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YouTube has toughened its stance on dangerous pranks and challenges.
The first is that he has been toughened by experience.
Voters understand that what Clinton has endured has toughened her.
Sansa has toughened up quite a bit over the seasons.
Last week, China's top leader, Xi Jinping, toughened his tone.
In response to such barbs, Nielsen has toughened her rhetoric.
As the numbers have risen, its easy-going attitude has toughened.
Parliament toughened up the code at the start of this year.
The phasing in of the PIP from 2013 toughened eligibility criteria.
Laws have been toughened up, and enforcement has been beefed up.
Her soles had toughened to parchment and hide over the years.
"It toughened her up," says Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
" Regardless, Holland told Zendaya that the mean comments "toughened me up.
Along with the attacks, the Trump administration has toughened its rhetoric.
However, U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly toughened his trade stance this week.
It toughened up our sound and was a big leap for us.
But they later toughened the charges after hearing testimony from the victim.
The F.D.A. declined to issue a ban but toughened the label warning.
Since 22016, 23 states, mostly Republican-led, have significantly toughened ballot laws.
The strong sanctions against Russia remain in place, toughened by congressional action.
China's national legislature has also toughened laws against disrespecting the national anthem.
But 3-seed West Virginia has been toughened by a more difficult schedule.
She says getting through the lawsuit toughened her up for her cancer diagnosis.
My brothers soon toughened me up and knocked the corns of me, though.
Eventually Yarny was toughened up so that the game wouldn't be as frustrating.
In Singapore, rules were toughened further in 2013 and then again last year.
Toughened by bitter experience, she becomes stronger, accumulating reserves of character and wisdom.
And with that, the United States toughened its stance toward the Maduro regime.
His older brother often took over the parenting roles and toughened him up.
He didn't have a false bone in that toughened, frail frame of his.
Then testing for steroids improved and some sports toughened their rules against doping.
The toughened controls on journalists began after Mr. Xi became president in 2012.
But toughened construction and installation regulations for mobile homes also played a role.
The court toughened the standard a bit in 1987's Asahi Metal v.
The developments came as President Xi Jinping of China promised a toughened response.
Iran has reacted defiantly, dismissing Trump's demands for the pact to be toughened up.
It has toughened the rules on takeovers, to give more weight to national security.
Workhouses were abolished in 20013, but other forms of sanctions have been toughened up.
Spartan boys were raised to be soldiers and toughened by deprivation of basic needs.
Oversight and disclosure have been improved and capital-adequacy rules toughened (see previous story).
Israel has toughened its border defences on the Golan, with new fences and sensors.
For me, the thinner profile wins out over the toughened display and big battery.
"Sparring served this great purpose in that it really toughened you up," Sheridan said.
Oversight has also been toughened to combat abuses, according to Currie of the GAO.
Under the Obama administration, the federal government toughened tailpipe pollution standards to match California's.
Gun and hate speech laws were toughened in October after the failed synagogue attack.
Russell, in particular, seems so weathered and toughened by time as to be indestructible.
Because the hours were so brutal, working in New York City toughened me up.
So she toughened up, she said, and advises other women to do the same.
Instead of imposing blanket bans, Germany has toughened security rules on all network vendors.
All the disappointments, she said, have toughened her for the monumental challenge that Williams presents.
Some of the toughened-up shoes include reimagined Chuck Taylor All Stars and Jack Purcells.
Facebook also toughened its requirements around political advertising on the platform ahead of EU elections.
She's already toughened before the show starts, as the neglected child of a drug addict.
Think of it as a layer of toughened skin like a callous on your finger.
She was raised on humanitarian rations and the meat of her family's desert-toughened flocks.
The Italian government has since toughened laws on olive oil packaging, but the problem persists.
Sweden, Norway's neighbor, is setting up border controls this year and has toughened asylum rules.
While there hasn't been major congressional action, some cities and states have toughened gun control.
That drew widespread condemnation, prompting global powers to seek toughened sanctions against the isolated country.
"We've very much toughened up the border, but the laws are horrible," Mr. Trump said.
Volkswagen said Ms. Hohmann-Dennhardt had toughened the company's compliance rules and changed its culture.
I clued for Monday/Tuesday so a lot of original clues had to be toughened.
"It hasn't toughened up yet like the skin that's exposed to the outermost layers," he says.
Ultimately, they relied on their resiliency, toughened by relentless violence, to get through the Karrada tragedy.
Kim also faces toughened United Nations sanctions on the North, though the impact will take time.
It's that there isn't agreement on what areas of immigration policy most need to be toughened.
However, when put to the test, even these toughened-up versions can still crack under pressure.
In recent weeks, China has toughened its crackdown on those it deems supportive of the unrest.
Years of critical brickbats toughened Albee's already tough hide and taught him to trust only himself.
Ms. Maxwell played Kristine Linde, the heroine's best friend, toughened but in need of a favor.
Western governments, tired of seeing aid money stolen, have toughened up money-laundering and bribery laws.
Above, Mr. Xi in Finland, en route to the U.S. _____ • The U.S. stance on Syria toughened.
It added that existing law needed to be toughened to overcome outmoded and sexist workplace codes.
Trailing by 7-3, the Steelers reacquainted themselves with a Chiefs defense that toughened when tested.
He sued journalists, toughened defamation laws and even took over TV channels whose owners criticized him.
The IOC toughened its stance slightly before the 2018 winter games in Pyeongchang in South Korea.
A Reuters reporter saw a toughened glass window pockmarked with bullet holes near its main entrance.
After the violence in Barcelona, Mr. Sánchez toughened his stance against the leaders of the independence movement.
And Democrats refused to give Ryan an assist because the bill toughened work requirements for food stamps.
Background reading: • After a compromise by the United States, the Security Council toughened sanctions on North Korea.
After the Tianjin blasts, the government expanded inspections and toughened punishments for companies that violated safety standards.
But at least the rhetoric from Trump's team and other Republicans has toughened in recent months. Sen.
Trudeau, who insists using force to end the crisis would be wrong, toughened his language on Wednesday.
Trudeau, who insists using force to end the crisis would be wrong, toughened his language on Wednesday.
Some of the mechanisms could yet be modified or toughened up in the upper chamber of parliament.
Mexico has said the autos rule of origin would have to be toughened, but gave no details.
Its Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube in 2002 updated the graphics, controls, and toughened the zombies.
Private sector credit growth started weakening at the end of 2015 after the central bank toughened supervision.
I see him as this sweet kid who got some tattoos and then toughened up a bit.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, seeking re-election in September, have toughened their stance on migrants in recent months.
Merkel has toughened her migration policy significantly since 2015, but remains adamant that her stance then was correct.
President Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan crime bill in 1994 that toughened sentences and paid for more prisons.
Curbs have also been toughened on the export of industrial machinery, transportation vehicles, iron, steel and other metals.
The new rule, scheduled to take effect on October 15th, interprets that standard in a radically toughened way.
First, Joseph Altuzarra closed his show with a floor-length boho gown that was toughened up with sequins.
Most trace them to Mr Schröder's labour-market reforms, especially "Hartz IV", which toughened rules on unemployment benefits.
Life in Caracas is awful, but not much more awful than before the United States toughened oil sanctions.
The UN Security Council has held discussions to adopt a toughened new sanctions resolution following the North's Sept.
Facebook has toughened the rules in India and political ads now include "published by" and "paid by" disclaimers.
But proving her devotion to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim toughened up and stuck out the treatment.
Those included toughened criminal penalties for child prostitution and forced marriage, as well as improvements to protect victims.
The U.N. Security Council has held discussions to adopt a toughened new sanctions resolution following the North's Sept.
Since then Washington has toughened its sanctions regime, seeking to force Iran's oil customers to slash their imports.
The toughened North Korean position occurred within days of a second Kim meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also toughened the government's tone in an interview with Le Parisien.
They have raised their offer on border security funding considerably and toughened their rhetoric on stopping illegal immigration.
While the U.S. is easing rules on banks, Europe has for the last couple of years toughened them.
He has tangled with the massive Williamson in practices throughout the year and said the experience toughened him.
Florida's toughened ban means racial minorities are disproportionately excluded from voting because of higher incarceration rates, data shows.
Jerry Brown signed three bills that toughened regulations for medical cannabis businesses and sought standards for documentation and testing.
The character himself is a little yellow ball of sunshine, or personified citrus, toughened up with a spiky mohawk.
However, as was the case on several previous occasions, the Heat toughened up when it needed to do so.
Laws against such acts were also toughened; it is not the case that the acts were just made punishable.
Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said operators' consolidation and technology transitions were slowing demand, while competition in China had toughened.
Some commentators have said the toughened opposition could pose a stronger challenge to Abe's bloc in the upcoming Oct.
While there hasn't been major congressional action since the Parkland massacre, some cities and states have toughened gun control.
And polls indicate broad support for toughened gun restrictions in all four of the states considering initiatives next month.
Within the space of two days, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly has seemingly toughened his stance on marijuana.
They returned this past year, but the authorities drastically reduced their number and toughened the requirements for concession stands.
In the 1990s, ETA toughened its terror campaign: Judges, politicians and journalists became "legitimate targets" for kidnapping or execution.
Two parliamentary committees released a report saying that existing laws needed to be toughened to overcome sexist workplace codes.
In recent years, after relentless efforts by attack victims and advocacy groups, Colombia has toughened penalties for acid attackers.
Connecticut toughened its gun control laws while proposals to make changes to national gun laws collapsed in the Senate.
The U.S. Department of Transportation toughened standards for crude rail-cars in 2015 following a series of fiery derailments.
The move Friday evening voids those earlier allowances and puts Wells Fargo under toughened standards for oversight, the OCC said.
This week, however, the State Department toughened its line against one country that regularly makes headlines about religious persecution: Pakistan.
As part of a broader package of labour reforms, Mr Moon's government has toughened penalties for sexual harassment at work.
But a traffic act in 2012 toughened penalties for drunk-driving; since then, breathalysers have been used at traffic stops.
The move follows stinging criticism of the FRC that suggested its code could be ditched if it was not toughened.
But the party toughened the qualifying criteria to winnow the field and give a bigger spotlight to the top candidates.
Social media scandals, years of hard losses and near-wins have toughened the Australian side as it heads to Japan.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, also speaking at the NATO summit on Wednesday, toughened his stance against the Chinese company.
But the last debate this month took place over one night, after only 10 candidates qualified because of toughened criteria.
They've toughened the rhetoric on Iran's repressive approach to the protests that have rocked the country, but done little else.
The U.N. Security Council has held discussions to adopt toughened new sanctions in light of the North's more aggressive stance.
And it toughened sentences for offenders and made it harder for them to later come into contact with their victims.
The disclosure comes as the SEC has toughened its language on sales of new digital tokens, or initial coin offerings.
On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced German law would be toughened to ease the deportation of law-breaking migrants.
Additionally, on the Iran nuclear deal (which Trump has said he'll shred), expect a toughened enforcement regime rather than military action.
Around back is a 3-inch display, which Leica says has a "toughened monitor screen cover" to guard against deadly drops.
As the election campaign heats up, Merkel has toughened her stance, urging auto executives to do more to win back trust.
Regulators in France, like in other countries, have toughened rules to prevent banks from speculating on markets with funds from depositors.
In recent weeks the Dalian and Zhengzhou commodity exchanges and the Shanghai Futures Exchange have all toughened trading requirements several times.
Last year, it toughened the application process for getting safety certificates for imports of GMO soybeans, delaying cargoes and curbing purchases.
The Chinese government recently toughened up environmental laws and implementation with this mindset, rather than focusing on the public's consumption behaviour.
Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, recently toughened her rhetoric on TPP after losing the Michigan primary to rival Bernie Sanders.
Fast forward, and this year it is a rather different Angela Merkel at the helm, with an approach toughened by experience.
France's markets watchdog said the European Union's system for granting financial market access would have to be toughened up after Brexit.
The latest analysis comes out Wednesday from the Center for American Progress, a leading liberal group that supports toughened gun control.
North Korea maintained low-level business operations here until November, when Singapore had to suspend trade under toughened United Nations sanctions.
Guatemalans and Mexicans can still travel north, but they have to go through a toughened-up series of Mexican border checks.
The school toughened admissions requirements to weed out local students who have traditionally turned to Edinboro as their only education option.
Trudeau, who insists his government will not use force against the protesters, toughened his language on Wednesday, calling the disruptions unacceptable.
But White House counselor Kellyanne Conway brushed off criticism of the President and bolstered the toughened White House line towards Ford.
Her government toughened asylum rules and declared several countries "safe," meaning people from there can&apost expect to get refuge in Germany.
Before the drinks industry switched to toughened glass in 1997, 13% of violence between strangers involved the use of glasses or bottles.
Even so, Indiana lawmakers returned in 2014 with legislation that toughened penalties against trespassing rather than outlawing undercover filming at a farm.
In recent years the penalties for carrying knives have been toughened, but this may have encouraged crooks to turn to alternative weapons.
He's gotten a Supreme Court justice confirmed, he's killed some last-minute Obama administration regulations, and he's toughened policy toward unauthorized immigrants.
As Hong Kong's protests continue into their 11th week, China has toughened its crackdown on those it deems supportive of the unrest.
ITAR was implemented as part of a 1976 law called the Arms Export Control Act and the regulations were toughened in 1999.
The move follows toughened United Nations sanctions agreed this month after North Korea tested its first two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
She plays Grace convincingly as a timid child and a toughened inmate, and she brings both of them to Grace's wary testimony.
World share markets snapped a seven-day winning streak on Wednesday after the United States toughened its stance on trade with China.
Maria Miller, another Conservative lawmaker and chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Committee, said the law against sexual harassment should be toughened.
The first debate initially featured 20 candidates spread over two nights, but toughened criteria has since left out contenders like Montana Gov.
Dianne Feinstein of California, who is facing a primary challenge from her left, has toughened her criticism of Haspel in recent days.
The Terrapins toughened up in their homecoming game before a crowd of 21,701, but they squandered two first-half red-zone chances.
Toughened antiterrorism legislation has allowed the authorities to arrest suspects at an earlier stage of attack planning than in Britain and elsewhere.
In April, Sediver, a French company that manufactures toughened-glass insulators for high-voltage power lines, opened a plant in West Helena.
Behind the scenes, Republican senators toughened their stance and are hoping to hold a final vote by the end of next week. Sen.
But instead of liberalising these laws, some democracies such as Germany have toughened up laws, or even punish the promotion of assisted dying.
In her interview with Harper's Bazaar, for which that photo was taken, she spoke of how being an army brat toughened her up.
SEBI has toughened regulations for credit rating agencies over the past three years to boost monitoring, bring clarity for investors and increase accountability.
While Gloria's peers freaked out over his behavior, she felt she could handle it because Jimmy had toughened her up as a child.
Its status has been precarious since President Donald Trump pulled the United States out last year and toughened its sanctions regime against Tehran.
During the Obama administration they toughened up on big banks regarding issues like leveraged lending and exposure to energy- and auto-loan defaults.
India's market regulator has toughened regulations for credit rating agencies over the past three years to boost monitoring and bring clarity for investors.
Baltic nations have informed their publics of Russia's activities, toughened their defenses against cyberattacks and moved to reduce their energy dependence on Moscow.
But in recent months, right-wing parties across Europe have toughened their stance on migration, leading several European Union governments to drop out.
Backstage Beauty Report There was a toughened-up, rebellious vibe to Dior's fall/winter 2017 collection, which was presented in Paris on Friday.
After cutting the toughened brains into little pieces, she mashed them up with an industrial-strength soap in a glass mortar and pestle.
The Exchange Board of India has toughened its insider trading rules, resulting in charges against the top two executives at Palred Technologies in 2015.
Since then, he has toughened up on the President, a stance that was noticeable in the wake of August's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
So, I got used to being around the big boys and taking the slings and arrows and that&aposs how you get toughened up.
The U.N. Security Council has steadily toughened sanctions on North Korea since 2006 to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The classic biker, in all its black, toughened-up glory, has been replaced by its bolder, brighter, and much cooler sister: the embellished iteration.
The Moderates have also toughened their stance on crime and immigration, promising a crackdown on welfare for asylum seekers and a ban on begging.
Visually, it's indistinguishable from lesser, non-toughened glass, as it has the same transparent properties as pedestrian glass, just in a more durable package.
She faces jail for up to 10 years if found guilty after the conservative government toughened sentencing in a bid to contain the crisis.
Since the start of March, the rhetoric involving global trade has toughened after Trump's decision to impose metal tariffs, including on its own allies.
I think this toughened position the U.S. has taken over the last month or so and the tariffs they are imposing is complicating things.
In 2013, the agency toughened labeling requirements for extended-release opioids, which are often seen as a bigger addiction risk because of their potency.
On Monday, the group toughened its stance against juice, recommending that the drink be banned entirely from a baby's diet during the first year.
So much of the cluing has been edited and toughened up for a Saturday, and possibly to help disguise the rebus a bit more.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who refused to close Germany&aposs borders at the height of the migrant crisis in 22014, has toughened her stance.
"The primary toughened me up, and gave voters a sense of how I stood up under pressure," Obama wrote in a Facebook post last month.
Research by the Pew Charitable Trusts, for example, shows that most states have toughened requirements for pharmacies compounding drugs that need to be kept sterile.
In 2014 Canada enacted a law to give customs officers more power to detain shipments and toughened sanctions against people who violate copyrights and trademarks.
The new rules will still allow the use of models but within a much stricter framework, with the vetting of models by supervisors toughened up.
The West toughened its stance after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi policy, at Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
The woman faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty after Australia's conservative government toughened sentencing in a bid to contain the crisis.
L was thrown into doubt on Tuesday when Britain toughened its stance on the deal over concerns about standards at his U.S. Fox News network.
Two months, five appearances and two goals later, Becks was deemed to have toughened up enough to make his senior bow in the top tier.
In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott and other state Republicans toughened restrictions, and the number of approved petitions dwindled to a few hundred a year.
The central bank also toughened its warnings about possible speculation in the Toronto and Vancouver housing markets, while predicting economic growth will improve longer-term.
The French government has since toughened its stance and said it would crack down harder on undeclared protests and violence on the fringes of demonstrations.
But securities rules are less stringent in Switzerland than in the United States, where the Securities and Exchange Commission has toughened its stance on ICOs.
The surrounding frame is made out of aluminum and the rear is built out of a toughened plastic composite, which only looks like carbon fiber.
It offered incentives to states to build more prisons if they toughened sentences, and it added some mandatory minimum sentences to those that already existed.
Meanwhile, Klobuchar got 5 percent support in the same Quinnipiac poll on Iowa, qualifying her for the December stage under toughened criteria by the DNC.
Shippers may be reluctant to switch because they are concerned that international emissions regulations may be toughened again and that their investment will be wasted.
As some rules get loosened, others may get toughened up, like those that would liquidate a troubled Wall Street firm rather than bail it out.
In response to the political backlash, internet companies have toughened their policies and hired tens of thousands of human moderators to screen for problematic material.
While this was great for a time, what we've seen is targeting the SIE as a customer has toughened as the market has become saturated.
However, shares in Sky declined 1.62 percent, after the British government toughened its stance on the $15 billion takeover of the broadcaster by Rupert Murdoch.
Clinton was always proclaiming herself to be the proven warrior in the field — toughened up and battle-scarred from decades of waging fights against Republicans.
Like voters, police and counterintelligence officials are also getting used to the threat and have toughened tracking and border controls in many parts of Europe.
The administration has recently toughened its policy for accepting asylum seekers, with stories of fleeing violence and corruption no longer meeting the standard for entry.
The attacks have toughened both the U.S. and Afghan governments' stand against initiating talks with the insurgents, although neither side seems capable of winning the conflict.
All three of the newly released models, however, are covered on both sides by the same Gorilla Glass (a brand of toughened glass made by Corning).
Gun laws toughened considerably under former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who in 2003 signed sweeping measures that prevented ordinary citizens from carrying guns.
A search in the archives in light of Jobs' request turned up a project from the 1960s to develop a toughened lightweight glass for industrial use.
Oklahoma energy regulators have identified a surge in waste water disposal wells as a reason behind earthquakes in the region, and recently toughened rules for producers.
I reached out to Coulter, and asked her if her support for Trump was contingent on a wall, or whether toughened border security would be enough.
The fluent Spanish speaker hopes to win back some of the Latino vote the party lost in recent years as it toughened its stance on immigration.
Even as an elderly man, his body remained stocky, with a face weathered from decades in the sun and hands toughened by the earth he worked.
Loadings for Europe rose by 14 percent from November to nearly 800,0003 bpd, topping levels seen prior to the imposition of toughened Western sanctions in 2012.
Pakistan has toughened its stance towards domestic and international non-governmental groups in recent years, accusing some of using their work as a cover for espionage.
This time, however, they were toughened up, embroidered onto the lines of black leather coats and deep V-neck dresses, and transformed into badges of honor.
The administration said it had toughened the sanctions by roughly 300 new designations on individuals and entities, and targeted more subsidiaries of Iranian companies than before.
Looking at this series alone, I think buying the ultra-thin Moto Z or toughened Moto Z Force over the Z Play would be a mistake.
China toughened rules on ride-hailing services last year after a number of high-profile incidents, including the killing of two passengers, that stoked public anger.
In the last few years, Wildlife Works hired more unarmed local rangers to supplement the Kenyan Wildlife Service, and in 19973 Kenya toughened its poaching laws.
You were being toughened up—"iron man" was the term we all used—to deal with the demands of doctoring, which did not respect the clock.
Fearful that concessions to the Swiss would be seized on by the British, the EU toughened its stance; the Brexit vote in June made things worse.
Growing up in Brooklyn, Williams said he was mentored by a gay woman who "toughened him up" and introduced him to the area's larger LGBTQ community.
While the new laws reflect a severe escalation in enforcement, Mr. Yusof claimed that Brunei's toughened penal code was in line with international human rights standards.
He also toughened restrictions on Internet speech, which created a federal blacklist of "extreme" websites and allowed the government to block public access to any site.
It was believed later chip architectures, like Cascade Lake, were toughened against speculative execution attacks, while Intel rolled out software patches to reduce the attack surface.
" Describing a hacker about to deploy a virus, Gibson invented his own language, toughened with use: "He slotted some ice, connected the construct, and jacked in.
If you've written very easy clues that need to be toughened up, the editor may have to scrap your idea and reach for entirely new material.
The White House's toughened its tone toward countries that have shifted recognition from Taiwan to China this summer after Burkina Faso made the switch in May.
The administration said it had toughened the sanctions by roughly 300 new designations on individuals and entities, and targeted more subsidiaries of Iranian companies than before.
The nonprofit and its CEO have become the face of the emotionally charged nationwide debate over the handling of children caught up in the toughened immigration policy.
The ones you see in restaurants today—usually called squab—were likely butchered before their ability to fly toughened their meat, typically within four weeks after birth.
Gorilla Glass dominates the market for cover glass for electronic equipment, but it faces rivals, including Dragontrail, a chemically toughened glass manufactured by Asahi Glass in Japan.
The 5th Wave star tells Marie Claire for its February cover story that she was "toughened up a lot" when her parents divorced when she was younger.
President Donald Trump also toughened his stance on trade this week by blacklisting Chinese telecom giant Huawei, halting its ability to buy American-made parts and components.
As well as earmarking 4 million euros this year for improvements such as pedestrianizing roads, the Calvia council has toughened up laws on drinking in the streets.
Toughened by having to go it alone, these are no wallflowers, despite attempts to treat them as such by a corporate interest that wants to take over.
There are the nerves down the outside and inside of the thigh, but the thigh is a tender mess anyway which is only toughened up through abuse.
Since the fund suspension, it had toughened up controls to ensure greater oversight of the investment process at Woodford's other funds, including on proposed investments or disposals.
CFIUS' stance has toughened as Trump seeks to pressure China to help tackle North Korea's nuclear ambitions and be more accommodative on trade and foreign exchange issues.
The regulator has toughened its stance against lack of compliance in the insurance sector, suspending several insurance companies from issuing new policies in the past few months.
Interior called that only a preliminary estimate, and it said in December that the rule's toughened cleanup requirements could even bring a small net increase in jobs.
Though Trump's rhetoric has toughened as days go by, oil prices have given back the price gains they made immediately after Khashoggi disappeared in Turkey on Oct. 22.86.
Last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) toughened their tone on migrants, and Deputy Finance Minister Jens Spahn said the legal barriers to deportation must be lowered.
The girl whose rape changed a country India has since toughened its rape laws, with stringent punishments not only for sexual assaults but also for voyeurism and stalking.
Hinckley's verdict, meanwhile, led several states to rewrite their laws to make insanity defenses more difficult, and the Secret Service toughened its security procedures following the assassination attempt.
As France just toughened up its asylum policy, mass arrivals of undocumented migrants are overpowering not only European shores but also a tiny French island off East Africa.
WASHINGTON — President Trump toughened his stance toward China on Wednesday, threatening to prolong his trade war with Beijing, which immediately signaled that it was prepared to fight back.
In an April 22 letter to Bim, Ibama's president, which was viewed by Reuters, some 25 Ibama division chiefs, superintendents and analysts sought clarity on the toughened policy.
If approved by Congress this week, Mr. Trump has little choice, his aides acknowledge, but to sign the toughened sanctions legislation that he desperately wanted to see defeated.
This is seen too in Sweden, Norway's neighbor, which was once touted as a "humanitarian superpower", but is setting up border controls this year and has toughened asylum rules.
Indian rape law was toughened in 2013 after the "Nirbhaya" gang rape provoked international horror — but just last year the Supreme Court warned that the changes had been ineffective.
In the wake of the 'Panama Papers' revelations of widespread tax avoidance practices, Brussels has toughened up its drive for tax fairness by tightening controls and adopting stricter rules.
President Donald Trump has toughened U.S. immigration policy to make it difficult for Central Americans to seek asylum, forcing thousands to wait in Mexico as their cases are decided.
However, when toughened sanctions were imposed on Tehran in 2012 to curb its nuclear ambitions, state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) was forced to look for other light crudes.
Trump could simply have toughened the existing process marginally and claimed his promise had been kept — choosing style over substance, as he has done on so many other issues.
There no consensus among Republicans on what their demands are for a DACA fix; there isn't even agreement on what areas of immigration policy most need to be toughened.
Responding to growing alarm about student-loan defaults, President Obama, in 2014, rewrote the rules on how default rates were calculated in order to protect HBCU's from toughened penalties.
His administration has toughened immigration enforcement, pursued his travel ban targeted at six majority-Muslim nations, and targeted Obama administration initiatives designed to change law enforcement and sentencing practices.
In 2013 the commission toughened legislation for banks that sponsor I.P.O.s, introducing the threat of criminal liability for banks and bankers who sign off on purposely misleading listing documents.
Manfred maintained that baseball now had a "different backdrop" than it used to because of a testing program that began in 2003 and has been toughened numerous times since.
The CSU has toughened its line on the issue before a regional election in Bavaria next month in which it faces a tough challenge from the anti-immigration AfD.
CFIUS' stance has toughened as Trump seeks to put pressure on China to help tackle North Korea's nuclear ambitions and be more accommodative on trade and foreign exchange issues.
Following the example of the European Union, which toughened its privacy regulations last year, officials in city halls, state capitals and Washington are considering new rules to protect privacy.
After a series of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists and a toughened stance on immigration, politicians, citizens and immigrants have engaged in impassioned conversations about who, exactly, is French.
Her talks bring tears to the eyes of her listeners, some of them toughened male inmates, others high school students who have lived through traumatic events of their own.
A new farm bill has been held up for months by the insistence of Republicans in the House that the already stringent work requirements for food stamps be toughened.
The law established special gender violence courts to handle their cases, toughened sentences and restrictions on offenders, and made it easier for women to report abuse and get support.
But Damascus recently toughened its stance, declaring on Sunday that Raqqa was under SDF "occupation" and the city would only be considered liberated once the Syrian army recovered it.
U.S. President Donald Trump exited the deal last year and reimposed and toughened sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the pact in return for curbing its nuclear program.
As in other Nordic countries the government has subsequently toughened up its immigration policies, such as by tightening the asylum criteria for people coming from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
Toughened up by caricature bullies at his first oil-company job, he saves his salary, steals a co-worker's wife (Ali Cobrin) and heads west to seek his fortune.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has toughened various policies and put pressure on Mexico in an attempt to discourage people from attempting to cross into the United States illegally.
Stocks posted their first negative month of the year as trade angst deepened, and it doesn't get easier from here since the U.S. toughened its stance on more trading partners.
Many of the projects were drawn up in 2010, when the government toughened exchange controls by outlawing a widely-used parallel currency market, leaving bolivars trapped in local bank accounts.
CFIUS' stance has toughened as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to pressure China to help tackle North Korea's nuclear ambitions and be more accommodative on trade and foreign exchange issues.
It also drops Gorilla Glass from the display in favor of non-branded "toughened glass," which seems like a miss given that Gorilla Glass is pretty much the industry standard.
Only a small number of gun owners seem to be stepping forward in activism in favor of stricter gun laws, and not all agree about which laws should be toughened.
Since taking office in June, Salvini and Toninelli have toughened the stance on allowing ships to dock in Italian ports at a time of rising anti-immigration sentiment in Italy.
The 15-member Security Council toughened the sanctions in March in response to North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January and the launch of a long-range rocket in February.
After launching its first service a decade ago, AWS has dominated by virtue of being a first mover, but competition has toughened recently as Microsoft and Google strengthen their offerings.
Under pressure from EU regulators to do more to guard against foreign meddling in the bloc's upcoming legislative election, Facebook toughened its rules on political advertising in Europe last week.
Exports to Europe look set to rise 2000 percent from November to this year's high of 297,13 bpd, topping levels seen prior to the imposition of toughened sanctions in 21.
Delicate, ballerina-inspired looks took center stage at the show, but the accessories stepped to a more hard-edged beat: Soft bags were toughened up by the house's signature studs.
The EU has already toughened up its laws to make U.S. executions harder to perform, having banned the export of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used in lethal injections, in 2011.
Congress toughened the drug approval process in the wake of the worldwide crisis over thalidomide, which caused severe birth defects in babies whose mothers had taken the drug in pregnancy.
The decision was made after Singapore and the United States on Friday announced toughened measures to enter their countries for people who had recently traveled through mainland China, Qantas added.
The decision was made after Singapore and the United States on Friday announced toughened measures to enter their countries for people who had recently travelled through mainland China, Qantas added.
The Trump administration announced new Iran-related sanctions on Tuesday intended to show its toughened stance toward the country despite having grudgingly recertified Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.
BOAR'S HEAD BEEF FRANKFURTERS ORIGINAL FAMILY RECIPE, $5.29 FOR 8 Good texture and great beefiness, but the casings toughened on the grill; this would probably make a great boiled dog.
However, analysts at Liberum downgraded their pretax profit forecast for 2018 to 2020 by 8 percent saying Wednesday's statement from Topps Tiles shows that market conditions toughened during the second quarter.
Being in the public eye as a woman can be a trial by fire, and there's evidence that the women who make it to high office are toughened by the experience.
After the EU threatened to ban fish exports, and the U.S. State Department said it was failing to tackle human trafficking, Bangkok toughened up its laws and increased fines for violations.
After long negotiations, the lawsuit was dismissed in exchange for a toughened settlement with the federal agency in 217; Ford would pay $261 million, with $22.75 million in damages to women.
The process of directing money to candidates in New Jersey through the national groups has been a practice since the state's pay-to-play law was expanded and toughened in 220.
An official of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said the move put Wells Fargo under toughened standards for oversight which the agency had exempted in the original settlement.
Western governments that support the coalition with arms and intelligence have toughened their stance on Yemen after the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct.
CFIUS' stance has toughened as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to put pressure on China to help tackle North Korea's nuclear ambitions and be more accommodative on trade and foreignexchange issues.
Tensions with North Korea escalated on Tuesday as the nuclear-armed state toughened its criticism of the United States and its allies and threatened retaliation in response to United Nations sanctions.
So much so that he now keeps a large meat cleaver in the drawer of his front desk and has protected his store with a new double door and toughened glass.
Brunello Cucinelli said he was thinking about an "urban explorer" and added toughened-up techno-vests and rucksack belts to his luxe gentlewoman-farmer mix of cashmeres, mohair, metallics and tweed.
North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear arms programs have been widely criticized and could lead to toughened United Nations sanctions and the deployment of an American antimissile defense system in South Korea.
These incursions bring a startling chunkiness to the paper support; the toughened texture militates against the seemingly effortless painterly finesse, grounding the work's ethereal beauty in a hard-won sense of reality.
Merkel announced her toughened stance on Turkey's long-stalled EU bid in a TV debate last Sunday as she faced off with her main rival in national elections due on Sept. 24.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump&aposs CIA nominee appeared to be on a path toward confirmation as she picked up support from key Democrats Tuesday and toughened her public stance against harsh interrogation.
ESSEN, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives toughened their tone on integrating migrants on Wednesday, passing a resolution on tackling forced marriage and honour killings, and cracking down on dual citizenship.
Later in the campaign, he toughened his rhetoric, seeking to reassure Cuban-American voters in Florida that he opposed Castro and his brother, Raul, to whom he turned over power in 2008.
Part of the drag on housing has come from banks which, scalded by a spate of scandals, have toughened their lending criteria and lifted mortgage rates on many products, particularly for investors.
The parties have been trying to salvage the pact since the United States withdrew from it in May 2018 and re-imposed and toughened sanctions on Iran, crippling an already weak economy.
The attack comes just as Beijing readies its own toughened new set of cyber rules and has subjected some foreign companies in China to investigation over cybersecurity issues, the Financial Times reported.
This was never going to be an easy issue for Trump, stuck as he was between his calls for toughened border policies and the pictures of children being taken from their parents.
" An excellent question, and the mood is toughened by Hunley's boss, Erica Sloan (Angela Bassett), who describes the I.M.F. as "a bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick or treat.
Talking at the Princeton Club of New York, New York Fed President William Dudley said the U.S. should consider small adjustments to the Dodd-Frank law, which toughened oversight for financial institutions.
India significantly toughened insider trading rules in early 2015, expanding what constitutes "unpublished price-sensitive information" to include "any information" that is not "generally available" and that could have a market impact.
Authorities said the plot hatched with two unidentified Russian hackers living in Ecuador involved threatening to release compromising documents about President Lenin Moreno as he toughened his stance against the WikiLeaks founder.
After every meal or snack, I will punch a button on the pager-size meter, setting a brief click-clack of machinery in motion before a lancet thrusts into my toughened skin.
Using denim — faded, ruched and otherwise treated — as a toughened base, he merged it with the stuff of fashion frippery (lace, tulle, tartan, jacquard) in Delft-toned patchworks of eras and assumptions.
He's a toughened pragmatist who's made his fortune in part by helping humans oppress his own people, and he has little patience or sympathy for fae who are trapped in worse circumstances.
The toughened investment regime will apply to all countries but is aimed largely at China, which President Trump has accused of trying to gain access to valuable American technology through nefarious means.
But one main reason had to do with the nature of the earthquake itself and less with the toughened building codes adopted in the last 30 years, as many people had thought.
Former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas dropped out of the race and former U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro was cut from the stage by the Democratic National Committee's toughened qualifying criteria.
But as the number of Venezuelans in Peru has climbed to more than 850,000, fanning concerns about crime, jobs and social services, Peru cut the residency program short and toughened entry requirements.
Ms. Haley credited what she called President Trump's relationship with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in achieving the toughened sanctions — the second raft of United Nations penalties against North Korea since August.
In the months since, Washington has only toughened its stance, repeatedly criticizing Germany over its trade surplus and formally announcing that the United States would back out of the Paris climate agreement.
In the meantime, the Democratic National Committee has toughened debate qualification standards such that more than half the remaining field is likely to be left out of the third debate in September.
Part of the drag on housing has come from banks which, scalded by a spate of scandals, have toughened their lending criteria and raised mortgage rates on many products, particularly for investors.
Last week, the Trump administration announced new Iran-related sanctions it said were meant to show its toughened stance toward the country despite having grudgingly affirmed its compliance with the nuclear deal.
"It's not one guy, it's a crew of people," said Detective Wistocki, who consults for other police departments on swatting cases and advocated an Illinois law that toughened penalties for swatting crimes.
But since Syria's deadly gassing of his people in Idlib on April 4, the politics has shifted decidedly against Russia again, and the sanctions are a lot likelier to be toughened, not eased.
Though the country's forestry ministry has previously said it had toughened regulations to combat illegal logging, Global Witness said a lack of enforcement capacity increased the risk of loggers cutting more than permitted.
The bank, which is called the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), has toughened its rules and closed thousands of accounts since 2012 to break from the murky management of the past.
Angola, for one, has suspended all commercial trade with Pyongyang, banning North Korean companies from operating there since the U.N. toughened sanctions in March, a South Korean foreign ministry official told Reuters recently.
And to ensure robots' circuits don't get frazzled, Klaus McDonald-Maier at the University of Essex is developing electronics toughened against the effects of radiation, including circuits that automatically detect and correct errors.
Swinson has toughened her party's anti-Brexit stance since taking over as leader in July, promising to cancel Brexit if the Liberal Democrats score an unlikely victory in a widely expected early election.
A trip to Ms. Jones's hometown in South Carolina dredges up painful memories of segregation, giving insight into a personality toughened too young and still burdened by the financial needs of too many.
The toughened stance of the agreement, reflecting rising nationalist sentiment over immigration in many parts of the bloc, has concerned NGO groups who work to help migrants who make the perilous Mediterranean crossing.
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Britain's Liberal Democrats party on Sunday toughened its anti-Brexit stance, formally adopting a policy to cancel leaving the European Union if it wins power at a national election.
That Mr. Mahathir, 92, had for decades toughened the network of race and patronage that contributed to Malaysia's political sclerosis is just one of the many surprises of the national elections on Wednesday.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has toughened laws against bribery offences but more work is needed to restore the ability of its criminal justice system to counter corruption, Europe's main rights watchdog said on Tuesday.
The bank, formally known as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), has toughened regulatory standards and closed thousands of accounts that were either inactive or deemed not to meet new standards required of clients.
In an indication of the depths of divisions in environmentally-minded Germany over the role of its most important export industry, the toughened targets brought home from Luxembourg failed to win over the opposition.
The Chancellor has also recently toughened her position on the deportation of refugees who fail to qualify for asylum and has supported those calling for a ban on full-face veils where legally possible.
In 2017, the EU toughened laws against purchasing certain semi-automatic rifles like those used by Islamic State militants in the Paris attacks, and also made it easier to track weapons in national databases.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Trump significantly toughened his tone on NATO defense spending at a summit on Thursday, singling out Germany, Spain and Belgium in a closed-door session in Brussels, two sources said.
Among the traditional tweeds and quilted bags were PVC plastic knee-highs and wide-legged denim; more expected silhouettes were frayed and embellished with lurex, and party dressed were toughened up with plastic accessories.
It has toughened up recently: since the start of November, Russia has been stripped of 11 medals it won when hosting the winter games in Sochi in 2014, a pet project of Vladimir Putin's.
Executive Director Douglas Clark, who took over in 13, said he believes the rise in investigations has been driven more by the escalating prices set by pharmaceutical companies than by his agency's toughened stance.
MUMBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - India's capital markets regulator on Wednesday toughened penalties for delisted companies that do not provide exit options to shareholders, responding to complaints that executives were often not honouring listing agreements.
And it has been a catalyst for a toughened policy by Mr. Ban on peacekeeper behavior and oversight, which was endorsed by the Security Council in a resolution passed less than three weeks ago.
Even those companies conducting business with China, the alleged beneficiaries of Trump's toughened approach, have registered their disapproval, including the U.S.-China Business Council, Information Technology Industry Council and the National Association of Manufacturers.
"We have made it mandatory that the culprit must be imprisoned for 25 years," he said, adding that laws against the rape of minors and the mentally and physically disabled had also been toughened.
Germany has toughened its stance on immigration in recent months, prompted by concerns about security and integration after admitting more than 221 million migrants from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere since early 2015.
It would have toughened health and safety standards for detention centers and other facilities, provided money for a pilot processing program in conjunction with nonprofits and reduced some funding for ICE and other agencies.
LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling dropped to its lowest level against the dollar since early September on Tuesday, as investors hoovered up the U.S. currency and after Britain toughened its approach to containing the coronavirus outbreak.
A mariachi musician, introduced as comic relief, gets his own episode that reveals him as a soulful artist trying to keep his integrity; Ana's mother evolves from a hectoring nemesis to a toughened survivor.
As the chairman of Augusta National, he toughened the Masters course and lengthened it, enhanced official world rankings as a determining factor in qualifying for the tournament and expanded TV coverage of the event.
He toughened up international sanctions to further isolate North Korea and then agreed to meet directly with Kim after South Korea's president convinced him that the North was committed to giving up its nuclear weapons.
The attack, the first since President Emmanuel Macron toughened security legislation and ended a two-year state of emergency in November, has left the intelligence services scrambling to see if any red flags were missed.
The IOC has toughened its stance since, and conducted two inquiries of its own: a general survey of corruption with the Russian Ministry of Sport and a specific investigation into athletes at the Sochi Olympics.
North Korea's international trade fell 48.4% in value in 2018 as toughened international sanctions cut exports by nearly 90%, the worst loss in exports since the central bank started publishing data nearly 30 years ago.
SOFIA (Reuters) - The EU's chief executive on Thursday told the six Western Balkan countries that future membership of the bloc was theirs to secure, but toughened a message that reforms were more important than timelines.
In January, Ottawa toughened environmental reviews on the grounds that public trust needed to be restored in the process for assessing big energy projects, but the prolonged slump in oil prices has hobbled Alberta's economy.
Anyway, the UMi London is a rugged smartphone that uses toughened "Dual Glass" technology and double coated foam tape from 226.57M to offer what UMi claims is the "toughest dual protection smartphone" on the market.
The law also toughened sentencing for Medicare fraud, in part, by clarifying that prison terms are to be based on the falsely billed amounts, not the amount actually paid out before the fraud was detected.
The latest allegations came to light two weeks after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution endorsing toughened discipline proposed by Mr. Ban against violators, including repatriation of entire contingents implicated in systematic abuse.
European Union regulators toughened reporting requirements in the derivatives market following the 2007-09 financial crisis, which left them unable to see easily which banks were exposed to large, risky positions, creating uncertainty in markets.
While the lending rules for financial and energy firms have been tightened, restrictions on financing for Russian defense manufacturers were left unchanged at 30 days though the new sanctions toughened the penalties for any violations.
The United States in February toughened its own tariffs on aircraft built by Boeing's arch-rival Airbus after winning approval last year from the WTO to penalize $7.5 billion in European goods over Airbus subsidies.
"Moscow's main problem is not that the U.S. made a strike but that Trump and Tillerson have toughened their rhetoric on Syria and Assad," said Vladimir Frolov, a foreign affairs analyst and columnist for Republic.ru.
President Trump is considering a range of options to punish Iran for this month's attack on Saudi oil facilities, and has toughened sanctions on Iran and ordered the deployment of additional troops to the region.
The British government toughened its stance on Rupert Murdoch's $15 billion takeover of Sky, sending shares in the pay-TV group down sharply on fears it would take longer, and be more difficult, to complete.
It had suspended Venezuela temporarily in December for not complying with the bloc's regulations, and toughened its stance following the controversial election of the constituent assembly on Sunday and the arrest of several opposition leaders.
We meet him, along with Arendt (sung as a young woman with virginal purity by Anna Pisareva and in middle age by Vera Semieniuk, a toughened mezzo), in 1924, during a philosophy lecture in Marburg.
French lawmakers toughened the penalties — to up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of 75,000 euros (about $82,000), or up to seven years and a $110,000 fine if the statements were made online.
U.S. President Donald Trump's overnight swing in sentiment towards China may herald a more pragmatic diplomatic approach but experts are warning he is still likely to pursue a toughened stance compared to some of his predecessors.
BRUSSELS, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Trump significantly toughened his tone on NATO defence spending at a summit on Thursday, singling out Germany, Spain and Belgium in a closed-door session in Brussels, two sources said.
Malawi has toughened its laws and punishments, waged public awareness programs, built a database of people with albinism and plans to build nearly 200 protective homes nationwide, said Perks Ligoya, Malawi's ambassador to the United Nations.
"He has very much toughened his stance because he was losing," Trump said, pointing to Cruz' support for building a wall on the U.S. southern border and his recent shift on how to deport undocumented immigrants.
The Iranian capture of the Stena Impero drew condemnation from Britain and other European parties to the nuclear deal that have been trying to salvage it by shielding Iran's economy from reimposed and toughened U.S. sanctions.
"We hope that the worsening air pollution in north China ... and the government's recent toughened stance on asset bubbles in heavy industry and construction will help align policies and bring local governments in line," he said.
CFIUS, which scrutinizes deals for potential threats to U.S. national security, has toughened its stance on the sale of U.S. companies to Chinese buyers, blocking deals in sensitive industries and putting others through a prolonged review.
If all this reads like going soft on a snowflake generation that needs to be toughened up for life on the concert circuit, there are some respects in which the Leeds makes more demands than before.
Over the past decade, Wynn Resorts' average 10.5 percent shareholder return is a shade higher than that of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index — despite a slump in 2014 after China toughened rules on holiday gamblers.
But the package — which passed by a vote of 230 to 195 nearly along party lines, only after Democratic leaders toughened restrictions on the money to win over liberal skeptics — faces a tough path to enactment.
Although efforts to reduce the illegal drugs coming through Iraq's official border crossings with Iran mostly have succeeded, traffickers have turned to alternate routes and toughened their defenses against law enforcement, said the police and judges.
Jim Furyk, who won the U.S. Open in 2003 and has finished second three times since, said Open officials toughened up the course at Olympia Fields in Illinois, where he won, after the cut on Friday.
Defending the orders, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that the toughened restrictions were a lawful and "common-sense" response to what she called "an epidemic of gun violence" in the United States.
After the European Union threatened to ban fish exports from Thailand, and the U.S. State Department said it was failing to tackle human trafficking, the Southeast Asian country toughened up its laws and increased fines for violations.
His toughened stance on Cuba and Venezuela has gone down well among Cuban Americans in south Florida, an important voting bloc in a political swing state seen as crucial to his chances of retaining the White House.
On Tuesday, voters did away with prohibitions against marijuana, raised taxes on cigarettes, extended an income tax on the wealthy, toughened gun control laws, loosened parole rules and overturned a law that restricted bilingual education in schools.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain toughened its approach to the coronavirus outbreak after estimates of the number of people who would need invasive mechanical ventilation in intensive care doubled, a top epidemiologist who advised the government said on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old, seeking to become the first from his South American nation to win a PGA tournament, shot a two-under 68 on a day when playing conditions toughened to finish at 15-under 195.
Oscillating between Niloo in first and third person and her father in third person, the narrative leaps from the past to a present in which Niloo's refugee history has toughened her in ways both empowering and sad.
Italy toughened jail conditions for mobsters and terrorists following the bloody struggles of the 1980s and the 1990s, which culminated with the murder of two top Sicilian anti-mafia magistrates, Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, in 1992.
But in exchange for his agreement, he is insisting on draconian anti-immigration measures that include heightened border patrols, America's version of the Berlin Wall, undoing much of Lyndon Johnson's 1965 immigration reforms and toughened deportation policies.
After militants killed scores in Paris and elsewhere in 2015, the EU in 2017 toughened laws against purchasing semi-automatic rifles like the ones used in those attacks, and made it easier to track weapons in national databases.
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Moscow on Tuesday toughened its rhetoric in its row with Washington, saying it was considering ways to retaliate for the seizure of some of its diplomatic premises in the United States and expulsions of diplomats.
The law originated in the 19th century, was toughened up by Hitler's Nazis and retained for decades in postwar West Germany, which used it to convict and jail some 50,000 men until 1969, when it finally decriminalized homosexuality.
But voters in four states with gun measures on the ballot — California, Maine, Nevada and Washington — appear likely to approve toughened restrictions next month, and the gun debate is playing out in dozens of congressional campaigns as well.
In recent weeks, Trump has toughened his tone with regards to Russia, a major ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and has taken a more adversarial stance toward North Korea amid heightened international concerns over Pyongyang's weapons programs.
Her commitment to embodying a persona toughened by circumstances is at the core of her artistic identity, and has a lot to do with why her debut last March, "Midwest Farmer's Daughter," felt so red-blooded and vital.
At the C.C.P.'s instruction, Reuters reports, Ms. Lam toughened her stance toward the demonstrators, squarely declining all five of their demands — including reforming the electoral system or appointing an independent commission to investigate police violence this summer.
Since 2011, however, when Republican state leaders toughened the restrictions on felon voting rights, just 2,339 ex-felons have had that right restored, the lowest annual numbers in nearly two decades, according to state data reviewed by Reuters.
Ahn Yoon-gih, senior vice president of POSCO's steel business, told Reuters in an interview that the world's fifth-largest steelmaker will continue to make its steelmaking process cleaner, following the country's toughened law on high concentrations of pollutants.
In 2013, Antigua toughened its stance, floating the possibility of setting up a state-sponsored website to download Hollywood movies and U.S.-made computer software, a way of clawing back its trade losses from U.S.-owned intellectual property rights.
After militants killed scores of people in Paris in 2015, the EU in 2017 toughened laws against purchasing semi-automatic rifles such as the ones used in those attacks and made it easier to track weapons in national databases.
LIMA, April 28 (Reuters) - An illegal logging operation inside an isolated Amazonian tribe's reserve in Peru has been dismantled and 15 people arrested, the government said on Thursday, the first such crackdown since it toughened sanctions on the practice.
That chain of facts alone should unsettle the vast majority of voters, regardless of political party, who want financial regulation to be toughened rather than weakened and do not want bankers and lenders to be writing their own rules.
President Donald Trump toughened his rhetoric against North Korea on Sunday, declaring that attempts to negotiate with the regime were "waste," and the U.S. was prepared to "do what has to be done" as tensions escalate between both countries.
The Daily Bag Delicate, ballerina-inspired looks took center stage at today's Valentino show, but the accessories stepped to a tougher beat: in particular the bags, which were soft in texture but toughened up by the house's signature studs.
Here's what you need to know: • President Trump returned North Korea to a list of state sponsors of terrorism in light of its nuclear ambitions, cyberattacks and support for assassinations, a move to be accompanied by toughened Treasury sanctions.
Outside critics say Kim may be trying to use better ties with South Korea as a way to weaken the alliance between Washington and Seoul as the North grapples with toughened international sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.
During lunch one recent afternoon, the restaurant's private dining rooms were packed: one with young engineers helping to build the city's new airport expressway, another with toughened Fujianese merchants riding out a bout of political instability in nearby Gambia.
While Mr. Sessions sought to distance himself on Tuesday from some of Mr. Trump's controversial stances, he embraced the president-elect's focus on toughened immigration laws and a "law and order" agenda — priorities he himself has stressed for years.
The result, in "Peacekeeping," is a cynicism about Haitian politics that the author himself may not quite share, and may not have fully intended—a toughened, macho realism that is the mutant offspring of good knowledge and good technique.
LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Britain toughened its approach to the coronavirus outbreak after estimates of the number of people who would need invasive mechanical ventilation in intensive care doubled, a top epidemiologist who advised the government said on Wednesday.
Russia's detention of three Ukrainian military vessels and their crews in the Kerch Strait - a body of water shared between the two countries - has led to widespread calls in Europe and the U.S. for sanctions against Moscow to be toughened.
ERIN, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Masters champion Sergio Garcia said he was happy to be in the hunt at the U.S. Open and that his chances of adding a second successive major would improve if the course toughened up in the upcoming rounds.
Ensuring that pubs and clubs give drinkers venturing outside receptacles made of plastic or toughened glass, which breaks into blunt little cubes rather than jagged shards, has cut the number of severe injuries, particularly to the face, incurred by drunken brawlers.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Alberta Energy Regulator has toughened rules determining if companies are financially strong enough to buy oil and gas assets, a move some energy industry players warned on Tuesday could hamper mergers and acquisition in the province.
" Physical fitness and sports were a huge part of this ideology, from the playing fields of boarding schools like Eton or Harrow, where boys were frequently toughened up through extreme hazing, to the development of rule-driven sports like "gentleman's boxing.
But after the encounter in Canada Mrs Merkel seems to have toughened up, and the EU will now indeed apply countervailing tariffs on some American products: "We won't let ourselves be ripped off again and again," she said after the summit.
In reaction to the toughened U.S. sanctions, Iran said in May that it would scale back its commitments to the deal after a 60-day deadline to European signatories of the pact to protect Iran's economic interests from U.S. sanctions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron said the pact was only a start to reining in a rise in global temperatures, blamed for stoking more heat waves, floods and rising sea levels, and needed to be toughened.
Basically, we saw version 2.0 of the shoes we know and love, but more in tune with the collection's toughened-up aesthetic (and, given the nature of the block heel, likely easier to walk in, which is always a bonus).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is continuing to monitor developments in Hong Kong and urges all sides to refrain from violence, a Trump administration official said on Monday after anti-government protesters and police toughened their stances amid weekend skirmishes.
Gabler's organizing principle is that Streisand's outsider roots — as a Jewish-looking, Jewish-sounding, ­Brooklyn-toughened woman who pushed past rejection and (gentile) Hollywood standards of female beauty and desirability to brilliant stardom — are the defining, revolutionary characteristic of her life.
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union system for granting financial market access to foreign firms must be toughened up given that a dominant financial centre will become a close neighbour after Brexit, the head of France's markets watchdog said on Thursday.
But Hong Kong suffers from a lack of qualified specialists, especially at non-banks such as local securities firms as well as at regulators, who are capable of analyzing complex transactions amid the toughened compliance and risk requirements, Young said.
The U.S. government has toughened its stance on the sale of American companies to Chinese entities, at a time of already tense trade ties, with Washington vowing to narrow a large trade deficit with China which reached $347 billion in 2016.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Ukraine has revoked a Soviet-era deal that allowed visa-free travel for North Koreans, the latest setback for isolated North Korea which has been under growing pressure since the UN Security Council imposed toughened new sanctions in March.
One of the men aided by Mr. García said that he, his wife and four children had fled Honduras because of violent extortion threats by a gang, and only heard of the toughened United States policy after they reached Mexico.
All of their impact players, their centerpiece stars, are toughened by time, burning hot in the crucible of a championship series that continues Monday night with the Warriors in closeout position at home, leading the Cavaliers by three games to one.
Just as she had done at every other stop campaigning for her brother, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Ms. Owens invoked the deep personal suffering he endured, and how it infused him with empathy and toughened him against adversity.
Exxon Mobil's hopes to produce new oil in Arctic waters and in Siberian shale fields were delayed indefinitely by the toughened sanctions, which prohibited transfers of drilling technology capable of reaching oil in fields that previously had been virtually inaccessible.
On July 5, the United States toughened its military pressure and invective against the Communist nation after North Korea conducted a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appeared capable of hitting America's two most western states: Alaska and Hawaii.
It would also suspend any immigration for at least 30 days from a number of predominantly Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — while the government toughened its already stringent screening procedures to weed out potential terrorists.
The District Court of Cologne gave a 20-year-old Iraqi and a 26-year-old Algerian a one-year suspended sentence each in a ruling that came just hours after the parliament in Berlin unanimously toughened sex crime laws.
Trump's toughened stance on Cuba as well as Venezuela has gone down well in the large Cuban-American community in south Florida, an important voting bloc in a political swing state as he looks toward his re-election campaign in 2020.
The weakness in energy stocks also came after Alberta's energy regulator toughened rules determining if companies are financially strong enough to buy oil and gas assets, a move some energy industry players warned on Tuesday could hamper mergers and acquisition in the province.
But Russia's tone toward Ms. Merkel, who has been praised in the West for keeping Europe united on sanctions, has toughened, notably in news reports suggesting that she has ruined Europe by allowing more than one million asylum seekers into Germany last year.
Casasola had hoped justice had toughened up in the decade since Nagore's death, but received a blow this year when five men who called themselves "The Wolf Pack" were cleared of raping an 18-year-old woman at the festival in 2016.
Perhaps most worrying for Democrats who want to focus on Trump's ugliest affronts, 33 percent of voters thought Trump's immigration policies were "about right," and another 0003 percent wanted to see them toughened; only 46 percent thought Trump had gone too far.
Trumps toughened stance on Cuba as well as Venezuela has gone down well in the large Cuban-American community in south Florida, an important voting bloc in a key political swing state as he looks toward his re-election campaign in 2020.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned North Korea's most recent ballistic missile launches as a grave violation of an international ban and called on the 193 U.N. member states to enforce toughened sanctions on the Asian state.
And with that, a 15-minute errand turned into a nightmarish entanglement in the toughened-up immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump – an experience that tore apart the life she had spent more than two decades building for herself and her family.
The reversal, which left the United States nearly isolated on the issue at the United Nations, reflected the toughened attitude toward Cuba by President Trump, who has distanced his administration from the historic thaw in relations begun by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
In recent weeks, China and the United States have been vying for the attention of Kim Jong-un, with Mr. Trump accusing China of contributing to a toughened North Korean stance on denuclearization after the North Korean and Chinese leaders met this month.
According to media reports, an internal European Commission report points to efforts such as immediate deportations, toughened asylum standards, the turning away of NGO-led migrant ships and pressure put on migrant-source countries to prevent departures as an explanation for the achievement.
Trump's toughened stance on Cuba as well as Venezuela has gone down well in the large Cuban-American community in south Florida, an important voting bloc in a key political swing state as he looks toward his re-election campaign in 2020.
The U.S. government has toughened its stance on the sale of companies to Chinese entities, at a time when Trump is trying to put pressure on China to help tackle North Korea's nuclear ambitions and be more accommodative on trade and foreign exchange issues.
In October, the RBA warned that loose lending standards were adding to the risk of an eventual downturn in the housing market, while in July 2015 the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, which regulates the banking sector, toughened the rules on lending to property investors.
But even as he swallowed his pride and signed off on an extension for the agreement for a further 120 days, the president said that he would still walk away from the deal if it is not toughened by allies and by Congress, and soon.
Trump has said he expects to hold a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a G20 leaders' summit late this month, but analysts such as Capital Economics believe the chances of a lasting trade deal are receding after both sides toughened up their rhetoric.
Trump is also expected to unveil a toughened approach to respond to Iran's ballistic missile development, political maneuverings throughout the region and what the administration says is its support for terrorism, including for groups like Hezbollah and Houthi rebels in Yemen, officials have said.
He said a toughened nuclear specific deal would "go over better with our allies and it might get better in terms of Iran's own reaction to it … and then if they put in the missile stuff that will be a problem." of Trump's anticipated announcement.
The Ministry of Justice has said that as part of the wider overhaul of British prisons, the windows of new prisons in England and Wales will have toughened glass and air vents, because a government-funded study had warned that having bars was punitive.
"The utilitarian mood in the collection alludes to this idea of protectionism," she says, pointing out other everyday styles: a leather biker jacket, which she has toughened up with padding, and a denim jacket with a cinched silhouette modeled on the Dior Bar jacket.
The Obama administration toughened screening procedures in recent years even as it sought to streamline the process to embrace more refugees, and the Trump administration has reviewed and further enhanced security since the president's travel ban, which is currently being weighed by the Supreme Court.
"The gap between American and Japanese readers is much bigger than you can even imagine," he said, noting that Japan's decades-long experience leading the international community's responses to Pyongyang suggests that renewed pressure and toughened sanctions may not be sufficient to counter the threat.
With changing attitudes toward sex and gender equality, France toughened laws against sex crimes in 2018 and also extended the statute of limitations for prosecution — raising it to 30 years, up from 20 years — allowing victims to press charges until the age of 48.
Unlike the toughened-up, greasy-slick locks created to match last spring's rock 'n' roll-themed collection, Palau explained that the current style spoke more to the spirit of the fall/winter 2017 collection than its actual aesthetic: cool, easy and eclectic, he said.
After he toughened his trade rhetoric with China on Tuesday, Trump on Wednesday said a deal to end a nearly 15-month trade war with China could happen sooner than people think and that the Chinese were making big agricultural purchases from the United States.
At the same time, the president toughened sanctions against North Korea, surged aircraft carriers to the Western Pacific, forged an even closer relationship with Japan, raised the visibility of military exercises with South Korea, and strengthened his personal interactions with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Authorities arrested a number of suspected Bosniak jihadists in the past year, and last year convicted Bosnian imam Husein "Bilal" Bosnic, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for recruiting for IS and inciting terrorism under a new law that toughened penalties for those crimes.
Fillon has taken a hard line since the start of the campaign on issues such as migration and public spending, and he has toughened his language further over recent weeks with an eye to the right wing of his camp and voters tempted by the far right.
After he went on the field during the wild-card round in 2016 and started jawing with Cincinnati's Adam Jones after a vicious hit by Vontaze Bufict, the league toughened a rule that assistant coaches weren't allowed off the sidelines unless they were attending an injured player.
With the winner decided by Conservative Party members, who overwhelmingly back Brexit, Hunt has toughened his language, saying he would take a decision at the beginning of October to go for a disorderly no-deal exit if there was no prospect of getting an agreement through parliament.
Federal Reserve to Raise the Bar on Bank Stress Tests | The basic framework for this year's test was toughened up last month, as the Fed started to assume bigger falls in unemployment, a deeper trough in Europe and negative short-term interest rates throughout the nine-quarter planning horizon.
But the top 10 Democratic candidates, sharing the debate stage for the first time after the party toughened the rules to qualify, stressed their shared opposition to Republican President Donald Trump more often and pared back some of the bickering that marked the first two debates this summer.
The Americans, believing the Mexicans would bend on the automobile rules to get a deal quickly, insisted on a toughened position last week and the Mexicans responded by rejecting the proposal, saying they would rather have no deal than a bad deal, according to officials briefed on the talks.
The high command of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), which wants independence for a territory that accounts for half of Angola's oil output, has toughened its stance since the death of its 88-year-old founder Nzita Tiago earlier this year in exile in France.
And a toughened inner core, because he missed a penalty kick for Atlético against Real Madrid in the final of the Champions League in May, yet unhesitatingly and superbly scored from the penalty that, on the stroke of halftime in Marseille, put France on the road to victory over Germany.
Inspired by Anne-France Dautheville (the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world) in the most literal sense, leather jackets, overalls, midi-skirts, and dresses toughened up the typically frilly and carefree collection (though the frocks and loose, ruffled blouses for die-hard Chloé fans were still going strong).
While the Energy Department says the move will save money for consumers and manufacturers, advocates for making appliances more efficient counter that the new rules will only encourage lawsuits from manufactures upset with toughened standards and make it harder for regulators to cut the climate-warming impact of home appliances.
The White House has said that its long-term target for growth is 4 percent, and Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that the economy could grow faster if regulations were rolled back and trade policies were toughened to encourage American companies to manufacture more of their products in the United States.
The runway saw twinsets in a multitude of vivid floral colors, double-breasted coats over structured frocks with an exaggerated skirt, and outfits toughened up with fingerless leather gloves and patent ankle boots — all of which, tweedier than the next, were built around four very specific details, making Lagerfeld's latest offering oddly...conceptual?
Moon Chung-in, a special national security adviser to South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, said both sides were to blame for the breakdown, but the United States appeared to have suddenly toughened its stand and called for North Korea's complete denuclearisation despite earlier suggestions it might agree to a phased approach.
"While we do not yet have evidence of how these reforms will hold up during the next economic downturn, many have been in place long enough that we can begin to evaluate their efficacy," he said of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that toughened rules and oversight for financial institutions that exacerbated the crisis.
After this week's attacks in the northern English city of Manchester, the Group of Seven - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - toughened a final statement to fight terrorism, honing in on the role of companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, sometimes referred to generally in Europe using the acronym Gafa.
As one of a handful of men in my family to survive the scourge of black lung in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, I cannot overstate the dire need for broadly strengthened safety regulations, including the expansion of Occupational Safety and Health Administration coverage to all workers, toughened federal enforcement, and ironclad whistleblower protections.
Chun Yung-woo, South Korea's former chief negotiator at the six-party talks and national-security adviser to President Lee Myung-bak until 2013, says that although China has toughened its stance towards North Korea, it has "not fundamentally changed its policy of putting stability before denuclearisation—it will only implement sanctions that are tolerable to North Korea".
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Mr Trump has suggested that he might trade away sanctions on Russia, imposed in 2014 in response to the invasion of Ukraine and toughened as recently as December 2016, if "good deals" can be done with President Vladimir Putin—whether those involve agreeing to shrink nuclear arsenals, or encouraging Russia's unsqueamish armed forces to smite the Islamic State (IS) terror network.
Officials said Customs and Border Protection conducts training drills like the one that happened Thursday in Progreso a couple of times a year, but the timing and location right near the border crossing seemed more than a coincidence, coming as it did on the very day that Mr. Trump was describing a toughened strategy for detaining migrants and processing asylum claims.
Is it any accident that in the middle of an escalating feud with congressional Democrats, as the more damning aspects of Robert Mueller's report sank in and his namesake was served a subpoena by a Republican-led Senate committee, he played host to and praised a loathsome autocrat, Viktor Orban of Hungary; again flaunted his friendship with Vladimir Putin; toughened his talk about Iran; and ratcheted up his trade war with China?
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