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A climate of paranoia has taken hold of the courts.
This trend has already taken hold in the pharmaceutical industry.
Still, an undeniable cultural shift has taken hold since 2016.
But democracy has taken hold where nationalist attitudes have cooled.
As on Inishmore, the day tourist trade had taken hold.
A virtuous cycle has taken hold, much as Jack hoped.
"A fragile calm seems to have taken hold," he said.
"In the last decade it has really taken hold," McAuliffe says.
Yet a febrile mood has taken hold inside the ruling parties.
The curse of gossip has taken hold of our hapless men.
The statistics suggest that some of those narratives have taken hold.
Desperate grooming has taken hold among the superstitious and soccer-mad.
A pattern has taken hold in the Premier League this season.
An atmosphere of intense anxiety has taken hold, several employees said.
Meanwhile, a cult of outsiderism has taken hold in Central Europe.
But in recent years, a more pragmatic narrative has taken hold.
Since then enthusiasm for the once-forbidden hobby has taken hold.
For now, calm seems to have taken hold on both sides.
A kind of ethics fever has taken hold of the AI community.
However, in recent years, a populist backlash against globalization has taken hold.
But that trend hasn't taken hold on the West Coast this fall.
In Addis Ababa, at least, a mood of resignation has taken hold.
But the idea of female friendship as empowerment had already taken hold.
And yet the conviction that Lot 1220 was Joan's has taken hold.
Asia, where the disease has never before taken hold, is particularly vulnerable.
Forty-five years later an era of hyper-partisanship has taken hold.
The bad news is that Trump's phrase "fake news" has taken hold.
Candidates for other parties said that a false narrative had taken hold.
Once a stereotype has taken hold, it is extremely difficult to dislodge.
Our screens have commandeered our eyeballs and taken hold of our lives.
Now, recovery seems to have taken hold in Europe, China and Japan.
Cross-platform consistency, and gun sense, has taken hold in the emoji universe.
The myth has taken hold that no deal simply means no trade deal.
While the humans plan to soldier on, a gallows humor has taken hold.
Yet weariness with the deadlock has taken hold, in both Barcelona and Madrid.
There is no treatment for goat plague once the virus has taken hold.
By the 1940s, the idea of better living through chemistry had taken hold.
A paradigm of danger and indifference in an anonymous city had taken hold.
It makes sense that an ethos of pluck and hardiness has taken hold.
It's been dark for two hours and the winter night has taken hold.
Indeed, in some countries, the multi-SIM use case has really taken hold.
There is no evidence that they are, but the narrative has taken hold.
Mondrian created the four works during a period when abstraction had taken hold.
Promising movements for restorative and transformative justice have taken hold in numerous cities.
Once this glorious idea has taken hold, it is very hard to dislodge.
His affect was pleasant, but something had chilled, some formality had taken hold.
This is a false narrative that has taken hold on Twitter and other outlets.
It seems that some madness has taken hold of the entire movie-making industry.
As he'd slept, civil rights and new technologies had taken hold and manufacturing migrated.
By now, panic and confusion had taken hold in some places around the altiplano.
A preference for smaller families has taken hold nearly everywhere, even in poorer countries.
First, he exposed the fearful, almost timid mood that has taken hold in Europe.
But now, consumer patterns are suggesting that the exact opposite idea has taken hold.
As publishers grasp for new revenue streams, a ''try-anything'' approach has taken hold.
Events have exposed "the rot that has taken hold within the academy," he said.
A weird form of Kübler-Ross seems to have taken hold of the media.
I fear that the information-technology-industrial complex has taken hold in public education.
Innovation has taken hold in the pharmaceutical space, and even CNBC's Jim Cramer is impressed.
Far from fussy and delicate, life may have taken hold in the worst conditions imaginable.
A ceasefire has taken hold in parts of the country after others fell apart quickly.
So how has Korean pop culture taken hold from the US to Finland to India?
A recognition has taken hold, Republicans here said, that the drama is here to stay.
"The idea that life is meant to be punishing has really taken hold," he says.
Only in Tunisia, where France was the dominant western power, has tenuous democracy taken hold.
In too many cases, they have taken hold as the basis for people's voting decisions.
More recently, the Black Lives Matter and the L.G.B.T. rights movement have also taken hold.
Since President Trump's election, an activist liberal wing has taken hold of the Democratic Party.
Now it's taken hold in certain parts of academia, think-tank world, and Silicon Valley.
And yet, in 2018, a wistful reminiscence of the W. Bush years has taken hold.
And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold.
The move to greater state action has already taken hold outside the health benefits arena.
Climate change has taken hold as a central issue heading into the Democratic presidential primary.
But the culinary action has especially taken hold in the heart of the Old City.
This claim appears to have taken hold more than two decades after the uprising, however.
Since the policy has taken hold, adults have been sent to federal courts and detention centers.
Over the past five years, global and local accelerator programs have taken hold across Latin America.
Before Alzheimer's had taken hold, Jim would have wanted to know exactly how the service worked.
Culture wars have taken hold of European politics and eclipsed the old left-versus-right distinction.
The divisive forces of right-wing nationalism have already taken hold in parts of eastern Europe.
As the day unfolded, the extent to which a moral rhinoceritis had taken hold was apparent.
But the degree to which the narrative of victimization has taken hold in Russia is worrying.
But once it has taken hold, it can drastically affect how you interact with the world.
In other conservative-leaning states, abortion has already taken hold as a front-and-center issue.
At the same time, coordinated global growth has taken hold for the first time in decades.
They feel that some infernal mechanism has taken hold and is dragging them toward an abyss.
The whistleblower shows us that this anti-democratic attitude has taken hold at the White House.
In American boardrooms, meanwhile, a widely held view is that a dangerous short-termism has taken hold.
Over the nervous silence that had taken hold in Baraboo High School, one student spoke out loudly.
Instead, a nasty, brutish reality has taken hold—and it threatens a more dangerous and unstable world.
Yet literature had taken hold of him, a noble purpose to his life, the call of greatness.
As the natural wine craze has taken hold, small batch European wines have become much more available.
She hasn't told them about the fear that's taken hold of her life since Trump became president.
If you've been vacillating over these decisions for weeks or even months, decision fatigue has taken hold.
But the world has largely overlooked the massive humanitarian crisis that has taken hold in the DPRK.
The cease-fire, which Mr. Kerry helped negotiate in Munich last winter, has never really taken hold.
D. More important, they will mitigate some of the wrath that has taken hold of this country.
The explanation may be that for all its controversy and imperfections, the sweeping law has taken hold.
But the frostbite had taken hold, and Baalsrud was no longer able to walk on his own.
Dr. Halsall deplored what he called the "cooties" approach that he says has taken hold, chilling debate.
That culture had taken hold long ago, long before the Gun Trace Task Force was ever formed.
For Democrats, one trend that has taken hold is quite alarming: our swing to the far left.
The speed with which Xylella has taken hold in Puglia has astonished scientists as much as farmers.
Once mold and mildew have taken hold, you're going to need to bust out the big guns.
As the change has taken hold, economists — and especially those at the Fed — have become increasingly concerned.
But the real virus infecting the stock has already taken hold of the delivery firm&aposs corpus.
But with Harry's fiancée so new on the scene, how has the Meghan effect taken hold so quickly?
But the habit of letting Germany, and especially Mrs Merkel, decide has increasingly taken hold across the board.
In 2017, new left-leaning voices to counter the narrative from the Trump Administration hadn't yet taken hold.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that they are almost impossible to uproot once they have taken hold.
" One controversial chant that has taken hold at Victory Square goes: "DNA—come and take the bastards away!
"Japan's economic recovery has taken hold more firmly," reflecting improvement in the global economy, Kuroda told a seminar.
Still, the movement has taken hold more in state elections than federal races, and mostly in blue areas.
There are multiple wireless systems, including ZigBee and Z-Wave, and no single software platform has taken hold.
A logical next step is to recalibrate some of the toxic norms that have taken hold among teenagers.
The dysfunction has taken hold in large part because of decisions that members of Congress themselves have made.
It faces a hostile national mood on immigration that has taken hold over decades and has many causes.
The international norm against chemical weapons "has never really taken hold in the Middle East," Mr. Stein said.
Impossible has taken hold of Qdoba and Burger King, while Beyond is popping up on Whole Foods shelves.
Counter-narratives have been pushed and presidential conspiracy theories taken hold as part of this broader information war.
First is the chronic instability that has taken hold of Britain's politics, and which will be hard to suppress.
Looting and lawlessness have taken hold, as specialized soldiers, members of The Division, are activated from their civilian lives.
Since the primary and caucus system has taken hold, no politician has ever really tried to make a comeback.
Since the slowdown has taken hold, Ms Sitharaman has scrapped the most onerous of new taxes and compliance rules.
Along with his cousins Sam Dolnick and David Perpich, the trio have firmly taken hold of the paper's strategy.
Since 2007, the fix was always supposed to be RCS, but RCS hasn't taken hold for completely predictable reasons.
But really that hasn't taken hold in a really big way, and so, again, we're still in this limbo.
Fans now run to see Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day, the youth movement having firmly taken hold.
"The expectation has taken hold in the market that there may be a stronger interest rate cut," he said.
If a local reservoir of Zika has taken hold in southern Florida, that would complicate containment of the virus.
Such is the frenzy surrounding everything Yahoo these days that rumors have sometimes taken hold before being batted down.
So how did peaceful alternation of power happen when the norm of legitimate opposition had not yet taken hold?
"Techlash" headlines have mostly taken hold in response to chatter about curbing the anti-competitive power of these companies.
The excitement about the digital world has of course taken hold, and what has been possible has been spectacular.
"Many of the trends that have taken hold are no longer government-dependent, they're market-driven," Mr. Biden said.
Since February, though, a wave of student activism has taken hold, led by the survivors of the Parkland shooting.
After the Easter bombings, I am struggling to understand how violent ideology has taken hold in my Muslim community.
But a truce has never taken hold, and indeed the cease-fires have only lasted a number of weeks.
For almost a decade now, a sense of optimism has taken hold in Somalia after a generation of chaos.
Two very different perceptions have taken hold of the place Pete Buttigieg has made a centerpiece of his campaign.
"It's not clear that those attacks have taken hold, at least not enough to give the Republican an advantage."
On top of this, an amorphous sense of guilt has taken hold of Baldi in the last few months.
Israel A ceasefire seems to have taken hold after a weekend of violence between Israel and militant factions in Gaza.
And this focus on Mars' retro persona has taken hold, at least in part, simply because he's left a vacuum.
By then, Apple's and Google's app ecosystems had fully taken hold; the duopoly had apps, and Blackberry 10 did not.
At a time when many of his ideas have taken hold, Mr Le Pen himself is out in the cold.
A year and a half after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory, political unrest has taken hold of the island.
It's also asking for $250 million to expand health programs in Puerto Rico, where the virus has already taken hold.
Jesus may have taken the wheel, but Carrie Underwood has taken hold of the intercom speaker at this footwear store.
Traction in the economy really seem to have taken hold with respect to job numbers, but other data as well.
Interestingly, the report highlights that VR porn content largely hasn't taken hold of the United States compared to other markets.
Besides, Jean has lived and worked in America for the better part of a decade, and roots have taken hold.
On Day Three, Chen reported that diarrhea had taken hold while his cough seemed to be going away for good.
Fine Arts & Exhibits A phenomenon seems to have taken hold of Dia: Chelsea on West 22nd Street in New York.
This has been in the works for decades, but it has really taken hold a lot more as of late.
Drury's condition improved after several weeks of acupuncture and massage, but by then Andujar had taken hold of the position.
Records show that they were meant to legitimize and dignify the white supremacist regime that had taken hold in Virginia.
A record-breaking cold wave has taken hold in the region, where centralized heating is rare and residents were unprepared.
Over the last decade, Moore's law has also finally taken hold of spaceflight, with satellites and vehicles being built smaller.
The transnational gang has taken hold on Long Island in the last 10 years; 2016 was an especially violent year.
Instead of a critical, resilient and open-minded citizenry, a conspiratorial nihilism, rejecting reason and dreading change, has taken hold.
People are alienated by industrialization, and the Spanish influenza has taken hold of the world, the worst pandemic we've ever known.
It's true that a certain anxiety over the forces of globalisation, immigration, technology, even change itself, has taken hold in America.
Although Bsal has continued to spread in Europe, there is no sign that it has taken hold in the United States.
Canada already offers widespread support for medical use of marijuana, a compromise that has also taken hold in many US states.
It's weird to me that a fad has taken hold of adults who are trying to deny that it's a fad.
It took off in China well before the app ecosystem had taken hold, as it has now in America and Europe.
Yet the notion has taken hold that such expertise is fatally subjective and that only randomized controlled trials provide real knowledge.
Ms. Yellen and other Fed officials, however, have said they are not yet convinced that a strengthening trend has taken hold.
But the idea has taken hold more strongly in 2016 and Mexico has said it is ready to update the treaty.
Once this anxiety has taken hold, even your most haphazardly created content can feel like a stand-alone representation of you.
The virtual currency flyaround • Matt Levine writes that a pump-and-dump mentality that has taken hold of some Bitcoin trading.
As online storage and computing platforms have taken hold in corporate America, so too have they spread in government IT systems.
In the 25 years since Roy Cohn first worked his landline in "Angels in America," a digital revolution has taken hold.
These are people with acute sudden-onset symptoms, who feel as if an alien personality has taken hold of their lives.
WhatsApp became enormously popular in countries where messaging services were expensive or where social networks like Facebook had not taken hold.
But those views have taken hold in the Democratic field, with many candidates proposing tough reforms to cut off lobbyist donations.
If anything, Strange's loss underscores the new reality that has taken hold with Trump as the leader of the Republican Party.
And the "abolish ICE" buzzword has lost potency on the left, where a recognition of immigration enforcement needs has taken hold.
The #AskAntony hashtag has been hijacked by Twitter users to express the debilitating case of cabin fever that has taken hold nationwide.
European negotiators note that a mood of realism has slowly settled on London as the remorseless logic of Brexit has taken hold.
But as his presidency has taken hold, they have been highly critical of the administration, and their relationship with Trump has soured.
Taken together, these factors reflect a world in which "slowbalisation"—the unwinding of two decades of global economic integration—has taken hold.
I think it's both of those things that have taken hold, plus this myth that women weren't aware of their own sexuality.
Valak has taken hold, and is decapitating Jesus statues left and right — as well as, umm, straight-up murdering the other nuns.
Authorities reported Monday that several new large fires have taken hold in Montana after a recent heat wave brought triple-digit temperatures.
But as buzz has built around the moment and the movement, the inevitable resistance from some attendees has taken hold as well.
It is all well and good to oppose a change that has not yet taken hold, or one that still confuses people.
Since late 2017, the "Me Too" and "Time's Up" movements have taken hold in an effort to address harassment in the workplace.
I am honored to endorse the Senator and work with the campaign in amplifying its message that has taken hold in Wisconsin.
That signals pay increases haven't quite taken hold the way economists hoped they would during the past decade's economic and job boom.
A populist backlash against globalization has taken hold in developed markets—at times focused on free trade and at times on immigration.
While the terms identity politics and intersectionality have taken hold of our discourse, the substance of these theories has been left behind.
Like sprawling La Maestranza in upscale Vitacura, it aligns itself with the gourmet burger trend, which has taken hold in Santiago, too.
Anxiety over forced commingling may explain why the trope of the nightmare feast has taken hold in the imaginations of contemporary artists.
Yet another challenge has taken hold of the internet — one more absurd than any of the ones that have come before it.
Leaders in all four states where it has taken hold have formed a loose alliance, sometimes sharing strategies or texts of resolutions.
The notion has taken hold, they said, during a season when migration flows from Central America to the United States typically accelerate.
And as the crisis has taken hold, Capetonians have not been doing enough to curb their water use, further aggravating the scarcity.
The scariest element of a zombie or vampire movie is whatever force has taken hold of a human and overpowered their humanity.
Motor travel data suggests strong driving numbers, but experts have said greater fuel efficiency has taken hold and helped tamp down gasoline demand.
Instagram announced the program last May and expanded the closed beta in October, but the effects only recently seem to have taken hold.
The idea that Mike Trout is a transcendent baseball talent, nurtured by baseball nerds and nebulous analytics, finally seems to have taken hold.
"It's a very nascent ceasefire but we are encouraged that it does seem to have taken hold," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
As criticism of wealthy individuals and corporations has taken hold across the political spectrum, 2020 Democratic candidates have more directly targeted large corporations.
Making things worse was the bacterial infection burkholderia cepacia, which had taken hold in Dalton before his teen years and never let go.
The peace that has taken hold is fragile though, warned Manji Cheto, senior vice president covering West Africa at risk advisory Teneo Intelligence.
"Risk aversion has taken hold of European rates markets going into the all-important July Fed meeting," ING strategists said in a note.
Entirely new sectors of the economy, like the modern information technology industry, have emerged since that time as new inventions have taken hold.
Polls consistently show that the doubts the President has been selling about the legitimacy of the Russia investigation have taken hold among Republicans.
Thick, crimson, nutty, it tastes like a slow-burning spark has taken hold of your tongue, like black-and-white turning to color.
While the government digital services trend has taken hold, it doesn't adequately address the needs of the 20,219 cities across the United States.
Oil Prices Perk Up, Suggesting a Rebound Has Taken Hold | The price of crude is up more than 40 percent since last month.
Once again, it can all be traced back to an underlying sense of fear that has seeped into the market and taken hold.
Cyber programs have really taken hold, with mature plans, operational competencies, and organizing structures within governments to foster and leverage those new capabilities.
For instance, do you think the #MeToo movement would have taken hold the way it did if he weren't in the White House?
As Vox's Julia Belluz reported in October, anti-vaccination rhetoric has taken hold for reasons that have nothing to do with religious doctrine.
Holder decision, controversies over ballot access and increasingly complicated laws disproportionately affecting voters of color have taken hold in states across the country.
The trend, which began several years ago along with the birth of men's wear fashion weeks, has firmly taken hold around the globe.
Yet once I decide against escaping, I succumb to a general atmosphere of escapism that seems to have taken hold of the country.
C. sentiment that has taken hold of American voters is still not fully understood by many of the nation's most seasoned political strategists.
"The rot that has taken hold within the academy" has been exposed, said Kjell Espmark, a historian who quit the academy in disgust.
Though the coronavirus had just taken hold when the Federal Reserve met in January, officials already expressed concern about its potential economic impacts.
But we must also ask how this illiberal wind has taken hold in spite of our well-intentioned avowal of egalitarianism and humanism.
Above all, a sense of resignation has taken hold that even before Brexit begins, it has delivered changes that are almost certainly permanent.
As a result, this norm has taken hold in a way that I don't think even the most clever blog posts can challenge.
And in the world of hip-hop, no realization has carried more weight than the one that a new generational shift has taken hold.
This could mean that both individuals died of the plague, and that an epidemic had taken hold of this farming community, the researchers speculate.
Whether the Social Democrats cling to power or are ousted by the centre-right Moderates in the coming months, a consensus has taken hold.
It's Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, which has taken hold as a cheaper, more efficient alternative to rail in many cities around the world.
The tech and knowledge economy — a major driver of income, productivity and wealth building in our country — has not taken hold sufficiently in Milwaukee.
As incomes have soared and consumerism has taken hold across the continent, the cardboard replicas, once limited to fake currency, have become increasingly elaborate.
After 170 years of humans dominating nature, the idea that perhaps we'd gone too far—that things were out of balance—had taken hold.
The gold foil crosses indicated that the wearer was Christian at a time when the religion had barely taken hold on the British Isles.
A recent study published in Science revealed that the impact of travel bans was limited once an outbreak had taken hold in a country.
Kennedy could well position himself as part of this wave, a movement that's taken hold nationwide as voters call for fresh voices in politics.
The problem is that, other than speculation, none of its legitimate uses have taken hold at anything like the pace of the illegal activity.
A November truce, which called for Israel to ease its blockade of Gaza and for Palestinians to cease attacks, has never fully taken hold.
COVID-19 has now taken hold in every US state, some of which have already seen people getting sick and dying in large numbers.
But, as Megabot co-founder Matt Oehrlein explained in the latest YouTube video, the sport hasn't taken hold quite the way he had anticipated.
Vibrant democracies have now taken hold in much of the continent, revealing an emergent middle class, and an empowered, educated and connected young generation.
He finds the trend of stripped-down minimalism that has taken hold — whether in design, in fashion, in tech and especially in theater — suspect.
Isolationism had taken hold, and when the war in Europe began, some Americans viewed it, as one union official said, as being "between two thieves".
Then, among those with the disease, blacks and Latinos often get diagnosed after the disease has taken hold and have more complications, such as amputations.
A.I. has even taken hold in the world of investing, with Morgan Stanley using deep learning to test and fine tune its analysts' investment strategies.
LONDON (Reuters) - Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, threatening to undermine progress against the disease, scientists said.
In America, a debate rages about the lack of opportunities for actors of color, and a protest movement has taken hold under the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
But now, with Kim Jong Un holding back additional tests at least for the moment, an imperfect détente has taken hold on the Korean Peninsula.
We do not believe this minor adjustment is enough to cause a reversal in the optimism that has taken hold of equity markets just yet.
But these planets orbited a pulsar — the remnant of an exploded star — so they were most likely not places where life could have taken hold.
Given the mediocrity of those to whom Jesus' message was entrusted, it seems surpassing strange that the message should have taken hold with such force.
Less than a week old, the shelter has assumed the squalor of an overwhelmed refugee camp, and the rhythms of enforced idleness have taken hold.
Some governors -- including Mississippi Republican Tate Reeves -- encouraged the President to offer more specific guidance to individual states where the outbreak hasn't yet taken hold.
Tech has also taken hold in Jerusalem, and is growing in Nazareth as well as cities near Tel Aviv like Herzliya and Ra'anana-Kfar Saba.
If Pegida and similar movements have taken hold of Abendland for the moment, that just means it's time for their opponents to take it back.
Rather than viewing the continued gains as a reason to pull back, something closer to fear of missing out has taken hold of the market.
She says the global climate emergency movement has exploded in growth this year as campaigns from both her group and other efforts have taken hold.
In recent years, though, a depressing realization has taken hold: The internet is fragile and easily exploited by hackers, trolls, criminals, creepy corporations, and oppressive governments.
But that insight has not yet taken hold in the tech industry — look at Amazon, for example, to find a very white, very male leadership structure.
Many of these donors work in Silicon Valley, where "effective altruism," a movement that advocates giving money to the most cost-effective charities, has taken hold.
Hours later, Afghan forces, backed by U.S. troops, launched an offensive against ISIS bases in Nangarhar Province, where the group has mainly taken hold in Afghanistan.
You've probably heard of the FIRE — financial independence, retire early — movement, the trend that's taken hold among individuals who are mostly in their 225s and 247s.
Like the news Kidd reads, News of the World itself has a fairy-tale quality, set in a world where the Industrial Revolution hasn't taken hold.
With two of their best players departed and the remaining players now asking to leave the team, it looks as though the revolt has taken hold.
It is a system that the two men said has already taken hold in Europe, where such synchronized competitions have overtaken daily fantasy sports in popularity.
A variety of plant that thrives in one disease-prone area might die off in another where a different strain of the virus has taken hold.
The pathogen has taken hold as far south as Big Sur, a rugged, misty stretch of Highway 1 with a bohemian flavor to its exclusive community.
But with massive metropolises boasting skyscrapers with thousands of windows each—let alone the half-dozen windows in each home—why hasn't this option taken hold?
In the 70s and 80s, Castro committed troops to battlefields in Angola and Mozambique where, with the Portuguese colonists finally withdrawn, civil war had taken hold.
But the specter of isolation — of telling people in affected areas not to go out — is hovering in big cities where the infection has taken hold.
"Democrats are poised to take action to respond to this culture of corruption that has taken hold under Mr. Trump and Republican congressional majorities," he continued.
By Monday afternoon, an uncertain camaraderie seemed to have taken hold here, but some evacuees wondered whether it would hold up as their ordeal dragged on.
Mr. Muratsuchi said it was important to introduce the legislation now because, he said, anti-immigration sentiment has taken hold of much of the political discourse.
Once the virus has taken hold inside a human, it can adapt to its new host and spread easily to other humans through coughing or sneezing.
By then an uneasy pause had taken hold; the United States and Iran appeared, for the moment, to have stepped back from the brink of war.
A holiday spirit has taken hold in downtown Lancaster, with a colossal Christmas tree glittering in Penn Square and ancient brick houses swathed in festive lights.
He underestimated the extremism that had taken hold of the Republican leadership, failing to push back hard enough as the party veered sharply to the right.
The group has also spurred copycats in several other cities, although only Concert Raptors NYC, LA Concert Raptors and Berlin Concert Raptors have really taken hold.
The money has been good, and a giddiness has taken hold, thanks to this plant that has been effectively prohibited since the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
The risk is that the next Beyond Meat is scared off from going public by the circumspect mood that has taken hold in the IPO market.
Rumors and fears that have taken hold of largely well-educated, concerned, and well-meaning parents, connected through online networks, are fueling the anti-vaxxer movement.
By 2000, the "stranger danger" myth had taken hold in most Western societies, despite the actual incidence of random child sexual assault being very low and static.
A late winter chill had taken hold of New York City and its biting winds and sub-freezing temperatures quieted even the busy streets of Union Square.
Mario Gomez and Thomas Mueller, who was dropped from the starting side, were injected soon after the break but a collective paralysis seemed to have taken hold.
By the end of the 19th century the theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan, a great naval strategist who argued for decisive American sea power, had taken hold.
As long-overdue social movements rippled through the nation, an unshakable reckoning has taken hold, inciting hope and awakening change on both the individual and societal level.
The press release came as the family was burying the 14-year-old, and by nightfall, the narrative the family says Brennan had crafted had taken hold.
Americans are waking up to the deep corruption that has taken hold of our government, and we need a president who is not afraid to name it.
But, many wondered if Hollywood's sudden appreciation and dedication to women's complex, varied stories would disappear as quickly as it had taken hold of the cultural zeitgeist.
But the idea had taken hold that, by connecting people and giving them a voice, social media had become a global force for plurality, democracy and progress.
The radicalism that has taken hold in rebel-held Syria is more pronounced each time I visit, but the writing has been on the wall for years.
UBS's Bolz said a slightly less risk-averse mood had taken hold across markets than earlier in the day, which had also weakened the yen a touch.
The remunicipalization movement has even taken hold in the UK, a country where welfare spending per capita is on par with the poorest nations of Eastern Europe.
The region has become increasingly violent as drug cartels have taken hold, and it's not yet clear that the man had anything to do with the massacre.
SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) - A 'deflationary mindset' that has taken hold in Japan will take time to dispel, the country's central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday.
President Obama has not proposed a carbon tax, and while many Democrats support the idea, it has not taken hold as a serious legislative proposal in years.
What has changed in the meantime is that populists, who had already taken hold in neighboring Hungary and Poland, have advanced, too, in France and even Germany.
The GOP's determination to replace the ACA with a radioactively unpopular alternative is one indication that a different kind of politics has taken hold of the party.
The case against Trump's self-described "fixer" has taken hold of the national media spotlight after FBI agents raided Cohen's home, hotel room and office last week.
I have also analyzed Voter Study Group data, which provides some insight into why the movement to abolish ICE has taken hold among so many Democratic voters.
He found monastic life suffocating, longing for the spirit of the Renaissance that had taken hold in Italy, inspired by the newly awakened passion for classical wisdom.
The opposition has taken hold in the State Senate, where lawmakers from moderate suburban districts, many of whom won by razor-thin margins last year, hold sway.
By the time Sagan delivered his message "to preserve and cherish" our planet, the awareness of our responsibility to care for the Earth had already taken hold.
I'd entered the pageant because I was a precocious film student and I wanted to film it — yet now the fear of the bikini had taken hold.
The mayor is convinced that the crime numbers and a declining number of official citizen complaints about the police prove that the changes have already taken hold.
Still, a mood of stiff opposition has taken hold on Capitol Hill, with Democrats besieged by constituents enraged by Mr. Trump's actions — and lawmakers sharing their alarm.
In recent years, low-dosage and no-dosage wines have become fashionable, and another simple story has taken hold: The lower the dosage, the better the Champagne.
It's all part of an awareness campaign called "15 to Finish," pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 803, that has taken hold in dozens of states.
The crack epidemic had taken hold: empty glass vials littered the sidewalks; friends' mothers were prostituting themselves to pay for their addiction; childhood friends had become dealers.
Would Amazon's arrival into a rapidly developing Long Island City only abet the gentrification that has already taken hold there and help drive out working-class residents?
"All it takes to sink a case," he said, "is for one juror to disbelieve the F.B.I." For some career professionals, a siege mentality has taken hold.
The state of emergency in Buenos Aires, one of several such crackdowns on illegal mining by Moreno, ended an economic boom that had taken hold in the area.
Adobe found, too, that mobile payments haven't yet taken hold with a number of consumers, as 48 percent said they don't use any mobile payment methods at all.
For many women who have lived through similar betrayals in life, another narrative has taken hold in recent years: Hillary Clinton is the model of an indomitable woman.
Weakened trees that have lost the fight against the insects will exhibit reddish-brown pitch tubes, which indicate the infestation has taken hold — it's usually a death sentence.
Those efforts seem to have taken hold, with its North American beverage business posting organic growth of 2.5 percent, stripping out the impact of acquisitions and other variables.
A national carbon cap-and-trade bill failed in 2010, but the policy has taken hold regionally in the Northeast, California, and numerous other places around the world.
Holly Harris, head of the bipartisan sentencing reform organization U.S. Justice Action Network, said reform efforts have taken hold even in deep-red conservative states where Republicans dominate.
The "resist" movement has taken hold as a way to oppose the new administration and its supporters at every turn, no matter what the cost or the tactic.
It looked like something powerful had taken hold of the American public, and the government not only disliked it, but was going to finagle an end to it.
The unusual scenario — the nation's top law enforcement official pressed by normally deferential Republican lawmakers — was a reflection of the extreme partisanship that has taken hold in Washington.
What remains to be seen is whether endorsements can shake the left-versus-moderate dynamic that has taken hold, or whether they only serve to reinforce that binary.
Large protests in Gaza and in the West Bank had been planned, but in the wake of Monday's bloodshed, a more subdued approach appeared to have taken hold.
The device has taken hold among Indian cooks, who post recipes and images in Facebook's six separate Indian Instant Pot groups, with a combined membership of nearly 200,000.
China's stock markets fell about 8 percent as traders reacted for the first time to the news that a mysterious pneumonialike disease had taken hold of the country.
There is, however, at least one place where Trump's welfare chauvinism has taken hold — his multibillion-dollar payments to farmers harmed by the president's trade war with China.
Adherence to regulatory guidelines, designed to thwart systemic risks by curbing the amount of debt taken in leveraged buyouts (LBOs), has taken hold, keeping total leverage relatively low.
The idea that someone's photo on your phone can turn into a real-life person that you connect to in some way — maybe even marry — has taken hold.
Yet an overdue tonal shift has taken hold at the Oscars, one that dials down the negative voices, possibly in recognition of adjustments that took decades to achieve.
That movement leaders have been so susceptible to affirming Trump indicates that a truncated vision of the movement's political ends has taken hold of our imaginations and witness.
That will provide an important forum to help educate the public and could puncture many of the toxic myths that have taken hold about Social Security in recent decades.
The hospitalist model of care has taken hold in recent years as a way to shepherd increasingly complex patients with multiple serious and chronic health problems through hospital stays.
Still, the report does raise the possibility that a slowdown has taken hold, which means the Fed will have to assess more information before it raises rates, he said.
The outpouring of celebrity support comes at a time when a number of students have taken hold of the politically-charged gun control debate and challenged the old guard.
As the clean-up has taken hold, loan growth slipped to 10.7 percent in the last fiscal year to the end of March, the slowest in almost 20 years.
While overall vaccination rates remain high (around 90 percent) the problem comes from the fact that outbreaks tend to occur in communities where anti-vaccination sentiments have taken hold.
Zika has already taken hold in 21 countries and territories of the Americas and will almost certainly continue to spread, the World Health Organization said in an update Sunday.
And that's what makes his death a tragedy, not just for how his life ended, but for how that selective and curated narrative has taken hold of impressionable minds.
Winning the chancellery in a spring 2020 election may be a tall order, said Oberreuter, but movements, not traditional parties, have taken hold in France, Austria, Britain and Italy.
Indeed a deep cynicism had taken hold of many supporters but Southgate's humble approach and the youthful nature of his squad has managed to restore some degree of positivity.
It signals that he wants to continue the détente that has taken hold on the Korean Peninsula and that there is hope for progress in the months to come.
It's Flanner's words that capture the powerful, if inaccurate, vision of Paris that had taken hold among young Americans and described how they were now flocking to the city.
The EU has not needed to promote a single official language because the unique form of monolingual ideology that has taken hold in Western Anglo nations is internationally atypical.
The Ukrainian Cossack dance is made possible by relatively short femurs, while Irish step dancing wouldn't have taken hold in a population where people could easily do a split.
To end our series, we returned to Germany, the country at the heart of a liberal Europe, to see if the rejection of liberalism had also taken hold there.
And Amazon had taken hold in terms of delivery of physical books, but that was right around the time when the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle came out.
But under Modi's leadership, a strain of Hindu nationalism has taken hold in India, resulting in increased attacks on minorities, including multiple lynchings of Muslims for alleged cow smuggling.
EDINBURGH — As Britain stands on the cusp of major change, an unfamiliar mood of introspection has taken hold at its biggest comedy and arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
For example, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former adviser to Presidents Obama and Clinton, has been a leading advocate of the idea that "secular stagnation" has taken hold.
Once dismissed as xenophobes and fringe elements, the group's members are finding their views increasingly embraced in President Trump's Washington, where skepticism and mistrust of China have taken hold.
" A recent trend has taken hold in parts of the country where cereal or cheese puffs are covered in liquid nitrogen and "emit a misty or smoke-like vapor.
By March, however, a YouGov/ Huffington Post poll indicated that the idea had taken hold, and that a majority of Americans were in favor of the proposed travel ban.
He isn't just one of the loudest proponents of the birther movement, nor simply a man who believes Sharia Law has taken hold in parts of the United States.
"If you have younger people who are trying sobriety before the illness has taken hold, we might prevent some people who are on their way toward alcoholism," he says.
The appearance, like pockmarks, of chains is the clearest sign that the strain has taken hold, that the living organism playing host — a community — is not long for this world.
He didn't start glowing, but he sent a chunk of his skin to a biotech company for analysis, and it confirmed that the gene had taken hold in his cells.
The Islamic State has typically taken hold in dysfunctional societies, where war, sectarianism and the absence of state structures have created fertile ground for its message among some Sunni Muslims.
Once one of those programs has taken hold, things like capturing everything on the screen (what the FBI does) and pinging back the location (what Elliot does) are standard issue.
In many cities where shared scooters have already taken hold, they act like an extension to connect with public transit hubs and fill in the gaps where they fall short.
" He said the opioid epidemic, obesity, healthcare access and cost will not be successfully tackled if the nation continues to focus on handling these problems only "after they've taken hold.
But a mile away in New Jersey, Hoboken already offers a test case of the promises and the perils of the electric vehicles, which have taken hold across the world.
But social mores are changing, and much as the #MeToo movement has taken hold in the US, the culture of silence in Japan is also being chipped away, albeit slowly.
As fires rage across the Amazon and the Arctic, yet another forest fire has taken hold in Gran Canaria, and has been mapped out by both NASA and ESA satellites.
It seems that over the last 30 or 40 years the idea has taken hold that there can be no peaceful or productive future for Europe without the European Union.
Contending that "narcopolitics" had taken hold in the country, he said that he had compiled the names of 5,000 village leaders and 6,000 police officers involved in the narcotics business.
Scholars identify the idea of legitimate opposition as having taken hold sometime in the 19th century, when Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren created the first mass-based political party.
Consumption in the latest quarter was stronger than economists predicted and net exports, helped by the weak lira, also limited the annual contraction, suggesting a recovery may have taken hold.
Opinion Columnist According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable.
And Mr. Buttigieg's candidacy is exposing tensions that have been papered over during the period of relative unity and common purpose that has taken hold since President Trump took office.
A view seems to have taken hold in Washington that the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford have let red-state Senate Democrats off the hook.
Rift in Canada: Election results showed that, as in other Western nations, an urban versus rural split and increasing regionalism have taken hold in a country known for social cohesion.
"The kind of fear and freeze that has taken hold in terms of economic activity is likely to persist," said George Magnus, a research associate at Oxford University's China Center.
A rumor has taken hold in the neighborhood that Bill O'Reilly, the recently deposed Fox News host, has contributed an eye-popping portion of the funds needed for the centennial.
For the first time since 2002, when president George W. Bush called Iran part of the "axis of evil," a sense of relative normalcy had taken hold of the capital.
But Big Blue revenue grew in January for the first time in 23 quarters, perhaps a sign that the company's pivot to analytics, cloud, mobile and security has taken hold.
Some experts theorize that falling cigarette-smoking rates are cutting into a key gateway to drugs, or that antidrug education campaigns, long a largely failed enterprise, have finally taken hold.
Although no one can seem to pinpoint what, exactly, is causing a mysterious hum that has plagued residents of Windsor, Ontario, for years, one theory in particular has taken hold.
The Night King is still very mysterious The reason why this theory has taken hold with so many people is simple — the Night King is an important but mysterious character.
Mandelbrot says communications issues usually start after a campaign ends, and at that point, the project's creator has taken hold of backers' money — so there's no easy way to grant refunds.
The decline in working days in recent years has coincided with a slide in Americans' approval rating for the legislature as the reputation of a "do-nothing" Congress has taken hold.
However much we'd like to move past the bitter partisanship that has taken hold in the past few years, moving our country forward isn't about harking back to a bygone era.
I can't help but wonder where we would be in the war on terror or race relations if a hyper-partisanship fueled, in part, by Clinton's personal faults hadn't taken hold.
But according to San Jose's mayor, who quit the committee in protest today, the telecommunications industry has taken hold of the initiative, advancing its own interests at the expense of consumers.
" In Britain, the phenomenon hasn't taken hold with the same effect as in other countries, but "the conditions that enable a fake news industry to thrive could be gaining ground here.
Nonetheless, Apple's approach has spurred development in several markets where the mobile payments industry had previously not taken hold - giving it the jump on rivals Google's Android Pay and Samsung Pay.
The Russia theories haven't taken hold among Democrats in nearly the same way that countless right-wing theories—like those about Barack Obama or Seth Rich—have gripped the Republican imagination.
Regardless of who organised the killing, the fact that it took place in Ukraine speaks to the atmosphere of impunity that has taken hold in the country since the Maidan revolution.
Shum has been a figurehead in the more integrated approach to research that has taken hold at Microsoft during the tenure of CEO Satya Nadella, who replaced Steve Ballmer in 2014.
Walmart customers will be able to read the books through Rakuten Kobo e-reading devices — which have not taken hold with Americans the way Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook have.
Dima King, who arrived in the United States last year, is seeking asylum because of the anti-gay persecution and legislation that have taken hold in his native Russia since 2013.
Few predict flag football will replace tackle football at the high school and college level anytime soon, but the game has taken hold in some of the sport's most traditional strongholds.
Meanwhile, as Variety exclusively learned, the upcoming season of "The Bachelorette," featuring newly unveiled star Clare Crawley, has canceled plans to film in Italy, where the outbreak has also taken hold.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Even before the shock of last week's deadly Brussels bombings, gallows humor had taken hold in the square kilometer around Schuman Roundabout, the heart of the city's European district.
It was the lowest monthly gain since May when just 46,000 were created, the fewest since 0003, and continues a trend of decelerating job growth that has taken hold this year.
But the ad also not-so-subtly fuels a critique of Mr. Rubio as superficial, one that has taken hold somewhat since his awkward repetition of talking points at last Saturday's debate.
His level of support suggests that the Schlafly line of thinking has taken hold among some in the Democratic Party too, even though he probably lacks the support to win the nomination.
The tangible, violent ways the mist has taken hold of the town read as reminders of nature's strength, a clue as to where the show will head over the season's second half.
Speaking at the U.S. Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole conference last week, ECB President Mario Draghi argued that while growth has taken hold, patience was still needed for inflation to rise to target.
MAP threshold In the cloud era, the idea of the minimum viable product (or MVP) has taken hold — that collection of software features which has just enough value to seek initial customers.
It's been a few days since the shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, but already a new level of shooter conspiracy theories has taken hold, including on YouTube's own platform.
Over the past 18 months the company has grown significantly, moving from just 18 employees to 150 as its open-source software development approach to security has taken hold in the marketplace.
If Trumpism endures beyond the man himself, the policy battles of the next four years will seems insignificant compared to the false, revisionist history that will have taken hold of Obama's legacy.
Over the last few years the Internet of Things craze has slowly but surely taken hold — and every company you can imagine wants to bring your stuff into a Jetsons-esque future.
And that is a scandal, both because it can be prevented by a single inoculation and also because yellow fever now risks spreading to Asia, where it has never before taken hold.
All that said, the idea that Slenderman Sonic was a false flag information psy-op has taken hold not only online but also within the hallowed walls of the VICE Media newsroom.
Murphy and Callan were arguing over whether a "zero-tolerance" attitude has taken hold in our culture -- one in which an accuser points a finger and the accused is automatically deemed guilty.
It would be an understatement to say that Savemoney have merely taken hold of 2016; the Chicago collective has defined its sound, imposed their own melodies onto hip-hop almost single-handedly.
The competing positions have taken hold on Trump's coronavirus task force after Trump -- having heard from business leaders and Republican allies -- began agitating for a loosening of his guidelines over the weekend.
This perspective is still a bit lacking in the extreme metal narrative, and is so important now that right-wing extremism has taken hold in so many countries (including both of ours).
In particular, a series of scare campaigns and political backflips has meant no form of carbon pricing has taken hold, and even emissions intensity schemes and clean energy targets have been rejected.
A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote.
His first book—I published it in 1913—had taken hold like a Long Island sand crab and at that time psychic research had nowhere near the vogue it has at present.
It was the lowest monthly gain since May when just 2175,2000 jobs were created, the fewest since 2131, and continues a trend of decelerating job growth that has taken hold this year.
This is perhaps not as satisfying as the "Bush lied, people died" bumper sticker history that has since taken hold on much of the left and elements of the Tea Party right.
There is no evidence at this point of the Trump administration backing off from this ACO program, which has taken hold in the American health care system over the past few years.
Consumer normalization trends have taken hold, with card losses increasing 33710771 basis points (bps) year over year, to 33711% in the first half of 21750 (21000H2110), but management's medium target remains around 21000%.
And sometimes there are just weird myths that have randomly taken hold and refuse to go away (like the idea that you need to drink eight glasses of water a day — you don't).
But by the time news of the actual motivations of the shooter were shared by authorities, a false narrative had already taken hold thanks to right-wing commentators, websites, YouTubers, and other sources.
Shortly after announcing the execution of Sheikh Nimr on Saturday, Saudi Arabia said it was ending a two-and-a-half-week-old cease-fire in Yemen that had never really taken hold.
READ: Turkey strikes ISIS, Kurds in northern Syria The United States has urged both Turkey and the YPG to focus their attacks on ISIS, and a tenuous truce appears to have taken hold.
But it also means that a force increasingly sceptical of Western defence and security policy has taken hold at the heart of British politics at a time when such matters are newly sensitive.
The idea of "collectives" has taken hold in dance music, based on the notion that a squad of ten has more power than an individual, but Desert Hearts is a squad of thousands.
In America today, the words "Sandy Hook" have become a shorthand not just for the shooting but for the culture of shameful inaction that has taken hold in the wake of the shooting.
South Bend residents are more likely to point to Buttigieg's ineffable qualities as mayor, his ability to listen, and the shift in outlook that they believe has taken hold since he entered office.
It's only in recent years, when even tenured academics have been pushed to finally unionize in the face of stark budget cuts, that the concept of academic labor as labor has taken hold.
Noah, who also captained the team to titles in 1991 and 1996, said the key to success was to end the "losing culture" that he said had taken hold of the French team.
In this picture-book village on Long Island Sound, where owners of the generously proportioned Tudors and Dutch Colonials have long been overwhelmingly Democratic, a sense of political immediacy has clearly taken hold.
And it is responsible for keeping healthy more than a million active-duty service members around the world, including the ones overseas and in the United States where the coronavirus has taken hold.
Accounts of sexual harassment and assault have toppled man after man in workplace after workplace as the #MeToo movement has taken hold, but quantifying its scope has often proved elusive or politically charged.
But more than 20 years after Mr. Wallace's death in a killing that remains unsolved, the gentrification that has taken hold in the Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods has complicated his legacy.
Yet the long-held myth of America liberating Iran with military force appears to have taken hold in the Trump administration — and it could potentially cause more problems with Tehran down the line.
Given Mr. Scaramucci's tough language about leakers, and his decision to push out one assistant press secretary, his tweet added to a sense of foreboding that has taken hold in the White House.
That stark realization has taken hold in high-level White House meetings, during which some administration officials have voiced concerns the coronavirus is already spreading undetected within U.S. borders, two officials told POLITICO.
While the idea of rerunning the Brexit referendum a second time had taken hold in London, it sounded to voters in Bolsover, Leavers and Remainers alike, like a serious threat to democratic legitimacy.
By the time the monarchy was restored in 21919, the idea had taken hold that the spaces should be open to the public, a concept that was eventually enshrined in law in 217.
If you find yourself focusing on the down side of situations, judging others and feeling cynical, it's clear that negativity has taken hold and it's time for you to do something about it.
" Charles A. Kupchan, an adviser on European affairs during the Obama administration, said the new laws were "yet another sign of the rising tide of illiberalism that has taken hold in Central Europe.
Ms. Geraghty and her allies are now pressuring Atlanta to embrace a national wave of bail reform that has already taken hold in places like Chicago, Houston, New Jersey and, most recently, Alaska.
Bullion prices hit a 2818-1/2-month high following comments from the head of the European Central Bank at a meeting of central bankers that the euro zone's economic recovery had taken hold.
Instead, a sense of togetherness and true belief that they are as good as – if not better – than most Championship opponents has taken hold of a group of players seemingly on the way up.
A new breed of premen have taken hold of Yogya—gangs of young men who use intimidation and force to shut down events held by the city's sizable population of liberal artists and activists.
The cyber virus is believed to have first taken hold in Ukraine before spreading globally where it locked machines and demanded victims post a ransom worth $300 in bitcoins or lose their data entirely.
In England, which has the national team that regularly draws the largest crowd, the conviction has taken hold that it does not matter that much anymore, that the club game is the sport's engine.
Now discontent and infighting have taken hold, in part because Mr. Sessions was so determined to carry out that transformation that he ignored dissent, two dozen current and former career department lawyers told us.
The apocalyptic fear aroused by the recent destructive hurricanes is the latest manifestation of the mounting dread that has taken hold in the American mind-set about the implications of our steadily warming planet.
Porn chic is making adult films lucrative and mainstream crossover viable, the effort to "clean up" Times Square hasn't quite taken hold, and police corruption has allowed the parlors and the peeps to flourish.
But hip-hop's outlaw mythology has always been strong; because of that, among other reasons, the self-cleaning of suspected abusers that has swept through other industries hasn't yet taken hold in hip-hop.
Shock, anxiety and anger naturally had taken hold, and perhaps because the White House wanted to avoid emotional displays of hurt, resentment and demands for action on gun control, Trump never spoke in public.
The national rage over corruption that is imperiling the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party has taken hold in Aguascalientes, and citizens who could once be counted on to vote conservatively now appear ready to flip.
It was December now, though winter hadn't yet really taken hold; the sun was out and the weather was mild, it wasn't unpleasant to stand for a bit and browse the books on display.
Combined with the recent vandalism at Jewish cemeteries in Missouri and Pennsylvania, the calls have stoked fears that a virulent anti-Semitism has increasingly taken hold in the early days of the Trump administration.
The idea of the 13th day of the month being unlucky may have first taken hold in ancient Greece, around 700 BC, when the poet Hesiod penned a farmer's almanac called Works and Days.
"We all have circumstances in our lives where a nasty notion has taken hold of our brains and we cause ourselves a lot of hurt as we try to figure it out," Cox says.
A theory has taken hold in tech: Apple's devotion to privacy will handicap it during the next major wave of computing, where artificial intelligence like voice interaction, personal assistants and automation take center stage.
"What's happening right now has nothing to do with bitcoin's functionality as a currency – this is pure mania that's taken hold," said Garrick Hileman, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.
The anti-globalization movement has taken hold in other countries as well, with the U.K. voting to withdraw from the European Union and rightist Marine LePen showing a strong chance of becoming France's next president.
Similar narratives have taken hold about anti-Muslim violence, anti-immigrant violence and misogyny.... But it is not clear that we can accuse the president of ushering in a new era of heightened anti-Semitism.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday he doubted whether Donald Trump could undo much of the current administration's record on the environment because so many green policies have firmly taken hold.
In effect, ECB officials argue, a broad sense of uncertainty regarding U.S. trade policy, Brexit, and other risks has now taken hold and begun to erode the economic outlook more severely the longer it persists.
After uncharacteristic early-season struggles from the mid-range, George has recently taken hold of one area on the floor he's long felt extremely comfortable, shooting an elite 103 percent over his last 20 games.
The brand's taken hold of the activewear space over the last few years, and it's catchy "Doing Things" motto has become an Instagram caption go-to for practically every millennial wearing its signature matching set.
It could even be argued that a domino effect of coal mining bankruptcies has taken hold, as the urgency of already-bankrupt companies to pay off creditors has kept coal mine output from falling sufficiently.
"We came from a war and now we're in a slower war," said Malek Haj Mohamed, 23, who fled with her brother Yasir from Raqqa, a Syrian city where the Islamic State has taken hold.
There is a stock narrative of the Rust Belt—the former industrial bedrock of the United States which stretches from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest—that has taken hold in American popular culture.
Raising pay for 10 million federal employees would not destabilize prices, the report said, while low inflation has taken hold, leaving room for the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates further if needed.
Coronavirus fears hadn't yet fully taken hold when the jobs survey was completed in mid-February, so economists had expected that a reasonably large number of jobs were added to the US economy last month.
Well before the current outbreak, a global tendency to build walls and seal off national borders — between the United States and Mexico, Israel and Palestine, Hungary and Serbia and Croatia and elsewhere — had taken hold.
Guests arrive to pick up their keys and receive a laminated map directing them from the cafe to their accommodation—a model imported from the US, where sharing economy support services have already taken hold.
In a patriarchal society where the #MeToo movement has not taken hold, some officials have suggested that women bring rape or sexual harassment on themselves by wearing provocative clothing, prompting protests under the hashtag #Don'tTellMeHowToDress.
While the vast majority of those are still in China, where the infections first surfaced, major outbreaks have also taken hold in South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy, and cases are climbing in other countries.
Republicans have long felt that the left has unfairly taken hold of environmentalism and that conservatives who care about clean air and clean water need to reclaim the movement and be recognized for their contributions.
From the vicious machete murder of four teenagers to the childhood best friends stabbed and beaten to death simply walking down the street, MS-13's violence has taken hold in our communities and festered.
He is the next level of anti-politician politician, quintessentially political but running against what he sees as the counterproductive outrage that seems to have taken hold in American politics, particularly in the Trump era.
He is the next level of anti-politician politician, quintessentially political but running against what he sees as the counterproductive outrage that seems to have taken hold in American politics, particularly in the Trump era.
And while awareness about drug abuse helps, it means little if there is no policy change or funding for affordable rehabilitation centers to stop addiction before it begins or curtail it after it has taken hold.
It's not surprising that, in light of the horror of the border crisis and amplified by progressive activists outside of the immigrants' rights movement, the idea of abolishing ICE has taken hold in the Trump era.
They follow a trend of increased anti-Muslim violence that's taken hold since last year, when Trump announced his candidacy and, not long after, called for a "total and complete shutdown" on Muslims entering the country.
In a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump kicked off a concerted effort to reshape the narrative of a chaotic transition that has taken hold in the week since he won the election.
" Maybe one reason the idea hasn't taken hold in the past decade is reflected in a doctor's comment in the article that "the coat is part of what defines me, and I couldn't function without it.
In The Atlantic, Adam Serwer writes that while what seemed to be a bourgeoning white nationalist movement has collapsed in the wake of Charlottesville, the groups' extremist ideology has taken hold within the mainstream Republican Party.
At the time, the panic surrounding the coronavirus had not yet taken hold in the US. As of January 20, there were 217 confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease and three confirmed deaths, all in China.
"One is that multilateral institutions and agreements have been waning while the more nationalist politics has taken hold (entailing) more protectionism, less liberal multilateralism so that could be a problem when responding to risk," he said.
But the meltdown of one of the bank's volatility products last week and two recent U.S. lawsuits over activities before and just after Thiam took charge have raised questions about how far his strategy has taken hold.
The idea has taken hold that a woman should get the job, because none has done it before; and that she should be from eastern Europe, because that part of the world has never had the honour.
The intrigue: A new and instantly controversial essay in Foreign Affairs by Jeffrey Ball argues that carbon pricing — via taxes or emissions-trading — has been ineffective as an emissions-curbing tool worldwide where it has taken hold.
Their goal: to team up with the Guatemalan attorney general's office, strengthen the rule of law and combat the criminal networks that had taken hold after the country emerged from more than three decades of civil war.
That her oldest daughter began to worry that she was getting a contact high while she was doing her homework made me despair for a generation and suggested that perhaps a certain unwarranted hysteria had taken hold.
While automation has taken hold in factories for cars and other products, the company's chief executive, Amar Hanspal, said machines have eluded electronics assemblers because they can take months to program and electronics designs change too quickly.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German investigators are investigating four students at a military university in Munich on suspicion of far-right links, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday, fuelling concerns that extremist networks have taken hold in the Bundeswehr.
The basic idea behind a D.B.C.F.T. (to use the abbreviation that has taken hold in a particularly nerdy corner of Twitter) is this: Right now companies are taxed based on their income generated in the United States.
Tit-for-tat attacks between the two groups in late 2017 and early 2018 killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands more to flee their homes, but a tenuous calm had taken hold until this month.
Many people who live and work in the area said they would welcome the new service, though some raised concerns that it could accelerate development in the largely Latino and black neighborhood where gentrification has already taken hold.
The big picture: While Apple Pay and other mobile-money platforms have been slow to grow in the U.S., with only 20%–30% of iPhone users enabling Apple Pay, a cashless economy has taken hold in unexpected places.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - Complex, automated, and high-speed trading strategies have taken hold in virtually every financial market as the days of open-outcry trading on exchange floors or trading pits fade into the past.
That may have led in part to recent high-profile attacks, but the intelligence community has been tracking the trend for over a year, watching as potential networks of external operatives have taken hold in Brussels and Paris.
Four million people were unemployed across Britain, miners and factory workers were being told they were a part of history, and a selfish form of right-wing politics embodied by Margaret Thatcher had taken hold of my country.
But it also means that a force increasingly confident in its scepticism of Western defence and security policy has taken hold at the heart of British politics at a time when such matters are newly live and sensitive.
But the strategy — also called adaptive reuse — is a trend that has recently taken hold in New Jersey, although it can sometimes face as many financing and bureaucratic hurdles as developing a vacant lot, affordable housing experts say.
We know that the ancient humans and Neanderthals — a human cousin that had already successfully taken hold outside of Africa — were getting it on regularly somewhere around 65,000 years ago, possibly even as much as 803,000 years ago.
The imposition of leaders with little or no experience in the industry has further disillusioned some of the company's experienced professionals and accelerated an exodus that had already taken hold as economic and social conditions in Venezuela worsened.
A distrust of immunization had long ago taken hold in some sectors of the Hasidic community, but this year various religious neighborhoods in Brooklyn were hit with a propaganda campaign meant to breed even more skepticism and fear.
An internal debate has taken hold on how far to extend mandatory restrictions on travel and movement, with some officials warning that further attempts to limit Americans from traveling domestically could have a dire effect on the economy.
But even as these measures have taken hold in some places, beverage companies and plastics lobbyists have successfully beaten back other initiatives like bottle bills in large part because of the costs it would impose on the industry.
Tit-for-tat attacks between the two groups in late 2017 and early 2018 killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands more to flee their homes, but a tenuous calm had taken hold until last June.
Analysts expect the American company's sales to contract 16 percent in the current financial year, while operating margins are ticking downward in part because of the heavy discounting that has taken hold among retailers in the United States.
A final communique set out the prisoner exchange and a renewed commitment to implement an existing ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region that has never fully taken hold as well as enhanced powers for international ceasefire monitors.
The baby had taken hold of one of her legs and was trying to guide her fat foot into her mouth, an activity she now suspended in order to smile very prettily at her half sibling's blotchy face.
One is about the way that we treat each other and the way that hostile partisanship has taken hold over our minds, and the other about how we can expand our circle of moral concern to nonhuman animals.
While borrowing fashion from the opposite sex is hardly a new premise — Owens, for one, has used inventive draping and tailoring to create an androgynous, genderless tribe since 2002 — it's a concept that's really taken hold in recent seasons.
The virus is believed to have first taken hold on Tuesday in Ukraine where it silently infected computers after users downloaded a popular tax accounting package or visited a local news site, national police and international cyber experts said.
Regardless of spin, the narrative has taken hold, and the now decades-old effort to bolster a market for women-specific gun accessories is a wave that specialty designers — including concealed carry handbag company Cameleon Bags — continue to ride.
It's necessary to keep Bitcoin on hand — which currently exchanges for about $1,800 per unit — because government agencies don't necessarily have a fix for institutions once hackers have taken hold of their files, and its cybercriminals' preferred payment method.
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, speaking late on Friday, said ECB policy is working and the euro zone's economic recovery has taken hold even if more time is needed to lift inflation to the bank's 2-percent target.
The vote also represents a bi-partisan drift away from policy positions that favored digital privacy, which had taken hold in the three years since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the breadth of government surveillance programs.
"While dollar/yen hasn't fallen greatly and things aren't in panic mode, a sense of caution about where things are going has taken hold," said Shusuke Yamada, chief Japan currency and equity strategist at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch.
Since hackers have taken hold of Grey Sloan's medical records, the doctors have to get to the bottom of problem the old fashion way: running around the hospital until they track down the correct nurse to answer their question.
Mr. Brown's approach is very different from the techniques of industrial-scale farming that have taken hold in the United States and other wealthy countries, where single crops stretch over many acres, and fertilizers and pesticides are used heavily.
Carsten Brzeski, an economist at ING-Diba, called the Ifo report a "wake-up call" for the German economy, which has looked increasingly vulnerable as a slowdown in emerging countries like China has taken hold, unsettling global financial markets.
As unusual as the suggestion was, it reflected an equally remarkable dynamic that has taken hold in the Trump era: the fact that so many former senior intelligence officials are willing to regularly criticize the sitting president in public.
JERUSALEM — A tentative cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza appeared to have taken hold Monday morning, bringing a short but deadly bout of cross-border fighting to an end as abruptly as it had started.
A somewhat surprising issue that has taken hold late in the session is the creation of a commission to look into complaints about prosecutorial misconduct, which caused a spirited debate on the Senate floor last week, winning bipartisan passage.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday banned mass gatherings until May at the earliest, and its prime minister said the coronavirus epidemic had taken hold in the country for the foreseeable future as a second wave of infections spread.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday banned mass gatherings until May at the earliest, and its prime minister said the coronavirus epidemic had taken hold in the country for the foreseeable future as a second wave of infections spread.
A good friend of mine and I are huge fans of apocalyptic movies and shows, so we started to shoot the breeze about how a zombie virus had taken hold in China and would soon spread across the globe.
But the recession had taken hold, and the property remained unsold and padlocked until Jim Morton, the track manager at the time, put together enough money to rent the speedway so the Turkey Derby could be run that November.
A fear has taken hold, made all the more pressing by the absence, for now, of tangible aftereffects and the conviction that the government has not told the "full truth," a phrase repeated by a number of the demonstrators.
Much depends on which personality — the 9-year-old Hedwig, the bossy Patricia, the naughty Dennis — has taken hold, and whether Shyamalan is after laughs or shudders, both of which he routinely coaxes out in "Glass" until he doesn't.
The longer this lasts the greater the danger of it becoming baked into firms' price and pay decisions, a negative feedback loop that has already taken hold in neighbor New Zealand where annual inflation slowed to just 0.4 percent last quarter.
Wong, who was born in Hong Kong, educated in Canada and is now based in Shanghai, said Starbucks might break into 10-15 new urban markets in China every year, while continuing its penetration in megacities where it has taken hold.
There are plenty of theories swirling in the lead-up to Sunday night's Game of Thrones series finale, but one that's taken hold in many a fan's imagination is that Daenerys wasn't the one to go mad after all, but Drogon.
Cards were mostly responsible for the change as they grabbed a 39.4 percent market share last year compared to 33.4 percent in 2014, mirroring a global trend that has long taken hold in many other countries including Sweden and Britain.
And yet, since John Pemberton tried out his carbonated concoction on the customers of a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia—now the fabled home of Coca-Cola, as his brew came to be called—the syrupy fizz has taken hold, seemingly ineradicably.
The case provides a rare glimpse into the Mexican heroin trade that's taken hold in Florida, where opioid-related deaths have reached record levels in the aftermath of high-profile crackdowns on so-called "pill mills" that shill prescription drugs.
Han specifically did not rule out another test in his interview with the AP.  The comments from the North Korean government are part of escalated tensions between the isolated nation and the West that have taken hold since Trump took office.
The vote was seen as reflective of a bipartisan drift away from policy positions that favored digital privacy, which had taken hold in the three years since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the breadth of government surveillance programs.
To Trump's credit, he did tell the Globe and Mail in March 2007 before the housing crisis had truly taken hold that he had gotten the most "underleveraged" in his life, which if true, turned out to be a good call.
LONDON (Reuters) - Scrub typhus, a deadly disease common in southeast Asia and spread by microscopic biting mites known as chiggers, has now taken hold in a part of South America and may have become endemic there, scientists said on Wednesday.
Originally generated in response to fears about weapons in schools, zero-tolerance policies, especially in New York, where Rudolph W. Giuliani's "broken windows" theory had taken hold, signaled to educators that crackdowns on unruliness of all kinds were in order.
During this past 13 years, Facebook and the social media revolution have taken off and taken hold, powerful smartphones found their way into a few billion people's pockets and the way we all interact online has grown richer and more engrossing.
In the internet age, when big data has taken hold of nearly every web-based service, from banking to dating apps, the ability to access third-party data to power your app is both a tremendously powerful and common business practice.
It's part of the Keep it in the Ground movement, a project that's taken hold in recent years to pressure the federal government to stop fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters, and to eventually stop fossil fuel production altogether.
Bohemianism had already taken hold of the famous neighborhood with émigrés such as herself leading a furious pace of artistic production and numerous locally produced magazines including Modern Art Collector, Bruno's Weekly, and Playboy: A Portfolio of Art and Satire.
The American Federation of Teachers, an education trade union, has opposed training teachers and other school personnel — an idea that has also taken hold in Missouri — saying it would not keep children safe but instead flood schools with more guns.
Neo-fascist and white-supremacist groups have become more visible and assertive in Europe and the United States as a sense of alienation in a globalized world has taken hold, and as Middle Eastern and North African refugees have flooded Europe.
There was no sign that the cease-fire had taken hold, and it was not clear what effect the Russian announcement might have given the numerous players in the conflict — most notably those supporting the Syrian government, and Iranian-backed forces.
Fox News on Tuesday retracted a story linking the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member with the email hacks that aided President Trump's campaign, effectively quashing a conspiracy theory that had taken hold across the right-wing news media.
Turkey, which for years has backed Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad, agreed a truce with Russia that was supposed to have taken hold in the bastion of 3 million people in the northwest earlier this month.
This idea of contracting, even if at the high level, has really taken hold among tech companies, which use it indiscriminately across all their different things, from cooks to ... And they ... They're sort of a second-class citizen of these economies.
Already, fund-raising requests flood Democrats' inboxes, a reflection of the frenzy around small-dollar donations that has taken hold as candidates try to court the party's base by rejecting corporate and big-dollar donations — at least for the primary contest.
As the #MeToo and Time's Up movements have taken hold over the past year, and as studios have moved to an aggressive zero-tolerance behavioral policy as a result, some people are starting to contemplate what constitutes a proper response.
At the meeting in Jackson Hole in the United States, the ECB's Mario Draghi said the bank's ultra-loose monetary policy was working and that the euro zone's economic recovery has taken hold, refraining from commenting on the euro's recent strength.
Had the plan been picked by Amazon, the company would have taken hold in office space located in Post Office Plaza and Terminal Tower—a historic, 52-story building located in the heart of downtown Cleveland near the shore of Lake Erie.
With a risk-averse mood having taken hold across markets this week on doubts over Trump's ability to deliver fiscal and economic reforms, the greenback has slipped 1.4 percent against the yen.. On Friday, the dollar was up 0.14 percent at 111.08 yen.
Howell welcomed the lawsuit as a critique of a type of urban planning that has taken hold in many developed countries, one she said is characterized by "desperation" for development and a lack of clarity on who exactly the planning is for.
The so-called "black protest" was one of the most striking signs yet of resistance to the cultural conservatism that has taken hold in Poland since the installation last year of a government led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
By the summer of 2012, a freewheeling feel had taken hold along Turkey's border with Syria as the gulf nations funneled cash and weapons to rebel groups — even some that American officials were concerned had ties to radical groups like Al Qaeda.
An Obama-era regulation that helped students who were deceived by for-profit colleges have their loans forgiven has taken hold after a federal judge ruled it be implemented immediately despite delays by the Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, CNN reports.
It wasn't enough to close the gap against equality, but it was enough to motivate 38% of Australians to vote No. In Britain, fears unleashed by the bathroom scare have also taken hold, particularly over plans to update the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
The drawdown in expectations has its origins in many of the same factors that economists say could cause an unexpected economic recession: overhang from the trade war and fears that damage from the Fed's contentious rate hiking cycle has already taken hold.
Even though vegetarianism and veganism have taken hold in the Istanbul's hipster neighborhoods like Cihangir and Karaköy, all you need to do is explore a bit of the country to understand that the meatless revolution won't be sweeping through Turkey anytime soon.
Look, it's not that easy to summarize something that is crystallized stupidity brought to life so here it is in full: The theory that this is a deep-state psy-op has taken hold in many of the circles of the alt-right.
These viruses, once foreign to the Americas, pose a substantial concern The outbreak is reminiscent of dengue, which was once considered a mainly Asian disease; it has taken hold in the tropical Americas, becoming a big problem in the years since the 1990s.
Had Mr Obama punished Bashar al-Assad for crossing the "red line" by using chemical weapons against his own people, as Mr Obama had promised, the author believes that the regime might have fallen and IS would not have taken hold in Syria.
By contrast, most Democrats were reluctant to press maximal advantage—by letting middle class taxes increase automatically—because a protracted fight would have harmed millions of workers and threatened a new recession, just as the recovery from the last one had taken hold.
It's flown under the radar, but at a time when the nation's commitment to democracy seems under attack, a growing effort from groups on the right and the left to open up the U.S. Constitution to changes, including radical ones, has taken hold.
More than five years after overwhelming numbers filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, deposing President Hosni Mubarak, and three years since the military crackdown that ousted the elected Muslim Brotherhood president and jailed protesters by the thousands, a fitness craze has taken hold.
"As overall aid money to Afghanistan has decreased, a new mind-set of entrepreneurship has taken hold," said Ahmad Fahim Didar, the director of the new Afghan chapter of Startup Grind, a global start-up community that works with Google for Entrepreneurs.
But it is the recent surge in street crime that has most unnerved city officials and residents, who worry that an embarrassing spike in lawlessness could dent the pride and euphoria that have taken hold here since the Summer Games began last week.
An admirable impulse to own the moral high ground, never "stoop to the enemy's level" and exercise all diplomatic efforts before, during and after a war has taken hold of all levels of the US government, but the results are often counterproductive.
For the past several years, a certain cultural panic around the drinking habits of affluent, educated women has taken hold, with no obvious corollary for men from a similar demographic position, even though the men seem to be causing all the trouble.
Overall, reservations made through the online platform Resy were reportedly down 20 percent across the U.S. on Wednesday evening when Wayson was let go, and even more in cities where the coronavirus has already taken hold, like Seattle and New York City.
But sexual abuse was not the main focus of his speech at Dublin Castle, where he spoke, among other things, of the peace that has taken hold on the island since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended decades of sectarian fighting.
I'd last visited Catskill a couple of years before, and here was my first indication that since then, a new energy had taken hold in this small town of 4,19803 set in the Hudson Valley, where Catskill Creek meets the Hudson River.
Also on Tuesday, Fox News retracted a story linking the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member with the email breach that aided Mr. Trump's campaign, effectively quashing a conspiracy theory that had taken hold in the right-wing news media.
He had found a trip there 10 years earlier disappointing (it included a tour by "an inebriated caretaker and his dog," he wrote), but by 2001 Ms. Puccini's restoration efforts had taken hold, and she and the museum left him favorably impressed.
"Our risk-based model of credit pricing makes a decision to grow in this or that segment more a function of a wide array of variables, not simply on whether a recovery has taken hold," Marcelo Kopel, Itaú's investor relations head, said on the call.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has taken hold of the kitchen, thanks to start-ups such as Silicon Valley-based Innit, which has created a cloud-based "kitchen platform" that connects to smart kitchen appliances in order to tell the user what to cook. Really.
The letter said men should be "free to hit on" women and criticised a new "puritanism" that has taken hold following feminist social media campaigns like #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc (Call out your pig), its French equivalent, and painted a picture of all women as "victims".
A number of analysts predict that the continuing pattern of slower growth that has taken hold since the Great Recession could cause stock market returns to fall from 7%, the annual average since about 1950, to a possible 5% in the decades to come.
It came after Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, and with President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow last week to discuss Syria and the preservation of a partial cease-fire that has taken hold in some areas.
An atmosphere of mistrust had quickly taken hold at the top levels of law enforcement: Mr. McCabe believed that Mr. Rosenstein should recuse himself from any investigation into Mr. Comey's firing because of his role in it, according to people familiar with Mr. McCabe's thinking.
With the sick being herded into makeshift quarantine camps, with minimal medical care, a growing sense of abandonment and fear has taken hold in Wuhan, fueling the sense that the city and surrounding province of Hubei are being sacrificed for the greater good of China.
But the idea that has taken hold of too much of the writing class—that writers who see a question in black and white are inherently less serious and thoughtful than those who see shades of gray—has taken us radically in the opposite direction.
H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump's national security adviser, played a central role in President Barack Obama's effort in Afghanistan as the leader of one of the American task forces that sought to root out the rampant corruption that had taken hold in the Afghan government.
But since a joint visit by the German and French foreign ministers to Ukraine's capital last week, a gloomier view has taken hold: that political dysfunction in Kiev has all but doomed the chances of it delivering on its own commitments under the peace agreement.
A more modern take on the tradition has taken hold in the US and Europe where inebriated men dress up in devilish costumes and gallivant though the streets for Krampuslauf (Krampus run), a 1,500 year-old pagan ritual to chase off the ghosts of winter.
Tech is moving beyond cities to focus on civic engagement in every U.S. county While gridlock has taken hold in a paralyzed Washington, D.C. mayors across the country are taking a pragmatic approach to solving local problems and its time for tech to reach out to them.
Still, CEO Ginni Rometty's efforts to turn around the 105-year-old company haven't fully taken hold just yet: The Global Business Services unit, which focuses mainly on tech consulting and accounts for about 20 percent of sales, has posted revenue declines for seven straight quarters.
Furthermore, the idea that electors would be chosen by the state-level popular vote took on very quickly, and half a century after the founding, mass democracy had taken hold and looked very different than what the clunky system set up in Article II might have anticipated.
Seretse and Ruth are forced to defend their relationship both in Britain and in Seretse's native Bechuanaland; speaking to his tribespeople, he tearfully implores them to resist the "racialist disease" that had already taken hold in South Africa, and asks them to accept Ruth as his wife.
"That the media is even calling this sexual assault is a testament to how far the conversation has progressed: Women's rights activists have demanded that reporters not use euphemisms like 'groping' or 'sex' for sexual assault and rape, and that seems to have taken hold," she said.
But even though Niño's been drinking and driving all year, it can't account for the freakish hot spell that's taken hold in the Arctic, where temperatures averaged 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal in some places last month, leading to a new record-low for sea ice.
"What has struck me with each visit is how this epidemic has touched so many people -- whether it is because of personal use, or that of family members, friends, coworkers or neighbors -- opioid addiction is an illness that has truly taken hold of our country," she said.
Bitter cold weather has taken hold of much of the northern United States and is expected to stay put for days to come as two Minnesota cities already have set record low temperatures and a city in Pennsylvania continues to dig out from a record snowfall.
But the scientists at Imperial said new data from Italy — where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to have taken hold one or two weeks earlier than in the UK — showed that demand for intensive care units among those being hospitalised was much higher than initially believed.
News of the agreement came as the House Judiciary Committee debated articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump, and was the latest instance of an odd dynamic that has taken hold on Capitol Hill, where a year-end burst of compromise has broken out amid the partisan rancor.
LONDON — Last fall an energy company began a hydraulic fracturing operation in northwest England that it hoped would be a milestone in creating a new, domestic source of natural gas for Britain — in much the same way that fracking has taken hold in the United States.
He, along with Kendrick Lamar and Drake, the two most powerful and influential young rappers in music, were offered performance spots on the show but turned them down, reflecting the alienation from the Grammys that has taken hold among much of the upper ranks of hip-hop.
Some of the stories involving Nola's female friends don't add up to much, and there were times when I, a non-Brooklynite, wanted a slightly better sense of how Fort Greene had changed between 1986 and now — how the process of gentrification had taken hold, and when.
As though to test this assumption, another kind of historical fiction has taken hold in recent years, one that moves back and forth from one period to another, or several others, in an attempt to create not a suspension of disbelief but a suspension bridge across time.
But Archie's helps dispel a myth that has taken hold — at least among some members of the press corps who descend on the state every four years to cover the presidential caucuses — that Iowans subsist on heat-lamped slices from Pizza Ranch and pork chops on a stick.
McCafferty and others said that a kind of silo effect has taken hold whereby analysts, for example in South Korea, would focus on their own companies such as Hyundai and Kia without considering how they related to Japanese competitors or fit into the broader regional and global context.
"There is a possibility that it has not taken hold in Colombia as it has in Brazil and Puerto Rico, but we're not going to know the full impact of this epidemic for several more months until we see whether additional waves of microcephaly cases are born," Hotez said.
It's been like this for a long time in the NHL, but the idea has really taken hold in recent years thanks to a combined six titles by the Penguins and Blackhawks, teams that are fast and fun and captained by two of the most boring people on Earth.
Those figures do not account for the thousands of fighters based in the caves of Afghanistan, in the scrubland of Niger and Mali, in the Sinai Desert, in lawless stretches of Libya and Yemen, and in the numerous other countries where affiliates of the group have taken hold.
While the elections will probably be acceptable by international standards, the kind of democracy that has taken hold in Iraq is a far cry from what the Bush administration could have imagined when, 15 years ago, it undertook a massive military campaign to effect a regime change in Iraq.
Though the early posters of dalgona coffee videos were based in Korea, people in Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Germany, and the United States have taken hold of the trend—all countries with cases of COVID-19 and where there are mass communal efforts toward isolation and social distancing.
We're one month into Donald Trump's presidency (no, really, it's just been one month) and a resistance has taken hold, as constituents have challenged their elected representatives in angry town halls, countless protesters have marched against Trump and his policies, and Alec Baldwin has become almost likable again.
Whether it is true or not, it has taken hold of public imagination not just because it's a move ripped straight out of Wonder Woman's playbook, but because many women are starting to have conversations about whether or not the consequences for men in Hollywood found to be abusers will stick.
Now, Wikler says, the idea has taken hold that organizations like MoveOn are recruiting people on Craigslist and paying them $1,500 a piece to yell at congressional Republicans––something that Wikler says is not only ridiculous but impossible using the conspiracy theorists' math and the fact that 100,000 people showed up.
His populist, outsider message may be at odds with his background and even with some of his policy proposals, but it has taken hold with many voters, particularly working-class Republicans who are disenchanted with the party's elite and deeply unhappy with President Obama's stands on health care and immigration.
He continues, revealingly: That freedom from ever being challenged on anything, that freedom from ever having to encounter something with which you might disagree, or something that might make you uncomfortable, something that might ridicule you — [that's] the definition of freedom that has taken hold on the left in America today.
For treatment of infections that have already taken hold, if they are in early stages, she says it's worth trying natural treatments—cranberry, D-mannose, or the herbs uva ursi, which becomes antibacterial after the body processes it, and marshmallow root, which helps soothe the urethral lining and reduce inflammation.
"In the villages and towns of Burkina Faso, the faithful of these two religions cohabit and have always lived together without problems," said Boureima Salouka, a journalist for Africanews Télévision, who believes that the strict, anti-Western version of Islam that Wahhabi extremists have increasingly pushed has not taken hold.
The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: The European Central Bank's ultra-easy monetary policy is working and the euro zone's economic recovery has taken hold even if more time is needed to lift inflation to the bank's 2 percent target, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Friday.
But now, with the apparent declining influence of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the departures of Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn, and the nomination of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state, it seems that while Mr. Bannon left in disgrace, his ideology has taken hold in Mr. Trump's mind and government.
The scale and brazenness of the assault threatened to further subvert a nominal and often violated cease-fire that had taken hold in parts of the country since Mr. Assad's forces retook the northern city of Aleppo in December with Russian help, emboldening the Syrian leader to think he could win the war.
The jeremiad, based as it was on a cyclical view of history, provided a structure in which a speaker would document just how debauched his brethren had become, how much backsliding had taken hold of a new generation, only to turn around to a call for redemption — moving from decline to reawakening.
"It is good news that drivers and occupants have seen a decline, but the increases for cyclists and pedestrians show that a new trend has taken hold where more vulnerable road users are increasingly being killed," said Angie Schmitt, former national reporter for StreetsBlog who is writing a book about the pedestrian safety crisis.
Arax describes the legal cases being filed by the attorneys representing a class of more than 1,000 people who lost property in the 2017 and 2018 fires: In their filings, each attorney traced the historic blazes to a culture of mismanagement, corruption, and cover-up that had taken hold inside PG&E decades before.
What's happening in Brooklyn and a handful of other cities reflects a movement that rejects the regressive policies of years past that have sadly taken hold anew in Washington, D.C. This movement is centered around data-driven policies that have proven effective in state after state – regardless of which political party is in power.
After Sunday's lackluster effort on the field, it looks as if such a revolt may have taken hold, and it's unclear how the Dolphins will proceed — the team could most likely continue trading away players to acquire more picks for the future, but Miami does still have to field a football team every week.
On TikTok, the video app where "Old Town Road" exploded, "The Git Up" by Blanco Brown — who is signed to the country label Broken Bow — has lately taken hold in that quasi-authentic, quasi-engineered manner of second-wave adopters (though according to Billboard, the song was recorded a year ago, before "Old Town Road").
Like his statements about Mr. Obama — which he walked away from late in the 2016 presidential campaign — Mr. Trump's claims about Ms. Rice have taken hold in the conservative news media, where she has been a target ever since her press appearances after the terrorist attack on a diplomatic outpost in Libya in September 2012.
Silicon Valley libertarians worry that the image-takedown policies instituted by social-media platforms could promote a shift toward the "right to be forgotten" regime that has taken hold in Europe, in which individuals can force a search engine to remove links to online content that they consider embarrassing—including content that they themselves posted.
Ever since the authorities used tax evasion charges to jail the notorious Chicago crime boss in 1931, the idea has taken hold that federal prosecutors work a bit like legal vigilantes: using any weapon that comes to hand to achieve their sworn mission, which is always to take down the biggest bad guys they can, by any means necessary.
While some gay dance parties have certainly lost their footing as of late, a new breed of pan-sexual, pan-gender, inclusivity-above-all events have taken hold in their stead, where the sexual tension that dominated an earlier generation of gay clubbing is a happy coincidence, rather than a focus, and marginalized communities are given space to thrive.
A quiet wager has taken hold among researchers who study AI techniques about whether someone will create a so-called Deepfake video about a political candidate that receives more than 2 million views before getting debunked by the end of 2018, writes Jeremy Tsu for IEEE Spectrum, a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Mr. Trump's private admission to having a loose grasp of the facts and his public refusal to back down from the incorrect statement — the United States has an overall surplus in trade with Canada — were vivid illustrations of the president's cavalier attitude about the truth, and a reminder of how that approach has taken hold at the White House.
As the Trump administration's sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical products have taken hold, some of the world's shipping fleets have defied the restrictions by "going dark" when they pick up cargo in Iranian ports, according to commercial analysts who track shipping data and intelligence from authorities in Israel, a country that backs the Trump crackdown.
And even where mobile money has taken hold, Peric says that it often requires the people sending the money and receiving it to be in the same country, using the same financial services firm "It wouldn't be very useful if you had a mobile phone and you could only call people on the same provider as you," Peric told Axios.
The schemes revealed in those four indictments were startling, and showed just how deeply a drug culture had taken hold in a sport whose participants claim to love their horses, how complicit horse owners were in pursuit of big purses, and how cowed the trainers were even as they groused about their crooked competitors but were afraid to hold them accountable.
Like Barack Obama, these contenders — most of them Democrats — often strain to avoid explicit discussions of race out of fear of alienating white voters, which stands in contrast to the uncompromising insurgent challengers that have taken hold in the post-Obama era like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York House candidate, or Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia.
You see, even though it's actually not—it's still totally gross and people are still embarrassed for you—acting out dramas and emotions in a public forum in your early twenties seems kind of OK; the passion of youth has taken hold and you're living it—you're Blake and Amy fighting in the street, you're Christian Slater telling it like it is in Pump Up the Volume.
Bush, in his speech, condemned a political discourse of casual cruelty that has often taken hold in our democracy, and a politics of bullying and prejudice that emboldens bigotry and bitterly divides a citizenry whose heirs are Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Martin Luther King Jr. in a nation where people of every race, religion and ethnicity should be universally respected as fully and equally American.
Consumerisation has taken hold, and apps that let users easily start and carry on a mix of serious and diverting conversations, infused with GIFs or whatever data they might need from other applications, are vying to replace other ways that people communicate in the workplace, such as email, phone conferences and in-person chats, even when people are in the same vicinity as each other.
The narrow defeat of Ms. Abrams, who would have become the first black woman to be elected governor anywhere in the United States, as well as the apparent loss of Andrew Gillum, who sought to become Florida's first black governor, at once illuminated the vestiges of Southern history and demonstrated how demographic changes have taken hold across the region and begun to reshape its politics.
But in Georgia, the campaign seems to have taken hold: Abrams will join NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue to meet Hollywood figures in Los Angeles on June 11 to talk about the "reality that employees in the state may not have full access to healthcare or the freedom to make decisions about their futures and their families, "according to the Atlantic Journal-Constitution.
There's a lot of overlap between the two records––both feature contributions from Guido, RSD, and Tectonic label boss Pinch––but where Scientist Launches Dubstep into Outer Space focused on making clear the connections between Jamaican dub and dubstep proper, the tracks highlighted on Worth the Weight offer an electronic music counter-narrative to the particular type of bro-ass dubstep that had taken hold in pop music.
PATERSON, N.J. – In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest terror attack in the U.S. Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim man accused of using a truck to mow down people on a New York City bike path in the name of the Islamic State group, lived in Paterson.
Trump's words struck at the core of the hand-wringing that has taken hold of some in his political base in recent weeks who have watched warily as Trump has softened some of his positions on China and as headlines shared insider accounts of the waning influence of Trump's chief strategist and guardian of his populist campaign promises, Steve Bannon, while the sway of moderate New Yorkers swelled.
After speaking for the second time in 24 hours with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Kerry told an audience at the Washington Ideas Festival that the US is "on the verge of suspending the discussion" with Russia, which was aimed a brokering a ceasefire that would have grounded Syrian aerial attacks on the city and paved the way for greater US-Russian cooperation on attacking terror groups who have taken hold during the civil war.
This idea has also taken hold outside of the U.S. State TV in Iran, which has been especially hard hit by the virus, broadcast the conspiracy that Coronavirus could be a bioweapon manufactured in the U.S. And Iranian TV personality Ali Akbar Raefipour was one in a handful of public figures who also suggested that the Trump Administration had unleashed the virus against Iran and China as part of a "hybrid warfare" scheme.
Over the past several years, a phenomenon has quietly taken hold in the art world, flying in the face of its consolidation and more businesslike bearing: Art book fairs have sprung up around the world, many of them as mobbed as rock concerts, packed with young and old — but mostly young — publishers and book lovers who come together for the increasingly rare chance to exchange well-made art objects (in book form) for just a few dollars.
A popular narrative has taken hold among many in the media, politics, education and other institutions, linking the foundational origins of the American experiment not to the context of the American Revolution of 1776 but to 1619, the year that enslaved Angolans arrived on the shores of colonial Jamestown, Va. In this view, all of America's current institutions, public attitudes, economics, social factors and other aspects — or, perhaps more pointedly, alleged horrors and woes — of our daily life are a result of the institutions of slavery.
In a case study, "Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom," Kearney and Riley Wilson, an economist at Brigham Young, compared nonmarital birth patterns among 237.7-1.73 year old men in two regions experiencing sudden economic gains: Appalachia during the coal boom of the 21.7s (before the full extent of the sexual and broader cultural revolutions had taken hold) and those sections of the country where fracking took off from 21965 to 22013 (when those revolutions had become firmly entrenched).
Millions of self-identified conservatives, in many cases majorities, believe that the Clintons have been involved in multiple murders, Sharia law has taken hold in the US, Obama is a Muslim (and a socialist) who was born in Kenya and seeks to destroy the US, Obama was planning a coup in Jade Helm, Democrats are running a child-trafficking ring out of a DC pizza restaurant, the UN's Agenda 21 is an international conspiracy to increase urban density, climate change is a hoax, and on and on and on.
He'd been talking (OK, ranting) to his Uncle Sidney, a gentle and brilliant man widely considered to possess the brightest mind to have ever emerged out of Flint, Michigan, about the depraved new managerial culture that had taken hold of his company, when Uncle Sidney cut him off, looked him straight in the eye, and, with a kind of precision and clarity Sorscher had only ever seen in "like, Nobel Prize-winning physicists," told his nephew:
 
 You are in a mature industry that is no longer innovative; it's a commodity business.

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