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"sputtering" Definitions
  1. Engineering
  2. a process that uses ions of an inert gas to dislodge atoms from the surface of a crystalline material, the atoms then being electrically deposited to form an extremely thin coating on a glass, metal, plastic, or other surface.
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But many worry about its impact on a sputtering economy.
And perhaps then they can begin rescuing a sputtering season.
He began sputtering, until it was clear that he hadn't.
Could Mr. Bloomberg recover from his sputtering performance in Nevada?
"But then we heard some sputtering and then a boom."
Sputtering Cleveland dropped its 15th game over the last 17.
You will hear gears groaning and machines sputtering to life.
The ceiling lamp there gave off a sputtering, weak light.
India's economic growth sputtering because it's too hot to work outside.
But Harvey's performance was far more alarming than the offense's sputtering.
My condolences on now being a sputtering, drooling puddle of terror.
But the Japanese economic engine has been sputtering in recent years.
They drop silently, their torches sputtering on the damp catacomb floor.
Sputtering players are given less leeway in a five-game series.
Here's what else is happening: The stormy weather is sputtering out.
But ultimately Apocalypse still comes undone, barely sputtering to the finish.
They were sputtering steam and brimming with soft, fluffy baozi (dumplings).
The album's primary emotion at times is a blinding, sputtering fury.
And on Saturday, Spieth's game was sputtering in the same spot.
It was a warm, domestic sound like a sputtering lawn mower.
" I can already hear the tech skeptics sputtering "but -- fake news!
Instead, he sent the government sputtering into a 35-day shutdown.
And some recent signs suggest the engine could be sputtering a bit.
China's spending in Pakistan has helped to revive the country's sputtering economy.
He puts forward an intriguing thesis about the sputtering engines of history.
And he was sputtering, he was stammering, he was being un-Howardlike.
Instead, the high school saga throws about 10 sputtering plotlines at viewers.
In Washington, the machinery of checks and balances is sputtering to life.
Their engine backfired, sputtering and producing a loud bang in the tailpipe.
The sputtering global economy is one shock away from slipping into recession.
Our economy is sputtering but unemployment is officially low, and laughed at.
The hope is that the deal will reverse its sputtering online growth.
With the economy sputtering, analysts worry that slower hiring will soon follow.
They held up in spite of Manning's offense sputtering the entire game.
I was gripped by sputtering outrage, but he remained amused and bemused.
Sears has been reeling from billions in losses and sputtering mall traffic.
But President Trump keeps spinning and sputtering instead of speaking the truth.
Intel While Su was turning AMD around, major rival, Intel, was sputtering.
And Mr. Hall's reverential adaptation cherishes the original screenplay's sputtering, didactic spiels.
Nebraska's five takeaways helped a sputtering offense, which mustered 276 total yards.
Brennan tried to speak a complete sentence but sputtering sounds came out.
The vegan meat started off promising, sizzling and sputtering just like beef.
I spent the whole year basically designing a flange for a sputtering chamber.
With Russia's economy still sputtering, the Middle East also offers a lucrative market.
It was already sputtering when he restored a host of sanctions in August.
Its fall from either will be a real indication of a sputtering fad.
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's Didi Chuxing is revving up its sputtering engine.
He's a hectoring, sputtering, slapdash, one-dimensional writer who mistook loudness for passion.
The optic technology left my iPhone 27's phase detection sputtering in comparison.
Many voters are dissatisfied with an economy still sputtering after a 2016 recession.
After he had finished coughing and sputtering up water, my dad fired him.
"It needs work," Lions coach Jim Caldwell said of the sputtering rushing attack.
And then, just as the impeachment effort appeared to be sputtering, everything changed.
Each year, photographers around the world snap thousands of photographs of sputtering, fiery volcanoes.
An hour later the phone rang -- it was Stewart, and he was sputtering mad.
But eventually he would come back into the chat, sputtering with anger at Chuck.
Immediately after, you are choking and sputtering and gasping for lack of clean air.
Nigeria's engine was already sputtering when President Muhammadu Buhari took the wheel in 2015.
Obviously, it keeps sputtering along over many years and we're still talking about it.
We simply cannot afford another four years of sputtering zero to 2% economic growth.
Now that commodity prices have plummeted, output is sputtering and Indonesia's weaknesses are apparent.
It's dangerous work, but in Iraq's sputtering economy any job is a good job.
Against that backdrop, the country's export engine is sputtering, while business confidence is eroding.
Normally, pitching coaches run out to the mound to talk to a sputtering pitcher.
"The core growth engines of the business are sputtering," MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett said.
The US and North Korea are expected to rekindle sputtering talks later this month.
The twin-engine economy (Monetary and fiscal) has been sputtering with only one engine working.
Louisville's defense kept Virginia's sputtering offense under wraps, and then UL drove home the dagger.
The big picture: Brazil is suffering from a crisis of confidence and a sputtering economy.
Evernote led the way for years on this front, before sputtering into a sad stasis.
These could include an injection of cash into Turkey's sputtering economy, plus a private apology.
UCLA trailed for almost 35 minutes of game time, sputtering offensively most of the night.
During perimenopause, hormones can increase or decrease unexpectedly as the ovaries are "sputtering," he said.
The war against the Aedes aegypti mosquito carrying the virus is sputtering out in failure.
Next week is the official end of the road for the sputtering 15-year production.
Melodie Conn arrived first, in a sputtering car that her daughter had nicknamed Madam Blueberry.
Who knows, maybe Pixar will manage to pull a U-turn with this sputtering series.
The figures underscored a recent refrain on Wall Street: China's powerhouse economic engine is sputtering.
One after another, left-wing groups have launched many sputtering progressive efforts since the 1980s.
In some videos of the shooting, the rate of fire sounds inconsistent, at times sputtering.
Eyewitnesses also tell us that they heard the helicopter's engine sputtering before it went down.
A Spitfire airplane, sputtering blue smoke, smashing through the walls of an English drawing room.
Just a few years ago, Sony was sputtering and Warner was the film industry's superpower.
With Sanders ailing and Kamala Harris sputtering, Buttigieg has enough money to go the distance
John had rolled onto his side, sputtering and gagging on the salt water he'd swallowed.
Long a reliable engine of growth in the tech industry, smartphone demand is now sputtering.
Doyle, apparently taken aback, was left sputtering for several seconds as murmurs rippled through the chamber.
As she painted, Diab glanced behind her at the sound of every sputtering tuk-tuk motor.
And government troops have been battling Abu Sayyaf, which remains outside the country's sputtering peace process.
The artist's collection of sordid figures is a valediction on the sputtering wheels of American democracy.
Policymakers intent on boosting the sputtering U.S. growth rate are well advised to look at regulation.
Upon meeting her, Voyd can barely hold it together, sputtering nervously, and who could blame her?
Moot your hot-blooded support, sputtering antagonism, or news-numbed apathy to whatever any politician says.
The old heap's engine, sputtering now and then with a grandmotherly wheeze, refused to turn over .
Trump's is collapsing and Hillary's is sputtering along hoping the election ends as soon as possible.
Japan, the world's third largest economy, has struggled with sputtering growth and stagnating prices for decades.
The biting sanctions are still in place - not a good thing for a sputtering Russian economy.
As the opening scene begins, needling brass riffs protrude over sputtering clusters of hard-edged chords.
Now he takes the mound for a sputtering Mets squad against a hot-hitting Dodgers team.
But with the economy sputtering, convincing Turkish tea-drinkers to buy the stuff will be harder.
You hear some great songs on this album, but you can also hear a band sputtering out.
The storyline of the year was also found outside WWE's walls, in sputtering TNA, of all places.
The big picture: Bolsonaro's campaign has been fueled by anger over crime, corruption and a sputtering economy.
The resulting monologue wasn't typical of The Daily Show's usual sputtering outrage, but it was undeniably powerful.
At the same time a similar commission in Honduras appears to be sputtering out under government pressure.
Visitor numbers rose uninterruptedly for seven years to 2017, setting repeated new records, before sputtering last year.
Sputtering against Houston probably ended any hopes the Bulls had of reaching the top 10 this season.
"It just started sputtering and it ultimately failed," Dell told Good Morning America of the terrifying incident.
This is relevant because the Cubs are said to be scouting the sputtering Yankees for bullpen help.
With a sputtering economy, many companies turned to telemarketing to boost lagging sales and increase market share.
At the end of March, pundits in Washington believed the legislative process was sputtering to a halt.
It was won despite a sputtering economy and mounting doubts about how Mr Abe might fix it.
But spooked by the sputtering economy, the government has begun discussing another postponement, sources have told Reuters.
When the car did work, we had the windows down, sputtering along and baking in the heat.
Trump accepted — because Xi made it a condition to restart sputtering trade talks between their two countries.
For each hourlong episode, it's as if my nose itches, building towards that heaving and sputtering release.
Pakistan's sputtering economy has rebounded in recent years, helped by lower global oil prices and improved security.
By now, you've seen the shot that forced out the last, sputtering gasp from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
No state has hit a record high unemployment rate since December 2010, as the sputtering recovery began.
But it was one of those sputtering bloops that had just enough energy to evade the defense.
Sputtering Cleveland dropped its 15th game over the last 17, a skid dating back to Nov. 12.
Soon, the cello declares battle on the orchestra, breaking into raucous, vehement bursts of sputtering, manic phrases.
The gloomy outlook suggests that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reflationary policy mix, known as "Abenomics", is sputtering.
Goals could be in short supply when the sputtering Minnesota Wild visit the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.
And that sputtering out made the prospect of finding a cure or vaccine much less of a priority.
Ragging on college hoops is fashionable these days, and it's justified by offenses nationwide sputtering in recent years.
Plunging oil prices and low inflation have added to the market's jitters that the global economy is sputtering.
The first was to jump-start Japan's sputtering economy — and his record on that so far is mixed.
Have you suffered the latest indignity of your old gaming laptop sputtering at the wrong moment in Fortnite?
The global economy may be sputtering, with weak demand one of the reasons that oil prices have cratered.
To be sure, the start-up venture, dubbed Cartivator Resource Management, got off to a sputtering start Saturday.
He slides down the pancake at an angle so it gets completely submerged in the sputtering oil bath.
Altogether, the group was finding a new cooperative language, sometimes hitting a sputtering stride, sometimes avoiding cohesion altogether.
Challenged by competition from China and slowed by global trade tensions, the export-powered German economy is sputtering.
During roll call, my teachers used to pause before sputtering out a chopped-liver version of my name.
Trump on Tuesday vowed to restart the sputtering economy by Easter, despite rapidly rising cases of covid-19.
And the sputtering Mets, who managed just two hits after their two-run first inning, suffered another defeat.
Crowds of children race the streets, jumping out of the way of horse-pulled carriages and sputtering minibuses.
With Greinke sputtering, Sanchez let him off the hook by striking out on a slider in the dirt.
The city's sputtering economy hemorrhages jobs, and the mayor's name has become a national byword for urban disaster.
In Ukraine, senior investigator Rodionov said prosecutorial firepower was sputtering when it came to the probes involving Manafort.
In a sputtering Mets lineup, Frazier had been one of the most consistent threats to get on base.
But while the connected-home company was sputtering, Tuason found Cruise as a new home for her talents.
With a few tech valuations sputtering (hi there, Twitter), some are waiting for Google to come to the rescue.
Yes, but: China's growth is sputtering as trade tensions escalate, which could crush its dreams of dominating AV development.
But speculation is persisting that Abe may again delay it at a time when "Abenomics" reflationary policy is sputtering.
But by the 203s the economy was sputtering, and America Inc was losing ground to Japanese and European industry.
The first ten minutes your mind is sputtering and swearing with all sorts of inner doubts and silent furies.
Leading up to an eruption, volcanoes threw out plenty of smoke, fire, and sputtering ground movement, just as expected.
The move comes at a challenging time for Trudeau, whose attempts to boost trade ties with China are sputtering.
You can choose not only your weapon, sputtering plasma blasts and homing fireballs, but the formation of your army.
So the performers did not know what crackling, static, whooshing and sputtering elements would be available in the moment.
SAN FRANCISCO — Away from the noise of a sputtering season, Mets Manager Terry Collins finds his solace in exercise.
Concerns over lagging inflation and a still sputtering economy prompted the bank to twice slash interest rates since June.
Bush, a tested debater, policy expert and former Florida governor, tried to provoke Trump, but he was left sputtering.
The Chinese economy is sputtering, and the trade war between the United States and China isn't getting much better.
Sputtering sales in China are one of the reasons shares in major carmakers have taken a hit this year.
Sputtering growth, soaring debt and an escalating trade war with the United States are increasingly weighing on China's economy.
Japan ran trade surpluses for 30 consecutive years until 2011, but that did not prevent its economy from sputtering.
The performance over all lacks vitality, with the sputtering, brooding Faulkland the only character who seems flesh and blood.
Finally, the whole orchestra joined in, playing sputtering rhythms, tart harmonies and thematic fragments that coalesced into melodic lines.
The Diamondbacks face weaker opponents, but with five losses in a row, they are sputtering at the worst time.
The Cowboys couldn't blame a sputtering offense on the conditions after the windy and rainy loss to the Patriots.
The money is quelling some worry that her campaign, which is restricting its fundraising to individual donors, was sputtering.
The NIMS-MANA Car, representing Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), made it one nanometer before sputtering out.
For a country of 5m people that depends on two sputtering industries, to go it alone would be a gamble.
The Minnesota Wild may see the welcome return of a familiar face in their bid to ignite a sputtering offense.
After stalling and sputtering in his past confrontations with Mr. Trump, Mr. Bush came into Greenville eager for a fight.
But the company started sputtering in the 1990s, under CEO Carly Fiorina, by selling an instruments division and buying Compaq.
CHINESE demand for the world's commodities may be sputtering, but not for the most vital ingredient of football: its players.
Meerkat, which sparked new interest in mobile broadcasting before sputtering amid competition from Facebook and Twitter, has returned with Houseparty.
The European Central Bank looks poised to institute more stimulus measures to support sputtering growth in Germany, Italy and Sweden.
He had initially been contacted by the Trump campaign earlier this year as Mr. Christie's campaign for president was sputtering.
One Wall Street analyst believes Trump's move is just a ploy to get attention off the sputtering China trade negotiations.
We pushed and pulled and lugged our oppressive, gear-laden bikes over nearly every inch of ground, cursing and sputtering.
Throw in a sputtering stock market and a stalled bull market in bonds, and the argument becomes even more compelling.
They carried weapons and heavy packs, and one time, were red-faced and sputtering from being tear-gassed without masks.
Times stock was still sputtering, and the company had sold off everything but its furniture to keep paying for journalism.
Such vivid anticipation steers those sputtering at Mr. Trump's presidency to take deep breaths and bide their time until Nov.
His dismal approval ratings as the state grapples with a sputtering economy aren't expected to help any potential Democratic successors.
"The rest of the world isn't going to stop and wait for you just because you're sputtering along," he said.
Finally, in 245, Mr. Stuta got a car — a beat-up white Ford Escort with a sputtering 227-liter engine.
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Both elements came across vividly in music that bustles with sliding brass, sputtering rhythms and an episode of instrumental interplay.
The latest campaign finance filings show which Democratic presidential candidates gained steam in the money race and who is sputtering.
The economy was sputtering, political division was entrenched, and there was a feeling of relative impotence on the world stage.
"He doesn't look like he's alive," Walker told the dispatcher, sputtering out details as he tried to catch his breath.
Signs the economy's growth engine was sputtering could further stoke financial market fears of a sharper slowdown in economic growth.
They surely did not want LeMahieu joining their catalog of concerns, most of which revolved around their sputtering pitching staff.
They surely did not want LeMahieu joining their catalog of concerns, most of which revolved around their sputtering pitching staff.
With settlement talks sputtering, the judge has signed off on a parallel track involving, yes, briefs, focused on, yes, trial.
Since then, Trump has grown frustrated with the slow pace of progress and the sputtering diplomatic engagement with the Taliban.
Water is purchased in bottles, the Lebanese preferring not to play Russian roulette with the liquid sputtering from household taps.
Last week, a seriously offensive and completely unnecessary debate on Sports Court regarding female Olympians took place and left us sputtering.
They lack a strong presence in China, lag in electric cars and rely heavily on the sputtering European market for sales.
Unexpectedly bad March jobs data and tax revenue figures also added to concerns about Brazil's sputtering economy, weighing on investor sentiment.
And they've only gotten more frequent in the past 24 hours, as this election cycle comes to a gasping, sputtering close.
It is instead a sputtering machine burdened with a leader who is becoming the one thing Trump never was before -- boring.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have been sputtering of late and are bracing for the upcoming return of Kevin Love from knee surgery.
Sputtering tom rolls, blobby techno synths, and crystalline cymbal taps blossom and spill out of the theater's massive surround-sound system.
It was as if his pen, sputtering along the line of rapid letters it ignited, flung out haloes of hot grease.
Doubts about the outlook suggest that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's five-year-long 'Abenomics' campaign to reflate the economy is sputtering.
Tech — this year's best-performing sector coming into Thursday's session — has been sputtering lately, falling 23.353 percent over the past month.
The protests, which began Thursday night, are a reaction to Iran's sputtering economy, rampant corruption and rising fuel and food prices.
Insiders said he was bewildered by the finer points of the political process and didn't understand why his approach was sputtering.
The Chinese leadership has enough on its hands these days: an epic antigraft campaign, a sputtering economy and sporadic regional insurgencies.
The viola and orchestra trade bursts of perpetual-motion riffs and phrases, in music percolating with sputtering rhythms and skittish lines.
Much of it was courtesy of Sanchez, who has been among the Yankees' best hitters of late after sputtering in July.
"I can hear the voices of aunties in my head," she said, sliding across the linoleum to flip the sputtering plantains.
The amount of problem loans surged, as Italy's sputtering economy hurt small businesses and left many unable to repay their debts.
The European economy is sputtering along and the crises that marked so much of his tenure are receding into the past.
Consumption has been virtually been the sole engine of GDP growth in recent years but recent data suggests it may be sputtering.
The sputtering started with Anderson's fumble when they had a 503-10 lead, so he saw his game-breaking run as redemption.
One, the risk of failure was high — at the time, Windows Phone was sputtering, and the iOS/Android duopoly looked increasingly impenetrable.
It's played as one would a gong, but sounds like a snare drum at times and like a sputtering engine at others.
But the gains this time look to weaken from the past year as unions and companies face slowing growth and sputtering inflation.
Concerns have also grown that the Indian government's reform drive is sputtering, spurring foreign investors to pull funds out of the country.
But there is a concern about the quality of China's growth, said Mr Obstfeld, as fresh credit is directed towards sputtering industries.
They will also race past the less attractive side of Azerbaijan: its sputtering economy, oppressive political system and simmering conflict with Armenia.
In Philadelphia, Stauskas got more of a chance to show off his skills, and they appeared in short, sputtering bursts of potential.
But he insisted the U.S. has the upper hand with China, pointing to other strong economic indicators and China's sputtering stock market.
Of both relentlessly looking forward to the promise of the brave and the new and back via an exhaustive sputtering of revivals.
Politico&aposs Christopher Cadelago described Harris&apos campaign as "sputtering" amid staff layoffs and poor performance in the polls on November 15.
He followed, sputtering excuses about how that's not what he meant, and when I put it like that, it sounded so ugly.
His face was everywhere — on banners, lampposts and torn flags flying from the sputtering rickshaws that flit in and out of traffic.
Christian-Muslim conflict is also sputtering across west Africa and would now make any papal visit there a logistical and security challenge.
A year later, the federal deficit is still rising, the stock market is sputtering, and Bob Corker is on his way out.
Mesa was sputtering, and when new management came in, Mr. Pickens left the company he had built from the dusty ground up.
In fact, the product helped jump-start Fitbit's sputtering stock and appeared to be the first step on its road to recovery.
This year, they won 32, squandering a promising start and spending the second half of the season sputtering to the finish line.
" Trump on Wednesday also sought to portray the impeachment investigation as sputtering out, tweeting that the "Impeachment Witch Hunt is now OVER!
But Glenn was sputtering, a good-on-paper candidate who made blunders like a no-show at a key rural candidate forum.
Though the ministers stopped short of imposing a travel ban or economic embargo, their comments were problematic for the sputtering Turkish economy.
Consumer and business confidence is falling, the housing market is sputtering and a trade dispute with the United States is dragging on.
His dismal approval ratings while the state grapples with a sputtering economy could hurt his party's chance of holding on to power.
Mnuchin's report comes at a time when momentum in global rulemaking is already sputtering as the immediate post-crisis sense of urgency fades.
This is Michael Jordan on the Wizards or Joe Montana on the Chiefs: a generational legend who's not quite done but is sputtering.
The Rockets, meanwhile, kept sputtering offensively, closing the second 4-for-12 from the floor with nine turnovers to further undermine their offense.
The Canadiens look to ride the momentum of that emphatic victory at Gillette Stadium when they visit the sputtering Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.
Africa's 2 largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, are sputtering and Australia is fighting to avoid its first recession in almost 30 years.
No. 23 Iowa 26, Purdue 593 The Hawkeyes' sputtering offense finally broke through in the second half against the Boilermakers in Iowa City.
The Thai banking sector has been hit by the country's sputtering economy, which has led to slower lending growth and higher bad debt.
They watched on television as the sputtering Mets went 7-11 without both players in the lineup and lagged in the playoff race.
The power company had long been the public's favorite punching bag, notorious for its high rates, sputtering from one crisis to the next.
But they also harnessed the dynamics of electronic dance music, with drumbeats sputtering into double time and choruses that exploded into his howl.
Some big retailers, like J. C. Penney and Sears, are still sputtering, despite closing lagging stores and sprucing up ones that remain open.
What's clear is that some of the powerful engines that propelled stock markets to record highs over the last year have been sputtering.
What's clear is that some of the powerful engines that propelled stock markets to record highs over the last year have been sputtering.
The Lenovo-owned company is embracing the burgeoning (if sputtering) world of foldables with the return of one of its most iconic models.
A sputtering economy, one of Namibia's worst-ever droughts and the biggest corruption scandal in its history have weighed on support for Geingob.
CNN's Manu Raju says the investigation is "sputtering to a conclusion" after turning into a political back-and-forth between the two sides.
Russia's economy is sputtering, its young people are frustrated, and yet the country and its leader of two decades are on a roll.
But other times the results are far less impressive, sputtering out the end of the barrel and landing a few feet away from you.
Struggling with a sputtering wearables market, plummeting stock pricing and increased competition on the low-end of the market, Fitbit threw a Hail Mary.
Bridge Project, the liberal group, is up today with a new digital ad targeting Republican House members for their party's sputtering Obamacare replacement plan.
For the 42nd season, frequent SNL host Baldwin helped make America great again with his heightened, sputtering portrayal (McKinnon's Hillary, as ever, was perfect).
With the Russia probes in both the House and the Senate sputtering, the deputy attorney general faces pressure to appoint an independent special prosecutor.
The Trump campaign itself was sputtering in mid-August and Manafort was replaced by the triad of Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and David Bossie.
Several people who have recently left X and those close to it describe the Alphabet unit as sputtering, unable to bring projects to life.
Democrats, invigorated by a sputtering Trump, have already began laying out plans to target vulnerable Republicans whose future relies on Trump's popularity and effectiveness.
Yes, fine, Belle loves the Beast, a sputtering Buffalo with an intermittent rage disorder and a George W. Bush-level of skill in art.
And Turkey is forging ahead with a bold aggressiveness on the ground and in its rhetoric that has left the international community sputtering ineffectually.
Pressure builds in a protracted sequence of sputtering lobby lights, leaky fixtures, dying dowagers, the assault itself and the hysteria of the young girl.
While the economy is booming, and the class of 28503 has it better off than its millennial predecessors, the entrepreneurship rate is still sputtering.
The president, in case he forgot, lost the popular vote by millions, and his approval ratings are sputtering in the mid- to high-30s.
Eight are nearing the finish line, including some that are sputtering as they get there, wheezing and gasping as the field passes them by.
Efforts by students to counter the colonial arrogance that has been our ruin by decolonizing the curriculum have been met with sputtering, insecure outrage.
" Then she lets out a hoarse, sputtering laugh: "I wish whoever's making that kind of money off of me could share it with me.
But an overanxious Reyes fouled off two pitches and then flailed at a pitch outside the strike zone against sputtering Dodgers reliever Chris Hatcher.
Among the industry executives I spoke with, the outlook is optimistic as they unhitch their wagons from the sputtering star of self-driving cars.
College administrators and invited speakers, especially those who have helped build the partisan society we live in, shouldn't be sputtering mad when students object.
Alderson said he was happy with the team's play so far, while acknowledging there was room for improvement with slumping hitters and sputtering pitchers.
In "Profanation," the second movement, Mr. Gilbert teased out touches of sputtering Hebraic chant in music that on the surface seems buoyant and jazzy.
We don't really have good narratives around what happens in that situation, which is why the Trump administration so often leaves us sputtering and gawking.
The Nikkei's fall comes less than two weeks after the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) unexpected adoption of negative interest rates to reinvigorate the sputtering economy.
A large number of people witnessed it, Buchanan told CNN affiliate KGTV, with many saying they heard a sputtering engine before the plane went down.
Normally this would seem a bad choice, but since the Broncos' offense was sputtering while the team's defense was playing well, the decision was understandable.
The feisty upstart of 2015, the Aam Aadmi or "common man" party (AAP), was left sputtering that someone must have tampered with the voting machines.
Many assume that as the cost of the trade war rises—whether in the form of slower growth or sputtering markets—cooler heads will prevail.
Those talks so far are sputtering and, growing frustrated, Trump has taken to calling out members of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus on Twitter.
The source said the Trump administration was rushing to conclude a deal with Japan to use as leverage in its sputtering negotiations with China on.
The Jayhawks finished the first half on a 22-7 run and, after sputtering a bit in the second half, ran away from the Boilermakers.
Since Maduro took office in 2013, hyperinflation, dire food shortages, and unchecked violence have put an already sputtering country on the verge of total collapse.
Like every year, spectators began to gather before daybreak to see the cars creep onto the lawn, as well as a few inevitable sputtering breakdowns.
The prospect of similar protests has hit the local stock market, stoking fears of political instability just as the sputtering economy was starting to rebound.
As the week progressed, however, more analysts began to say that the central bank could lower borrowing costs with the economy sputtering and inflation slowing.
Her voice is slowly stretched apart, then reinserted alongside a massing riot of snares and kicks, until it becomes its own kind of sputtering rhythm.
The two major market horror stories in 24 were Turkey and Argentina, with both economies sputtering toward recession and on the verge of currency crises.
The Republican financial apparatus under Mr. Priebus, sputtering since Mr. Trump claimed the presidential nomination, is wheezing painfully in the final weeks of the race.
The sputtering negotiations over a cease-fire include a Russian proposal for civilians to leave the area; residents fear they will never be allowed back.
When Ms. Swift was photographed last summer wearing a harness to a Hollywood lunch, Twitter virtually imploded, reactions varying from sputtering disdain to unconcealed hostility.
After a sputtering start in Iowa and New Hampshire, Biden's campaign saw a resurgence in South Carolina, driven mainly by support from older black voters.
Particularly with "222 Horsepower Citroën," Riopelle conveys a dazzling, stuttering, speckled visual complexity that is never far, in my mind, from the sputtering of machines.
After months of sputtering talks, momentum picked up this weekend as Mr. Trudeau inserted himself and made clear that he wanted to get something done.
After decades of sputtering starts — both Jodie Foster and Cate Blanchett were attached at various points — "Alias Grace" arrives at a time of peak Atwood.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Just as his White House bid appeared to be sputtering to an ugly end, there are signs of life for Joe Biden still.
That section still comes across like the fugue to end all fugues, with outbursts of sputtering rhythms, obsessively hammered attacks and tangles of wayward counterpoint.
Why else would everybody continue to speak of onetime Irish Socialist chauffeur Tom Branson as if he were some kind of sputtering anarchist time bomb?
On small pipes running along the inside bottom of the tray, Harwood's special nozzles emit a constant, sputtering spray of water at a downward angle.
Baltimore's offense is still sputtering, but at least it scored its first 3 points of the game on a 49-yard Justin Tucker field goal.
"Sir, you just said two times that he's being investigated," Mr. Wallace pointed out over Mr. Sekulow's sputtering protests that he had not said that.
More importantly, it sent a signal that an expansion, which had added nearly 15 million jobs since the Great Recession ended, finally might be sputtering.
With health care negotiations sputtering, many Republicans are quietly turning their attention to changes in the tax code as a possible path for legislative success.
After more than a decade of sputtering and stalling, it may be premature to declare that the Franco-German engine is revving on all cylinders again.
Still, with global economic growth sputtering and geopolitical tension continuing to flare in the Middle East, the path forward for Saudi Arabia's economy is not certain.
Bolsonaro was easily elected last month by voters enraged over endemic political corruption and an economy still sputtering after enduring its worst recession in a century.
While Model 3 output was still sputtering in March, a Tesla owner in California died in a crash while using the company's Autopilot driver assistance feature.
Ryan Spooner and Kevin Hayes scored for New York, which is sputtering to the finish line, falling to 2-5-2 in its past nine games.
The election falls as Australia's 28-year run of economic growth is sputtering, and with policy differences between the major parties at their widest in years.
Matt Peckham, Time Don't ask me how, but Final Fantasy XV is not the sputtering dumpster fire some worried was inbound after years of developmental tumult.
Crude oil prices slipped, their modest recovery from disappointment over last week's OPEC meeting sputtering out on the back of a relentless rise in U.S. drilling.
One focused on secular stagnation, arguing that populations were aging, productivity was sputtering, and economies would be slow for as far as the eye could see.
Using his own knife, he pushed a blade into the base of his neck — opening a makeshift airway that bypassed the sputtering mess behind his chin.
It was called the Economic Opportunity Act, a measure intended to kick-start the sputtering post-recession economy in New Jersey, particularly in its struggling cities.
Manning committed three turnovers and the sputtering Giants were shut out for the first time since 2014, losing, 23-0, to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
The bigger picture The onetime engine of Wall Street's enviable performance, fixed-income trading, is still sputtering, thanks to new regulations, disruptive technologies and calmer markets.
A brewing trade war with the United States, the weakening renminbi and the sputtering growth of China's economy in recent months all have executives on edge.
The sputtering Mets (26-4.83 ) lost that day because of a collapse by the bullpen, which has been the main culprit of the team's recent woes.
U.S. global power is "sputtering to a stall" as the Trump philosophy of retrenchment and unilateralism sows confusion among both allies and rivals, Eurasia Group says.
BUCCANEERS 14, SEAHAWKS 5 Jameis Winston threw two touchdown passes to Mike Evans, and Tampa Bay's rejuvenated defense shut down Russell Wilson and Seattle's sputtering offense.
Aging stars are notoriously cranky and moody, coughing out bursts of gas and dust that obscure themselves, or sputtering inside as their cores evolve and change.
Giamatti is usually an entertaining actor, but he revs Chuck's sputtering fury a little too high: in a few scenes, he verges on Foghorn Leghorn territory.
The sputtering traffic in Manhattan has long been blamed on cars and delivery trucks pouring onto the streets from the rest of the city and beyond.
Richie is Rich Hill, the currently sputtering left-hander who, in 2016, was among the top half-dozen starters in baseball on a per-game basis.
The red-hot Philadelphia Eagles look to extend their winning streak to seven games on Sunday when they host the sputtering Denver Broncos at Lincoln Financial Field.
Your cookware, your Netflix subscription, the sputtering AC unit you've had since college — almost everything becomes fair game the second you sign your name on the lease.
Miami leading the favored Patriots 17-10 in the fourth quarter — New England, sputtering, had just punted on fourth-and-26 — the Dolphins faced third-and-43.
"You" Like a sputtering automaton desperate to find the few remaining others of his kind, the lugubrious Giuliani tweeted those three letters in the summer of 2018.
By some measures, foreign investment in Brazil is already near record levels, despite the perception that uncertainty surrounding the sputtering pension reform push is deterring outside investors.
Hundreds marched through Lagos on Monday calling for a change of government, a rare show of public dissent reflecting worry over Buhari's absence and a sputtering economy.
Obama has been repeatedly assailed by Republicans -- especially the party's presidential contenders -- for overseeing an economy that many Americans still regard as sputtering in the wrong direction.
The euro, which has struggled recently in line with a sputtering euro zone economy, found a measure of support on the improved sentiment and the Brexit news.
It's a fitting way to crown Trump's first six months, since the health care bill's sputtering progress has been a reflection of his presidency as a whole.
They are also facing an Oklahoma City front line that athletically overmatches Andrew Bogut and in Game 3 had Green sputtering and in a (flagrant) foul mood.
The German economy is showing clear signs of sputtering in response to a slowing of the Chinese economy and fears of U.S. tariffs on European automobile exports.
He didn't want Trump to win, but he was glad the Obama years were sputtering to an end, even as they coincided with his own potential demise.
But the Stars, who lost the star forward Tyler Seguin two weeks ago, have won four of five, while the Kings are sputtering, losing four of five.
But he did so with the glee of a child gradually grasping a new language—stuttering and sputtering, repeating fragments and phrases while subtly stumbling upon more.
He also just made a few simple tweaks and turned the Broncos defense into a unit special enough to carry this sputtering offense to the Super Bowl.
Hopes for a congestion pricing plan, which has long been floated as a possible source of long-term funding for the sputtering subway system, were largely dashed.
The opposition Congress Party is trying to sway the conversation back toward domestic issues, like the sputtering economy and a spike in hate crimes against minority groups.
Sputtering and high-strung, April tiptoes up to the edge of self-assertion, and then falls backward into a familiar pit of shame, self-doubt and frustration.
Steyer exited the race after he failed to claim victory in South Carolina, a state he invested heavily in, hoping it would turn around his sputtering run.
Then we're looking at a period measured in months during which the global supply chain is sputtering, and a significant fraction of the population is self-isolating.
"I've always wanted to play 'til the wheels fall off," he said then — and now, after leaving the sputtering Tigers, he will soon be rolling into October.
MOSCOW — Its economy, already smaller than Italy's, may be sputtering but, two decades after a virtually unknown former K.G.B. spy took power in the Kremlin on Dec.
As the California senator crisscrosses the country trying to revive her sputtering presidential bid, aides at her fast-shrinking headquarters are deep into the finger-pointing stages.
We rode in a long wooden dugout canoe known as a peke-peke , its name derived from the sputtering noise of its motor, a Briggs & Stratton outboard.
Iranians first took to the streets last week to vent their anger over the nation's sputtering economy, but the protests soon widened to grievances against Iranian officials.
Damon added several layers of ridicule to Kavanaugh's angry, aggressive testimony before the Senate, presenting him as a sputtering, sniffing, weeping, beer-loving caricature of judicial temperament.
But in a time of record-high polarization and resulting gridlock, being a member of Congress feels more like being a powerless cog in a sputtering machine.
North Korea is mad that Bolton effectively blamed Pyongyang for the sputtering nuclear talks and because the US continues to restrict North Korea's interactions with the world.
"In a world where we have rising college costs and rising student debt," he said, "it raises questions about whether or not that engine may be sputtering out."
The Jets scored fewer than 17 points in each of their losses and appeared headed for another sputtering effort when they entered the second quarter down 7-0.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)A week before CES, I finally pulled the trigger and swapped my SIM card from my sputtering iPhone 21000S to a new BlackBerry Key23.
Microsoft's Kinect had a rapid ascent and slow, sputtering demise — it was an inelegant end, as the company couldn't find a permanent spot for the once revolutionary accessory.
Along with being one of the last, stalwart defenders of alcohol and tobacco, Heartland has carried the sputtering torch of climate denial through the long, dark Obama years.
In any case, such accounting tricks will not improve the long-term health of Russia's economy, still sputtering under the pressure of Western sanctions and depressed oil prices.
But the sounds heard are mostly those of objects, of giant tarpaulins being winched taut or slackened, of bowls bowed or tapped, of sputtering cranks turned by hand.
An unforeseen medical bill or a broken-down car or a sputtering furnace is a legitimate emergency; a sale at Macy's or the latest smartphone upgrade is not.
The New York Yankees flexed their muscle in order to ignite their sputtering offense while the reigning world-champion Kansas City Royals continue to spiral out of control.
New York is 9-for-16 on the power play in its last four games after sputtering out of the blocks with a 2-for-33 conversation rate.
But some folks decided that Russia must be behind it because Russia, a moderately powerful state with a sputtering economy, is behind everything bad in America these days.
Both coaches have tried to play down the tension, Guardiola positively sputtering when he was told they represented a Premier League version of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
The book's sputtering, flinching style, with its syntactical dead ends and missed connections, feels like both an accommodation to the necessity of language and proof of its inadequacy.
Muammar el-Qaddafi's eccentric 42-year rule, is sputtering dry: Oil production has slumped, the currency is crashing, and the Central Bank's cash reserves are running perilously low.
These onslaughts of rhetoric aimed at his opposition mostly leave his antagonists sputtering in response, but I don't think an in-kind response will be very effective either.
In the crater, a central dome called Cerealia Facula is thought have been formed by icy lava sputtering up through fractures, possibly pushed by gases in the brine.
"He turned me down/I then downturned another/who then downturned her," she sings, over chords built from flutes, and bursts of sputtering percussion hinting distantly at techno.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is no stranger to international summits, but she enters this one as something of a lame duck and with an economy that's sputtering ominously.
In 2011, the year Mr. Niccol joined Taco Bell to work on marketing and product innovation, the chain struggled with its own public image problem and sputtering sales.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who will present the annual budget to parliament on Saturday, is widely expected to announce a slew of measures of support sputtering economic growth.
He said Russia was aware that relations with the United States were sputtering against an "abnormal background" and all the "noise" raised about the nature of those relations.
The Indianapolis Colts are banking that the return of quarterback Andrew Luck can put the sputtering team on the fast track to the top of the AFC South.
He said players play through minor aches and pains often, but he said the Mets believed it was necessary to have Cespedes's potent bat in a sputtering lineup.
If he had sounded worried that growth was sputtering, that could have meant that the bank would take longer than expected to wean the eurozone off monetary stimulus.
AirPods are trash — after about two years, when the tiny battery in each one begins to die, and your $159 pair of earphones start sputtering out in minutes.
Everyone knows that Republicans have political problems, from their failure to repeal Obamacare to President Trump's erratic tweets to his sputtering efforts to make populism a governing philosophy.
On Anya's Garden, his 2015 EP for UNO NYC, sputtering noise tracks collide with bombed-out synth landscapes, composed orchestration, and splintered ballads, all desperate unease and hesitant joy.
For his trouble, the New Jersey governor was named head of Trump's transition team, a job he worked at quietly as the campaign seemed to be sputtering toward defeat.
He said his government would be guided by the promises he made to Brazilian voters fed up with graft, high levels of violent crime and a still-sputtering economy.
They have earned around $29,2135 since they started the work in September, only enough to pay for food and, if they have money left, gas for their sputtering generator.
The New York Mets have seen a rash of injuries and a sputtering offense create quite the obstacle in their bid to gain ground in the National League East.
"The pundits on bubblevision seem to make their living staring at the hood instead of checking out the engine ... which is sputtering from a real income perspective," he wrote.
China's economy grew at a steady 6.4 percent pace in the first quarter, beating the market consensus, which helped to relieve some investor anxiety over the sputtering global economy.
Gane is an admitted fan, and so it should come as no surprise that the track's sputtering rhythm and fluttering noise recall the timeless "Hallogallo," from the 251 Neu!
With retail stocks sputtering — The SPDR S&P Retail ETF is down 4% over twelve months — it's no wonder retailers are turning to AI technology as a potential lifeline.
When asked about the leak in a Swedish television interview on Monday, Gunnlaugsson had a very hard time, sputtering for a few moments before stomping out of the interview.
But liberating this incredible content from SoundCloud's clunky and sputtering interface and rolling it into Spotify's polished apps alongside the official music people expect could be a winning combination.
China's currency CNY=CFXS will continue to face depreciation pressure this year, a result of both a sputtering economy and the central bank's foreign exchange reform plans, Zhang said.
Back in the sputtering Soviet-era Lada that served as our taxi, we headed to another agromercado, where the tomatoes — more green than red — were 15 cents a pound.
Together with BOJ's "tankan" survey, the data raises worries that the "Abenomics" stimulus program is sputtering just as the government and the central bank wanted to tap the brakes.
There's something vaguely liturgical about the whole affair, like sitting in a cold room at night, staring at a sputtering candle and thinking of someone who is far away.
It is worth noting that interest rates were kept at near zero for the establishment's beloved President Obama, and he still could not get the economy to stop sputtering.
Investors are now hoping for new stimulus efforts from the Bank of Japan, which is expected to vote Friday on expanding monetary policy measures aimed at reviving sputtering growth.
But the planned strike raised the specter of stoppages and protests spreading to other sectors as Brazilians vent frustrations with a deeply unpopular government and a still-sputtering economy.
In this corner: The Wild (20153-25-8, 106 points, +57), who looked like a Presidents' Trophy contender for much of the season before sputtering over the final month.
In response, there is some sputtering about political correctness and thought police, which tends to be the reaction to even the most judicious and sympathetic acts of feminist criticism.
To make Foreman come unhinged, to reduce an audience or a nation to haters sputtering with anger, to incite something, and then stand back and watch people reveal themselves.
Car trouble: Tariff costs and sputtering demand led to skidding overseas sales at Ford and at Hyundai, which posted its first quarterly net loss in at least eight years.
Mr. Hedayati dialed in to the program, sputtering with rage; he denied borrowing from Sarmayeh and threated to "sue everyone," but has yet to follow through on the threat.
West Brom's attendance has been sputtering for 18 months, slipping from an average of just over 25,000 in the season he joined to 23,403 in the 2016-17 season.
Their main arguments were roughly the same: an independent Kurdistan will only throw a proverbial wrench into the already sputtering — if not flaming — political machinery of the Middle East.
The sputtering Sabres also have blown third-period leads in three of their last five games, with the frustration reaching a boiling point for second-year forward Jack Eichel.
Then we were off, dipping and diving through the forest on the sputtering bike as the sun rose higher in the sky, rushing to make the boat to Corcovado.
Russia is playing a weak hand geopolitically—its economy is sputtering along and its population shrinking—and so its greatest hope is to stoke internal discord in the West.
Josef Ackermann, the bank's chief executive, had publicly promised soaring profits, and with many of the company's businesses sputtering, the investment-banking group was under intense pressure to grow.
And if nothing else, Mr. Lithgow has created a memorable Donald Trump: sputtering, indignant, blasting out rivers of verbiage in the hope of sailing away on them to safety.
In most anyone else's hands, getting drunk, stumbling onto an open mic stage, and sputtering confused outrage about getting dumped just hours before would be an undeniable low point.
WEAK DEMAND AT HOME AS WELL May import data is expected to show domestic demand is still sputtering despite a raft of growth boosting measures rolled out since last year.
The suddenly sputtering Astros look to get back on track Tuesday, when they host the Lone Star State-rival Texas Rangers for the second contest of their three-game series.
Stocks are sputtering out of the longest bull market since World War II and investors are worried about a dampening global economic picture, trade uncertainty, and a U.S. government shutdown.
The walk-off win enabled the Rockies to finish their homestand with a 5-193 record and left the Giants sputtering in the second half despite showing some offensive life.
Another heartening detail was that only about 20 percent of roaches in New York can fly—and even then, it's less of a flight and more of a sputtering glide.
Central Florida was one of the country's fastest-growing regions even before the disasters as Puerto Ricans fleeing a sputtering economy flocked here for jobs in the booming tourist trade.
Rivian also seized on the misfortune of the sputtering Faraday Future, hiring at least 34 employees after the EV startup furloughed and laid off hundreds of workers in late 2018.
Pakistan's sputtering economy has rebounded since Sharif was elected in 2013 and security has vastly improved amid greater efforts by the army to tackle militants such as the Pakistani Taliban.
For all the talk from the GOP about taking allegations seriously if they come with evidence, the party is sputtering when a "credible" — by their own benchmarks — survivor comes forward.
The plant closures and layoffs, combined with a sputtering stock market and rising interests rates, appear to have sparked fears of an economic downturn and prompted Trump to lash out.
Mets 21, Braves 0 | 11 Innings ATLANTA — The Mets' sputtering offense was transformed last summer through trades, the return of injured players and the promotion of a top outfield prospect.
With a sputtering economy and a declining population — the island has lost about 10 percent of its population to the mainland over the last decade — business and industry was faltering.
The sputtering Coyotes, who earned their only point in a shootout loss to expansion Vegas, suffered their sixth consecutive regulation defeat in a 2383-2238 loss to Chicago on Saturday.
The intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha is a good beginning, even though there is a greater probability of sputtering out with no deal than ending in a conflict-ending accord.
The unit's actions are also seen as a tactic to frustrate President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to bring wealthy and knowledgeable expatriates back to Iran to help revive its sputtering economy.
When the Beastie Boys burst onto the scene in 1986, the three nasally, white, boy rappers from New York City had only recently abandoned a sputtering career in punk rock.
The transit agency, which is still struggling to fix New York's sputtering subway, needs an influx of new funding to avoid serious consequences for subway and bus riders, officials said.
The Belarusian economy is sputtering with rising inflation and rising energy prices as Russia has been putting the squeeze on the country to keep it in the Russian political orbit.
Moscow dispatch Its economy is sputtering and its young people are frustrated, but with America and Europe in tumult, Russia and its leader of two decades are on a roll.
So between trying to fend off Russia, corrupt politicians, rumors about his ties to oligarchs, and a sputtering economy, being sucked into Trump's troubles was the last thing Zelensky needed.
All of this has occurred amid a bleak backdrop for Japanese equities, as confidence has been sapped by worries over a sputtering economy, anemic inflation, weak external trade and sluggish consumption.
Under questioning from House members frustrated over the sputtering anti-Islamic State campaign, McGurk said the United States and its allies were making progress against the group, but face major challenges.
In a turbulent market, or worse still, a sputtering financial system, the precious metal becomes that much more precious in a market offering less and less in the way of yield.
"Presumably, one option involves agitating for a sale if the company's value enhancement plan shows even a hint of sputtering," said Don Bilson, head of event-driven research at Gordon Haskett.
Minnesota fans hope Suter's assessment rings true as the sputtering Wild look to snap a seven-game losing skid (0-5-2) when they host the Boston Bruins on Saturday afternoon.
Remarkably, it has visual wit and a human touch, no small achievement for a seemingly indestructible machine that revved up 40 years ago and shows no signs of sputtering out (ever).
North Korea fired off a few projectiles on Friday night — setting off a chaotic half-day where it seemed the sputtering relationships among Washington, Seoul, and Pyongyang could come crashing down.
Trade-focused Asia appears to be suffering the most visible loss of momentum so far, but the euro zone economy is stuck in low gear and many emerging markets are sputtering.
The Dolphins look to ignite a sputtering offense against a team that has had little difficulty in that regard in the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at Wembley Stadium in London.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Profit growth at firms directly owned by China's central government slowed to the low single digits in the second quarter, hit by a cooling economy and sputtering global trade.
It has been eight years since our housing market bubble burst, and despite a "recovery" presided over by President Obama, the U.S. economy is still sputtering instead of picking up steam.
ET, FSN Florida (Orlando), FSN Southeast (Memphis) ABOUT THE MAGIC (7-11): Orlando was sputtering along before the win in San Antonio, which is easily the team's best of the season.
In part because of surging U.S. energy output, Russia's economy is sputtering, and the Russian people's confidence in Vladimir Putin has plummeted to its lowest level in more than a decade.
Katowice, Poland (CNN)The UN climate talks in Poland -- an attempt to save the world from disastrous levels of global warming -- are sputtering toward a conclusion after two weeks of discord.
Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders will likely spend the week in their respective home states, but political eyes will be watching Sanders for any announcement on his sputtering campaign.
This is all happening as the traditional media industry scrambles to contend with a struggling film business and sputtering cable networks, which have been buffeted by viewership declines and subscriber erosion.
But aside from Tanaka, Yankees Manager Aaron Boone has been aggressive in pulling sputtering starters this postseason to turn the game over to his bullpen, the strength of the pitching staff.
Democrats' push for witnesses appeared to be sputtering in recent days, with even the small number of Senate Republicans open to calling for new evidence responding skeptically to the House's case.
At home, Iranians are frustrated with an economy that's sputtering under U.S. sanctions, while protesters in Iraq and Lebanon are objecting, among other things, to Tehran's sway over their own governments.
It would be a big victory for Biden that could restart a presidential campaign that was left sputtering about dismal performances in Iowa's caucuses and New Hampshire's primary earlier this month.
LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - For all the angst about trade wars, geopolitics and a sputtering and overly indebted global economy, 2019 might just be the best year investors have ever had.
In Representative Adam Kinzinger's district, a Republican seat in a largely rural area outside Chicago, even conservative voters voiced unease with Mr. Kinzinger and his party's sputtering approach to health care.
Remarkably, it has visual wit and a human touch, no small achievement for a seemingly indestructible machine that revved up 40 years ago and shows no signs of sputtering out (ever).
In such a setting, cans of paint would be attached to the vehicle's propeller blades, releasing their colorful contents in a sputtering, splattering frenzy as the propeller rotated with increasing speed.
The biz play Energica, Alta, and Zero face their own steep climbs to profitability—and the e-moto space has already seen two flops in Mission Motorcycles' collapse and Brammo sputtering out.
The group, which remains outside the country's sputtering peace process, has the stated aim of establishing an independent Islamic state on the southern island of Mindanao, on which Davao City is located.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, buoyed by rising poll numbers and a sputtering Donald Trump campaign, are using August to raise tens of millions of dollars in cash before the fall sprint.
The Minnesota Wild attempt to get their sputtering offense going and stay alive in their Western Conference first-round series when they visit the St. Louis Blues for Game 4 on Wednesday.
Then, after about a week, the headphone jack started sputtering—half the time the tablet couldn't recognize I had headphones plugged in, the other half I was subjected to lots of crackling.
The Olympics always end with a disconcerting whimper, the medals frenzy peaking somewhere in the middle of week two and the last events sputtering out across an eerily calm final few days.
Even with the record label hovering over the band's shoulder, "Can't Stand It" failed the Goo Goo Dolls test, sputtering on the radio stations it was meant to storm (it never charted).
Mid-budget movies — "Motherless Brooklyn" cost about $25 million to make, not including marketing — have been sputtering in theatrical release, prompting studios to avoid them entirely or reroute them to streaming services.
Sanders introduced his bill on the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which injected $424 billion into sputtering banks to stave off a global financial meltdown.
Former congressman Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) blames conservatives in general and Trump in particular for the killings — even as he simultaneously sends out pleas for donations to salvage his sputtering presidential campaign.
But when such lines are delivered with the sputtering frenzy that accompanies them here, they come to seem less like a reflection of the unspeakable than a by-product of uncontrolled rage.
On our return, I scooped up one of those balloon-size sake bottles off the blue tarp, and tilted it back with the rank and file until we were all sputtering alcohol.
Mr. Huebner and the violinist Quan Ge then played Martijn Padding's "Mordants," an agitated, rhapsodic duo titled for the musical ornament (a three-note squiggle) that this sputtering, skittish piece explores obsessively.
These are some of the improvements New York City's long-suffering bus riders were promised on Monday as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a plan to turn around the sputtering bus system.
The Jailer (the bass-baritone Eric Owens drawing upon the most gravelly qualities of his powerful voice) arrives, sputtering commands at the prisoners amid muttered comments on the cold bleakness around him.
"It has visual wit and a human touch, no small achievement for a seemingly indestructible machine that revved up 40 years ago and shows no signs of sputtering out (ever)," she writes.
Germany's industrial engine, which exports high-end autos and industrial equipment to China, is sputtering and dragging on European growth, and Japan's economy — the world's third largest — contracted in the third quarter.
Darnold tried to rally his sputtering team from a 6-3 deficit, but after a punt he took a high snap and made an ill-advised throw to tight end Eric Tomlinson.
Not a disciplined, unified response to a crisis from this White House; instead, an unhinged president issuing feeble edicts from his bed, many of which could cause a sputtering economy to spiral.
Houston was sputtering back to life — some restaurants were open and buses were running — and school officials were assessing the damage ahead of a delayed first day of school on Sept. 11.
Mr. Levit's interpretation was permeated by wariness, a sense of repression that occasionally exploded — as in the fugue in E minor, the almost sputtering effusion of a man finally finding his voice.
"A combination of a post-tax hike decline in demand and a sputtering global economy will clearly exert downward pressure on Japan's economy," said Yoshimasa Maruyama, chief economist at SMBC Nikko Securities.
The lack of liquidity in private company shares means that funds have an easier time swapping out holdings in public companies, and that can amplify a fund&aposs exposure to sputtering startups.
Meanwhile, the dollar fell to a three-year low against its peers, with an earlier bounce sputtering as the euro edged back after shaking off a potentially negative turn in German politics.
The U.S. economy continues to show signs of recovery even as China and euro-zone countries struggle to spark their sputtering economic growth engines, pushing central banks to adopt diverging monetary policies.
Both chambers are far behind on the appropriations process compared to last year, when the federal government was sent sputtering into a month-long shutdown because of disagreement over Trump's border wall.
Japan's "Abenomics" stimulus program appears to be reaching a turning point as growth is sputtering and the hit to exports from slowing global demand is spreading to various sectors of the economy.
Pakistan is largely shielded by its alliance with China, which has used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to protect it, while propping up Pakistan's sputtering, increasingly isolated economy.
In some sections, like the eclectic opening of the Requiem Aeternam, you also hear echoes of Minimalism, especially the insistent riffs in the harps, which soon provoke the voices into agitated sputtering.
The two leaders of the EU see in each other an ally for tuning up the sputtering motors of the Union – in the economy, in political heft and in standing in the world.
But F Is for Family's spin on the type is defined as much by his sputtering frustration and total lack of confidence in himself and his abilities as it is by his anger.
The massively popular eighth episode in the Fast and Furious franchise earned $19.4 million this weekend from 1503,077 locations, placing it securely in first place during a sputtering weekend, anticipating the summer season.
U.S. factory output expanded in April as makers of machinery and cars posted solid increases in production, a sign that the country's manufacturing sector was resisting the downward pull from sputtering global growth.
"Our credit-based financial system is sputtering, and risk assets are reflecting that reality even if most players (including central banks) have little clue as to how the game is played," Gross said.
Why it matters: A sputtering economy and an uncharacteristically united opposition unleashed a tide of opposition victories in municipal elections across the country Sunday that were widely seen as a referendum on Erdogan.
Unlike that show's deft interweaving of narrative threads, however, The Walking Dead likes to spend entire episodes focused on a single storyline, leaving main characters sputtering in place and viewers hungry for action.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. central bankers are done raising domestic interest rates amid signals from Asia and Europe that global economic growth is sputtering, according to RBC Wealth Management's lead fixed-income strategist.
Growth in Australia's $1.3 trillion economy is sputtering, with signs that domestic activity likely slowed in the three months ended March to an annual 1.7%, the weakest since the 2008 global financial crisis.
Admiral Boom (David Warner) still presides over Cherry Tree Lane with militant neurosis, and he still possesses a baffling cache of gunpowder and weaponry, but he is mercifully no longer sputtering racial epithets.
This summer, it looked as if the world was ending — economic data was sputtering, the stock market was whipsawing, and it felt as if the US Treasury yield curve would remain inverted forever.
In contrast, Michael Siberry, who plays her white-shoed love interest, is a blustery, sputtering figure, a persona that feels out of sync with the old-order propriety he is meant to embody.
I pan-fried sausages to eat with salad and toast, carrying the pan full of sputtering fat across the room so I could see under the good light whether the meat was done.
At moments, the mini-series feels like dreamy steampunk thanks to sputtering machinery and fussy mustaches — and Santos-Dumont's own interest in Jules Verne — but it's more of a romantically composed period piece.
China's new home prices grew at their weakest pace in 23 months in December, with broader curbs on the sector continuing to cool the market in a further blow to the sputtering economy.
Josh Donaldson's two-run homer — his second in as many days — in the first inning was all the offense the Blue Jays needed to send sputtering Tampa Bay to its fourth consecutive loss.
A sputtering economy, one of Namibia's worst-ever droughts and the biggest corruption scandal in its history have conspired to make this election unexpectedly tough for Geingob, who won by 87% last time.
Because the Denver offense was sputtering, there was little risk in not recovering the onside kick, while getting the ball right back would have created a chance to seize the momentum of the contest.
Investment bankers predict that offerings of well-tested government assets and cheap money will lure conservative-minded long-term investors into deals, even as a sputtering Chinese economy hits demand for Australia's natural resources.
Trade-focused Asia appears to be suffering the most visible loss of momentum so far, with activity shrinking in China, although European economies are stuck in low gear and many emerging markets are sputtering.
In Argentina, where the company says it was hardest hit, the country's peso has hit a record low amid a financial crisis marked by high inflation, sputtering economic growth and an outflow of capital.
By the latter stages of the debate, Trump had been reduced to virtual incoherence, sputtering a defense of his claim to have opposed the Iraq War by repeatedly invoking Sean Hannity as a witness.
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (IFR) - Charter Communications gave the sputtering US junk-bond market a welcome boost this week by selling a US$1.7bn issue that was mostly driven by reverse enquiry from investors.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Airbnb is rolling out new services aimed at attracting travelers looking for luxury accommodations and traditional hotels, the latest move to contend with sputtering growth in its original home-renting business.
Ever since Twitter pulled the plug on the Vine social network and left us with a sputtering Vine Camera, bereft fans has wondered what to do with all the extra time on their hands.
Brazilian markets, also feeling the heat from a sputtering economic recovery and global growth jitters, fell sharply on Wednesday, in the latest sign the government's signature pension reform plan faces an increasingly uphill battle.
All in all, it's shaping up to be a solid holiday season for the gaming giant, after some sputtering, particularly in light of the fact that the Nintendo Switch is still on the horizon.
CARACAS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government decreed on Friday a 60-day "economic emergency" for the recession-hit OPEC reeling from low oil prices and a sputtering state-led economic model.
Analysts say a sharp drop in the yuan currency this week may offer only limited help for Chinese exporters, who are facing additional U.S. levies next month, shrinking profit margins, and sputtering demand worldwide.
After Cubs Manager Joe Maddon pulled his sputtering starter, Kyle Hendricks, in the sixth inning, he turned the ball over to reliever Carl Edwards Jr., who has epitomized the team's struggling bullpen this October.
He has established one set routine: the daily coronavirus briefing, where he has sparred with reporters and declared himself a "wartime president" in a somewhat sputtering bid to accompany the nation through the crisis.
The pipeline is sputtering even as some 153 million people tried golf for the first time in 215, the fourth consecutive year that the number of beginners increased, according to the National Golf Foundation.
During its nearly seven minutes, "Ducter" alternates between an insistent, minimal guitar vamp — with drums sputtering and erupting behind it — and a seething grunge guitar buildup that starts out slow and soon boils over.
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank took control of a troubled Italian bank Wednesday, an unprecedented step that spotlighted the risks to the eurozone's financial system from political chaos in Rome and a sputtering economy.
Several more feet and Sanchez's ball would have dropped into the stands, the narrative would have been flipped and Boone would have perhaps faced less criticism about leaving a sputtering Sabathia in too long.
"Binary risks around growth are intensifying as a protectionist U.S. puts the key exports engine at the risk of sputtering abruptly," said Mizuho's Vishnu Varathan in regional economic quarterly research published on Aug. 7.
Minnesota addressed its sputtering running game by selecting Florida State's Dalvin Cook in the second round of the 12.5 draft and acquiring Latavius Murray in the offseason, shortly after Peterson bolted to the Bayou.
Constant infighting As Harris' jump in the polls steadily gave way over the summer, senior aides within the Baltimore-based campaign began to search frantically for a message that would reinvigorate the sputtering campaign.
The inconvenient truth is that the Clippers offense was sputtering from their overthink long before Chris Paul's hand got caught in a jersey (although Griffin playing on one leg certainly contributed to their struggles).
Venezuela's socialist government decreed an "economic emergency" on Friday and published the first data in a year showing the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model.
Japan's economic expansion under the stimulus policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sputtering just as it vies to become the country's longest postwar boom, with export demand slumping in major markets, especially China.
He was sputtering on the final lap, working his clutch and getting screamed at by team co-owner Bryan Herta to conserve fuel, and he ultimately ran out of gas after taking the checkered flag.
And the legend knows he's sputtering, you can see it in his eyes and his gait, but he can't let it go, no matter how many times he comes up short of his past standards.
Sputtering electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has fired dozens of employees who have been on unpaid leave for months, including manufacturing workers hired to staff the company's factory in Hanford, California, The Verge has learned.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Central banks' repeated warnings that there are limits to what they can do to bolster the sputtering world economy could suggest they are about to pull back and pass the baton to governments.
However, the shift toward electric cars, a sputtering global economy and rising costs to keep combustion engines clean have hit car industry margins hard, forcing even profitable businesses like Daimler to renew cost-cutting efforts.
Uncertainty about the government's fiscal reforms and concerns about a global slowdown have kept the bank's monetary policy committee, known as Copom, in a holding position, but policymakers flagged growing concern about sputtering domestic growth.
Where immediately after the election Republicans could hope to hide behind abstraction and the false promise of a pristine replacement bill, their sputtering efforts to legislate health care in the interim have completely denuded them.
The Magic are still sputtering, mired at 224-20183 after Sunday's play and ranked a dismal 22018th in offensive efficiency (at 23 points per 21989 possessions) after last season's playoff breakthrough as Southeast Division champions.
Even if you're not sure what all of this means, it's easy to see how this information — sputtering engines, faulty parts — was sensational enough to make the Wall Street Journal front page, which it did.
A sputtering global economy and strong dollar have already caused earnings of U.S. companies to shrink and many investors want the Fed to hold off raising rates until after its meetings in April and June.
A peek at the position of the Mets in the National League East after a three-game sweep at the hands of the lowly Atlanta Braves reveals a sputtering team with much work to do.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose campaign has appeared to click into gear after months of post-DNA-test sputtering, has an odd edge: She, unlike any of the other contenders, used to be a Republican.
But with data ranging from consumer spending to housing and industrial production suggesting the economy has regained speed after sputtering in the first half of the year, most economists expect another rate hike in December.
He has been a startling and singular drummer in the jazz avant-garde for more than 20 years, and while his style has evolved, it retains the odd, sputtering grace that first set him apart.
TOKYO, (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in seven months in September, a private business survey showed on Monday, in a tentative sign that the sputtering economy may be slowly regaining traction.
Instead, it's let a rotation of female hosts slip on a straight blonde wig and smile blandly into the camera, the sleeker, more polished member of the Trump family to Alec Baldwin's sputtering, pouting Donald.
Mets 4, Cubs 3 For at least one night, the savior of the Mets' sputtering and lethargic offense was a 13-year-old outfielder from Wyoming standing at second base with a wide-toothed smile.
The New York Mets and Washington Nationals will look to ignite their sputtering offenses at the other's expense on Monday when the National League East rivals open a three-game series in the nation's capital.
Analysts said Putin's motives could be more easily explained as an attempt to limit the damage from the dispute, while Trump's White House seems to be sputtering in confusion without any coherent policy toward Russia.
It is true that the global economy is sputtering, and that the stock market is in its worst pullback in a decade, with the Standard & Poor's 22008 index down more than 20153 percent since Sept.
Several economies in Latin America are either in recession or sputtering, which prompted the International Monetary Fund in July to cut its growth projection for the region from a meager 1.6 percent to a dismal .
Houston got an early touchdown from its defense and set up another critical score with a big punt return to give their sputtering offense an easy day during a 24-21 victory at EverBank Field.
The Florida Panthers are on their longest winning streak of the season and can wrap up a perfect homestand when they host the sputtering Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night in their final game of 2017.
Mexico has pursued a more state-led approach to the energy sector under Lopez Obrador, but some members of his administration believe attracting more private capital is vital for lifting growth in a sputtering economy.
Even remaining on the watchdog's gray list would have consequences, complicating Pakistan's ability to raise money on international markets at a time when its economy is sputtering and it is in dire need of loans.
Almost a year and a half later things aren't looking so rosy, with a sputtering Tory government and Johnson—like his adoring counterparts in the beleaguered Trump administration — increasingly linked to Russian subterfuge and meddling.
Venezuela&aposs meltdown has been accelerating under President Nicolas Maduro&aposs rule, prompting masses of people to abandon the nation in frustration at shortages of food and medicine, street violence, rampant blackouts — and now sputtering faucets.
Related: Boomtown Bust: How the Sputtering Oil and Gas Industry Is Destroying Men "We're averaging about 700 women and children per year in the city, and that's gone up at least 20 percent," said Lance Beswick.
Lately, though, he's become at least a skeptic, worried that multiple signs are pointing to a slowdown: Rosenberg worries that at a time when growth appears to be sputtering, the Fed is contemplating a rate hike.
Only a generation ago Myanmar was cut off from the world by despotic generals; Cambodia's 25-year-old civil war was still sputtering; and Vietnam was only just beginning to experiment with some timid market reforms.
Businesses that have been reluctant to make long-term bets when one or other of the engines of the world economy has been sputtering are now more willing to put their money to work (see Schumpeter).
Somebody listed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's president and military leader who rose to power in a 2014 coup, on the online auction site eBay in a failed bid to bail out the country's sputtering economy.
The breakneck pace of news during President Donald Trump's first 100 or so days in office has left many late-night comedians sputtering in bewildered rage — which makes the moments when they get quieter stand out.
It's not going to look like the sputtering, start-and-stop process in the House (if they're lucky), and Senate Republicans are likely to be more careful on the policies in replacing the Affordable Care Act.
The downbeat surveys bolstered the view that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reflationary policy dubbed "Abenomics" is sputtering, keeping the Bank of Japan under pressure to maintain or even ramp up its massive stimulus program, analysts say.
It might control the federal government but, as we've seen with the sputtering attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, it is devoid of a coherent governing program beyond redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich.
The complex, which is still in the planning stage and envisages building a stainless steel plant, a ferrochrome plant and a silicomanganese plant, is a much-needed vote of confidence in the sputtering South African economy.
By pushing what was once a sputtering art form to new heights, they are continuing to demonstrate that new things are possible, with aesthetics and stylistic choices that are different than any other modern animation studios.
Yes. There were tons of unexpected glitches—cutscenes would get wildly out of sync, some roads simply disappeared, the game would appear to freeze for nearly a minute, before sputtering back to life—but it ran.
Though that tactic lubricated the nation's industrialization, it also contributed to the excess that has buried the country in empty apartment blocks, mothballed cement plants and sputtering steel mills — all of which threaten the economy's stability.
Brady, the architect of six Super Bowl victories, failed to throw for a score as his sputtering offense snatched the win thanks to three field goals and a third-quarter touchdown thrown by receiver Julian Edelman.
Yet on Friday, finally back on the mound, Syndergaard looked a little rusty but allowed only one run in five innings in a 4-2 win over the Washington Nationals, who are also sputtering this season.
Wolfe describes how three die-hard Chomskyans penned an almost obsessively detailed rebuttal to Everett's claims about Pirahã in linguistics' flagship journal Language, making them seem like hapless, sputtering refugees from The Revenge of the Nerds.
Media outlets do seem to be looking for signs of weakness — there's more coverage of a sputtering campaign than one that is steadily chugging along in second place nationally (the latter is closer to the truth).
A day after the star right fielder Aaron Judge said the Yankees needed to learn from the mistakes of last year and capitalize on opportunities regardless of opponent, the Yankees featured uneven pitching and sputtering hitting.
Granted, the Red Sox have also been sputtering, but in the first matchup of the season between these disjointed rivals, the Yankees kept Boston's struggling ace, Chris Sale, on a losing streak and prevailed, 8-0.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO The first single from "Heavy Light," the forthcoming album by Meg Remy (who records as U.S. Girls) is like early-period Madonna sputtering out of a radio while an ESG concert is going on.
But he was first and foremost a stage actor, turning in memorable performances in both classical and modern fare, aided by a vocal dexterity that might find him booming in one scene, comically sputtering in another.
Convening talks five time zones east of Geneva — where talks have been sputtering along without progress for years — underscored what Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, described recently as a desire for a "post-West" international order.
The album erupts with "Midsummer New York," a straight-ahead rocker, then bumps up against "Mindtrain," a long, funk-rock romp in which Ono's sputtering, multi-tracked vocals ride the wave of a throbbing, driving beat.
We worked hard, hours on end in tobacco and cucumber fields and doing house renovations to turn our tin can of a trailer into a home, and rebuilding engines to keep our sputtering cars on the road.
Playing the back nine first at the links-style Erin Hills layout, Hadwin was sputtering along at two-over par through eight holes when he suddenly clicked into gear with a birdie at the par-five 18th.
VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian right-wing group stormed the stage during the performance of a play by Nobel prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek which featured refugees as actors, sputtering artificial blood and distributing flyers saying "multi-culturalism kills".
A sputtering offense has been an all-too-common occurrence for San Francisco, which has recorded a league-low 21 points per game and is at or near the bottom in the NFL in several offensive categories.
Since January, however, they have bounced back as volatility has fallen, delivering on balance returns more than twice as high as the mid-single-digit total returns from this year's sputtering U.S. equity and fixed-income markets.
Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo told reporters that he was "a little nervous" on how his sputtering team would be received on Tuesday when it opens a three-game homestand against the Central Division-rival Dallas Stars.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. factory output expanded in April as makers of machinery and cars posted solid increases in production, a sign that the country's manufacturing sector was resisting the downward pull from sputtering global growth.
There, a number of men huddled under the sputtering, scalding-hot spray were going to town on themselves as if having an audience of fellow inmates watch you masturbate were the most normal thing in the world.
The New York Islanders aim to improve upon their best home start to the season in 35 years on Tuesday when they welcome the return of former first-round pick Ryan Strome and the sputtering Edmonton Oilers.
Classicism, Romanticism, numbers and pornographic sgraffito pop up in a drawing titled "See Naples + Die," with the outline of a possible temple, a quote from Keats and crude, sputtering gunlike shapes that evoke Claes Oldenburg's early sculpture.
With a sputtering economy the top voter concern, Ecuadoreans will chose between continuing a decade of leftist rule or following several South American nations in shifting towards a more pro-business government as a commodities boom ends.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerians marched through the streets of Lagos calling for a change of government on Monday, a rare show of public dissent that reflected mounting anger over an absentee president and a sputtering economy.
Foreign exchange rates are determined by traders who compare currencies, many of which have been weakened by their own sputtering local economies and by central banks that have adopted near-zero or negative short-term interest rates.
Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City, said on Twitter that New Jersey should seek revenge by tolling New York drivers to pay for upgrades for New Jersey Transit, the state's sputtering commuter rail and bus network.
Data showed China's economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly 30 years in 2019 amid the trade war with the United States and sputtering investment, although positive industrial production and retail sales data supported risk sentiment.
Apple&aposs stock soared last year despite its iPhone sales sputtering, in part because investors could see that it wearables and services businesses were posting strong growth and becoming meaningful contributors to its top and bottom lines.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd forecast falling annual earnings at its Kmart discount department stores for the first time in a decade on Thursday, as a spending slowdown sounds an ominous warning for Australia's sputtering economy.
The same is true of AR apps: we've had sputtering attempts at making them a mainstream thing for at least a decade, and what's needed now is a leader to organize and systematize AR into a coherent system.
While Sharp is struggling to buy a goal of late, defenseman John Klingberg continued his offensive surge by netting his third overtime tally of the season on Tuesday to give Dallas a 225-232 win over sputtering Minnesota.
Japan is also expected to compile a supplementary budget to stimulate the sputtering economy, a move which is widely expected to be followed by further monetary easing by the Bank of Japan, all of which undercut the yen.
She tore into Biden's comments about segregationists and his record on busing in a way that left him sputtering onstage, and that carried the meta-message that she'd be able to confront Trump with the same cool precision.
Once Mattingly removed Garcia, Todd Frazier produced the Mets' first hit and from that point forward, the Mets took advantage of the Marlins' sputtering bullpen to complete the comeback and continue the team's spectacular start to the season.
"Our credit-based financial system is sputtering, and risk assets are reflecting that reality even if most players (including central banks) have little clue as to how the game is played," he said in his latest Investment Outlook.
Annual growth in the Philippines has stayed above 6 percent since the third quarter of 2015, as strong domestic demand, underpinned by remittances and low inflation, helped cushion the impact of sputtering global demand on the country's exports.
After sputtering in most polls, the breakout star of the summer has significantly narrowed the gap in national match-ups against Hillary Clinton, expanded his lead in New Hampshire and overtaken the former secretary of state in Iowa.
Mizuho Bank said in a note that India's growth "remains uninspiring, even if one of the brightest spots in Asia" as industrial momentum is sputtering and global demand continues to drag most of Asia into a manufacturing recession.
While the elites in the United States and Europe are currently swooning and pearl clutching, sputtering about how Trump is ruining relationships with allies near and far, this is all really about creating true alliances and true friendships.
He has vowed to level the playing field for small business and conglomerates and provide equal opportunity for youth from all backgrounds to inject fresh breath into an economy showing signs of sputtering weighed by injustice and corruption.
Like Chipotle, Taco Bell was suffering from sputtering sales and a public image problem when he joined the chain in 2011: A customer lawsuit, later withdrawn, accused Taco Bell of serving filling that was more filler than beef.
Think about it: Its economy is smaller than a sputtering Italy, its infrastructure is fracturing at the seams, the public is tiring of the kleptocrats, internal unrest is rife, and the military, despite Syrian bluster, is largely decaying.
They demanded and may win major concessions like a doubling of European aid to Turkey to assist the refugees and faster action on visas and the union membership talks, which have been sputtering on and off since 1987.
Melding her voice into the keyboard shimmer on "The Body is a Blade," shrinking her voice to a hushed whisper on "Till Death" to suit the strummed gravitas, she feels the electric energy sputtering deep in her bones.
Kim has many reasons to produce the new weaponry, ranging from his anger at military drills between the US and South Korea and the sputtering diplomatic efforts with America, as well as a desire to safeguard his regime.
The drive originated in California more than a year ago when Keith Kawamoto, a retired refinery mechanic, spotted a gray Nissan sedan from Kansas tagged "442 JAP" while sputtering in stop-and-go traffic in Culver City, Calif.
All of this glamour eventually faded, and the current state of Brighton Beach can be traced directly to the year 1979, when the first spate of Russian Jews came sputtering out of a hole in the Iron Curtain.
No sooner have you been stabbed by one of her thorns than you impulsively suck your fingertip to soothe it and are stricken by a bitterness so profound it sends you spitting and sputtering into the nearest sink.
In the opening scene, at a dinner party at the couple's apartment in which gossip is the stuff of history books, Terje describes meeting the Israeli statesman Yitzhak Rabin, who at first comes across as a sputtering clown.
SANTIAGO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Chile's Finance Minister announced on Monday $600 million in additional stimulus in an effort to kick-start the top copper producer's sputtering economy, which has suffered from a downturn in mining and global trade tensions.
The Vancouver Canucks are struggling to ignite a sputtering offense in the midst of a seven-game losing skid (0-6-1) after rallying to victory in the first three contests of their season-opening four-game winning streak.
Lil Pump temporarily revived West's sputtering run this summer with a naughty duet called "I Love It." This fall, West invited Pump to perform the single on "Saturday Night Live," where both dressed up in giant water-bottle costumes.
After a sputtering start to the U.S. Open that saw him drop the first set in his opening two matches in astonishingly submissive style, Federer had looked more like the silkly smooth Swiss maestro fans have come to expect.
SANTIAGO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Chile's central bank slashed the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 2.0% on Tuesday, its second major cut since June, citing a sputtering economy dogged by global trade tensions and plummeting copper prices.
Todd Gurley ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns to help the Los Angeles Rams overcome a sputtering start to beat the Detroit Lions, 30-16, on Sunday and clinch the N.F.C. West title for a second straight season.
His voters are now impatient for Bolsonaro to make good on ambitious promises to tackle graft and violent crime and revive an economy still sputtering after the collapse of a commodities boom led to Brazil's worst recession on record.
With Seahawks down by 4 points in the second quarter, a meeting of players from the sputtering offensive unit became heated, with receiver Doug Baldwin shoving the team's offensive line coach, Tom Cable, who had been addressing the players.
In New York City — Uber's largest United States market — the app has siphoned commuters from the sputtering subway and bus system, but more significantly it has all but vanquished the iconic yellow cab, plunging it into an existential crisis.
For now, the sputtering Mets, who overhauled their medical procedures after an injury-plagued 2017, have resisted placing outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who has a history of leg injuries, on the disabled list despite his hobbled movements on the field.
A sputtering offense continued to plague St. Louis on Sunday as it was shut out for the second time in four games following a 4-0 setback to Winnipeg in the back end of a home-and-home series.
His approval ratings, which surpassed 80 percent last year as he engaged in diplomacy with North Korea, have fallen below 50 percent, with the economy sputtering and talks between the North and the United States having shown little progress.
It doesn't feel radically removed from the music they were making before, nor from that of their peers, but it lends a tentative gentleness to the proceedings, like a malfunctioning old tape deck, sputtering along at a slower speed.
But nearly four months have gone by since Equifax disclosed its breach—41 days after the company discovered it—and the enthusiasm lawmakers initially displayed to address the lack of a federal law to protect consumers is clearly sputtering out.
Even if China and the United States agree on a trade deal in current talks, which is a tall order, analysts said it would be no panacea for the sputtering Chinese economy unless Beijing can galvanize weak investment and consumer demand.
Washington (CNN)A major outside group intended to serve as the political muscle behind Donald Trump's nascent presidency is sputtering and potentially splintering as tension tears the nonprofit further from its biggest donor, multiple sources close to the group told CNN.
A decade later, in London, Ono collaborated with the experimental-jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, using her voice as an impulsive, expressionistic instrument, whose raspy, sensuous, guttural, excited sounds seamlessly integrated with the sputtering, sighing and explosions of the band.
The two Los Angeles–based actors had started a channel in which they reacted to popular Hollywood movie and TV show trailers  —  already a popular genre on YouTube  —  last September, but nearly four months in, it was sputtering along at best.
Speculation is swirling that Abe may delay the tax hike to 10% and call a snap election for parliament's lower house to coincide with an upper house poll this summer, at a time when his "Abenomics" reflationary policy is sputtering.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Three-fourths of Japanese companies aren't raising annual bonuses this summer, a Reuters poll found, a sign many see growth sputtering in the world's third-largest economy as the U.S.-China trade war stokes fears of a global recession.
Export orders continued to fall, even as output increased for the first time in six months, backing expectations the Bank of Japan will need to offer more stimulus on top up its already massive easings to revive a sputtering economy.
ABOUT THE AVALANCHE (6-8-0): While Varlamov earned praise from both first-year coach Jared Bednar and teammates alike, a sputtering offense that has mustered just 13 goals in 33 outings (3-7-0) remains a cause for concern.
Leadership sources tell me they expect to seal yet another short-term funding deal to keep the government sputtering along while leaders of both parties try to compromise on the toughest items: defense spending, domestic spending levels, and an immigration deal.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank is widely expected to cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low on Wednesday, although economists are divided on the pace and depth of an easing cycle aimed at shoring up a sputtering economy.
His personal role in the Fourth of July festivities, which presidents have typically avoided (at least since a sputtering effort by Richard Nixon in 1970) so to not politicize them, suggests that the procession is more about Trump than anyone else.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's "Abenomics" stimulus program is sputtering just as the government and the central bank wanted to tap the brakes, heightening the chance they will be forced to fight the next economic downturn with a near-empty policy arsenal.
But its financing still relies on a hodgepodge of funds grudgingly contributed and newly withheld by every echelon of government, as the states and the feds continue to toss the big burdens of health care back and forth like sputtering firecrackers.
With the economy sputtering and price growth well short of the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target, a majority of economists expect the central bank to ease policy further next month alongside a planned review of its existing stimulus program.
Though I'm loathe to spend so much time on frame rate, especially as someone largely fine with games sputtering, the dynamic of your average Battlegrounds match, where the moments of quiet are punctuated by intense firefights, requires split-second decisions.
With no public events on his schedule for Friday, the President made a few sputtering attempts to drive his message on Twitter, beginning by quoting a report from a conservative newspaper saying prayer rugs had been found near the southern border.
Ride-hail apps have become a crucial backup option for New Yorkers swept up in the constant delays on the city's sputtering subway, as happened on Wednesday when signal problems again snarled train lines across a large swath of the city.
Fresh off 10 years of sputtering outrage in character as "Stephen Colbert," a conservative, Bill O'Reilly-esque news anchor known for seeing liberals as affronts against America, he seemed to have lost the teeth he bared on The Colbert Report.
Even in what is theoretically the most exclusive environment soccer has to offer, not every meeting can be finely balanced: Porto was missing its most potent forward, Vincent Aboubakar; Basel is sputtering domestically; Besiktas played for 75 minutes down a man.
But after three years of mismanagement and miscalculations, and after many cryptic tweets and mangled relationships, the Jackson era in New York came to a sputtering, unceremonious end on Wednesday when the Knicks announced that he was out as team president.
In a recent stint as international energy security minister under Prime Minister David Cameron, he saw the beginnings of what has turned out to be a sputtering effort to replicate the shale gas boom of the United States in Britain.
It was the third anniversary of his first travel ban, the impeachment drama was sputtering to an end and the starting gun for the 2020 election season was about to go off in Iowa (or, as it happened, to pathetically misfire).
LIL PEEP featuring Lil Tracy "Awful Things" (Lil Peep/First Access) Grungy guitars, sputtering trap beats and Lil Peep's raw-throated voice add up to a tormented, abrasive love song from the singer and rapper who died this year at 21.
The asset sales come during a growing financial squeeze on SoftBank and its $100 billion Vision Fund, which has recorded two consecutive quarters of losses as its tech bets fall short, with global economic growth sputtering due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The bleak readings on the health of the world's third-largest economy follow Japan's failure last week to win support from its global counterparts to weaken the strong yen, which Tokyo fears could do further damage to the sputtering economy.
Rising price pressures forced the Reserve Bank of India to hold interest rates steady in December after five cuts earlier in 2019 and could leave it with less room to ease policy in coming months to support the sputtering economy.
On Friday evening, three of us hiked out to the wooded site, set up two tents, somehow managed to get a good (alright, sputtering) fire going in a somewhat soggy pit, and finally settled down to enjoy a glass of wine.
Hoping to accomplish what several very well-financed presidential candidates, a host of sputtering Republicans, and Fox News have not, the magazine aims to halt Trump's momentum as he heads into the first primary contests with his lead as durable as ever.
ABOUT THE KINGS (38-34-7): Los Angeles has seen its sputtering 25th-ranked offense snake-bitten throughout much of the season before Nick Shore set a career high in assists (three) and points (four) in Tuesday's 33-4 win over Edmonton.
Each mid-April, you can almost hear the collective nationwide cursing and sputtering as millions of U.S. taxpayers come to the end of their tax-preparation software programs, hit their computer's Enter key and find they're nailed by the reviled alternative minimum tax.
Output grew for the first time in six months, but export orders fell again, bolstering expectations the Bank of Japan will need to offer more stimulus to revive the sputtering economy and that the Fed may be wary about hiking U.S. rates.
Speculation is swirling that Abe may delay the increase in the tax to 10% and call a snap election for parliament's lower house to coincide with an upper house poll this summer, at a time when his "Abenomics" reflationary policy is sputtering.
Killing Eve starts with a winking shot of Oh waking up screaming in bed — not, it's then revealed as her sputtering husband wakes up alongside her, because of traumatic dreams, but because she fell asleep on her arms after going to bed drunk.
The might of Laos' giant neighbor to the north is hard to miss in Vientiane: wealthy Chinese driving SUVs overtake tuk-tuks sputtering along the roads and Chinese-backed hotels sprout from noisy construction sites in one of Asia's most low-rise cities.
And while Clinton's super PACs have steadily raised checks of unlimited size and deployed their substantial resources on swing-state television, Trump's are still sputtering, failing to reel in large checks and ceding television airwaves for much of the summer to Clinton allies.
The postseason and the Red Wings have long since been synonymous, but a sputtering 26th-ranked offense and punchless 23th-ranked power play were too much to overcome as their 25-season playoff streak officially came to an end earlier this week.
Since the Fed's last meeting in December, when it raised its benchmark interest rate from record lows, oil prices have plunged, stocks have swung wildly, and investors have become more concerned that China's huge economy, a major driver of global growth, is sputtering.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sentiment in Japan's service sector hit a new low in June due to a stronger yen and weaker stock prices following Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union, adding to headaches for policymakers already worried about sputtering economic growth.
The catered buffet is lackluster (I took two bites of my limp meat pie and left it for dead) but one of the hosts, kneeling by a small vat of sputtering oil in the corner, asks if I want a freshly-fried corndog.
With the rest of the field struggling mightily to deal with cool weather and unusually stiff winds, McIlroy posted his second straight red-number round with a 1-under 71 on Friday to move within one shot of sputtering leader Jordan Spieth.
He rambled incoherently through lengthy segments of the debate, sputtering out falsehoods at his usual clip (he incorrectly claimed, among other things, that murders had spiked in New York City and that he never called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese).
He released a live video for the title track this week, and it sounds mammoth: there are at least three distinct phases being stretched out over 18 minutes here, moving from sputtering club music to Radiohead-like alt-rock to brooding soul.
While there's going to be plenty of time to break down what brought a phenomenon to a sputtering finish over these last two seasons, it's painfully easy to pick out the more obvious elements that made the series finale so ridiculously frustrating.
Yet his ability to accomplish this remains in doubt, given his tendency to hit back hard when challenged — sometimes to the point of sputtering, as he did when he came under attack at the first debate over his past insults of women.
When Mr. Bannon joined Mr. Trump's sputtering presidential campaign in August, he insisted to his friends that even if Mr. Trump lost, he could at least mitigate any damage to the nationalist movement, which he helped fuel as the head of Breitbart.
Business groups expressed relief that the negotiations between the United States and China appeared to be making progress after more than a year of sputtering, yet they acknowledged that the agreement fell short of the sweeping deal that Mr. Trump had promised.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sentiment in Japan's service sector hit a fresh low in May due to worries about oversupply in the housing market and a return to deflation, giving another worrying signal that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's strategy to reflate the economy is sputtering.
Zimbabwe is gripped by a severe U.S. dollar crunch, causing shortages of fuel, food and medicine and dashing hopes among citizens that the economy will quickly recover after years of sputtering under Robert Mugabe, who was removed after a coup in 2017.
But Buffett touches on perhaps the biggest running angst for Americans — the idea that "our economic machine is sputtering," exemplified by growth in gross domestic product that has been mired at about 1776 percent a year since the Great Recession ended in 22.7.
The might of Laos' giant neighbour to the north is hard to miss in Vientiane: wealthy Chinese driving SUVs overtake tuk-tuks sputtering along the roads and Chinese-backed hotels sprout from noisy construction sites in one of Asia's most low-rise cities.
CARACAS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Venezuela's bolivar currency weakened on Wednesday, sliding below the 1,000 per dollar threshold, according to website DolarToday, an 81 percent depreciation from a year ago as the country struggles under low oil prices and a sputtering state-led economic model.
"Manufacturing production has pivoted to the downside in the first quarter of the year, showing the revival in factories and output is sputtering for the first time since the Trump economics team took office," said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
Sputtering and unprofitable under its previous owners, the Post has expanded dramatically over the last six years, hiring hundreds of journalists, opening new bureaus, and staying cash positive—no small feat in the midst of what can only be described as a media apocalypse.
Mr. Hancock decided to work with them on the basis of a demo tape — a prototype of "Rockit," complete with scratching by D.ST. When a finished version of the track was played for executives at Mr. Hancock's label, Columbia, it met with sputtering disbelief.
Washington (CNN)The super PAC once envisioned to be the main advertising force behind Donald Trump is sputtering into the fall, beset by a pang of concern ever since Trump's campaign chief departed and as key donors spurn the group's appeals for last-minute checks.
CEO of RBAdvisors, and a former chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, Bernstein focuses on company profits at the sector level and said in the Reuters Global Markets Forum he sees no signs a rally that began last year in U.S. stocks is sputtering.
Because every so often, even ordinary people catch a glimpse of the rusting, sputtering, 20th-century machinery beneath the sleek facade of the global financial system, and Bitcoin is poised to do to that system what the Internet did to long-distance telephone calls.
Miley, who owns a 24-23 mark with a 4.25 ERA in six career starts against Cincinnati, is under the gun to produce after sputtering his way to a 6.17 ERA in 11 starts last season with Baltimore after being acquired at the trade deadline.
In interviews, lawyers who have tangled with Mr. Trump in court cases are sometimes reduced to sputtering, astonished rage, calling him "borderline pathological" and "the Michelangelo of deception" as they attempt to describe the ease with which Mr. Trump weaves his own versions of reality.
Spindly radio DJ Wells buckles under the heavy gear and needs to lie down for a spell — which could have seemed like an effective ploy for one-on-one time with our Bachelorette were he not sputtering for air and about to pass out.
Republican strategist Rick Wilson wrote in the Daily Beast: Like much of Trump's energy policy, their fetishization of coal seems to contain a weird, Rule 34-ish desire to see hearty men headed down-pit with pickaxes and wearing helmets with sputtering carbide lamps.
Suddenly, after more than three months of sporadic, sputtering baseball, these Yankees are playing as if they intend to have a say in the playoff chase after all, winning their fourth consecutive game in their division, a 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
Cincinnati Bengals (in London)One thing to know: The Rams schedule may have done them a favor, as just as their offense was sputtering out of control, they got dates with the Falcons and Bengals, the fourth- and second-worst defense in the NFL, respectively.
I became a one-armed man: By the time he was 2 months old, I could do almost any task with Zack cradled face down in the crook of my arm, where his own weight applied constant, soothing pressure to his sputtering digestive tract.
His sputtering descent may hold broader dangers for liberal democracy in Europe at a time when the French president — with his pro-free trade, pro-Europe policies — has set himself up as the opposing pole to the forces of nativism tearing at the European Union.
More cuts may be on the horizon given that inflation has cooled below the bank's own 3% target for the first time in three years, the economy has been sputtering for nearly a year, and two board members called for a more aggressive move.
More cuts may be on the horizon given that inflation has cooled below the bank's own 3% target for the first time in three years, the economy has been sputtering for nearly a year, and two board members called for a more aggressive move.
Japan is also seen compiling a supplementary budget to boost the sputtering economy, a move which is widely expected to be followed by further monetary easing by the Bank of Japan, all of which was keeping the yen on the back foot amid lower volumes in Europe.
The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel engines, and smoggy air of South America's major metropolises as one can get.
Mr Young, a leftist critic of American foreign policy, dwells at some length on the notion that simply allowing the sputtering civil war to rage might in the long term have yielded more effective state-building than peace talks mediated (and paid for) by the international community.
The populists and Labour have agreed to cut annual net migration by up to 30,000 people; to strengthen controls on the foreign purchase of farmland; and to renegotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a now-sputtering regional plan for free trade, to curb house-buying by foreigners.
Beijing's infrastructure splurge has helped revive Pakistan's sputtering economy, and deepening ties between the two nations have turned Pakistan into a key cog in China's grand plan to build a modern-day "Silk Road" of land and sea trade routes linking Asia with Europe and Africa.
This year, Mr. Murphy said, expanding the tax to those making more than $1 million would bring in $447 million in new revenue, helping pay for priorities like improving New Jersey Transit, the state's sputtering public transportation network, and paying down the state's enormous public pension obligations.
A mistake, real or perceived, in my copy could transform him into a sputtering tower of frustration, after which he would retreat to his office and run my story through his typewriter, while I sat outside at my own desk listening for the clatter of his keys.
The fury that met this suggestion was sputtering: For anyone not already immersed in constitutional law, being horrified by Anton's claims meant arguing in favor of something that had long been so obvious that it was easy to forget what made it obvious in the first place.
Over the past decade, hip-hop producer and composer of electronica Mike Volpe has been refining his minimalist ambient style: sputtering static, muffled keyboard melodies and occasional disembodied moans that coalesce into sluggish, blurry, immersive waves of sound, frozen and inexpressive, yet emit a mesmerizing pull.
And too many bad breaks for the Patriots, a team that features a terrific defense but a sputtering offense behind an aging Brady, who has averaged just 2110 yards on 213 percent passing in his last four games and who posted his lowest passer rating since 218.
Abercrombie has also struggled to reinvent itself after the departure of Mike Jeffries, the chief executive who transformed a sputtering sports brand into a staple of high school wardrobes in the 1990s, but had more recently been blamed for alienating customers through a variety of scandals.
The 36-year-old Boldin collected his third touchdown this season last Sunday and has eight scores in his last five encounters with Washington while Tate erupted after a sputtering start to haul in eight catches for 165 yards and a touchdown versus Philadelphia last week. 1.
Anything short of outright victory in the Hawkeye State and New Hampshire, which Sanders won handily in 2016, could send his campaign sputtering into what are expected to be more challenging competitions in Nevada, South Carolina and California, which moved its primary up to Super Tuesday.
The central portion of 13, a viaduct that carries the highway up and over several busy roads and freight-train tracks, is a fitting symbol of the shabby state of so much infrastructure in the New York region, from its sputtering subway to its delay-plagued airports.
With the same barely-there kicks and sputtering synths that he started utilizing decades ago—and that so many lesser producers have attempted to harness since—he succeeds in making you feel the naive wonderment of a child who's suddenly happened upon David Blaine on the street.
Lam also said Hong Kong would aim to double expenditure on research and development over the next five years, to 1.5 percent of annual GDP from 0.73 percent, in a bid to bolster its sputtering tech prospects with neighboring Chinese city Shenzhen having galloped ahead in recent years.
"Net, net, business investment in the future is sputtering at the start of the second quarter as uncertainty and geopolitical risks are a heavy anchor that appears to be a big drag on companies' willingness to order up new equipment," said Chris Rupkey, MUFG Union Bank chief financial economist.
The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for AliensThe science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien…Read more ReadTo figure out what's really going on with this star, we need to catch it in the act of sputtering.
In that way, the sputtering drive to repeal the health care law encapsulated the larger Republican struggle to adapt their historic small-government ideology to the material interests of their modern political coalition, which revolves around older and blue-collar whites who often rely on government safety net programs.
Japanese officials have threatened in recent weeks to intervene in foreign exchange markets as the yen bolted to 18-month highs, but they failed last week to win assent from global partners to weaken the strong currency, which Tokyo fears could do further damage to the sputtering economy.
CASCO, Me. — Kevin Hancock, chief executive of his family's lumber company, thought things could not possibly get worse: The housing market was sputtering, hundreds of lumberyards had shut down and his company had to resort to painful cuts, hiring freezes and layoffs at its sawmills and retail stores.
Soft Sounds from Another Planet features hissy electric noise, hypnotic guitar riffs, static crackling and sputtering at odd intervals, fashioned into comelier shapes and placed into a dichotomy with, or perhaps just made to coexist next to, sheets of synthesizer shimmer, glistening keyboard light, and thick electronic texture.
Right now, the right's messaging machine is sputtering a bit, cycling through defenses — it didn't happen, Trump's not competent enough to do it, it was a failed quid pro quo so it doesn't count, he did it but it's not impeachable — that contradict one another from day to day.
The #MeToo movement happened to arrive at the same time as sweeping consolidation, driven by business realities beyond the box office, including the sputtering of what has long been the entertainment industry's engine: cable TV. Within the last year, AT&T completed its $85.4 billion takeover of Warner Bros.
Like the old New Yorker cartoons of plutocrats listening in silent rage to F.D.R. on the radio, or inviting their friends to join them at "the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt," Mr. Trump seems to have the chattering — or in this case, sputtering — classes where he wants them.
" The Republican Jewish Coalition, not exactly sputtering with rage, released a statement: "As supporters of President Trump, we know that he holds in his heart the memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust, and is committed not just to their memory, but ensuring it never happens again.
Just as former President Clinton largely turned the tables on his accusers in the 1990s, Trump can show his populist base how persecuted he is by the "deep state," deflecting attention away from slowing wage growth and a sputtering economy that he has brought about with his tariff war.
With the federal deficit growing and economic growth sputtering along in the low single digits, the Republican Party is facing questions from within over what many see as a blind faith in the theory that deep tax cuts are the shot of economic adrenaline a languid economy needs.
Why it matters: The sputtering recovery from a 2014 recession and a series of massive corruption scandals have eroded public faith in Brazil's leaders — paving the way for Jair Bolsonaro, who has been called the "Trump of the Tropics," to secure a leading 28% of the vote in the latest polls.
Goldman Sachs (either a vampire squid or the second-best investment bank in the world, depending on your point of view) came out with a report earlier this year questioning the efficacy of capitalism, while The Wall Street Journal, recently published an article pointing to signs that international trade is sputtering.
You can upgrade your RAM in the future (via a user-removable latch on its underside) while also being mildly comforted that both the processor and GPU will be capable of running through many DirectX 12-enabled titles for at least 1-2 years, without grinding to a sputtering halt.
After Daenerys, in full psychopath mode, calmly counts off the ways in which she'll make the Masters suffer, Tyrion Lannister takes a break from sputtering lame excuses about his mishandling of her city-state and reminds her that a tendency toward what we'll politely call overreaction runs in her family.
I spotted an advance detail of one tuba and two trumpets, but they proceeded in isolation, as if unwilling to acknowledge one another, and the sputtering sounds they produced were, at first, swallowed up in the afternoon traffic noise and the swirls of Tchaikovsky wafting out of the SeaGlass Carousel.
Wrangling freaked-out riffs from electric guitars and sputtering saxophones, these acid-fried nods to the long history of populist rock music creates a version of noise-rock (or maybe in this case, rock-noise) that better reflects the unsettling political state of the United States—a new, uncanny Americana.
Philip D. Murphy unveiled his first budget proposal on Tuesday, a $34.7 billion spending plan that reads like a wish-list-come-true for his liberal base and reflects the progressive agenda he campaigned on, and that also seeks to bring relief to frustrated riders of New Jersey's sputtering commuter rail.
Related: Russia's economy is sputtering, but the country has had tremendous success this year in disrupting a world order once dominated by the U.S. Our Moscow bureau chief, Andrew Higgins, examines how a country that former President Barack Obama once dismissed as a "regional power" has become such a potent force.
Brady White passed for all of his 222 yards in the first half, and senior Patrick Taylor celebrated his return from a foot injury by rushing for three touchdowns as No. 233 Memphis overcame a sputtering start for a 49-10 victory over South Florida on Saturday in Tampa, Fla.
Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Former HUD secretary criticizes Bloomberg on housing policy Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism MORE (D-Mass.) would do better among Democrats, but her campaign is sputtering, mostly because she is so unlikable.
There were, however, some obvious things to ask for in return, said Lewis — most notably, Chinese approval of Qualcomm's merger with Chinese firm NXP, a deal that was held up by bureaucracy at the time of Trump's ZTE bargain and is now at risk of sputtering out due to the burgeoning trade war.
It didn't hurt that her journey from victim to self-possessed vengeance seeker is a familiar narrative trope, but the show's themes of actualization and empowerment nevertheless feel timely: the primary characters leading the charge for recognition are women, and their enemies are often sputtering, ineffectual men that see the hosts as objects and toys.
His now ubiquitous drawings are recognizable from a mile away — the curly-cues, almond eyes, pursed lips, the subtly sputtering line and jagged edges of the earliest work, and the exquisite confidence in the long gestures of his last, traced pieces — and though there are few revelations at the Academy, it's a compelling collection.
London-based producers Richard X and Nathan Gregory Wilkins return as Cowboy Rhythmbox today to share "Soda Jerk," a sputtering new track off their forthcoming Mécanique Sauvage EP. The release's title translates to English as "Wild Mechanics"—the proceedings certainly attest to the description, building an unglued sense of ambiance around a feverish chug.
Kobe Bryant is sputtering to the end of a Hall of Fame career looking like anything but a Hall of Famer, the head coach seems to actively dislike young players, and the one he actively dislikes the most, D'Angelo Russell, surreptitiously filmed Nick Young talking about his sexual conquests while engaged to singer Iggy Azalea.
The demonstrations were also fueled by anger over a sputtering economy hit with crippling sanctions from the U.S. The Iranian regime, in an attempt to stifle protesters, cut off internet access inside Tehran and launched what humanitarian groups and citizens have described as a brutal clampdown, with more than 200 killed, according to some estimates.
A strong first quarter quickly devolved into shaky two-way basketball in the second, and separate Charlotte runs of 21-7 and 13-3 in the third appeared to solidify the Raptors' place at the All-Star break: They'd enter still sputtering, frustrated, and in need of the time off both physically and mentally.
Ms. Lightfoot, who promised in her campaign to kill what's left of the sputtering "Chicago machine," a system of patronage and corruption that once dominated city politics, will also face the challenge of working with Ms. Preckwinkle, who remains the president of the Cook County Board and will work in an office near Ms. Lightfoot.
This technique occasionally resulted in obscenely catchy avant-garde ("Spoon" and "Vitamin C") but mostly transformative sprawl such as the almost 22007-minute "Peking O" featuring Can's most famous vocalist Damo Suzuki sputtering like Beavis as Cornholio highlighting the freedom of psychedelia and the possibility that psychedelia might could freeze you, caught up in a loop of nonsense. 250.
I had never been important enough to merit his attacks, so I knew him only as a secret handshake: To be attacked by him was to join the club of writers who, for the sin of having done their job, had received one of his sputtering insults, which they circulated by email or recounted ruefully at parties.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's greenhouse gas reduction program is in a battle for its life, and uncertainty about its future has spooked buyers of its carbon permits California in 2012 became the first U.S. state with a comprehensive cap and trade program for carbon emissions, which are implicated in global warming, and now finds the program sputtering.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida has allowed Donald Trump to seize upon a familiar issue he has used to great advantage -the threat of Islamist militants and his plan to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, offering him what could be a crucial moment to re-boot his sputtering presidential campaign.
The bill—put forth by House Speaker Paul Ryan and praised by President Donald Trump—was criticized by both Democrats and many Republicans, and despite efforts by House leadership to ram it through the legislative chamber as quickly as possible, it died a sputtering death when it was abruptly pulled before it could be voted down.
But in interviews with more than 20 Republicans who are close to Mr. Trump or in communication with his campaign, many of whom insisted on anonymity to avoid clashing with him, they described their nominee as exhausted, frustrated and still bewildered by fine points of the political process and why his incendiary approach seems to be sputtering.
Facing a third down in the second half, and with the Eagles' offense sputtering to just three points in the game, Foles and head coach Doug Pederson called on "Philly Philly" — a slight variation on the "Philly Special" that the Patriots actually ran against the Eagles in Super Bowl LII that ended with quarterback Tom Brady dropping the pass.
With recovery sputtering after more than three years of pro-growth 'Abenomics', and national elections looming in the summer, Abe must decide whether to proceed with plans to raise the tax to 10 percent from 8 percent in April 2017 - the second of a two-step increase meant to shore up Japan's finances and pay for social spending in a fast-ageing society.
If the United States could go a step further and redouble efforts to secure peace in Afghanistan with the Taliban and with Pakistan — a process started in 2009 by Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and still sputtering along — it would avoid a gigantic failure of having the country relapse into Taliban control.
The Yankees had just overcome a rough start by Sabathia, who is three strikeouts short of 3,000 for his career, because of stout performances from relief pitchers Jonathan Loaisiga and Aroldis Chapman, tough at-bats in the later innings against the Angels' sputtering pitching staff and a go-ahead single by D. J. LeMahieu in the top of the ninth.
Iranians first took to the streets to vent their anger over the nation's sputtering economy, but the protests soon widened to grievances against Iran's ruling class, which Trump has singled out as a top enemy of the U.S. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that nine people were killed overnight amid crackdowns on the demonstrations, bringing the overall death toll to at least 21.
It's even more sprawling and ambitious than its runtime or its list of special guests lets on, and the space that Washington leaves for new styles to drift in and out allows for some transcendent stretches—one begins with the sputtering drum solo at the end of an elongated cover of Freddie Hubbard's "Hubtones" and doesn't end until "The Invincible Youth" finally lies down and exhales.
And Martinez all but melted her halo earlier this year when she was caught in a drunken tape-recorded phone call, trying to intercede with police officers who had been called to her hotel room in Santa Fe. With the state's economy sputtering along, Martinez's poll numbers, which luxuriated in the 60s during much of her first term, have now dipped below 50 percent.
Stocks were mixed, with Poland's WIG 20 index rising 0.5%, while in Prague the PX index fell 0.64% and in Budapest shares were down 0.3% The region's assets have largely failed to benefit from some strong domestic economic data recently as investors warily eye risks coming from global trade tensions, a sputtering German economy and risks of a disorderly British exit from the European Union.
Falls off ranking: Cory Booker Last week's ranking: Round 46 | Here's what 2020 candidates' New Year's resolutions should be The former vice president is like the hated lawn mower of my youth: eventually starting, eventually getting the job done, but never without sputtering and dying a few times, requiring priming and pushing and endless maneuvering to keep its wheels in something of a pattern.
As the story goes, he picked up the sputtering torch of traditional British cookery, nearly extinguished by postwar rationing, frozen food and American fast food; single-handedly liberated the nation from the culinary tyranny of France and Italy; and led it back to a preindustrial paradise where each pig was known and loved, every fish was fresh and local, and no one ever got tired of cabbage.
This direct interaction will be a hoot for parents with small kids – get ready for Junior to call up Blue's Clues all the time – and could help solve the ever-growing micro remote control black hole problem that we have in our house caused by tiny vortexes which suck our remotes into the Upside Down and leave us sputtering on the couch as we dig through cushions and under chairs.
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 used his four-day trip to Asia to jump-start his sputtering diplomatic efforts with China and North Korea, moves he is touting as significant victories but that also carry big risks heading into the campaign season.
Samsung's last quarter ending in December drew in nearly a fifth less operating income than estimated by analysts, Bloomberg wrote, with "sputtering demand for memory chips" produced by the firm largely to blame:The South Korean company's operating income fell to 10.8 trillion won ($9.6 billion) in the period that ended in December, according to preliminary results released Tuesday, falling short of the 13.8 trillion-won average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
The Dow is a price-weighted index, meaning names like Apple, with its $158 price tag, and Boeing, which trades around $238 per share, will generally have more of an influence over the index than components like the roughly $25 per share General Electric Co. The lack of breadth as well as the underperformance by the Dow transports could be a signal that the market rally could be sputtering out, at least for now.
Photo: Jose Luis Magana (AP)Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, whose platform has become synonymous with yelling, trolling, and a less-than-stable president who uses it for incoherent rants and threats of nuclear annihilation, is in a tough spot: Many if not most of the criticisms of his site are accurate, and Dorsey's tactic of choice when responding to them is usually sputtering out a bunch of five-dollar words about how he needs to make unspecified changes.
"I have no reason to believe -- I haven't asked him, so I don't, I have not asked the President since the last time we spoke about this," Spicer said, sputtering as news emerged that Comey had, during his appearance on Capitol Hill on days earlier, overstated the number of emails -- some of them with classified information -- that Huma Abedin, a top aide and confidant to Hillary Clinton, forwarded to the laptop of her husband, former Rep.
Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarris fundraises off expected Sessions Senate run Gabbard, Klobuchar qualify for Democratic debates Iowa poll: Warren, Buttigieg, Sanders and Biden in a tight scrape at the top MORE (D-Calif.) is using former Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsHarris fundraises off expected Sessions Senate run Sessions expected to announce plans to run for Senate Sessions speech at Northwestern disrupted by student protests MORE's expected Senate run to help fuel her sputtering bid for the White House.
The consensus among analysts Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams was that we were bearing witness to some truly horrendous college basketball; the overarching opinion was that a game that had shaped up as one of the most fascinating of the early conference season—and at least on paper, perhaps the most tantalizing of the year, at least in terms of potential future earning power--had devolved into the kind of sputtering and rhythmless dud that's given college basketball a bad name over the past several years.

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