"Acting had the strong hand for so long," he says.
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The Taliban have a strong hand and it is getting stronger.
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But Negan played an incredibly strong hand up until that point.
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Israel's strong hand, President Trump's signature phrase and Sweden's shocking admission.
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"He ran the COBA with a strong hand," Mr. Shechtman said.
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Mr. Angélil guided her career in those years with a strong hand.
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Instead, his government has chosen what it calls a "strong hand" policy.
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Meanwhile, he developed a strong hand in novels set in former colonies.
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She never had a strong hand, but now she looks fatally wounded.
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It was time for the Archprophet's strong hand to secure the realm.
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Mr. Putin must not confuse a strong hand with victory — or with respect.
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Washington has a strong hand to play, but it must do so wisely.
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But the military retains a strong hand in government and remains responsible for security.
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Companies already have a strong hand when it comes to interacting with the government.
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But the streaming giant seemed to be holding a very strong hand this year.
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On Israelis and Palestinians, once again, Obama misplayed what could have been a strong hand.
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They think if I'm betting really aggressively, it means I have an incredibly strong hand.
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But he also questions whether the Trump administration will know how to play a strong hand.
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In retrospect, it's clear that Walker had a strong hand to play in negotiations with Foxconn.
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But it's difficult to escape the impression that America negotiated weakly even with its strong hand.
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Macron needs a strong hand in the parliament which will help him to make swift movements.
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Whether it is oversight, appropriations, legislation, or official travel, Congress has a strong hand to play.
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Theresa May had asked for a strong hand; whoever follows her will have a weak one.
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With that backdrop, Trump would seem to have plenty of chips and a strong hand to play.
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That will give him a strong hand to shape the next government lineup and its financial priorities.
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Being a photojournalist myself, I have a very strong hand in the photography that goes into it.
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Lobbyists are well known to have a strong hand in crafting all sorts of language employed by lawmakers.
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With his screener's defender on the wrong side, Thomas attacked with his strong hand and collapsed Washington's defense.
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While the exact reasons for the drop are unclear, Mr. Minniti's strong hand appears to be paying off.
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With the emirate's prominence set to soar from hosting the 2022 World Cup, it has a strong hand.
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It might not have been the strongest card to play, but Schumer did not have a strong hand.
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Under the constitution, Zeman could dissolve parliament if three confidence votes fail, giving him a strong hand in talks.
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You would place your soft but strong hand on the Bible and swear by this declaration before God, sir?
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A contingent of Irish-American advisers, he noted, had a strong hand in devising or enforcing the travel ban.
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However, Myanmar's military retains a strong hand in its politics through a military-drafted constitution and an economic power base.
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Perhaps he's right that keeping a strong hand and avoiding public deliberation is his best chance to get things done.
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If the voter surveys prove accurate, Mr. Modi is positioned to govern with a strong hand for five more years.
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Congress has had a strong hand in this as well and bears large responsibility for our nation's current immigration situation.
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China in turn recognizes the strong hand it does hold in the region, which Trump, perhaps inadvertently, is strengthening even further.
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"I think most people that I've modeled my career after have had a really strong hand in the development process," Powell says.
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Ordinarily an incoming president would have a very strong hand to set the congressional agenda and bend the party to his will.
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Some four million people filed comments with the FCC, most imploring the agency to take a strong hand in ensuring internet openness.
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Work in heavy industry may, for instance, require a strong hand, but the service worker of today increasingly needs a sweet smile.
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Pelosi believes that the Democrats currently hold a strong hand and that the president will be easily defeated in next year's election.
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As president, he will be constrained by both the military-drafted Constitution and the strong hand of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Law-enforcement authorities believe that he had a strong hand in the assassinations of the mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey Gallo.
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Many brought up Vice President Mike Pence, who they hoped would have a strong hand in guiding policy, as key to their support.
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Coupled with this, the company's CEO has had a strong hand in running the company, an approach that has its pros and cons.
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But judging by the leaked media guidance, his ministry believes it needs to show a strong hand to stop the protests from growing.
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Pelosi said during a press conference following Mueller's testimony that Democratic leaders would only launch impeachment proceedings if they had a strong hand.
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His strong hand is credited with defeating the Shining Path terrorists who destabilized the country, and his austere economic policies reined in hyperinflation.
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Agents are the usual go-betweens for the writers and studios, taking a strong hand in matching writers rooms with the appropriate writers.
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Mr. Moonves took a strong hand in constructing the network's lineups, and many executives at the company had worked with him for years.
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The wariness of some Establishment-leaning Republicans toward campus carry has halted its progress in states where the NRA has an otherwise strong hand.
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What is clear is that the public's fear of the government is not as great as might be expected, given Mr Xi's strong hand.
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In federal court last month, prosecutors claimed to have a strong hand, saying they had secured testimony from 10 police officers against Mr. Burke.
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Yet the aides say that the president believes he is still playing a strong hand and that any moments of frustration have been fleeting.
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He also said Britain has a strong hand in financial services in Brexit negotiations with the EU. Reporting by Huw Jones, editing by Kylie MacLellan
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And that's not to mention the economic angle: Merkel's strong hand, and Germany's strong economy, was an essential stabilizing agent during the European economic crisis.
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But it's also the story of how those of us who helped shape the Good Internet played an equally strong hand in bringing it low.
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That's more a criticism of the Oxford University Press than of the author, because what this book needed was an editor with a strong hand.
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Go deeper: Russia has strong hand to play at Paris meeting on eastern Ukraine World Anti-Doping Agency hands Russia four-year international sports ban
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At this point, if anyone can hold it together, I'd welcome a strong hand from the center if one does not emerge from the left.
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Local chip firms may have a strong hand in product areas such as televisions, mobile phones and computers, in which China dominates both production and consumption.
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She's got a strong hand for clean, structured wardrobe staples, and her efforts in the ethical treatment of animals and gender equality are just as praiseworthy.
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Supporters of a strong hand in bank regulation frequently cite strong bank profits as evidence that Dodd-Frank and its related growth regulatory costs didn't overreach.
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Another was the former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who likened the country to a circa-1980s New York in need of a strong hand.
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The top of Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section has two sharp, interesting articles that help explain why Democrats think they have a strong hand on impeachment.
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But the authorities believed that Carmine J. Persico, a mob boss who died this month in prison, had a strong hand in his and other murders.
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Having a clearly popular and beneficial proposal like this one as a key element of a larger climate plan will give Democrats a strong hand to play.
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This actually managed to make things worse: It suggested that May, who was selling herself as a strong hand during the Brexit negotiations, wasn't to be trusted.
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In December, the bank's bipartisan supporters in Congress secured the agency's reopening, only to watch Mr. Shelby play what has proved to be a very strong hand.
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The worry is that real moves toward impeaching Trump will embolden his supporters, theoretically damaging the strong hand Democrats appear to hold heading into the presidential election.
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"So the idea that the US is trying to shore up Taiwan's diplomatic allies is probably not a very strong hand to play in the long term."
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Of course, this can't all come down to Lak's vision at Sies Marjan, but he has undoubtedly had a strong hand in making the city feel, well, welcoming.
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"We have seen they have used a strong hand in dealing with other dissidents ... Under Xi's regime the crackdown on such democratic protests has stepped up," he said.
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One area in which Britain did have a strong hand to negotiate with the EU as defence co-operation which the bloc will want to continue, Faull said.
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Led by Pelosi, the Democrats believe they hold a strong hand heading into the 2020 election, and have been hesitant to take any action that could backfire politically.
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Just as important, it extended a strong hand to gay Latinos, who have sometimes struggled with anti-gay cultural traditions and had felt alienated from mainstream gay life.
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AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE A STRONG HAND AND THAT IS THE CEOs AND THESE COMPANIES HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY ARE BUILDING.
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When Obama restored relations in 2014, I was critical of the way he did it, writing that "Obama had an overwhelmingly strong hand in negotiations," but played it badly.
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Lee believed in standing southpaw, so as to lead with the strong hand and leg, and put the lead leg in line with the (normally orthodox) opponent's lead leg.
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But in a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he instead reflected on how far China had come, guided by the Communist Party's strong hand.
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By not being tied to any specific ad platform, Oracle has the potential to play a strong hand as an unbiased helper to customers to achieve the best results.
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Some investors said May's failure to get a strong hand in parliament lowered the chances of a so called "hard Brexit", a development which could ultimately boost the pound.
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I reached the barriers, and looked up to see Morrissey, arm outstretched, glacial blue eyes staring into mine, his large, surprisingly strong hand reaching down to pull me onstage.
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This mix of administrative incoherence and incompetence, plus voters' feeling that a strong hand was needed to prevent further terrorism, provided a typhoon-scale tailwind for the Rajapaksas' return.
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Why it matters: The State Department exists to ensure that the president arrives at summits like this with a strong hand, by nailing down favorable terms and negotiation strategy.
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Mr. Moonves continued to have a strong hand in putting together the prime-time lineup as chief executive, a task other corporate leaders have left to their programming teams.
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In recent months, Republicans suggested that they would hold a strong hand in any funding showdown because Democrats would be reluctant to force a government shutdown over undocumented immigrants.
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He needs a strong hand to guide him, but insists on appearing in firm command, so any aide perceived as pulling strings can face his wrath sooner or later.
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"Many are the creators or have had a strong hand in the selection or development of the product they put their names to," says the CEO of Evine Bob Rosenblatt.
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Its control over its domestic economy and news media, and its homegrown internet, give it a strong hand in controlling public opinion and minimizing the potential impact on its consumers.
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Go deeper: Aides say that the president has expressed frustration over the impasse, but that he believes he is playing a strong hand, two of our White House correspondents write.
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Prosecutors, who declined to comment to PEOPLE, argued the 2005 murders in Yuma, Arizona, were fueled by greed after Rios stopped giving Strong hand-outs, the Associated Press and KYMA report.
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In their eyes, the blue team has a strong hand heading into the 2020 election, given the general aura of toxicity that has clouded Donald Trump's presidency from the very beginning.
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His detractors say his trade policy is incoherent, yet when a country has a strong hand, as the U.S. does, it may matter less that its policies are not carefully choreographed.
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But the details may raise more questions than they answer, and could disappoint those looking for a strong hand to rein in the financial system underpinning the world's second-largest economy.
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Ozil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, tweeted that Uighurs were "warriors who resist persecution" and criticized both China's strong hand in Xinjiang and the relative silence of Muslims in response.
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Ozil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, tweeted that Uighurs were "warriors who resist persecution" and criticized both China's strong hand in Xinjiang and the relative silence of Muslims in response.
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Ozil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, tweeted that Uighurs were "warriors who resist persecution" and criticised both China's strong hand in Xinjiang and the relative silence of Muslims in response.
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The result laid bare the deep divide between the urban middle classes who see their future as part of a European mainstream, and the pious rural poor who favor Erdogan's strong hand.
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He and and other members of the coronavirus task force have suggested that companies are stepping up to offer supplies without the strong hand of the government forcing them to do so.
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But the reality is that most people will hold a knife with their strong hand, and use the other hand to either grab or push—there isn't much teaching required to do that.
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Kenny said he expected May to "have a very clear and a very strong hand" domestically after the June 8 election, allowing her to draw up her own mandate for the Brexit negotiations.
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In a moment of economic precarity and profound social transformation, many Colombians have turned toward a "strong hand" they can trust—even, and in some cases especially, one that is stained in blood.
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"The reformists won't have a strong hand in the Assembly of Experts because Rafsanjani sent a bad signal that the assembly could challenge the leader," Amir Mohebian, a conservative political strategist, told Reuters.
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Party officials hope to use the convention to smooth out some of Trump's rough edges and present him as a job creator and a strong hand to combat security threats at home and abroad.
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But if the official results, due Thursday, back them up, it would appear that Mr. Modi has been unscathed by economic distress and sectarian tensions, giving him a strong hand in the next term.
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At this stage of this tragic war there is no good outcome, given the near certainty of Mr. Assad's victory, and however he may maneuver and fulminate, Mr. Erdogan does not have a strong hand.
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However, the source, a non-Syrian, said the main aim was to frustrate Turkey's ambitions and "to acquire a strong hand in the game unfolding on that front", rather than to provoke an all-out confrontation.
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Recent research conducted by Sergei Belanovsky, a sociologist who predicted the protests of 2011, paints a striking picture: the appetite for a "strong hand" is waning, and more people want democratic rule and an open parliament.
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"All told, a solid first indicator for January GDP, and with a strong hand-off from the fourth quarter of last year, (the first quarter) is tracking a greater than 2 percent growth pace," Exarhos added.
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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev: You've run oil-rich Kazakhstan with a strong hand since even before the Soviet Union collapsed, but you'll be turning 78 this summer so you've got to think about what comes next.
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Lost in the bluster and threats of retaliatory tariffs is some good news, which is that trade between the United States and China is healthy, and we come to the negotiating table with a strong hand.
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Next year's statehouse races will reorder the country's political map for a decade, because many of the 36 governors elected will have a strong hand in redrawing state legislative and congressional boundaries after the 2020 census.
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And it was at odds with Mr. Trump's repeated claims that he has a thriving relationship with China's president, Xi Jinping, who presumably has had a strong hand in the retaliatory actions the country has taken.
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And it is at odds with his repeated comments that he has a strong relationship with China's leader, Xi Jinping, who presumably has had a strong hand in each of the retaliatory actions taken by Beijing.
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Under the guise that their "strong hand" was the only way to prevent radical leftist governments from taking root in Latin America, the US supported military dictatorships that tortured and disappeared thousands of their own citizens.
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Fidelity International, which has 185 billion pounds ($246 billion) of assets under management across a number of markets, said that May's proposal to make shareholder votes binding would give investors a strong hand in influencing company policy.
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"Trump actually has a very strong hand vis-à-vis the clerical regime," said Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former C.I.A. specialist on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an organization that has rallied opposition to Iran's government.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Bloomberg News on Wednesday that Senate Republicans need to support President Trump's tariff threat against Mexico in order to give the White House a strong hand in negotiations, even if they're opposed to the proposal.
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"He believes the public sector should have a strong hand in the economy and distrusts the private sector's ability to do business in a fair and clean way," said Kim Catechis, a portfolio manager at Martin Currie, a Legg Mason affiliate.
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There's a theory that the administration can only win in court by proving that it is using its prosecutorial authority in other cases—so it shows a strong hand with some immigrants to allow for a lighter touch with others.
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By the time Putin, the cold-eyed former K.G.B. lieutenant colonel, came along, many Russians were eager for a strong hand, willing to trade some of their newfound freedom for a leader promising order and a return to national greatness.
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Though they must serve many corporate masters at Disney and Marvel, and Mr. Feige is known for having a strong hand in his films, the Russos say they were given the latitude to make the movies they want to make.
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I think the Trump administration sees themselves as playing a very strong hand because the U.S. has the largest internal market, but playing this ahead a couple of steps you could easily see countries going to other countries for trading relationships.
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Chinese tournament mainstays Xiaohai and Dakou plan to make cases for the eastern playstyle; and while Korea has always had a strong hand in the scene, it has been reduced lately with MadKOF appearing as the main Korean contender for top 20.
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Mr. Kim's two-day visit — his first trip abroad since taking power — was a reminder of how much he has set the agenda in the North Korean nuclear crisis and, our correspondent writes, what a strong hand he has going into negotiations.
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Mr. Kim's two-day visit — his first known trip abroad since taking power — was a reminder of how much he has set the agenda in the North Korean nuclear crisis and, our correspondent writes, what a strong hand he has going into negotiations.
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The British government could also seek European Union help to ramp up sanctions against the Russians, but given Brexit, the British don't have a strong hand dealing with the EU and a number of European states have no intention of angering the Russians.
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Miller is one of the youngest and least high-profile members of Trump's inner circle, but on immigration has long been a leading advocate of a strong hand as it relates to the handling of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the United States.
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In its latest economic outlook, the IMF forecast sub-Saharan growth of 3.75 percent for this year, a sharp decline from pre-financial crisis levels and a prediction that gives the handful of potential Barclays Africa suitors a strong hand in any talks.
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Christine Kay, a veteran editor at The New York Times who had a strong hand in shaping prizewinning articles and investigative projects and who helped conceive "Portraits of Grief," a celebrated series of remembrances about the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept.
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The Street knows Allison well: He was CEO of BB&T from 1989 to 2008 and developed a reputation as a strong hand who guided the bank through years of prosperity and kept the institution off the rocks when the financial crisis hit in 2008.
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While western analysts largely view Xi's centralization of authority as having a possibly narrowing effect on China's potential for further radical economic reform, three sources with leadership ties said Xi wants a strong hand precisely to force through changes that are resisted by vested interests.
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His comment could signal he is ready to play hardball with the Chinese, or at least send a message to China that the United States feels they are not coming to the table with a strong hand because of their continued trade with North Korea.
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"By painting a dark picture of hostile foreign forces or even unrelenting internal challenges the Communist Party faces in retaining power, it helps justify his continuing strong hand," said Christopher K. Johnson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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Mori's experience in financial regulation makes him well placed to manage risks to the banking sector caused by prolonged monetary easing, and his strong-hand approach in making big organizational changes at his agency has won him the trust of some top executives at Abe's administration.
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A day after Mueller's testimony, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) said she would only move forward on impeachment efforts if the caucus had a strong hand.
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Why it matters: While Silicon Valley has been preoccupied with Congressional hearings and regulators both at home and abroad, these decisions were a reminder that the Supreme Court's refittings of constitutional principles to new technological realities will have a strong hand in shaping the digital future.
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Critics said it testified to the divide within the administration between mainstream foreign policy figures like Matthew Pottinger, the senior director for Asia at the National Security Council, and economic nationalists like the policy adviser Stephen Miller, who took a strong hand in writing the speech.
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Nicholson, McMaster and Lisa Curtis, senior director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council, favor taking a strong hand with Pakistan to deal with Taliban militants using that country as a base from which to plot attacks in Afghanistan, current and former officials say.
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In contrast, Ben Rhodes, who served as President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, was one of the President's closest aides and a strong hand in developing US foreign and national security policy, as were Stephen Hadley and Condoleezza Rice under President George W. Bush.
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The Senate will enter negotiations with the House with a strong hand: a bipartisan 68-30 vote in favor of the emergency funds to battle Zika, a virus that has been spreading rapidly through the Americas, with more than 100 confirmed cases in the U.S. state of Florida.
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"We are less convinced that the coalition may be about to collapse, that is because Salvini knows he has a strong hand and that is what he is trying to exert currently with the prime minister and (coalition partner) Luigi di Maio," said Matt Cairns, rates strategist at Rabobank.
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It beats out an imperative rhythm of "we first": we the nation; we the ethnic group; we the people who are victims, and not beneficiaries, of globalization; we who want simple solutions, and not endless debate, who are prepared to trade that for order, and a strong hand.
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Ms. Collins has already succeeded in piquing the interest of Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a centrist Democrat from North Dakota who has had a strong hand in some of the Senate's more unexpected bipartisan deals in recent years, including a measure that lifted the 40-year prohibition on crude oil exports.
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"Let's go," he would say in a clipped tone, with that distant expression, as if he were looking at something else, not at me, and by that time he would already be at the hall closet throwing his dark gray overcoat around his broad shoulders, keys jangling in his strong hand.
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"We are less convinced that the coalition may be about to collapse, that is because Salvini knows he has a strong hand and that is what he is trying to exert currently with the prime minister and 20.8915/8coalition partner 3/8 Luigi di Maio," said Matt Cairns, rates strategist at Rabobank.
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The center-left framing of both the Democratic Party establishment as well as much of the political press has had a strong hand in shaping the information voters have received about Sanders—pushed not only by pundits but by debate moderators and moderate candidates like Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar.
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Fascism thrives when there are no social anchors, when the perception takes hold that the media always lies, the courts are corrupt, democracy is a sham, corporations are in thrall to the devil, and only a strong hand can protect against the evil "other"—whether Jew, Muslim, black, so-called redneck or so-called elite.
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Every other part of Twin Peaks, then, from Freddie's long story about his super strong hand to the investigation of the Blue Rose cases by the FBI, is an attempt to make sense of that chaos, to put things back in an orderly row and make sure all of the right boxes are checked.
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I'll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man, For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reasons, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Would feed on one another.
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Mr. Kim's surprise two-day visit to Beijing, his first known trip abroad since taking power, was effectively a reminder of how much he has set the agenda in the crisis over his nation's nuclear arsenal — and of what a strong hand he has going into talks, first with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea next month and later with President Trump.
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What Randle loves to do in iso situations is face his man up, give a quick jab step to put the idea of a drive toward his left (strong) hand in their head, then burst by them with a drive to the right before stopping on a dime and wheeling back around with a spin move so he can finish the play left-handed.
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And when it is caricatured, when it is degraded, when its people are told by one of the two people who might sit in the White House for the next four years that they live in a barbaric and hopeless dystopia from which they need to be saved by a strong hand rather than in a great country where some things have gone off the tracks and need to be placed back on them — the person who does such a thing has indulged himself in a deeply unpatriotic act of rhetorical infamy.
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In addition to suggesting that Soon-Yi's statement showed the strong hand of Allen, the article contained other explosive claims: that Allen had been in therapy for two years for "inappropriate" fatherly behavior toward Dylan; that Allen had been observed touching Dylan inappropriately by multiple people, including bringing her to bed with him while he was only wearing underwear and having her suck his thumb; that Allen had mounted a massive smear campaign targeting Farrow; and that Farrow was afraid of Allen, one of Hollywood's most powerful men.
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