The change to a biweekly schedule risks further blunting momentum.
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Yet Twitter itself is blunting its effectiveness from the onset.
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Blunting the Shia crescent would be widely seen as a triumph.
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Come what may, the blessed, blunting drudgery of life goes on.
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He never earned Trump's trust, blunting his ability to guide policy.
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Besides blunting the president's strengths, she also shows up his biggest weakness.
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Western business interests aren't the only factors blunting the force of sanctions.
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Credible military threats have proven more effective in blunting Iran's nuclear program.
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And this misalignment is blunting the effect of President Trump's China tariffs.
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Blunting the sense of exhilaration were the daily confrontations with the police.
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Biometrics in the Syrian response have worked successfully, blunting malnutrition and child mortality.
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But in this case, the panel was clearly skewed toward blunting union sentiment.
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In 2016, the Kremlin said it was aimed at blunting its own nuclear arsenal.
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Blunting the humanitarian crises in Yemen is a security, political, economic and moral imperative.
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They are anthropologies of populism, cautionary tales from history, blueprints for blunting revanchism's appeal.
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Their religion is more personal than political, blunting the appeal of hard-right evangelical candidates.
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Critics say it is aimed at blunting Thaksin's influence and ensuring military oversight of politics.
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Dermer asked for the transition team's help in blunting the work of the sitting President.
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The European measures apply only to future sales, blunting their effect on the current operation.
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Blunting VAWA might well be seen as a victory for the grassroots by his base.
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The dulling of emotions by Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) is known as emotional blunting.
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This uncertainty is blunting part of the investment gains that were made possible by corporate tax reform.
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The resulting shortage risks blunting Japanese exchanges' competitive edge as the country's cryptocurrency industry matures, experts say.
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Some of the original rules could benefit America even outside the pact, blunting its incentive to rejoin.
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In the meantime, she's dedicated to blunting the anti-immigration sentiment that so consumed the 2016 election.
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But which elements work, and to what degree, vary, blunting the impact of its most striking accomplishments.
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And subpar executives and companies will have less to fear from takeovers, blunting corporate Germany's international competitiveness.
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For President Petro Poroshenko, establishing an independent church is a way of blunting Moscow's influence in Ukraine.
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The move is likely aimed at blunting criticism that the former congressman lacks a signature policy issue.
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The newest psychosurgical procedures are apparently less "blunting" than the ones my grandfather and his colleagues practiced.
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There are lots of ways to address these equity concerns without blunting or distorting efficient price signals.
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The stars, with their unimpeachable talent, filmographies and feminist cred, are a shrewd way of blunting skepticism.
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Several members have also been selling from their stockpiles of crude, blunting the impact of the reductions.
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Families with acutely malnourished children sometimes share supplements designed to help them, blunting the effectiveness of the treatment.
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Politics. Senate Democrats have found an effective strategy for blunting President Trump and the Republican majorities in Congress.
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It's the latest sign that de-platforming can be effective in blunting the social impact of bad actor.
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Most business people agreed that U.S. corporate taxes had been too high for too long, blunting America's competitiveness.
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But oil production elsewhere has been rising, blunting the impact of output cuts by OPEC and its allies.
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In cases like these, invoking "the family" of the workplace becomes a means of blunting anger, of sublimating resistance.
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Most tariffs backfire, hurting the country that imposes them by raising prices, blunting competition and depriving consumers of choice.
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But with every day that passes without that scenario, there's a slimmer chance of his opponents blunting Trump's momentum.
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S. trade deal hopes buoyed the dollar and improved risk appetite, blunting investors' interest in the non-yielding bullion.
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Twitter is blunting its effectiveness from the onset This routine appears ready to change with the verification application process.
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The team is using more defensive shifts, blunting the notion that Baker would be resistant to data-driven strategy.
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The result is a resonant, sensitively observed but slightly florid book that ends up blunting its own narrative drive.
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Federal deficit spending during and immediately after the Great Recession was essential in blunting its pain and stimulating recovery.
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It creates hope that life can improve, blunting the appeal of extremism and diminishing the desperation of the dispossessed.
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All those votes were cast before her debate performance, blunting any momentum she could have scored from the debate.
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Biden supporters moved to persuade the party to coalesce around him as the best hope of blunting Sanders' momentum.
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Prices have sold off as the Trump administration escalated a tariff feud with China, potentially blunting demand for metals.
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Lamb said he wouldn't support Pelosi for her leadership role if elected, effectively blunting the GOP's anti-Pelosi message.
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Ivanka can also fulfill a second, related duty of soothing the commander-in-chief's temper and blunting his impulses.
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And that's what's going to get us to a point where we can start blunting some of these issues.
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This both preserves Uber's cashless philosophy, while also blunting criticism that its tone deaf to the concerns of its drivers.
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Wiley is expected to help bolster the campaign's field operations, blunting criticism that Trump's ground game has been too weak.
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Harris has one very big advantage in blunting those attacks in that she already occupies national office as a senator.
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The timing could also be aimed at blunting the impact of Comey's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday.
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Despite claiming to be a victim of surveillance himself, he has no interest in blunting a tool he now wields.
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A mix of coconut milk and squalene soothe and soften your face, blunting the typically harsh effects of a peel.
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Credibly defending the American homeland is the starting point of blunting and eventually negating the North Korean nuclear missile threat.
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While blunting our sensations of mental and physical pain, dynorphins simultaneously dull or even extinguish our positive responses to pleasure.
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But, speaking to top defence and military industry officials, Putin said the system was aimed at blunting Russia's nuclear arsenal.
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Flake and Corker are putting this all at risk and blunting progress simply to continue their petty feud with Trump.
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Screenwriters and directors usually chose to strip away the arch narrator—blunting much of Austen's power—and sex up the plot.
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A reinsurance program that would help insurers pay for high-cost enrollees, blunting the impact of these enrollees on overall premiums.
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S. trade deal bolstered the dollar and sparked appetite for riskier assets, blunting investors' interest in holding the non-yielding bullion.
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S. trade pact boosted the dollar and spurred appetite for riskier assets, blunting investors' interest in holding the non-yielding bullion.
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Regulation is government's usual tool for blunting adverse consequences, but most sharing platforms gain their competitive edge by skirting its requirements.
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She was an old, lonely lady with a terrifying blunting of her once-sharp intellect, and she just wanted to talk.
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Makkai puts the epidemic (which, of course, has not yet ended) into historical perspective without distancing it or blunting its horrors.
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DeWine has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any governor in hopes of blunting the worst of the coronavirus.
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His rivals know it and, unlike during the last time out in Las Vegas, appear dead set on blunting his momentum.
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This troubled neighborhood is rife with spoilers and aggressors positioning themselves to exert maximum influence while blunting that of their rivals.
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During his grueling testimony, Kavanaugh maintained a genial demeanor, blunting some of the most aggressive questioning from Democrats seeking to unsettle him.
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The Independence helps by blunting Russia's energy weapon; LNG from friendly countries like Norway now covers around half of Lithuania's gas imports.
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The impact of last Friday's Brexit outcome, had also led to the Japanese yen to appreciate sharply, blunting the country's export competitiveness.
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That is blunting some of the hit on the economy from a downturn in manufacturing, which is underscored by weak business investment.
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The hospital slowly weaned her off all of those medications that were making her extremely drowsy and "blunting her consciousness," Kandaswamy said.
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In crass commercial terms, no clairvoyance is necessary to predict that "The Last Jedi" will be a huge hit, blunting any criticism.
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In 2006, the vaccine co-developed by Offit was introduced for rotavirus -- which caused severe diarrhea in infants -- significantly blunting the disease.
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That would make Chinese products cheaper and more attractive to foreign buyers, potentially blunting the higher costs that American tariffs would impose.
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There was little doubt the death toll would have been far higher without the lieutenant's body blunting the blast, Mr. Mujahed said.
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The question of religious discrimination found little traction among the conservative justices, who seemed more intent on blunting it than exploring it.
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Yet there's a straightforward way that Uber could preserve the benefits of variable pricing while blunting the backlash: Use discounts rather than surcharges.
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Given this album's electric wallop, it doesn't represent a slackening so much as a blunting, as the riffs thump, and the beat thuds.
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However, infrastructure such as gas station pumps and tankage to deliver E15 across the nation is not in place, blunting the positive impact.
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Trump delayed putting the 10% duty on cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods in hopes of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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His formative years at Time and Life left a deadening, middlebrow mark on his style, blunting the edges of an otherwise singular perspective.
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Despite that, the HBO series feels as if it has wandered too deep into a maze of its own creation, blunting its appeal.
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Dr. Weiss hypothesized that carbon dioxide interferes with the nervous system of the water fleas, blunting their ability to look out for predators.
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Still, the piling up of incidents and images and subplots has a congestive effect here, blurring our focus and blunting our emotional responses.
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It remains to be seen whether Mr. Bloomberg's tax proposals will succeed in satisfying liberal voters, or in blunting criticism of his tycoon status.
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Other changes, such as a different regulatory regime, visa exemptions and any blunting of Saudi Arabia's strict social restrictions, would be more complicated, however.
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Donald Trump Jr.'s comments appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.
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All of this and a raft of recent regulatory curbs aimed at blunting speculative investments, and cooling the frothy market, are beginning to bite.
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Dave says it's a tricky situation, but his band has had a long-standing policy to require ID as a way of blunting scalpers.
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Solid consumer spending is blunting some of the hit on the economy from the downturn in manufacturing, which is underscored by weak business investment.
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We need a public-private partnership that can help the military get the benefits of 5G, while blunting many of China's current commercial advantages.
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Senate Democrats, like their counterparts in the House, have assailed the tax overhaul, but they now face a challenge in blunting the Republicans' momentum.
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Apartheid education did not do us any favours because it was largely based on blunting the capabilities of the large portion of your population.
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But all those tactics succeeded in sapping Wilder's strength and blunting the punching power that helped him salvage a draw in the first bout.
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But it would be more accurate to say that Beijing has stopped blunting its currency because it now sees little prospect of trade peace.
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The entire effort is aimed at blunting the impact of the undoubtedly emotional testimony Ford will deliver before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Monday.
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In recent months, Trudeau has deployed 450 Canadian Forces soldiers to Latvia under a NATO missioned aimed at blunting Russian expansion in the region.
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Trump has made dozens of verifiably false or misleading claims since taking office, often with an eye on gaining a political advantage or blunting criticism.
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But at a certain point, if prices rise high enough, those shale drillers will fire up their rigs again and resume drilling — blunting the rally.
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That's great news for the negative rate block, which has generally suffered as the dollar weakened this year, blunting the impact of their own policies.
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Tillerson, who held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad this week, was asked by reporters in Geneva about blunting Iran's influence.
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Full of stock characters and leaden dialogue, these interludes only underscore what the audience already knows, blunting the momentum of the central duo's balloon ride.
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Last week at the White House, as President Obama announced a set of executive actions aimed at blunting gun violence, he seemed anything but numb.
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Conservation efforts can also yield huge economic returns, ranging from creating new tourist attractions to blunting the costly impacts of warming for the most vulnerable.
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If Boeing succeeds, the jets could be hit from day one with extra duties, blunting Bombardier's competitiveness more quickly and more directly than normal trade sanctions.
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The company is struggling to find new avenues for growth after Facebook cloned its Stories product across its entire suite of apps, dramatically blunting Snap's momentum.
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As long as the dollar keeps rising and the peg is in place, the Hong Kong dollar will also rise against rivals, blunting Hong Kong's competitiveness.
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Without him, Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford, Juan Mata and the rest cut loose; he had, it seemed, been inhibiting them, clogging their space, blunting their edge.
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Memo From Paris PARIS — What propels Islamist terrorism and attacks against France is more than an academic debate: The answer shapes policy toward blunting the threat.
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Although it makes the vast majority of the profits in the global smartphone business, Apple's phones account for a minority of sales, blunting fears of monopoly.
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The Russian advance, enabled by President Trump's decision last week to withdraw, may boost Russia's Syrian ally, President Bashar al-Assad, while blunting the Turkish incursion.
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Analysts also suspect some firms may be rushing out shipments to beat any punitive trade measures, flattering the most recent export figures but blunting future gains.
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There is as yet no obvious "killer app" for 5G devices, and early phones are likely to be expensive and have lower battery life, blunting their appeal.
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Rather than continue efforts at persuading a shrinking number of independents to his cause, Mr Gillespie focused, instead, on driving up Republican turnout and blunting Democratic enthusiasm.
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None of this is to say that the attacks can't be effective at blunting some of the fervor behind the questions and concern surrounding the White House.
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So we're always looking at what she's doing, especially now considering the role the Senate is playing in blunting the Trump administration's targeting of the LGBTQ community.
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It acts as an invocation — or, at least, an invitation — to think of happiness as something that might sharpen our thinking into focus, rather than blunting it.
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Since they are more discreet and less destructive, reconnaissance attacks carry less risk of jeopardizing Kim's recent diplomatic initiatives, which are already blunting the impact of sanctions.
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On Tuesday, Trump backed off that deadline for tariffs on cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods, in the hope of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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That has fueled the sentiment in Beijing that the deterioration of relations was not about trade policy as much as blunting China's emergence as a world power.
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NSAIDs work, in part, by blunting the body's production of a particular group of biochemicals, called prostaglandins, that otherwise flood the site of injuries in the body.
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We're blunting the potential of so many budding scientists who may want to go into these professions and who may want to immigrate here and do great work.
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On top of all that, some to Colau's left are worrying that the need to befriend the business community has her blunting her own ambitions, with little pushback.
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He said a combination of military power, intelligence sharing and diplomatic efforts are blunting ISIS' financial reach -- but that it still has paths to revenue at its disposal.
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Blunting the losses among miners, gold stocks advanced as gold prices hovered near a two-week peak, with investors rushing to the safe-haven metal amid rising uncertainty.
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His affable, game-show-host looks and just-folks manner have been insidiously successful in blunting the impact of a past pocked with racism, Jew-hating and revisionisms.
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On the other hand, automakers might also opt to generally adhere to the stricter California standards nationwide, blunting the impact of any Trump administration rollback of federal rules.
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Johnson has cast rebels as EU "collaborators" who are undermining the government's negotiating hand in seeking a withdrawal agreement by blunting his threat of a no-deal Brexit.
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The coronavirus pandemic has also frozen the dynamics of the race and usurped news coverage of the campaign, blunting Sanders' efforts to achieve a late boost of momentum.
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As banks were collapsing, Sequoia called an emergency meeting of its company founders to warn them of the worsening financial crisis and suggest measures for blunting its effects.
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In 2013, the Mets swept four games from the Yankees, blunting the Bombers' 30-18 start, and were at least partly responsible for dooming a promising Yankees season.
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But the bill eliminates big cuts in payroll taxes and investment taxes for the wealthy, blunting one of the most resonant Democratic lines of attack against the effort.
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Trump's victory boosted the dollar and sparked a sharp rally in bond yields, lifting the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold and blunting investors' appetite for the metal.
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The army and its allies would also reinforce the western edge of Aleppo city in anticipation of a rebel assault there aimed at blunting the offensive, the official said.
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But blunting the benefits of proximity is a ban on Chinese travel agents selling tours to South Korea to protest a planned anti-North Korea missile defense outside Seoul.
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Clinton's win, meanwhile, will go a long way in blunting the momentum of Bernie Sanders -- the liberal Vermont senator whose unexpected popularity has dogged the former secretary of state.
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The analyst added, however, that investors are likely to look favorably on Genish having a significant say in choosing the new COO, blunting the negative impact of Labriola's departure.
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Safaricom says mobile phone-based betting was driving revenue in its texts or short messaging services (SMS) business, blunting the impact of free Internet-based services such as WhatsApp.
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America's superpower energy industry is blunting the edge of the Kremlin's energy weapon in eastern Europe: Trump will visit Poland before the G20 summit starts, at Poland's President's invitation.
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But if voters feel worse about the direction of the country in November than they do now, Republicans will face a more difficult challenge in blunting the Democratic advantage.
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Back to U.S. presidential politics: One key litmus test for a reset of U.S.-Israel relations will be a decision to take the lead in blunting the BDS movement.
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This strategy had the effect of blunting a message of economic populism, which got sidelined despite the fact that Clinton was running on the most progressive platform in history.
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However, analysts said Mr. Bolsonaro would have limited leverage in blunting China's interests in Brazil without angering key constituencies that have come to depend heavily on the Chinese market.
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His goal is to transform the army into a leaner, more advanced fighting force capable of defending China's territorial claims, blunting American military superiority and projecting Chinese influence globally.
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The disparity is jarring, with the Biden super PAC paying four times as much for the same ads as the campaigns, blunting the advantage of having a super PAC.
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It's no secret that portfolio diversification protects investors from the whims of the stock market, blunting the volatility you get in equities by including an allocation toward fixed income.
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Jelly Belly's dud flavors did a commendable job of capturing the disgusting essence of earwax, grass, and the like, while blunting the full impact of those tastes with candy sweetness.
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Other initiatives, aimed at blunting Marine Le Pen's far-right, eurosceptic bid for the French presidency in 2017, could include a push to create more jobs, especially for the young.
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The U.S. government is encouraging greater Iraqi energy independence as a more sustainable means of blunting Iran's clout in Iraq, which extends from energy provision to trade, security and politics.
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Consumers have taken advantage of cheaper gasoline to buy larger, more powerful vehicles, in effect swapping passenger cars for crossover-utility vehicles, blunting the previous trend towards greater fuel economy.
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When two lovers look at each other in this movie, the tenderness in their eyes softens everything, creating a radiance that folds around them like a blanket, blunting the world.
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Last week, the e-commerce company said it would raise its minimum wage for U.S. workers to $15 an hour, blunting criticism from lawmakers about how it treats its workers.
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But the number of new infections in China has been steadily dropping, giving officials in the country confidence that the extraordinary measures have been effective in blunting the virus's spread.
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Phys Ed Some types of exercise may be better than others at blunting appetite and potentially aiding in weight management, according to an interesting new study of workouts and hunger.
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On the one hand, most types of exercise increase appetite in most people, studies show, tempting us to replace calories, blunting any potential fat loss and even initiating weight creep.
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Consumer spending has been blunting some of the hit on the economy from the White House's nearly 15-month trade war with China, which has sunk business investment and manufacturing.
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Crude oil prices rebounded from 213.83-year lows and led the beaten-up U.S. stock market higher, pointing to a recovery in risk appetite and blunting bullion's appeal as a haven.
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The impact remains patchy and hard to quantify, but there are plenty of signs that cheaper fuel prices are reversing or at least blunting the former trend towards increased fuel efficiency.
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"Director Coats, you've said as well that it would be inappropriate to answer a simple question about whether the President asked for your assistance in blunting the Russian investigation," said Sen.
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By then, the game was well out of hand, blunting any real impact that subs Christian Pulisic and Darlington Nagbe—the future and, very possibly, present of the USMNT—could do.
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Psychological pain of any kind may be another kind of cognitive conflict, so Heine thinks that drugs like Tylenol might be more generally blunting our reactions to any conflict at all.
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" At the same time, Torres said "price controls that will accompany the raises in hopes of blunting inflation show the government is still relying on administrative versus financial and market mechanisms.
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This is a problem Trump doesn't need, and an announcement that he was rescinding steel tariffs to get ahead of the problem would go a long way to blunting the attack.
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Theoretically, those using the monitors might have been so inspired to exercise that they moved a lot, developed large appetites, and overate, blunting any weight loss from the workouts, he says.
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The second malaise Weisman identifies as blunting Jewish alertness to the peril of the times is the hollowing out of a Jewish identity that is neither uncritically Zionist nor devoutly religious.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran, in particular, have been selling some of those stores, blunting the impact of the cuts, according to Richard Mallinson, an analyst at the research firm Energy Aspects.
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TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbek police say they are fighting a wave of stabbings by blunting the tips of knives used by traders in the main markets of the eastern city of Andijan.
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"Hypothesis: Scalia was very good at blunting/interrupting Q's from liberal Justices & his absence is a reason they were so effective today," Josh Block, a lawyer for the ACLU, tweeted after arguments.
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The economists I've spoken to agree that outside of crises and reactions like the 2009 crash and Obama's depression-blunting stimulus, presidents can't do much to affect employment in the short term.
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An abundance of workers looking for jobs since the financial crisis has kept a lid on wage growth, perhaps blunting companies' incentives to invest in labour-saving automation, thereby reducing productivity growth.
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SPXHC down 2 percent in Tuesday afternoon trading, putting the group on pace for its biggest single-day decline since October 2016 and blunting the sector's strong momentum to start the year.
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Trump backed off part of the plan this week, delaying duties on items such as cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods, in the hopes of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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The international Green Climate Fund, which President Trump promised to walk away from, too, has approved projects to help farmers in Central America to become more productive, blunting the force of drought.
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Attacking the process is a way of blunting the effect of seemingly bad results on their campaign's fortunes — but it does end up dimming people's perceptions of the integrity of the vote.
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And as Lucky's expanded, big grocery chains like Walmart (WMT) and Aldi also increased their focus on natural and organic foods to capitalize on a growing market, blunting some of Lucky's appeal.
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He marshaled Republicans in 2009 to oppose President Obama's agenda right out of the gate, blunting the new president's policy momentum and helping the GOP win big in the 2010 midterm elections.
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Voters here have a history of blunting the momentum of the winner out of Iowa, where Mr. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas lead the Republican polls for the caucuses next Monday.
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It drew a storm of criticism, mostly from Democrats, that the move was aimed at blunting the agency's probe into the Trump presidential campaign's possible collusion with Russia to sway last year's election.
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The slow nature of court proceedings may put a damper on House investigations, forcing lawmakers to wait months before they can get their hands on key documents and blunting momentum in the probes.
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And he announced plans to spend $100 million on digital ads criticizing President Trump — and not featuring himself — in general election battleground states, blunting criticism that he could spend his money better elsewhere.
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Overstretched Afghan security forces and their foreign military advisers have focused on blunting Taliban attacks in southern Helmand province and the northern city of Kunduz, besides battling Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar.
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And when NBC takes over Thursday Night Football rights in November, "This Is Us" would have faced pre-emptions and been off the air for a couple of months, potentially blunting its momentum.
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Two civilians, a man and a woman, were killed in the strikes, according to Syria's state-run SANA which also reported that Syria's air defense systems had succeeded in blunting the Israeli offensive.
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Traditionally, extra-long running times have been a concern for studios, since they potentially reduce the number of showings that theaters can squeeze into a day, and thus risk blunting box-office returns.
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While Duque's Democratic Center Party is celebrating, others say he is damaging the peace process and deliberately blunting prosecutions that could reveal murky ties between conservative politicians, the military and right-wing paramilitary groups.
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"At its core, this is an Iran sanctions issue," said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, who worried blunting punishments for violating sanctions might encourage more violations.
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By choosing not to meet with constituents, Republican senators could be blunting the efforts of liberal activists, who have targeted previous meetings in an attempt to show public displeasure over Republicans' health care efforts.
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New York (CNN)Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Friday that the party outsmarted itself in passing a 2012 rule that he said was aimed at blunting his influence on that summer's convention.
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In November, 15 months after joining up, he deserted, one of thousands of tired and frustrated soldiers who have shed their uniforms, seriously blunting the Afghan army's power to repel a growing militant threat.
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While US Secretary of Defense James Mattis reiterated this week that diplomacy along with international economic sanctions would remain the leading element of US strategy towards blunting North Korea, military options were being prepared.
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Clinton has waged a largely defensive campaign, focused on blunting Mr. Sanders's appeal to core liberal constituencies and reassuring communities and interest groups that would be critical to her success in a general election.
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Tech giants gave him personal tours in Silicon Valley, Hollywood producers considered Saudi projects, and President Trump praised the prince as an indispensable ally in fighting terrorism and blunting Iran's influence in the region.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider having the federal government take equity stakes in companies accepting federal aid in a bailout geared toward blunting the economic impact from the widening coronavirus outbreak.
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The challenge is to find a formula that arrests a decades-long decline in Britain's manufacturing sector by helping firms tackle the challenges posed by globalization without blunting the market forces that make them competitive.
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Meanwhile, the trade-weighted euro is already blunting the competitive edge of the region's big exporters, including in powerhouse Germany whose sales abroad dropped in April by nearly 4%, the biggest decline since August 2015.
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According to Fitch, investors who tended to buy assets and hold them onto maturity would have to invest new cash in bonds that paid lower interest rates, blunting the money they earned from coupon payments.
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That's because rising U.S. shale production is blunting efforts by the cartel and Russia to tighten the market by extending their production-limiting through the end of 2018, a decision made last month in Vienna.
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In that instance, bin Salman fronted the kingdom's response with limited success blunting outrage in the US. Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, was killed and dismembered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.
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The Ukrainian government, then led by Viktor F. Yanukovych, had commissioned the $4.6 million-plus report in the hopes of blunting criticism that it had wrongly prosecuted and imprisoned one of Mr. Yanukovych's political rivals.
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Olympic champion Murray, who beat Raonic in the Wimbledon final, notched his career-best 22nd consecutive win by blunting the fourth-seeded Canadian's intimidating service game in a 6-3 6-123 semi-final victory.
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If the US ever got serious about adopting strict limits on CO2 emissions, one thing policymakers might worry about is that many of America's factories and plants would simply move overseas, blunting the plan's effectiveness.
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For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans' case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.
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Using both conventional media and covert channels, the Kremlin is spreading false stories with the goal of weakening cohesion among NATO and European Union members, stirring discord in their domestic politics and blunting opposition to Russia.
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Given the powerful role of social media in political contests, understanding the Russian efforts will be crucial in preventing or blunting similar, or more sophisticated, attacks in the 2018 congressional races and the 2020 presidential election.
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The loss of Yemen as a base for American counterterrorism training, advising and intelligence-gathering was a significant blow to blunting the advance of Al Qaeda's branch in the country and keeping tabs on their plots.
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Like its protagonist, sensitively and shrewdly played by Lakeith Stanfield, the film is soft-spoken and thoughtful, with sweet, lyrical touches that alleviate some of the grimness without blunting the cruelty and injustice of what happened.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Venting anger at President Trump, European leaders said Thursday they would take steps aimed at blunting the effects of the American sanctions he restored on Iran, which could penalize European companies doing business there.
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So far there is little indication that they will do less business with the social network as a result of the scandal, and new advertisers are starting to spend more online, blunting the impact of any defectors.
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Goffin, a highly-fancied 25-year-old, was the first to take a set off Kyrgios in the whole week at Tokyo and was successful in blunting the Australian's monster serve early with a crisp returning game.
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For example, if the United States simply cranked up the pace and intensity of airstrikes with an eye to blunting Mr. Assad's resistance, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah would be even more likely to come to his rescue.
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Its actions are incompletely understood, but it is thought to block the opioid receptors that cause depression and only partly activate the receptors that enhance feelings of well-being, thereby blunting the high of drugs like morphine.
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Mr. de Blasio has already offered a concession to opponents, saying he had no intention of putting a jail on Staten Island, blunting what might have been vocal criticism during his visit to the borough this week.
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The militants' basic strategy appears to be to focus much of their efforts on blunting the CTS attack, calculating that if they can stymie Iraq's most experienced fighting force, the Iraqi government's broader offensive will bog down.
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But President Donald Trump later backed off part of the plan, delaying duties on some items such as cellphones, laptops and other consumer goods to mid-December, in the hopes of blunting their impact on U.S. holiday sales.
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"What happened was [Hill] got victimized again during the process," Biden said during a Today show interview, during which he defended his handling of the hearings, saying Senate rules prohibited him from blunting questions by other committee members.
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All classes and types of vehicle are becoming more fuel-efficient but the shift from smaller cars that must meet tougher targets to larger CUVs and SUVs with lower targets is blunting the expected effect of the regulations.
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Settling for Biden will mean blunting messages and policies that can fire up millennials and under-50 voters of color in 2020, both in the Rust Belt and in Sunbelt battlegrounds like North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona.
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In 1989, Barr faced heat for blunting a request from Congress for information about a controversial legal opinion he'd written concluding that the FBI could forcibly abduct people in foreign countries without the consent of the host government.
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While strong consumer spending is seen blunting the hit on the economy from the deteriorating trade deficit, a weakening housing market and slowing business investment on equipment, sluggish income growth suggests the pace of consumption is probably unsustainable.
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Senate and Trump administration negotiators reached agreement early this morning on a $193 trillion stimulus package aimed at blunting the economic impact of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy and families, clearing a path for swift passage today.
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But Romney was just elected to the Senate last year and has five more years before he faces voters, blunting any immediate blowback despite the president's calls to "impeach" him (and, of course, because senators can't be impeached).
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Yet the story's unrelenting nature works against it, blunting the lure of seeing Adam Sandler in one of his occasional dramatic performances -- a showy role, yes, but in a movie that proves all that glitters is not gold.
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Policymakers have offered stock to the market "if necessary" in the hope of blunting price rises — employing the same strategy they used after the interruption of Libya's supplies in 22012 and the U.S. attack on Iraq in 1991.
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Mr. Trump could still invoke presidential authorities to avoid or delay enforcing some of the bill's provisions, according to people familiar with the measure, potentially blunting its impact in the near term as well as criticism from Beijing.
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Policymakers have offered stock to the market "if necessary" in the hope of blunting price rises employing the same strategy they used after the interruption of Libya's supplies in 22012 and the U.S. attack on Iraq in 1991.
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In Washington Thursday, Mr. Biden offered a forceful defense of his supportive remarks about Mr. Upton, signaling that he has no intention of blunting his instinct toward bipartisanship and compromise in the event that he runs for president.
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The comments, aimed at blunting the impact of the escalating trade tensions, have helped drive global stocks higher, with the S&P 500 index and Dow Jones industrial average last Friday both registering their biggest weekly gains since November.
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For as long as we're willing to elect people for whom winning (and keeping) office is mainly about blunting their insecurity rather than achieving a particular policy goal, we'll keep being faced with awful choices and even worse outcomes.
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Why it matters: This takes what was a rally slogan and T-shirt and moves it toward becoming a real national security entity aimed at blunting the rising power of China in particular, Axios Science editor Andrew Freedman emails.
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Gold fell on Thursday, shrugging off weaker European equity markets as a rebound in oil prices from 489.703-year lows and strong performance on Wall Street pointed to a recovery in risk appetite, blunting bullion's appeal as a haven.
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That is, if you're just blunting the edge of rampant inequality with a fortune you made preying on people who lack healthcare or a union or job security, you aren't exactly off the hook for being a capitalist huckster.
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Neuvirth was dominant, blunting every charge by Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals to cut the deficit in the best-of-seven series to three games to two and send the series back to Philadelphia for Game 6 on Sunday.
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On one side are the insurgents, led largely by several countries in Latin America that have begun to challenge conventional antidrug strategies or to legalize some drugs in hopes of blunting the violence that the drug wars have wrought.
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Ramaphosa tried to balance the priorities of both factions within the ANC, reiterating his anti-graft stance but also blunting Dlamini-Zuma by pledging to redistribute land from the white-minority to the black-majority, her main campaign promise.
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In an election year when turnout could be crucial, a host of factors — foot-dragging by states, confusion among voters, the inability of judges to completely roll back bias — are blunting the effect of court rulings against the laws.
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Like a whole generation of young Germans, he came of age in a period when the traditionally opposing camps on left and right governed jointly, blunting political debate and pushing voters in search of an opposition to the extremes.
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With some smart policies, they can likely scale up to be more of a complement to gasoline than they are now, blunting some of its carbon impact, but there's little prospect of them taking over as a primary fuel.
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Mr. Mattis could have tried to outmaneuver Mr. Bolton — who has wanted him gone for some time — and stay in his job, discreetly devising stratagems for eluding dangers posed by Mr. Trump's erratic behavior and blunting objectionable military initiatives.
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But supporters of the administration's program, like Senator Thomas R. Carper, Democrat of Delaware and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the arrest of Mr. Jayab and other refugees shows that the system succeeded in blunting a threat.
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The other subject, Derek Cai, said he found it somewhat unpleasant, and pointed out that if he pre-gamed on a big night out with this, it might end up working by blunting his appetite for alcohol, tasting like that.
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Though the unemployment rate is historically low today — which in the past might have signaled an economy running at capacity and threatening to overheat — people are still entering the workforce at a healthy clip, blunting upward pressure on wages and prices.
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He's betting Ted Cruz, who has staked much of his campaign on winning in Iowa, will lose to Trump next week here in the caucuses, seriously blunting the Texas Republican's momentum in the rest of February's primaries and undermining his candidacy.
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Wearing leather gym shorts, rainbow-striped kneesocks, a fringe vest, & a face so musical I could hear the notes blunting & banging as he low-laughed & looked like a lion who had bitten off the ancient secret of a soft roar.
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The news sent the S&P 500 healthcare sector down 2 percent in Tuesday afternoon trading, putting the group on pace for its biggest single-day decline since October 2016 and blunting the sector's strong momentum to start the year.
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Maybe Mr. Sanders will succeed in blunting Joe Biden's support in Michigan by attacking his record on trade, or perhaps Mr. Biden will come under scrutiny and lose momentum, just as Mr. Sanders did after his big victory in Nevada.
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If you embrace that metaphor, he made a very quick save, breaking Isner in the opening game, blunting the power with sliced returns on the stretch and then hooking passing shots that even the 6-foot-10 Isner struggled to reach.
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Trump also announced a slew of other measures aimed at blunting the spread of the virus, including that his administration is looking into self-administered coronavirus tests in an effort to dramatically expand access to tests for the fast-spreading disease.
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But far from blunting his rise, the near-fatal stabbing crystallized Mr. Bolsonaro's conviction that only he could straighten out a country reeling from years of economic trouble, corruption scandals and a record-high wave of bloodshed, the pastor said.
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" Matthew Page, a consultant who until recently was the State Department's top expert on Nigeria, called the proposed sale an empty gesture aimed at blunting criticism that the United States had not done enough to help Nigeria fight Boko Haram. "U.
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ZTE is a valuable asset for the Chinese government and economy, and there is a way of potentially blunting some of the momentum in Congress if it was willing to come forth with more info and commit to future work on its transparency.
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The California congressman's campaign had been hampered by conservative holdouts in the GOP's tea party wing and effectively buried by McCarthy himself when had admitted in an interview that a House Benghazi probe was a vehicle for blunting Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions.
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Proposed changes to the measure appear aimed largely at blunting opposition from high tech companies and investment firms, which had worried that even innocuous transactions would be subject to extended reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS.
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Urjit Patel, Rajan's lieutenant at the RBI who has now been named his successor, knows well that the banks' reluctance is blunting transmission of monetary policy into the broader economy, even as the window of opportunity for even greater easing may be closing.
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COLOMBO, March 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government wants a Chinese company to agree to cut its stake in a strategic port project by up to a quarter, as part of a renegotiation aimed at blunting public and political opposition to the deal.
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Time has a way of blunting the darker, more sobering edges of a movie like this—it's easy to remember, as I had, the beauty of the lavish feast that the film closes with without recalling how glum everything preceding it was.
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Christopher W. Landsea, science and operations officer at the National Hurricane Center, said that the Bermuda high, a persistent zone of high pressure that steers many hurricanes westward across the Atlantic, is also largely responsible for blunting Hurricane Matthew's progress toward the north.
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The aid, part of a broader stimulus package aimed at blunting the economic damage from the spreading coronavirus, would be a resounding victory for airlines, their lobbyists and the labor unions that contended loans alone would not be enough to preserve jobs.
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Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.
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Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.
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Trump says the Fed is raising rates too fast, blunting the economic stimulus from tax cuts and deregulation, and making life harder for his administration as the tariffs resulting from the U.S. trade war with China and other countries begin to bite.
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They have been conducted by the president and a rotating group of officials who have been in close physical proximity to each other-- a practice that is in defiance of the rules of social distancing that are aimed at blunting the spread of COVID-19.
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The arbitration clauses prevent consumers from banding together to file a lawsuit as a class, forcing them instead to hash out their disputes one by one and blunting one of most powerful tools that Americans have in challenging harmful and deceitful practices by big companies.
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DEVESELU, Romania (Reuters) - The United States switched on an $800 million missile shield in Romania on Thursday that it sees as vital to defend itself and Europe from so-called rogue states but the Kremlin says is aimed at blunting its own nuclear arsenal.
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But the campaign is now mostly about blunting the capabilities of the Houthis (a militia of Zaydis, a splinter Shiite sect concentrated in Yemen's north) and their ally, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who until Saudi Arabia engineered his removal in 2012 was the Arab world's longest-reigning ruler.
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As he has in the past, Trump suggested that the keys to blunting mass shootings are an increased focus on mental health -- a focus on "the people that actually pull the trigger on the gun" -- and a push to put those weapons in the hands of civilians.
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The board of the IGDA is regularly made up of studio CEOs and the like, with a few token board appointments from programmers, artists, indie developers, and the like to hide the organization's true purpose of blunting any real change which could possibly be affected by workers.
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WASHINGTON — Federal programs to help Americans move away from disaster-prone areas are skewed by the income levels of communities seeking help — rather than being based solely on the risk they face — new data shows, blunting an important tool for helping people cope with climate change.
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It passed both the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person's Act with the goal of blunting the force of the 1990 decision by forbidding government from interfering with religious practices unless it could show a compelling need to do so.
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"You could also look at Wal-Mart's store base as 4,100 distribution centers with easy delivery for food, blunting the footprint of Amazon, which will only have a 10th of the stores that Wal-Mart has when that Whole Foods deal closes, " the "Mad Money" host said.
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But the disclosures on Saturday by the first-term senators turned out to be just simple summaries — the first two pages of their 1040 forms — leaving many of the specifics to the imagination, and perhaps blunting their efforts to draw a contrast with Mr. Trump's lack of transparency.
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There are other reasons that Goldman cites for a likely pause in the meantime, paramount among them being an economy that is performing better than expected so far this year, blunting the need for a cut, and inflation that has remained tame, negating the need for more tightening.
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Russia strengthened its position in Asia by supplying nearly a quarter more crude to the region in 22014, shifting the balance of power in one of the few bright spots in the global market and blunting the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' high-profile drive to win customers.
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There is a seal that spends each morning blunting its incisors on the ice— rasping open breathing holes that close if not routinely shaven back— until one day its teeth, now dull and domed, stop breaking through, the animal beating its soft enamel on the ceiling as it drowns.
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Wasting the lyrics on grand poetic statements, deliberately blunting his guitar strumming and adding pockets of crackly static to increase the authentic, old-timey feel and decrease any intrinsically musical appeal, he lacks any further concept or context to make his replica anything other a token of conservative good taste.
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Health experts are in agreement that social isolation is imperative to blunting the spread of the disease, and on Monday, health officials cast the coming week as the most critical yet for the effort to "flatten the curve" of infected individuals and prevent resource-strapped health care systems from becoming overwhelmed.
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His comments on Friday, the first he had offered since images emerged of one of Mr. Porter's former wives bearing a black eye, were the culmination of a week's worth of politically ill-advised steps that suggest that the president and his lieutenants cannot stop themselves from blunting positive political momentum.
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The idea is that by demanding more stringent standards and enforcement of standards regarding issues like minimum wages, union organizing rights, workplace safety, and environmental impact, the cost of doing business in Mexico will go up, blunting some of the edge that lower-paid Mexican workers have over more expensive US workers.
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"The only people I think who should … who may have to stay, would be people in the national security area, who can at least have some moderating or blunting effect," Conway said, accusing White House lawyers of attempting "to protect Trump" from allegations related to his controversial phone call in July with Ukraine's president.
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Unsaid, but likely thought, was the current U.S. administration's concern that terrorists use refugees' movements as cover to travel to Europe and then onto the U.S. Regardless of how well-founded such concerns are, in all likelihood Tillerson raised concerns about the refugees as much from a focus on blunting terrorists' clandestine travel as from humanitarianism.
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Across town at the Omni Shoreham, Infowars' Alex Jones and nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes spoke at the National File Emergency First Amendment Summit on Wednesday, a tiny, far-right conference for "Groypers" with speakers railing against immigration and claiming that ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp was blunting Trump's "New America" agenda for the gain of his corporate clients.
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Republican discontent is deepening about the lack of a single, direct message from the White House aimed at blunting the Democratic push for President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's impeachment.
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"It is no secret that the Prime Minister and I have had a strong disagreement on this narrow issue, but we don't have a disagreement on the need to make sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon and we don't have a disagreement about the importance of us blunting destabilizing activities that Iran may be taking," he said.
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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE should stop complaining about package bombs blunting the GOP's political momentum on Friday, hours after the president first made the complaint.
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Some military experts say anti-ship missiles and other new weaponry have made carriers increasingly vulnerable, blunting the advantage they have had on the high seas since World War II. They nonetheless remain a formidable display of power that can reach far beyond a country's borders, giving them important symbolic value that China clearly desires as it seeks to expand its influence abroad.
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It sends a message to the Gulf States that President Trump is serious about blunting the hegemonic intentions of Iran; it reaffirms his commitment to fighting terrorism by going after the financial empire used to sustain terrorist activities; and it sends a message to the Iranian people that he is resolved to contain the ayatollahs' revolutionary movement, with no animus against the Iranian people.
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Facebook founder Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2018 breach Social media never intended to be in the news business — but just wait till AI takes over Facebook exploring deals with media outlets for news section: report MORE went on a media blitz Wednesday night aimed at blunting growing pressure on the tech giant.
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By the time the Jeter ceremony had concluded, the crowd and the team seemed primed for a doubleheader sweep, which would have gone a long way toward blunting the sting of the news that began the day: the placing of closer Aroldis Chapman on the 10-day disabled list with left rotator cuff inflammation, an injury that is expected to keep him out of action for a month.
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