Toughening up the weedy punishments for infractions might also help.
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The legislation isn't all about toughening school security and arming staffers.
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This means strengthening law enforcement, improving legislation and toughening up penalties.
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So there is a case for toughening our stance on trade.
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The Trump administration can take credit for greatly toughening U.N. sanctions.
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Crimes against women have been rising in India despite toughening of laws.
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But EU leaders' language on the border has if anything been toughening.
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These changes can cause a fibrous or toughening of the breast tissue.
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Rubio has, for years, led the charge for toughening relations with Cuba.
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Their former colleagues tell of spiritual awakenings, physical survival and mental toughening.
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The bloc has been toughening up conditions for equivalence ahead of Brexit.
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Mr Modi's government has made encouraging noises about toughening accountability and improving curriculums.
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Those toughening conditions will soon force out many more candidates from the field.
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But states are now toughening laws that would ban these type of marriages.
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Beijing has been toughening and extending its environmental protection laws in recent years.
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Senate Republicans have not always been so enthusiastic about toughening anti-discrimination enforcement.
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But for the next debate in September, the DNC is significantly toughening qualification standards.
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As for Chinese investment in America, the CFIUS committee was already toughening its oversight.
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All over Europe, mainstream parties are toughening their immigration policies in hopes of survival.
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Trump has made toughening up against China a key pillar of his economic agenda.
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"We're toughening up at the border," Mr. Trump told an audience in West Virginia.
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Executives say that the government has made inroads in toughening protections of pharmaceutical patents.
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But he focused on toughening U.S. asylum law, a move that Democrats likely would oppose.
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The toughening up of Hoy No Circula — Spanish for "Today Don't Circulate" — won't be permanent.
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Keeping this approach, but toughening up the policing, means creating yet more rules—and loopholes.
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Trump, who campaigned on toughening up trade deals, scrapped it altogether when he took office.
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Other officials have described Shanahan as an advocate of the Pentagon's toughening stance toward Beijing.
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Despite the toughening of the laws, debate continues over whether they serve as a sufficient deterrent.
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Facebook has stepped up its fact-checking program and is toughening up policies for political advertisements.
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The bloc has since tightened its border controls and is toughening its stance on granting asylum.
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Last summer, those four reached a deal with California on toughening standards through the mid-2020s.
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"We're toughening up at the border" he told a crowd in West Virginia on April 5th.
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"Toughening the bill, I cannot believe," said the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Finally, there are signs of a potential toughening of U.S. policy in the South China Sea.
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Despite a recent toughening of its regime, British regulators have ruled out U.S.-style financial rewards.
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It shouldn't be surprising, then, that the S.E.C. is toughening its stance on data security issues.
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For now, though, Republicans are toughening up work requirements, hoping it will knock people off welfare.
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At first its approach was conventional, ramping up stop-and-search while toughening the law on knives.
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But a toughening of China's stance—assuming it implements the sanctions rigorously—may give North Korea pause.
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This time, however, Houston remained steadfast, toughening up in the second half and eventually turning the tide.
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But the world's major powers have so far responded to the president's criticisms by toughening their resolve.
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That included toughening up the character of Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, who died in 2016.
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Previous reviews have focused on toughening qualifications for advisors and curbing commissions that create a conflict of interest.
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That means toughening codes for infrastructure, "establishing an enabling financial environment that encourages climate-resilient investment," and more.
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The high-seas confrontation also indicated that Indonesia might be toughening its stance toward China in the region.
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Up until now, though, Republicans have been toughening up work requirements, hoping it will knock people off welfare.
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After another deal failed, Mr. Obama refused to resume negotiations with North Korea and focused on toughening sanctions.
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One was described by church officials as a toughening up of child-protection laws within the Vatican's boundaries.
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Trump is considering support for a range of legislative options, including toughening up background checks for gun buyers.
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Since then, Damjanski said he and a team of two other friends have been reevaluating and toughening the challenge.
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The Trump administration has reportedly been considering toughening its policy on Iran's support for militant groups and nuclear capabilities.
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Trump has used the Halloween attack to push his agenda of tightening immigration laws and toughening anti-terror policies.
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The CRFB estimates that $6900 billion could be easily achieved by consolidating or toughening loan terms and reducing subsidies.
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Why it matters: This yet another example of DHS and the Trump administration toughening up on enforcing immigration laws.
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The Trump administration argues it's just toughening up its enforcement of a law that's long been on the books.
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The French Senate on Wednesday rejected proposed legislation aimed at toughening checks on telecoms equipment despite the U.S. warnings.
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Among his ideas: instituting a financial transactions tax of 0.1 percent and toughening banking regulations like the Volcker Rule.
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Toughening them up is one justification for the obligatory boot camps that still take place annually in schools and universities.
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They follow a string of other big banks who, with profits hampered by toughening financial regulations, have chosen to exit.
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There's one thing Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump seem to agree on: toughening trade policies to protect American jobs.
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The U.S. side is expected to press China to cooperate on a further toughening of international sanctions on North Korea.
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The rollback fantasy As for toughening up US efforts to counter Iran in the region, we've seen this movie before.
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And they've worked on bipartisan bills, like an omnibus spending package and a toughening of sanctions on Iran and Russia.
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But Mr. Kushner is running into opposition from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who favors toughening, not relaxing, mandatory minimum sentences.
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But toughening U.S. asylum law is likely to face stiff opposition from Democrats in Congress and from immigration advocacy groups.
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Von Spakovsky has been an ardent proponent of toughening voting laws for years, asserting the potential for massive voter fraud.
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Social media giant Facebook this month said it is toughening its advertising policies to create more transparency ahead of the vote.
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The Jonas Lindstroem–directed video features a father urging his son to hit him as a way of toughening him up.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told ABC on Sunday the administration was on board with toughening sanctions against Russia.
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Kim said that a toughening of European Union carbon emission limits in 2025 would create a need for more hydrogen cars.
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The recent passage of the 21st Century Cures Act will hopefully improve the parity problem by toughening enforcement of parity laws.
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But an effort to outlaw underage unions for all Malaysians amid the toughening of child sex crime legislation failed in Parliament.
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I felt like I was toughening up with each shot, learning the level of stress my body and brain could withstand.
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Duque and his Democratic Center Party made toughening the conditions of the peace deal a cornerstone of their 2018 election campaign.
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The FCA was already looking at toughening up rules for funds and is due to announce final changes later this year.
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Mr Sánchez has supported direct rule and has recently talked about toughening it if Catalonia's new secessionist president takes any unconstitutional step.
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Then came the toughening of immigration laws in the mid 231s, which greatly expanded mandatory detention of noncitizens pending their immigration proceedings.
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Some traditionalists are horrified at the recent journalistic toughening, and it's true that fact-checking is a high-wire act for moderators.
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In recent weeks, China has shown signs of toughening its stance on North Korea, including banning imports of coal from the North.
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SPCY indexes, reflect a toughening stance by index firms and the investors they represent who increasingly emphasize the importance of corporate governance rights.
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Washington's regional allies, Sunni Gulf Arab states and Israel — staunch foes of Tehran — have all praised the United States' toughening stance on Iran.
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European states, however, have made strides on this front, bolstering intelligence collection and sharing, toughening up their laws, and otherwise improving counterterrorism measures.
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He added that he had "no idea how the world energy market is going to react" to the toughening of sanctions against Iran.
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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said at a weekly press conference that Congress should promptly pass legislation toughening background checks on gun buyers.
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"Toughening immigration laws—this a perfect excuse to do so, but banning diversity visas for this reason wouldn't make much sense," Ashrafova said.
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But that toughening should be undertaken in concert with other nations that also suffer from Chinese misbehavior, and it should have clear objectives.
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Experts also claimed the move could bring some much needed law and order to the market, by toughening up on fraud and scams.
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The head of a major rail union, Laurent Brun, said a "toughening of the strike" was now needed in response to Mr. Philippe.
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Toughening sanctions against Pyongyang still makes sense — including more penalties on international banks and companies that do illicit business with the North Koreans.
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If it's a crib, Mehan says, check that it was made after 2011, when safety standards changed, banning drop-side cribs and toughening testing.
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Lebanon is toughening its enforcement of rules governing the roughly 1 million Syrian refugees who constitute about a quarter of the tiny country's population.
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Robin Walker, the Worcester representative in Parliament, said lawmakers are considering toughening sentences for people convicted of any type of intentional assault with acid.
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Joel Wit of the 38 North think tank said North Korea was likely toughening its negotiating position after the collapse of the Hanoi summit.
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Any toughening of border controls at the Brenner Pass would slow traffic on an important route from Italy to Germany, Italy's top trading partner.
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The downing in east Ukraine in July 2014 of a Malaysian passenger plane led to a toughening of the EU's response to the crisis.
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The plans would flex plenty of executive muscle on topics like toughening auto emissions rules and restricting fossil fuel projects that need federal approval.
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Lebanon is toughening enforcement of work and housing rules - some of which were ignored for years - on its more than 1 million Syrian refugees.
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The City Council has taken steps of its own, passing legislation to make sure tenants know their rights and toughening the penalties for tenant harassment.
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Last year, a growing number of migrants from Central America said they were seeking refuge in Mexico as word of toughening US immigration policies spread.
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He added that Mr. Brownback could hold up other accomplishments as governor — his toughening of laws on abortion and guns — that go beyond fiscal matters.
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But her rugged father and refined mother wanted more than just a rural life for their precocious daughter, and that led to another toughening experience.
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The government was also considering toughening criminal punishment for employers found negligent in addressing sexual misdeeds, the ministry of gender equality said in a statement.
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Murphy said he would introduce a new background check bill and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi also urged passage of legislation toughening checks on gun sales.
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"They were about the business of really toughening up immigration law," says Doris Meissner, who was head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the time.
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What of the most common objection to toughening rules on payday lenders—that it would force borrowers to turn to loan sharks, who charged even more?
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When the CDU and SPD formed a new government in March this year, they put a toughening of the rent-brake law in their coalition agreement.
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Lam's warning about the economy and China's targeting of a key Hong Kong business mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with the crisis.
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" The U.S. has been toughening its talk on North Korea, with administration officials saying "the clock has run out" and "all options are on the table.
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Political bullies in religious robes are an unedifying spectacle but counter-argument is surely a better response than reviving and toughening old and cynically conceived laws.
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While no other nation has followed Mr. Trump's lead and left the Paris Agreement — indeed, more countries have joined — few are toughening their emissions-reduction targets.
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Democrats will likely argue that the healthcare law is fiscially responsible and needs to be strengthened, in part by toughening regulations on the prescription drug industry.
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Privacy advocates argue that web-monitoring tools give organisations new powers to peer into employees' lives — and there are signs that regulators are toughening their stance.
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The Trump administration has cautioned against toughening sanctions against Russia, arguing that it could upend efforts to ease tensions and promote cooperation between the two countries.
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Facebook Inc last week said it is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to create more transparency ahead of the country's general election.
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In the wake of the protests, Mexico's lower house of congress has proposed toughening prison sentences for the murder of women and sexual abuse of minors.
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So too will be Obama's too-clever-by-half strategy to "balance" Iran and the Sunnis, so expect an all-round toughening with an anti-US Tehran.
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Two London airports have been disrupted by drones in recent weeks and the British government is considering toughening laws that ban the use of drones near airports.
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The EU's final appeal appears to have backfired, with the WTO judges reversing points that previously went in the EU's favor and toughening the ruling against it.
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Europe, which is just starting to consider the issue, is looking at a compromise, by toughening penalties against China while still conferring market status on the country.
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One possibility is that toughening the immune system early in life alters how we respond to hits later, making those viral infections less likely to provoke autoimmunity.
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Merriden Varrall, director at the Lowy Institute, an Australian think-tank, says that under Mr Xi there has been a distinct toughening in China's soft power focus.
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Despite the intense police response and the toughening stance from China, it still seems to enjoy broad support in the city of more than 7 million people.
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Focusing on getting "less politically correct" -- Trump's unsubtle reference, during a Cabinet meeting, to toughening up the country's policies toward Muslims -- is the wrong way to go.
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"So the world will see continued enforcement actions by the United States in the days and weeks ahead," he said in a significant toughening of his stance.
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His government is credited with delivering some progress, such as toughening pollution controls and shutting down excess mines and factories that had fed a glut in production.
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"It's partly because of the dropmen, but also because of the toughening of drug policy over the past ten years, with harsher and harsher sentences," Levinson explained.
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Congress is also considering ways to restrict China's ability to acquire advanced technology by toughening rules to prevent the purchase of American assets and limit technology transfers.
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Washington is working with European allies such as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the possibility of toughening the nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Pyongyang is advancing — not denuclearizing — its weapons systems; the U.S. is considering toughening — not reducing — economic sanctions, and China shows little interest in facilitating a peace process.
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It spent subsequent decades trying to either overthrow the Cuban government or isolate the island, including toughening an economic embargo first imposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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The FCA, which authorises Woodford, said it will look at how the fund applied this EU cap and whether the rules on applying the cap need toughening up.
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The FCA, which authorizes Woodford, said it will look at how the fund applied this EU cap and whether the rules on applying the cap need toughening up.
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Bloomberg would push the top income tax rate back up to 39.6 percent, where it was before Republicans cut it to 37 percent, while toughening the estate tax.
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Last week the bloc proposed toughening "equivalence" for foreign central counterparties (CCPs) or clearing houses used by EU customers, seen by London's financial sector as a land grab.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has made toughening immigration policies a central tenet of his presidency and has vowed to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
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The president failed to mention toughening background checks in an address last week that focused on mental illness, the internet and video games as potential causes of shootings.
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Two London airports have been disrupted by drone sightings in recent weeks and the British government is considering toughening laws that ban the use of drones near airports.
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Among those caught in Pakistan's toughening stance is Sharbat Gula, the subject of a famous photo that was published on a cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985.
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Why it matters: Despite marrying into an immigrant family, Donald Trump has made toughening immigration laws and cracking down on illegal immigration a central part of his presidency.
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At a moment when President Emmanuel Macron is taking a toughening line against immigration, Mr. M'seddi's triumph challenges the very notion of what it means to be French.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European corporate disclosures on climate change and other sustainability issues are generally poor, a study on Monday showed, as regional policymakers mull toughening up the rules.
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And both countries are unlikely to engage in dialogue at the same time as they are toughening up on the other party, according to the former NATO commander.
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During the campaign, Mr. Trump called for toughening border security, renegotiating or blocking major trade deals, and cutting support for allies the United States has backed since 1945.
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Many Russians have been angered by a toughening of pension benefits and a tax increase, announced the same day as the opening of the World Cup last month.
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Since last year, Francis has undergone something of a conversion on the issue, admitting errors, asking forgiveness and toughening his stance toward those who covered up the crimes.
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She pressed the EU to block an agreement on toughening carbon-dioxide emissions in 53 (big German cars remain heavy emitters, although diesel produces less carbon dioxide than petrol).
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Meanwhile, the bulk of the party opposed both an anti-terrorism law that will soon replace temporary states of emergency and a law toughening ethics rules for public officeholders.
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But John Delury, associate professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, told CNN China had almost no influence left on North Korea and toughening sanctions would only work so far.
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Bucking the positive trend, China's Shanghai composite closed off by around 239 percent, thought to be affected by fears over domestic regulators further toughening their stance towards speculative traders.
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Tehran has decried the toughening of U.S. sanctions and urged other signatories to take action to save the nuclear pact or see Iran turn its back on the deal.
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They favor putting additional police on the streets and toughening immigration policies, according to a study by the right-wing think tank Onward, which coined the phrase Workington Man.
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To better combat organized crime, we also are strengthening the independence of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies, toughening the criminal code and creating a new anti-corruption prosecutor.
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Obama kicked off the year with his push for gun control, announcing actions expanding background checks and toughening enforcement of other federal laws at an emotional White House event.
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Spades and Roses, the Nashville-based songwriter's second record, takes that idea and expands it, tapping into an ancient tradition of finding strength grounded in femininity and toughening up.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal body that approves medical devices, is toughening up its own approval process after faulty medical devices harmed patients there too.
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"Under your leadership, Attorney General Sessions has made violent crime and illegal immigration a top priority," Mr. Rosenstein said before explaining the legal challenges of toughening up enforcement efforts.
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The group has about 40 members and is receiving so many requests that the founders are considering toughening the admission requirements which already set demanding standards for fashion taste.
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Other plans announced by the monarch on behalf of the government ranged from improving the health service, toughening the country's crime and justice system and more investment in science.
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In recent weeks, Saudi Arabia has also published new versions of its anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws, strengthening due diligence requirements for financial institutions and toughening criminal penalties.
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Lam's warning about the economy and China's targeting of a key Hong Kong business mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong's deepest crisis in decades.
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While Washington has been the driving force behind the toughening international sanctions regime, China conducts 90 percent of the trade with North Korea and is the key to enforcing them.
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BERLIN, Nov 7 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he is against any toughening of European car emissions targets by 2025.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's markets watchdog proposed toughening up rules on Friday for loans offered by crowdfunding platforms to give consumers clear and accurate information and ensure they understand the risks.
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However, the department also has certain tools that could be used to make unions' lives more difficult — for instance, by toughening disclosure rules on what they do with their money.
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Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington said the government would consider toughening laws that ban the use of drones near airports but that operators could also invest more in protection systems.
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That was the country's worst mass shooting since the 473 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which left 35 people dead and led to a significant toughening of Australia's gun laws.
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The Commission also acts as the EU's competition watchdog and von der Leyen has signaled she would seek a further toughening of rules for tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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An internal French foreign ministry memo in August told diplomats not to travel to Iran, Reuters reported, citing the bomb plot and a toughening of Iran's position toward the West.
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Zayed seems to have intended this to be a toughening experience; he gave his son a passport showing a different last name, so that he wouldn't be treated like royalty.
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But New York Times journalists who were granted rare access to Azad Jammu and Kashmir in recent days found a toughening Pakistani security response to a growing independence movement here.
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A shift of either chamber into Democratic hands would make it even more difficult for Trump to pass his agenda of tax reform, toughening immigration laws and rolling back Obamacare.
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" Yet the Trump administration insists that toughening anti-dumping laws will be a great solution to fulfilling Trump's promise of putting "American-produced steel back into the backbone of our country.
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Lam's warning about the economy and the China's targeting of a key Hong Kong business mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong's deepest crisis in decades.
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Maybe that's his way of armoring up, toughening himself up against something like that, knowing that he is always going to be with the people and not completely outside of them.
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An internal French foreign ministry memo in August told diplomats not to travel to Iran, Reuters revealed, citing the Villepinte bomb plot and a toughening of Iran's position toward the West.
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Lam's warning about the economy and the China's targeting of a key Hong Kong business mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong's deepest crisis in decades.
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Some states have passed laws toughening prison sentences related to opioids, and more have encouraged police and prosecutors to use old "tough on crime" laws to crack down on drug addiction.
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The key to keeping the river clean will be educating people and toughening enforcement of environmental controls, said Oegroseno, who vowed to shut polluting factories and make them fund clean-ups.
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Brussels has begun toughening up equivalence conditions now that it faces a huge, foreign financial centre on its doorstep, forcing it to consider how much access to grant Britain after Brexit.
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Outside of traditional currencies, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rebounded after two days of losses tied partly to more regulators toughening rules on digital currencies in a bid to curb excessive speculation.
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For an hour and a half, I played old Chicago records and percussive jams, working people up a lot and gradually toughening up until I went into the heavy acid zone.
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Sometimes I believed the hallucinations were the work of a race of space aliens that had selected me as an ambassador and were toughening me up for the journey to come.
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Like nearly every Southern Republican running for a statewide office this year, he has campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, protecting gun rights, increasing military spending and toughening immigration enforcement.
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While the equity raise is the last piece of the puzzle, Carige is coming to market just as the ECB set out plans toughening up its guidance on non-performing loans (NPLs).
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Sanchez Ceren, a 71-year-old former communist guerrilla, has taken a tough line on crime, deploying anti-gang army battalions and toughening up legislation to fight the maras and their associates.
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" It proposed "taking back our streets" by toughening the death penalty and building more prisons, and it suggested imposing term limits on "career politicians" so they could be replaced with "citizen legislators.
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Mark Thomas, regional president for BP North Sea, says in a statement that because of toughening market conditions "we need to take specific steps to ensure our business remains competitive and robust."
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The EU is already toughening equivalence conditions for foreign clearing houses, aimed specifically at the London Stock Exchange's LCH unit in London, which clears the bulk of euro denominated interest rate swaps.
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China's leader, Xi Jinping, ordered a crackdown after he took over in 2012, toughening up censorship of social media, arresting hundreds of dissidents and replacing liberal debate in universities with extra Marxism.
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And it's unlikely, even if the Trump administration is toughening up its policy on Assad to confront Iran, that it will be able to remove him through political pressure or military force.
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At the same time, Britain is toughening up its own penalties for tax evasion ahead of a new transparency initiative that will help it track down individuals who have hidden money offshore.
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Consensus over a toughening of sanctions policy toward Russia appeared as elusive as ever despite Moscow's escalation of the conflict in Syria, reflecting the varied economic and political interests in European capitals.
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Parliament and presidential hopefuls are pushing to empower institutional investors and toughening rules on a holding company structure, which would make it difficult for family members to restructure their groups, analysts said.
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House Democrats laid out the general terms of their offer for toughening border security on Wednesday as House and Senate negotiators met for the first time to find a deal before Feb.
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On the possibility that China might react to the U.S. import tariffs by toughening its enforcement actions against American firms like J&J, Gorsky said the company always wants to be proactive.
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Springer Nature, which publishes the influential journal Nature, also said that it was toughening its guidelines to make sure scientists get consent, particularly if those people are members of a vulnerable group.
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He added that any forms of quotas for electric vehicles (EVs) as well as a toughening of the EU's car emissions goals by more than 20 percent by 2025 would be dangerous.
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If was not clear if those statements by the President and Vice President hinted a toughening administration stance, especially because Trump's rhetoric frequently fluctuates given the political demands of a particular moment.
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The White House said on Sunday that President Donald Trump was open to signing legislation toughening sanctions on Russia after Senate and House leaders reached agreement on a bill late last week.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government on Friday dismissed 'yellow vest' protesters as agitators whose only goal was to topple it, signaling a toughening stance against a movement that has shaken Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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Monday night's move to intervene in litigation on the matter splits them from Ford, VW, Honda and BMW — the quartet that struck a deal with California on toughening standards through the mid-2020s.
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The shock of 9/11 led to a drastic toughening of security and the introduction of pre-flight profiling in which authorities scrutinize passenger lists before planes are given clearance to take off.
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Ms. Merkel seems keenly aware that the Cologne episode has awoken doubts even among those who welcome the new migrants, and on Saturday she proposed toughening expulsion laws for foreigners who commit crimes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Thursday they are reopening a proposal to boost fuel efficiency of medium and heavy duty trucks through 2027, asking for additional public comments on the planned toughening.
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Small-time landlords like the Yims will respond in one of two ways: they'll either try to filter out bad eggs by jacking up rent and toughening rental criteria, or they'll just sell.
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"The government is toughening its stance, it seems it has understood that its position on territorial issues has cost it votes," said Pablo Simon, a political science professor at Madrid's Carlos III university.
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The White Houses preoccupation with oil prices, the economy and re-election may make it cautious about toughening sanctions on Iran too much when the current waivers expire at the beginning of May.
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In an address before the national convention of the N.A.A.C.P. last July, he acknowledged that the law had gone too far in toughening sentencing standards and that it had contributed to mass incarceration.
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The central bank's policy members will want time to judge whether or how much the U.S. government's toughening trade policy stance would hurt the country exports, a key driver of growth, analysts said.
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Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader on Saturday, signalling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year.
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Some local observers said Ms. Chow's disqualification seemed to indicate a toughening standard for participation in government by a broad range of democracy campaigners, not just those who have called for outright independence.
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The White House's preoccupation with oil prices, the economy and re-election may make it cautious about toughening sanctions on Iran too much when the current waivers expire at the beginning of May.
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It is also toughening enforcement of patents and trademarks for a day when it can become a leader in those technologies — and use intellectual property protections to defend its position against rival economies.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday condemned an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, in a toughening of its language from the previous day, but again without saying who it believed was behind it.
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The ballot initiative seeks to curb gun violence by toughening background checks for people buying assault rifles, increasing the age limit to buy those firearms and requiring the safe storage of all guns.
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Why it matters: California wants to keep toughening the rules — which by proxy means tougher mileage mandates — in a way that's almost as strict as the national Obama-era standards they were following.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - E.ON and Centrica, two of Britain's so-called "big six" energy providers, warned on Monday of a toughening retail market, raising the chance of cost cuts in response to falling profits.
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LONDON (Reuters) - There will be zero tolerance of sexual harassment in Britain's parliament, the government said on Monday, toughening rules after allegations of abuse at the 800-year-old institution fueled demands for reform.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal bureau charged with protecting U.S. consumers' finances was poised to lay out plans on Thursday for toughening regulation of debt collection, as complaints have mounted about the multibillion-dollar industry.
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The business faces challenges from not only toughening environmental standards but also cheap natural gas resulting from the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" — breaking up the bedrock to extract more oil and gas.
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Ten weeks of increasingly violent confrontations between police and protesters have plunged Hong Kong into its worst crisis since it reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997, and police tactics have been toughening.
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Singapore has suspended trade relations with North Korea, the latest of Pyongyang's major trade partners to cut commercial ties under toughening U.N. sanctions over its weapons programme, a customs notice obtained on Thursday showed.
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But that obscured a player who expresses his own sharp views in selected areas, most notably immigration, where he shares Mr. Trump's commitment to toughening the border and deporting many in the country illegally.
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China's capital, Beijing, is toughening its rules for international arrivals, requiring everyone coming from overseas to spend the mandatory 224-day isolation at a quarantine site that they will be required to pay for.
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It might work for the bond repayment, but the appetite from the Russian banks to help Rusal with other operations, including potential debt refinancing, would be limited by risks of sanctions toughening against creditors.
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Zeid has already called the campaign "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and asked rhetorically if anyone could rule out "elements of genocide", but his latest remarks put the case plainly, toughening his stance.
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Toughening the deal remained administration policy through at least February 2018, when Hook spoke at a Duke University event moderated by Feaver, a professor there and his former colleague at the John Hay Initiative.
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It is toughening up the implementation of the law after an investigation into state-backed fund 1MDB in neighboring Malaysia exposed how some of its banks failed to impose robust controls on suspicious money flows.
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Italy's populist coalition will review thousands of state contracts with private companies, including Silvio Berlusconi's media concessions, in a sign of Rome's toughening line against corporate interests following the Genoa bridge disaster, the FT said.
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And the idea isn't nearly as mainstream as passing privacy legislation or toughening antitrust policies, two areas Klobuchar also emphasized — saying she wanted to scrutinize whether companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google had suppressed competition.
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In June, the Australian government passed two bills aimed at curbing foreign political influence by toughening espionage laws, banning covert activities on behalf of foreign governments, and requiring foreign lobbyists to register with the government.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump was open to signing legislation toughening sanctions on Russia after Senate and House leaders reached agreement on a bill late last week.
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Carlsberg acquired Russia's top beer maker, Baltika, in 2008 but has since issued a string of profit warnings due to toughening regulation of beer - which was only officially classified as an alcoholic drink in 2011.
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The toughening of the Turkish position underscored Ankara's apparent attempt to win more support from Europe if it is going to be expected to protect the bloc from hundreds of thousands of new asylum seekers.
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She told CNN there was "no getting around" the toughening of "our surveillance, surveillance and soft targets with greater police presence," but declined to say definitively if that meant allowing additional surveillance of private communications.
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Grindr has responded by toughening its guidelines to say profile descriptions ruling out specific groups such as racial minorities, trans people or HIV-positive people are no longer allowed and discriminatory states will be removed.
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More recently, the border crossing has remained an issue, with Britain occasionally denouncing in Brussels the toughening of border checks that Madrid has justified as part of its attempt to combat smuggling, particularly of tobacco.
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There were rowdy scenes in some supermarkets on Thursday as British shoppers sought to buy basic goods such as bottled water and tinned goods ahead of an expected toughening of measures by the UK government.
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BEIJING, Sept 17 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday condemned an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, in a toughening of its language from the previous day, but again without saying who it believed was behind it.
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While NATO officials move ahead with toughening their posture toward Russia, they are also discussing how to expand their role in the American-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State, according to a senior Pentagon official.
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At the same time, the administration called for toughening rules about signing up outside of open enrollment and about customers resuming coverage after failing to pay premiums, and loosening rules about the design of individual plans.
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The company is also toughening up the market place and has added new restrictions recently that use email confirmation and put a 15-day hold on traded items in order to mitigate the risks of fraud.
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El Salvador's president, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a 71-year-old former communist guerrilla, has taken a tough line on crime, deploying anti-gang army battalions and toughening up legislation to fight the Maras and their associates.
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The Boston Globe reports that the pop star strolled barefoot through the Boston Public Garden, as well as — in a bold move suggesting that Bieber has been hard at work toughening up his calluses — city streets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British shoppers were queuing around the block early on Thursday morning to buy basic goods such as bottled water and tinned goods ahead of an expected toughening of measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to create more transparency ahead of the country's general elections due before May, the social media giant said late on Thursday.
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The timing of the ruling, as European Union countries are toughening policies toward refugees and asylum seekers, reinforced an atmosphere of a Western backlash to migrants, even as the global population of forcibly displaced people grows.
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Her conservative Christian Democrats have begun taking a harder line, passing a resolution at their party congress this week aimed at toughening penalties for forced marriage and honor killings and urging an end to dual citizenship.
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Despite concern that the banking system - beset for years by toughening capital constraints and misconduct fines - could face a fresh hit from any write-down in commercial property, analysts were generally sanguine as total exposure was light.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front stepped up its anti-European Union rhetoric on Wednesday, days after toughening its stand against immigration, in an apparent bid to mobilize its core supporters ahead of Sunday's presidential election.
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But a least a few more Democrats declared that his apostasy met the bipartisan test set by skeptical party leaders for initiating impeachment proceedings -- or at least toughening the strategy behind investigations already under way in committees.
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In 2004, around the time the fund-raiser was being looked at by a state attorney general's office that was toughening disclosure rules for charitable organizations, Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation cut ties with Night of 100 Stars.
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Such a no-spy pledge would come in addition to a catalog of security measures toughening certification procedures to minimize the risk that network equipment comes fitted with 'back doors' that would expose it to cyber espionage.
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Hitting these CO2 and energy targets will require "full and effective implementation of all current policies," as well as power-sector reforms, implementing and expanding its emissions-trading system (ETS), toughening efficiency rules, and addressing other gaps.
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Trump has repeatedly called for toughening the US approach to terrorism, and has suggested he would continue to capture and detain terror suspects at Guantánamo, though he would not commit to imprisoning terror suspects there as prison.
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Trump is said by aides to be pleased by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for toughening her approach to the border, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is unlikely to be forced out unless he wants to leave.
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Cameron made the announcement as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation underlined the importance of its nuclear deterrent in the summit's final statement, toughening the language of a communique two years ago, in an indirect warning to Russia.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he is against any toughening of European car emissions targets by 2025, warning that stricter rules would cost jobs and growth.
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"In light of the toughening regulatory environment, banks need to conduct more proactive checks on the effectiveness of their internal controls and procedures," said Wilson Ang, a partner in the Singapore office of law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Last summer the CFPB, charged with guarding individuals against predatory lending, proposed toughening regulation of debt collection industry after fielding thousands of complaints from people contacted about debts they did not owe or illegally harassed by collection agencies.
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The 2012 case also led to the toughening of laws to deter crimes against women, but a rape epidemic shows no sign of dying down in part because investigation of such crimes is still inadequate and convictions rare.
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Faced with a huge, rival financial center on its doorstep, the EU began toughening up equivalence conditions ahead of Brexit specifically for foreign clearing houses and foreign investment banks that want to offer investment services to EU customers.
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European markets racked up their worst day in nearly three months on Tuesday, as stocks globally took a beating from a toughening of President Donald Trump's trade rhetoric against China and Brexit worries hit Irish and UK companies.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's central bank said on Friday that rate hikes were not off the table if inflation risks grew, toughening its rhetoric after a relentless oil price slump that has sent the rouble crashing to record lows.
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GAM's action came almost a decade after the financial crisis that spurred regulators globally into toughening up rules on the behavior of companies and individuals in the financial services sector, and which have increasingly focused on money managers.
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The U.S. severed ties with Cuba in 1961 after Fidel Castro's revolution, and spent subsequent decades trying to either overthrow the Cuban government or isolate the island, including by toughening an economic embargo first imposed by President Eisenhower.
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LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - British shoppers were queuing around the block early on Thursday morning to buy basic goods such as bottled water and tinned goods ahead of an expected toughening of measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
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Under President Barack Obama, Trump's predecessor, the United States added those seven countries as "countries of concern" under its visa waiver program, effectively toughening U.S. visa procedures for individuals who visited those places during the past five years.
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London began toughening its tactics on Monday, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people to keep their distance from one another and to stay away from public gathering places — though the measures are voluntary and schools remain open.
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When Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton6900 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Rahm Emanuel: 'Panic would be the adjective to describe the mood' over Sanders Do Trump and Sanders hate America?
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The law applies only to foreign residents, not to Belgian nationals or refugees, part of a toughening of domestic security laws that has begun to worry human rights groups and ordinary citizens as a threat to civil liberties.
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After the disclosures by Mr. Snowden, who lives in exile in Russia and faces charges should he ever return to the United States, N.S.A. officials spent millions of dollars toughening security and installing software to detect unusual downloads.
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The teen organizers of Saturday's nationwide "March for Our Lives," aimed at toughening gun laws to help stop school shootings in the United States, have won kudos and cash from dozens of celebrities, helping to raise their national profile.
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By 0713 the pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.08%, steadying after its worst day in nearly three months in the previous session, when stocks globally took a beating from a toughening of Trump's trade rhetoric against China.
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FRANKFURT, March 7 (Reuters) - Germany's federal network regulator set new security criteria on Thursday for vendors supplying equipment for 5G networks, saying the same rules should apply to all providers and toughening scrutiny of gear used in critical infrastructure.
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An Israeli threat of military strikes could, nonetheless, galvanize support in the United States for toughening up the nuclear agreement but it could also backfire by encouraging hardliners in Iran and widening a rift between Washington and European allies.
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The S&P changes, which extend to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes, reflect a toughening stance by index firms and the investors they represent who increasingly emphasize the importance of corporate-governance rights.
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Former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton85033 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Rahm Emanuel: 'Panic would be the adjective to describe the mood' over Sanders Do Trump and Sanders hate America?
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The S&P changes, which extend to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes, reflect a toughening stance by index firms and the investors they represent who increasingly emphasize the importance of corporate governance rights.
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There's a similar story in transportation: Since 2011, the federal government has been steadily ratcheting up fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks, although the Trump administration has proposed to halt the toughening of those standards after 2021.
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The pair of warnings — one aimed at residents planning more marches still and the other at a business emblematic of the city's colonial past — mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong's deepest crisis in decades.
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With the mainstream parties toughening up on immigration, Denmark's biggest populist group, The Danish People's Party (DF) has lost some of its appeal and opinion polls show it is likely to shed almost half of its voters in the election.
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The pair of warnings -- one aimed at residents planning more marches still and the other at a business emblematic of the city's colonial past -- mark a toughening stance by authorities as they grapple with Hong Kong's deepest crisis in decades.
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The Mexican response in the border town of Metapa, which included dozens of soldiers, marked a toughening of the government's efforts to curb the flow of mainly Central American migrants, said Salva Cruz, a coordinator with Fray Matias de Cordova.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil is toughening requirements for ethanol importers to protect domestic producers from an incoming surge of U.S. corn ethanol, a minister said on Monday, adding that he opposed the idea of new tariffs that could trigger costly retaliation.
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In one exchange during Wednesday's press briefing, ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega asked Sanders if she knew the last time Trump visited a grocery store as part of a line of questioning about Trump's support for toughening voter ID laws.
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Speaking at the opening of a tech summit in Paris, Macron said he favored a toughening of merger and acquisition rules in Europe and that he wanted to make sure European software firms were not taken over by U.S. firms.
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The proposal also pledges to reinforce protections eroded by the Trump administration by boosting bank capital levels, toughening banks' annual health checks, and restoring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rules curbing payday lending and ban on imposing mandatory arbitration on consumers.
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Gregory Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said that instead of toughening U.S. asylum law, Congress and the Trump administration should invest in more orderly screening of undocumented immigrants and improve infrastructure at ports of entry.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fashion companies who flout a law requiring them to publish details of their actions to combat slavery should face a penalty under a toughening of legislation, British lawmakers said after holding an inquiry into the industry.
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Thus, the group's recently announced reunion, which now includes a series of select dates within the United States (listed below) leading up to the Day For Night festival in Houston, puts him in a position that warrants an additional toughening regimen.
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Macron is behind a bill toughening French immigration law, and he stressed there is no contradiction between rewarding Gassama for his act of bravery and working to prevent migrants from entering France illegally by stopping the stream of arrivals at its source.
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Britain's financial regulator is already considering toughening up the rules governing fund holdings in illiquid assets such as property or private equity after seven property funds totaling 18 billion pounds in assets under management froze in July 2016, shortly after the Brexit referendum.
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Mexican business leaders say toughening rules that stipulate a certain amount of content must be sourced from North America to qualify for NAFTA certification could be one way of allaying U.S. fears, and pave the way for an agreement on the revamp.
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Despite the intense police response and a toughening stance from China, the movement that began two months ago in opposition to a bill allowing extradition to the mainland still seems to enjoy broad support in the city of more than 7 million people.
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In the deep dive above, he argues that the president is toughening his stance on immigration because he's been unable to deliver on any of the other promises he's made to his voters — from reforming healthcare to stopping factories from closing down.
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Sterling was back on the ropes, skidding below $1.25 and hitting a new six-month low versus the euro of 90.25 pence after the two men vying to be Britain's next prime minister were seen to be toughening their line on Brexit negotiations.
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Trump at times has voiced support for toughening background checks for gun buyers, but he failed to mention the idea in a public address last week that focused on mental illness, the internet, social media and video games as potential causes of shootings.
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But unlike his previous viral video — "Sophisticated Trump" — where the accent was used to give the straight-talking real estate mogul a touch of class from across the pond, this time around Serafinowicz is toughening up Trump with a street-wise cockney dialect.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Exxon Mobil Seeks U.S. Waiver for Russia Oil Deal" (news article, April 20): I would hope that the Trump administration does not even consider giving waivers from American sanctions at a time when we should be toughening them.
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FIRE SALE Britain's financial regulator is already considering toughening up the rules governing fund holdings in illiquid assets such as property or private equity after seven property funds totalling 18 billion pounds in assets under management froze in July 2016, shortly after the Brexit referendum.
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The book never quite explains what it means to "wash your face," but you get the idea that it's a euphemism for toughening up, taking a good, hard look in the mirror, and getting out into the world with a kind of clear-eyed resolve.
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Despite the intense police response and a toughening stance from China, the movement that began more than two months ago in opposition to a bill allowing extradition to the mainland still seems to enjoy broad support in the city of more than 7 million people.
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The British pound fell to six-month lows against the euro and a 21.2403-month trough versus the dollar as Conservative Party members Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, vying to be Britain's next prime minister, were seen to be toughening their line on Brexit negotiations.
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The British pound fell to six-month lows against the euro and a 27-month trough versus the dollar as the Conservative Party's Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, vying to be Britain's next prime minister, were seen to be toughening their line on Brexit negotiations.
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The British pound fell to six-month lows against the euro and a 23-month trough versus the dollar as the Conservative Party's Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, vying to be Britain's next prime minister, were seen to be toughening their line on Brexit negotiations.
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Unfamiliar with the workings of government, legislation or diplomacy, he has often been stymied in his efforts to achieve goals like repealing Mr. Obama's health care law, toughening immigration regulations, building a wall along the Mexican border or bringing peace to the Middle East.
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Several European countries have suffered terrorist attacks in recent years, and the authorities have responded by toughening antiterrorism laws, increasing the budgets of their intelligence services, or making permanent the emergency measures that were put in place in the immediate aftermath of an attack.
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Voters in Washington state will decide the fate of Initiative 1639, which seeks to curb gun violence by toughening background checks for people buying semi-automatic rifles, increasing the age limit to 21 for buyers of those guns and requiring safe storage of all firearms.
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So another possible reason for the briefing is that administration officials — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford — will discuss further toughening of economic pressure on North Korea.
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The UK looks to be heading for an election, and Downing Street already appears to have drawn the battle lines on which it will fight the campaign, with pledges to take Britain out of the EU, as well as toughening up on crime and improving schools.
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These include protecting the GPS frequency by not allowing interfering transmissions, toughening user equipment with better software and antennae, and augmenting GPS satellite signals with those from a high power complementary and backup terrestrial system such that the resulting combined service would be exceptionally difficult to disrupt.
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Some British newspapers have billed May's speech on Tuesday as a shift away from preferential EU single market access - in order to win restrictions on immigration - and a toughening of the UK's stance towards an economic bloc that accounts for roughly half its exports and imports.
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Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are stepping aside from day-to-day management of its parent company, Alphabet, the pair announced Tuesday — a transition that comes as the search and advertising giant they founded as a college project is facing toughening scrutiny in Washington.
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"It's what the people have been wanting for years," said State Representative Jonathan Stickland, who is a member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, which was instrumental in toughening the bill, and who is a Republican known for carrying his concealed handgun inside the Capitol in Austin.
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Commentators said last week when Bolton was named that it signaled a toughening of Washington's stance on Tehran and another nail in the coffin of the Obama-era agreement between Iran and world powers to limit Tehran's nuclear ambitions, already cast into doubt by Trump himself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is toughening its rules for reporting criminal records to the government's gun owner background check database, after a man convicted of assault while in the service was able to purchase guns and later shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church.
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The rules, which affect social media giants like Weibo Corp as well as small platforms that have thrived in China's buzzing creative online space, are the latest step toughening oversight ahead of the Communist Party Congress later this year, when President Xi Jinping is expected to consolidate power.
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"He thought we should primary Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 85033 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE," Biden said minutes after the debate began.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed new restrictions on dealing with Cuba amid a broader toughening of its Latin American policy, limiting nonfamily travel to the island and how much money Cuban-Americans can send to relatives there, and allowing exiles to sue for property seized by the Castro government.
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Not so long ago, President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE enthusiastically championed charter schools, and charter schooling enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress.
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Officials with the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the care of migrant youths through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, said there was an influx of unaccompanied children coming across the border, the effect of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy and the toughening of the vetting process for the children's potential sponsors.
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"In the last hundred years, three Democrats have won reelection for president: Franklin Roosevelt, President Clinton, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 220006 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE," said Emanuel.
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As AG, he's led some of the most controversial aspects of the president's agenda, including his toughening of sentencing for drug offenders, his crackdown on sanctuary cities, and his announcement that the Trump administration plans to end DACA, the Obama era program that temporarily shields from deportation more than 700,000 illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
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House lawmakers also voted to roll back a Securities and Exchange Commission rule toughening disclosure standards for oil and gas companies, the so-called Labor "blacklisting" rule which requires federal contractors to disclose any past labor violations or alleged violations, and a Social Security Administration rule block disability recipients, including some suffering from mental illness, from owning guns.
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Former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE is perhaps the only actual Democrat who can halt Sanders' momentum heading into South Carolina and Super Tuesday.
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The proposals include toughening laws to make it more difficult to apply for or be granted asylum in the United States, stripping protections for children arriving illegally without their parents so they can be turned back at the border or quickly removed, and allowing families to be detained for longer periods while they await decisions from immigration authorities about their fates.
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Former presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew Yang6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders steamrolls to South Carolina primary, Super Tuesday Yang calls on someone to 'pull an Andrew Yang' and bow out of 2020 race MORE on Saturday hammered the idea of caucuses, saying the voting process diminishes turnout.
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"If you want to see a complete shit show, tune in to the brokered convention," one Democrat who worked on two campaigns for former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE said.
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And then George W. Bush and Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE burnished that global brand with their own courage on incredibly divisive issues like immigration reform and health care reform.
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While he has indeed done so, cuts to domestic preparedness began under George W. Bush and continued under Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE, under congresses controlled by both parties.
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Tech entrepreneur and former 2628 presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew Yang28500 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders steamrolls to South Carolina primary, Super Tuesday Yang calls on someone to 'pull an Andrew Yang' and bow out of 6900 race MORE on Saturday called for some of the remaining Democratic primary contenders to follow him and drop out of the race.
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" The businessman from New York and ardent Trump critic also got an endorsement from Edith Childs, a member of Greenwood's city council who coined a phrase that became one of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE's campaign slogans: "Fired Up, Ready To Go!
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"The Obama administration would take the exact same position that the Trump administration is taking right now on waivers — any administration would — but this is as much about politics as about the ever-present tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch over sanctions," said Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions expert who is chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan policy organization, and who supports toughening sanctions on Russia.
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Grassley has made it clear that updating the decades-old law and toughening enforcement is a top concern, pressing President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's attorney general nominee, William Barr, on the matter during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 22019.
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"What I said is what Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 85033 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE said, in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education," Sanders said at South Carolina's Democratic debate, doubling down on comments from a recent "60 Minutes" interview that drew criticism from fellow White House hopefuls.
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The office announced it would look into any new allegations made after dozens of women came forward following the CNN interview with the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew YangAndrew Yang2202 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders steamrolls to South Carolina primary, Super Tuesday Yang calls on someone to 'pull an Andrew Yang' and bow out of 2628 race MORE in which she revealed her allegations against former Columbia University obstetrician Robert Hadden.
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The Vermont socialist, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, was grilled on his "radical" notions ranging from eliminating private health insurance to a massive expansion of federal spending and taxes, former support for the gun lobby, modified praise for authoritarian left-wing governments like Cuba and his coolness to Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE.
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Among Mr. Bloomberg's proposals: • A financial transactions tax of 6.73 percent • Toughening banking regulations like the Volcker Rule and forcing lenders to hold more in reserve against losses • Having the Justice Department create a dedicated team to fight corporate crime and "encouraging prosecutors to pursue individuals, not only corporations, for infractions" • Merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac • Strengthening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and "expanding its jurisdiction to include auto lending and credit reporting" • Automatically enrolling borrowers of student loans into income-based repayment schemes and capping payments Many of the proposals are a reversal from Mr. Bloomberg's previous stance on financial regulation.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. Hillicon Valley: Dems cancel surveillance vote after pushback to amendments | Facebook to ban certain coronavirus ads | Lawmakers grill online ticketing execs | Hacker accessed facial recognition company's database Vulnerable Democrats brace for Sanders atop ticket MORE hammered the Vermont senator over his mixed record on gun control legislation and accusations that he considered a primary challenge against former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaThe Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina 6 ways the primary fight is toughening up Democrats for the fall general election Bloomberg called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' as mayor MORE in 2012.
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