"They've already got a lot of water down there, much like we have, and now we're sending more water down there," said Matt Hemingway, a Weather Service meteorologist in Shreveport, in northern Louisiana.
|
|
There's little to no vegetation to slow that water down.
|
|
I could not keep water down for two days straight.
|
|
True love is a strange feeling to water down, though.
|
|
The reason we send so much water down the drain?
|
|
Or do they willfully comply and water down their programs?
|
|
I'm trying to get a gallon of water down a day.
|
|
There must be something in the water down at Playa Escondida.
|
|
A cop tortures a suspect by pouring water down his throat.
|
|
Such a move would water down the holdings of current shareholders.
|
|
Yet Mr Netanyahu will probably not water down his policy much more.
|
|
Although it's a bit cheaper, Google did not water down the specs.
|
|
Big corporations do water down unique and challenging art to be more consumable.
|
|
An "excuse me?" rings out, hitting me like cold water down my collar.
|
|
Why is the British government taking the effort to water down such rules?
|
|
Russia, along with China, sought to water down recent UN sanctions against Pyongyang.
|
|
They have also both promised to water down a previous, unpopular pension reform.
|
|
"We are chasing the water down, and that is not sustainable," he said.
|
|
Unable to keep any food or water down, Addy gave marijuana a try.
|
|
Unable to keep any food or water down, Addy gave marijuana a try.
|
|
Waterboarding involves forcing water down someone's lungs to induce the sensation of drowning.
|
|
You don't want to wake up one day and you can't keep water down.
|
|
Instead of pushing water with their wings, they suck water down between their wings.
|
|
The former "Community" star also said he didn't want to water down his punk.
|
|
Lower Saxony traditionally cooperates with unions to water down restructuring efforts and safeguard jobs.
|
|
But Meadows and Jordan say the party should not water down its repeal bill.
|
|
The pressure campaign to water down the ban came quickly after that initial announcement.
|
|
This isn't to diminish anyone's problems or to try to water down people's real addictions.
|
|
Now, protests against the labour bill have prompted the government to water down some provisions.
|
|
Continued aggressive lobbying to try to water down privacy protections seems inevitable — if ultimately futile.
|
|
" The group pointed to a number of countries that attempted to "water down the text.
|
|
He's been scathingly critical of bipartisan efforts to water down Obama-era Wall Street regulations.
|
|
A reluctance to ruffle lawmakers and the president could delay or water down new policies.
|
|
Democrats have likewise insisted if they further water down the climate plan, it could become meaningless.
|
|
If the ADB's reluctance to water down risk controls is admirable, organisational rigidity is less so.
|
|
Further, Clinton would pull support from a range of candidates and water down their poll numbers.
|
|
China has dismissed concerns it wants to water down Hong Kong's autonomy and Geng reiterated that.
|
|
He could water down the benefits that insurers must offer, weakening the quality of health insurance.
|
|
The California Republican pushed back against Democratic charges that House Republicans would water down the legislation.
|
|
Fill up the sink to do dishes instead of flushing gallons of water down the drain.
|
|
While seeking sanctions relief, Rusal has taken steps to water down Deripaska's involvement in the company.
|
|
But they were issued under a law that the president criticized and tried to water down.
|
|
In drafts of the summit communique, the United States was pushing to water down the language.
|
|
They were, for instance, suspicious of the Abbott government's attempts to water down racial discrimination laws.
|
|
In Congress, meanwhile, Trump supported legislation seeking to repeal Obamacare or drastically water down its protections.
|
|
Journalists don't always use the AP Stylebook when it would "water down" words that favor liberals.
|
|
Ever since then, tech companies and industry groups have maneuvered to water down its consumer protections.
|
|
" In his stump speech, Buttigieg often warns his fellow Democrats, "We can't water down our values.
|
|
I ran over there, and I looked over … and it wasn't water down there, it was concrete.
|
|
Mamatgapirov opens a metal sluice gate, releasing a stream of water down a series of irrigation canals.
|
|
Berlin has even intervened at EU level to water down regulations to sink automobile emissions over time.
|
|
Does it water down the meaning of the word "addiction" when we use it in everyday circumstances?
|
|
Regulators want to water down the Volcker Rule, which prohibits banks from gambling with taxpayer-insured deposits.
|
|
Talk of raising the rate to 22 percent would only water down the growth and jobs impact.
|
|
That policy may also water down leaders' promises to shut companies that are producing unwanted industrial goods.
|
|
A Republican-controlled Congress bowed to public outrage over an attempt to water down an ethics office.
|
|
The more mainstreamed feminism becomes, the easier it is to water down the values of the movement.
|
|
Breaking Bad, in its engrossing mercilessness, was like watching someone pour boiling water down an ant hole.
|
|
The White House had urged lawmakers to water down the provisions limiting its ability to lift sanctions.
|
|
Greenpeace urged world powers to resist any attempts to water down the joint language on fighting climate change.
|
|
Amblin Pictures, which is releasing the film through Universal Pictures, promises Roth & Co. won't water down the scares.
|
|
Internet Service Providers have done everything they can to water down the FCC's attempts to protect digital privacy.
|
|
Global growth is softening, and it is unclear how much Congress will water down Bolsonaro's pension reform bill.
|
|
"I think it'd be real mistake to weaken, water down, or repeal this healthcare law," Bill Clinton said.
|
|
So a lobbying joint-front to try to water down any US privacy clampdown is in full effect.
|
|
Lawyers and lobbyists water down environmental standards and intimidate smaller rivals while making the most of tax loopholes.
|
|
They didn't have water down there either, so one of the other inmates asked an officer for some.
|
|
"How can we embrace the river without just pushing the water down to Arkansas and Missouri?" he said.
|
|
However, direct marketers and tech companies, working through various entities, have been seeking to water down the law.
|
|
Now, the White House is trying to water down a bill that (rightly) locks those sanctions in place.
|
|
Here as elsewhere, Brown does not water down the terminology of mental illness in use at the time.
|
|
We then experimented, creating a pipe system that sends the glacial lake water down to the structure site.
|
|
Pence could potentially water down that image down if he plays a traditionally restrained role on the campaign trail.
|
|
Any of these concern you or water down what you hoped would be a significant, generational cut in taxes?
|
|
Both current and former Google privacy employees insist that there is no internal pressure to water down privacy protections.
|
|
But he warned that his successor must not let the government water down the terms of Britain's EU exit.
|
|
"In business, when you just do too many things at once, you really water down your message," Barrymore explained.
|
|
First, that gives Big Tech approximately 85033 months to lobby the Congress of California to water down the law.
|
|
Two or three dissenting voices could not significantly alter the Commission's course, though they could water down legislative proposals.
|
|
On a crisp fall morning, I showered, brushed my teeth, and sent all that used water down the drain.
|
|
That means she's unlikely to give in easily to pressure from Paris and Berlin to water down competition rules.
|
|
They are instead hoping they can get the president to water down the tariffs as much as they can.
|
|
Should Democrats water down some of their commitments to win over potential Trump voters and, if so, which views?
|
|
Demand-activated pumps, for example, can help bring your water up to temperature without wasting water down the drain.
|
|
Its shock-resistant, sealed shell protects against not only water (down to 15 meters) but also dirt, grime, and clumsiness.
|
|
These changes could water down any nuclear disarmament agreement and turn concrete pledges into statements of intent that are meaningless.
|
|
And, on Thursday, US negotiators also began trying to water down wording on violence against women, according to another diplomat.
|
|
This will provide plenty of opportunity for ministers to water down or otherwise fiddle with legislation they do not like.
|
|
But in Liberia, there is concern over attempts to water down a groundbreaking Land Rights Act before it is passed.
|
|
But don't let conservative organizations with their own agendas co-opt and water down a movement that's pretty damn radical.
|
|
His proposal would eliminate the notice requirement and water down the evaluation requirement in a way that renders it meaningless.
|
|
But for some risk-taking surfers, the onslaught of water down streets and hills presents an opportunity for thrill seeking.
|
|
Brown says Trump should be careful not to water down "Buy American" provisions during his negotiations with Canada and Mexico.
|
|
Global growth is softening, and it is unclear how much Congress will water down President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform bill.
|
|
Trump's shrewdness was realizing that in order to get the Republican nomination, he didn't need to water down his message.
|
|
Because that's what motherhood is: settling for water down your back when you really want the world to stop turning.
|
|
Democrats ultimately decided to water down the resolution to instead condemn all forms of hatred, including Islamophobia and white supremacy.
|
|
Law-enforcement groups persuaded legislators to water down an ambitious criminal-justice reform package before sending it to Sisolek's desk.
|
|
Democrats scrambled to water-down any anti-Semitism resolution by adding language to rebuke all forms of racism and bigotry.
|
|
We've come too far to allow the right to water down a well-defined movement for its own cynical gains.
|
|
Then, when the grid needed power, the upstairs pool would open, sending the water down through turbines to make electricity.
|
|
The department stopped making decisions on claims as it fought litigation over its attempts to water down the program's relief.
|
|
Thanks to S.E.C. regulations — which the Roundtable has been trying for years to water down — this data is publicly available.
|
|
The New York Times reported last week that the White House is urging House lawmakers to water down the bill.
|
|
At the same time, we know that the administration and oil companies are lobbying them to water down the bill.
|
|
Rescue crews were able to send water down to the workers and communicate with them through radio devices, Mr. Klein said.
|
|
Changes made by lawmakers to water down a tax debt relief program contributed to reduce tax revenues this year, Meirelles said.
|
|
The Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of the 2010 healthcare law.
|
|
The industry is also virtually certain to ask Congress to pass legislation to revoke or water down the F.C.C.'s regulations.
|
|
Weeks of discussion in parliament and protests on the streets had prompted the government to water down its more radical provisions.
|
|
Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO of Indian ride-hailing giant Ola, is also reportedly trying to water down SoftBank's influence on his firm.
|
|
A big worry was that companies would exploit a trade pact to water down regulations on the environment and food safety.
|
|
Alumni say it would water down the schools' quality and Asian-American parents argue the plan is biased against their children.
|
|
It was normal, apparently, to carry water down there, but, she explained, she had to clear it out for the mechanic.
|
|
A lobbying campaign from Berlin to persuade Chinese authorities to water down the proposals, may prove to be helpful, Heizmann said.
|
|
The new note, featuring a design of a channel bringing water down from a mountain, will enter circulation on Thursday, Sept.
|
|
By March, ISP lobbyists had dumped nearly $1 million in attempts to block or water down the legislation, according to state records.
|
|
"They can put a fair bit of water down out there that keeps those grasses, those lower fuels from catching," Arai said.
|
|
With fundamental problems left unaddressed, the government has little choice but to water down its long-held commitment to boost home-ownership.
|
|
As the wind blows fog through the device, the mesh catches the droplets, and gravity pulls the water down into containers underneath.
|
|
Challenges building the community: Keeping your standards high when the weight of economics and mass culture aims to water down your art.
|
|
Allies complicate decision-making and often push us to water down tough policies, or conversely, to go beyond what's in our interests.
|
|
But congressional sources said the Trump administration is hoping to water down the sanctions package, which the White House is eyeing warily.
|
|
Though efforts to water down the bill (for example by exempting petrol) appear to have been overcome, its precise workings remain undecided.
|
|
After a protracted debate, they overcame opposition from African and predominantly Muslim countries that sought to block and water down the measure.
|
|
The White House had pushed GOP lawmakers to water down the congressional oversight provisions in the pursuit of flexibility with sanctions policy.
|
|
Other drivers and mechanics rushed to help, some pouring bottles of water down the side of the car to keep things cool.
|
|
He invited her to the bill signing after she gave the Republicans critical support on their attempt to water down bank regulations.
|
|
The reservoir is connected to a gravity-fed drip irrigation system that pulls the water down the hills and through the vineyards.
|
|
Inverted umbrellas are made to push water down when you close them, protecting you from getting wet even when they're off duty.
|
|
The caldera deflated as magma drained away from the summit, sort of like water down a bathtub with a 20-mile drainpipe.
|
|
"The biggest crisis we've got is certainly flooding and water down east," said Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau.
|
|
That would blow the water down the pipes just far enough that the pipes were empty between you and your neighbor's cell.
|
|
In the House, conservatives have written to McConnell to express concern about reports that say the Senate may water down the House bill.
|
|
With further investment in kids content, Netflix is likely attempting to water down a major strength of its new-to-market rival Disney+.
|
|
"I don't want to see us water down those practices," Kaplan said, though he said he does want "regulatory relief" for small banks.
|
|
Expansion is also kept in check by the fact that universities are reluctant to do anything that might water down their British character.
|
|
He has pressed the SEC to reconsider changes that would water down the program or weaken whistleblower protections, said one of the sources.
|
|
If they water-down this bill, weaken the sanctions, add loopholes to the legislation, they will find stiff resistance here in the Senate.
|
|
There's a reasonable concern that reaching for a family-friendly brand of comedy would water down the form if not compromise its essence.
|
|
The newspaper said officials told Tong to water down a planned speech meant to criticize Beijing's encroachment into the semi-autonomous city's freedoms.
|
|
Every 2 minutes and 10 seconds, like clockwork, the electric motor starts to hum and the foil begins pushing water down the lagoon.
|
|
Business groups have lobbied Beijing to delay or water down the law mandating strict data surveillance and storage for firms working in China.
|
|
"I can see walls or wallpaper moving or see dripping water down a wall, like I saw before, or posters moving," she says.
|
|
Every day, the doormen from the large co-op adjacent to our building water down the sidewalk area for at least 20 minutes.
|
|
For one, instead of gravity dragging water down to the roots, droplets instead hover and adhere to leaves as easily as to roots.
|
|
The U.S. government reportedly threatened Ecuador with trade sanctions if it didn't water down a resolution drafted to promote breastfeeding around the world.
|
|
A man near me had stripped down to tiny red briefs in the heat and was pouring ice water down his grizzled chest.
|
|
Muslims, Jews, Asians and Europeans united this year to oppose Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's legislative push to water down the Racial Discrimination Act.
|
|
If they water down this bill, weaken the sanctions, add loopholes to the legislation, they will find stiff resistance here in the Senate.
|
|
The rules will also limit certain medicines to their treatment of humans in order not to water down their efficacy in combating infections.
|
|
He could also water down the 10 essential benefits required for all policies by the law, like maternity care and mental health coverage.
|
|
The dam on the flower farm burst after weeks of heavy rain, sending cascades of water down a hillside and into two villages.
|
|
You learn how to use various objects and obstacles to get the water down so you can get back to devouring the landscape.
|
|
"We knew there was fresh water down there in isolated places, but we did not know the extent or geometry," Chloe Gustafson, a PhD.
|
|
Because he's jet packing a hose lot of anti-inflammatory that could engulf and water-down any nearby flare up to beat the heat.
|
|
This decision also ensures EPA will not be able to water down future standards below the level required to protect public health and welfare.
|
|
One said the draft, which the United States wanted to water down, attracted 11 or 12 votes in favor on the 15-member council.
|
|
A properly crafted Bloody has a complex, robust flavor that you definitely don't want to water down, and this hack ensures you never will.
|
|
It doesn't water down the turn-based strategy fans have come to know and love, but somehow squeezes it all onto a tiny screen.
|
|
I chug the water, down the Advil, and try to go back to sleep, in hopes I'll be magically cured when I wake up.
|
|
Eating doesn't make the nausea go away...they try to eat small meals, but most of the time, they cannot even keep water down.
|
|
Tehran might use this fear to spook the Japanese government into trying to persuade the Trump administration to water down its maximum pressure campaign.
|
|
The plan angered Democrats and scientists, who said such a decision would water down the quality of the science that underpins the agency's rulemaking.
|
|
All are members of the EU, and thus in a position to lobby Brussels to water down measures intended to limit fiscal hanky-panky.
|
|
Any plans GOP leaders running the House and Senate might have had to water down or fast track their own probes died right there.
|
|
The administration has been under immense pressure from vaping advocates and Trump political allies to water down the policy and exempt mint and menthol.
|
|
Some lawmakers and anti-corruption activists say the scheme is under threat from those who want to water down the reform or delay it.
|
|
They passed countless bills to water down, dismantle or outright repeal enormous swaths of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
|
|
On Sunday, the Irish government made clear it would oppose any attempt to water down the Northern Ireland backstop, the key demand of Brexiteers.
|
|
The White House announced Friday that Trump would sign new Russia sanctions, even though the administration had lobbied Congress to water down the bill.
|
|
In recent years, the party has sought to water down anti-graft institutions, despite criticism from the European Union which Romania joined in 2007.
|
|
China has long been the nation to water down U.N. sanctions against North Korea, helping to keep the regime and its weapons program afloat.
|
|
The administration has also proposed giving states more authority over their insurance markets and allowing them to water down some Obamacare benefits in 2019.
|
|
SCO members have attempted to water down international protections for freedom of speech and throw out current rules on how domain names are issued.
|
|
Both Helfenbein and Heisdorffer said they are consulting with the White House in a bid to convince the U.S. to water down its plans.
|
|
In preparation, officials said they would continue to send water down the main spillway in hopes of dropping the lake's level by 1 feet.
|
|
His support for the Remain campaign has raised suspicions among Conservative eurosceptics who fear the government may water down the terms of Britain's exit.
|
|
When I'm drinking water, I have no way to stop, so when someone cracks a joke I laugh and spit water down my front.
|
|
In my experience with this is a lot of time the lawyers get a hold of it and they start to water down the report.
|
|
The Justice Department has frequently turned to the justices over the past year when attempting to reverse — or at least water down — lower court rulings.
|
|
But Chinese leaders continue to water down and resist still-harsher sanctions, as they fear the collapse of the Kim regime more than its nukes.
|
|
Any move by May to water down her position on the customs union could provoke a leadership challenge by pro-Brexit elements in her party.
|
|
Those actions have raised concerns that Mulvaney plans to water down, or entirely eliminate, the CFPB's payday loan protections before they even go into effect.
|
|
Key Republicans on the energy conference committee have said they'll look to water down efforts to keep the program on the books without major reforms.
|
|
As the sign of universal love, you can forget to make a partner feel special, which can water down the attraction or stir up jealousy.
|
|
He said it would be more honest to overrule precedents allowing limits on the president's power to fire people than to water down the standard.
|
|
The attempts to water down the act are "among the worst" by any administration, said Bruce Stein, the chief scientist of the National Wildlife Federation.
|
|
The dam on the flower farm burst after weeks of heavy rain, sending cascades of water down a hillside where it smashed into two villages.
|
|
Now workers at the site are pumping water from the aquifer beneath Quitobaquito to mix cement and to water down dirt roads around construction sites.
|
|
" Sitting as opposition members in Israel's Parliament was one thing, Buttu said, but "to go beyond that was to water down one's beliefs and principles.
|
|
That plan has drawn scorn from critics who fear it will water down the field, and praise from countries that rarely get to take part.
|
|
Jay Inslee of Washington to water down his proposal to price carbon — then helped sink that proposal, despite BP's publicly backing the idea in theory.
|
|
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee spent more than 14 hours trying to gut or water down the Democrats' draft of the articles of impeachment.
|
|
But Democrats and activists like Free Press CEO Craig Aaron say that is a veiled attempt to water down the restrictions on the broadband industry.
|
|
The White House announced on Friday that Trump would sign new Russia sanctions, even though the administration had lobbied Congress to water down the legislation.
|
|
He has hinted he may water down the pension reforms which have pushed his approval rating down to its lowest level in more than four years.
|
|
However, here, too, Facebook appears to be using "privacy-compliance" as an excuse to water down the level of transparency that it's offering to external researchers.
|
|
Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander acknowledged Tuesday that powerful medical lobbies will spend the summer aggressively pushing to water down or outright kill the bills.
|
|
"There will be companies in the RSPO membership who will want to water down any tightening of the certification scheme," said EIA's senior campaigner Jago Wadley.
|
|
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monetary policy announcement may indicate the central bank will water down its previous inflation-targeting framework, according to Nomura analysts.
|
|
Analysts have said the committee's decision to water down the Refis decree might be a tactic to bargain the government's support to approve the reform agenda.
|
|
Banks had lobbied hard to water down the additions, warning that hefty increases in capital requirements would make it harder for them to lend to businesses.
|
|
My waterproof jacket, which had been quietly trickling water down my back, is now siphoning rain into my two layers of jerseys; my shoes are sopping.
|
|
In fact, it seems Pelosi and the Democratic leadership are already poised to water down the vague Ocasio-Cortez/Markey Green New Deal by appointing Rep.
|
|
Republicans last year worked on modifications to the measure that Democrats dismissed as changes to water down the bill that were backed by the pharmaceutical industry.
|
|
Immigration lawyers and experts quickly discovered that the proposal would rewrite the DACA and the TPS programs to water down both their scope and their protections.
|
|
This slight tweak in the wording of the bill is intended to assure Democrats the legislation will not water down regulations and other important public protections.
|
|
Democrats warned Quarles that they would fight any attempt to water down the post-crisis banking reforms and urged the Fed to tread carefully in 2019.
|
|
Blinking mid-attack and the lights coming on in full, tunnel vision rushing away behind you like water down a gutter, the cartoonish Where am I?
|
|
McGuire said that including the more ambiguous umbrella term "porn" (which is legal, if sometimes controversial) in "revenge porn" can water down or normalize the act.
|
|
However, the White House wanted to water down the bill and had been giving mixed signals on whether Trump would sign it into law. http://bit.
|
|
State departments of education, most of which were unprepared for and unenthusiastic about becoming school-quality police, worked the regulatory process to water down performance standards.
|
|
Even though it still has a legislative majority, the government may now be forced to water down the tax proposals due to a newly-emboldened opposition.
|
|
Lisa Murkowski warned the taxes could hold back investments in oil and gas infrastructure, alienate allies and water down the benefits of tax cuts and deregulation.
|
|
He and his appointees might also try to water down fuel economy regulations for cars and trucks, and cut clean energy tax incentives and research spending.
|
|
Banks are trying to persuade regulators, who meet on Friday, to water down remaining elements in Basel III, the world's core regulatory response to the financial crisis.
|
|
Environmental group Greenpeace said it had organized that protest, in the heart of the banking district, accusing the finance ministry of trying to water down climate action.
|
|
Then ice farmers like Xander Bianchi, a former mechanical engineer, shape more than 100 routes into the pitch, dribbling water down freezing chains to form ice columns.
|
|
So it came as little surprise that they sought to water down the result of the Brexit referendum, which has been widely described as a populist revolt.
|
|
"The pressure from the big broadband providers to kill or water down the bill was enormous," said former FCC lawyer Gigi Sohn in a statement to Motherboard.
|
|
We're not sure what's in the water Down Under, but Australian police like to try and outdo each other by having the country's weirdest social media presence.
|
|
Yet there is now an increasing drumbeat to water down welfare to work, and replace it with the failed education and training programs discredited in the past.
|
|
"A key barometer of how angry the Chinese are will be how much and in what way they try to water down any U.N. resolution," said Chinoy.
|
|
But public outrage and legal challenges after gas bills jumped by more than 1,000 percent in some places have led the government to water down its plans.
|
|
They also accused Republicans of playing into the hands of industry groups, opposing legislation to conserve land while working to water down the president's monument-making authority.
|
|
Bond yields across the curve came off the day's lows after a government source denied Salvini is willing to water down spending plans in the 2019 budget.
|
|
As many commentators have already noted, these efforts by Republicans to water down the powers of offices right after Democrats won them were pioneered in North Carolina.
|
|
He said that while conservation was down in his area, the agency had been able to build up its reserves by bringing water down from the north.
|
|
The Trump administration's aggressive attempts to water down an international resolution supporting breast-feeding go against decades of advice by most medical organizations and public health experts.
|
|
The second loop leads to a machine that cools the water down to about 45 degrees in summer, or heats it to about 130 degrees in winter.
|
|
Democrats and net neutrality supporters worry such a bill would unnecessarily water down current FCC protections that require internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally.
|
|
But then, during the meeting, once Kim has his precious photo, he could try and water down the language or even try to get it scrapped altogether.
|
|
Later this month, five regulators are expected to release a plan to water-down the Volcker Rule, which bans banks from making risky bets with depositors' money.
|
|
The Senate is also home to a deep bench of security hawks who tried to water down the measure the last time it came up for debate.
|
|
When we say that Trump or Obama is like Hitler, we slowly water down our actual knowledge of the very historical things we are using for comparison.
|
|
Factions of the industry have been trying to stall or water down House Bill 123, which calls for a crackdown on abusive practices, for more than a year.
|
|
The sometimes bizarre dialogue and often goofy scenes are a huge part of the appeal, yet these elements don't water down the realities of the high school experience.
|
|
However, the 75-year-old constitutional scholar is already facing divisions within his widely diverse alliance in Congress with some lawmakers promising to water down the fiscal reforms.
|
|
Others worry that the withdrawal bill hands vast powers to the executive, which will use them to water down employment and other rights currently enshrined in EU law.
|
|
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has already postponed the presentation of the reforms to cabinet by two weeks, in a sign that the government might water down its plans.
|
|
The British government is trying to water down European targets on climate change, despite the fact the UK will be leaving the EU in under two years' time.
|
|
Democrats have warned that House Republicans may be raising the procedural issues in an effort to water down or stall the bill on behalf of the White House.
|
|
The waiting periods will give industry lobbyists and U.S. lawmakers a chance to water down a proposed target list that runs to 1,300 products, many in technology sectors.
|
|
Haley said "the world is on notice" after the launch, calling for an "escalated diplomatic and economic response" and warning countries not to water down resolutions against Pyongyang.
|
|
Democrats argue that Republicans want to water down or get rid of the Flores settlement, potentially creating a scenario where children could be detained indefinitely with their parents.
|
|
Democrats continue to push their new net neutrality bill through Congress, but there's signs that several members of the party are already eager to water down the proposal.
|
|
Ms. Redstone commands both CBS and Viacom by owning 80 percent of voting rights, and the legal battle is being waged to water down that stake in CBS.
|
|
Other policymakers worry that Facebook, with nearly double the population of any country on Earth, will usurp power over legal tender and water down protections against money laundering.
|
|
Tuesday's vote amounted to a rebuke of Trump, whose administration had pushed to water down the bill's provisions giving Congress the power to veto the lifting of sanctions.
|
|
I imagined her just sitting there, with her back to me and the Mason jar shedding water down her legs, condensation running in cold streams down her calves.
|
|
They argue that Congress should replace the FCC rules with legislation codifying net neutrality principles — though Democrats counter that any legislative replacement would unnecessarily water down the protections.
|
|
But critics said that, with some leading political figures facing allegations of graft, Grindeanu was more likely fired for not doing enough to water down anti-corruption legislation.
|
|
The furor did nothing to water down Trump's willingness to step into sensitive, racially charged areas, however, a fact underlined by the president's tweets in the past week.
|
|
They also accused Republicans of playing into the hands of industry groups, opposing legislation to establish conservation land and working to water down the president's monument-making authority.
|
|
A U.S. general said last week there was chance of catastrophic collapse of the dam, which would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
|
|
So here's hoping the government won't water down this legislation and undermine the hard work done by all those trying to bring much needed relief to those in need.
|
|
Facing criticism and questions about the proposal&aposs legality, the government already appeared to be taking steps to water down the bill before it goes to a parliamentary vote.
|
|
Throw in a visceral distrust of the London political classes, and for many voters it all points to one thing: a plot to water down, or even stop, Brexit.
|
|
His comments appear to water down recent remarks by one of his deputies, who said on Wednesday that FAS was already discussing an out-of-court settlement with Google.
|
|
Every time I get up to wet my whistle, I sluice the entire glass of tap water down in two gulps before I even get back into the bedroom.
|
|
What the Republican-controlled Senate can do is hold up, water down, or vote to defeat abortion rights legislation passed by the House, derailing legislative progress in either direction.
|
|
The deal, which has been seven years in the making, is opposed by many Europeans who worry that it will water down rules on environmental standards and labour laws.
|
|
The smaller parties agreed to support Ms Frederiksen only after she promised to water down the hard-line policies on immigration that her party had touted during the election.
|
|
Macron has championed the EU's refusal to reopen the agreement and water down a provision designed to ensure there is never a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
|
|
Banks have been lobbying the government to water down the tax proposal, which Arqaam Capital and investment bank Pharos Holding said could slash the sector's earnings by 23 percent.
|
|
The long holiday break prompted Brazilian market participants to curb their exposure while watching to see how much lawmakers may water down President Jair Bolsonaro's proposed pension system overhaul.
|
|
"I think they're going to water down the hawkish bias they've had lately, but maybe not abandon it yet," said Royce Mendes, a senior economist at CIBC Capital Markets.
|
|
Mosul dam has suffered from structural flaws since its construction in the 1980s and a collapse would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
|
|
"We're just really hungry, we don't have any more water, we can't go downstairs as there's a little over four feet of water down there," Harmon told Brooke Baldwin.
|
|
Over the decades leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, banks learned how to sidestep and water down the relatively tough regulations introduced after the crash of 1929.
|
|
Some US delegates reportedly wanted to water down the resolution, while others wanted to maintain strong language, leading to a debate on the floor, seen in an online webcast.
|
|
Democrats and net neutrality supporters have argued that any such bill would unnecessarily water down current FCC protections that require internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally.
|
|
Tuesday's vote amounted to a rebuke of President Trump, whose administration had pushed to water down the bill's provisions giving Congress the power to veto the lifting of sanctions.
|
|
No prime minister wants to be remembered as the one who broke the U.K., a possible incentive for May to water down Brexit to keep the Scots on board.
|
|
The Gulf of Maine lies at the intersection of several major ocean currents, including the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which moves dense, cold water down and toward the equator.
|
|
If you love the person you are with, you might have to compromise and water down the "soda" they give you… because it tastes way too Catholic or whatever.
|
|
In a number of other states, including Idaho and New Mexico, there have been legislative attempts to scrub or water down mentions of climate change from state teaching standards.
|
|
But considering that the changes had just taken effect, "it's unreasonable for us to earnestly consider making amendments that would water down or roll back" the law, she said.
|
|
Some investors believe that recent gains may have made stocks too expensive, and that Congress may water down or prevent major infrastructure spending or tax cuts proposed by Trump.
|
|
Tuesday's vote amounted to a rebuke of President Trump, whose administration had pushed to water down the bill's provisions giving Congress the power to veto the lifting of sanctions.
|
|
On Wednesday, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki unexpectedly moved to water down the law by making it a civil, rather than criminal offence — removing the threat of jail time.
|
|
No, we're not talking about the glamorous parties where the top-shelf booze flows like water down the Nile, or the lucrative advertising and endorsement deals with big-name companies.
|
|
U.S. climate scientists have watched these policy developments with increasing alarm, with some expressing concern the Trump administration might seek to bury or significantly water down the quadrennial climate assessment.
|
|
Emails obtained by The Intercept show that tech and telecom sector lobbyists spent weeks trying to water down the proposal, all while publicly professing a breathless dedication to meaningful rules.
|
|
Capcom's showed this weird tendency to slowly water down the series, getting further away from the horror core that made the first game, and its initial follow-up, so brilliant.
|
|
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer plans to water down its landmark pension reform proposal to ease lawmakers' resistance to the controversial bill key to rebalance the government's depleted finances.
|
|
The dam on the 3,500-acre farm in the Rift Valley burst after weeks of heavy rain, sending cascades of water down a hillside where it smashed into two villages.
|
|
Moderate veterans, ill at ease with his wooing of far-right National Front voters, have warned they could leave the party if he does not water down his hardline views.
|
|
The Department of Education has been trying to water down a rule that would allow the government to gather information to evaluate the effectiveness of for-profit career-training schools.
|
|
Mr. Trump ordered his Commerce Department to water down the penalties, which would have put ZTE out of business, after President Xi Jinping of China personally lobbied him to reconsider.
|
|
The policies that CEA is pushing would water down our patent laws and open the door to the kind of fraudulent competition that degrades – rather than protects – incentives for innovation.
|
|
Despite President Trump's efforts to water down auto emissions standards, the indictment indicates that the Justice Department continues to pursue an investigation of Volkswagen that began during the Obama administration.
|
|
Turnbull said on Friday he had no plans to water down Australia's tough anti-gun laws, introduced in the wake of 1996 Port Arthur Massacre where 35 people were killed.
|
|
It is as easy as putting on the kettle — supereasy, because mine is electric — then slowly tanking up, pouring about two liters of 160-degree water down the bottle's throat.
|
|
Republican lawmakers added provisions to the bill — to reduce funding for Planned Parenthood and water down environmental controls on pesticide use — which the Democrats said they couldn't sign off on.
|
|
I'm not sure if it's something in the water down here, but there are so many different bands from LA that play different genres that all have tinges of sludge.
|
|
Britain, Germany and Denmark are trying to water down the proposal, probably under pressure from their large pharma industries—even though they are all facing growing drug-pricing problems at home.
|
|
The banking industry is hopeful that its years-long efforts to water down the legislation's requirements can gain traction now that Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House.
|
|
With the upcoming Germany election, 2017 will prove to be a critical year -- Merkel will come under increasing pressure to water down her open-door immigration policy to win re-election.
|
|
Congress enacted a public spending ceiling in December, but lawmakers are expected to water down a key bill to reform the costly pensions system, main contributor to a growing fiscal deficit.
|
|
As one of several examples cited, the officials claimed that Mogherini tried to water down references to Russia during the drafting process of an action plan against misinformation published last year.
|
|
Riad Hijab, Syria's chief opposition coordinator, said the rebels' defeat in Aleppo would not weaken the resolve of Assad's opponents, or push them to water down the demand that he quit.
|
|
Greece and the Czech Republic tried to water down new European Commission rules on screening foreign investment on security grounds, which might have inhibited China's investment in EU defence and telecommunications.
|
|
The case, which pre-dates the current administration in Manila, was seen as a turning point in the South China Sea controversy -- but Duterte's unilateral approach could water down its impact.
|
|
Normally this happens in spring, when it's simply part of the hydrological process of breaking down the snow and moving it into streams that transport the water down to lower altitudes.
|
|
If I was going to stay on target, I'd need to get 48 ounces of water down my throat stat—this on top of 32 ounces of piping hot French roast.
|
|
"Let a couple years water down how I'm feeling about you," she sings on the opening verse of the track, which is featured on the 13 Reasons Why (Season 2) soundtrack.
|
|
President Michel Temer, who faces low approval levels amid a widening corruption probe, meets with lawmakers later on Tuesday to decide on changes to water down a proposed landmark pension overhaul.
|
|
It also turns the moon into a fueling station, since you can break water down into hydrogen and oxygen: all the fuel you need to send missions further into the cosmos.
|
|
Jim Risch of Idaho sought to water down the impact of Comey's testimony that Trump had told him that he hoped he would go easy on Flynn in the Russia investigation.
|
|
Minutes before the release of Ryan's statement, Trump questioned the timing of the decision to water down OCE on the first day of the new Congress in a series of tweets.
|
|
"Reporters at Wirecutter named it their favorite watering wand, saying that it "breaks hose water down into a gentle cascading shower suitable for soft-focus shampoo commercials, or watering patio plants.
|
|
But investors may want to look Trump's previous pattern of behavior before overreacting to the latest announcement: When things get difficult he tends to back down, or water down his policies.
|
|
But to enter China, Facebook would have to water down its local product, or de-link it from the rest of the world — which risks alienating customers and the U.S. government.
|
|
"We've been able to push back the water some, slow the water down, allow the plants and things to do what they need to do to revive themselves," Ms. Cause said.
|
|
The raid — with no shots fired and no saboteurs wounded — had destroyed the cylinders, sending 953,100 pounds of heavy water down a drain, along with the plant's capacity to make more.
|
|
The optimistic scenario goes as follows: New Democracy emerges from the election with an overall majority, so Mitsotakis doesn't need to water down his programme by doing deals with other parties.
|
|
A less noticed April move by Trump appointees to water down another provision known as the "enhanced supplementary leverage rule" is also not the end of the world on its own.
|
|
That likely would have blocked a potential move by most of CBS's board to issue a special dividend to water down the Redstones' voting stake to 225 percent from 22016 percent.
|
|
The Justice Department's decision to water down a recommendation by its own prosecutors for Stone to serve up to nine years in prison that outraged the President sent shockwaves through Washington.
|
|
In recent months, anger at inequality and poverty have pushed conservatives out in Mexico and Argentina, while fueling protests that forced Ecuador and Chile to water down austerity-focused economic policies.
|
|
Pruitt told senators last week that he would not pursue ways to water down the RFS, including lowering the mandate on biodiesel or allowing ethanol exports to count toward the mandate.
|
|
Odd man out While he's seeking to convince his global peers about the threat from Iran, Trump will probably try to water down their focus on another malign actor: North Korea.
|
|
Two of Britain's most prominent Brexit campaigners have endorsed a re-run of the referendum as a way to stop EU supporters from trying to water down or even halt Brexit.
|
|
John Tuttle, who is in charge of global listings at the NYSE, said the exchange would not need to water down its stricter disclosure requirements to land such a huge IPO.
|
|
Hammond is considered one of the most pro-EU members of May's cabinet and pro-Brexit lawmakers and campaigners have accused him of trying to water down or even halt Britain's exit.
|
|
"AT&T and other large internet service providers are engaging in a massive and expensive campaign to lobby members of the committee to kill or water down the bills," Jeff Cretan, Sen.
|
|
But by the end of the week even I was tired of having drunk men grab me and forcibly pour buckets of water down my top, when I told them not to.
|
|
They do what lobbyists do, working behind the scenes to water down legislation — most recently, provisions that would hold colleges accountable if too few students graduate, get jobs and pay off loans.
|
|
Artificial cooling The scale of the problem is so big, though, that it has led some researchers to consider what Baums calls "pie in the sky" options to cool the water down.
|
|
Indeed, despite being few in number, a cadre of so-called progressives came overwhelmingly to Omar's aid, and, bewilderingly, forced the Democratic House leadership to water down Congress' condemnation of anti-Semitism.
|
|
" Asked if she is worried that Pelosi's office will water down the drug pricing bill to strike a deal with the White House, Jayapal said, "I always have concerns, that's my job.
|
|
Kavanaugh, moreover, occupies the seat that was previously held by Justice Anthony Kennedy, a relatively moderate conservative who prevailed on his fellow Republican justices to water down the Court's decision in Heller.
|
|
The NHL was trending toward multiple outdoor games (four this season!), so I figured that if they were going to water down the product, then might as well crank up the hose.
|
|
They're trying to substantially water down a provision known as the Volcker Rule, which was part of the larger Obama-era overhaul of financial regulation adopted in the wake of the crisis.
|
|
The president had recently started to water down his statements about building a wall and told lawmakers last week that 2,000 miles of wall would not be needed because of natural barriers.
|
|
In 2008, for example, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi persuaded consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was serving as its monitor, to water down a report on the bank's dealings with Iran and other blacklisted countries.
|
|
Several policy experts predicted Trump and the new Congress will water down some financial reform rules, such as the Durbin amendment that limits bank fees or the Volcker rule against proprietary trading.
|
|
The recess came after more than 14 hours of debate during which Republicans repeatedly sought to derail or water down the articles of impeachment drafted by the Democratic majority in the House.
|
|
The commission is expected to present draft laws in January for approval, although debate and input from the national governments of the member states are likely to water down its current proposal.
|
|
Trump was reluctant to sign Russian sanctions Lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill in July 2017 imposing new sanctions against Russia, even though Trump administration officials reportedly tried to water down the language.
|
|
On regulatory actions over which the O.M.B. has a say, there is every reason to believe that Mr. Mulvaney, serving in a Trump administration, would water down or indefinitely delay proposed rules.
|
|
Anti-LGBTQ countries have also attempted to water down resolutions for other human rights issues by inserting language affirming "sovereignty," a term that suggests local values or interests trump universal rights claims.
|
|
That includes specialty film division Fox Searchlight and the FX cable network — units that have received reassurances from Iger that they won't need to change their focus or water down their menus.
|
|
That suggests a broader requirement such as the fiduciary principle, something which the Trump administration wants to water down (read the piece by Jack Bogle of Vanguard on this, headlined "Putting Clients Second").
|
|
By contrast, corals in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef had a stroke of luck in the form of a "serendipitous Fiji cyclone which cooled the water down" with high rainfall.
|
|
RuPaul's Drag Race was, and is, revolutionary because it took underground queer club culture and repurposed it for a classic reality contest format, while simultaneously refusing to water down the scene's pure foundations.
|
|
To win the vote Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate, had to water down its significance, portraying it as merely a procedural step that had no bearing on what might subsequently pass.
|
|
In another episode reminiscent of the recent clash on the sexual violence resolution, the US reportedly threatened nations in an effort to water down a resolution supporting breastfeeding, which baby formula producers opposed.
|
|
The district in the Bhutan foothills is particularly reliant on the rivers and streams that crisscross it, carrying water down from the hills, because digging for underground water is challenging in the area.
|
|
It imposed ballistic missile sanctions on Tehran right after the prisoners were released, and says it will not water down its condemnations of Iran's other activities, including its support for proxies like Hezbollah.
|
|
The company, controlled by founder and chairman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, has long been reluctant to water down Forrest's one-third stake and done everything it could to raise funds without issuing new equity.
|
|
We assess that it is concurrently pursuing a strategy to get you to cancel, postpone or at least water down sanctions against Iran's energy sector, which you are set to reimpose in November.
|
|
Most recently, Wehrum was at the center of a fight over the federal ethanol mandate, with senators attempting to hold his nomination up until the EPA withdrew plans to water down the mandate.
|
|
Two Republicans, Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and John Kennedy of Louisiana, introduced amendments to limit which types of offenders would be eligible for early-release programs or to water down other changes.
|
|
Water down CRA and you dilute the impact that CRA has in empowering banks to focus on the harder and smaller, but still profitable, deals that often have disproportionately positive impact on communities.
|
|
Under a protocol set by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the authority opens gates to a certain extent when the reservoir level reaches a predetermined level, sending the excess water down the Sabine.
|
|
The White House scuttled the stand-alone statement and sought to water down any migration references in the summit conference's final communiqué — especially language that implied an obligation to take in more refugees.
|
|
Her willingness to water down her opposition to the euro led to the eviction in September of Florian Philippot, who had been her closest aide since she took over the party in 2011.
|
|
An economist by training, he was until recently Italy's representative on the ECB's supervisory arm, where he successfully fought to water down rules forcing banks to set cash aside against loans that sour.
|
|
Certification schemes have faced some criticism for not doing enough to tackle issues such as poverty, child labour and deforestation in supply chains, while firms have been criticised for trying to water down standards.
|
|
Investors read that as a sign that he could water down the bill written by the prior government to limit the political costs, easing passage through Congress but requiring further legislation down the road.
|
|
Torrential rains unleashed a deluge of boulders, mud and water down Mount Elgon near the border with Kenya, uprooting trees, pulverizing homes and burying residents in the town of Bukalasi and some nearby villages.
|
|
Some PSDB lawmakers and other members of the coalition, however, have told Reuters the government will need to water down the pension proposal, as it needs approval by three-fifths of congress to pass.
|
|
"[She said they] would take her down into the basement and tie her to a chair and if she screamed, they shoved water down her throat," said a neighbor who wished to stay anonymous.
|
|
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday called on his Democratic Party (PD) to water down a hotly contested bill on gay civil unions by stripping out all provisions on adoption rights.
|
|
Further shattering the image, Breslin had bartenders water down his drinks, and he said in the early 1980s he scaled back his alcohol consumption after an epic drinking bout with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
|
|
Keeping the filibuster would similarly give Senate GOP leadership — who kept Trump at arm's length for most of the campaign — a failsafe to kill or water down White House-backed proposals they don't support.
|
|
The 3.6-km-long (2.2-mile) dam has suffered from structural flaws since its construction in the 1980s, and any collapse would unleash a wall of water down the heavily populated Tigris River valley.
|
|
Since last year, anger at corruption, inequality and poverty have pushed conservatives out in Mexico and Argentina, while fueling protests in recent weeks that forced Ecuador and Chile to water down liberal economic policies.
|
|
The dollar shed 0.2 percent at 108.91 yen, off its three-month high of 13 yen, after U.S. jobs and wages data did little to water down perceptions of strength in the U.S. economy.
|
|
He claimed that ALEC, which drafts legislation that states and municipalities can adopt, seeks to water down workers rights and health and safety rules, as well as to roll back contracts and arbitration awards.
|
|
BRASILIA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Brazilian lawmakers will water down a pension reform bill to focus on setting a minimum retirement age, the government's deputy whip in the lower house Darcísio Perondi said on Wednesday.
|
|
Trump is refusing to water down his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall in return for agreeing on a federal funding package and appears to think he's winning the showdown.
|
|
Analysts at Goldman Sachs said they expected the Fed to "water down" the language from the December policy statement in which the central bank said "some further" rate increases would be warranted this year.
|
|
Steel stocks were volatile and some erased part of the previous day's gains, as investors worried threats of retaliation from overseas trading partners would halt or water down Trump's promise of hefty import tariffs.
|
|
Opponents of the mayor's plan have said it could water down the schools' academics and that it discriminates against Asian students, who would lose about half their seats at specialized schools under his plan.
|
|
"But they've seen it start to increase again as there's been less funds available for C.R.P." Some conservationists and farmers fear that merging the separate C.S.P. program into EQIP could water down the program.
|
|
Many in comedy today think that too many specials are being released, that comics are not spending enough time developing their art and that a deluge of mediocre stand-up will water down quality.
|
|
Sure enough, as the Dow hit new heights last year, the mutual fund industry's lobbying arm, the Investment Company Institute, asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to water down its relatively modest disclosure requirements.
|
|
Along the way, she signed a development deal with 20th Century Fox TV. But when she and Ms. Theron refused to water down the "Girlboss" concept — or to ditch the title — television networks passed.
|
|
For a couple of weeks each February, Yosemite's Horsetail Fall puts on a show when the setting sun appears to transform its ribbon of water down the face of El Capitan into glowing lava.
|
|
In a complaint letter to the Justice Department, Grassley branded Fusion GPS as an unregistered foreign agent, working together with a team of Russian lobbyists to repeal or water down the 22019 Magnitsky sanctions.
|
|
Two House Republicans want to water down plans to include funds to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall promised by President Trump in the spending package slated for a floor vote this week. Rep.
|
|
Many directors are notorious screamers, and even some of the most respected auteurs in Hollywood direct defensively, as though the other people on set might water down their vision instead of contributing to it.
|
|
He voted to water down the marriages of same-sex couples by denying the children of same-sex couples the legal security of automatically having the state recognized their relationship to both parents (Pavan).
|
|
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to water down the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory framework put into effect in response to the financial crisis, according to The Wall Street Journal.
|
|
The evacuation Sunday occurred after state and local officials grew concerned the hole near the top of the emergency spillway could cause a 30-foot wall of water down to the Feather River and tributaries.
|
|
The obsession with accruing fantasy points certainly changes the nature of being a fan, in my experience, yet in some lights it could be read as a positive, because it helps water down tribal loyalties.
|
|
They say they are concerned the delay means Trump could bow to political pressure from his reelection campaign, which is reportedly pushing the president to water down the ban to exempt mint and menthol flavors.
|
|
BRASILIA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Brazil's government will not further water down a plan to streamline the social security system, the presidential chief of staff said on Wednesday, after doing so repeatedly to garner lawmakers' support.
|
|
They're drawing lines in the sand, rather than waiting for ePrivacy to do it (which also guards against the latter being used by lobbyists as a vehicle to try to attack and water down GDPR).
|
|
Many analysts are skeptical, arguing that savings may ultimately be less than half that 1 trillion reais figure because the government will be forced to water down proposals in order to get them through Congress.
|
|
"Other governments have definitely gotten worse at pushing back at Chinese censorship," he said, pointing to a push by the UK, US and others to water down encryption protections in the name of fighting terrorism.
|
|
Since last year, anger at corruption, inequality and poverty have pushed conservatives out of office in Mexico and Argentina, while fueling protests in recent weeks that forced Ecuador and Chile to water down economic policies.
|
|
Senior administration officials have tried to water down the testimony of government scientists, publicly chastised scientists who have dissented from President Trump's positions and blocked government researchers from traveling to conferences to present their work.
|
|
Sullivan, in which the justices ruled unanimously the newspaper's favor and established the "actual malice" standard for libel law, would almost certainly forestall his efforts to water down libel laws if he had the opportunity.
|
|
The Court should refuse the temptation to water down the right to marry and leave LGBT people as second-class citizens—welcome in some stores but not others, or with unequal benefits from the government.
|
|
Government ministers have pledged to introduce a minimum income for the poor, water down a previous pension reform and reduce taxes in the forthcoming 13 budget, which must be unveiled by the middle of October.
|
|
If there is going to be another push by Republicans to water down Social Security, I hope that we can count on the media to resist it and to educate the public about its benefits.
|
|
The California Republican's uneasiness underscores the growing anxiety among House GOP Russia hawks, who are concerned that the White House's clandestine lobbying campaign to water down the bill could make them seem soft on Russia.
|
|
Yields at the long end of the U.S. curve had fallen by as much as 3 basis points after Italy defied pressure from Brussels and its euro zone partners to water down ambitious budget plans.
|
|
Mr. Adityanath has made a political career of demonizing Muslims, thundering against such imaginary plots as "love jihad": the notion that Muslim men connive to water down the overwhelming Hindu majority by seducing Hindu women.
|
|
The 996-page bill has some great elements (like more money for health research at the NIH, and funds to fight the opioid crisis) but it also contains language that could water down FDA oversight.
|
|
Hammond is considered one of the most pro-EU members of Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet, and pro-Brexit lawmakers and campaigners have accused him of trying to water down or even halt Britain's exit.
|
|
Comey accused Trump on Wednesday of trying to get him to water down the FBI probe into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to testimony posted on the Senate Intelligence Committee's website.
|
|
Why did Trump officials attending the Republican National Convention in the summer of 2016 water down a resolution calling on America to send arms to Ukrainians fighting Russian forces who had occupied part of their country?
|
|
The move underscores Germany's desire to rebuff any explicit U.S. demands to water down the group's commitment to free trade, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares for her first meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday.
|
|
The Financial Times said that after the deal was cut last month, the State Department instructed the US consul general in Hong Kong to water down a "kick-ass speech" that was meant to criticize China.
|
|
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said it organized the protest in the heart of the capital's banking district, accusing the finance industry of funding climate change and the finance ministry of trying to water down government action.
|
|
After filtering sea water from Netarts Bay, Ben boils the water down to remove excess calcium and magnesium, which ultimately creates his salt's signature briny taste—as opposed to a harsh, bitter flavor of calcified varieties.
|
|
U.S. officials first tried to water down language in the resolution, then turned to threats of sanctions against countries that tried to sponsor it, including trade sanctions against Ecuador and the withholding of crucial military aid.
|
|
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina will water down a tax hike on liquid fuels, the country's energy secretariat said on Friday, as it faces a biting recession and President Mauricio Macri seeks to rein in rising prices.
|
|
Ahead of the hearing, Ms. Redstone's National Amusements filed its legal response to a CBS lawsuit, seeking to prevent her from blocking a special meeting of its board on whether to water down her controlling stake.
|
|
It is easy to forget now, but when Mr. Trump tried to water down sanctions on Russia two years ago, his own party pushed back so hard that new penalties for Moscow passed 98 to 2.
|
|
He said the military was working with the government on a plan to protect Iraqi civilians from the impact of a collapse, which would send a surge of water down the heavily populated Tigris river valley.
|
|
This time there are signs that Washington is prepared to water down one of its previous demands that the North provide a full inventory of its nuclear and missile programs ahead of any new US concessions.
|
|
The declaration means filters can bring the lead levels in the water down to a safe level, and vulnerable populations such as young children and pregnant women can be confident that it is OK to drink.
|
|
If I needed to empty my bowels or something, we'd sort of, he'd come with me somewhere and dig a hole in the sand, and he'd pour water down my backside so I could clean myself.
|
|
In the lead-up, critics of that event worried that its intersectionality — acknowledging that "women's issues" include the concerns of minority women, LGBTQ women, and other marginalized groups — would water down the impact of the event.
|
|
The Commission's chief spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters on Monday that, after more than a quarter of century in politics, Juncker needed no protection from interviewers and would not let his staff try to water down questions.
|
|
The co-founder of secure chat service and Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp, Jan Koum, departed the company last year amid concerns Zuckerberg and crew planned to water down its end-to-end encryption to mine more user data.
|
|
Kuroda also brushed aside growing calls from politicians and bank executives to raise interest rates or water down the BOJ's 2 percent inflation target to ease the strain of prolonged ultra-low rates on financial institutions' profits.
|
|
More troublingly, the possibility that he could be seeking favorable treatment from Russia could offer a motivation for a change made to water down a hostile stance towards Russia in the platform at the Republican National Convention.
|
|
"The Fed is attempting to water down the punch and even take a few glasses away, while the administration and Congress are sneaking flasks of grain alcohol into the school dance to spike the punch," Swonk said.
|
|
WARSAW, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A Polish minister signalled on Wednesday the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party may water down the president's plan to convert Swiss franc mortgages into zlotys if it is too expensive for banks.
|
|
"I personally think it's less than 50-50, but you have a lot of very good people on that board," he said, adding he doubted he would water down his demand for $5.7 billion in wall funding.
|
|
Research shows that when we water down the definition of diversity — moving beyond demographic differences, like identity and background, to instead prioritize experiential differences like job or title or work experience — we're not making progress on diversity.
|
|
French President Emmanuel Macron has vocally championed an EU refusal to reopen the agreement and water down a provision designed to ensure there is never a hard border between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.
|
|
" Asked if Trump's recent collaborations with leading Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, could water down the president's ability to pass sweeping reforms, Sandler said, "It's all better than zero.
|
|
Altering the standard deduction so very few people will want to take it is "kind of an elegant way to water down, if not neuter, the mortgage interest deduction," said Guy Cecala, CEO of Inside Mortgage Finance.
|
|
Katie Porter (D-Calif.) both argued during the meeting that Democrats shouldn't water down key priorities in the bill, specifically, the number of drugs that Medicare is allowed to negotiate — a long-standing sticking point in discussions.
|
|
In the sudden-death playoff on the 18th, one of the more daunting finishing holes off the tee with water down the left side and a bunker to the right, Hossler found the bunker for a second time.
|
|
The measure could receive final Congressional approval before the end of October, but investors who have snapped up Brazilian assets on hopes of market-friendly reforms are nervously eying proposals to water down its impact in coming years.
|
|
But, they're intent on telling a very specific kind of story when it comes to this group of teens, which means they're not going to water down what we see on screen just to make it family friendly.
|
|
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish lawmakers voted on Wednesday to water down a Holocaust law that angered the United States and Israel, and remove parts that imposed jail terms on people who suggest the nation was complicit in Nazi crimes.
|
|
Since 2017, MoviePass burned through millions of dollars paying for movie tickets, briefly shut down a couple times when it couldn't pay its bills and was eventually forced to dramatically water down its service just to stay afloat.
|
|
Historian Michael Koncewicz said anti-war activists often point to Obama as an example of how politicians capitalize on their movement's energy but, once in office, water down their positions and fail to live up to their promises.
|
|
The administration has sought to water down the sanctions bill to give itself more leeway in dealing with Russia, an effort that was viewed by many Republicans and Democrats as a way to relax sanctions without congressional approval.
|
|
When the bloc introduced limits on carbon dioxide emissions for cars in 2013, Ms. Merkel was able to water down the commission's proposal in favor of Germany's automakers, many of which specialize in large vehicles with high emissions.
|
|
Since last year's vote to leave the EU, Baker has played an influential role in organizing a group of eurosceptic lawmakers within May's Conservative Party in opposition to any attempt to water down the terms of Britain's departure.
|
|
As part of the deal, the archbishop agreed that the church would not oppose some constitutional amendments proposed by the ruling Syriza party which water down, but by no means eliminate, the rights and privileges of the Orthodox religion.
|
|
Yes, it plays host to bad and malevolent actors, but Twitter also helps amplify voices like that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who doesn't have to water down her progressive political message to get it out to a wide audience.
|
|
In 21968, Congress approved the Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts that would transport 215 million acre-feet of Colorado River water down into central and south Arizona and help nurture farms and cities like Phoenix and Tucson.
|
|
" He said that before the rally financials were "relatively inexpensive and are benefiting from the rise in market rates and widening net interest margins; any move to water down (banking reform) Dodd-Frank is merely icing on the cake.
|
|
And then, like a bath of ice water down my back, it hit me: these are the people at whom my country has thousands of nuclear weapons pointed, and whose country has thousands of such weapons pointed at us.
|
|
FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A capital increase by one third at German carbon fibre and carbon materials specialist SGL will water down the stake held by carmaker Volkswagen , while rival BMW will maintain its position by purchasing new shares.
|
|
In many ways, this controversy surrounding Newsome represents a big question facing the broader BLM movement: Is appealing to the opposition an effective means for achieving black and brown liberation or a quick way to water down the cause?
|
|
Under the new anti-corruption measures, which the opposition has accused Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of seeking to water down, the new head of the SFP must now be ratified by the Senate before taking office.
|
|
Not all will have the stomach for the repeated footage of franks and buns disappearing into the men's gullets like water down a drain, but those who do should enjoy the semi-serious, high-stakes tone this documentary strikes.
|
|
But housing activists have warned against complacency — not only because of the perennially powerful real estate industry, which has launched an ad blitz defending landlords, but also because of Mr. Cuomo himself, who they fear may water down reform.
|
|
Durden's legs sank; to stay at the surface, he had to put his arms out in a 45-degree angle from his sides and very slowly push the water down toward his waist, as though making a snow angel.
|
|
Together, this is certainly an interesting pair of headlines coming the week after Barr both intervened to help water down a sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone and urged President Trump to stop tweeting about pending Justice Department criminal cases.
|
|
Since 2016, schools have been asked to collect data on pupils' nationality and country of birth, which was supposed to be shared with the government department responsible for immigration enforcement until public criticism made officials water down the policy.
|
|
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry is likely to drastically water down a proposal restricting smoking in restaurants, media said on Friday, a move that risks Tokyo becoming one of the unhealthiest hosts of the Olympic Games hosts in years.
|
|
"Contingency measures taken by companies and politicians could water down the worst effects but we would still really feel the impact of a hard Brexit," Lang said, according to the text of a speech he was giving in Berlin.
|
|
ROME (Reuters) - Italy defied pressure from Brussels and its euro zone partners on Tuesday to water down ambitious budget plans, threatening to sue EU officials it said were to blame for a deepening sell-off on Rome's financial markets.
|
|
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes on Monday said the government's landmark pension reform may be diluted, but urged lawmakers not to water down targeted savings in the next decade to less than 1 trillion reais ($259 billion).
|
|
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling nationalists signaled on Thursday they plan to water down legislation allowing for judges to be disciplined for questioning judicial reforms, in an apparent attempt to ease a dispute between Brussels and Warsaw over democratic standards.
|
|
Turnbull, whose views on climate change put him at odds with skeptics in his own Liberal party, last week was forced to water down a long-awaited energy policy in a failed bid to stave off a challenge to his leadership.
|
|
Bayer reiterated that the capital increase would take place via a rights issue so as not to water down existing investors and said the transaction would not take place before next year as it awaits antitrust approval for the Monsanto deal.
|
|
Already, some studies suggest that the "Atlantic conveyor belt," which brings warmer surface waters up from the Gulf of Mexico and returns cooler, deeper water down the US Eastern Seaboard, has weakened by up to 213% since the mid-237s.
|
|
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she intends to trigger Article 50 by the end of March, and the government's fear is that going through parliament could disrupt her timetable and give lawmakers opportunities to water down its Brexit plans.
|
|
Pointing to the lack of clarity over the President-elect's plans for banks, Wittmann noted that Trump's pledge to remove or water down the strict Dodd-Frank regulatory oversight laws introduced after the financial crisis could be very beneficial for them.
|
|
Since he's been put in charge of the agency, Pruitt has allegedly made plans to water down federal scientific research on the climate, deflected from the issue during natural disasters, and cut loose hundreds of employees in a deregulation push.
|
|
The gathering's final document, issued late on Saturday night, called for women to play a greater role in Church decision-making as a "duty of justice", but appeared to water down language that would have been more welcoming to gays.
|
|
The senator also said he spoke with Rousseff about trying to influence judges to release businessmen from prison and that she asked the head of the Supreme Court, Ricardo Lewandowski, to water down Operation Car Wash to help the ruling coalition.
|
|
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. banks and securities houses could be barred from trading on exchanges in the European Union if the bloc refuses to water down "irresponsible" proposals for regulating foreign clearing houses, a top U.S. regulator said on Wednesday.
|
|
"To me, it seems the change in policy will not be very substantial, so I think in the coming days, ECB officials will try to water down Draghi's comments," said Masafumi Yamamoto, chief forex strategist at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo.
|
|
A separate report sourced to an unnamed Conservative in the Mail on Sunday also said a 'Kamikaze' group of Brexit-supporting Conservatives would be prepared to oust her and force a new election if she did water down her Brexit plans.
|
|
And it would block the administration from approving requests from states looking to water down ObamaCare's protections for people with pre-existing conditions and its 10 requirements for what insurance companies must cover, such as maternity care and substance abuse treatment.
|
|
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe must resist the temptation to water down post-crisis bank regulation known as Basel III and needs to implement the rules to prepare lenders for an eventual crisis, European Central Bank supervisor Andrea Enria said on Tuesday.
|
|
According to the Times's report, lobbyists from the baby food industry were present at the World Health Assembly meetings on the resolution, but there is no reported evidence that they pressed U.S. representatives to try to water down the measure.
|
|
I get a feeling of déjà vu whenever I see politicians at the federal level and in California return criminals to our streets, water down our public education, strangle businesses with high taxes and burdensome regulations and increase dependency on government.
|
|
They water down their presentation or use overly simplified context (such as a prospective employer I met with, who showed me how much they "get women" based on a book they had written comparing financial concepts to items of clothing).
|
|
The draft bill does remove or water down some restrictions from existing legislation, such as the article that meant activists could be hit with multiple counts of the same charge - increasing the length of the sentences that could be meted out.
|
|
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ was fined $315 million in 2014 for pressuring its consultant to water down a supposedly objective report on BTMU's dealings with sanctioned countries, submitted to DFS, thereby misleading regulators, the PRA said in a statement.
|
|
In seeking to water down the language adopting the United Nations report, delegates said, the Trump administration sent a powerful message that it not only rejects the Paris Agreement but also the scientific underpinning of the international climate change negotiations itself.
|
|
This is Chicago, though, and Ms. Newman and her allies are worried that Mr. Lipinski's backers will do what is often done to protect incumbents here: field additional challengers who can water down the support of the most serious candidates.
|
|
"My Republican colleagues must resist efforts by the Trump administration — at the behest of the government of China — to get them to water down or back off of the Senate's strong language on ZTE in the defense bill," Mr. Schumer said.
|
|
While Governor Haruhiko Kuroda may persist in achieving his 2 percent inflation target, BOJ bureaucrats working under him will seek to water down the target as Kuroda's term expires next April and the cost of its massive stimulus rises, Kiuchi said.
|
|
In May, several fintech firms and lobbyists moved to fend off plans by the European Banking Authority to water down its open banking rules by banning a technique known as "screen scraping" — essentially copying data from one interface over to another.
|
|
Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, the G20 made only a token reference to trade in their communique in a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which fought the new U.S. government's attempts to water down past commitments.
|
|
The beauty of this trap, from an American standpoint, is that these sanctions cannot be relaxed unless Washington says so: Only Mr. Trump can alter America's, and the United States can veto any resolution to water down the United Nations sanctions.
|
|
While you'll definitely want to water down ACV to use as toner if you have sensitive skin (and only use it once or twice a week), it's a great, all-natural alternative to that expensive toner sitting on your bathroom sink.
|
|
Her remarks about financial regulation underline her opposition to Republican proposals circulating in Congress to water down the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, proposals that appear to have support from the White House as well, plus or minus some details.
|
|
Financial markets are banking on Tria, a former academic who is not affiliated to either party, to keep a lid on public finances and to water down some of the big-spending plans of the coalition that took office in June.
|
|
The delay in sending a high-ladder truck, known as an aerial or aerial appliance in Britain, meant that firefighters could not get above the flames that were racing up Grenfell Tower in order to pour water down on them.
|
|
The idea, approved by a modest, 16-vote majority in Parliament, involves reopening the legally binding withdrawal agreement in order to water down the so-called Irish backstop — a plan to ensure that goods flow across the Irish border without checks.
|
|
In another touching work, Felipe Dulzaides pours water down the gutters of the abandoned ballet school in Havana that was to be a part of Cuba's National Art Schools, an unfinished and short-lived project of the early Cuban Revolution.
|
|
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said it had organized the protest in the heart of the capital's banking district, accusing the finance industry of funding climate change and the finance ministry of trying to water down government action to mitigate it.
|
|
Some analysts have expressed concern this could enable Beijing -- the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases -- to water down its own commitments, but others say it is more likely China will step into a leading role in the vacuum left by Washington.
|
|
"There's certainly a concerted effort underway either to water down the DOL rule directly, to provide an end-run around it through the SEC rule or state insurance rules, or some combination of the two," Roper, from the Consumer Federation for America, said.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union is proposing to give the European Central Bank sweeping powers over foreign clearing houses in times of market stress, an EU document showed, as the bloc shows little sign of heeding U.S. calls to water down the plans.
|
|
Rubio, a fellow Republican, warned the Trump administration to not water down enforcement with what he called "sweetheart licenses" that would allow some American companies to export to Huawei while it remains on an "entity list" that bans U.S. firms from doing so.
|
|
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's devolved government has recommended that its parliament at Holyrood withhold consent for legislation to withdraw Britain from the European Union, on the grounds that it could water down their powers, a document filed by the Scottish government said on Tuesday.
|
|
But the legislation will now face scrutiny from parliament's largely pro-EU upper house, where May's party does not have a majority, which will intensify efforts to force a re-run of a 2016 referendum, and water down or even stop the divorce.
|
|
In July, Airbus was forced to water down its financial guidance for the year, and tensions with the supplier flared last week when it told the United Technologies not to let its plans to buy Rockwell Collins distract if from resolving the issue.
|
|
To placate them, Mr Temer has hinted he may amend the reform by decree, which is subject to a simple up-or-down vote in Congress, in order to phase out the obligatory dues gradually (and possibly water down some other provisions).
|
|
Last year, the TUC held off from promising to fight to keep Britain in the EU in protest at signs that Cameron wanted to water down the bloc's so-called Social Chapter incorporating workers' rights before he called the EU membership referendum.
|
|
Peter Micek, general counsel for Access Now, which lobbies in favor of an open internet, said Chinese officials and technicians are increasingly working to water down protections for online freedoms at the United Nations and other bodies which oversee internet standards and governance.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Two of Britain's most prominent Brexit campaigners endorsed a second referendum on leaving the European Union on Thursday as the best way to stop EU supporters from trying to water down, or even halt, the country's departure from the bloc.
|
|
Democrats don't want to water down the power of such congressional orders — particularly ahead of their soon-to-be return to power in the lower chamber — but the New York lawmaker disagrees with Goodlatte for the purposes of which they are being used.
|
|
The board planned to vote on a special stock dividend that would drastically water down the Redstone family's voting stake at CBS to 17 percent from 79 percent — a move that would give Mr. Moonves more freedom to reject a merger with Viacom.
|
|
The ruling means that Johnson's deal will instead face a more challenging passage through Parliament, with the full details of the agreement scrutinized by lawmakers who will have the opportunity to potentially water down or derail the proposed deal with their own amendments.
|
|
Centrist GOP lawmakers push back against border wall funding: Two House Republicans want to water down plans to include funds to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall promised by President Trump in the spending package slated for a floor vote this week. Rep.
|
|
Attempts by some states to water down the reform earlier this year were blocked at an early stage of the talks with Luxembourg, Ireland and Hungary seeking to have tax matters excluded, according to minutes of EU internal meetings seen by Reuters.
|
|
SAO PAULO, May 8 (Reuters) - Verde Asset Management SA, Brazil's largest hedge fund, sees lingering risks that Brazilian lawmakers will further water down government efforts to streamline the social security system, a move that could hamper austerity efforts in Latin America's largest economy.
|
|
"The question is will the Temer government have the power it had in May, before the JBS scandal, to pass pension reform, or will it have to water down the bill with more concessions," said Aragão, partner at Brasilia consultancy ARKO Advice.
|
|
The European Union last week failed to agree a net zero emissions deadline, President Donald Trump has taken the US out of the Paris Agreement and the G20 is preparing to water down its climate promises, according to a report in the Financial Times.
|
|
Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission which regulates the American derivatives market, has threatened retaliation against EU financial firms if the bloc does not water down what he sees as overly intrusive proposals affecting U.S. clearers such as CME and ICE.
|
|
Environmental campaigners who have long criticized the schemes as thinly disguised subsidies for fossil fuel power said they would welcome stricter rules but warned against member states that are heavily dependent on coal power such as Poland seeking to water down the CO2 limits.
|
|
This isn't a call to hire as many lobbyists as possible to water down your responsibilities; it's a demand to educate the state and federal policymakers who will be writing the rules of the road that govern your work for the next phase of healthcare.
|
|
Even though she couldn't walk and couldn't keep food or water down, no provider would see her, citing office policy that patients needed to be a minimum of eight to ten weeks pregnant before their office would see her (a rule among many obstetricians).
|
|
Nuttall, who campaigned on his ability to build the party's support in the north of England and unite its factions, said the party had a duty to Brexit voters to ensure Prime Minister Theresa May did not water down the terms of Britain's EU exit.
|
|
As for the singularity, the group who got their water down to 228 Kelvin definitely noticed some weirdness: The water appeared to exist with two different density phases simultaneously, based on how clusters of a few connected water molecules stacked up in the droplets.
|
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will likely water down a key part of a landmark retirement rule, lawyers for the Department of Labor said, signaling that the government will offer an out for brokerages that would have been subject to class action lawsuits.
|
|
At least 30 ex-government officials are registered as lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, including a staffer of former Congressman Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Wall Street firms heavily invested in to water down.
|
|
"We're a little disappointed in that this has been delayed another week, and my experience with this is a lot of time the lawyers get a hold of it and they start to water down the report," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
|
|
Facebook and Google hired high-profile political operatives to thwart changes in election disclosures at the Federal Election Commission and have deployed lobbyists to water down a bipartisan bill introduced last week that would require social media platforms to disclose the financing behind political ads.
|
|
The push by United States delegates to the World Health Organization to water down or scrap a simple resolution meant to encourage breast-feeding in underdeveloped countries was many things — bullying, anti-science, pro-industry, anti-public health and shortsighted, to name a few.
|
|
For the past couple days Donald Trump and his allies have been attempting to twist the arms of Republicans in Congress to vote for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a piece of legislation that would water down the Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA).
|
|
He fired several US officials who had testified against him in the impeachment inquiry, and he successfully lobbied the Justice Department to water down its request that his longtime adviser Roger Stone face as many as nine years in prison for lying to Congress.
|
|
But while Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants a "phased process of implementation" to smooth the country's path out of the EU, many in her party fear a lengthy transition period could be used to water down or block Britain's eventual exit.
|
|
Pompeo would also be well suited to make sure America does not water down its definition of denuclearization — a longstanding U.S. policy goal for the Korean Peninsula — or concede on other issues like military drills, which would be a detriment to regional ally, South Korea.
|
|
"We've unfortunately found ourselves in an era where it's becoming commonplace to water down the breadth of information on credit reports," Ulzheimer says, adding that tax liens, judgments, medical collections and medical debt have all been removed or delayed from some credit scoring models.
|
|
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A major meeting of Catholic bishops ended on Saturday with a call for women to play a greater role in Church decision making as a "duty of justice", but appeared to water down language that would have been more welcoming to gays.
|
|
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to "protect, promote and support breast-feeding" and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
|
|
"In business, when you just do too many things at once, you really water down your message," Barrymore explains in a recent interview with CNBC's Make It. "I think if it's not keeping you up at night and occupying your brain space, then something's wrong," she adds.
|
|
In an interview, Meirelles told Valor that he would discuss with lawmakers any aspect of the proposal to create the so-called TLP lending interest rate, but that he will not water down the plan - as BNDES Chief Executive Officer Paulo Rabello de Castro had recently suggested.
|
|
Rick Carhart, a spokesperson for the Butte County Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told BuzzFeed News that swift water rescue teams had to evacuate three households by boat and escort at least 50 cars trapped by high water down from a road in Butte Creek Canyon.
|
|
Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, G-203 finance ministers and central bankers made only a token reference to trade in their communique on Saturday, a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which fought the new U.S. government's attempts to water down pastcommitments.
|
|
Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, G20 finance ministers and central bankers made only a token reference to trade in their communique on Saturday, a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which fought the new U.S. government's attempts to water down past commitments.
|
|
Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, G-20 finance ministers and central bankers made only a token reference to trade in their communique on Saturday, a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which fought the new U.S. government's attempts to water down past commitments.
|
|
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is cool to the notion of inviting China to join a pan-Pacific trade pact abandoned by U.S. President Donald Trump, fearing such a step would boost Beijing's clout and water down what was meant to be the 'gold standard' for rules of trade.
|
|
"I knew I was ready for the heat but I wasn't ready for the humidity so I just had to keep on going and keep cool, keep that body temperature cool with a bit of ice and water down the back," Wilde, who finished third, told Reuters.
|
|
"We're a little disappointed in that this has been delayed another week, and my experience with this is a lot of time the lawyers get a hold of it and they start to water down the report," Nunes said in a Fox News interview on Sunday.
|
|
"The Trump administration seems determined to radically overhaul and water down the compliance system by introducing a numerical measure of performance that has been widely criticized, by bankers as well as community advocates, as overly simplistic," said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
|
|
In recent months, regulators have proposed to reduce liquidity buffers of banks with as much as $700 billion in assets, dilute the strength and frequency of stress tests, water down the Volcker Rule prohibition on risky trading and cut leverage capital requirements for corporate derivatives exposures.
|
|
Amid questions about Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, many members of the U.S. Congress - both Democrats and some of Trump's fellow Republicans - have been questioning the administration's plan to water down the toughest penalties imposed on Russian entities since the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
|
|
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc and British American Tobacco Plc lobbied Pakistan's government to not implement bigger health warnings on cigarette packs, in what officials say was part of an industry-wide campaign that successfully persuaded Islamabad to water down a proposal designed to save lives.
|
|
And most countries aren't on track to meet their climate targets: President Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris climate accord; an EU proposal to curb carbon emissions died last week; and the G20 is set to water down its climate promises during its summit in Japan.
|
|
This diversion, according to Beşikçi, was a calculated trap set by the software engineer behind the Purple Brain apps — a Gülenist who once worked for the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) — in order to water down the pool of ByLock users and disguise actual Gülenists.
|
|
Democrats have been wary that the House is trying to water down the bill or bury it with procedural hurdles, and both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the House to immediately pass the measure on Thursday before Congress left for recess.
|
|
The resulting adaptation isn't perfect; its weakest moments come when Flanagan and his co-writer Jeff Howard step away from the original King story and get preachy about men controlling women, or water down an already basic look at BDSM and female empowerment into something even more oversimplified.
|
|
Against a backdrop of numerous proposals that ignore legitimate scientific findings and eliminate or water down safeguards designed to mitigate climate change and protect the nation's air and water, many among the agency's career staff now perceive that EPA's political leadership frowns upon meaningful enforcement of pollution control standards.
|
|
Two recent studies have backed that up: One sampled water down thousands of feet in Monterey Bay and found particles, while the other took sediment samples off the coast of Southern California and found plastic in layers dating back to the 1940s, when its production began in earnest.
|
|
Thousands of students who took out federal loans to attend schools that lured them with fraudulent claims will still have to repay a portion of their debts, the Education Department said Tuesday — a new attempt to water down a loan-forgiveness program that the department's leader has long deplored.
|
|
While that particular option appears dead in the water with AB5's passing, gig work firms are likely to continue pushing against full employee status, pursuing additional methods to water down AB5, and they may find unlikely allies in other industries that will be impacted by the bill's passing.
|
|
They introduced a series of amendments designed to water down the drilling bill, including those to require drilling only if its compatible with wildlife protection measures, certify that oil leases elsewhere in Alaska are tapped out before opening up ANWR, and blocking companies with environmental violations from developing there.
|
|
As prime minister, Cameron campaigned against leaving the EU. Cameron also said that US President-elect Donald Trump could water down US banking regulations, potentially including the repeal of parts of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, such as the Volcker Rule that forced banks to abandon proprietary trading.
|
|
If the Trump administration does water down or kill the DoL rule, we could wind up with a worst-of-both-worlds result: consumers who absorbed the message that conflict-free advice is important but have trouble determining that they are getting it because the new standard lacks real teeth.
|
|
In Michigan, Republican lawmakers are attempting to dilute the power of Ms. Whitmer and the new Democratic attorney general and secretary of state, Dana Nessel and Jocelyn Benson, while also attempting to water down ballot measures voters passed last month that would expand voting access and create an independent redistricting commission.
|
|
It's also worth highlighting that while the bill technically took effect on January 1, California's Attorney General has stated enforcement isn't likely to begin until sometime this summer, giving lawmakers some additional time to work out some early kinks, clarify murky language, or water down existing requirements upon lobbyist request.
|
|
Anmar Mirza, national coordinator of the National Cave Rescue Commission in the U.S. and editor of the book Manual of U.S. Cave Rescue Techniques, said that in a situation like this it would seem there were only two things that could be done: pump the water down and search for alternative entrances.
|
|
Dan Olson, a spokesman for the Oroville incident, said Wednesday that things were starting to "return to normal" for residents in the city of Oroville, one of the communities evacuated Sunday when the hole in the emergency spillway posed an immediate risk of a large, uncontrolled flow of water down the Feather River.
|
|
The fiery chief strategist also led the charge against proposals by national security officials to deepen US military involvement in Afghanistan, feuding vocally during meetings of the National Security Council with McMaster and working behind the scenes to water down hawkish proposals for troop increases and a longer-term US military commitment.
|
|
" Ernest L. Johnson Sr., president of the Louisiana branch of the N.A.A.C.P., countered, saying, "Hate crimes law is based upon a history of discrimination against certain groups of people, and a bill like this just tries to water down that reality, because there is not a history of discrimination against police and firefighters.
|
|
After the New York Times reported that the US threatened other nations in an effort to water down a World Health Assembly resolution supporting breastfeeding this spring, intense responses from all sides galvanized the debate over whether the reported move by the United States stemmed from an alignment with infant formula manufacturers.
|
|
Both Mr. Bagley and Ms. Parmet said Democrats have legitimate reasons to be concerned that, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh would side with Trump administration efforts to water down the Affordable Care Act — particularly in cases about the contraception mandate, short-term health plans or payments to health insurers.
|
|
The disclosure requirement, which does not appear in the order — and which Cuomo administration officials did not mention in a 30-minute call last Friday or in several written statements — would dramatically water down the directive, even from the administration's first interpretation, freeing many more appointees to give cash to the governor's campaign.
|
|
It has drawn criticism from some white and affluent parents — captured in a viral video — who believe that it is unfair when the top middle schools do not have enough seats for all the qualified students as it is, and say that it could water down instruction and lower the quality of education.
|
|
Aside from Italy's spending plans, the new coalition government — made up of the populist, anti-establishment Five-Star Movement (M5S) and right-wing Lega party — approved a draft bill earlier this week, known as the "Dignity Decree," which aims to water down labor reforms put in place by Padoan and the previous administration.
|
|
For other enterprising Trinidadians, concerns are cultural, not financial: Will the dissemination of its carnival water down its profound history in the region, a history that stretches back to the 18th century, as European colonizers feted Lent with masked balls and their slaves followed suit, incorporating West African traditions into the revelry?
|
|
He had not fully appreciated either the threat of lawsuits related to the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 that could result from listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or the complexities of issuing shares on the London Stock Exchange, where institutional investors are angry about efforts to water down listing rules for Aramco.
|
|
When Comfortdelgro, the city's largest taxi operator with over 15,000 vehicles, announced in August that it was in talks with Uber over a "potential strategic alliance" that could double Uber's driver network, rival Grab began aggressively poaching the taxi firm's drivers to water down the impact of a potential alliance, one source told TechCrunch.
|
|
Morris seems to acknowledge that she's raising hell and bucking the limitations of country on "Flavor," where she sings: "Ain't gonna water down my words / Or sugar up my spice / Sometimes the truth/ Don't always come out nice," and then invites you not to listen if you don't like what she's got to say.
|
|
The US delegation worked hard, but largely unsuccessfully, to water down a resolution recognizing the importance of breastfeeding for infants and working against misleading attempts to sell substitutes for a mother's milk, the Times reported, citing more than a dozen participants from various countries, many of whom requested anonymity for fear of US retaliation.
|
|
" In a statement on the bill, the ACLU's Neema Singh Guliani also commended the House for once again passing the Email Privacy Act and implored the Senate to do the same: "Last year, this bills' progress was derailed by Senate efforts to water down its provisions and attach amendments that would have weakened Americans' privacy.
|
|
But her priorities, for the most part, stand in stark contrast to those of her predecessor, Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, who spent the past two years pushing to water down the new rules created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law and to neuter the consumer finance watchdog set up by the Obama administration.
|
|
An apparent attempt to water down language about evolution and climate change in the guidelines for science education in New Mexico met with protests this week at an eventful public hearing at the Public Education Department's offices in Santa Fe. Hundreds of people — some of them demonstrating outside with signs — showed up to the event.
|
|
On that November day, Crozier was tasked with moving Mission Hill Estate sauvignon blanc from one tank into another, a process that required him to flush the attached hose with water and empty the water down a drain, before switching the diverting valve and allowing the wine to safely flow into the new tank.
|
|
Democrats and public health groups fear the delay means the president has wavered under political pressure from within his party and the industry to reverse course or water down government regulation that was intended to be an Oval Office response to at least 2023 deaths and 1,300 confirmed cases of illness tied to vaping (The Hill).
|
|
This should be appealing to lawmakers who recognize the problems associated with the war on drugs but are worried that allowing commercial sales could lead to the marijuana equivalent of Big Tobacco — a powerful industry that seeks to market its products to children and that lobbies lawmakers to rescind or water down public health regulations. Gov.
|
|
"There might be some reality setting in that a lot of this rally is based on assumptions of stimulus legislation occurring, and it's really the market's hope that those actions occur and that there isn't a heated battle and a water down of some of these indicated proposals by the soon-to-be new administration," Ghriskey said.
|
|
Citing concerns to be addressed in the committee's probe, Warner listed the prediction by a Trump associate about the release of hacked emails weeks before they were released, a change in the Republican Party's platform to water down language on Ukraine, and Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and other Trump associates being forced to step down over ties to Russia.
|
|
And so groups such as Public Citizen and the Center for American Progress that make a living and maintain a media presence bashing the pharmaceutical industry are howling that Thiel wants to water down the scientific and conflict of interests standards regulating the FDA and NIH, in order to allow Big Pharma to get rich by exposing consumers to dangerous, ineffective treatments.
|
|
Last December, the finance ministers failed to agree on the issue after some of them said a proposal by the then Slovak presidency and backed by Britain would water down the plan.. In a bid to quell multinationals' concerns, Scicluna said there would be new proposals in coming months to make sure that corporations will not pay double taxes under the new system.
|
|
Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa), raising the possibility of holding up the nomination if the White House doesn't back off its plan to water down the biofuels mandate. Sen.
|
|
Even if it passes, there's a real chance that lobbyists will successfully water down the bill's language to ensure ample loopholes, something we saw on the federal level with the FCC's flimsy 2010 net neutrality rules (which didn't cover wireless, and let ISPs engage in anti-competitive behavior provided they claimed it was for the health and security of the network).
|
|
It aims to tackle illegal content online and political advertising across platforms, as well as establish an EU definition of hate speech While big tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have signed up to the act, there is concern among experts that Facebook's extensive lobbying efforts in Brussels, could water down the laws in areas like tackling extremist content.
|
|
Tom Burke, founding director of climate change think tank E3G, said in a phone call with Motherboard there's no clear reason, but suggested the efforts to water down EU laws may be a reflection of domestic energy policy and in particular a reaction—consciously or not—to its decision to increase its nuclear power generation via the controversial £24 billion Hinkley Point C plant.
|
|
Yet, solely because of Donald Trump and Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, New York Democrats have been pushing to water down state double jeopardy protection — shamefully, as if civil rights were only for the ruling class's political friends.
|
|
So, if states decide to water down the list of EHBs or not implement them at all, we could see more policies that don't help people with chronic diseases like cancer pay for their treatment, don't help pregnant women pay for their maternity care, and don't help pay for people who need mental health or addiction treatment, or who wind up in the hospital.
|
|
"From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing a top-secret C.I.A. program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to savage interrogations, which included depriving them of sleep, squeezing them into coffins, and forcing water down their throats," Dexter Filkins wrote at the New Yorker last year, after the Trump administration named Haspel deputy director of the CIA under Mike Pompeo.
|
|
The walk back from the White House was curious, and they are saying that this does have the four pillars that Trump sought except it really does water down chain migration restrictions that were a big part of Trump&aposs goals, and it also expands amnesty in a way that is really dangerous in how much people who are children of temporary foreign workers would be able to apply for amnesty.
|
|
Tech Lobbyists Push to Defang California's Landmark Privacy Law Issie Lapowsky reports that, as expected, lobbyists for big tech companies want to water down California's privacy law: The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, gives residents of California the ability to request the data that businesses collect on them, demand that it be deleted, and opt out of having that data sold to third parties, among other things.
|
|
Assessed as being to the right of Scalia (who voted against marriage equality, Obamacare, affirmative action, equal pay and abortion rights, and for Citizens United, Hobby Lobby and to water down the Voting Rights Act), Gorsuch is widely regarded by progressive organizations as a regressive threat to women's rights and a stalwart of the religious freedom arguments that translate into denying women contraception and gay people consumer services.
|
|
Although the president's cover letter to the NSS states, "During my first year in office, you have witnessed my America First foreign policy in action," many experts would dispute this after a year of resistance to his campaign promises on national security by middle-of-the-road national security officials in his administration and careerists — "the Swamp" — who have worked to water down and undermine his national security agenda.
|
|
This could allow Trump to project a less radical set of positions internationally through the State Department, including probably paying lip service to the Paris agreement, while having his EPA, Energy, Interior and other departments resume below-cost leasing of coal on US public lands, overturn a whole suite of EPA regulations on CO2 and methane, water down fuel economy standards, and cut funding for renewable energy and low emissions technologies growth.
|
|
The reason for the delay seems to be a dispute over the Trump administration's support for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) biofuels mandate, which some Midwestern lawmakers have accused EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE of aiming to water down.
|
|