for big intersectional showdowns forces teams to look far into the future.
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On Tuesday, he was randomly assigned to the case -- one of the biggest antitrust showdowns to hit a Washington courtroom in years.
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Even when a team's defense is its strength, the quarterback is its face; casual fans talk of games as showdowns between individual quarterbacks.
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Trump, in the midpoint of his term, is grappling with showdowns at home and abroad, and repercussions are being felt around the world.
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And then there are the dark horses—wild but oft-forgotten showdowns that might surprise with a HOF induction: The Korean Zombie vs.
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The Clemson-NC State and Miami-Virginia Tech showdowns on Saturday are (obviously) crucial to the ACCs endgame of repeating as national champs.
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These games don't depict proxy wars between Russia and the West, or between Syria and the United States, but state-to-state showdowns.
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The stakes in one of the most eagerly awaited diplomatic showdowns in years were obvious as soon as they appeared before the cameras.
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Don't look now, but another spending crisis is coming, and unlike previous showdowns, it's not quite clear where the battle lines are drawn.
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Incest, maple syrup intrigue, unhinged mothers, several showdowns, and Alice holding a gun, proving once again she's not one to be messed with.
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Just over two years into office, the president encountered at least a half-dozen legislative showdowns with members of his party in Congress.
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Other scholars have outlined concepts like "constitutional hardball" and "constitutional showdowns" to describe scenarios where American governance gets messy without getting truly dangerous.
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Whether the children are cooking, cleaning, or running Bonanza City shops is determined by their class rankings earned in physical challenges called showdowns.
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In April and May, the police occasionally visited the premises as a series of showdowns unfolded between the warring factions, producing tragicomic scenes.
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Mad Max: Fury Road's vaunted chase sequences and showdowns, which merge practical effects with CG wizardry, gain a new intensity in higher definition.
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A default would have catastrophic financial and economic effects and showdowns in 2011 and 2013 raised U.S. borrowing costs by billions of dollars.
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But never before did showdowns over anti-LGBTQ rights regularly rise to the highest levels of the world's most powerful governments and institutions.
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In the event of funding showdowns, his approach would be to maintain spending for all but the legislative branch and the White House.
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This leads to all manner of jungle shoot-outs, snowy showdowns, and doomsday dialogue ("If we lose, it will be ... a planet of apes").
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It wasn't legendary NBA 2K showdowns with his friends, it was a race to collect tapes or run up the score in Free Skate.
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It leads to one of Shonda Rhimes' typically wonderful showdowns between the two ladies where they're both right and just need to come together.
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Crimson Tide—when you take away then tense showdowns, or the deadly battle between submarines—is a movie about our frailties and our empathy.
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The 600-year-old sport combines aspects of rugby, soccer, football, boxing, and wrestling, making it one of the most violent showdowns on earth.
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Dueling prediction models The European model, or ECMWF, and the American GFS model have had some notable showdowns before, most notably with Hurricane Sandy.
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The supply chain still looks stressed and, while it remains so, there's a good probability of more physical showdowns on the LME trading floor.
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A former senior Senate aide said financial markets have come to expect contentious debt ceiling showdowns and trust the government to find a deal.
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Russia, however, is usually a tough negotiator with OPEC and has been reluctant to agree to new cuts, forcing showdowns at the Vienna meetings.
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With showdowns on federal spending and immigration front and center, it is easy to overlook these real examples of bipartisanship occurring on Capitol Hill.
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When a female reporter asked if he was chewing gum to calm his nerves during the face-to-face showdowns with Mayweather, McGregor cackled.
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Speaking to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo following the Republican debate in Miami, Trump acknowledged that he's growing tired of the repeated prime-time showdowns.
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The importance of the wall as a political symbol for both sides is also effectively short circuiting congressional mechanisms that normally end such showdowns.
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The Bulls have won six of the eight all-time meetings after scoring at least 44 points in each of the last two showdowns.
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Though the final season of The Americans has not lacked for tense sequences, it has been relatively free of gigantic confrontations and dramatic showdowns.
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Gaining in confidence and anxious to leave a legacy, they have fought to claw back some of the supreme leader's powers, resulting in acrimonious showdowns.
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D.Va can't last in many one-versus-one showdowns, but her damage piles up over time and — more importantly — keeps the enemy team on edge.
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The Los Angeles lawmaker's early calls for President Trump's impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party's young, liberal base.
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The second debate was marked by showdowns between members of the party's progressive and centrist wings about the need for dramatic policy overhauls, with Sen.
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Both issues set up dramatic showdowns in Congress, especially if the midterm elections this year result in a more even split between Democrats and Republicans.
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You can brag about your sweet score, but you can't (yet, we hope) grit your teeth in 1v1 showdowns with your fellow Apple Watch enthusiasts.
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The stakes are so high for Sanders in the coming Midwestern showdowns partly because the region was among his strongest in his 2016 presidential bid.
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A Boston-area congressional district was home to one of highest-profile primary showdowns in the 2018 cycle: Ayanna Pressley's successful challenge to longtime Rep.
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For more than a decade, Phelps and Lochte have engaged in some epic battles in the pool, the showdowns forging one of swimming's great rivalries.
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Trump's combative tone may reflect a clutch of building political showdowns that will confront the President when he returns home at the end of the week.
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That goes hand-in-hand with how SonicFox turned the phrase "im gay" into his battle cry, both during matches and Twitter showdowns with right wingers.
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The Rangers juggled small-scale high school social dramas along with global showdowns, mostly against the cackling baddie Rita Repulsa and her army of brainless creatures.
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Although the 1980s showdowns are the focal point, "Celtics/Lakers" reaches back to provide context, recalling the Celtics' dominance during the Bill Russell/Jerry West era.
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The Pokémon Go-style approach of finding and capturing scooters has essentially pitted contractors against each other, several told me, prompting awkward and sometimes hostile showdowns.
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It runs through history: the cutting contests of Storyville jazz musicians, Bronx street corner battle-rap showdowns, Mozart versus Salieri, Beatles versus Stones, Whitney versus Mariah.
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A default would have catastrophic financial and economic effects and showdowns in 2011 and 2013 raised U.S. borrowing costs by billions of dollars: http://bit.ly/2v3utnX.
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The Wildcats (20-3, 9-1) continued their roll toward SEC home showdowns against No. 21 LSU on Tuesday, followed by No. 1 Tennessee next Saturday.
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The deduction for state and local taxes stands as one of the biggest possible showdowns between the House and the Senate in the weeks to come.
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That anarchic moment always comes to mind when I watch the black-clad, masked antifa protesters preparing for their showdowns with the khaki-wearing alt-right.
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The memo has set off a firestorm, prompting showdowns pitting Democrats against Republicans, as well as the White House against the F.B.I. and the Justice Department.
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In any case, there will be several more or less guaranteed legislative showdowns on "must-pass" bills like funding the government and raising the debt ceiling.
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The university later canceled a speech from conservative columnist Ann Coulter and has seen multiple showdowns between leftist protesters and right-wing demonstrators throughout the year.
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We will take a deep-dive into key moments from the past seven years -- from passage of the Affordable Care Act to budget showdowns in Congress.
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For Democrats, several nominating contests will feature showdowns between mainstream candidates and the party's resurgent progressive wing, including candidates backed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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But if Republicans begin to sense that there aren't electoral consequences for rebuking Trump, then Trump may end up on the losing side of these showdowns.
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Monday's event was Trump's first ever one-on-one political debate -- and he has two more showdowns with Clinton to change the political narrative before the election.
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There are discos, guns, fires, make-outs, rock climbing, drag queens, slam poetry, booty-shaking, hip-hop showdowns, and more — plus original songs that are hella catchy.
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The duo heaped praise on each other in remarks on the House floor and poked fun at their frequent contentious showdowns while leading the Financial Services panel.
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It's tempting to explain away these employee sentiments as a response to the sequestration and shutdown showdowns after Republicans took back control of Congress from the Democrats.
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The order is the latest of a series of showdowns between Australia's biggest banks and regulators intent on reducing risk to customers amid a stalling global economy.
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This, too, has the air of a marketing ploy: Those games are sold as winner-takes-all showdowns, seismic clashes that will make the very earth shake.
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Why it matters: The legal showdowns between companies and regulators show just how far big business is willing to go to fight regulations that could dent profits.
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But that temporary plan was instituted before multiple showdowns in the Senate procedural wars, when nominees could still be blocked if they failed to attract 60 votes.
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To some, it represented a marked improvement on Trump's first two showdowns with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — one that was badly marred by one particularly damaging moment.
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Republicans control all levers of power in Washington In the two most recent shutdown showdowns -- and, yes, I love that term -- there was split control in Washington.
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The conversations would inevitably devolve into back-stabbing trash talk and then to expletive-filled showdowns and fights, in which Ms. D'Avanzo was often a willing participant.
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In subsequent months, both sides said they hoped to negotiate their way to a final plan that would lead to one national standard, avoiding potential courtroom showdowns.
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You've always had to fight to survive in Minecraft, but the newly announced, totally free Battle mini-game gives your epic sword-swatting showdowns a little more focus.
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Multiple other investigations are also under way on Capitol Hill that have provoked showdowns over Trump's taxes, his past business record and the conduct of his White House.
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In particular, she still has to work with CSU leader and German Interior Minister Seehofer, with whom she has had several showdowns on different aspects of migrant policy.
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We're less than 12 hours from what is bound to be one of the most watched, and bloodiest, political showdowns of an already ultra-polarized US election season.
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Mr. McDonagh is fond of face-offs and showdowns, of two people going at it hammer and tongs, sometimes with a touch of philosophy and literal blunt instruments.
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Yet that welcome-all attitude is precisely what has recently angered Qatar's much larger neighbors and plunged the Middle East into one of its most dramatic diplomatic showdowns.
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Oracle and Google are about to face off before the US Supreme Court in what&aposs expected to be one of the biggest tech legal showdowns in history.
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It is one of the world's most militarized frontiers, the site of frequent armed showdowns between the two nuclear foes, both of which claim Kashmir in its entirety.
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They understood that no politician wants to be seen dismissing a kid who just saw his or her friends shot, so they staged as many showdowns as possible.
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The White House has repeatedly shown nothing but disdain for a fundamental principle of US democracy -- the checks and balances of lawmaker oversight -- in a string of escalating showdowns.
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Nothing against stories, naturally, and nothing against the people who need stories to make sense of it all—the heroes and villains, the setbacks and showdowns and crucial moments.
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Taste of scrutiny to come The showdowns were a taste for Trump of the intense and increased scrutiny and pressure that the billionaire would face during a general election.
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Like that movie, the main narrative engine of 120 Beats Per Minute is talk — profound debates, casual chatter, furious showdowns — and the sturdy performances that bring it to life.
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Bush's loss in the 1992 election made him a cautionary tale for a generation of Republicans, a lesson that endures in today's showdowns over the federal budget and spending.
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is what our presidential showdowns have devolved into -- not an after-debate discussion of substantive issues, but a parsing of all the incredulous, ridiculous utterances.
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In the now-looming television showdowns (the first is next Thursday, June 2nd) the Leave campaign will seek to electrify the debate by reframing it as one on immigration.
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After years of failed negotiations and fights in lower courts, the case headed to the Supreme Court, setting up one of the most important showdowns of the court's term.
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" Rather than potential political game show showdowns, Harvey said he discussed urban development with Trump, saying the real estate mogul, "Wants to bring positive change to the inner cities.
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As a senior adviser to President Barack Obama for eight years, I saw Pelosi lead in some of the most climactic negotiations and showdowns with the administration and Congress.
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Most recently, Pelosi proved herself as risk-taking and strategic as any politician these last few weeks in her showdowns with the President and members of her own party.
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Their relationship is emblematic of a movie whose greatest pleasures often seem to derive from what fails to happen, the showdowns and declarations that hang tantalizingly in the wind.
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But a thriller writer, obliged to deliver a tight plot, the requisite number of twists and showdowns and set pieces, along with a sufficiently difficult but satisfyingly resolved mystery?
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When Cramer sees analyst showdowns like the one that's happening around appliance maker Whirlpool, he likes to review each case for investors so they can form their own opinions.
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Boeing posted figures on Tuesday showing a significant lead in new orders over its European rival, buoyed by demand for the 21 following a series of showdowns against the A753neo.
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In fact, Poehler somewhat pokes fun at the show's wholesomeness by reacting to the show's events as if they were Housewives-level showdowns rather than someone accidentally popping a balloon.
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Still, there is much for him to gain in the three scheduled televised showdowns and he will get an unfiltered chance to raise Clinton's political vulnerabilities before the American people.
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Even if he doesn't win the nomination, Sanders seems intent on provoking showdowns at the Democratic convention over issues (trade, Wall Street) and over rules (the power of super-delegates).
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Unlike past showdowns over national issues like the new health care law or immigration policy, this shutdown conflict is more parochial, centered on Democratic demands for help for Flint, Mich.
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With political polarization on the rise, the nation's fraught conversations over immigration, race and policing are increasingly being held in tense street showdowns punctuated with eggs, bricks and, lately, milkshakes.
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No matter who emerges the victor in what promises to be a prolonged series of courtroom showdowns, both companies will be profoundly affected, and the broader media landscape fundamentally transformed.
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Police crackdowns on the demonstrations have varied in intensity over the last six months, and have included violent showdowns with protesters, which have strained the relationship between police and protesters.
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He weighed in on why grown-up treehouses are better than kiddy ones, and cast a definitive vote in showdowns between swings and zip lines, and rope bridges and rope ladders.
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Disney World's Magic Kingdom park is the place to go for the challenge, which has more lax rules and regulations than most other food-related showdowns, but requires some thoughtful planning.
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In this new study, scientists tested the mechanism by pitting mice against each other, and then activating the neurons (or shutting them down) during those "showdowns" to see how they reacted.
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Microsoft hasn't specified what the beta will consist of, but Gears of War's "Versus" mode is all about player-versus-player showdowns, typically pitting two teams of five against one another.
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Given the succession of European debt crises, the sequester and fiscal cliff showdowns in the U.S., Brexit and China also slowing down, I'd say the American economy has been pretty resilient.
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The tax and government funding showdowns could also be colored by the question of whether Democratic gains in this November's elections are a dark omen for Republicans heading into midterm polls.
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Election Day Showdowns in Georgia and Florida pitting black Democratic candidates against white Republicans supported by President Donald Trump headline the three dozen governors' races being contested in today's U.S. elections.
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But that hasn't been true for almost 40 years now, and the seemingly endless — and ever-escalating — procession of shutdowns, debt ceiling crises, and assorted other political showdowns is the result.
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Police apparently started clamping down on showdowns that often became violent, and a black market trade sprang up as tsotsis (township gangsters) looked to capitalize on the big money being blown.
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Shutdown showdowns are especially fertile ground for Mr. Trump because they pit him against a political establishment that, as he sees it, obstinately refuses to pay proper deference to his genius.
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Capitol Hill has grown used to altercations between Republican leaders and their adamant right flank — showdowns that have shut down the government and edged the government toward defaulting on its debt.
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But allowing the government to shut down or failing to act on a trade deal stuffed with other Democratic priorities were prices too high to pay for futile showdowns, they argue.
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But just as Cohn and Mnuchin were winning battles on NAFTA, the wheels spun into motion for later showdowns over steel and aluminum tariffs and the larger trade battle with China.
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Trump's visit was marked by showdowns between leaders, lengthy and freewheeling appearances by the President before the media, an abrupt news conference cancellation and an extraordinary row over a viral video.
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A partnership between Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, and Mayor Jos Wienen of Haarlem has helped support tech and start-up companies from both areas, including the regular Pitchfest showdowns.
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The series finale — variously titled "The Ultimate Adventure" or "Come Along With Me" — found time for two epic showdowns, three epic kisses, two musical numbers, one gigantic personification of universal chaos.
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Trump's biggest asset in these high-stakes showdowns is that he remains very popular with the Republican base and much more popular than leaders like McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Voters are set to consider moves on energy, like carbon taxes and oil-and-gas drilling, in two states Tuesday — two showdowns among several important energy midterm ballot questions across the country.
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The tough talk from Trump and his incoming administration against China has set the stage for showdowns on everything from security to trade, with Trump threatening to label China a currency manipulator.
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But in the U.S., where investors first started building up stakes in companies and picking high-profile fights, the number of public showdowns is way down this year, despite some splashy exceptions.
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"The long list of market-disrupting disagreements and showdowns was too much for investors, who clearly decided that things were a tad too spicy for their liking," Spreadex analyst Connor Campbell said.
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Appointed by Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2010, Clapper's tenure in office was marked by high profile showdowns over the government's desire to protect its Americans and citizens' civil liberties.
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Now, with high heat already in the region and heavy storms on the horizon, Philadelphia is preparing for a more contentious series of showdowns than many expected even a few weeks ago.
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The beloved series, which cemented Sarah Michelle Gellar's place in pop culture history, continues to serve as a favorite among fans with an affinity for high school dramas and regular vampire showdowns.
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The game automatically ramps up the challenge as you create more chaos in the hub zone, starting with standard grunts and escalating all the way to showdowns between multiple boss-class fighters.
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Although the Senate must still act on the debt limit, this rule takes a small step toward heading off debt limit showdowns that could cause the government to default on its obligations.
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And as the Giants aim to get their offense more in sync, it is clear they want Beckham's focus to be on the football game, not on mental showdowns with an opponent.
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Now the area is facing a variety of destabilizing domestic and transnational showdowns and tensions are encompassing all of the largest economies in the region, including China, India, Japan and South Korea.
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Bush's passing also looks set to postpone one of the final political showdowns of the year — a funding controversy entangled in Trump's demands for $5 billion in funding for his border wall.
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Washington will be focused on two major showdowns over economic policy in the coming week as the president's new tariffs and legislation to roll back Dodd-Frank banking rules both see action.
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Not surprisingly, this runs afoul of those already fleecing the neighborhood, forcing the trio into shifting alliances and showdowns, with the river providing a convenient place to dispose of the collateral damage.
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He signaled openness to a Democratic proposal to eliminate the perennial showdowns over the debt ceiling, and he repeated his desire to cut a deal to protect younger illegal immigrants from deportation.
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In one of my favorite showdowns, Kelly faced off against Katrina Pierson—one of the legion of female Trump surrogates, from the mercenary Kellyanne Conway to the pinwheel-eyed Scottie Nell Hughes.
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We've been told, by ruthless and ceaseless HBO promotional materials, that "winter is here" and it's a safe bet that the primary showdowns of the season will be around or beyond the Wall.
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An unappetizing list of looming congressional showdowns, complex, months-long legislative challenges and intractable threats to President Donald Trump's standing threaten to make the failed health care push look like a small setback.
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Fight scenes filled with tossed-around bodies, ultimate showdowns with super villains, and car-destroying confrontations with sexual predators are all par for the course in the world of Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter).
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Mostly, though, their highlighting of ideological differences within the party offered Warren and Sanders a tune-up for higher-stakes showdowns this fall against the Democratic front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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One of the most anticipated showdowns of the Rio Games takes place when Michael Phelps tries to avenge his 22 Olympic loss to South Africa's Chad Le Clos in the 26-meter butterfly.
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Yes, that sounds like a snooze, especially after season two's exploration of the same theme in assorted showdowns between the two (including a lengthy chess match that dragged the show to a halt).
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Protesters have also had violent showdowns with pro-establishment groups, including with bands of mysterious white-clad individuals (demonstrators typically wear black) who many suspect are associated with the city's triad criminal gangs.
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Germany had also never won gold as a unified team — although communist East Germany won gold in 1976 — and so the stage was set for mother of all Olympic showdowns 24 hours later.
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Previous showdowns over the debt limit in 2011 and 2013 spooked markets enough to cause ratings agency S&P to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, and led to billions in increased borrowing costs.
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Every N.B.A. playoffs from 1997 to 2000 featured — among other ultimate fighting showdowns occasionally resembling basketball — a main event involving two throwback centers: Patrick Ewing and Trey's father, Alonzo, both of Georgetown pedigree.
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Latifi Decisions Villante in Tepid Affair The second of the main card's two light heavyweight showdowns saw Chris Weidman stablemate Gian Villante mix it up with long-time Alexander Gustafsson training partner Ilir Latifi.
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The flurry of defiance from the White House this week has underscored the limits of congressional subpoenas -- especially in showdowns between the legislative and executive branches -- where there is little precedent in the courts.
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But in the end, said Joel Lexchin, a University of Toronto professor and pharmaceutical policy expert, the problem of escalating drug prices won't be settled by individual showdowns with drug makers over specific drugs.
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But the next couple weeks should be interesting, starting Monday night with a tough match-up against the Toronto Raptors, followed by showdowns against the Cleveland Cavaliers (December 1) and the Warriors (December 7).
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Rangers 20143, Canadiens 2 | Overtime | Rangers leads series, 3-2 MONTREAL — The Rangers have engaged in many playoff showdowns against Montreal, earning more series victories against the Canadiens than any opponent in franchise history.
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Some opposition activists say that is the point of the constant deadlines and showdowns: to elevate the brutality of the Maduro government in the world's eyes, and to speed more direct steps against it.
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After months of Brexit chaos, dramatic showdowns with EU leaders, a delayed vote, a failed coup against the prime minister, and political journalists saying again and again that "nothing has changed," today something finally will.
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Arriving in Europe, Trump faces stiff challenge in Merkel, Putin showdowns Looming over the whole conference will be Trump's meeting with Putin, which will likely be analyzed worldwide for changes in American policy to Russia.
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The virtual showdowns began with a battle of the beats between star producers Swizz Beats and Timbaland last Tuesday, and the music icons passed the torch to songwriters and singers Sean Garrett and The Dream.
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During a commencement speech in 2018 at her alma mater, the Vermont Law School, MacDonough weaved together stories about some of those tense showdowns with more light-hearted moments, such as a quip about Sen.
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Until a vote occurs, Ryan is in a position familiar to his often infuriated predecessor John Boehner -- who endured political and fiscal cliffs and running showdowns with the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus while he was speaker.
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Trump and Putin, who control the world's two biggest nuclear arsenals, are due to meet in the Finnish capital, a venue that evokes memories of Cold War showdowns between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Like the popular Naruto games of the last few years, 3D DBZ titles have focused on recreating the anime's biggest showdowns with dashes of interactivity, rather than actually feature a traditional and competitive fighting game system.
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The free tier has also led to high-profile showdowns with big-name artists like Taylor Swift, who only agreed to an armistice of sorts with streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music this past June.
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The source emphasized that it was not that Zinke was afraid of defending himself, but that the staff resources, time and preparation it would take to prepare for such showdowns could distract from the agency's work.
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But in Georgia, the club is about more than just wild nights out: It is on the front line of debates that have led to showdowns with the authorities and threatened to boil over into violence.
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Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln later clashed in a series of remarkable showdowns as they sought the Senate seat from Illinois in 1858, setting Mr. Lincoln up for his presidential election despite his Senate loss.
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The speaker since 2011, Boehner was familiar with how a small but determined group of very conservative House members had prompted a number of showdowns over the debt limit, cutting spending and a fruitless government shutdown.
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Dramatic reveal reactions Meltdowns, breakdowns and showdowns have become staples in the newest generation of reality television – so much so, that the homeowners' less-than-thrilled reactions to some of Trading Spaces designers' work now look tame.
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In a series of recent interviews, he sketched out plans that include showdowns with business leaders over jobs and key roles for military generals, executives and possibly even family members in advising him about running the country.
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This one was rocked by the new youth culture and upended by showdowns between the city and its unions, including a bitter 1968 sanitation workers' strike that left the streets strewed with 0003,000 tons of uncollected garbage.
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But just maybe, a period of legislative maneuvering could eventually produce a slim overlap of each side's position that could open the way for the Capitol Hill fudge that is usually how showdowns end in divided government.
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Wednesday's setback dropped them 210 213/23 games behind the third-place Thunder, and Los Angeles needs to avoid looking past the Knicks with showdowns against Cleveland and San Antonio coming up in the two following games.
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Central Division Showdowns The Blackhawks (87 points), the Stars (87) and the Blues (233) are bunched tightly in the Central Division standings and play one another this week, starting with Chicago's visit to St. Louis on Wednesday.
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The race had once been billed as one of the biggest political showdowns in Kentucky because David Ermold, a gay man whose request for a marriage license Ms. Davis denied, announced he would run for her job.
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"We've made a great start with two of the biggest leagues in the world and we'll be the only place to see matches like El Classico," he said, referring to the showdowns between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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But it is clear this episode has further fractured relations between the FBI and the White House, a breach that could lead to new and damaging public showdowns and an eroding of morale within the bureau's ranks.
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Megaton fight scenes are the reason people will put up with bad dialogue or bad logic in a film, so it's an outright tragedy when Batman v Superman's showdowns become as boring as the rest of it.
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But for most of a harmonious day, questions about impeachment, widening trade wars, showdowns with Iran and North Korea, Trump's constant political scheming and protests that attest to his unpopularity in the UK seemed relics of another world.
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Indeed, while fans of individual players might hope for a straight sets demolition job, the showdowns that make up the oft-debated lists of best matches are the marathons, when momentum whipsaws and the rivalry can become gladiatorial.
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That is especially the case since his presidency has unfolded in a whirl of scandal, legal showdowns and questionable constitutional power grabs that are hardly conducive to good governance and respect for the impartiality of the Justice Department.
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The Times cited multiple sources as saying the president thought the Commission on Presidential Debates — the body that organizes the live televised showdowns between the two top presidential contenders — couldn&apost be trusted to choose an unbiased moderator.
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So, effectively, he missed the economic crisis, the rise of the Tea Party, the battles against Obamacare, the various showdowns on the debt ceiling and government funding, and the rebellion of the GOP base against its elites' immigration reformism.
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Showdowns for information between the legislative and executive branches rarely go to court, but Democrats have said they may go that route due to administration stonewalling, which could create a new normal in the era of congressional subpoena fights.
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We're all navigating it on a day-by-day (sometimes hour-by-hour) basis and have little idea what so many of the scandals, upheavals, and political showdowns will mean for the future — and kids can sense that tension.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters paralysed parts of the Chinese-ruled city for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing schools to close and blocking highways as students built barricades and stockpiled makeshift weapons, setting the stage for campus showdowns.
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But there has also never been a chapter in the long history of superpower showdowns and historic Cold War-ending negotiations to match the surreal nature of Monday's encounter between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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German car publication Auto Bild(owned by Business Insider's parent company Axel Springer) has a pretty extensive catalog of groovy content on its YouTube channel, including numerous white-knuckled, head-to-head showdowns between — naturally — German high-performance automobiles.
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The move allowed Maryland — traditionally a basketball university — to significantly increase the amount of money it takes in from the sale of its media rights and to experience annual football showdowns with powerhouse teams like Michigan and Ohio State.
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Among other things, he signaled openness to a plan advanced by Mr. Schumer to end the perennial showdowns over the debt ceiling and agreed to a request by Ms. Pelosi to publicly reassure younger illegal immigrants worried about deportation.
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Given Russia's tense foreign relations in recent years linked to a string of showdowns with the West over Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, election meddling and other issues, the World Cup was seen as a chance to present a different image.
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Running battles in the Causeway Bay shopping district, Wan Chai bar area and the Admiralty district of central government offices followed a night of showdowns with police in the Chinese-ruled city, where street fires burned as dusk fell.
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A stimulus, tax cuts, an auto bailout, a new health care law, debt ceiling showdowns and a credit downgrade of U.S. debt, a budget sequester, and then Democratic control giving way to a GOP hold on Congress and the White House.
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Koeman's single season in Eindhoven also saw him triumph in what is among the most thrilling title showdowns in living memory: AZ Alkmaar, Ajax and his PSV side all entering the final day of the 2006/07 season level on points.
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Under-resourced regulators reorganized and reprioritized for showdowns with some of the wealthiest companies on the planet, a process that takes time especially when coupled with an influx of thousands of complaints, data breach notifications and data protection officer registrations.
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In an interview with The Hill, the Democratic mega-donor confirmed that he's considering a run for office, a move that could set the stage for high-profile showdowns in either California's 28500 Senate race or the 6900 presidential race.
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The most memorable of those is the one you're probably thinking of when you hear somebody reference the Massacre: Scott Stevens and Dave Manson squaring off at center ice for one of the great one-on-one showdowns in hockey history.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. — It was supposed to be one of the biggest political showdowns in Kentucky this fall: Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, running against David Ermold, the gay man she denied a marriage license to three years ago.
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Elizabeth Warren walked into Wednesday's debate in a perhaps weaker position than she has been in previous showdowns — Pete Buttigieg's star is rising in Iowa, and she's been bogged down in the weeds of Medicare-for-all plans for weeks.
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"I think showdowns are unavoidable because constitutional rules do not necessarily keep up with the times (while amendment has proven to be too difficult to revise them in a timely fashion), and government depends on cooperation among different institutions," Posner said.
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The opening debates in a pair of crowded showdowns between 20 White House hopefuls Wednesday will grab the first prime time spotlight of a race that has been gathering in intensity in early voting states but has yet to grab national attention.
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With pounding synth-heavy music and a visual style riffing off of anime and cyberpunk, it's an unending stream of big-bad showdowns, the sort of challenging, mano a mano fights usually served up as level or quest climaxes in other games.
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Also, there are still a ton of characters in this movie, and it looks like we'll get some backstory on how Gamora came to be in the dark god's service, plus some power showdowns between Cap, Thor and James Brolin's terrifying bad guy.
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Weist is theoretically the adult in the room, but he reads like a particularly self-aware kid caricaturing a Hollywood power player, reeling off his expensive shopping habits and instigating tense, snarky verbal showdowns with YouTube-star clients Bryce Hall and Mikey Barone.
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And for someone who built his success atop his comfort at being on camera, it was a reminder that his reality TV skills, which worked so well in a multi-candidate debate format, fail him when it comes to two-candidate showdowns.
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The brisk pace of natural gas exploration in the United States, along with a spate of other energy projects, are likely to force more showdowns between labor leaders and environmental activists that a Clinton administration would almost certainly be forced to mediate.
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Darcy said the consideration of alternative routes would be best accomplished through an environmental impact statement with full public input and analysis, delivering both an immediate reprieve and political statement that could aid in future showdowns with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.
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His first antiwar book, it has nine linocuts representing hundreds of years of showdowns, and the current project is in a way an extension of this initial work, his illustrations in pen and ink and on woodcuts extending this history of bloodshed.
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The new Democratic House majority will make it tough for Trump to add to his legislative legacy, with presumptive speaker Nancy Pelosi gearing up for showdowns with the President and the Republican-led Senate over health care, campaign finance and voting rights.
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Trump is locked in two critical showdowns with Chinese President Xi Jinping: Getting Beijing to cut off economic support for the Kim regime to push North Korea into giving up its nukes, and fighting back against Chinese trade violations and intellectual property theft.
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What's more, "Junk," based partly on the fall from grace of the supertrader Michael Milken, is not without classic popcorn elements of heavy-breathing financial melodrama — entrapment, betrayal, a compromising sexual liaison, showdowns between brokers at dawn and even a collateral suicide.
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And military officials said they expected the Pentagon's Central Command in the coming weeks to request more air and naval forces in the Middle East — more to bulk up its deterrent force, and avert future showdowns, than to deal with the current tensions.
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" In one of the periodic showdowns among Edgemen, that line was cited, dismissively, by Steven Pinker, who was responding to archeology professor Steven Mithen's critique of Pinker's 22016 argument for a model of the mind as a "system of organs of computation.
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Should any of those showdowns develop in an adverse way that erodes the Trump administration's credibility over the next two years in a war-weary nation, she will have the luxury of being out of office and free of responsibility at the time.
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He can make the arguments for the benefits of free and fair trade better than almost anyone and he will be formidable in front of the president in showdowns with Navarro and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who both favor more aggressive protectionism.
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But this isn't so strange in American politics: Battles for civil rights in the US have often involved showdowns in these types of businesses, such as the Greensboro sit-ins, in an effort to stop department store, restaurant, and other business owners from discriminating.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming U.S. administration's tough talk against China has set the stage for showdowns on everything from security to trade and cyberspace, but contradictory signals are sowing uncertainty over how far President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to go in confronting Beijing.
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Once the mythic showdowns took over, Padmé all but vanished from the narrative of the last prequel film, crushed by the future that was barreling down on her, begging her husband not to do the terrible things we already knew he was going to do.
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And finally, of course, there are the less likely options; the big-name, big-money showdowns that very few fighters, at any juncture of their careers, would turn down... In February of 2012, Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz collided for the interim welterweight title.
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What ultimately salvages the book are those moments when he all but makes Bannon his co-author, letting Bannon describe West Wing showdowns with his moderate nemesis, Jarvanka, in ways that render this the de facto first insider account of the Trump White House.
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A set for NBC's "Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector" inside Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Meadowlands Arena, once the home of professional basketball and hockey showdowns, is staging an atypical second act.
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OTTAWA — In a decision that will almost surely prompt showdowns with environmentalists, indigenous groups and some political allies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada approved on Tuesday the expansion of a pipeline linking the oil sands in Alberta to a tanker port in British Columbia.
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Because of the state's top-two primary system, that creates the very real possibility that the two most prominent races on November's ballot will be showdowns between two Democratic candidates, which could amount to a deadly blow to GOP efforts to turn out their voters.
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The vote was one of a string of showdowns to reverse Obama-era regulations, but this one unfolded with all the drama of numerous past conflicts over abortion funding — with Mr. Pence casting the tiebreaking vote in his role as president of the Senate.
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Cinematographer Robert Richardson imbues so much meaning and purpose into every one of Beatrix Kiddo's bloody showdowns, from her first knockdown brawl with Vernita Green to her long-awaited face-off with Bill, a scene that communicates its intent visually more than it does through dialogue.
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And it broke new ground in visual storytelling, particularly in the last quarter, which we spent in a battle scene—more of a massacre really—that was more John Ford than Lord of the Rings, and certainly the equal of past showdowns at Hardhome or Blackwater Bay.
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LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are four wins away from repeating as NBA champions in what may go down as one of the greatest championship showdowns ever, but standing in their way is a sharpshooting Golden State Warriors team that beat them in the 2015 Finals.
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Moore also had a unique popularity with Alabama's evangelical GOP voters, thanks to his role in two controversial court showdowns — one ordering him to remove a Ten Commandments statue he commissioned from public land and one over the federal Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
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When she died, in 2007, the National Library of Israel contested the rights to Brod's and Kafka's archives, precipitating a succession of courtroom showdowns that pitted the institution against Esther's daughter Eva and the German Literature Archive in Marbach, which had long hoped to acquire the papers.
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And he's still simmering over past showdowns with other nemeses, such as the NFL: Some of the league's aficionados have traced Trump's fury over players taking a knee and team owners' reactions to his anger at failing to secure a franchise in the league in the 1980s.
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The jockeying has already begun for those spots, regardless of which party wins next month, and the outcome of those inside-Washington-baseball races will set the tone for showdowns over public hearings, requests for documents, subpoenas — and even how an impeachment process could play out.
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If Bannon, with the backing of the billionaire Mercer family, can help direct the more divisive characters in his sprawling camp to a series of victories -- not just in their hotly contested primaries, but in November showdowns against Democrats -- his legend, and influence in Republican politics, will grow.
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Another key lesson from this year's World Cup was that football is rarely a game decided by individual stars — the hype around epic showdowns between Argentina's Lionel Messi, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazil's Neymar was mocked by the failure of all three to lift their teams beyond mediocrity.
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WASHINGTON — Senate leaders struck a far-reaching bipartisan agreement on Wednesday that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to military and domestic programs over the next two years while raising the federal debt limit, moving to end the cycle of fiscal showdowns that have roiled the Capitol.
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This is precisely the kind of violence that has permeated Game of Thrones throughout its entire run — gratuitous showdowns that writers on this very website have agreed are boring or don't make sense between people who will either both be killed off or end up on the same side after all.
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After all, there have been years of budget deals, debt ceiling showdowns and government shutdown dramas that all eventually got resolved -- but in a manner that did little to tackle underlying budgetary problems -- including long-term government debt, insufficient revenues and putting entitlement social programs on a more secure footing.
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And yet—even with Nike tapping The Drew's grassroots mythology to extend its market reach; even as players, and sometimes whole teams, come increasingly from out of state; even though the weekend showdowns are no longer a blighted neighborhood's best-kept secret—the organic spirit of this community jewel is thriving.
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If there's any silver lining, it's that the networks will soon have another golden opportunity to raise the issue: Only a few million people on average watch the primary debates, but the general election showdowns can draw an audience of up to 60 million viewers, according to the New York Times.
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The careful attention Bay devotes to these trademark elements is apparent in The Last Knight; on several occasions, the film comes across as more than a little self-aware, piling on frenetic explosions and showdowns and special effects extravagance, deflating its own self-importance even as it builds it up.
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But his budget was so far out of line with even the conservative norm that it is likely to have little impact on the actual federal appropriations bills that will eventually emerge, probably after a series of showdowns about shutting down the government and with only modest changes to spending.
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And if travel times around Westeros have been expedited, the rewards have included disgorging more secrets about Jon Snow's birthright and the Targaryen dynasty, brilliant scenes involving the various Stark children, massive military showdowns and strategizing to claim the Iron Throne, and preparation for the great war with the army of the dead.
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Also: showdowns with congressional Republicans over the periodic need to raise the nation's debt limit; negotiating, unsuccessfully, with Republicans to overhaul the corporate tax code to close loopholes and lower tax rates; and enforcing economic sanctions — against countries, terrorist groups, individuals and companies — that have become a major tool of foreign policy in recent years.
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And for the next two years, she will be the Democratic point person for the investigative and legislative showdowns with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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The creator of a series detective has two options: supply the sleuth with one forgettable case after another while the character remains essentially unchanged or, in the interest of keeping the stakes high, turn the detective's life into soap opera, a preposterous string of murdered wives, kidnapped children, and showdowns with diabolical serial killers.
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The movie then hits all of the traditional sports movie tropes — with exciting come-from-behind victories and personal showdowns on the field — while also quietly building a story about sisterhood, in all senses of that word, as the two main characters' relationship is tested and strong bonds are formed among teammates (who include Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell).
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Two more showdowns ensue: Jaime opposite the High Sparrow, in which the Kingslayer gets to recapture some of the 'tude neutered by his three seasons of redemption, clutching the hilt of his sword as he tells the Faith Militant's unimpressed ringleader, "You must long for the next life," before rattling off every bad thing he's ever done.
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Shortly after UFC 207's massive main event was announced, the card expanded with the addition of a whopping five welterweight showdowns: scraps between Sabah Homasi and Brandon Thatch, Mike Pyle and Alex Garcia, Tim Means and Alex Oliveira, Matt Brown and Tarec Saffiedine, and most notably, a battle between long-time contender Neil Magny and former champ Johny Hendricks.
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The Republican presidential debate on Thursday night will be remembered for its insults, showdowns and one very personal declaration from GOP front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE about his anatomy.
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In an interview with the New York Times podcast "The New Washington," Mr. Schumer said he pursued an approach that would allow the Democrats to assert themselves as the minority party in coming showdowns over funding the government and increasing the debt limit, while denying Mr. Trump money for his border wall and seeking protection for the undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.
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Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyThe Hill's Morning Report - Dems to hit gas on impeachment Green groups line up behind Markey ahead of looming Kennedy fight The Hill's Campaign Report: Impeachment fight poses risks to both Trump, Dems MORE (D-Mass.) in a primary next year, setting up one of the most anticipated showdowns of the 2020 cycle, The Hill's Julia Manchester reports.
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One could argue that theft of commercial jet engine technology could be used to improve the manufacturing of military jets; that purloined biotechnology could be sought after to enhance public health programs or defend against epidemic outbreaks or even bioweapons rather than to aid China's economic ambitions; or that stolen sensors, semiconductors, and satellite communications could all be for dominance in aerial combat rather than boardroom showdowns.
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The Los Angeles lawmaker's early calls for 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's impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party's young, liberal base.
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Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyMassachusetts Democrats call for 100 percent fentanyl screening of international mail from 'high-risk' nations The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by National Association of Manufacturers - Pelosi feels heat as Dems pursue whistleblower complaint Democrats dread Kennedy-Markey showdown in 21625 MORE (D-Mass.) in a primary next year, setting up one of the most anticipated showdowns of the 2900 cycle.
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Brett Kavanugh (left) and un-indicted co-conspirator President Trump in the East Room of the White House July 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo: GettyThe first day of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court start today at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT. And as one of the most important political showdowns in years, you might wonder how you can watch the proceedings on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and more.
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The ability to shape and carry out an agenda; to give committees and subcommittees freedom while maintaining coherence; to understand the needs, strengths, and weaknesses of the members, knowing when to push and when to back off; to have tactical and strategic skills, especially when showdowns like potential shutdowns are looming; to negotiate effectively with a president and leadership counterparts in both House and Senate—all these are deeply important qualities in a speaker.
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Two past showdowns echo elements of the Bundy predicament: the deadly 1993 siege of a Branch Davidian compound headed by David Koresh in Waco, Texas, which involved religiously committed individuals who refused to exit their property or cooperate with authorities on firearms charges; and the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff between the Weaver family and U.S. Marshals aided by the FBI, which resulted in the killing of a woman and 14-year-old boy by law enforcement.
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