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Hickenlooper initially brushed off Democratic entreaties to run against Gardner.
Thanks to his entreaties, the hostage was spared, he says.
"He's used to withstanding entreaties from powerful people," Avergun said.
Does she ignore your entreaties that life begins at conception?
Surpassing the anxious entreaties of an ordinary presidential race, Mrs.
Despite the family's entreaties to stay, Dr. Smith begged off.
So far American entreaties seem to have had little impact.
American entreaties for better treatment for the prisoners got some results.
Not responding fully to Ms. Falque-Pierrotin's entreaties may prove costly.
But Mr. Cuomo brushed off their entreaties, according to the NYT.
Or it can cut prices in response to a politician's entreaties.
Lewis resisted his father's entreaties to join the family tobacco business.
Her entreaties with his wife to swap seats fell on deaf ears.
Because of the organization's desire to remain native, his entreaties were rebuffed.
McConnell sought to speed up the votes, but Schumer declined his entreaties.
Would they give in to the North Korean entreaties to loosen sanctions?
Even entreaties from the prime minister's office have failed to sway the regulator.
The master pianist Artur Schnabel, for one, initially resisted entreaties to make records.
Entreaties by Mr. Ban's successor, António Guterres, for charitable contributions have gone unanswered.
But instead of a change of heart, their entreaties were met with anger.
So far, though, it seems that Mr Wilhite's entreaties are falling on deaf ears.
Not only did Mr. Kim ignore China's entreaties, sending Mr. Wu home empty-handed.
Yet on Saturday, Trump insisted that he, in fact, had spurned the Kochs' entreaties.
How does brushing aside the entreaties of outside powers rescue the Amazon rainforest precisely?
More entreaties followed in April and then, in May, Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey.
Some Thanksgivings, they visited him on his corner; he refused entreaties to accept help.
In the years after "Friday," she fended off all kinds of cynical business entreaties.
The police chief shrugged off Krueger's entreaties, according to the Justice Department's 2016 report.
Republicans, including presidential allies, argued that US candidates should steer clear of such entreaties.
Eddie resists the entreaties of Colette, and Luis hits on any beauty he can find.
Their awkwardly endearing verbal exchange and his gentle entreaties result in an amorous, nongraphic union.
Plus, it might be hard to resist the entreaties of a fish flack named Scales.
But remember, for all my entreaties, you don't need a recipe to make good food.
But Egypt, which receives $1.3 billion annually in American aid, has resisted Mr. Trump's entreaties.
But the entreaties around Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood felt particularly odd.
Romney was approached again after Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee, but turned down the entreaties.
Not knowing Younas, the 77-year-old resisted his entreaties, even as water invaded her home.
It was a meeting that would put an end to weeks of entreaties, rejections and consideration.
But Trump pressed the issue even as he continued to make entreaties to African-American voters.
"How about now?" he said, mocking their entreaties and diminishing the event with a single blow.
He refused their entreaties, and to avoid apprehension, he took a sideways trajectory for several minutes.
She moves from snakily grooving songs of uplift to romantic entreaties to reggae-tinged protest anthems.
She is 683 now and describes receiving entreaties from Mr. Allen from when she was 18.
May's entreaties for help to amend a withdrawal deal that would satisfy her Parliament were rejected.
"Despite various entreaties to come into the house, they just sat there, stony-faced," writes John.
Financial planners also say inheritors must resist entreaties from friends and relatives seeking loans or gifts.
"Despite various entreaties to come into the house, they just sat there, stony-faced," writes John.
GOP committee members made constant entreaties for Hunter Biden to appear before the committee under oath.
No inspectors have turned up despite what Lotte says were repeated entreaties to rectify the problems.
He also claimed Trump had little involvement and that the Kremlin never responded to his entreaties.
Orrin Hatch plans to retire at the end of the year, despite personal entreaties from President Trump.
David Perdue (R-Ga.), but she spurned Democrats' entreaties — and also declined to run following Isakson's resignation.
Experts say other states may follow, given Congress' reluctance to act despite entreaties from President Barack Obama.
Facebook has been trying to penetrate the country, with Zuckerberg learning Mandarin and making entreaties to officials.
Entreaties from his daughter and adviser Ivanka and first lady Melania Trump were initially met with resistance.
Thus far, he has resisted those entreaties, joining leadership in urging a conclusion to the Mueller investigation.
North Korea has ignored his entreaties, and there has been no substantial movement in discussions with Russia.
But for years he had turned down entreaties to work for Johnson, even after Johnson became president.
He noted how FEMA hadn't been responsive to his entreaties for information over the last two years.
Mr. Kelly resisted the president's entreaties to take over for Mr. Priebus during the past several weeks.
Dear Miss Manners: How does one go about politely refusing the entreaties of old friends to reconnect?
But Mr. Trump has also spurned Mr. Bannon's entreaties to oppose a handful of Senate Republican incumbents.
He tried to turn Trump against North Korea and was stymied by Kim Jong Un's entreaties of Trump.
McConnell rejected those entreaties and has secured the votes to pass a rules package endorsed only by Republicans.
Such a conversation may also be premised on the dangerous notion that she'll eventually succumb to your entreaties.
She closed off communication despite her daughter's entreaties, leaving the real-life story to end sadly for both.
When his entreaties aren't met with warmth, he just keeps increasing his offer until the Pierce family takes interest.
But after one too many self-inflicted wounds, he gave into the entreaties of advisers to use one himself.
The entreaties of mother, father, sister and boss meld with the patter of rain and an ever-faster heartbeat.
His recent trips to Mexico and Detroit were entreaties to audiences turned off by the real estate mogul's messaging.
Mr. Manchin has resisted the entreaties of Republicans to change parties and add to the two-seat Senate majority.
Nikit Martushev, 20, a senior, had played tackle as a freshman, but he resisted entreaties to rejoin the team.
In this as in Lacey's previous novel, "Nobody Is Ever Missing," characters stumble upon fliers printed with cryptic entreaties.
Instead, Gates said he had received numerous entreaties to tap into Epstein's network of moneyed friends for philanthropic reasons.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has had numerous opportunities to free the two journalists but has refused all entreaties.
He included several veiled and not-so-veiled entreaties to Republicans in Congress, including calling out Ryan by name.
Despite entreaties from CBS to reform and capitalize on their hard-won hit, the former band mates had moved on.
The mix includes a lot of "Blue Lives Matter," and "Firemen Are Heroes," and entreaties not to forget 9/11.
Cruz has continued to resist entreaties to endorse the Republican nominee, but he did meet last week with Indiana Gov.
At trial, Hulk Hogan's lawyers presented emails of the woman's desperate entreaties to take it down and Deadspin's lighthearted refusal.
Even Ben Carson brushed aside Mr. Rubio's entreaties, telling his aides he did not want to be anybody's traveling salesman.
Despite entreaties, Saudi authorities have not revealed its whereabouts, saying only that it was dismembered and removed from the consulate.
Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, has privately made entreaties for consideration of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well.
Democrats have already resisted Mr. Trump's entreaties to pass the agreement, and the new threat could be its death knell.
And there are entreaties to educate the president about the truth of Haiti as if he simply suffers from ignorance.
Mr. Byrne later recalled that he was happy on the bench, but that the entreaties from party leaders kept coming.
Mr. Trump has alternately listened to and been dismissive of Ms. Thomas's entreaties, according to people familiar with his thinking.
All four have been making calls to potential donors, according to a person who reported receiving entreaties from each of them.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Cozmo and often found it hard to resist its entreaties to play yet another game.
Mrs Merkel cannot go that far, but granted him an audience on his March visit, despite furious entreaties from Mr Fillon.
Posters with names of YouTube channels were emblazoned on bumpers and side doors, along with entreaties to watch, subscribe, and follow.
The U.S. government has publicly and privately implored Saudi leaders to improve their targeting practices, but these entreaties have been ignored.
The school closed in 2011, a victim of falling enrollment and growing deficits, despite the entreaties of Father Flynn and others.
While companies are using nonpartisan entreaties to vote to build goodwill, some non-corporate voting street art pieces are candidate-specific.
Vindman, whose family fled the Soviet Union when he was a toddler, rejected the entreaties, saying that he was an American.
The Environmental Protection Agency under Trump is on track to become the most responsive federal agency to corporate entreaties in history.
He has refused the entreaties of government agriculture officers to grow smaller, naturally drought-resistant grains such as sorghum and millet.
Ignoring the pleas of his advisers and entreaties from party leaders in Washington, Mr. Trump only dug in further on Tuesday.
Fox has since followed suit, promoting the Trump administration's entreaties to the public to practice social distancing, handwashing, and other measures.
They said some executives believed Mr. Stamos had leaked the audio himself to get Facebook to take his entreaties more seriously.
Mr. Gilbert's mother, Shelley Gilbert, testified that her son had refused his parents' repeated entreaties to seek treatment at psychiatric hospitals.
The MCAS ignored his entreaties and pitched the airplane into a steepening dive at airspeeds that quickly exceeded the engineered limits.
He offered a more conciliatory line on Russia and refused, despite their entreaties, to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change.
Vindman said he repeatedly rejected Danyliuk's entreaties, and notified his "chain of command and the appropriate counterintelligence folks" about the proposal.
Spurning Hamon's entreaties to unite behind him, Melenchon said he had no intention of hitching his campaign to a "funeral hearse".
Although North Korea has depended on China for an economic lifeline, Mr. Kim largely ignored Beijing's entreaties to cease nuclear tests.
But even if Congress does not respond to Mr Mnuchin's entreaties this week, it will not be the end of the matter.
Then, they are later released after entreaties by the U.S. government or a high-profile visit by a U.S. official to Pyongyang.
Tired of waiting for the British to respond to his entreaties, Stalin invited the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow.
In her testimony last week, Brennan said she informed Murphy's team several times of the allegations, but that her entreaties went unanswered.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ignored Mr. Trump's public entreaties to investigate the president's political enemies and shut down the Russia inquiry.
China has rejected entreaties by the Trump administration to curb these activities, arguing that it is simply pursuing its own economic development.
Mr. Spano said he did not think the entreaties of small business owners could influence the stalemate between New York and Washington.
No signs, fences or entreaties can keep these vandals away from the sprawling waterfront park at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Second, international entreaties — summitry, conferencing, bargaining, and all the rest — can never succeed in convincing the DPRK to relinquish its nuclear program.
Senators, who are growing increasingly indifferent to Mr. Trump's policy interests, did not seem moved by his entreaties, the congressional aides said.
Hovering over the proceedings — unseen but very much heard — was the president, who had refused Democrats' entreaties to participate in the hearing.
But the news of Mr. Trump's repeated entreaties for Ukraine to investigate a leading political rival was too much for Ms. Pelosi.
" Seemingly in answer to these entreaties, the whistleblower has offered to answer Republican questions about his complaint, which Trump has labeled "fraudulent.
But in the weeks following the election, Twitter was flooded with entreaties from reporters, who begged federal employees to leak them stories.
"It is long past time for this media vilification of Mr. Cosby to stop," read the end of one of Singer's bullying entreaties.
Mr Assad is strong enough to resist Russian entreaties to make political concessions, but too weak to be threatened without risking his collapse.
But Syngenta steadfastly rejected entreaties, arguing that the offer was too low and that a potential deal would run afoul of antitrust regulators.
Khalifa Hifter, a powerful militia commander in the eastern city of Benghazi, who has determinedly resisted all entreaties to join the unity government.
Markey told The Hill that his colleagues have been very enthusiastic to his entreaties and expressed strong optimism despite the worrisome poll numbers.
But their grins were as wide as their hopes were secure, whereas Isabelle is prey to sudden squalls of tears and craven entreaties.
The entreaties are part of the Democrats' strategy to portray Republicans as so fearful of the president that they're neglecting their oversight responsibilities.
Yet the internet — the same force that has increased awareness of social-justice movements — has hyperbolized all entreaties to our fragmented attention spans.
One reason Maduro remains in power is support from Venezuela's military, whose senior ranks have stuck by him despite entreaties from Maduro opponents.
Unsolicited approaches, including ones from the rival Meredith and the Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman, offered a welcome lifeline, but Time rejected the entreaties.
Still, he resisted entreaties last week from his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to deliver a televised address on the raid, aides said.
This "Good Neighborhood" policy, as it's known in Israel, is aimed at persuading the local Syrian population to reject Iranian and Hezbollah entreaties.
Juno was founded around the same time as the IDG, and the latter has always treated the company's entreaties to drivers with due skepticism.
But she didn't mind bedbugs, going without food for five or six days, or not washing for even longer (despite entreaties from her colleagues).
"Enough," President Obama reportedly told his U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, recently in the face of her entreaties to help Syrians facing expulsion and extinction.
"I wasn't going to do just what he wanted, but I was willing to negotiate," Schumer said of his entreaties to the taciturn McConnell.
The entreaties appear to have worked: Tse was sentenced to nine years in prison, spent mostly at the federal correctional institution in Elkton, Ohio.
The opposition included moderate Republicans as well as more conservative ones, who rebuffed entreaties from Trump and party leaders to get behind the bill.
Though a few years ago David Cameron called on pupils to drop French for Mandarin, few have taken up the former prime minister's entreaties.
Until his death in 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made numerous entreaties to ensure China would back his preferred son as successor.
The lawmakers are urging DeVos to reject entreaties from Texas and other states to tap those funds for the purpose of arming school employees.
Trump has received entreaties from some business leaders to not take steps that might negatively effect the economy or their industries by sparking panic.
" The chancellor received a sustained standing ovation for her entreaties to respect others and embrace honesty — "and perhaps most important, be honest with ourselves.
She asked him to leave her alone and rebuffed his entreaties for a romantic relationship, her friends said, but he only seemed more fixated.
Their fate has befuddled foreign governments, who see them as a security threat and are loath to accede to SDF entreaties to repatriate them.
Neither did their previous collaborations, "Winged Migration" in 2003 and "Oceans" seven years later, which were beautifully photographed entreaties to stop ravaging our wildlife.
The nontechnical equivalent for direct entreaties is the vague response ("Oh, we'd love to, but right now things are very busy"), repeated to exhaustion.
Legend has it that envoys bearing entreaties from the son, who ruled as King Taejong, were ordered slain before they could deliver their messages.
When he left Washington at the end of the Obama administration, Mr. Castro returned to Texas but resisted entreaties to run for statewide office.
This suggests that prices will remain strong, at least until the market sees how Chinese domestic production responds to official entreaties for it to rise.
But even if a customer-service rep ignores the scammer's entreaties, the scammer will just try calling again, to another rep, and may eventually succeed.
Even George Papadopoulos, an otherwise unremarkable foreign-policy aide, received entreaties from a mysterious British-based professor with Russian ties who offered dirt on Clinton.
Barr sounded like a man who will resist the President's corrupt entreaties, and for this, if for little else, there's reason to be grateful. ♦
Mr. McConnell has also privately encouraged Mr. Bryant to take the seat if it becomes available, but the governor has so far resisted the entreaties.
The goal was to "win hearts and minds" by providing enough services like electricity so that the South Vietnamese would resist entreaties by the North.
His published entreaties caught the eye of DeWitt Clinton, the civic-minded legislator and mayor of New York City, who committed himself to the project.
There's little to indicate those entreaties are working, but his continued attention on the issue reflects the centrality of heartland manufacturing to his political message.
Rather, Trump's chummy relations with the leaders of countries like Russia or Saudi Arabia have not involved parallel personal entreaties for them to investigate corruption.
The president's team also recently contacted another high-profile Washington lawyer, Emmet Flood, a partner at Williams & Connolly, who had previously rejected Mr. Trump's entreaties.
It was true in 1967, after Jordan refused Israel's entreaties not to attack, which resulted in the end of Jordanian rule in the West Bank.
He rarely gives interviews, and The World of Interiors, unlike most magazines, doesn't carry an editor's letter or entreaties to follow him on social media.
He ran as a Democrat for president in 22016, then shunned the entreaties of Democratic leaders and sought re-election last year as an independent.
Gasper says he's pushed his bosses at FBI headquarters to do more to address the problem, but his entreaties have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
Despite hosting almost all the top women running for president, Warren has repeatedly turned down Electing Women's entreaties because of her no-high-dollar fundraiser rule.
They had left their country after her daughter was unable to attend school because of threats from gang members whose entreaties for help she had refused.
But according to her literary agent, Andrew Nurnberg, Ms. Lee has long been reluctant to sell the professional stage rights, despite entreaties by playwrights and producers.
A month later Mr Lai, a former mayor of the southern city of Tainan, resigned as prime minister, spurning Ms Tsai's entreaties for him to stay.
After spending the last year making entreaties to young people, African-Americans and women to cast their ballots, Obama appealed to an altogether different demographic: men.
Guatemala, another country that could be forced to process asylum claims of migrants headed for the United States, previously rejected U.S. entreaties on a similar deal.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is being pelted with entreaties to run for president in 2020, and is clearly intrigued by the idea, according to industry sources.
Many states have continued to resist the Obama administration's entreaties to expand their Medicaid coverage, leaving millions of poor Americans with no affordable health insurance options.
In an interview, Mr. Tarkanian said he at first resisted Mr. Trump's entreaties, which were conveyed to him by the president's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale.
She was the conduit for urging the South Vietnamese to resist Johnson's entreaties to join the Paris talks and wait for a better deal under Nixon.
She took to paying her parents' rents before paying her own, in a stew of guilt and pride, and constantly fielding entreaties from more distant relatives.
Despite Harris's entreaties and paperwork filings and a steady campaign of emails written exclusively in capital letters, the agency has yet to deliver a new ruling.
Arms were crossed, brows were furrowed — and only a handful of bipartisan entreaties prompted Democrats to stand and applaud without consternation or approval from their peers.
Such actions are apt to rattle those Japanese chief executives who have ignored the changing climate, and even those who have become more receptive to shareholder entreaties.
Despite her cooperation – including her involvement in an attempted sting that produced a harrowing recording of the producers entreaties – the Manhattan district attorney declined to bring charges.
Entreaties for likes and retweets and follow-backs and to "smash that subscribe button" are now so universal and frequent that they're beginning to sound like tics.
But peace does not arrive before Wife No. 2 has persuaded the Girl to take up arms alongside her, despite entreaties by Wife No. 1 to resist.
But despite the entreaties of developers whom she has found standing in her foyer ("The door was unlocked," they told her), she has no intention of selling.
Nourse says she repeatedly sought a meeting with Johnson so he could review her credentials, but he rebuffed her entreaties and refused to return her blue slip.
As Mr. Comey described Wednesday in written testimony prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump's entreaties continued for months, in unexpected phone calls and awkward meetings.
Historians will decide whether Moon's unilateral, overly eager entreaties to Pyongyang have helped or impeded Trump's own calibrated one-man good-cop/bad-cop approach with Kim.
A Paul aide said both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had reached out over the past 24 hours, even though past entreaties haven't made any headway.
Aides said he hoped to push back against Mr. Macron's entreaties strongly enough that the Europeans would understand that they needed to accept tougher limits on Tehran.
ENTREATIES MADE Vodafone Idea this month booked a $7 billion quarterly loss, the biggest in Indian corporate history, in large part due to provisions for payments owed.
He has been wooed by prominent Democrats for weeks to seek the party post, a lobbying campaign that included entreaties from high-level allies of Mr. Obama.
She resisted the entreaties of her peers to remain at the company, explaining that she had had her fill of days and nights away from her children.
But her allies acknowledge that Ms. Abrams is listening to her party's entreaties, and that she has grown more open to the idea of opposing Mr. Perdue.
The North Korean side has brushed off American entreaties both for a nuclear inventory and for setting up substantive working groups ahead of the summit in Hanoi.
Trump met with more than two dozen survivors of religious conflict, a few of whom told their stories — and made impassioned entreaties for aid — directly to the president.
As soon as she relented, it opened me up to a litany of entreaties from him, lasting throughout our hour-long session, for me to to the same.
Despite those entreaties, McConnell has hinted the legislation will have to wait because of division within the Republican conference over its merits, as well as the ticking clock.
He has repeatedly ignored the entreaties of France, the U.K. and Germany to reconsider leaving the Paris climate change agreement or to stay in the Iran nuclear deal.
He received near-daily entreaties by members of his health team, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, to keep Americans at home, according to people familiar with the matter.
He has used terms like genocide to describe India's intentions for the disputed Kashmir region and has complained that Mr. Modi has ignored his entreaties for a dialogue.
Most juvenile of all is the myth that Abigail, a sculpture in the school garden, comes to the aid of students who drop handwritten entreaties into her urn.
Carson himself resisted Trump's early entreaties to join his Cabinet, declining to come aboard as secretary of Health and Human Services, a more natural fit for the renowned neurosurgeon.
Why it matters: This is one of Pai's first entreaties directly to the Valley as he looks at ways to roll back the agency's sweeping 2015 net neutrality rules.
The White House was able to overcome a Palestinian boycott of the summit and entreaties from Abbas, the Palestinian National Authority President, for Arab leaders to do the same.
His first overseas visit as prime minister was to Saudi Arabia, where he asked Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince, to persuade Mr Isaias to respond to his entreaties.
Verizon executives said the complaint was a bargaining tactic and denied that the company had any intention of deceiving customers, including those who resist entreaties to switch to fiber.
Macron left Washington speculating Trump would withdraw from the Iran accord despite his entreaties, but acknowledged that no firm decision was relayed over the course of his state visit.
Mariota is revered in his native state, Hawaii, and so McKenzie Milton, a talented Class of 28 quarterback from Mililani High School in Hawaii, was receptive to Frost's entreaties.
In retrospect, I think she enjoyed entreaties from younger artists; it amused her that we were so anxious to meet her, to try and grasp some of her mojo.
The Palestinians remain furious over the president's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and they have refused White House entreaties to come back to the table.
In more recent months, Mr. Ahmed has been able to do little except implore the warring sides to ease the plight of civilians, entreaties that have been largely ignored.
He resisted repeated entreaties to return to the Czech Philharmonic, but was eventually attracted by a new administration that promised to solve the orchestra's longstanding financial and administrative difficulties.
But in an interview during the National Governors Association conference in Washington, Mr. Hogan said he was open to running and listening to entreaties from Mr. Trump's Republican critics.
Democratic leaders resisted entreaties to force a battle over DACA in the three continuing resolutions (CR) Congress has passed since September, when Trump announced the end of the program.
A number of politicians turned down entreaties by President Raimonds Vejonis, a fellow member of Mr. Kucinskis's political bloc, the Union of Greens and Farmers, to take on the job.
With Iran, Venezuela, even North Korea, in which personal entreaties have led nowhere so far, a flurry of activity and threats leads certainly nowhere good, if not nowhere at all.
Putin still sees an adversary in the Obama administration -- despite numerous entreaties by senior Obama deputies to assuage Russian concerns that the Americans were bent on encircling and weakening Russia.
Iran, along with Venezuela, has called for production cuts to prop up prices — entreaties that the Saudis and their Arab allies like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have ignored.
Nervous urging from keen Europhiles that the Remain campaign show more "passion" about the joys of European integration are, I'm afraid, too optimistic about the public's appetite for such entreaties.
That same summer of 1937, the N.K.V.D. issued a series of orders against ethnic communities in the U.S.S.R. that were thought to be vulnerable to entreaties from the country's enemies.
The person behind the account didn't respond to my entreaties to gab about a show I'm assuming we both love, but regardless, it's an excellent way to spend an hour.
Distrustful of the police, they sometimes decline the entreaties of detectives seeking to solve a crime, leaving them on their own to work through the pain and anger that follow.
Trump was initially resistant, but was convinced by aides to adopt a new approach as it became clear his entreaties about securing funding for a wall were not gaining traction.
Before Tuesday, only one F.B.I. director had ever been fired, and that was after an investigation found he had committed egregious ethical violations — and after he refused entreaties to resign.
Trump on Thursday pulled the United States from the landmark 2015 agreement designed to fight climate change, fulfilling a major campaign pledge despite entreaties from U.S. allies and corporate leaders.
Ann Jeffress said that she had called the cemetery's management repeatedly, but that her entreaties, like those of many other relatives of those buried there, had gone unanswered or unheeded.
North Korea had not responded to repeated U.S. and South Korean entreaties to resume talks since Hanoi, although Trump said last week he had received a "beautiful" letter from Kim.
But after a volley of complaints and entreaties (and some jailbreaking), developers helped push Apple to open up the iOS ecosystem—helping to unlock the phone's massive potential in the process.
Amid those entreaties, Trump pressed his criticism of Sessions on Tuesday, but declined to say whether he wished Sessions would resign or whether he would force him out of the administration.
Comey was leading the administration's investigation into the Russia affair and had reportedly rebuffed entreaties by the president to drop elements of the probe — a refusal that led to his firing.
In the 85033th Congress, when Pelosi held the Speaker's gavel, several Democrats on the Judiciary Committee pushed leadership to hold hearings on background checks and firearm loopholes — entreaties that went ignored.
"The government is interested in hearing from the people," the Americans announced when they arrived, and a "little Mount Fuji" of mail has been growing at occupation headquarters: opinions, complaints, entreaties.
Indeed, when Democrats last controlled the House almost a decade ago, party leaders declined to consider tougher gun laws, even in the face of entreaties from some rank-and-file members.
Before doing "Pure Imagination," Gene Wilder's song from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," she offered environmental entreaties that made you think she was going to do "Mercy Mercy Me" instead.
She played with her younger sister and snuggled up beside her grandfather, but ignored her father's entreaties and refused to hold his hand, convinced he tried to leave her for good.
The Tata board acted to cut its losses despite entreaties from the British government and the local member of Parliament, Stephen Kinnock, who had flown to India to plead the case.
Several Democratic candidates evidently view 2018 as a golden opportunity to win political office for themselves, and have resisted the party's entreaties to quit the race for the partisan greater good.
Several prominent Trump antagonists are actively urging other Republicans to take on the president, and a popular governor, Larry Hogan of Maryland, has indicated he is newly open to their entreaties.
But Mr. Hickenlooper, who is expected to announce his decision on a presidential run next week in Denver, has already turned down repeated entreaties by the Schumer and Cortez Masto team.
Abrams, who'd already turned down national Democrats' entreaties to run against Perdue, made it clear she has no plans to change her mind and run for the state's other Senate seat.
MOSCOW — Despite warnings that withdrawal could lead to a new nuclear arms race, the United States national security adviser rejected Russian entreaties on Tuesday to remain committed to a disarmament treaty.
Stuffy scenes between James and his parents (Tom Courtenay and Anne Reid) alternate with his entreaties for money from the Royal Society, where his bewhiskered fellow scientists think he's a hoot.
Assad and his Russian backers are forecasting their plans because they do not think that you will actively try to stop them and instead think you will rely on diplomatic entreaties.
That was taken as a nod to the sensitivities of the French and Germans, who had rebuffed American entreaties and sent only high-ranking career diplomats rather than their foreign ministers.
Britain, leaving the EU and desperate for investment and trade deals, is more susceptible to Chinese entreaties than its continental neighbours, but even it has tightened up its policies in recent years.
Despite entreaties from state officials and health care groups to act now, the question is whether Republican leaders in Washington are prepared to step in to prevent the collapse of Obamacare markets.
In any case, it might have been hard in the context of those rallies to emotionally resist Hitler's hysterical entreaties and propaganda, especially juxtaposed with the hysterically passionate responses of the crowds.
With Republicans controlling the chamber, those entreaties will surely go ignored, but Cohen said that won't stop the Democrats from staging expert-based forums on the issue — with or without the Republicans.
A temporary deal A less similar, but still notable example of Trump changing the debate midstream with entreaties to Democrats was back in September of 2017, when government funding talks were stalled.
The compensation - stipulated in contracts - would compound the financial hit of losing much-needed revenue from crude sales, if the cash-strapped country were to yield to OPEC entreaties to curtail national production.
After rejecting at least two earlier entreaties, the publisher of Fortune, Sports Illustrated and other magazines agreed to be acquired by rival Meredith for $1.8 billion, which includes a hefty 46 percent premium.
Despite Ankara's diplomatic entreaties to Moscow, Europe remains far more decisive to Turkey's prosperity -- given that the former provides three quarters of the latter's Foreign Direct Investment and nearly half of its trade.
Turns out, she can only inherit her birthright if she signs a document acknowledging her father's death, something she refuses to do despite repeated entreaties from her guardian, Ana Miller (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Mr. Trump never courted party donors during the primary season and accused them of seeking to buy influence in government, boasting that as a wealthy man he would be immune to their entreaties.
That position marks a shift from almost decade ago, when Democrats last controlled the House and party leaders declined to consider tougher gun laws despite entreaties from some rank-and-file members. Rep.
Members of the Freedom Caucus are backed up by influential conservative groups like Heritage Action, Freedomworks, and Club for Growth, which have also come out against the bill despite personal entreaties by Trump.
Mr. Rodriguez was convinced that his entreaties to the president on immigration had gotten through, based on Mr. Trump's assertion that, "as a father and a grandfather," he had sympathy for the Dreamers.
The degree to which Russia aided your ascendance, and the degree to which people connected to your campaign were willing and eager to entertain entreaties from Russia, are coming into clearer focus everyday.
Big international institutions, which make up the bulk of Hyundai's investors, are likely to be more immune to the entreaties of companies under attack from an activist if the campaign makes sense financially.
Still, GOP leaders in both chambers are all but ignoring Trump's entreaties for tougher gun laws, blaming the violence on holes in mental-health treatment and, in the Parkland case, law enforcement failures.
He did so despite direct entreaties from Mr. Trump and some of his allies on Mr. Collins's behalf, and their complaints that Ms. Loeffler was not a reliable enough supporter of the president.
A born-again Christian uneasy with alienating religious conservatives, Carter had inherited the conference initiative and never threw his full weight behind it — and indeed, had rebuffed organizers' entreaties to come to Houston.
The Obama administration agonized over the issue but never approved the sale out of fear of escalating the conflict — despite entreaties from Carter, who served in several top Pentagon positions at the time.
Mr. Comey's behind-the-scenes maneuvering is certain to invite contrasts to his actions last year, when he spoke publicly about the Hillary Clinton email case and disregarded Justice Department entreaties not to.
But the Senate has for years stubbornly resisted entreaties from news photographers to allow them access for special events, let alone regular sessions, seeing it as potentially disruptive and perhaps even politically risky.
Macron wasn't always successful in getting through to Trump — the president announced he would withdraw from the Paris climate accord and Iran deal, despite Macron's entreaties — but the two seemed to get along.
A source close to the ZOA bristled at the suggestion that Bannon was influencing its approach and said it would not tone down the campaign against McMaster, despite entreaties by Bannon to do so.
Walmart has mostly rebuffed Lore's entreaties for huge new warehouse spending, in part because of how much deeper into the red the investments would put the e-commerce business over the next few years.
"I could no longer bear even to pick up the phone; I'd just listen to the answering machine, afraid or unwilling to pick up, the plaintive entreaties of the caller an annoyance," he wrote.
When the moment of decision came in July 1776, Benjamin signed the Declaration of Independence, whereas William refused his father's entreaties to join the rebel or, as Benjamin now called it, the "Patriot" cause.
Under the big blue sick sky, slick with greasy heat, Noor watched him caroom from op to op, all of whom were holding, of course, but all of whom stonefucked his entreaties, of course.
"I want to spend a little time reading the transcript — as we've been encouraged to do," he said, referring to Trump's repeated entreaties to "read the transcript" of what he's called a "perfect" call.
Despite U.S. sanctions, the upper echelons of Venezuela's military have largely ignored entreaties from the opposition and Washington to turn against Maduro and just over 1,000 troops have defected, mostly to Colombia and Brazil.
After rejecting at least two earlier entreaties, the publisher of Fortune, Sports Illustrated and other magazines agreed to be acquired by a rival, Meredith, for $1.8 billion, which includes a hefty 46 percent premium.
But Mr. Taraghi, an adviser to the hard-liners around the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran had rejected the entreaties then and would never enter into discussions with the Trump administration.
In one telling episode, Mr. Sanders rebuffed entreaties from multiple Democrats in California who asked him to consider holding a get-out-the-vote rally in the state ahead of its June 5 primary.
While discussing the State Department's response to Congress' subpoena for documents in its impeachment inquiry, McKinley indicated that he hadn't heard back despite several entreaties to top officials about how it was being handled.
Thorbjarnarson refused Warhol's entreaties and found himself justified three days later, when the sick man was at last on the operating table," Mr. Gopnik said, adding, "The surgeon found a gallbladder full of gangrene.
The FBI's unusual public warning came after two days of private meetings between top Justice Department and White House officials, where the FBI's entreaties to withhold the memo went largely unheeded by Trump's aides.
By embracing impeachment as a personal cause during the midterm elections, ignoring the entreaties of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Steyer claimed a role as one of his party's chief provocateurs.
By embracing impeachment as a personal cause during the midterm elections, ignoring the entreaties of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Steyer claimed a role as one of his party's chief provocateurs.
Now, the chorus of entreaties from the endless parade of hawkers through the bazaar's El Fishawy cafe holding out armfuls of wallets, necklaces, rugs, ottoman covers or gorilla masks can be a bit too much.
Trump decided to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement designed to fight climate change despite entreaties from U.S. allies and corporate leaders in an action that fulfilled a major campaign pledge.
The primary funding vehicles steered by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, for instance, have refused entreaties from Mr. O'Keefe's allies to support his groups, said people familiar with the requests.
Their joint account, Houseplantclub, is now an Instagram sensation, with over 234,20123 followers and regular entreaties from corporate suitors — makers of cactus watches, succulent jewelry and macramé pot hangers, among others — to feature their wares.
For one thing, the Republican establishment doesn't have any tools to push the other candidates out of the race — personal entreaties, like the one the Times reports Mitt Romney made to John Kasich, have failed.
Ryan described the discussions as one element within broader talks with Democratic lawmakers about immigration enforcement, separate from Democratic entreaties to attach DACA protections to a must-pass spending measure to keep the government operating.
But German officials say there are no current plans for Merkel to return to the White House, where Trump ignored entreaties to shake her hand during a meeting in the Oval Office a year ago.
After weeks of entreaties and visits from his counterparts in the other states that signed the accord, Trump has announced that the US will be withdrawing from it and reimposing the sanctions the deal lifted.
That enables a greater rate of shenanigans — like when Italian President Giorgio Napolitano schemed, successfully, to remove Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister due at least in part to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's entreaties to do so.
At least 24 security guards who had worked at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul accompanied the bodies home, shaken by the deaths and angered that their entreaties for better protection on the roads had been ignored.
" He also states that he resisted entreaties from Trump to state publicly that he was not under investigation "for a number of reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct, should that change.
Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, a former staffer for Harkin, further explained to the jury Wednesday that her boss took no action after the meeting despite later entreaties from a lobbyist whom she recalled also being in the room.
So a woman who simply sifts through her inbox is most likely fielding entreaties from men less attractive than she is, while she's most likely to get a response if she contacts a more attractive man.
The product of Trump's own insistence on dramatic steps to display his command of the situation and his top advisers' entreaties to convey more seriousness, Wednesday's speech required multiple clarifications from top officials and Trump himself.
The former Trump fixer also made a series of entreaties to Congress to try to bolster his credibility as a whistleblower and lighten his sentence, most famously at a widely viewed House hearing in February 2019.
The most vocal opponents have been businesses, which have found their entreaties repeatedly rebuffed by a president who has continued to threaten an escalating series of tariffs on goods from China, Canada and the European Union.
That enables a greater rate of shenanigans — like when Italian President Giorgio Napolitano schemed, successfully, to remove Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister, due at least in part to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's entreaties to do so.
The sharp criticism from Democrats is an early indication that, despite Trump's entreaties for support from both parties, his version of tax reform remains highly partisan — and faces a tough road through an exceedingly polarized Congress.
Withdrawing from the global Paris climate agreement and the landmark Iran nuclear deal, starting trade conflicts with friendly governments and berating members of NATO make those nations less likely to listen to Washington's entreaties on China.
Posting under the hashtags #turnmeon and #letsstaytogether, they've lit up the app with earnest entreaties for followers to enable notifications for all their posts, lest a single selfie go un-hearted by the maximum number of fans.
Mental health tips and recommendations of affordable therapists are being shared alongside suicide hotline numbers, entreaties not to break any hard-won sobriety, and offers of assurance that it's okay to unplug from the internet and cry.
Everyone from Barack Obama to the heads of NATO and the IMF urged Britons to embrace the EU. Their entreaties were spurned by voters who rejected not just their arguments but the value of "experts" in general.
Cameron stepped down after Britons rejected his entreaties to stay in the EU, a decision that has set back European efforts to forge greater unity and created huge uncertainty in Britain and across the 28-nation bloc.
He has given the Police Department bigger budgets, new equipment and, after initial resistance to Mr. Bratton's entreaties for more officers, an additional 1,300 last year, the first expansion of the department in more than a decade.
And so far, he has resisted entreaties from advisers to cancel events, or to send a strong signal that he's willing to put the political season on hold as the full effects of the coronavirus are assessed.
Since Mr. Kim took power after his father's death more than six years ago, Chinese officials and experts have become increasingly disdainful of him for ignoring Beijing's entreaties to halt his nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests.
WASHINGTON — For more than an hour on Wednesday, President Trump listened quietly to entreaties for action, personal stories of grief and loss, and expressions of raw anger, clutching a white notecard with talking points written on it.
"The SPD got its way in many areas," senior SPD parliamentarian Hubertus Heil told public broadcaster RBB in what is likely to be the first of many such entreaties to rank-and-file over the coming week.
No matter the entreaties, James said, he was not going to testify at the disciplinary trial of Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is accused of recklessly using a chokehold that led to the death of Eric Garner.
Asked whether Mr. Tillerson had referred by mistake to entreaties to the Chinese that previous administrations kept secret, Steven Goldstein, the new under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, said it was quite deliberate.
In court arguments, Mr. Shumate said Mr. Ross's entreaties to Justice Department officials were not an attempt to manufacture an excuse for a census decision he had already made, but were completely appropriate discussions between senior officials.
It's simultaneously meant to be a performance showcase for creator Seth MacFarlane (whose voice is about the only thing you hear in the episode, outside of McKellen's occasional entreaties), a deeply emotional moment, and a gross-out gag.
Some had hoped that last minute entreaties would cause the president to have a change of heart, as they did when he supposedly came close to withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in April 2017.
Thus the strange recent spectacle of Trump addressing white suburban audiences with entreaties to black people in which he depicted their lives as fully unredeemed ("You live in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs").
" And Kerr Putney, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, initially resisted entreaties by activists, community leaders and the news media to make public the police video of the encounter with Mr. Scott, saying the video was not "definitive.
He has regularly telegraphed his desire to open a channel for negotiation, and many countries and politicians have volunteered to act as intermediaries, most recently Prime Minister Abe of Japan, whose entreaties were rejected by Iran's supreme leader.
Republicans have pushed back against reopening an investigation into Kavanaugh, and instead are subjecting Ford to what has at times seemed like a cross-examination of her credibility, despite her entreaties that an FBI investigation take place first.
But then, after decades of Beijing rebuffing U.S. entreaties to help and  dismissing North Korean nukes as a "bilateral" issue for Washington alone to resolve, Xi suddenly took an interest in the proceedings and twice summoned Kim to Beijing.
The entreaties, which happened in the early part of her career at Fox, bothered Ms. Kelly to the point that she retained a lawyer because she worried that her rejections would jeopardize her job, though they ultimately did not.
Even if he were not to run again for president, a Senator Romney could prove a pivotal swing vote, impervious to the entreaties of a president he has scorned and able to rally other Trump skeptics in the chamber.
Their colleague Bob Corker of Tennessee pre-empted that kind of ordeal by deciding to retire at the end of this term, and Tennessee's Republican governor, Bill Haslam, resisted entreaties to enter the race and tussle with furious Bannonites.
However, Giuliani maintains those entreaties were not made at the behest of his paying clients with Ukrainian ties, including the two men who were indicted and arrested earlier this month on campaign finance charges, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
Its best hopes lay in its oil reserves and American support, but Turkey has threatened to cut off its oil pipeline, and the relationship with the United States soured after the Kurds rebuffed its entreaties to cancel the vote.
His wife of sixty-five years, Eva (Claire Bloom), has just passed away, and he looks hollowed out—sitting glumly in his red sweater and white socks, and batting aside the gentle entreaties of his granddaughter Annie (Kerry Bishé).
After resisting entreaties to head home for years, 36-year-old Cahill has signed for Melbourne City to become the league's most valuable promotional tool since former Italy and Juventus great Alessandro del Piero played for Sydney FC from 2012-14.
But the sources say McMaster repeatedly responded to Democratic senators' entreaties not to decertify Iran and instead look for bipartisan alternatives by saying that he is not the one they have to convince, suggesting they were preaching to the choir.
Since then Mr Corbyn has rejected successive entreaties to resign, reconstituted his shadow cabinet from the dregs of his parliamentary support and seized on the publication of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war (which he opposed) to rally his supporters.
But the sources say McMaster repeatedly responded to Democratic Senators entreaties not to decertify Iran and instead look for bipartisan alternatives by saying that he is not the one they have to convince, suggesting they were preaching to the choir.
In the aftermath of a bloody weekend attack carried out by young men, several from prosperous families, the prime minister renewed official entreaties to parents and school administrators to inform the authorities about unexplained and prolonged absences by young men.
But Ms. Ballinger, after roughly a month of entreaties by Mr. Liang's legal team for a meeting with her, agreed to sit down with the former officer in order to tell him directly the grief he had caused, Mr. Rynecki said.
No, he ambled to the center of the field, seemingly drawn there by some pressing business, apparently oblivious to both his looming withdrawal and the entreaties of Emre Can, a Liverpool midfielder who was pointing out that Young's work was done.
He has resisted entreaties to join the United Nations-backed unity government in western Libya, and he has positioned himself as the only leader with the strength to rule Libya, which plunged into chaos after Colonel Qaddafi was ousted in 2011.
Prince Mohammed worked against the transition to democracy in Egypt, defied a United Nations embargo to arm a would-be Libyan strongman and ignored American entreaties to end his feud with Qatar, the host of a United States air base.
Mr. Trump's West Wing advisers, their memories still fresh from Mr. Corker's jibes, are urging the president to resist entreaties from the senator and a handful of his colleagues who worry that the seat could slip from Republican hands in November.
Mr. Sessions resisted multiple entreaties to reverse his recusal so he could oversee and curtail the Mueller inquiry; by the time the criminal investigation of him ended in March 2018, he could do little to get back in the president's graces.
Good-naturedly dodging his mother's entreaties to settle down, the peripatetic and engaging Kasliwal scours the world for outrageous gems (a recent find was an old 10-carat mine diamond at a Las Vegas antiques show) and the best parties.
Mr. Trump struck a wary note about Mr. Ryan's announcement, pointing out during an appearance in Rome, N.Y., that Mr. Ryan had insisted last year that he did not want the speaker's job, only to eventually accept his party's entreaties.
When he declined his publisher's entreaties for a sequel to "The Exorcist" and instead delivered an elegiac memoir about his mother, "I'll Tell Them I Remember You," published in 21966, Mr. Blatty felt the first cinch of the horror-writing straitjacket.
Trump rejected entreaties from several Senate Republicans to agree to a compromise that would curtail his national emergency powers and instead framed the vote not as a matter of constitutional concerns, but rather as a litmus test on border security.
"Howard begged him to, and he finally agreed to come down to the meeting," Mr. Millstein recalled, but just sat there, his hands folded in front of him, listening to Mr. Carter's entreaties, and then returning upstairs without saying a word.
CAST(RO) OUT: President Trump rolled back Obama administration entreaties to Cuba, adding more oversight for Americans who want to visit Cuba and banning Americans from any activities that profit the Cuban military — which controls the majority of the tourism industry.
The county board of supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the current plan and release $23 million in taxpayer funding for it, despite last-minute entreaties from some art and architecture critics who urged the board to vote against the project.
The administration had rejected Cuban entreaties to overturn the policy before President Barack Obama's historic visit to the island last year, although even some White House aides argued that it was outmoded given efforts to regularize relations between the former Cold War foes.
But Trump refused entreaties from party leaders to disavow his charge that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was showing bias because of his Mexican heritage and should recuse himself from a lawsuit alleging fraud at Trump's defunct Trump University real estate training school.
He made no mention of the Platt Amendment, which he was unwilling to modify despite Cuba's entreaties, nor did he change his position on keeping the heavy tariffs the United States imposed on the island's sugar, as Machado had asked him to.
And the result is that spoiler "etiquette" has tilted so far in favor of spoilerphobes that Matt Weiner used to send out screeners for new seasons of Mad Men with entreaties that critics not reveal what year the episodes took place in.
To begin with, had King Hussein of Jordan heeded Israeli entreaties and stayed out of that war, as he did six years later during the Yom Kippur War, East Jerusalem — indeed, the entire West Bank — might still be in Jordanian hands today.
But his capacity to maintain a friendly relationship with Trump will be severely tested if the President decides, despite his entreaties, to pull the US out of the current Iran nuclear deal and to press ahead with a trade war with Europe.
Jordain Carney reports that GOP lawmakers have searched for an off-ramp for weeks, juggled Trump's tweets and entreaties by phone to stand with him, and they're now down to the wire before an expected Thursday floor vote in the Senate (The Hill).
Mr. Mueller's investigators likely would have emails sent by the Trump staff in response to the Russian entreaties; the special counsel requested and received documents from the campaign, which instructed former staff members to retain all documents and communications related to the campaign.
"Regardless of what your party is, I don't understand how you could look at that and think this is not worthy of an investigation,'" said Deborah Harris, a self-described "strong Democrat" in Iowa City, referring to Mr. Trump's entreaties to President Zelensky.
Jonas died with finished manuscripts around him; Ping Wong had a stroke and refused her daughter's entreaties to eat; Helen Moses closed her eyes in early December and never opened them again, dying five days later, a talkative woman reduced to silence.
The book's more than 60 previously published columns toggle between surface-skimming cultural musings and political entreaties meant to light a fire under readers' otherwise comfy rears, and are presented with a straightforwardness that only occasionally tips into what feels like forced effervescence.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Wednesday he did not want a third term in office but had to bow to entreaties from his people, who were not ready to say goodbye to the architect of the nation's recovery from a 1994 genocide.
At a Group of Seven summit in the resort town of Taormina on the island of Sicily, Trump refused to entreaties from the other six allies to maintain U.S. support for the Paris climate agreement, insisting he needed more time to make up his mind.
WASHINGTON — Nikki R. Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, says in a new book that she resisted entreaties by other top aides to President Trump to undermine his policies, revealing more about the fractious world of loyalty and betrayal around the president.
This focus will ensure you're doing what you were hired to do, make it easier to make the case to your voters you deserve another term, and make it much easier to sort through the endless invitations and entreaties in which you are already drowning.
Word of the Escobar manhunt filters in through the television, which touts a 2.7 million peso reward for information leading to his capture, but it passes without comment, as do Escobar's entreaties to his father about moving his family to an adjacent plot of land.
Indeed, we rightly cringe at the megalomaniac entreaties (such as, kill drug dealers and "I'll give you a medal") of military strongman, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who incites, and has himself been directly linked to mass extrajudicial killings of Filipinos for non-violent drug crimes.
For example, the report said, the slow pace of reconstruction in Iraqi cities like Ramadi, Falluja and Mosul — once controlled by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — has angered residents in those Sunni-majority areas and made them more susceptible to militant entreaties.
The recent attack on Saudi oil fields, which prompted little response from Washington, and the increased ostracization by Congress and others of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – following the October 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi – has left Riyadh even more open to Putin's entreaties.
The rarity of Trump-talk may also have stemmed, in part, from the fact that seven of the night's awards went to La La Land, a movie with much to say about love and dreams and disappointment but little, thematically, that lends itself to political entreaties.
Those entreaties seem to have failed, and multiple outlets are reporting that Trump plans to pull the US out of the deal anyway, first by reimposing US sanctions on Iran's oil industry and then, later this summer, by putting other punitive measures on Tehran back into place.
Despite an all-out blitz from the Trump administration -- including face-to-face entreaties from the President to skeptical House Republicans -- to lock in the votes, there is still significant work to do to get one across the finish line, according to multiple senior aides and lawmakers.
But Ryan refused the Democrats' entreaties to cut short Congress's spring recess to launch the AUMF debate, and the issue has been put on the back burner this week, when returning lawmakers focused much of their energy on legislation to fund the government and prevent a shutdown.
Here in the sweep of Australian farming country, where land is measured by the thousands of acres and the horizon consists almost entirely of different shades of brown, there has been a flood of entreaties for divine help — at dinner tables, in schools, at gatherings of friends.
But according to Politico, Mr. Trump doesn't take device security as seriously as he might: While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was "too inconvenient," the same administration official said.
Mr. Trump's entreaties line up more with a lasting phrase that Mr. Collins did not bring up on Monday — "I am not a crook," Mr. Nixon's infamous statement that he made during a nationally televised news conference where he denied any involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
Resetting relations with the Russian government and Mr. Putin had been central to Mr. Trump's foreign policy approach during the campaign, the transition and the first days of the new administration, and it is unclear what role, if any, the back-channel Ukrainian entreaties might have played.
Coll tells the story of how, in 2011, Exxon expanded its operations into Iraqi Kurdistan, brushing off the Obama administration's entreaties to stay away and angering the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad, which feared the Kurds would use their newfound oil wealth to seek greater autonomy.
Prosecutors asserted that both Baroni and Wildstein "bragged to the governor about the lane closings" and said "that they had been done to 'mess' with the mayor of Fort Lee because he had declined entreaties to endorse the governor's re-election," as the New York Times's Kate Zernike reported.
She also claims Block did nothing to ensure her access to the Havana iteration of Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje (in which her work did not appear), despite Bruguera's entreaties that Block exert her influence for that end after Bruguera was barred by exhibit security from entering the premises.
Prime Minister David Cameron said last month he was stepping down after voters, many of them swayed by concerns over high immigration and a desire to reclaim 'independence' from Brussels, rejected his entreaties to keep Britain in the EU and his warnings that leaving would spell economic disaster.
This urgent situation in Latin America will present a thornier challenge to the vice president than his four-day trip this month to Poland and Germany, where he was sent to deliver earnest, eloquent entreaties in support of Israel and accuse Iran of trying to perpetrate another Holocaust.
He threatened to quit his job at the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration rather than sign off on a domestic surveillance program the White House demanded, and he refused Mr. Trump's entreaties to back off of the investigation of Michael T. Flynn, his former national security adviser.
More broadly, the way that Duterte, not Washington, brought the four-year Scarborough Shoal standoff to a close exposes a central failure in America's South China Sea policy: Washington's hesitancy to stand up to Beijing lest it spark a military crisis leaves regional partners vulnerable and open to China's entreaties.
All Deadheads know Jerry's story: how he became trapped in his own persona, how the band got bigger even as he deteriorated, how he was the leader of the band but refused to lead the band, how he turned down entreaties from band members and even former girlfriends to help him.
After years of resisting industry entreaties to hire a female general partner, the firm added three women to its senior ranks — Angela Strange, Katie Haun and Connie Chan — in a series of moves that was greeted by women in the industry with a combination of elation and confusion, they say.
He said that Mr. Barr had acted in "good faith" by choosing not to release summaries of the report drafted by Mr. Mueller's team, despite his entreaties that a March 24 letter from the attorney general, widely criticized as painting a misleadingly rosy view of Mr. Trump, confused the public.
Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenDanish prime minister: Trump's idea to buy Greenland 'absurd'  Juan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts We need a climate plan for agriculture MORE (D-Texas) on Monday took the remarkable step of going after Pelosi for her entreaties to silence the impeachment talk.
While Trump ignored entreaties from a bipartisan group of House lawmakers to rescind his invitation to Erdogan, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said last week the panel wouldn't be taking key action on legislation to sanction Turkey over the Syria incursion while Erdogan was in town.
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ROME — Italy resisted the entreaties and warnings of its European Union and American allies on Saturday by officially joining China's vast new Silk Road at a signing ceremony with President Xi Jinping of China, a move that crystallized shifting geopolitical balances and the populist Italian government's willingness to break with its traditional partners.
" Paul Bogaards, a spokesman at Knopf, Mr. Caro's publisher, said of Mr. O'Brien's many entreaties, "Suffice to say, his people have been in touch a few times (email, phone, Conan standing outside the building), and we remain cautiously optimistic about Caro making an appearance on the show before the decade is out.
The decision not to open an investigation meant there was no FBI examination of documents or interviews of witnesses to the phone call, participants in the White House decision to withhold military funding from Ukraine, the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Ukrainian officials who were the target of Trump and Giuliani's entreaties.
So if the press is dominated by stories about shrinking valuations, dried-up funding, lower revenues, lower growth, missed targets and dimmer futures, regulators and electeds will react accordingly — they'll be less receptive to arguments and policy interpretations from startups and far more susceptible to the entreaties of incumbents to maintain the status quo.
This letter maintains that SpaceX has conducted the investigation in keeping with the established practice, which is true, and urges the FAA to ignore entreaties it claims aim to "politicize" the investigation, and implies that the purpose of doing so would be to hamper SpaceX's ability to operate competitively with other, more established players.
Join us in celebrating (and arguing over) our list of the best things we saw and heard in 2018: The classical music world was stunned this week, as Esa-Pekka Salonen, who had long resisted entreaties to take on a new conducting post, was announced as the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
There have been similar entreaties: In July, the former Senator Joe Lieberman wrote an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal that urged voters to support Mr. Crowley in the general election; Ruben Diaz Sr., a New York City councilman who represents the South Bronx, did the same in The Bronx Chronicle in September.
They did so when Bill Clinton granted a visa to Gerry Adams (a militant Irish Republican) in 1994, when George W. Bush ignored Mr Blair's entreaties about Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 2006 and when Mr Obama upbraided David Cameron about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during a visit to Washington in 2013.
In seemingly every spare moment, he's dialed African-American radio hosts across the swing states, chatting loosely backstage at his rallies and aboard Air Force One about his favorite hip-hop artists (Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper) and his paternal dating anxieties (not high, his kids have Secret Service protection) as a prelude for urgent entreaties to vote.
The Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson and his wife are giving more than $232 million to groups backing Republican congressional candidates, according to campaign filings and interviews with Republican strategists, disregarding repeated entreaties for support from allies of Donald J. Trump and dealing a major setback to Mr. Trump's efforts to rally the deepest-pocketed Republican givers.
Jay InsleeJay Robert InsleeCastro, Steyer join pledge opposing the Keystone XL pipeline Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Andrew Yang promises mass pardon to those imprisoned for nonviolent marijuana offenses MORE announced Wednesday that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is rebuffing his repeated entreaties for a primary debate focused on climate change.
Even supporters of the court are wondering about the justification for a pay raise, given that its 18 judges, elected for nine years, are far from fully occupied and short of trial-ready cases; the court's chief prosecutor and victims fund have budget problems; and the governments that donate the judges' salaries are resisting entreaties for more money.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a usual defender of Mr. Trump and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has steadfastly ignored entreaties from the right to conduct his own counterinvestigation, and he has tried to pass that baton to Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who has also demurred.
Yet Gowdy also turned down opportunities to move into GOP leadership, bucking entreaties from some Republicans who saw him as a potential successor to former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio).
Obama's efforts to breathe new vigor into an Oslo Process that had been comatose for the best part of a decade by the time he took office quickly floundered — a tale of vain diplomatic entreaties that illustrate the morose absurdity of expecting success when repeating the just-get-them-talking pattern that had delivered a decade-plus of failure.
These are the same people, the New York slimes, that blabbed about releasing and revealing the identities of CIA interrogators, including the one who interrogated KSM, again, endangering these intelligence agents and ignoring the entreaties of top officials who were telling them not to do this in the name of national security they didn&apost care then and they don&apost care now.
Trump leans into deal-maker reputation White House clarifies Melania Trump hasn't met Kim Jong Un after Trump comment MORE— in part responsive to the Trump administration's warm entreaties toward North Korea's leader to come out of the cold — Japan feared that certain nuclear program-relevant technologies and strategic materials could be exported by South Korean firms to their northern neighbor.
His loud entreaties — while playing to the audience to get as many "Geraldo, I don't understand what you're asking" and "I don't think you are taking this very seriously" responses — also had the effect of allowing Mercado to "make peace with the tech-centric part" of his life, as he put it, and to move back into developing video art.
Former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 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 was fired after he refused presidential entreaties that were so questionable that other presidential aides were asked to leave the room.
All over the city, one can find examples of this genre — from faded old advertisements painted on walls a century ago and left to entropy, to the one-off homemade entreaties for businesses plastering the facades of contemporary and abandoned establishments, to the recognizable stylings of some of the city's legacy sign painters, like Articulate Signs, or the inter-generational Craig Signs.
Prosecutors said that both Bill Baroni, who is currently facing trial, and David Wildstein, who has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, "bragged to the governor about the lane closings," and said "that they had been done to 'mess' with the mayor of Fort Lee because he had declined entreaties to endorse the governor's re-election," according to the New York Times's Kate Zernike.
Further entreaties are expected to be made by top German bank executives in the run-up to April, when finance officials and bankers gather for the annual Spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund IMF and World Bank in Washington DC. Senator Chris Van Hollen told Reuters in a telephone interview he planned to reintroduce a Russian sanctions bill in the coming months, or even sooner.
The Republicans formed such committees to examine Planned Parenthood and former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's use of a private email server, but they have dismissed the Democrats' gun-violence entreaties as political theater.
Further entreaties are expected to be made by top German bank executives in the run-up to April, when finance officials and bankers gather for the annual Spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund IMF and World Bank in Washington DC. Senator Chris Van Hollen told Reuters in a telephone interview he planned to reintroduce a Russian sanctions bill in the coming months, or even sooner.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CLEVELAND, Ohio — It can be hard being a god — all that work to do creating vast universes; coping with plaintive entreaties from the downtrodden; keeping up an image of potency in the ecumenical deities' club, with all those other divinities boasting about their sexier powers or larger flocks of followers; and weathering theological spats whipped up by the fallible faithful.
In a chronicling of her childhood so thorough it includes the number of times she was late for homeroom during her first semester of high school (seven), Kanigel recounts an incident in which Jane was expelled from third grade for urging her classmates to dismiss the entreaties of a hygiene instructor, who asked them to pledge to brush their teeth twice a day for the rest of their lives.
I switched all of the location-access buttons on my iPhone from "While Using the App" to "Ask Next Time," causing my most useful app to launch a series of increasingly desperate pop-up entreaties, begging me to make my life easier by letting it automatically locate me (rather than giving it access to my location only when I type in where I am and where I want to go).
My quixotic venture came to a summary end when the Legion, making a rare concession to my mother's entreaties on the grounds that I was not foreign but French, released me back into captivity, this time to the London suburb of Shoreditch, where my father's unlikely stepbrother Markus ran a trading company importing precious furs and carpets from the Soviet Union — except he always called it Russia — and had offered to teach me the trade.
That Diane was heeding the call of this fame, asking her questions and taking notes because this was what follows after fame has made its decree, conferred upon its subject the gift of an afterlife: years after the painter was in the grave, her answers would ring down the long hallway of time to whoever poked a finger into her digital cubbyhole to make inquiries, entreaties, to seek the corroboration of the painter-in-fame in her actual utterances.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE's (I-Vt.) absolute entreaties to ideals like free education for everyone (as someone who will still be paying off student loans when my one-year old is in college – rock on), but anyone who has spent 10 minutes in Washington knows these types of declarations fall flat.
Rank-and-file Republicans are treading carefully when it comes to speaking out about the escalating controversy surrounding President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's entreaties that foreign governments investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE.
Latino Republicans are split on whether Donald 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's latest entreaties toward Latino community leaders are a good political strategy and an olive branch to a community that bore the brunt of his rhetoric, or a cynical case of pandering to a key group of voters with Election Day less than three months away.
A bulletin board was festooned with notices for, variously, the Fabulous RVing Women (FRVW on Facebook); a lost cat; entreaties for help installing solar power; a self-defense class for women; invitations to caravan to Los Algodones or Slab City, the outsider community on an abandoned Navy base in California's Badlands that is a de rigueur stop for this set; and a beading class at the RTR "art camp," which was two trestle tables strewn with art supplies set out by Sue Soaring Sun, a 62-year-old artist.
Roy Cooper (D)         **** ➔ CONGRESS: Investigations: Responding to entreaties from House conservatives to release information tied to the Department of Justice's handling of the Russia probe, Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of additional documents and text messages he believes can bolster his assertion that former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 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, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabeAndrew George McCabeThe Hill's Morning Report — Will Congress do anything on gun control?

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