No bowing to democratic European leaders, however; only bowing to hereditary rulers, leaders of nations with no history of women's rights or progressivism, and despots implicated in funding terrorism.
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"Doing the hula & bowing to the alter of @weightwatchers!"
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Bowing to the inevitable, refiners themselves are leading the consolidation.
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And now Apple seems to be bowing to that pressure.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bowing to criticism from the Singapore Exchange (SGXL.
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Bowing to common sense in the interest of victory, Gen.
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His lawyer accused the judges of bowing to public pressure.
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Bowing to the same rule, most generals offer blandly stirring replies.
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But should companies be bowing to stakeholder activism and media pressure?
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Bowing to pressure, Mr de Mistura did not invite the Kurds.
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But CNN's Manu Raju reports several are already bowing to pressure.
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At the end, before bowing to the audience, he exhaled deeply.
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It makes its bowing to Saudi censorship demand even more disappointing.
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"I'm so grateful to my family," she said, bowing to her parents.
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But the farmers now accuse the government of bowing to U.S. pressure.
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Ramos said he&aposs bowing to a demand by Puerto Rico Gov.
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Such actions as outlined above are simply a bowing to strategic reality.
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Bowing to public opinion, Congress has also shut down horse slaughterhouses in America.
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The board's three outside members were widely seen as bowing to his wishes.
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Bowing to pressure, PepsiCo on May 2 agreed to take its lawsuits back.
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Make no mistake, the Republican Party bowing to Trump is not without consequence.
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So here you have Sodom and Gomorrah bowing to the great Christian God.
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Dinner begins once Claire arrives, with everyone but the Comte bowing to her.
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Nor is it bowing to pressure from a handful of loudmouths on Twitter.
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But he also signaled that Iran had no intention of bowing to pressure.
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The actor eventually agreed, bowing to Phillips's creative vision and lost 52 pounds.
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Wouldn't revising that law be an admission that secularism is bowing to Islamism?
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Ted Cruz (R-TX), criticized Apple and Blizzard for bowing to China's censorship demands.
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Hartman, Reubens recalls, thought he was bowing to crass careerism and squandering his gifts.
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Bowing to public pressure, Lego has finally released its first minifig in a wheelchair.
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An awakening, in fact, has already begun: Bowing to public pressure, the Ringling Bros.
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Companies are bowing to public pressure, changing their policies, and even closing their doors.
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But bowing to pressure, our patients most often allow the tube to be placed.
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Some analysts say Beijing is bowing to China's heavy reliance on imported crude oil.
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"It is not true to say we are kowtowing or bowing to Apple," he said.
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The world's top basketball league is now on record as bowing to a totalitarian government.
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Two generations have grown up without bowing to Baghdad or even bothering to learn Arabic.
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"A film glorifying the US military, bowing to Chinese sensitivities," one person wrote on Twitter.
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Bowing to public pressure in Canada, Trudeau allowed American draft evaders to stay in Canada.
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Kaine responded to a report that the administration was "bowing to pressure" from Florida Gov.
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But there's a difference between bowing to a political reality and embracing a counterproductive narrative.
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We should probably move for a while to the Japanese simple bowing to each other.
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And, bowing to its critics, MSNBC is reportedly reconsidering its entire approach to 2020 coverage.
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"They were recognizing multiple different bird calls and bowing to different individuals," Ms. Hannan said.
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But critics suggest governments may also be bowing to pressure from powerful car industry lobby groups.
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Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Trump said Tuesday he would no longer talk about Curiel.
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The appeal of bowing to pressure palls if it is unlikely to make the pressure stop.
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The new accord removes foreign magistrates from the tribunal, bowing to a demand by Colombian judges.
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" A top-30 investor in the bank added: "I believe he is bowing to the inevitable.
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In part, those advocating a warier approach to China are bowing to an unhappy political logic.
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The trend they're bowing to is millennial pink, a design phenomenon first highlighted by The Cut.
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The company denies bowing to government demands and says Gado's contract came to "a natural end".
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Trump, bowing to bipartisan backlash, signed an executive order to stop the family separations last month.
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And once the "Article 50" business is done, there will be more bowing to the inevitable.
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Microsoft decided last year to shut down its own CodePlex software repository, bowing to GitHub's popularity.
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Bowing to conservative pressure, the addendum did not mention allowing women to sit on the throne.
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But Koepka's most prominent challengers, though impressed with Koepka's performance, were not bowing to his ascension.
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But today Trump is not just bowing to a king; he's kowtowing to a mad prince.
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Bowing to his parents' wishes, he accepted a scholarship to study medicine at Christ's College, Cambridge.
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Clearly investors aren't thrilled that these financial giants are bowing to pressure from a measly startup.
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They know he's unlikely to start bowing to authority now he's on verge of the nomination.
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And Patel outlines the broad implications Apple's bowing to Chinese pressure could have for democracy at large.
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After thriving in his musical studies, Schütz, bowing to family pressure, began to study law in Marburg.
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He also installed Wi-Fi, bowing to what he said was his young clientele's one nonnegotiable demand.
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Outerwall, bowing to pressure from Engaged Capital, said in March it would explore strategic and financial options.
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Democrats are bowing to hard-left special interests that can't get over the results of the election.
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Lawmakers voted last year to ban all ivory sales by 2021, bowing to pressure from environmental activists.
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But it's possible the Communist Party would rather wreck their own economy than be seen bowing to America.
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The future just keeps arriving, mutating, bowing to the fickle pressures of advertising markets and quarterly earnings reports.
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The IT services provider named three directors to its board, bowing to pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management.
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N said on Thursday it would explore strategic alternatives, bowing to pressure from U.S. hedge fund Caerus Investors.
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The program has been criticized for dragging its feet and bowing to the interests of the chemical industry.
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In her acceptance speech, Oh thanked her parents in Korean, saying "I love you" and bowing to them.
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Two days later, bowing to pressure from Ukrainian civil society and western donors, the Rada dismissed Mr Shokin.
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Meanwhile, religious leaders affiliated with Nahdlatul Ulama, Muhammadiyah's main rival, criticized Muhammadiyah for supposedly bowing to Bloomberg's money.
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Bookmakers give Real slightly better odds on Saturday, perhaps bowing to its unmatched trophy haul in the competition.
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Experts who have seen the letter to ministers say the commissioner appeared to be bowing to carmakers' demands.
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Leavers, bowing to the first impulse, insisted on stopping free movement, making a "Norway" single-market solution untenable.
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With Trump bowing to his wishes, Rubio has also started exerting his influence on other Pink Tide countries.
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Bowing to objections from Republicans would appear to acknowledge that legitimate concerns over the original choice do exist.
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This week's action again demonstrated Kim has no intention of bowing to the demands of any external power.
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The Palestinian BDS National Committee responded by accusing the UN of bowing to pro-Israel pressure from Trump's administration.
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Australia's conservative government opposed holding a Royal Commission before bowing to pressure from Katter and others in late 2017.
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The Information, which broke this story earlier this morning, argues that this means that Mesosphere is "bowing" to Kubernetes.
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Bashir has blamed the unrest on unnamed foreign powers and showed no signs of bowing to demands to quit.
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On Monday, Fico's ally, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak, said he would resign, bowing to the demands of Most-Hid.
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Most debt investors around the world are bowing to lame terms, however, meaning Caesars probably will be an exception.
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The State Legislature and the governor overrode that ordinance, bowing to political pressure in other parts of the state.
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He only began confirming judges at a more rapid pace after bowing to pressure from conservatives and the president.
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More likely is that she eventually creates a public account, because she's bowing to some industry or public pressure.
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Bowing to years of intensive N.R.A. lobbying, Congress enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005.
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If anything, it is Ms. Carmena's leftist backers who have criticized her for bowing to Madrid's powerful business lobby.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, bowing to intense pressure, told restaurants, bars, cafes and health clubs to close.
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But like Clarifai, as many as 20 other companies have worked on the project without bowing to ethical concerns.
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Bowing to the inevitable, the GSMA telecoms association that hosts the get-together said it had cancelled the Feb.
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Bowing to the inevitable, the GSMA telecoms association that hosts the get-together said it had canceled the Feb.
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Even when you do have a rare case of the university bowing to hard fiscal realities, it doesn't last.
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Bowing to criticism, EA didn't strip loot boxes from Battlefront II, but did remove the option to pay for them.
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But ABC backed away from naming names, and Palfrey accused the network of bowing to government pressure by withholding them.
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As Gizmodo noted, Gawker has been a strong critic of other sites for bowing to outside pressure and deleting posts.
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Bowing to intensifying political pressure, several major drugmakers have also announced drug price freezes until the end of the year.
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That decision was widely seen as bowing to pressure from President Tayyip Erdogan, who has repeatedly railed against high rates.
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Bowing to pushy investors has become more common in Japan: Olympus and bathroom fixtures maker Lixil have done so, too.
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Ryanair suffered a series of damaging strikes last year after bowing to pressure to recognize unions for the first time.
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Bowing to short-term shareholder pressures that felled predecessor Mark Fields, Hackett is undoing 503 years of Ford's automobile legacy.
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Bowing to conservatives, on his first day, President George W. Bush ended funding of overseas clinics that provided abortion services.
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He criticized Europe for bowing to Turkey's demands and not taking a tougher line with Ankara on its domestic troubles.
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Bowing to pragmatism, Mr. Obama decided those detainees would have to remain locked up without trial for the time being.
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But bowing to the protesters' demands and seeming to cave in to the French street has political downsides as well.
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There has been no bowing to kings, no leading from behind and guess what, folks, the world is still standing.
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Last year, the State Department, bowing to Turkish objections, quietly blocked a Kurdish effort to begin reconciliation talks with Damascus.
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It was the latest signal that Mr. Xi has no intention of bowing to the protesters' demands for greater rights.
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Bowing to the pressure, Bank of America held a vote on the issue in September, but shareholders upheld the board's decision.
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Italian media quoted Trapani Prosecutor Alfredo Morvillo as saying the investigation would be carried out without bowing to any political pressures.
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Tom Petty had hit singles in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, and did it without ever truly bowing to the times.
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Cook's comments come after U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D - Vermont) criticized Apple for bowing to Chinese demands to remove these apps.
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But after an outcry by students and alumni, with some accusing the university of bowing to China, the school reversed course.
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Bowing to GOP pressure, Trump said later Tuesday he would no longer talk about Curiel, but stopped short of an apology.
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The opposition, among them leftist parties, accused the government of violating national sovereignty and bowing to the terms of the IMF.
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Salvini dispatched his closest aide, Giancarlo Giorgetti, to see Casellati and he showed no sign of bowing to 5-Star's demands.
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Everything we know about Apple historically tells us that bowing to this kind of censorship is antithetical to its core values.
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The Pistons (37-44) trailed through the first three quarters but made a late-game charge before bowing to Payton's heroics.
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Trump on Wednesday announced the U.S. will ground the Boeing Max 2023 aircraft "effective immediately," bowing to heavy pressure from lawmakers.
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Given his grim poll numbers, Flake was simply bowing to political facts by waving the white flag on his reelection fight.
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Bowing to pressure, the government eventually refunded most of his original deposit but deducted the three interest payments he had received.
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Bowing to conservative pressure, the addendum makes no mention of any discussion to allow women to sit on the throne themselves.
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In a New York Times Magazine cover story, author Michael Pollan accused the administration of bowing to the demands of corporate agribusiness.
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And more importantly, what do the men with TVs for heads have to do with the little guys bowing to the cube?
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Lebanon's prime minister presented his resignation on Tuesday, bowing to demands by protesters who have paralyzed the country for 13 straight days.
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Caral Ni Chuilin of Sinn Fein, the main nationalist party, accuses NIHE of bowing to unionist pressure not to develop vacant sites.
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In contrast, techno-optimists claim that human superiority, which defined intelligence activities over the last century, is already bowing to technological superiority.
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Power company director Ricardo Ramos said Sunday that he&aposs bowing to a demand by the U.S. territory&aposs governor, Ricardo Rossello.
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But perhaps there is a resignation that bowing to the surveillance juggernaut is the requisite price for participating in this modern economy.
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PulteGroup announced earlier this month Dugas would retire effective May 2017, bowing to a demand from founder and Chairman Emeritus Bill Pulte.
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Bouteflika stepped down three weeks ago, bowing to pressure from the army and weeks of demonstrations by mainly younger Algerians seeking change.
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Facebook has stopped collecting WhatsApp user data across Europe, the Financial Times reports, bowing to pressure from privacy watchdogs across the continent.
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The attorney general recused himself Thursday from any federal probes into Russia's election interference, bowing to bipartisan pressure that he step aside.
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Trump, bowing to intensifying pressure, reversed course last week and signed an executive order halting his administration's practice of separating migrant families.
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Bouteflika stepped down this month, bowing to pressure from the army and after weeks of demonstrations mainly by young people seeking change.
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Fastjet announced in March the departure of Chief Executive Ed Winter, bowing to pressure from easyGroup, which holds a 12.6 percent stake.
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The next day, Pasternak — bowing to Soviet pressure — cabled the Swedish Academy to let them know he could not accept the award.
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The technology giant is now bowing to the pressure, agreeing to turn over more than 3,000 of those ads to congressional investigators.
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And it applies to everyone, including the running back digging in for the extra yard and the lineman bowing to prevent it.
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China's government announced a new tariff on U.S. grain Tuesday morning while simultaneously bowing to U.S. demands on automobile imports, CNBC reports.
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SeaWorld said last month that it would stop breeding killer whales in captivity, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
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In reality, they said, the city wanted to break up large gatherings of homeless people, bowing to the demands of some residents.
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Prime Minister Theresa May announced the timetable for her resignation last month, finally bowing to intense political pressure over the country's Brexit impasse.
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Bowing to pressure from the right, House leaders instituted an income cap on the tax credit to prevent wealthier Americans from claiming it.
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Nothing in the vegetable plot except mushy weeds bowing to the earth, something sodden and green that may once have been a potato.
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GUTFELD: OK. I read Reason Magazine, I usually respect -- I like what they say, but they say that NFL was bowing to Trump.
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Still, market participants said the lack of action only deepened concerns the bank is bowing to political pressure to keep borrowing costs down.
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Bowing to off-stage pressure from Republican bigwigs, he backed away from his earlier, unconstitutional talk of banning Muslims from entry to America.
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"The agency is bowing to political pressure and ignoring its own experts, and that's a terrible sign for the species," Grijalva said Wednesday.
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On Sunday, Morales resigned in a televised address, bowing to pressure from the military and weeks of protests over an allegedly rigged election.
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Trump bowing to the NRA and refusing to support background checks could be a death blow to the GOP winning back suburban women
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First, there's the calculation that bowing to the interests of the Turkish government was a fair price for tamping down the far right.
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I think we have to stop bowing to that and really say yes we believe in this and we have the right idea.
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Some of those activists have begun to bristle publicly at what they regard as Mr. Grassley's weakness in bowing to Dr. Blasey's demands.
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But if he tries to undo it, he could strain the alliance with Washington while leaving the impression of bowing to Chinese pressure.
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Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) — who chairs the panel that held Tuesday's hearing — raise fears the company is bowing to censorship pressure from Beijing.
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"This, all of this, is due to our efforts, not bowing to political correctness, not worrying about being loved today," Mr. Christie said.
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In peripheral economies, the battle lines are clear enough; Greeks see themselves as bowing to Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, rather than to faceless Eurocrats.
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The immigrant from Uzbekistan was allowed into the country in 2010 on a diversity visa, President Trump now bowing to end the lottery program.
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But thankfully, some celebrities are not bowing to the pressure to "bounce back" after giving birth, and setting a good example for us all.
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Google is bowing to the inevitable and shutting down the Inbox email app, though users will have until March to switch over to Gmail.
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"We'd go over there, and Magic and Sphen would be bowing to each other," Tish Hannan, the aquarium's penguin department supervisor, told ABC News.
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The maids bowing to Gianni Versace in the morning creeped me out a bit, but I was too distracted with the tiling to care.
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The more logical conclusion is that people are just doing what I did, by finally bowing to Tidal's stranglehold on top tier music releases.
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Will they allow their coverage to be manipulated by those in power, or will they exercise their unbiased judgment without bowing to political pressure?
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Most recently, bowing to pressure from investors and rating agencies, he scrapped Rio's long-standing dividend policy, which it had promised never to cut.
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When she was 13, she said, she came home to find "a little man sitting on the floor" and saw visitors bowing to him.
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Trump, bowing to bipartisan pressure, attempted to ease criticism for his administration's policy last week by signing an executive order to halt family separations.
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But on Monday, bowing to pressure from Democrats, the White House gave the agency free rein to interview as many people as it desired.
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Bowing to domestic protests and international pressure, Bolsonaro deployed the military over the weekend to fight the fires now burning across six Brazilian states.
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This is particularly true if you're not a football fan but are bowing to social pressure and pretending to be one for the day.
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Bowing to public demand after he published several calendars featuring female curlers, Karrys came out with the first Men of Curling Calendar in 2014.
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Instead, he sees a game of retitling courses and bowing to complaints in a transparent attempt to appease the college's crucial customers: the students.
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We hope that compassion for our veterans—not bowing to asbestos interests campaign donations—will prevail, and the Senate will roundly oppose S.357.
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Unhappy with this partial bowing to its censors, CCTV and Tencent announced they would suspend current broadcast arrangements for the NBA's pre-season games.
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Bowing to the inevitable, Hurley also began collecting the school's basketball trophies from their perches on shelves in the hallways and in the auditorium.
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Bowing to nearly a week of intense public pressure, the Charlotte Police Department released video footage on Saturday of officers shooting Keith Lamont Scott.
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"The people must rally around the flag, not listen to false prophets who accept dirty cash & preach bowing to Beijing & spurning the #US," Wu wrote.
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Some point to the rushed passage of a controversial law bowing to Jewish nationalism as proof that he is preparing to go to the polls.
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"We'd go over there and Magic and Sphen would be bowing to each other," Tish Hannan, supervisor of the aquarium's penguin department told the broadcaster.
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In 2013 Ghana more than tripled its capital requirements for foreign-owned trading companies, bowing to local retailers irked by a proliferation of Nigerian shops.
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The Swedish justice system is not bowing to pressure from the U.S. government ... with the Prime Minister essentially telling President Trump and the State Dept.
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The group has been in crisis-mode since the sudden departure of both its chief executive and chairman in July, bowing to pressure from shareholders.
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Trump on Wednesday announced the U.S. will ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft "effective immediately," bowing to heavy pressure from lawmakers.
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Trump, bowing to intensifying pressure from both sides of the aisle to stop such separations, signed an executive order on Wednesday to halt the practice.
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Separately, the president abandoned his embrace of expansive gun control, bowing to pressure by the National Rifle Association and embracing its agenda of arming teachers.
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Critics claim companies like Apple are simply bowing to Chinese pressure because they are worried about the possible loss of revenue caused by angering Beijing.
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The Awami League came close to doing just that in recent years, bowing to Islamists' requests to prove to them that it is Islamic enough.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had previously stepped down from an advisory council in February, bowing to pressure from outside groups and vexed employees at Uber.
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He accused the upstate Republicans of "zealotry" and bowing to the "Ryan radical right," a reference to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who backs the bill.
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That made it "even more essential ... to avoid any weakening of their ruling mechanism by bowing to U.S. calls for less state involvement," he added.
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The contrast between the show's subject and the current government emphasis on "family values" prompted immediate accusations that Mr. Urin was bowing to Kremlin pressure.
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This year in Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh left the country after finally bowing to the result of an election that ended his 20033-year rule.
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Tech companies appear to be bowing to new privacy rules springing up in Europe, California and elsewhere, putting in place processes to show they're complying.
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But on Saturday, Beijing abruptly fired the securities chief, bowing to criticism of the country's bungled attempts to stem a market rout that started last summer.
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Ryanair has been hit by a series of strikes across Europe despite bowing to pressure to recognise unions for the first time almost a year ago.
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FYI, RiRi is a HUUUUGE Bron fan -- and can be seen bowing to #23 while sitting in her courtside seats at Game 1 on Thursday night.
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The president and his ruling National Congress Party have shown no sign of bowing to those demands and have blamed the unrest on unnamed foreign powers.
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Gigi Sohn, a fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, accused Justice Department officials of bowing to political pressure from the White House.
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"No one in a position of authority is taking this seriously," said Morrissette, who accused the state's leadership of bowing to pressure from the energy industry.
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A growing number of brands are bowing to grass-roots pressure and consumer surveys that show that sustainability and ethics are top concerns for young shoppers.
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Then, bowing to international uproar, authorities proceeded with an investigation that, while deeply flawed, eventually led to eight suspects being arrested and charged with Cáceres's murder.
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In this era of expanding government secrecy, the Court should refrain from bowing to corporate interests and uphold the public's overarching interest in access to information.
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Charlotte, bowing to the prejudices of the day, often presented herself as a kind of country mouse, nothing more than the daughter of a humble clergyman.
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It's possible that Trump's threats to close the border are mostly meant to pressure the Mexican government and Democrats in Congress into bowing to his demands.
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Bowing to commercial considerations, the producers had renamed the movie "Sympathy for the Devil" and dubbed the complete recording of the song over the last sequence.
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Al Franken (D-Minn.) resigned in January after a slew of sexual harassment allegations, bowing to demands from female and male senators that he step down.
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As an interracial family in the 1950s — James's father was black, his mother white — "there wasn't a lot of bowing to institutional doctrines," he told me.
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On Saturday, the No. 153 seed, Karolina Pliskova, joined Osaka on the upset list, bowing to 30th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).
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The mining and commodities giant said it would also set new targets for cutting emissions from both its activities and products, bowing to pressure from shareholders.
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VUCJAK, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnian authorities, bowing to international pressure, begun moving migrants on Tuesday from a freezing makeshift camp in a forest to more appropriate shelter.
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Mr. Jammeh took power in a coup, as a 29-year-old lieutenant in 1994, before bowing to international pressure and holding elections two years later.
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Senate Republicans are now faced with the hard choice of defending their institution, which Mr. Trump is attempting to circumvent, or bowing to the president's whims.
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It captures Harvest Moon's satisfying fantasy of simple, honest work without simply bowing to nostalgia, making it the perfect way to escape the last days of 2016.
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Even on a low wooden stool you are completely doubled over, bowing to the clay, perhaps in reverence the first time round, the second time in supplication.
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Farah, 64, was one of the three directors that Tiffany had agreed to add to its board, bowing to pressure from activist investor Jana Partners in February.
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On Thursday, Sessions, bowing to mounting GOP pressure, announced that he was recusing himself from the escalating FBI probe into Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Behind all this is an EPA bowing to the demands of activists who ignore current environmental and financial assurance laws that protect taxpayers from post-mining costs.
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In December Ecuador, bowing to pressure from Cuba's government, imposed a visa requirement on Cubans, in effect closing off the most popular route to the United States.
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Lastly, acting against the trade and the "festival" could also expose the Yulin authorities to nationalistic accusations that the local leaders are bowing to Western cultural imperialism.
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Bowing to national pressure, Indiana enacted a "fix" stipulating that the exemptions could not be used to justify discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation.
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It suggests that we are not independent authors of the community narrative, but are prone to bowing to the loudest and most influential voices in our orbit.
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On Thursday, bowing to pressure from Trump, Israel barred a visit by Rashida Tlaib and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar that it had initially said it would allow.
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Critics of the governor have said those alternatives are not practical and have accused Mr. Cuomo of bowing to pressure from environmental groups without providing practical alternatives.
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The move, which was quickly reversed, was harshly criticized by Republicans, who accused the Obama administration of bowing to political correctness at the expense of national security.
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CEO Richard Smith abruptly retired from the company on Tuesday, and some believe it was an attempt by Equifax to avoid being perceived as bowing to Congress.
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Bowing to intense public pressure, Sina Weibo -- often called China's Twitter -- said its latest campaign to "clean up" the platform would no longer target gay-themed content.
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Bowing to the terms of the contract, NBC will pay Kelly the remaining sum of money, believed to total about $30 million, two of the sources said.
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Bowing to the demands of the United States Olympic Committee, U.S.A. Gymnastics confirmed Friday night that all the remaining members of its board of directors would resign.
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That decision ignited fury among Chinese students, who saw it as a betrayal by Western nations and by China's leaders, whom they accused of bowing to Japan.
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There are many different forms of greetings around the world — from kisses on the cheek to bowing to even sticking one's tongue out as a cordial acknowledgement.
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Definers distributed a 13-page memo titled "Apple Bowing to Chinese Cyber Regulators" that detailed how Apple's activity in China contradicted its public stance on privacy elsewhere.
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Bowing to pressure from congressional Republicans, he said the suspects would instead be tried before military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that Obama had hoped to abandon.
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The shutdown ended after 21 days, with Clinton bowing to a key Republican demand: submitting a seven-year balanced budget plan scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
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The NBA's China crisis has also drawn comments from American politicians who initially accused the league of bowing to Beijing's pressure and putting money over human rights.
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The violation became public after Emanuel released hundreds of emails in December, bowing to pressure from two lawsuits claiming that he had violated Illinois's open record law.
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Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), the young advocates accused Congress of bowing to the wishes of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) at the expense of school safety.
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She was bowing to demands by pro-European rebels in her Conservative government that she reduce the risk of a chaotic "no deal" departure on March 29.
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Bowing to this argument, the Obama administration's Department of Labor granted state and municipal governments a waiver from ERISA for government sponsored plans for private sector workers.
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Bernie Sanders is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't with his fans -- one of whom totally lit into him for bowing to Hillary Clinton. Sen.
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It ended the sale of assault-rifle in 2015 and also raised the minimum age for gun purchases to 21 in 2018, bowing to years of public pressure.
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down after 20 years in power this month, bowing to pressure from the army and weeks of demonstrations mainly by young people seeking change.
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In July, Apple removed apps that allowed people in China to evade censorship to comply with Chinese regulations, sparking criticism that it was bowing to Beijing's stringent censorship.
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On Friday, bowing to popular pressure, Communist Party officials said they would send a team from the powerful anticorruption committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding Dr. Li's death.
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By leaving its three other rates, including the benchmark repo rate, steady, the Turkish central bank could fuel concern it is bowing to pressure from President Tayyip Erdogan.
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Last month, Philadelphia announced it will end a major information-sharing contract with ICE , bowing to intense pressure from activist groups and drawing immediate condemnation from federal officials.
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Those lawyers are now accusing the special litigation committee of bowing to Ellison and Catz and attempting to "hobble" the pursuit of a case that the committee greenlighted.
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The Brazilian president's unannounced visit to the CIA on Monday also drew the ire of his opponents back home, who see it as his bowing to U.S. power.
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It also comes after Andrew McCabe stepped down as deputy director of the FBI, bowing to pressure from Trump and congressional Republicans who were clamoring for his ouster.
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Thiel and his buddy David Sacks argued that colleges were bowing to political correctness, dumbing down their admissions policies and silencing intellectual dissent in the "name of diversity."
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Footage of the wedding showed Suthida kneeling and bowing to the king before sitting beside him to sign marriage documents inside the ornate Ampornsathan Throne Hall in Bangkok.
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It dropped its pledge to go into opposition only after Merkel failed to form a government, bowing to pressure from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to ease the deadlock.
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LONDON — Unilever, the consumer products giant, has given up on plans to close its London headquarters, bowing to shareholder criticism of a move to simplify its corporate structure.
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First Google, then Apple, and now Amazon: all three are bowing to pressure from the EU over the issue of humans reviewing recordings from their respective digital assistants.
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For decades the ruling clerics, bowing to reality, have said that people are free to do as they like, but only in the privacy of their own homes.
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Indeed, I suspect that many of his officials are engaged in what I once saw described as "bicycling": bowing to the man above while trampling on those below.
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Bowing to pressure, the Trump administration permitted members of the intelligence committees and congressional leaders to read a copy of the complaint, which remains classified, late on Wednesday.
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The president then ordered the agency to support his version of events, triggering a collision course with an organization that prides itself on never bowing to political pressure.
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After bowing to employee pressure and cancelling Project Maven, Google&aposs AI work for the military, he secretly met with military officials to try to smooth over relations.
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But Barack Obama, despite his obvious skepticism of the war effort, exacerbated Bush's mistakes by bowing to the Washington foreign policy blob and authorizing a pointless troop surge.
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"I think along with Lindsay Reynolds it's definitely a sign of them kind of bowing to the traditional people who work in this job," Ms. Andersen Brower said.
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The Hallmark Channel came under fire for refusing to air ads featuring a same-sex couple in a move that was bowing to pressure from a conservative group.
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Until recently, Charli had been releasing sporadic cult mixtapes and infectious loosies—the strategy of an artist who seemed more interested in innovating than bowing to industry expectations.
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Puigdemont was clearly bowing to the last minute plea by Donald Tusk, president of the European Counsel, not to take an irreversible step that could block any negotiations.
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Donald Trump might be America's midnight wordsmith, but Merriam-Webster isn't bowing to all the covfefe -- the President's made-up lingo will NOT be in their good book.
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After the first round, he thanked Zeman voters for "not bowing to foreign interests", migration and the related "threat of liquidation of European and Czech culture, traditions and values".
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Switzerland, the world's largest offshore wealth centre, last year began sharing bank data with many foreign tax authorities, bowing to international pressure to help crack down on tax cheats.
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While the Centre Court crowd erupted as they rose to their feet, some fans were seen bowing to Nadal's greatness and even Sousa joined in by applauding the effort.
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Creation of a dolphin sanctuary comes three months after SeaWorld Entertainment Inc said it would halt breeding killer whales in its parks, bowing to pressure from animal rights activists.
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Ronda Rousey graciously if not belatedly accepted defeat on "Saturday Night Live," bowing to Holly Holm, and then playing a thirsty bachelorette and a bullied student who kicks ass.
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Trump hates when his underlings get bad press more than he hates bowing to CW. (I think.) And, on #2: OF COURSE he can find someone to replace Price.
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The Democrats' beef: they see the willingness of the Justice Department and FBI to share some classified information about Russia meddling investigative tactics as bowing to pressure from Trump.
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It could also lead to worries that the central bank is bowing to the pressure from President Donald Trump, who has made clear that he opposes higher interest rates.
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BEIJING — Bowing to days of passionate street protests, a city government in eastern China said Wednesday that it had halted any plans to build a nuclear fuel plant there.
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Werner Faymann stepped down as chancellor on Monday, bowing to a party revolt that erupted after the SPO's candidate in Austria's presidential election crashed out in the first round.
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Some analysts accuse Meirelles of bowing to governors' pressure and diluting the original bill that aims to rebalance the finances of states struggling to honor their debts and payrolls.
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Both of them voted against the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh; Mr. Manchin, bowing to the will of his constituents, was the lone Democrat to vote in favor.
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Bowing to investor pressure, FirstGroup last month put its iconic North American bus line Greyhound up for sale and said it would spin off its UK First Bus business.
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McDermott, speaking on a late-night call with reporters, denied bowing to pressure from Elliott, saying he would have had to decide on renewing his contract in early 2020.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Pakistan said it is not bowing to Indian or international pressure as it cracks down on militant groups in the wake of the crisis over Kashmir.
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Trade between China and North Korea looks to be slowing drastically, providing further evidence that Beijing may be bowing to U.S. requests to put pressure on the rogue state.
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"For every one person accusing us of this, there's at least one gender-critical feminist accusing us of being anti-feminist or bowing to the patriarchy," she tells me.
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In 2016, bowing to complaints about noise and air pollution, the city reached a deal with Manhattan's helicopter sightseeing tour operators to cut the number of their flights by half.
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Bowing to Mr. Kim's needs puts him in a weaker negotiating position and is unlikely to sit well with the president, whose bellicose foreign policy leaves little room for deference.
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Democrats, sensing a prime opportunity to make Republicans pay a political price for bowing to their hard-liners, moved quickly on Saturday to stir up outrage from their own partisans.
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Trump on Monday denounced white supremacists, including neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, as "criminals and thugs," bowing to days of mounting political pressure to condemn such groups explicitly.
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Bowing to pressure from Democrats, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has agreed to testify in public Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has scheduled a hearing for 2:30 p.m.
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Aides were arguing in favor of "bowing to what was demanded," said Petro Burkovskiy, a senior fellow at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation who has close ties to the Ukrainian government.
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The low-cost carrier scrubbed its plans last month, accusing Boryspil International Airport in Kiev of bowing to the wishes of its largest customer, flag-carrier Ukraine International Airlines (UIA).
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Dorsey has given multiple contradictory explanations for Twitter's approach to handling Jones, but above all, he's been consistent on one point: not bowing to public opinion and pressure to act.
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"Congress should be making it easier for Americans to file their taxes each year, not bowing to the interests of the tax prep industry," Warren said in a press release.
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MOSCOW — Bowing to pressure from international donors, the Ukrainian Parliament voted on Tuesday to remove a prosecutor general who had clung to power for months despite visible signs of corruption.
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Bowing to investor pressure, the company last month put its iconic North American bus line Greyhound up for sale and said it would spin off its UK First Bus business.
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Bowing to pressure from the House Freedom Caucus, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday that will be a step toward impeaching Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
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Mr. Trump has, as with so much else, redefined the political role of the presidency to fit his own unconventional style rather than bowing to the customs of the office.
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There are men in the narrative of "Jagged Little Pill," but what's thrilling about the album, especially today, is that Ms. Morissette seems so uninterested in bowing to their presence.
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Bouteflika stepped down two weeks ago after 20 years in power, bowing to pressure from the army and weeks of demonstrations mainly by young people seeking change in the country.
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Bowing to pressure from patient advocates, the FDA approved the drug, Exondys 0003, last month, even though an outside panel of experts and the agency's own reviewers questioned its efficacy.
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But absent new developments, perhaps on the scale of an on the record, public accusation against Kavanaugh, it is hard to see Republican senators bowing to Democratic pressure to act.
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So there is no circumstance under which Xi could allow himself to be seen as bowing to bullying from any Western leader, let alone an American president as combative as Trump.
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Former CEO Tim Sloan announced in March that he was stepping down immediately, bowing to pressure from regulators and politicians who were frustrated at the pace of change at the bank.
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Huawei, China's tech champion, has lost access to Google's Android and Intel's chips, and it's even seen other international partners like ARM and Panasonic bowing to American influence and discontinuing trade.
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He later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where, bowing to the demands of repertory theaters of the period, he took pains to cultivate plummy London diction.
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With the franchise's comedic heavy hitters off-world, the best the Earthbound crew can really manage by way of a funny introduction is Rhodey duping Banner into bowing to King T'Challa.
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Bowing to the Commission's demand to create a fourth network operator also proved impossible as it failed to find a buyer for either O2 or its own UK mobile subsidiary Three.
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But she said she grew to understand they weren't bowing to pressure to appeal to the male gaze, but were instead celebrating their choice and right to dress however they pleased.
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Rihanna was ON FIRE during Game 1 of the NBA Finals -- allegedly heckling Kevin Durant, bowing to LeBron James ... and talking trash to haters on the way out of the arena.
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Everywhere you look box office stats are bowing to the power of these heroes — Endgame has nearly hit $21 billion in 2145.8D ticket sales, the fastest film ever to do so.
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Bowing to pressure from growers, the Australian government in 2013 rejected a A$2.8 billion bid for GrainCorp by U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co Ltd on national interest grounds.
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Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last month he would not run in the presidential elections, bowing to the wishes of Ayatollah Khamenei who warned his candidacy would increase divisions in Iran.
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At least Brian (Kelvin Yu) and Arnold's shockingly intense Jabbawockeez fandom gives viewers the hilarious scene of the pair and their idols bowing to each other in a never-ending loop.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Bowing to pressure from the ultra-Orthodox parties, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze plans for an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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"Bowing to concerns from Republican House members in high-tax states, the chamber's chief tax writer said he'll preserve a federal income-tax break for property taxes," per Bloomberg's Ben Brody.
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It's not a matter of bowing to Trump; it's a matter of articulating the conservative solutions that will make life better for all Americans and fit the needs of voters today.
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SeaWorld said on Thursday that it would immediately cease breeding killer whales, bowing to mounting criticism by animal rights activists, regulators and lawmakers over the treatment of marine mammals in captivity.
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On Thursday morning, Ms. Bresch, bowing to pressure, announced that the company would expand its coupon and patient assistance programs to help patients who were facing higher out-of-pocket costs.
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BEIJING — One of the world's largest academic publishers was criticized on Wednesday for bowing to pressure from the Chinese government to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese website.
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Bowing to criticism, the court, which sits in the majestic Peace Palace, has agreed to crack down on moonlighting by judges as arbitrators in cases unrelated to their full-time jobs.
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Mr. O'Rourke, who bridled last month when he was asked at an event in Virginia why he was not on television more, is hardly alone in bowing to the new format.
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BEIJING — The Chinese government, bowing to pressure from environmental groups, said on Monday that it would temporarily reinstate a ban on the use of rhinoceros horns and tiger bones in medicine.
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After finally bowing to the creation of the tournament, UEFA has so far stymied FIFA's efforts to secure the participation of the continent's top teams for the inaugural event next year.
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THE KEY The FBI has pledged to revamp its policies for sharing information about election breaches, bowing to criticism that it was far too secretive about Russian hacking efforts in 2016.
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Big technology companies have usually played a defensive game with government prosecutors in their legal fight over customer information, fighting or bowing to requests for information one case at a time.
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LIESMAN: DO YOU WORRY AT A TIME -- LET'S SAY THERE WAS A CLOSE CALL ON RAISING RATES, THAT IT COULD POTENTIALLY BE SEEN AS BOWING TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESIDENT?
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But some supporters of the universal health care measure, led by the California Nurses Association, said Rendon was bowing to big industry groups that contribute to state Democrats' political action committees.
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New York (CNN Business)Bowing to growing pressure from opponents who say that cashless stores leave out low-income Americans, Amazon plans to take cash at its 10 cashierless "Go" stores.
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Kim returned to South Korea after Chun, bowing to weeks of massive public protests, allowed a free, direct presidential election in 1987, which marked South Korea&aposs transition toward a genuine democracy.
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Faced with the threat of tariffs on its car exports, Germany wants to negotiate a way out of the trade spat with America, but France and others resist bowing to Mr Trump.
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Bowing to widespread opposition from coastal towns, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it won't open the US Atlantic seaboard to offshore oil exploration, but will still allow some leases off Alaska.
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BEIJING — Bowing to intense pressure from millions of internet users, a Chinese social media site said on Monday that it would scrap plans to censor cartoons and video games with gay themes.
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China and India will continue to be important and growing markets for coal, but there too governments struggling with smog are bowing to the physical reality and demanding cleaner sources of energy.
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Katy Perry, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Imagine Dragons, Shawn Mendes and The Chainsmokers are not bowing to the terrorists, because they're fully committed to performing in England this weekend ... with an asterisk.
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Unfortunately, food manufacturers are being subjected to great public pressure to go "GMO-free," with brands like Dannon and Cheerios bowing to the pressure and shifting to sourcing only non-GMO ingredients.
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Hearing and being sensitive to what various fans want makes sense, but bowing to the force of a vocal contingent -- one that's perhaps a small minority -- is a road fraught with peril.
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This could represent Daenerys (the largest dragon) and her three "children" rising as leaders of the Dothraki, who are represented by the horses who appear to be bowing to the Dany-dragon.
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down after 20 years in power 10 days ago, bowing to pressure from the army and weeks of demonstrations mainly by young people seeking change in the country.
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Zanganeh accused Tehran's regional rival Saudi Arabia of bowing to U.S. pressure, saying such remarks had no "real impact on the market" but were part of a psychological war launched against Iran.
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But if the Hashemite Kingdom continues on the path of bowing to the religious right, censorship can only drive out the musicians, authors, and other artists to the point of cultural irrelevance.
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Iran, OPEC's third-largest producer, has accused Trump of orchestrating the oil price rally by imposing sanctions on Tehran and accused its regional arch-rival Saudi Arabia of bowing to U.S. pressure.
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The City University of New York, bowing to pressure from prominent African-American leaders from Harlem, on Monday postponed the anticipated appointment of the next president of City College, its flagship school.
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Trump has signed the DPA but not actually used it, bowing to pressure from business leaders who say there are too many unknowns and have instead volunteered to produce whatever is needed.
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Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain would ultimately leave little doubt about their contempt for the interest-group politics that would come to dominate their party, even after bowing to it at times.
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The New York Philharmonic canceled the remainder of its season on Monday, bowing to the reality that the coronavirus pandemic will silence large-scale performances in the city for months to come.
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The New York Philharmonic canceled the remainder of its season on Monday, bowing to the reality that the coronavirus pandemic will silence large-scale performances in the city for months to come.
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On Tuesday, the East Asian Olympic Committee revoked its decision to host the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taichung, a city in Taiwan, bowing to Chinese pressure, according to news reports.
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By handing the question to the inspector general, Mr. Rosenstein appeared to be trying to thread the needle, giving the president what he said he wanted without fully bowing to his demands.
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Eric Greitens of Missouri announced that he will resign, bowing to months of pressure as he faced a felony charge, a scandal tied to an extramarital relationship and the threat of impeachment.
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Bowing to the pressure from community banking lobbying groups, repealing Section 1071 is a knee-jerk reaction to bankers who claim it is just too onerous to track and report this information.
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Something similar befell China earlier this decade when, late to halt engagement with Muammar el-Qaddafi before eventually bowing to international pressure, it found itself investor non grata in post-revolutionary Libya.
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"Living with fear" goes against everything Bowie and his many alter egos stood for, so it's no surprise that he would view bowing to fear as the absolute worst state of existence.
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Oxfam EU Migration Policy Advisor Raphael Shilhav said European governments were focusing on bowing to anti-immigration sentiment at home for short-term political wins, at the expense of long-term development strategies.
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VW agreed to fit older diesel vehicles with better catalytic converters, reversing its position and bowing to political pressure which mounted in the three years since an emissions cheating scandal, Spiegel Online said.
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No news on Paris-based Zodiac is generally seen as good news, following production upheavals and repeated profit warnings that resulted in the company bowing to Safran's long-held takeover ambitions last year.
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Cognizant rose 5.9 percent to $56.95 after the IT services provider named three directors to its board and announced a $3.4 billion share buyback program, bowing to pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management.
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But, bowing to longstanding staff requests, state-owned transport operator RATP will allow its 15,000 drivers to wear bermuda shorts or skirts from June to September when temperatures rise above 28 Celsius (82F).
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Bowing to regulatory pressure to speed up the reduction of bad debts, Intesa is looking to sell a majority stake in its bad loan unit together with a large portfolio of soured loans.
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In government handout photos of her husband's funeral, a grief-stricken Liu Xia, wearing all black and sunglasses, can be seen bowing to the open casket and holding a portrait of Liu Xiaobo.
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At a meeting in March of the larger Group of 20 finance ministers in Germany, ministers dropped their traditional pledge to keep global free trade open, bowing to an increasingly protectionist United States.
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Cognizant rose 4 percent to $55.93 after the IT services provider named three directors to its board and announced a $3.4 billion share buyback program, bowing to pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management.
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In other corporate news, Cognizant rose 4.4 percent after the IT services provider agreed to appoint three new directors and return $3.4 billion to shareholders, bowing to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.
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But the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination, by bowing to the teachers' unions, would make it harder for these low-income, predominantly minority students to attend a high-quality school. Sen.
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At a meeting of the larger Group of 20 finance ministers in Germany in March, ministers dropped their traditional pledge to keep global free trade open, bowing to an increasingly protectionist United States.
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That is because hospitals, bowing to pressure from the insurance industry and in an effort to keep costs low, have pushed patients into nursing homes that once would have had longer hospital stays.
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Then more criticism when she did cover it in a mosque (protocol like meeting the pope), her shorts, their daughters' expressions and skirt lengths, his bowing to Saudis and I could go on!
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" • "The changes were discussed with other Communist Party leaders, which brought into focus worries that the proposed deal could make Mr. Xi and the party look as if they were bowing to pressure.
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LONDON — Two of the world's leading chemical manufacturers, the Huntsman Corporation and Clariant of Switzerland, terminated a planned multibillion-dollar merger on Friday, bowing to pressure from activist investors who opposed the deal.
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It would underscore the chaos surrounding Mr. Trump; amount to an acknowledgment that Mr. Kavanaugh is tarnished; and, by bowing to liberals demanding he not be confirmed, infuriate the conservative rank-and-file.
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Cognizant rose 4 percent to $55.96 after the IT services provider named three directors to its board and announced a $1 billion share buyback program, bowing to pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management.
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" The Twitter CEO said that bowing to external pressure to take down Jones' account would give the message that the platform was "constructed by our personal views that can swing in any direction.
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Clinton frequently praises Obama, but she's more apt to mention that people are still hurting, bowing to the reality that nearly seven in 2900 Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) said Friday he will soon resign his seat in Congress, bowing to the inevitable after pleading guilty this week to illegally using campaign finance funds for personal matters.
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"We'd go over there and Magic and Sphen would be bowing to each other… [which] is a Gentoo way of saying they love each other," said Tish Hannah, supervisor of the penguin department.
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Still, sexual predators may not change their ways by considering moral arguments or bowing to social pressure, but threats to their funding money—and by virtue, their very livelihood—may actually have an impact.
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ABB and Spiesshofer had originally decided to keep the unit after a review two years ago and recent reports suggested that the chief executive was bowing to pressure from an activist investor to sell.
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In 2015, bowing to pressure from animal-rights groups, Feld Entertainment, the circus's parent company, did away with its elephant acts, and once the big beasts were taken off the show ticket sales plummeted.
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Takata CEO Shigehisa Takada said on Tuesday he would resign after a "new regime" is found for the auto parts supplier, finally bowing to calls to step down over a long-running recall crisis.
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And yet, these accounts, while surely sincere, are also so simplistically heartwarming that they're misleading -- bowing to America's impulse to see certain black lives as a balm for the bruises of the political moment.
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Charlotte police on Saturday released portions of bodycam and dashcam footage and other information related to the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, bowing to public pressure after initially refusing to share any video.
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O on Wednesday agreed to add four new independent directors to its board, bowing to pressure from activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP and averting a proxy fight ahead of its upcoming annual meeting.
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SunEdison added a former partner from David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital to its board, bowing to pressure from the hedge fund, which has sought a sale of the solar company or some of its assets.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government formally suspended plans on Sunday for a mixed-gender prayer space at Jerusalem's Western Wall, bowing to opposition from Orthodox Jewish politicians to reforms at one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday defeated two parliamentary no-confidence motions tabled by opposition parties that accuse his government of conflicts of interest and bowing to industrial and banking lobbies.
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In February, bowing to pressure from activists, Seattle's city council voted to divest approximately $3 billion from Wells Fargo, citing concerns over the bank's support of the North Dakota Access Pipeline, among other factors.
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Trump's comments came hours after, bowing to mounting pressure, he announced that he would sign a short-term funding bill to reopen the government without funds to construct a wall along the southern border.
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down from 20 years in power 10 days ago, bowing to pressure from the army and weeks of demonstrations mainly by young people seeking change in the North African country.
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" Later, bowing to Judaism and other religions, a Sabbath violator was permitted to escape prosecution if he regularly kept "another day of the week as holy time and does not labor on that day.
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In selling its flagship building to a WeWork joint venture for $850 million, Lord & Taylor and its parent, the Hudson's Bay Company, are bowing to pressures that have increasingly weighed on the retail industry.
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CEO Mathias Doepfner's comments on Wednesday came after Scout20.8949 said it would explore a sale or spin-off of its autos platform, bowing to U.S. activist investor Elliott's call to break up the business.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bowing to pressure from lawmakers, Dr. Robert Califf, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, said on Thursday the agency would reform its process for approving opioid painkillers.
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Holding company behemoth WPP consolidated more of its agencies and, bowing to the in-housing trend, said it would create another division to serve marketers trying to set up their own in-house units.
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Trump, bowing to mounting pressure, signed a three-week funding bill late Friday, formally ending the 35-day shutdown without securing the billions of dollars he had demanded for a U.S.–Mexico border wall.
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In November, Fastjet's chairman resigned bowing to the pressure from its second largest investor to sack him for failing to relocate the airline's head office quickly and criticised him for a high cost base.
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Remuneration policies at rival FTSE 100 banks HSBC and StanChart have also been criticized by investors in recent weeks, with HSBC bowing to pressure ahead of its AGM to cut pension contributions for executives.
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Wells Fargo veteran chairman and chief executive officer, John Stumpf, abruptly departed last month bowing to pressure over the bank's sales tactics that have damaged its reputation and put Wall Street under renewed scrutiny.
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Her hybrid response was an indication that Ms. Hyde-Smith's advisers are as concerned about turning off conservatives by bowing to liberal outrage as they are about moderate whites staying home out of embarrassment.
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Bowing to pressure from shareholders and the Paris international climate accord, Royal Dutch Shell pledged on Tuesday to increase its investment in renewable fuels and to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2050.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's soccer, basketball and volleyball leagues suspended matches indefinitely on Thursday due to the widening coronavirus outbreak, bowing to pressure from players and coaches after many other countries called off sports events.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's soccer, basketball and volleyball leagues suspended matches indefinitely on Thursday due to the widening coronavirus outbreak, bowing to pressure from players and coaches after many other countries called off sports events.
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Bowing to pressure from China, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines began to remove references to Taiwan, of which Taipei is the capital city, as a separate country from their websites Wednesday.
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The prosecutor's announcement raised questions about whether Ukraine was bowing to public and private pressure from the president of the United States, on which it has depended on for millions of dollars in aid.
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But, bowing to political pressure, the Obama administration tried to curtail domestic production by denying permits for major pipelines and issuing regulations such as its intentionally tough 2015 rules on production on federal lands.
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ZURICH, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Swiss utilities Axpo, Alpiq and BKW have withdrawn their joint request to build nuclear plants, bowing to the Swiss decision to phase out nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
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Bowing to pressure from Washington, Chinese oil majors Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) have yet to buy any oil from Iran for November because of concerns that sanctions violations could hurt their operations.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon offered his resignation on Tuesday, bowing to a demand of the enormous antigovernment protests that have consumed the country and suspended daily life for nearly two weeks.
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Plus, it would damage his anti-politically correct/tough guy image by making it seem like Trump is bowing to the conventional wisdom that says he needs to improve his appeal to women and minorities.
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They also hold open the possibility that once Mr Gorsuch takes his seat on the bench, the court may begin a move away from bowing to the discretion of the executive branch in close cases.
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While bowing to a standing ovation in San Juan, Miranda surprised the audience at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center by bringing his dad Luis, who's running the production, onstage for an emotional embrace.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India eased taxes for some new businesses on Tuesday, bowing to pressure to exempt them from an "angel tax" on funds they have raised, in an attempt to boost investments and jobs.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann resigned on Monday, bowing to a revolt from inside his Social Democratic Party after it suffered a humiliating electoral defeat to a far right buoyed by Europe's migration crisis.
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His comments did more than obliterate the scripted cleanup effort he mounted at the White House Monday -- after bowing to extreme political pressure that built all weekend for him to call out white supremacist groups.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, bowing to right-wing pressure to scrap the deal.
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Some art world figures already seem to be bowing to fear of censorship: The day after the election, Red Dot Art Fair withdrew its offer to freely show leftist art collective T.Rutt's anti-Trump artworks.
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BEIJING — The Chinese leadership, bowing to immense public pressure, has fired 10 officials and punished dozens more in connection with a scandal over faulty vaccines that has undermined President Xi Jinping and fueled parent protests.
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But to hear Maria tell it, she lived like a serf, bowing to the whims of her feudal lord and lady even before this act of industrial espionage landed her on an F.B.I. witness list.
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"As Republicans continue to support important pro-life policies, Democrats are bowing to the most radical elements of their party & refusing to protect babies still in their mother's womb," Vice President Mike Pence tweeted Tuesday.
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Blizzard's initial decision came under heavy criticism, with numerous western players, commentators and fans accusing the publisher of bowing to pressure from Beijing and pledging to end their relationships with the company over its decision.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Lawmakers in Chile agreed on Friday to hold a referendum next April on replacing the country's dictatorship-era constitution, bowing to demands of protesters who want the country's social and economic model overhauled.
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They also offer a bit of relief, as the FDA has delayed Obama-era initiatives on menu requirements and nutrition labeling over the last year, raising concerns that the agency was bowing to industry pressure.
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Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — One of the most totemic pictures of the Obama era was a White House photo showing the president bowing to let a 5-year-old black boy touch his hair.
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The appointment comes as the company searches for a new chief executive after Chairman and CEO Richard Dugas announced his resignation, effective May 2017, bowing to a demand from founder and largest shareholder Bill Pulte.
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The government has shown no sign of bowing to industry demands that it respect 10-year protections for existing projects against changes to the fiscal regime, or scrap plans to institute a windfall profits tax.
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Bowing to pressure from Washington, China's oil-majors Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) have not ordered any oil from Iran for November because of concerns that violating sanctions could impact their global operations.
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Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — One of the most totemic pictures of the Obama era was a White House photo showing the president bowing to let a 5-year-old black boy touch his hair.
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This was seen by some analysts as a sign the U.S. central bank was bowing to pressure from the White House to keep the dollar weak and strengthen the administration's hand in its trade negotiations.
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Video But Democrats have pushed back against those requests, with Democratic leaders sending a letter to Rosenstein and Wray on Tuesday, expressing concern that the agencies are bowing to pressure from Republicans to disclose sensitive information.
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Bowing to investor pressure, the company scaled back the notes' so-called equity claw provision, which allows a bond issuer to use proceeds from an equity offering to buy back the debt before it becomes callable.
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It's the sort of thing that inspires adults to throw caution to wind, run on the pitch, and ask a tiny soccer player to sign a jersey before bowing to him like some kind of God.
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O) says it is removing virtual private network (VPN) services from its app store in China, drawing criticism from VPN service providers, who accuse the U.S. tech giant of bowing to pressure from Beijing cyber regulators.
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But the Kurdish leadership showed no sign of bowing to pressure to call off the vote, including from the United Nations - which urged Erbil to resolve disputes with Baghdad over land and power sharing through dialogue.
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Trump, bowing to mounting pressure, conceded defeat on the shutdown Friday, stating that he would sign a short-term funding bill to reopen the government without funds to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The three-page document addresses a question now facing Mr. Sanders's most ardent supporters: how to harness the energy of a movement now that his presidential bid appears to be bowing to the reality that Mrs.
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Yahoo, which has been struggling with falling ad revenue for years, has sped up the process to sell its media, email and other web businesses, bowing to pressure from activist shareholder Starboard Value LP and others.
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Two polls show Trump's favorable rating in high 40s, and a strong stock market and steady flow of companies bowing to the president on creating US jobs could keep it there, absent even more serious revelations.
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Several sources said the changes were discussed with other Communist Party leaders, which brought into focus worries that the proposed deal could make Mr. Xi and the party look as if they were bowing to pressure.
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More importantly, it was evidence that Republican leaders seemed more interested in bowing to corporate pressure to keep the borders relatively open instead of dealing with the problems that massive migration present on a human scale.
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A title card tells us that a year later, Duterte, bowing to outside pressure, promised to cut down on extrajudicial killings of suspected drug users, actions that human rights groups have attributed to police and vigilantes.
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After Mr. Nunes scuttled the public hearing with Ms. Yates and other officials in favor of another round of questions for Mr. Comey and Admiral Rogers, Democrats accused Mr. Nunes of bowing to White House pressure.
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Rent-A-Center agreed to be taken private by Vintage Capital in June in a $1.37 billion deal, including debt, bowing to pressure from activist investors who wanted the rent-to-own retailer to sell itself.
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Bowing to the president's demands could be seen internally as weakness, and the changes that the administration wants — reducing China's dominance in cutting-edge manufacturing and technology — is not something Beijing is likely to agree to.
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Now, with lawmakers once against staring down the barrel of a government shutdown, even the GOP's loudest fiscal hawks are bowing to the political reality that spending money is a lot easier than taking it away.
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Bowing to pressure from Papua New Guinea, which said it would forcibly evict and "apprehend" any holdouts on Saturday, around 20 men left the camp for one of the transit centers, three asylum seekers told Reuters.
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They told her that they were bowing to pressure and abandoning their plan to shorten the ceremony by awarding four trophies during commercial breaks, with the winning moments being edited and aired later in the show.
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Laced throughout his speech were warnings, delivered in the brash manner that defined his two terms, to his successor, Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, about not bowing to special interests that would undermine the state's progress.
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They say new figures from the U.N. humanitarian agency that show a large drop in the number of displaced people are misleading, accusing it of bowing to government pressure before a presidential election scheduled for December 23.
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Trump denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs on Monday, bowing to mounting political pressure after initially saying many sides were to blame after a white-nationalist rally turned deadly in Virginia.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not run for president in next year's Iranian election, he said on Tuesday, bowing to the wishes of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who warned his candidacy would increase divisions in Iran.
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That policy led to thousands of migrant children being separated from their parents at the border before President Trump, bowing to bipartisan pressure, signed an executive order aimed at allowing most migrant families to be detained together.
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Chief Executive Heinrich Hiesinger has asked to step down less than a week after sealing a landmark joint venture deal with India's Tata Steel, bowing to growing investor pressure for a more radical restructuring of the group.
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BEIJING — Bowing to two weeks of rising public pressure in China, the Swedish furniture maker Ikea said Tuesday that it would extend its recent recall to a country where so far it has enjoyed a strong reputation.
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Senate Republicans will hold off on the confirmation vote by as much as a week, bowing to a last-minute demand from Senator Jeff Flake to allow time for an F.B.I. investigation into accusations of sexual assault.
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BERLIN, June 18 (Reuters) - The Berlin Senate on Tuesday approved a five-year rent freeze designed to tame soaring housing costs in the German capital, bowing to pressure from residents angry that their city has become unaffordable.
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The company said it was bowing to pressure from shareholders at its British arm, who were worried about leaving the FTSE index, weaker Dutch rules on shareholder rights, and about the future tax treatment of Dutch dividends.
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VUCJAK, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bowing to international pressure, Bosnian authorities agreed on Friday to dismantle a makeshift refugee camp of freezing snow-covered tents, but some migrants living there have been refusing food in protest at being resettled.
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But even with both sides mostly in agreement over the transition period bar a few questions over citizens rights and trade agreements, May faces criticism by Brexit campaigners for bowing to EU demands and accepting the status quo.
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Relocation of migrants in the EU has failed to start on a large scale a year after it was agreed and the eastern member states have shown little sign of bowing to political pressure to take in refugees.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co's veteran chairman and chief executive officer, John Stumpf, abruptly departed on Wednesday bowing to pressure over its sales tactics that has damaged the bank's reputation and put Wall Street under renewed scrutiny.
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The biggest gainer was immigration detention centre operator Broadspectrum, up 32 percent, after bowing to a takeover bid from Spain's Ferrovial SA as a result of plans by Papua New Guinea to shut down a refugee camp there.
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Reaganism meant reframing the presence of illegal migrants in the US as the result of failed federal policies -- at home and abroad -- and bowing to the pressure of big business to safeguard this source of cheap, legal labor.
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Obama's move is a clear indication that the president, far from bowing to liberal pressure, will instead push full-throttle to try to pass the enormous 12-nation agreement — the largest in U.S. history — before he leaves office.
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But President Obama, bowing to the fears of his economic team full of Wall Street veterans, passed her over when it came time to appoint a leader for the agency she had fought for so hard to create.
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Doug Ducey of Arizona on Tuesday appointed Representative Martha McSally to the Senate seat previously held by John McCain, bowing to the preferences of Washington Republicans despite his own misgivings about Ms. McSally's lackluster Senate campaign this year.
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Juul Suspends Selling Most E-Cigarette Flavors in Stores Juul will restrict sales of nearly all its flavored pods to the internet, and stop most social media promotion to combat youth vaping, bowing to government and public pressure.
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Bowing to the demands of the president's lawyers, Mr. Mueller agreed to submit written questions, and only about contacts with Russia before Mr. Trump took office, not about potential obstruction of justice once he entered the White House.
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Bowing to criticism that it was exploiting the coronavirus pandemic, the drugmaker Gilead said on Wednesday that it would no longer seek orphan-drug status for remdesivir, an experimental drug that is being tested as a possible treatment.
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But on Thursday, many of those famed institutions — including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera — announced closings, bowing to the reality of a global epidemic and the government's frantic efforts to confront it.
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The cane growers' union in Mexico on Friday placed an ad in one of Mexico's leading newspapers, accusing the United States of dumping fructose and warning the Mexican government against bowing to "interests and dictates" of American producers.
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"Without GEO, we can't guarantee we can pay for law enforcement, fire or any other services," Mayor Manuel Cantu cautioned on Wednesday, a day after the city's planning commission, bowing to overwhelming public sentiment, voted against the proposal.
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A few said they were bowing to demands from people who found counting by machines to be suspicious; Walworth County officials said they would use a combination of counting by hand and feeding ballots into an optical scanner.
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Consumer price growth has hit a whopping 25 percent in Turkey, but the real challenge lies in the central bank not bowing to pressure to lower interest rates "prematurely" as the inflation rate starts to fall, analysts have said.
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Faymann resigned as chancellor on Monday, bowing to a revolt inside his Social Democratic Party after it suffered a humiliating defeat to the far right in a first-round vote for the largely ceremonial post of president in April.
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There are, of course, plenty of reasons why people might wait to have children — but one thing that's for sure is that many of us don't seem to be bowing to any pressure to have kids sooner these days.
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At the same time other, weaker allies such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia may conclude that bowing to Chinese military and economic power is a safer bet than hoping for a declining America to fight their corner.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy will approve a decree on Friday abolishing one of the most flexible and unregulated forms of payment for workers, a government source said, heading off a referendum on the issue and bowing to trade union demands.
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That's in part because in 2012, after flirting with the idea of running for president, Trump sharply criticized President Barack Obama for bowing to then-Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz when he got his award a few years earlier.
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Bowing to public and Congressional pressure, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Bob Mueller on Wednesday to be a special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Justice Department officials said.
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Sofia cancelled the project in 2012 after failing to find foreign investors and bowing to U.S. and European Union pressure to limit the country's energy dependence on Russia, contracted to build two 1,000 megawatt reactors at the Danube River.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's public broadcaster, the BBC, pays its top male star five times more than its best-paid female presenter, it revealed on Wednesday after bowing to the government's demand to publish the salaries of its highest earners.
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A company bowing to pressure from interest groups and pulling ads might be a lot of things — including, in the past, a preferred tactic of conservatives who have a beef with primetime series — but censorship isn't one of them.
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Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains did not respond directly when asked at the news conference whether Boeing could improve its chances of winning the order for 88 jets by bowing to a Canadian government demand to drop the trade challenge.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate ends on April 28, state news agency APS said on Monday, bowing to weeks of mass protests and army pressure seeking an end to his 2003-year rule.
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It may even be the case that Trump's repeated calls for lower rates acts as a disincentive for the Fed to do so, given the board may not want to appear as if they are bowing to political pressure.
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Clay and his constituent, David Pulphus, had filed a lawsuit in February against the architect of the Capitol for bowing to pressure from House GOP lawmakers and removing it from an underground tunnel connecting office buildings and the Capitol.
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The CFP Board move sparked criticism from the ranks of financial planners, with some claiming the group is reducing transparency and bowing to pressure from big brokerage firms, which generally earn a large share of revenue from sales commissions.
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Scott Pruitt resigned from his post as administrator of the EPA on Thursday, finally bowing to a torrent of spending, travel and secrecy scandals that ended his run as one of President Donald Trump's most aggressive anti-regulation enforcers.
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He has also given into relentless badgering from progressives, endorsing the Green New Deal and bowing to liberal sexual politics with his recent announcement that he would support men who identify as women being housed with females in prison.
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Last Wednesday, South Park aired "Band in China," a new episode poking fun at the way Hollywood has started bowing to Chinese censorship laws, China lashed out at South Park by literally scrubbing the entire show from its internet.
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"The few coworkers I've dared to discuss this with have all shared my sentiment that AT&T is letting us all down by bowing to those who refuse to consider that police brutality is a racially based epidemic," wrote the tipster.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would no longer talk about a Mexican-American judge after U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced the presidential candidate's criticism of the jurist as textbook racism.
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The end goal is the "Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", set for 2050, when Xi expects China will return to its rightful status after over a century of bowing to the demands of Western powers.
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But ZTE's possible resuscitation has met strong resistance in Congress, where both Democrats and Trump's fellow Republicans have accused him of bowing to pressure from Beijing to help a company that has been labeled a threat to U.S. national security.
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SYDNEY, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Monday he will not privatise a corporate registry held by the country's markets watchdog, bowing to opponents who argued the move would reduce transparency for millions of privately held companies.
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CHICAGO — For the second time in recent months, Chicago officials released video of police officers chasing and fatally shooting an African-American teenager, bowing to public and legal pressure amid calls for greater scrutiny of officers' use of deadly force.
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In late July, Apple said it was removing virtual private network (VPN) services from its app store in China, a move that drew criticism from VPN service providers, who accuse the U.S. company of bowing to pressure from Chinese cyber regulators.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May won a series of votes in parliament on Monday, keeping her over-arching strategy to leave the European Union just about on track after bowing to pressure from Brexit supporters in her party.
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Exondys 51 was controversially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September, bowing to patient pressure to get the drug approved, despite opposition from the agency's top scientists and a negative recommendation from a panel of outside advisers.
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ZTE's resuscitation with U.S. help has met strong resistance in Congress, where both Democrats and Trump's fellow Republicans have accused him of bowing to pressure from Beijing to help a company that has been labeled a threat to U.S. national security.
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Swiss logistics group Panalpina jumped 14 percent on bowing to an increased 4.6 billion Swiss francs ($4.6 billion) bid from Danish rival DSV, ending a more than two-month takeover battle designed to build scale in the consolidating transport sector.
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Werner Faymann stepped down as chancellor on Monday, bowing to a party revolt that erupted after the SPO's candidate in Austria's presidential election crashed out in the first round, far behind the winner from the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO).
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The removal of ministerial status, which meant the central bank chief could only be tried by the Supreme Court, was seen by some investors as a demotion that could weaken an institution criticized in recent years for bowing to political pressure.
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The administration was pressured into appointing a new special prosecutor within days, and less than ten months later, bowing to wishes from his own party—and, ultimately, the country—he became the first president in American history to resign from office.
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"The F.D.A. is plainly bowing to industry pressure and, in the process, prioritizing industry profits over patient health and safety," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of the Public Citizen's Health Research Group, which petitioned the agency to change the labeling process.
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Scout24 said this week it would explore a sale or spin-off of its autos platform, bowing to a demand by Elliott which reckons the business could fetch as much as 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) from the right buyer.
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Trump said Friday he will back a short-term funding bill to reopen the government that does not include money to build a wall along the southern border, bowing to mounting pressure fueled by growing disruption due to the lengthy shutdown.
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China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid for Ausgrid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co. Reporting by Melanie Burton; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs on Monday, bowing to mounting political pressure to condemn such groups explicitly after a white-nationalist rally turned deadly in Virginia.
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Worse, the Fed bowing to the president's wishes will greatly politicize the setting of interest rates, for once the Fed accedes to presidential pressure, it will be much harder for it to resist future presidential pressure to hold rates down.
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Fashion houses around the world are bowing to pressure and using alternatives to real fur amid pressure from animal rights groups and changing tastes of younger customers, who are increasingly aware of the environmental issues linked with the clothes they buy.
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A person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday that Volkswagen was prepared to support hardware retrofits, reversing its position and bowing to pressure that has mounted in the three years since it admitted to cheating diesel emissions tests.
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HOUSTON — Two days before the Final Four was to begin, the two largest daily fantasy sports sites, FanDuel and DraftKings, announced an agreement with the N.C.A.A. to indefinitely suspend contests involving college sports, bowing to pressure from college sports' governing body.
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Still, Anderson maintains that in light of new polling data released by the Knights of Columbus, bowing to the hierarchy's opinions on policy is not only the right thing, but also the electorally prudent thing for Catholic politicians to do.
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"By bowing to the Saudi Arabian authorities' demands, Netflix is in danger of facilitating the Kingdom's zero-tolerance policy on freedom of expression and assisting the authorities in denying people's right to freely access information," Hadid said in a statement.
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"CRTV is the only place where parents with traditional values can go to have the crucial conversations we need to have about getting our kids through the insanity in our culture — without bowing to the demands of liberal advertisers," Erickson says.
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It's also a classic case of a onetime Trump critic bowing to political pressure: Ms. Roby has strenuously wooed Mr. Trump since his inauguration, voting predictably for his priorities and recasting herself as a fierce supporter of the White House.
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Bayer announced on Friday that it would discontinue sales of its Essure birth control implant by the end of the year, bowing to a lengthy campaign by health advocates and thousands of women to get the device off the market.
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The former Federal Reserve governor who led Wells Fargo's board as the bank tried to reform itself has stepped down, bowing to pressure from Washington over the company's stumbling efforts to fix deceptive consumer practices that brought it billions in fines.
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Trump has signed the DPA but has not actually used it, bowing to pressure from business leaders who say there are too many unknowns and have instead volunteered to produce whatever is needed to avoid having Trump use those powers.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday abandoned his promise to work for gun control measures opposed by the National Rifle Association, bowing to the gun group and embracing its agenda of armed teachers and incremental improvements to the background check system.
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Bowing to pressure from women who argued that the dress restrictions were not only unfair, but could also hinder their ability to play comfortably, other major orchestras have moved in recent years to let women wear pants if they choose.
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There are too many cases of state legislatures, school districts and teachers actively denying the fact that climate change is real, or bowing to pressure from community members and corporations who value short-term profits over long-term climate stability.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales state said on Wednesday it would buy back half of a coal exploration license from China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd, bowing to pressure from farmers and environmentalists opposed to mining on prime agricultural land.
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Instead of bowing to US demands, Turkey thus far has threatened to move even closer to Russia, exploring the purchase of Russian Su-35 fighter jets as an alternative to the F-35 fighters whose transfer the United States is blocking.
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And it showed how Mr. Trump, who has taken a more permissive stance on gay rights and same-sex marriage than many of his fellow Republicans, is bowing to pressure from the religious right and contradicting his own personal views.
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Weeks earlier, bowing to street protests and international condemnation, Mr. Peña Nieto had agreed to allow a team of international experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the students' disappearance in collaboration with the government.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three top editors from Russia's RBC media group, whose reports about Vladimir Putin have irked the Kremlin, left their jobs on Friday with one source saying they were worried their managers were bowing to Kremlin pressure over their reporting.
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Not because I'm bowing to the gods at TMZ but because, when something from TMZ runs, it spreads so quickly that, if there is any inaccurate information, within five or ten minutes it's been picked up by a hundred other outlets.
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The company will also allow safety inspections starting this year, bowing to longtime demands from the Cuomo administration, the office of the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, and Riverkeeper, the nonprofit environmental group, all of which participated in the deal.
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Germany in February said it would consider building two LNG terminals to import from the United States, bowing to U.S. pressure to diversify supply after Trump termed Nord Stream 2 a "horrific" project that would make Berlin more reliant on Russia.
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The lira has weakened sharply against the dollar since late December, when the bank shocked markets by leaving borrowing rates unchanged, a move that was widely seen as bowing to pressure from President Tayyip Erdogan, who has repeatedly railed against high rates.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - SeaWorld said on Thursday it will stop breeding killer whales in captivity, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists, but the orcas already at its three parks will continue performing as they live out their remaining years.
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A top Justice Department lawyer notified the House Judiciary Committee this week that Sessions has directed senior federal prosecutors to look into the matter, bowing to repeated requests for this kind of special counsel from House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
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HSBC, which in 2016 paid a total of $18 billion to staff in wages and benefits, last year changed its pay policy for executive directors, bowing to shareholder concerns triggered by a drop in the bank's share price and worries over its dividend.
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The results of Gabon's disputed presidential elections will officially go to the Constitutional Court for a recount after President Ali Bongo's narrow win in August sparked daily demonstrations and violence, with the new government bowing to opposition calls for a transparent process.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she would permit a delay to Britain's departure from the European Union in exceptional circumstances, bowing to criticism from her own party over the government's plan to fix the exit date in law.
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Werner Faymann stepped down as chancellor this week, bowing to a revolt inside the SPO after it suffered a heavy defeat in the first round of a presidential election last month, in which the anti-immigration Freedom Party's (FPO) candidate came first.
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Sessions on Thursday recused himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, bowing to mounting bipartisan pressure after it was revealed he spoke to Moscow's U.S. envoy during the campaign then denied doing so during his confirmation hearings.
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The value of Spanish exports also dramatically decreased in that time period, but the Spanish government confirmed this year it would go ahead with arms deals it had previously suggested it would freeze, bowing to pressure from Spanish manufacturers, according to reports.
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The company also put plans for a public stock offering back on the table, bowing to state pressure to "recycle" some of the money it had made over the decades back into the kingdom, according to six people familiar with the plans.
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And, well, tech giants are often the most visible commercial entities bowing to political pressure to comply with 'regulations' that do the opposite of enhance the security of their users living under certain regimes — merely to ensure continued market access for themselves.
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Airbnb said on Wednesday that it was willing to crack down on individuals in New York City who rent out multiple homes, bowing to pressure from politicians and tenants' rights groups who say the company has worsened affordable housing issues in the city.
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Instead of doing the right thing and bowing to President Donald Trump's demand for the partial funding for a wall along the country's southern border with Mexico, McConnell complained, congressional Democrats were trying to game America's electoral system to their own permanent advantage.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The entire USA Gymnastics board will resign in the wake of the scandal stemming from the sexual abuse of female athletes by former doctor Larry Nassar, bowing to the demands of U.S. Olympic officials, a USAG spokeswoman said on Friday.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's prime minister said on Thursday the government will partially remove the 100 percent tariffs on goods produced in Serbia, bowing to demands from the United States and European Union, which mediate talks between Belgrade and Pristina on normalising ties.
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Taung Byone, Myanmar (CNN)Gyrating dancers passed through the crowds, bowing to men in silk dresses with orchids in their hair, as the normally sleepy village of Taung Byone marked the start of the annual Spirit Festival with a flamboyant opening ceremony.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's prime minister said on Thursday the government will partially remove the 100 percent tariffs on goods produced in Serbia, bowing to demands from the United States and European Union, which mediate talks between Belgrade and Pristina on normalising ties.
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The meeting happened after a news conference in which Mr. Trump accused Mr. Cummings of bowing to pressure from Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, by backing out of plans for a group of lawmakers to discuss prescription drug prices with the president.
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WASHINGTON — Mike Bloomberg promised to release women who've filed complaints about his behavior from three non-disclosure agreements, bowing to pressure after Democratic presidential primary rival Elizabeth Warren slapped him down ridiculously hard on the issue on the debate stage in Nevada.
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Zelensky denied bowing to Russian demands and said full elections would not be held until Ukraine fully regains control of its border with Russia, according to the AP. "There won't be any elections under the barrel of a gun," he said Tuesday.
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Though Trump stood by Sessions in a written statement at the time, The New York Times later reported that the President privately fumed at the attorney general and longtime supporter for bowing to the pressure and recusing and asked him to resign.
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It would allow him to unilaterally divert billions of dollars to a border wall and presented his Republican allies on Capitol Hill, who labored on a legislative compromise, with the excruciating choice of either defending their institution or bowing to his whims.
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On Monday, the university announced that it was leaving Budapest and decamping for Vienna, bowing to nearly two years of pressure from the Hungarian government that started with an anodyne-sounding 2017 higher education law that was designed to hamstring CEU specifically.
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Bowing to political pressures, University of Kansas chancellor Doug Girod agreed to remove Josephine Meckseper's "Untitled (Flag 2)" artwork from flying above university grounds after Governor Jeff Colyer and other Republican candidates running for election in November had complained that it was an unpatriotic symbol.
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The heightened tensions have had all sorts of ripple effects on American businesses, too, as companies fearful of being shown the door by one of the world's most economically influential countries are bowing to pressure from China to stay away from politically sensitive topics.
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Commencing at 9am on January... The trio condemned the museum, stating that they "voiced serious concerns to the museum about hate speech occurring at the site of our project," and accused the museum of bowing to political pressure when it closed down the stream.
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The panel discussed the topic Tuesday after Franken, 68, told The New Yorker in a story published Monday that he "absolutely" regrets bowing to pressure from other Democrats to resign before a Senate Ethics Committee could investigate the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika abandoned his bid for a fifth term in power on Monday, bowing to weeks of mass demonstrations against his 2003-year rule by people demanding a new era of politics in a country dominated by an old guard.
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In return for bowing to IG Metall's demand on working hours, employers have been given the ability to take on more staff willing to work for up to 40 hours - creating the flexibility they need to ramp up production during periods of high demand.
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The Black Sea state initially canceled the project, estimated to cost about 10 billion euros, in 2012 after failing to find foreign investors and bowing to U.S. and European Union pressure to limit the country's energy dependence on Russia, which would have supplied some equipment.
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By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Chilean government has agreed to write a new constitution to replace one dating back to the Pinochet dictatorship, bowing to demands of protesters who have taken to the streets in often violent demonstrations in recent weeks.
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Bowing to one of the demands, lawmakers signed an agreement to hold a referendum next April in which voters will be asked whether they approve the idea of a new constitution and whether current lawmakers should serve on the commission that would redraft the document.
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David Holmes, a US Embassy staffer who was sitting at the restaurant table during the call, testified to House investigators on Friday that he overheard a conversation between Sondland and Trump that centered on Zelensky bowing to Trump's wishes for a politically charged investigation.
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Breaking from tradition and bowing to the moment, Casey Affleck will not be attending this year's Oscars, ending months of speculation over whether the Academy Award-winning actor would be a disruptive presence at the ceremony during a season dominated and defined by #MeToo.
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Despite her nerves, she got out there in the middle of the stage in a new dress with scattered sequins and sang her best, bowing to an audience of clapping parents before she walked off stage — an expression of relief and pride on her face.
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Pete Buttigieg, whose upstart presidential campaign has benefited from an early surge of donations and national attention, will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, his campaign said Friday, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats who want to reform the way campaigns raise money.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia abandoned plans for emission targets Monday, bowing to pressure from conservatives who considered toppling Mr. Turnbull's government over an energy policy that aimed to reduce prices and bring the country into line with international climate change commitments.
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Still, Mr. Trump's expected move would allow him to tell supporters that he had disavowed the accord, while bowing to the reality that the United States would isolate itself from its allies if it sabotaged a deal with which Iran is viewed as complying.
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And since he's taken office in December 2018, he's become one of Mexico's most popular presidents in recent memory, despite a record-high homicide rate and bowing to President Donald Trump's demands that he step up immigration enforcement on the country's southern border with Guatemala.
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In October, Airbnb said it was willing to crack down on people in New York City who rent out multiple homes, bowing to pressure from politicians and tenants' rights groups who said the company had made it harder to find affordable housing in the city.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull became the first prime minister to attend the event, but he has disappointed advocates by his lack of action on LGBT issues and is perceived to be bowing to conservative interests in his party, stymying Australia's path to equal marriage for all.
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Trump, who drew sharp criticism from Republicans and Democrats for his initial response, reverted on Tuesday to his position that both sides were at fault for the violence, a day after bowing to pressure to explicitly condemn the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
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Although European and German forbids companies from bowing to American sanctions, the US has been uncompromising in using its laws to punish European companies: European banks BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank have all been hit with billion-dollar fines for transactions with Iran, Cuba and Sudan.
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Curry has shown a tenacious streak, insisting that he was simply bowing to his coach's desire to make sure he is 21995 percent before risking him in a series in which the Warriors, even after a Game 296 loss, should be able to win without him.
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Judge Williams, once an attorney in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, is also black, and he won accolades from members of the legal community — including Billy Murphy, the lawyer for Mr. Gray's family — for not bowing to public pressure in deciding Officer Nero's case.
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Bowing to the demands of the United States Olympic Committee, U.S.A. Gymnastics confirmed Friday night that all the remaining members of its board of directors would resign — the latest fallout from a widespread sexual abuse scandal involving the federation's longtime national team doctor, Lawrence G. Nassar.
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Gradually, driven by the ever-present threat of a breakaway super-league, UEFA is bowing to the demands of Europe's richest, most famous clubs: That is why games will now be played in two time slots every Tuesday and Wednesday — more television coverage means more advertising space.
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WASHINGTON — The White House said on Friday night that President Trump would sign legislation imposing sweeping sanctions against Russia and curtailing his own power to lift them by himself, bowing to the near-universal bipartisan will of Congress at the risk of escalating tension with Moscow.
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"We assert our right to practice our journalism professionally without bowing to pressure from any government or authority and we demand that governments respect the freedom of media to allow journalists to continue to do their jobs free of intimidation, threats, and fearmongering," Al Jazeera said.
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NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has agreed to resign as chief executive of the U.S. office-sharing company but will remain as non-executive chairman, bowing to pressure from some of his investors, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Trump's reflexive, offensive, taunting, and unintelligent tweeting, bookends neatly with Obama's bowing to fellow heads of state and agreement to a sit-down interview with green-haired, insipid, Cheerios-and-milk-bathing Glozelle, who famously inquired of 44 whether the Castro brothers put the d*** in dictator.
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A Chinese state-run newspaper lashed out at Canada on Sunday over the arrest of a top Huawei executive, saying it is bowing to pressure from the United States and likening her treatment to a "show trial" aimed at humiliating China for challenging the U.S. in global technology leadership.
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Democratic senators Ed Markey, Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper last week wrote to EPA chief Scott Pruitt to ask about delays to the report and request communications between the EPA and ACC related to the formaldehyde assessment, saying they were concerned the agency was bowing to industry pressure.
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"By bowing to the Saudi Arabian authorities' demands, Netflix is in danger of facilitating the Kingdom's zero-tolerance policy on freedom of expression and assisting the authorities in denying people's right to freely access information," Samah Hadid, Amnesty International's Middle East director of campaigns, said in a statement.
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Conservationists accused the Fish and Wildlife Service of bowing to pressures exerted by livestock and hunting groups – which see wolves as threats to cattle and big-game animals favored by sportsmen – instead of using science to determine population levels and other factors key to the Mexican wolf's survival.
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"We assert our right to practice our journalism professionally without bowing to pressure from any government or authority and we demand that governments respect the freedom of media to allow journalists to continue to do their jobs free of intimidation, threats and fear-mongering," it said in a statement.
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On trade, the communique suggested it was a matter not of free trade but fair trade, failing to speak out on protectionism, while bowing to the American desire to reform the World Trade Organization, which most countries recognize could use some touching up, while not scrapping it entirely.
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Apple is facing criticism from local users and rights groups for bowing to pressure from Beijing cyber regulators after it decided to remove hundreds of apps from its Chinese store this year, including messaging apps and virtual private network (VPN) services, which help users subvert China's Great Firewall.
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Some longtime editors criticized the Indian media for not complaining enough about the communications curbs and for bowing to government pressure to support the Kashmir policy, which removes the state's rights to frame its own laws and lifts a ban on people from outside the region buying property there.
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The turnaround on Cenk took all but 24 hours and bowing to the outrage mob by the many people involved in this demonstrates who has the real power on the American Left and who exactly can determine what moves for political expediency can be made by these candidates.
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But when a new acute-care facility was proposed in 2006 to help alleviate some of the problems, the Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency blocked the opening of the new hospital, bowing to claims that competition from a new hospital would force Maui Memorial to close.
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MOSCOW — The general director of the Bolshoi Theater confirmed on Monday that the organization will postpone a much-anticipated ballet depicting the life of the dance legend Rudolf Nureyev, but rejected accusations that he was bowing to state censorship because of the ballet's gay themes and controversial director.
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The decision has caused a rift between Australia and biggest trading partner China, which accuses it of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co. (Reporting by Jonathan Barrett; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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AT&T on Monday unveiled a three-year strategic plan that included adding two new board members, selling off up to $10 billion worth of non-core businesses next year and paying off all its debt from the purchase of Time Warner, bowing to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.
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Brampton, Ontario-based SunOpta hired financial and legal advisers in June to explore strategic alternatives, bowing to pressure from top shareholder Tourbillon Capital Partners LP. The company said in October it concluded the review with an $85 million investment from Oaktree Capital Management LP to pay off its second-lien debt.
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Put another way, Communist leaders are both expressing their own views and bowing to public opinion when they bully and nag foreign partners into isolating Taiwan in endless humiliating ways, stage frequent military exercises simulating a maritime invasion or build bristling arrays of missiles on their side of the Taiwan Strait.
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Related: Pirates Could Make a Comeback as Illegal Fishing Returns to Somalia's Coast King is keen to point out that, while bowing to the ransom demands could encourage more criminality in Southeast Asian waters, an important difference between the region and Somalia is the lawlessness seen in the East African nation.
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In the middle of a presidential election, when a man who was running for president is bowing to drain the swamp, there could have been a plot hatched at the senior levels of our government to entrap secondary figures in the Trump campaign to ultimately get to Donald Trump himself.
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"We assert our right to practice our journalism professionally without bowing to pressure from any government or authority and we demand that governments respect the freedom of media to allow journalists to continue to do their jobs free of intimidation, threats and fear-mongering," the network said in a statement.
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LEADING THE DAY INVESTIGATIONS: The Hill's Jordan Fabian and Katie Bo Williams report: The White House is planning a separate meeting for bipartisan House and Senate leaders to receive classified information related to the Russia investigation, bowing to pressure over a decision to exclude Democrats from a highly anticipated Thursday briefing.
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The efforts appeared to pay off in Trump's first stop on his first trip abroad, when pictures of him bowing to accept a gold medal, participating in a ceremonial sword dance and clutching a glowing globe with Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went viral online.
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So if he changes his mind in the future, Trump will have benefited from the political value of being seen as publicly willing to testify -- but could row back by saying that though he would love to help, he is bowing to the advice of his legal team to respectfully decline.
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LONDON — The parents of Charlie Gard, the chronically ill British infant whose plight drew attention from Pope Francis and President Trump, on Monday gave up their wrenching legal effort to artificially prolong his life, bowing to the consensus of medical experts who said there was no realistic chance of saving him.
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China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid for Ausgrid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co. Beijing has also criticized Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, for running surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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Bowing to the fact that you can't tease an audience forever, it heaved itself into the present, uniting perspectives and timelines just long enough to reveal who killed the secondary character Scotty Lockhart — the McGuffinish mystery it had played with for 22 episodes, like a cat with a very small and frightened insect.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Bowing to public pressure, an official in South Korea's second-largest city said on Friday that activists could put up a statue representing Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II, a year after the two countries said they had put that emotional issue behind them.
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Like a dozen other serving and former governors, a senate president and a former vice-president, Mr Tambuwal said he was bowing to the demands of the people, who apparently wanted him to defect to the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) and challenge the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, in an election that is scheduled for February.
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Although we're not quite at a stage where Pyongyangers are regularly getting massively pissed up and vomiting down their Mao suits, in recent years beer halls have become established, popular spots in the city, where locals can unwind after a hard day of work and repeatedly bowing to portraits of the Kim dynasty leaders.
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Her novel is Manson Family adjacent, weaving a story about a circle of women who closely resemble the so-called Charlie's girls, all of whom are stealing for, sleeping with, and bowing to the whims and wills of an idol who wanders barefoot through the rundown commune with a guitar slung over his shoulder.
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So from the seventh century through the 10th century, emperors of the Tang Dynasty thought it best to administer these lands by relying on a somewhat informal quid pro quo: The elders of minority tribes, in exchange for bowing to the authority of the Chinese, would get the Chinese's support to play local rulers.
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By the time Venus had sprinted ahead to a 3-0 lead, Serena had summoned a trainer to tape the sore right knee that hampered her campaign last week in Sydney, where she avoided a potential final-round clash with her sibling by bowing to the eventual champion, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, in the semifinal round.
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Former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE is accusing current FBI leadership of bowing to political pressure by reassigning the FBI's top lawyer.
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One thing you will notice if you compare the anti-Morey statements coming out from NBA stakeholders to the anti-NBA statements coming out from American politicians: The anti-Morey statements emphasize the idea of giving offense to Chinese basketball fans while the anti-NBA statements emphasize the idea of bowing to the demands of the Chinese government.
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"I mean, are we really at the point where people in Alabama, because they don't want to be perceived as bowing to the national media, are going to choose somebody who has been a child molester of a 14-year-old girl over someone who has been a career prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat?" she asked.
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Fox News is not bowing to Republican presidential front-runner 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's calls to remove Megyn Kelly as host of the next GOP debate.
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Bowing to pressure from senators in their own party, Republican leaders postponed a Thursday vote to confirm the judge, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, announced that the panel would hear from both Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Blasey on Monday in what promises to be an extraordinary public session.
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But intelligence community veterans say the Durham probe could force Haspel to choose between protecting her agency from Trump's wrath and bowing to Barr's wishes; they point to FBI chief Chris Wray, who has found himself at odds with the president in recent weeks over a watchdog report about the bureau's conduct in the Russia probe.
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After gradually hiking rates beginning in December 2015, the US central bank backed off in January, raising questions about whether policymakers were worried they'd overcorrected -- or were bowing to political pressure from President Donald Trump, who has broken precedent by openly voicing his displeasure about rate hikes and personally attacking the Federal Reserve chairman he appointed, Jerome Powell.
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Principled yet polite conservatives like Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)) and Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) are bowing to the logic of the story.
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The British prime minister said Tuesday that Parliament should have a chance to delay Brexit if it rejects her plan, bowing to pressure to reduce the risk of a chaotic "no deal" departure from the E.U. Her hand was forced when rebels in her Conservative government threatened to vote for a forced extension of talks with the bloc.
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Flynn and Sessions both failed to be honest with the public about their interactions with him, and those lies have exacted an enormous toll on their reputation: Flynn resigned, and the Democratic leadership is On Thursday, Sessions, bowing to mounting GOP pressure, announced that he was recusing himself from the escalating FBI probe into Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"Combined, we think that these measures are important improvements to ensure the free flow of gas at competitive prices," Vestager said The legally-binding deal would entail Gazprom bowing to EU conditions to do away with terms barring countries from exporting its gas to other countries; tying contracts to investments in pipelines; and monopoly pricing in the three Baltic states, Bulgaria and Poland.
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More on this... Colleges see sharp rise in white supremacist propaganda At top 45 colleges, no conservatives invited for commencement: report Lawmakers pass legislation to protect First Amendment rights at public colleges He added that instead of fostering open debate on campus, school administrations are bowing to liberal ideologies and "coddling students" with trigger warnings, crying rooms and therapy sessions.
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Tough corner South Korea has already been pushed into a tough corner since accepting the installation of a sophisticated US anti-missile system known as THAAD on its territory, bowing to pressure from Washington despite considerable political opposition within South Korea and from China, which took retaliatory economic action that has cost South Korea billions of dollars in lost revenue.
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Read more: Trump bowing to the NRA and refusing to support background checks could be a death blow to the GOP winning back suburban womenFor decades, the immensely powerful gun lobbying group has thwarted lawmakers' and activists' efforts to enact stricter gun laws — even those with broad public support, like universal background checks — at both the federal and state level.
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China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid for Ausgrid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co. Speaking to reporters later, Turnbull said China understood as well if not better than anyone else that it was Australia's sovereign right to determine who invests there and the terms in which they invest.
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That policy led to thousands of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border before, bowing to intense bipartisan backlash, 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 signed an executive order reversing his administration's policy.
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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 announced Wednesday the U.S. will ground Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft, bowing to heavy pressure after two of the planes were involved in deadly crashes overseas.
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Bowing to common sense and good judgment after a years-long effort to do otherwise, Bill and Chelsea Clinton announced today that their foundation will massively scale back its undertakings if Hillary Clinton becomes president — shutting down the signature Clinton Global Initiative and transforming itself into a much smaller nonprofit focused on a narrower range of ex-presidential undertakings like the Clinton Presidential Library.
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The new Canadian government, bowing to pressures to do something about the distortions caused by the influx of Chinese money, announced on Tuesday in its 2016 Budget that it would earmark C$500,000 to figure out how to track foreign buyers: Households rely on housing market data to make informed decisions in buying and selling their homes, while governments depend on data to design effective housing policies.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE on Thursday recused himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, bowing to mounting bipartisan pressure for him to do so given his contacts with Moscow's U.S. envoy during the campaign.
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As I make my way outside, I pass a dude on the floor, his girlfriend giggling away as she tries to balance on his feet and hands; I look back and there's two guys legitimately bowing to each other; I look ahead and there's a small baby chasing a balloon, desperately trying to fit it in his mouth, all the while a 'Cuban megamix' is playing out the final moments.
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Evert had naturally expected Navratilova to show for a much-anticipated final, but the world's top-ranked player faltered in the critical moments against the high school student from the Baltimore suburb of Lutherville, Md. "I'm sick of tennis," Navratilova groused afterward, bowing to the frustration of losing to Shriver, who was playing in only her second Grand Slam event after winning two rounds at Wimbledon this summer.
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BERLIN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Volkswagen has agreed to fit older diesel vehicles with better catalytic converters, reversing its position and bowing to pressure that has mounted in the three years since an emissions cheating scandal, Spiegel Online reported on Thursday, VW chief Herbert Diess had promised German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer in a video conference on Wednesday to help pay for hardware refits of older diesel cars, Spiegel Online said.
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Andrew McCabe stepped down as deputy director of the FBI on Monday, bowing to pressure from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and congressional Republicans who were clamoring for his ouster.
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Bowing to demands from the State Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan, a Republican who is not disposed to be helpful to a mayor who has openly worked to flip control of the chamber to the Democrats, the mayor and his allies in the Democrat-dominated Assembly agreed to disclose more information about city school districts' spending and to accept a change to the oversight structure for more than half the city's charter schools.
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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 said Friday he will back a short-term funding bill to reopen the government that does not include funds to construct a wall along the southern border, bowing to mounting pressure fueled by growing disruption due to the lengthy shutdown.
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Bowing to pressure, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE signed an executive order last month ending most family separations, though he made no provisions at the time for reuniting families who had already been separated.
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 Krystal Ball warns about lagging youth support for Buttigieg MORE announced Monday his campaign would open his high-dollar fundraisers to reporters and disclose the names of campaign bundlers, bowing to pressure from critics who have accused him of lacking transparency.
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After a week-long stalemate, the Senate is moving forward on Trump's trial following the precedent set by the 1999 impeachment trial of former President Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGraham predicts Senate will take up impeachment trial next week Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment Brent Budowsky: Bloomberg should give billion to Democrats MORE (R-Ky.) said Tuesday, adding that he has enough votes to pass rules without bowing to Democratic demands for witness testimony.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bunge Ltd said it will add four directors to its board and create a strategic review committee to explore options for the global grains trader, including a sale of the company, bowing to pressure from activist investors D.E. Shaw and Continental Grain Co. The White Plains, New York-based agribusiness company also reported a stronger-than-expected third-quarter profit, but lowered its 2800 earnings outlook by $21 million to $210 billion with cuts to guidance in two of its four business segments.
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Hanami, or flower-viewing, has been a fact of Japanese court life since the eighth century (another particularity of Japanese culture: how many practices, from bowing to flower-viewing, remain more or less intact from their origins in the imperial court more than a thousand years ago), but the original subject of those gatherings — parties of women in silk and poets with their brushes, the descendants of whom are those salarymen carrying their bento boxes, trudging from their offices to the nearest park — were not cherry trees but plum trees, whose flowers are sturdier, their pink hotter and more aggressive.
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said in a new interview that 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 continue his efforts to put pressure on China's economy with tariffs, accusing Beijing of waging "economic war" on the U.S. The former Breitbart News chief told Bloomberg that it is the U.S.'s job to shut China out of every major market as a way to pressure the Chinese government into bowing to U.S. demands on trade practices like intellectual property theft "He has to go all the way; it's not a trade war, it's an economic war they've been running against the West," Bannon said Friday, according to Bloomberg.
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