RALEIGH, N.C. — Acceding to the wishes of the embattled Gov.
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She says she has no intention of acceding to their request.
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Acceding to Hunter as a witness would call the Republicans' bluff.
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In releasing the document, Gove was acceding to a request from lawmakers.
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The irregular channel consisted of bullying Ukraine into acceding to Trump&aposs demands.
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Carrie Lam, the embattled chief executive, refuses to countenance acceding to the protest demands.
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Liberals have got to stop acceding to the toxic premise that government is bad.
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An easy opening question: Is your beau acceding too readily to his mother (or you)?
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What's worse, it looks like Pyongyang is purposefully stalling instead of acceding to Trump's denuclearization demand.
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Some preexisting women's groups resisted this merger, and then, after acceding, refused to accept a subordinate status.
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But there is a defensiveness about acceding to the denunciations from national Republicans and damning media reports.
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The much bigger risk for Republicans would be defying conservatives and acceding to move forward on Garland.
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Acceding to Democrats' demands on immigration before getting tax-reform done is hardly what Republicans campaigned on.
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The end result has been a hands-off approach: neither acceding to, nor opposing, the regime advance.
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Acceding to Mr. Trump would be considered a sign of weakness for Mr. Xi, according to analysts.
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While acceding to an "on the record interview," the Cipollone letter makes no mention of sworn testimony.
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Up until now, it's looked like Pyongyang is purposely stalling instead of acceding to Trump's denuclearization demand.
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Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister, has said he sees "no argument" for acceding to the I.M.F.'s demands.
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China and Russia, however, will explore various avenues to dissuade regional US allies from acceding to Washington's wishes.
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Witnesses have testified that Ukrainian officials understood that the aid was contingent on Zelensky acceding to Trump's demands.
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But Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister, has said he sees "no argument" for acceding to the I.M.F.'s demands.
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Acceding to this formula will give Kim what he wishes — an opportunity to shake the U.S.-South Korea alliance.
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What's more, in acceding to Ryan's priorities, Donald Trump showed that his populism was as phony as his university.
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Like Obama, Trump was talked into a "surge" in Afghanistan by the Pentagon, and quickly expressed buyer's remorse for acceding.
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ORF said it was also taking legal action against Facebook for not acceding to its request that Strache's posting be deleted.
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The president's allies also conditioned military aid and a White House meeting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acceding to his demands.
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She vividly detailed the shadow campaign Giuliani conducted to strong-arm Ukraine into acceding to Trump's demands for politically motivated investigations.
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It does not mean denying human rights abuses or acceding to every demand from Beijing regardless of U.S. interests at stake.
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South Korea began accepting refugee applications in 1994 after acceding to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992.
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But on Thursday, Republicans were running out of time to make changes and showed little patience for acceding to new demands.
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Trump also has a history of acceding to North Korea on denuclearization, and dropping the ball in the trade war with China.
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Since acceding to the throne in December 2016, King Rama X has also asserted his own authority, claiming more prerogatives for himself.
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Acceding to a key Democratic demand, Mr. Trump said such a package did not need to have funding for a border wall.
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Mr. Tillerson has done little beyond proposing a lone deputy and acceding to a handful of ambassadorial nominations by the White House.
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When McConnell recognized he didn't have the votes to move forward without acceding to their demands, the conversation moved to the scope.
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Acceding to Democratic demands to hold the vote Friday, GOP leaders twisted and turned normal procedures and practices to make the session work.
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Because it's clear they want to maximize their profits by squeezing people who don't have much power and acceding to people who do.
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But the firm refused to publish it, acceding only this year once Mr Budrass brought out a separate book on the airline's past.
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But acceding to them would effectively make the United States an ally of the Sunnis in the Sunni-Shiite religious and national rivalry.
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They've already bought into a corrupt system, acceding to the teacher's demands, and signing the petition is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
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By acceding to the automakers' plea for regulatory relief, Mr. Trump is challenging them to funnel more resources into their American manufacturing operations.
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A country that voted for Brexit as a way to "take back control" will be acceding even more control to the European Union.
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The Moderates and Christian Democrats, meanwhile, accuse the Centre Party and the Liberals of betraying their electoral promises by acceding to a leftist government.
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Many countries permitted gay civil partnerships before acceding to demands for marriage, and some have allowed straight couples to enter into such partnerships too.
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By launching a war on corruption, the prince has combined a popular cause with the elimination of an obstacle to acceding to the throne.
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He put allies and enemies alike on notice: acceding to American demands brought contempt and further demands; standing strong against the U.S. brought concessions.
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The Johnson administration opposed the Western Hemisphere quota as unworkable, only acceding to it when Southern segregationists threatened to otherwise torpedo the entire immigration bill.
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Industry, meanwhile, will probably have to concede that some "gaming" does occur, but acceding to the most aggressive regulatory changes would cost drug makers billions.
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The fact that a European plan to increase military spending — acceding to a demand from Mr. Trump — has degenerated into acrimony only emphasizes the split.
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"Defendants voluntarily agree, solely in the interest of acceding to the Court's request to moot Plaintiffs' Motion, to preserve the material at issue," Wyer wrote.
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Their testimony painted a damning picture of Trump&aposs monthslong effort to force Ukraine into acceding to his political demands while freezing vital military assistance.
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The last three decades have shown the bitter consequences of Democrats hewing white and right, acceding to the fiction that there's no other way to win.
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Second -- and this is the truly troubling thing -- Hatch is essentially acceding to the very Trumpian argument that the ends always and forever justify the means.
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Some Cuban Americans said Havana was simply acceding to demands that it should have acceded to long ago, like allowing them home without a special procedure.
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Protesters moved on to the home of Cao Rulin, one of the ministers they accused of acceding to Japan's demands, and some ransacked and burned it.
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The Crisis Group, which seeks to help reduce conflicts worldwide, said acceding to the Sidama could encourage other groups to follow suit and cause more chaos.
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My acceding to her demand must only confirm her belief that what is happening between us — that every now and again we are apart — is catastrophic.
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CAEN, France — Algeria's Constitutional Council on Sunday canceled elections planned for next month, acceding to demands from protesters who since February have upended the country's politics.
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"I am satisfied that the interest of justice will be best served by acceding to the request by the Republic of Mozambique," Masutha said in a statement.
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Instead, Sidewalk is acceding to the Waterfront Toronto counter-offer that it restrict its development to the 12-acre "beta site" initially carved out by the city.
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GOP leaders are, for now, acceding to a demand from conservatives and defense hawks to hold a hard line on defense spending despite objections from Senate Democrats.
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But acceding to the political pressure to rid the country of American troops would be a "disaster" for Iraq, militarily and economically, a senior Iraqi official said.
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The U.S. has allowed the Taliban a process win by acceding to their sequencing preference, but this broke the logjam; neither side has earned substantive concessions just yet.
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Protests and riots by members of higher castes typically end with politicians and officials acceding to their demands; similar actions by Dalits tend to be met with repression.
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Worse, their sights may be set not on corporations with teams of attorneys but on law-abiding individuals who may be coerced in acceding to the agency's demand.
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That is, national security professionals fret about Trump acceding to China's demands to allow Huawei and other Chinese high-technology firms to gain access to the U.S. market.
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Many Democrats didn't think Jerry Brown did it enough — and that included acceding to the president's request that the border-state governors send National Guard troops to the border.
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The organizers said they followed protocol, acceding to the school's "discriminatory" conditions, only to have the event rescheduled to a time when most students would be studying for exams.
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But I had contributed to the strength of democratic institutions first by running for office and then by acceding to and embracing the voice of the people without reservation.
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For the past several months, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has investigated Trump&aposs efforts to strongarm Ukraine into acceding to his political demands while freezing military aid.
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After several years of litigation, the government blinked and, earlier this year, settled with Wilson — acceding to the argument that he had a First Amendment right to distribute the plans.
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Mr. Molina makes achingly clear that even as Don is churning with doubt, he knows his love can best be expressed by acceding to Pam's wrenching but carefully considered decision.
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Far from acceding to Democrats' demand on background checks, he called three Senate Republican committee chairmen to urge them to have bipartisan talks over legislation reflecting what Trump outlined Monday.
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On Friday, shortly after Sessions was sworn in, the Justice Department withdrew a motion in defense of the guidance, acceding to the lower court judge's injunction to block it nationwide.
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Meanwhile, Trump infuriated members of his own party by acceding to a Democratic effort in Congress to tie a Harvey relief package to a three-month extension of the debt ceiling.
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An ad hoc panel would be a political stopgap measure, acceding to the demands for a full-fledged inquiry, with a clear focal point, without starting a partisan, formal impeachment proceeding.
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Notably, at the United Nations this morning, 31 countries "deposited instruments" acceding to the agreement, bringing the total to 60 since its approval with a gavel stroke in Paris in December.
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Ukrainian officials also understood throughout the course of Trump's pressure campaign that military assistance and, more broadly, a strong relationship with the president, was based on acceding to his political demands.
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The possibility of sanctions comes after a fierce backlash from Trump's own party, with top Republicans, like House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), criticizing Trump for acceding to Turkey.
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Whatever the perceived merits of China acceding to U.S. demands, authorities are seen as unlikely to swallow them in full for nationalistic reasons and appear rather to be digging in their heels.
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Bolivia for instance, withdrew from the convention system, before re-acceding, with support from the General Assembly, along with a stipulation that they be allowed to maintain a legal domestic coca market.
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In acceding to the Democratic Party's priorities, leftists risk allowing the Russia issue to become the ideological focus of the Resistance, while left theoreticians toil away, formulating systemic critiques that go unnoticed.
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Afghan leaders have been frustrated by the United States' acceding to the Taliban's demand that negotiations, held over the past year in Doha, Qatar, exclude the government, even as deadly violence continued.
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And if there were a bill that were gathering momentum as a legislative compromise, Republican leadership might feel that they had a way to avert shutdown without simply acceding to Democrats' demands.
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Astonishingly, despite acceding to British generals' demand to "go in big" (Britain contributed about 30% of the tanks for the invasion), Mr Blair extracted no promise from Mr Bush about joint decision-making.
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Mattingly said McConnell wants to keep Trump happy, and acceding to Trump's demand to do away with some of the recess is an easy way to preserve the current state of the relationship.
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" Moreover, Light and two regional vice presidents "have had sex with women employees and conditioned women's success at Sterling upon acceding to such demands, an expectation attributed to other male executives as well.
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Both charges relate to Trump&aposs efforts to strongarm Ukraine into acceding to his political demands while withholding vital security assistance and a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately wants.
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Each time, Trump either used these tactics to pander to his base or to strong-arm congressional Democrats into acceding to his other policy priorities, such as securing funding to build a border wall.
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And over the last several weeks he has ordered enough high-profile arrests of intellectuals and clerics to frighten the remainder of the academic and religious establishment into acceding to his will as well.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election campaign, scheduled for next spring, will prevent him from acceding to American demands on Iran, said Mohan Guruswamy, a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in India.
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They detailed the charges against him and laid out an intricate timeline of his months-long effort to strong-arm Ukraine into acceding to his personal demands, and leveraging official US policy while doing so.
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He and the four other candidates, all former senior officials, praised the protesters for seeking a patriotic renewal of Algerian politics, but without acceding to their demands for a more thorough purge of the hierarchy.
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" Light, along with two other regional vice presidents, is accused of having "sex with women employees and conditioned women's success at Sterling upon acceding to such demands, an expectation attributed to other male executives as well.
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The deployment is a stunt, a dangerous one, and in our view, a misuse of the military that should have led Mr. Mattis to consider resigning, instead of acceding to this blatant politicization of America's military.
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Fellow tech giants filed amicus briefs in support of Apple's legal case, arguing that acceding to the FBI's demand that Apple write software to help crack San Bernadino shooter Syed Farook's phone would set a dangerous precedent.
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But what followed was a clash of cultures, not ideas: Union officials refused to budge on Greece's debt obligations, and after months of negotiation and brinkmanship, Greece nearly collapsed into bankruptcy before acceding to demands from Brussels.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York will now allow a person of any gender to choose whether to use a men's or women's bathroom or locker room in all municipal properties, acceding to the demands of transgender advocates.
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And his deputies took an unusual approach in an investigation of the governor's office, largely acceding to demands to limit interviews of the governor's staff to 15 minutes, internal records obtained by The New York Times show.
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On Wednesday, House Democrats laid out a broad yet detailed overview of the president&aposs scheme to pressure Ukraine into acceding to his personal demands while freezing security assistance and dangling a White House meeting for Zelensky.
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The new secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, could be acceding to California's 14 Republican members of Congress, who feel electrification would benefit a high-speed rail line, being built by the state, that they consider a boondoggle.
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" The complaint stated that the magazine had "deliberately distorted news stories, blatantly staged photographs, and ruthlessly silenced opposition in furtherance of its aims to coerce the public and the fashion industry into acceding to its unconscionable demands.
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One solution being discussed by American experts would involve Russia acceding to American inspections of the Russian cruise missiles and the Americans allowing Russian inspections of American Aegis missile defense systems based in Romania and planned for Poland.
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McConnell deflated much of Pelosi's leverage earlier this week when he announced that he had enough votes within his GOP conference to vote to begin the trial without acceding to Democrats' demands to commit to witness testimony first.
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Mr. Trump has made slowing migration and increasing control over the border priorities of his administration, and has used threats of crippling tariffs and other measures to force Mr. López Obrador into acceding to many of his demands.
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Mr. Trump has made slowing migration and increasing control over the border priorities of his administration, and has used threats of crippling tariffs and other measures to force Mr. López Obrador into acceding to many of his demands.
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Trump has signaled that he feels personal affection for Netanyahu and has floated the idea of acceding to a pair of Netanyahu's top objectives: moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and giving Israel a green light for settlement expansion.
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Analysts say the government sometimes uses a tough stance towards Saudi Shi'ites to mobilise its Wahhabi power base, while perceived weakness in acceding to any demands made by the minority can prompt anger that Sunni militants seek to exploit.
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At the direction of Mr. Elovitch and Mr. Hefetz, Walla consistently provided gauzy coverage of Mr. Netanyahu and his wife, suppressing or softening critical reports, padding inconsequential items with flattering photographs and acceding to hundreds of the couple's demands.
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But to the extent that the president's lawyers choose to make their arguments for the rest of the trial in mostly legal terms, they will be acceding to the requirements of the institutional setting in which they are operating.
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Some suspect he is posturing in advance of the summit meeting, as well as a separate meeting this coming week with South Korea's president, and has no real intention of acceding to demands that he relinquish his nuclear weapons.
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Mr. Kerry bristled at the suggestion that by agreeing to the cessation of hostilities in the next week he was acceding to Mr. Assad's recent territorial gains, or setting the stage for Mr. Assad to create a rump Syrian state.
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It also suggests countries in the region aren't acceding to requests from the United Nations, United States and other officials to tone down their rhetoric and refocus on other issues, like peacefully ending Syria's civil war and dealing with ISIS.
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Come November, will we face the terrible choice of supporting the Democratic effort to lock in place the identity and distribution agenda it has developed over the years or acceding to the right's new embrace of these terrible leftist ideas?
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In the 1990s, Adams made an admirable pivot, participating in peace talks and ultimately acceding to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, after which the IRA ended its campaign, eventually formally declaring it over in 2005 and decommissioning all its weapons.
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Bill Taylor, the US's chief envoy in Ukraine, also testified to Congress that Gordon Sondland, the US's ambassador to the EU, told him "everything" — meaning military aid and a White House meeting for Zelensky — depended on Ukraine acceding to Trump's demands.
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And as the byproduct of an independent animation studio fighting desperately against the Disney monolith, even while acceding to the formula Disney built, Thumbelina is fascinating — especially now that, with the advent of Disney+, Bluth's great escape attempt has finally failed.
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I am acceding to all their food orders right now, within reason, and thank goodness for this piece from Virginia Sole-Smith, reassuring me that it's OK if my kids have an all-cereal-and-quesadilla diet for a few weeks.
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They came in and made the case, I felt more strongly for net neutrality after they came in than before because it's clear they want to maximize their profits by squeezing people who don't have much power and acceding to people who do.
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Republicans close to Cruz hope that he will be validated by history, and that should Trump be thumped in November -- as the recent spate of polls suggests he will -- Cruz would be positioned as a soothsayer untainted by acceding to Trump's demands.
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"Please do not squander it by acceding to NRA-backed proposals or other weak ideas that will do nothing to stop the continuing, horrific spread of gun violence and may, in some cases, actually make our communities less safe," the letter said.
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Whether that meant adopting Hapsburg military standards, acceding rights to local aristocrats or accepting the economic expertise and political contacts of former Austro-Hungarian officials, cutting loose from the past was never going to be as easy as the nationalists had claimed.
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The timetable for opening arguments emerged as a chief point of contention during negotiations over the terms of Trump's trial earlier this week, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eventually acceding to pressure from Democratic and centrist Republican senators seeking an expanded calendar.
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On Wednesday — day one of prosecutors' opening arguments — House Democrats laid out a broad yet detailed overview of the president's scheme to pressure Ukraine into acceding to his personal demands while withholding military aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine's president.
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This week, after congressional Democrats called his bluff, threatening a government shutdown rather than acceding to his bluster, he slunk away from a demand that Congress start paying for his wasteful border wall — you know, the one Mexico has refused to pay for.
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For the past several months, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has investigated Trump&aposs efforts to strongarm Ukraine into acceding to his political demands while withholding vital military aid and a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately sought.
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Montenegro, a small Balkan country that has doggedly pursued Euro-Atlantic integration ever since declaring independence in 2006, is now on the cusp of joining NATO despite a Russian campaign of subversion designed to sow chaos and prevent it from acceding to the Alliance.
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Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and , are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found.
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White House officials said on Monday that China could win relief from the tariffs by acceding to the administration's trade demands, including allowing American companies greater access to the China market and dropping its requirement that American companies hand over valuable technology to Chinese partners.
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He resigned from the company just 15 months later after acceding to their wishes and selling a big chunk of it to Sirius XM.In September, meanwhile, Box, headed by cofounder Aaron Levie, found itself in the sights of Starboard Value, an activist hedge fund.
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While there is debate about how directly she was involved in that effort — whether she was actively driving it or simply acceding to the strategy — the accusations that she was tainted by the exercise have dogged her and undercut her ability to speak out.
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A survey conducted in 2015 by the Centre for the Study of Islam and Society, a think-tank in Jakarta, found that the proliferation of sharia-based ordinances was largely the result of local politicians acceding to the demands of conservative Muslim groups in exchange for votes.
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But after a long and tumultuous career fueled by what even amateur psychologists could positively diagnose as a chronic inner turbulence, we suspect this was A-Rod merely acceding to the franchise's wishes to move beyond him without stirring up memories of his contentious and litigious past.
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Iranian leaders have insisted they have no intention of rewarding Mr. Trump's decision to leave the nuclear accord by acceding to his demands or even opening a dialogue; just this week, Danish authorities accused Iran of trying to assassinate an Arab separatist leader living in Denmark.
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A cascade of witness testimony since the inquiry launched revealed that the phone call was just one data point in a months-long campaign by Trump and his allies to force Ukraine into acceding to his demands while withholding vital military aid and a White House meeting.
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The U.S. draft reform posted on the WTO website said current and future trade negotiations should withhold such special treatment from countries classified as "high income" by the World Bank, OECD members or acceding members, G20 nations and any state accounting for 0.5 percent or more of world trade.
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Instead of acceding to Western demands in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere, Putin's first option for dealing with oil at below $32 a barrel is and will be to impose major domestic spending cuts, said Robert Legvold, the Marshall D. Shulman professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University.
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WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found.
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But as Schiff and the six other impeachment managers detailed, the phone call was just one data point in what turned out to be a months-long effort by Trump and his allies to leverage US foreign policy to bully Ukraine into acceding to the president's personal, political demands.
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But Schiff and the six other impeachment managers detailed that the phone call was just one data point in what turned out to be a months-long effort by Trump and his allies to leverage US foreign policy to bully Ukraine into acceding to the president's personal, political demands.
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Women's health and HIV/AIDS organizations felt, justifiably, that the global gag rule made it impossible to engage in family planning and HIV prevention efforts, and many American groups that accepted US government funds after acceding to the rules were denied access to international meetings, shunned by counterpart non-American groups.
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In the draft reform posted on the WTO website, it said current and future trade negotiations should withhold such special treatment from countries classified as "high income" by the World Bank, OECD members or acceding members, G20 nations and any state accounting for 0.5 percent or more of world trade.
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Though the whistleblower's complaint was the match that sparked the impeachment inquiry, witness testimony from more than a dozen administration officials and career diplomats revealed the phone call was just one data point in a monthslong campaign by Trump and his allies to bully Ukraine into acceding to his demands.
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Though Kim declared the site's closure was due to his country's success in its nuclear quest rather than acceding to global pressure, many in the international community saw his commitment to no longer test nuclear weapons underground as a positive step in the recent thaw in relations between North Korea and its adversaries.
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Since even before acceding to the throne on the death of his father, Hirohito, in 1989, Akihito and his common-born wife, Michiko, have shown a desire to bring the monarchy down to the level of ordinary folk, sometimes literally—for instance, kneeling on the ground as they console victims of Japan's frequent natural disasters.
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In the past few decades, Congress has increasingly ceded its powers, including acceding to filing Freedom of Information Act requests to get information from executive agencies -- a law that was designed for public access to information -- thereby allowing agency officials to determine what information members of Congress and their staff are allowed to see.
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"Given the partisan nature of the delegation, and my continued concerns regarding Giluiani's pressure campaign, I began to believe that it would be important for me to travel back to Ukraine to express to the new government the dangers of acceding to Giuliani's requests and getting Ukraine dragged into American domestic politics," Murphy wrote.
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Documents and testimony from more than a dozen witnesses eventually revealed that the July phone conversation was just one data point in a months-long effort by Trump and his allies, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to leverage the weight of the US government and foreign policy to force Ukraine into acceding to his political demands.
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Documents and testimony from more than a dozen witnesses eventually showed that the July phone conversation was just one data point in a monthslong effort by Trump and his allies, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to leverage the weight of the US government and foreign policy to force Ukraine into acceding to his political demands.
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Then, last week, a slate of career foreign-service officers gave damning testimony that the phone call was just one data point in a months-long pressure campaign in which the president leveraged US foreign policy, froze military aid, and held up a White House meeting to strongarm a critical ally into acceding to his personal demands.
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In fact, by acceding to the wishes of his colleagues and heeding their call to become speaker of the U.S. House, Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE most likely gave up any dream of someday residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Indeed, analysts quickly speculated about the loopholes through which Mr. Netanyahu could slip free of his new commitment: dragging his feet on the promise to avoid interfering with a potential Trump peace proposal; arguing that changing circumstances made it no longer workable; or acceding only to the subtlest incremental applications of Israeli law to the territories, but nothing that equated with formal annexation.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), a former committee chairman, slammed Grassley for acceding to pressure from Republicans and reversing the blue-slip tradition that had allowed senators to block judicial nominees from their home states.
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By reopening negotiations for a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), which would include many provisions — like acceding to the global Government Procurement Agreement, as China promised to do when it was granted membership in the World Trade Organization in 2001 — that protect U.S. companies against unfair trade practices, President Trump could move China to return to the rules-based trading system that has underpinned American growth since the 1950s.
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But while the match that sparked the impeachment inquiry was a whistleblower's complaint about that phone call, a cascade of testimony from administration officials and career diplomats has since indicated the phone call to be just one data point in a months-long campaign by Trump and his allies to bully Ukraine into acceding to his demands and to hold up vital military aid and a White House meeting while doing so.
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