Astralis continued pushing back round after round, beating back Virtus.
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Meanwhile, two top contenders are beating back at controversies. Sen.
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But beating back the hospital consolidation wave won't be easy.
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They did the same after beating back al-Qaeda in 2007.
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Similarly, beating back the ego is a constant practice, like meditation.
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So despite all the success beating back polio, some major challenges remain.
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In a presidential election year, you're beating back really bad political ideas.
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But Worley ran for another term — beating back the entire slate Jones supported.
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Instead, Warren and Sanders largely stood together, beating back moderate critics all night.
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Since then, the secular government has made major inroads beating back terror groups.
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Beating back Zika will require openness to innovation in both technology and policy.
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Montana's Bullock is beating back criticisms of his use of a state aircraft.
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In-home antibiotic IVs got to work beating back a more recent infection.
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The new data suggest that Africa is on the cusp of beating back HIV.
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"This election is about beating back bigotry and hate," Sellers said in an interview.
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He claimed that the Saudi-led coalition has made progress in beating back the rebellion.
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When it comes to beating back climate change, the big ideas get the most buzz.
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He could have lived there and gone to school and kept on beating back wildfires.
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Beating back discrimination will require hard work, including political organization and one-on-one persuasion.
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Yet that reticence did not dampen Mr. McConnell's zeal for beating back the impeachment push.
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Weeks later, Italy formed its own Adriatic Alliance, focused on beating back migration from north Africa.
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It even had some small victories, like GitHub beating back the biggest DDoS attack in history.
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Its ideas too often feel stale, its nostrums unsuited to beating back the authoritarian populist tide.
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As a public figure, Shatner is often beating back fake accounts on various social media networks.
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Since then, the secular government has made major inroads beating back terror groups in an Asian nation.
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Zhang said the authorities had also maintained "high pressure" on beating back militants in the past year.
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Na'Vi continued to win rounds, beating back VP left and right, although the rounds stayed relatively close.
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The D.E.A. and the Justice Department accepted the change after beating back what they considered more problematic versions.
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Ted Cruz has won a second term in the Senate, beating back an intense challenge from Democrat Beto O'Rourke.
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Not only are these items good for beating back enemies, some are required to get into and through dungeons.
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Nonetheless, Sierra Leone is doing better at beating back neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) than almost anywhere else in Africa.
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SK lost the next two rounds before turning the tide and beating back VP for a much-needed win.
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Bruce Rauner hung on, beating back a far-right challenger who ran ads that even the state GOP rejected.
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"He shared with me the same vision" of beating back an onslaught of crime, Mr. Giuliani, a Republican, said.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) secured another term as Democratic leader on Wednesday, beating back a rare challenge, from Rep.
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But balancing such aspirations with beating back the constant barrage of anti-democratic legislation from the right poses a challenge.
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As Pesci looks at them go, he expresses this defeat without words or movements, without slouching or beating back tears.
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In the first vote since that referendum, Erdogan emerged as winner with 52% of the vote, beating back two challengers.
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The Senate debated each motion in closed session, beating back an effort by Senate Democrats to keep the proceedings public.
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But beating back the lobbyists — including those for Donald Trump's real estate industry — would take everything the administration could muster.
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A pro-Europe candidate won Austria's largely ceremonial presidency in December, beating back a strong challenge from right-wing populists.
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Pundits have repeatedly declared his candidacy dead, but he has hung on grimly, beating back challenges from within his party.
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In our work around the world, we have seen firsthand that government funding is absolutely essential to beating back health threats.
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His argument that he is stronger than everybody else was enough to drown out Walker's case about beating back labor unions.
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Martha Roby won a runoff election Tuesday night, beating back a challenge animated by her 2016 criticism of Donald Trump's candidacy.
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Troy Balderson claimed victory – and he appeared to be inching closer to beating back a challenge by insurgent Democrat Danny O'Connor.
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But he also had a reality check for enraged Democrats, beating back some of the most explosive reports about the firing.
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Bernie Sanders, commanded the stage, beating back attacks from moderates who were clamoring for attention to boost their low-polling campaigns.
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The administration wants to appear as an intellectual force beating back destabilizing waves of political correctness that have rocked college campuses.
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But it also might rile up regulators and politicians who already see it as beating back competition through acquisitions and feature cloning.
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While union leaders say these posters insult workers' intelligence, there is no denying that Delta has had considerable success beating back unionization.
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Some reprieve Saturday, rebels finally broke through Aleppo's siege, beating back regime forces on the ground and breaking through the main blockade.
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Citizens in all of the American republics should hope that a real commitment to beating back corruption will emerge from this meeting.
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And in Mississippi, Republicans had held onto the governor's office, beating back a veteran Democrat's bid for another potential election-night stunner.
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Democrats held firm in supporting the president and killed the measure by talking it to death, beating back four separate cloture motions.
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But the Republican legislature still pushed onward in the hope of beating back Obamacare's unlikely victory last fall in this conservative state.
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Strangely Sierra Leone, one of the world's poorest countries, is doing better at beating back such diseases than almost anywhere else in Africa.
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What we do know for sure is that Rubio's strategy for beating back the most repugnant aspects of Trumpism is to imitate them.
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Vern Buchanan will win re-election in Florida's 16th District, beating back a challenge from Democratic nominee David Shapiro, NBC News has projected.
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Those efforts have failed, and in June, an appeals court upheld the FCC's order, beating back a legal challenge from the telecom industry.
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The YPG is the main element of the SDF, which has been a leading U.S. ally in beating back IS in the region.
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They united with the goal of beating back some of the toughest aspects of austerity, while balancing the books to meet eurozone rules.
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But the Republican legislature is still pushing onward in the hope of beating back Obamacare's unlikely victory last fall in this conservative state.
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It's my only way of beating back the temptation, and that it why I have to clip my nails during your sister's wedding.
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The military has made major progress in beating back the group, raiding its forest hide-outs and seizing terrain once controlled by militants.
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So a terrible-tasting plant, one usually avoided, has a better-than-average chance of beating back whatever is making that creature ill.
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Soybean futures were trading close to unchanged, with concerns about trade negotiations between the United States and China beating back any rally attempts.
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The alien invasion simulator puts players in control of a clandestine task force responsible for beating back the incursion and protecting humanity from abduction.
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Still, beating back zombies and avoiding starvation seem like the most plausible scenarios, they said, proving once again that medieval times were no joke.
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Beyond the failures of the Tripoli government, Haftar has been especially effective at beating back terrorist efforts to achieve a strong foothold in Libya.
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Germany's governing center-right parties are beating back the leftist challengers, and are firmly on course for a resounding victory in next September's elections.
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Trump's agreement with Erdogan also undercut a central administration goal of containing and beating back Iran -- a primary focus for both Bolton and Pompeo.
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Michael Guest of Mississippi's third district and Steven Palazzo of the fourth district easily beating back multiple primary challengers from within their own parties.
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During the interview, she appeared to acknowledge that the Justice Department may no longer be on the front lines of beating back this scourge.
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Mnuchin was beating back demands for the release of Trump's tax returns, after the President bucked tradition and refused to share them with Americans.
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Maybe just capable of getting out of bed in the morning and beating back all the bullshit that comes at you for another day.
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It can hire lobbyists and litigators in multiple markets and persist until it succeeds in beating back legal challenges and seeing regulations made more friendly.
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Officials fighting a massive California wildfire lifted a number of mandatory evacuation orders Friday after what they described as a successful day beating back the flames.
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The iPhone 7 is supposed to repel dust, and I can only assume that as we all poked at these devices, they were beating back particulates.
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Firefighters are steadily beating back several massive autumn blazes in California, as heavy smoke from the wildfires blankets much of the state, creating unhealthy air quality.
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Ultimately, the best weapon for beating back the ill-conceived rhetoric of the Yoshiaki Nishimuras of the world is more movies made by more diverse filmmakers.
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House appropriators on Tuesday advanced a transportation spending bill, after beating back a Democratic amendment that would have stripped controversial trucking policy riders from the measure.
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He pinpointed his receivers like a sharpshooter at a carnival arcade, beating back the Eagles' celebrations each time they seemed to have put the Pats away.
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His reaction after beating back a Democratic primary challenge in September from Cynthia Nixon could be summed up in four tidy words: I told you so.
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Kentucky Democrats are keeping hold of the state House, beating back a GOP effort to control every arm of the state's government for the first time.
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While big companies like Coke and Pepsi were involved in beating back levies on food and drink, he insisted those efforts were not solely about sugary drinks.
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Beating back Hitler was no easy feat—but the need to do so was easier to explain than why universal health care requires a health insurance mandate.
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Supermarket giant Kroger is gaining market share in several regions through acquisitions like Harris Teeter and more recently Roundy's, as well as by beating back Wal-Mart.
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In layered pink costumes of hooded jackets over long johns (designed by Chris Stamp), the dancers seem to be beating back or taking cover from unseen threats.
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His home state is on the ballot – and his surrogates have predicted a dominant showing there, beating back suggestions that he could lose on his home court.
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Even if only the established news media still controlled the main political narrative in this country, beating back Clinton's potential attention-grabbing chances wouldn't be impossible for Trump.
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During the primaries, they ran to be delegates specifically on behalf of Trump and have been instrumental in beating back efforts to keep him from securing the nomination.
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As for examples of companies beating back the government, he notes that Uber's win in New York City may have made its road ahead easier around the world.
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Troy Balderson appeared to be inching closer to beating back a challenge by insurgent Democrat Danny O'Connor in Ohio&aposs special election for a vacant House seat Tuesday.
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Since then, the secular government has made major inroads beating back terror groups in an Asian nation where about 87% of its roughly 255 million people are Muslim.
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Iger sees similar threats everywhere: ABC, Pixar and Marvel are in many ways incumbents beating back insurgents who lead with an "everything to gain, nothing to lose" mentality.
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What Trump did say is that the US will "fight to win," focus on beating back the Taliban and other terrorists groups and not engage in nation-building.
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They were tasked with beating back IS, which had blitzed through eastern Syria and northern Iraq a year earlier, capturing a swathe of land the size of Britain.
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He has spent much of his time in the job feuding with the White House -- and beating back report after report that he won't even last the year.
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Rep. Vern BuchananVernon Gale BuchananMORE (R-Fla.) secured a seventh term in the House on Tuesday, beating back a challenge from Democrat David Shapiro in Florida's 16th District.
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Federal legalization would mean not just beating back the anti-weed lobby but also sorting out a number of issues around permitting, safety, taxes, and other logistical matters.
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With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad beating back the insurgency against him, now could be the opportunity for Assad and Russia to show the Iranians out, Katz said.
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Government social insurance programs will be crucial to protect families and businesses from economic ruin, much as government leadership will be crucial in beating back the virus's spread.
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John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, a rare Democratic governor in the South, was re-elected for a second term, beating back a challenger heavily supported by President Trump.
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Monday, May 15 With the Comey explosion starting to ebb, the White House was focused on beating back palace intrigue stories about a rumored West Wing shake-up.
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Mr. Ubl (pronounced YOU-bul) said the drug lobby had been effective at beating back proposals like allowing the government to negotiate drug prices or import medicines from Canada.
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Republicans held on to a Kansas House seat in the first congressional election since Trump's victory, beating back a spirited Democratic campaign hoping for a big anti-Trump backlash.
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The cyclical nature of beating back small enemies, taking out some Legion hives and Extractors, killing a Prime, and then going after a Dreadnought is easy to sink into.
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This assumption rests on the twin premises that a president's legacy is measured mostly by policy achievements, and that Republicans will have near-total success in beating back Obama's.
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But the party has become more adept at beating back primary candidates they either view as anthema to general election voters or likely to spark a fierce intraparty fight.
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Why this matters: The conflict puts the U.S. in a tricky spot, given it wants to focus on beating back Iran and relies on the Qataris for an airbase.
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Things were more optimistic for Republicans in Mississippi, where they held on to the governor's office, beating back a veteran Democrat's bid for another potential election-night stunner. 113.
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More precise sales figures are hard to come by, in part because the N.R.A. has been so effective at beating back attempts to shed any transparency on the business.
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After France and Germany gave the European establishment a breather by beating back far-right wing insurgencies, it is Italy's unpredictable and angry Five Star Movement that worries them.
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The legal threat is real: Xarxio, Novartis's version of Amgen's blockbuster that prevents infections in cancer patients, hit the U.S. market last year only after beating back a legal challenge.
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Civilian vigilante militia members posted in the city to guard against Boko Haram look out for her, beating back children who flock to her as she goes about her work.
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Kathy Hochul, the lieutenant governor of New York, prevailed in the Democratic primary on Thursday, beating back a spirited challenge from Jumaane Williams, a three-term New York City councilman.
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That's partly because the music they make, filled with urgent lyrics about loyalty and beating back darkness, feels laser-targeted at young people searching for answers, meaning, community or solace.
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That is why our democracy depends so urgently on voters — in the upcoming elections and again in 2020 -- beating back the billionaires who manipulate our politics for their own gain.
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Warren has an advantage over Lewis, West and Dahlberg in that he knew how the '30s turned out: Democratic capitalism survived, beating back the challenges of totalitarianism and of Communism.
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Mr. Trump's other problems: Our team of reporters looks at how, over two years of beating back investigations, the president has exposed himself to a widening obstruction of justice inquiry.
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Cloud20 had a decent advantage and went in for the kill, beating back TSM in their own base, taking out the nexus turrets while grabbing kills and burning down the nexus.
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Sanders found himself at the center of the firestorm this past week, beating back allegations from his more centrist opponents that he was changing his plan to appease some union supporters.
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They described Mr. Trump as an inspirational figure who is undoing Mr. Obama's legacy and beating back the perceived threat of Muslim and Latino immigrants, whom they denounced in prejudiced terms.
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Even if Mr. Cooper was to succeed in beating back these efforts to weaken the governorship, he would assume power with Republican veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate.
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On April 3, 2001, Mr. Cheney settled his first tie, beating back a Democratic plan to reduce the president's proposed tax cuts to cover the cost of Medicare prescription drug coverage.
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The spat comes as RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has been playing defense for more than a week, beating back charges from Trump that the party has "rigged" the nominating fight against him.
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Separately on Tuesday, SunEdison won U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval for more time to file a plan for emerging from bankruptcy, beating back an objection to an extension by its unsecured creditors committee.
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The move came after independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, who favors keeping France inside the European Union, was elected the country's president, easily beating back a challenge from EU critic Marine Le Pen.
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Trump has repeatedly put his press operation in the difficult position of defending or beating back questions about controversial actions he has taken or statements he has made without offering any evidence.
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His message of beating back attacks from labor unions and other powerful liberal interests failed to break through in an election that Mr. Trump turned into a repudiation of conventional Republican politics.
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I racked up more vetoes than any other Montana governor in at least the last 42 years by repeatedly beating back Republican attacks on worker rights, civil rights, public education, and public lands.
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Manafort has been beating back reports from multiple media outlets in recent days over his ethics, which have been egged on by a Clinton campaign eager to highlight Trump's ties to the Kremlin.
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Matthew Dowd, the former W. strategist who became an independent, says Hillary got it backward: She should have run as a woman in 2008, when she was beating back a feminized antiwar candidate.
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The campaign continues, but this time around it turns on health care -- beating back the Senate GOP bill while building up support for the single-payer plan Sanders will likely introduce in August.
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LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn strengthened his grip on Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday, beating back a challenge to his leadership by members of Parliament with increased support from the party's rank and file.
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That campaign was allegedly aided by threats to withhold military aid and refuse a White House visit from Zelensky, even as his country is desperately beating back Russian aggression in its Donbass region.
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Ryan wasn't fooling anyone with that line, but if he truly believes that, he's definitely in danger of not beating back the serious challenge he faces to keep his own House seat this November.
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The Distilled Spirits Council has also celebrated gains in beating back tax hikes on the state and local level and making the retail sale of alcohol available seven days a week in five states.
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Temer's success in beating back accusations had bolstered bets that he would be able to return focus to his market-friendly proposals to overhaul Brazil's tax and social security policies, tackling a record deficit.
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Beating Back Hate in Charlottesville: Richard Spencer, the self-proclaimed white-supremacist and originator of the term "alt-right," led a group of equally racist shitheads in a protest on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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As America learned in the battle against HIV/AIDS, beating back a dangerous infectious disease requires an accurate count that shows where and when infections and deaths are occurring and who is most at risk.
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And he got one, demonstrating his appeal with working-class white voters in Michigan, a state Mr. Trump has claimed he could win in the general election, while beating back especially stiff challenges from Gov.
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The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee are expressing supreme confidence that the platform and the convention rules will pass with ease after beating back challenges from insurgent delegates on both fronts last week.
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Matthew Futterman: I'm not sure what to read into this, but Jorge Sampaoli, the Argentina coach who has apparently been beating back a player uprising, has opted to coach this game in a track suit.
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With nearly all the votes counted, the National Party took 22004 percent of the vote, beating back a late surge by the center-left Labour Party, which received 22014 percent, according to the Electoral Commission.
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In Yemen, Saudi Arabia is attacking the Ansar Allah group, the one force that has proved adept at beating back Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most lethal of the global terrorist network's franchises.
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In countries where press freedom is restricted or under considerable threat — including Russia, China, Turkey, Libya, Poland, Hungary, Thailand, Somalia and others — political leaders have invoked "fake news" as justification for beating back media scrutiny.
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From there, the plot of "SB-129" heads back toward normalcy fairly quickly, with Squidward beating back against the current of madness to find the time machine and return home to present-day Bikini Bottom.
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Beating back Ebola is among the few tangible achievements that senior United Nations officials cite as an example of global cooperation, though the World Health Organization has been widely criticized for failing to act quickly enough.
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It turned out to be a very effective way to arrest criminals and, in Mr. Bratton's telling, was the start of a policing strategy that has succeeded in beating back crime for more than 20 years.
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What the Georgia special election shows is that House and Senate Republicans still have powerful tools for beating back Democratic challengers, including appeals to an in-group identity and an avalanche of dark-money attack ads.
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Kalanick focused on beating back regulators, from San Francisco to Paris, who insisted that if Uber cars were going to function like taxis they had to adhere to the rules and licensing requirements that cabbies faced.
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It is also the first time in decades that rival corporate law firms, more accustomed to beating back regulation than championing it, have joined forces to file litigation nationwide around such a polarizing social issue as guns.
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Although the company Recent Cutbacks built this 55-minute show for adults, it's about a puppet boy beating back a pair of idiot burglars, so children 8 and older will get a kick out of it too.
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She secured the Democratic nomination in July only after beating back a surprisingly stout challenge from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who appealed to young voters and mustered the kind of excitement that Clinton sometimes failed to generate.
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The House GOP has selected two of President Donald Trump's fiercest allies to serve as the top Republicans on a pair of key congressional committees, placing the lawmakers directly on the frontlines of beating back Democratic oversight efforts.
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The YPG is the main element of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has been a leading U.S. ally in beating back Islamic State in the region, and has kept thousands of jihadists in jails across northeastern Syria.
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She was thinking of the setting of her fourth novel, "A Boy in Winter," of Ukraine in November 1941, when Hitler's forces were sweeping through the countryside, beating back Stalin's Red Army and conducting mass executions and deportations.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Roger Federer won the inaugural Laver Cup for Team Europe on Sunday, beating back a fierce challenge from players from the rest of the world to claim the trophy in a dramatic final match of the weekend.
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Both teams won their first-round series in six games, with the Penguins beating back the rival Flyers by winning all three games in Philadelphia and the Capitals surmounting an 0-2 deficit with four straight victories over Columbus.
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If you consider its great animating energies since the New Deal — first, anti-labor; then later, anti–civil rights; and finally, anti-feminism — conservatives have achieved a considerable amount of success in either destroying or beating back these movements.
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But he offered few details, sticking to broad outlines -- beating back the Taliban, annihilating terrorists and cracking down on Pakistan's harboring of militants -- that shed little daylight between the current and future US approaches to the 16-year war.
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However, the decapitation strategy — which has been employed by the Obama administration via drone strikes and raids against leaders both in and outside areas of active hostilities — has produced little effect in beating back the strength of terrorist organizations.
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I'm a historian of Europe, and the experience I'm bringing to bear is what happened to many European democracies and what people I admire have to say about how they resisted and what they learned when beating back authoritarianism.
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ST. LOUIS — Beating back a liberal suburban groundswell that proved lethal to many House Republicans, Josh Hawley claimed victory here on Tuesday over Senator Claire McCaskill, toppling one of Senate Democrats' last remaining moderate voices, The Associated Press said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Ralph Northam was elected on Tuesday as Virginia's next governor, U.S. media projected, handing his party a sorely needed victory and beating back a challenge from a Republican opponent who embraced President Donald Trump's combative campaign style.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was re-elected to her post on Wednesday, beating back a challenger who accused Democrats of ignoring the working-class Americans who flocked to Republican Donald Trump in elections this month.
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The deal capped months of effort by ASE to wrestle control of SPIL first by buying SPIL shares in the open market and then beating back rival suitors Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co and China's state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm Blue states angry over SALT cap should give fiscal sobriety a try Illinois Dems offer bill to raise SALT deduction cap MORE (R-Ill.), who chairs the Subcommittee on Health, aimed at beating back the opioid crisis.
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The fact that a big bank is pushing the concept cannot come as good news to some executives in the credit reporting industry, who fought state laws that brought freezes into existence and have spent years beating back other regulatory efforts.
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Wathiq al-Hashimi, the head of the Iraqi Group for Strategic Studies, believes that, despite the challenges, Mr. Abadi has the best chances of victory for a simple reason: the optimism he restored to Iraqis after beating back the Islamic State.
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More typically, however, poetry is beating back its own obscurity: People may not feel strongly enough to hate it and instead see it as something simply on the margins, as irrelevant or intimidating or a ghost of their long-ago youth.
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Cuomo and Nixon sparred over their visions for the state, from health care to how to fix New York City's failing subways, while Cuomo pitched himself -- and his experience -- as a vital tool in beating back President Donald Trump's agenda.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was re-elected to her post on Wednesday, beating back a challenger who accused Democrats of ignoring the working-class Americans who flocked to Republican Donald Trump in elections this month.
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Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions captivated Washington Tuesday, beating back rumors of a private meeting with Russia's ambassador to the US and mounting a defense for President Donald Trump, one week after former FBI Director James Comey artfully unloaded on both men.
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He spent much of his time atop the polls beating back questions over the veracity of his inspirational back-story, and he failed to convince voters of his foreign policy acumen at a time when the Republican debate turned to national security.
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On a night when those competing emotions coursed through a packed-to-the-rafters Wrigley Field, the Cubs kept their hopes of a World Series title alive Sunday by beating back the Cleveland Indians and their own nerves with a 21-23 victory.
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Since then, the world has dedicated enormous amounts of time and money to beating back the disease, with deaths plummeting by 60 percent in places with malaria in recent years, according to the W.H.O. But in Venezuela, the clock is running backward.
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Laura Lane and Dontai Smalls, UPS This dynamic duo has been fighting to protect air cargo interests in an air traffic control reform bill, beating back against amendments that would make cargo plane pilots subject to the same standards as passenger plane pilots.
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At private dinner parties and on the suddenly overflowing conference circuit, billionaires like Tom Steyer and the people who advise the rich are swapping notes, beating back viral rumors and trying to understand whether these tax write-offs are indeed too good to be true.
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For years, Walker -- who has won three straight gubernatorial elections in blue-leaning Wisconsin -- has looked so good on paper: His story of beating back labor unions, sticking to conservative principles and winning in a swing state is the stuff nominees are made of.
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His work lately has mostly revolved around protecting the investment tax credit (ITC) that provides incentives to build solar power capacity and beating back proposals that could hurt the market for rooftop solar via amendments to the federal law that dictates how states regulate electricity.
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It worked there as a way to try to jar Americans out of a post-Cold War complacency, a belief that we might have done some bad things in that period, but it was all justified in the name of beating back the Soviet menace.
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Then, after the thing, during which I would typically appear pretty calm and capable, there would be a second cascade: reviewing the thing over and over to evaluate my part, waves of self doubt and beating back negative thoughts of shame, guilt and remorse.
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In 2014, after beating back an Islamist advance, the 3,000-strong French force — which is not part of MINUSMA — then shifted its focus to keeping down the rebellion in the north and rooting out Al Qaeda and other cells that were still staging attacks.
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But in beating back such criticism, Trump has sought to convince voters that, despite his multiple flirtations with running for president over the last two decades, he never planned to run for president, "Don't forget, I was never going to run for office," he has said.
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Cheri BustosCheryl (Cheri) Lea BustosDCCC is out of step with Democratic values Climate report makes agri-business a target Farmers have to be part of climate solutions MORE (D-Ill.) easily coasted to a fourth term in 2018, beating back a challenge from Republican Bill Fawell.
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If we do not succeed in beating back the far left and far right before they take the nations of Europe on this reckless experiment, it will end the way such rash action always does in history: at best, in disillusion; at worst, in rancorous division.
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Biden's trip, several months in the planning, is a sign of the progress Washington believes Iraqi forces have made in beating back the militants over the past year and its hope that the northern city of Mosul can be recaptured before U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office in January.
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But his forceful choice of words sent a clear signal that the emboldened chairman and his committee are charging ahead with a process that could lead to impeachment votes later in the year, while beating back liberal criticisms that the panel has been too timid in its investigative approach.
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He arrived in southern Afghanistan as part of a surge of C.I.A. officers to the country in early 2010, at the same time that President Obama had ordered the deployment of tens of thousands of additional military service members in the hope of beating back a resurgent Taliban.
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Xi would "argue that the sacrifice they are being asked to make is worth the broader victory in beating back what he will undoubtedly be describing domestically as a broad American containment policy, an attempt by President Trump to bully China and to keep China down in its place," said Adelman.
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The 2018 government funding bill is rightly celebrated by clean energy advocates for beating back dramatic cuts proposed by the Trump administration to programs like ARPA-E and DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, but there has been little mention of dedicated, direct funding to help train workers.
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Beating back the world's richest man is an adrenaline shot for activists, lawmakers and ordinary people across the country who are sick of a status quo in which states grovel before the corporate masters of the universe, competing to see who can come up with the most expensive package of goodies for them.
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It's about beating back the challenge from feminists and people of color demanding a seat at the table; it is about showing that white men in power are not going anywhere — that they will not listen, will not budge, and will not give ground to #MeToo or the Black Lives Matter movement.
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As Warren and Sanders prepare now to take the debate stage in Detroit on Tuesday night, both candidates face pressure from the movement they helped build to stay focused on a bigger task: making the case for progressive governance and beating back the party's moderate wing, led by former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Directed by Zhang Yimou, from a script credited (absurdly, given its generic contours) to a half-dozen writers, "The Great Wall" perhaps inevitably sags a bit toward the end, as it seems to be making up elements on the fly in an effort to craft a credible way of beating back the slavering horde.
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Dave LoebsackDavid (Dave) Wayne LoebsackHouse Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 23 The House Republicans and Democrats not seeking reelection in 2020 GOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions MORE (D-Iowa) secured a seventh term in the House last year, beating back a challenge from Republican Christopher Peters.
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His argument that his panel effectively began an impeachment inquiry without officially voting to launch one sent a clear signal that the committee intends to decide for itself whether to send impeachment articles to the full House, while beating back liberal criticisms that the panel has been too timid in its investigative approach (The Hill).
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Beating back efforts by Sanders' supporters to eliminate superdelegates at July's convention, the DNC launched a commission to study the issue -- and started with the recommendation that members of Congress, governors and other elected officials retain their status, but that other party leaders lose it, potentially reducing the number of superdelegates by two-thirds.
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The presence of seemingly everybody from the Avengers movies, outside of Thor and Hulk (who are far, far away when the movie begins), could suggest that Civil War is sort of an Avengers 2.5, an installment between installments that hangs out with the characters at a time when they're not beating back hordes of space aliens.
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Scurrying to reassure allies Trump's announcement, apparently made impulsively during a conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also undercut a central administration goal of containing and beating back Iran -- a primary focus for Bolton and Pompeo, who are now "scurrying to ease the concerns of our allies in the region," said Pregent, a former intelligence adviser to Gen.
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Read more: Politicians can't keep up with all the Facebook death threats in Czech Republic Babis's populist Action of Dissatisfied Citizens party won a landslide victory in October parliamentary elections on a platform of opposing European Union-mandated refugee quotas, running the country like a business, and stamping out corruption, despite Babis beating back his own fraud charges.
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On screen and on the page, she has been a continual presence in the lives of her fans: a comedic talent and the author of several viscerally revealing memoirs in which she casts herself as a survivor, beating back demons that include a codependent relationship with an alcoholic mother and a severe episode of postpartum depression.
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In a little-noticed strategy document published last month to guide law enforcement on emerging threats and in recent public appearances by Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, the department is trying to project a new vigilance about violent white nationalism, beating back criticism that the agency has spent a decade playing down the issue.
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Amazon donated $1.45 million to a political action committee backed by Seattle's chamber of commerce, called Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy (CASE), in the hope of beating back progressive politicians who blame Amazon's growth — and the dizzying real estate frenzy that has accompanied it — for much of the city's ills, which include rising homelessness rates and soaring rents.
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Sen. Tom CarperThomas (Tom) Richard CarperAmerica is in desperate need of infrastructure investment: Senate highway bill a step in the right direction FARA should apply to Confucius Institutes The 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal MORE (D-Del.) coasted to a fourth term on Tuesday, beating back challenges from three other candidates who had sought to replace him.
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Matt CartwrightMatthew (Matt) Alton CartwrightAssault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress The 2023 House Dems from Trump districts who support assault weapons ban House Dems up funding for science agencies, ignoring proposed Trump cuts MORE (D-Pa.) won a fourth term in the House in November after beating back a challenge from Republican John Chrin in Pennsylvania's newly formed 8th District.
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One is aimed at unifying a fractured party in the wake of a divisive and drawn out Democratic primary, while the other finds her constantly beating back offensives from GOP rival Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (R-Colo.), who attended the meeting, said lawmakers and donors were generally upbeat about their prospects for beating back the Democratic effort to recapture Senate control.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is beating back criticism over his terrible May fundraising report, claiming he has "unlimited" cash on hand to fund his campaign because he can put up as much of his own money as he wants.
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But who couldn't at least crack a smile at the girls team versus boys team contest on display, with the three female justices beating back the gun club's argument that a constitutional wrong remained to be remedied while Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch creatively battled the obvious conclusion that because the plaintiffs got what they wanted when New York City amended a regulation to which they objected, the case is moot.
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