And you thought the Kardashian fam couldn't get any fiercer.
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What could be braver, fiercer and more badass than that?
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The firm may also face fiercer domestic competition in future.
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"Watch out" – Kendra Wilkinson is back and fiercer than ever.
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But it's here: bigger, fiercer, and more independent than ever.
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This year, disagreement over the Farm Bill is even fiercer.
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Seas will be higher, rain more diluvial and storms fiercer.
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Competition in the handset market might be fiercer than ever.
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We expect bigger waves of displacement the fiercer the fighting gets.
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The flare-up in Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais seems fiercer.
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For washing machines, where import competition was fiercer, prices were unchanged.
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There are few fiercer enemies than Airbnb and the hotel industry.
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Climate change is only making dry weather drier and wildfires fiercer.
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An even fiercer fight is coming to a phone near you.
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When they inevitably fail, the political argument returns, usually in fiercer form.
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And as more players get in on the market, competition grows fiercer.
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Expect the squabbling to grow fiercer as the 2017 elections draw nearer.
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Let us appreciate that today's fight is fierce and only getting fiercer.
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He also said that CAAM expected carmakers to face fiercer competition in 2019.
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Hyundai's move upmarket in the past few years exposed it to fiercer competition.
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Valuations are up and competition is fiercer than ever, making timing key. added.
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Xu said that fiercer competition will inevitably lead to price wars, and innovations.
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As the protests grew fiercer, the Trees of Life became a favorite target.
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They fear the "gladiator effect," which suggests that headgear will foster fiercer play.
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Global warming means fiercer hurricanes, rising sea levels and deadly droughts and wildfires.
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It got even fiercer when The Times promoted his column in a tweet.
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The second wish, probably the fiercer of the two, is to be seen.
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The bones show through, and the book is all the fiercer for it.
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But the scramble to get a sales job at Amazon is even fiercer.
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The bar for entry is much lower, and the competition is much fiercer.
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In New Hampshire, a fiercer battle is playing out between Sanders and Warren.
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This is especially likely in Europe, but even at home watchdogs may get fiercer.
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Sea levels are rising, storms are getting fiercer, and protective beaches are eroding rapidly.
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And that sometimes gets him to be a little fiercer than your average bear.
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If anything, that anger has grown fiercer during Rhodes's time in the White House.
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These have been familiar criticisms, but Sanders has been much fiercer with them tonight.
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Or maybe a big storm rolling in, like last year but fiercer. Something. Anything.
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Neo said this will just make it come out fiercer and stronger later on.
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That is partly because the tribal loyalties that might have saved Nixon are fiercer now.
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A slim pipeline of new drugs and fiercer competition also boded ill for Takeda's revenues.
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The competition is getting even fiercer than it was before on Dancing with the Stars.
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Whatever happens, it seems clear that the smaller the Democratic margin, the fiercer the fight.
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Prominent GOP figures who are prone to jab at Trump were fiercer than usual. Sen.
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Mr. Sheikh was approachable while Mr. Qahtani "had a much fiercer reputation," Mr. Horak said.
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The Philippine military says the militants have put up a much fiercer fight than expected.
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The fiercer storms that could soon come to British shores could paralyse trade for days.
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Yet they are hesitant over fiercer sanctions, or to entertain military intervention as an option.
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Itaú's cost-cutting push comes amid fiercer competition from financial startups and more intense regulatory pressure.
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At the 2016 Emmys, the Game of Thrones cast looked fiercer than Ramsay Bolton's hungry dogs.
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Elsewhere are clues that the anti-corruption campaign is getting fiercer, and perhaps even more personal.
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Another of the proposals has drawn fiercer criticism: to loosen capital requirements for banks' green investments.
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And competition is fiercer than ever, as companies like Disney and Apple move deeper into streaming.
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He rarely raises his voice, though his language about Trump has certainly gotten fiercer over time.
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Competition is fiercer than ever, from the likes of Pandora P.N and rapper Jay Z's Tidal.
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Sales of athletic gear, appliances and the like have been rising robustly despite fiercer economic headwinds.
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Competition is growing fiercer among streaming service providers as Disney prepares to launch Disney+ on Nov.
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But the closer that moment comes, she said, the fiercer the abortion rights resistance will get.
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Hurricane Michael made a dramatic landfall Wednesday afternoon as a fiercer-than-expected Category 21 storm.
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The backlash is fiercer than in other states where teachers have protested or gone on strike.
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And, of course, if wind and solar continue to get cheaper, they'll provide even fiercer competition.
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Competition for such jobs has become fiercer as the public sector's share in formal employment is declining.
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Perhaps the only thing fiercer than emitting the energy of 21980 million suns is doing it again.
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Mounting evidence is also suggesting that climate change is creating ever-fiercer windstorms that tear through California.
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As climate scientists predicted, storms have grown fiercer, sea levels have risen and infectious diseases are spreading.
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Tepper notes that while its data center business is a positive, fiercer competition is a major headwind.
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Today it's clear that resistance to change in Washington, D.C. has been ever fiercer than I anticipated.
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As category after category gets disrupted, competition among this new crop of businesses has gotten much fiercer.
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In many ways, it has been fiercer than the strategy Republicans deployed in 2009 against Obama's nominees.
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You get more weather extremes — hotter hot days, wetter wet ones, longer droughts, fiercer storms, heavier snows.
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Boeing officials have been quoted recently as saying the U.S. planemaker faces fiercer price competition from Airbus.
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France has had its own parsing of "radical Islam," though the fight over "secularism" is even fiercer.
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Competition to get into universities is fierce, and competition for good jobs after college can be fiercer.
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Of course, early success will produce an even fiercer counter-mobilization that Sanders will have to survive.
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As a result, in the following EU-US trade negotiations, we are likely to see a fiercer situation.
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The United States and Mexico have one of the fiercer and most closely contested rivalries in world soccer.
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Beer drinkers have more choices than ever before, making the battle to capture consumers' attention fiercer than ever.
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She's fresher than any "Batman" of late and fiercer than any "Superman" of recent vintage, but she's lonely.
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The competition to pack those boats is fierce — and likely to grow fiercer with the arrival of summer.
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The first transatlantic hug happened during a conference in 2006, and still longer, fiercer hugs can be imagined.
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Louis learns this first-hand when he resurrects his daughter's cat, Church, who is suddenly much mangier and fiercer.
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Streaming TV services' lineups will be one of the fiercer battlegrounds as new players enter this increasingly crowded space.
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That goes some way to explaining why fury there has been fiercer, and the government response tougher, than elsewhere.
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Democrats have never supported the idea, but now that the declaration has come to fruition, opposition is even fiercer.
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Because their main evolutionary adaptation was their size, they quickly faltered when other, fiercer competitors came on the scene.
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One day, Toni spies young female dancers practicing a routine that's fiercer than any slugfest, and is wholly transfixed.
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In an effort to create a fiercer security dog, the prison experimented with breeding prison security dogs and wolves.
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Ankara's plans will face fiercer resistance from the residents of northeastern Syria, who are not ignorant of their history.
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Closer look: Senator Elizabeth Warren has largely avoided engaging her opponents, even as the Democratic contest has gotten fiercer.
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A government will not expose a politically sensitive industry to fiercer foreign competition unless the deal provides commensurate political rewards.
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In May, Itaú said it would tighten its belt to compensate for fiercer competition, especially in the card-processing business.
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We must invest to adapt to higher temperatures, rising seas, fiercer storms, water scarcity, wildfires — conditions that are now inevitable.
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So it's no surprise that competition to discover and fund the country's next billion-dollar unicorn is fiercer than ever.
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Sessions's applause was lighter, faster, and somehow fiercer than your average clap, while Mattis's claps appeared both rushed and uninspired.
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Nowhere, though, has the competition been fiercer than in Europe, because of the British vote to leave the European Union.
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However, beside the factors unique to Hong Kong, the sale of iPhones seems to be losing momentum worldwide amid fiercer competition.
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At Alexander McQueen, a band of models wore warrior-inspired braids that were also drenched, giving them an even fiercer countenance.
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Now the question is whether the company can sustain that growth to become a fiercer competitor to the online juggernaut Amazon.
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Some experts predict an even fiercer civil war as the Kabul government and its army weaken and warlords gain new power.
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Beaver Valenzuela told KABC-TV that he's survived fiercer storms and wouldn't leave until he was convinced there was more immediate danger.
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Opposition in America to an American-led deal was already fierce enough; it would be even fiercer to a China-led one.
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Centrica's energy trading expansion comes as it has been hit hard by weak energy prices and fiercer competition in its home market.
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In the wild, the resistance is even fiercer: wheel nuts loosened on DOC vehicles, staff threatened, poison found in an employee's letterbox.
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Hastened by feeble progress on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, businesses face wetter floods, fiercer wildfires and stormier storms than in the past.
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For this new model, the researchers looked at worldwide impacts of fiercer storms by marrying climate models and models of river flows.
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But competition for creative talent is much fiercer today, and agencies are seeing people go instead to companies like Facebook and Google.
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But for the foreseeable future, as the odds against them get longer, and the competition fiercer, it will happen less and less.
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Today, however, the ideology of democracy has taken fiercer hold, elites are held in low regard, and those failsafes are themselves failing.
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"LOVE AND TEARS" BY NAOMI CAMPBELL Everything Naomi Campbell does is fiercer than we could ever imagine, and that includes this music video.
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Fiercer sea swells are eroding parts of the shore and the island is getting less rainfall, making 2017 the driest year on record.
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The opposition at Commerzbank is fiercer than at Deutsche Bank, where a similar survey showed nearly 70 percent were against a tie-up.
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Its 400 or so indigenous residents had watched helplessly as shoreline disappeared, winter storms got fiercer, and waves lapped closer to the school.
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Such sun-dimming technology is designed to reduce the risks associated with accelerating warming in coming decades, from fiercer storms to harsher heatwaves.
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And when you have engineers who work on self-driving cars — one of the most marketable skills in tech — bids get even fiercer.
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And the reaction was fiercer, I think, because Buttigieg's political prominence itself represents a mortal threat to the intolerant excesses of conservative Christianity.
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Meanwhile, Amazon is getting into the brick-and-mortar food business in buying Whole Foods, making competition in the grocery aisles even fiercer.
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That may not do much to mollify Pompeo's fiercer critics, who see any service in the Trump administration as proof of moral ignominy.
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Having primarily constructed themeless puzzles thus far, and with the Friday/Saturday competition growing ever fiercer, I figured I'd give themes a shot.
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He accepted the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, and signaled that he was prepared to enact even fiercer immigration policies.
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But alongside the security forces, experts and witnesses say, are the enforcers from the colectivos, who engage in fiercer and often deadly intimidation.
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Beyond being a handy way to remember a significant MNF, Falcons-Saints happens to be one of the fiercer division rivalries in the NFL.
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Early hominids adapted to a particular niche on the savannas of Africa, their upright posture letting them see stronger, fiercer predators at a distance.
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Itau Unibanco Holding fell after setting lower targets for 2019, despite a higher first-quarter recurring profit as it sees fiercer competition for consumers.
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Hastened by feeble progress on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, businesses face wetter floods, fiercer wildfires and stormier storms than in the past (see article).
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Worse, when the contradictions become apparent, Mr Trump's economic nationalism may become fiercer, leading to backlashes in other countries—further stoking anger in America.
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He cautioned, however, that inflation would continue to weigh on UK consumers' spending power and anticipated competition in the convenience sector would become fiercer.
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Experts say the fires have been especially difficult to put out because of the El Nino phenomenon, resulting in drier weather and fiercer fires.
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They are considered toxic substances and thought to be responsible for fiercer hangovers when compared to lighter (in color) alcohols like gin and vodka.
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These women were only characterized as fierce and strong to make the Greek warriors who defeated them appear even fiercer and stronger by comparison.
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As mass shootings increasingly became a regular part of the news cycle, the debate in the country over gun-control grew fiercer than ever.
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During the past week they have increasingly directed their frustration toward police, who have responded with fiercer determination to clear them from the streets.
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He seizes the foreground with a fiercer attack, a note or two placed differently, a sudden trill — stings and jabs and displacements, not discourses.
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When I get down to his eye level, he yaps and jumps in at me, then out, pretending he is fiercer than he is.
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The tree, which attained an even fiercer red in death, has vanished since my second visit to the grounds, but the stump still resonates.
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So when Eunice Atuejide, a female presidential candidate in Nigeria's 2019 elections, proclaimed that she was "not a feminist," an even fiercer debate ensued.
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That means oil and gas firms and their third parties may have little hands-on experience fighting a fiercer attack from a foreign adversary.
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Two groups of hunters from opposite sides of the planet, posing a simple question: Which side of the world has the fiercer alpha predator?
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By ignoring immigration, the Democrats will let him have it—and when his name is on the ballot, in 2020, the onslaught will be fiercer.
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The imminent launch of a highly anticipated new tech board is seen as putting pressure on the ChiNext board amid fiercer competition for listing resources.
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Many feared that the detention of Mr Gu, who had been criticising the removal of crosses, might signal the start of a fiercer, nationwide, crackdown.
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If the commitment among Congressional Republicans to cutting social programs is aggressive now, it will be fiercer still in the face of expanded infrastructure spending.
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Samsung and Apple remain the top two global smartphone players — albeit the former's share continues to shrink as it faces fiercer competition from China's Androids.
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Nightwave's sucker-punch of a collab with Chippy Nonstop and the laps and stamps of LSDXOXO's "ANGEL DUST" mark the fiercer end of our picks.
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Facing even fiercer attacks from Rubio and Cruz this time, he took some punches but was never put on the canvas, much less knocked out.
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Some of Gandhi's fiercer critics may feel this is soft-pedaling, but it does help build a fair, thorough and nuanced portrait of the man.
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Mark Tepper, CEO and president of Strategic Wealth Partners, sees fiercer competition from retail and tech giants displacing Kroger's industry leadership in the long run.
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Fiercer competition could not come at a worse moment for some of the continent's biggest state rail firms, which are already suffering from dire financial problems.
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"As the noose tightens, the reaction of Daesh gets fiercer," said Jihan Sheikh Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Raqqa offensive, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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" As choice lots will be the income producers this year, Mr. Bacs said, "we will see fiercer competition among houses and collectors for the finest pieces.
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"There is no candidate in this race who is fiercer in standing up for those who need allies in the struggle than Bernie Sanders," he said.
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We got J-Jax at Cafe Gratitude in L.A. ... and he told us why knockin' up Khloe might translate to a fiercer Tristan on the hardwood.
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" The publication warned that when the "contradictions become apparent," Trump's "economic nationalism may become fiercer, leading to backlashes in other countries—further stoking anger in America.
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Fiagril's troubles expose the challenges for newcomers operating in Brazilian agriculture at a time when traders' margins remain narrow due to abundant harvests and fiercer competition.
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Much of China's industrial investments also had the effect of simply cheapening its exports, making the country all the fiercer in the arena of international competition.
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Yet a united Korea wouldn't simply expand Seoul's power and make it a fiercer competitor with China — it would also boost the reach of its allies.
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It's traditional to add a daub of gentle salsa roja, but I like the fiercer, full-force crush of chile de arbol, barely tempered with tomato.
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He said he expected domestic sales to grow again, but acknowledged that competition had become fiercer as beer giants like MillerCoors have bought up craft breweries.
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That includes island nations like the Bahamas facing rising seas and fiercer storms like Hurricane Dorian, or countries in Southeast Asia suffering from extreme heat waves.
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In 2007, Musk owned a Hamann BMW M5 sports car, a modified BMW that's slightly wider and has different finishes to look fiercer and more aggressive.
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And a sting of ají amarillo or, if you ask for it, the fiercer rocoto chile, with sweet potato on the side to assuage the heat.
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And a sting of ají amarillo or, if you ask for it, the fiercer rocoto chile, with sweet potato on the side to assuage the heat.
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Fear the United States and China are spiraling into a fiercer, more protracted trade dispute that could derail the global economy has rattled investors in recent weeks.
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Seeing them reminds us of an era when larger, fiercer creatures ruled the deep, but this time, let's hope the ocean's current megafauna stick around for perpetuity.
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A sharper-than-expected slowdown in key regions - notably the US and Asia - as well as fiercer-than-expected competition in these markets could erode margins further.
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The competition over the Republican nomination has become fiercer in recent weeks, with a Mason-Dixon poll showing a mere 1-point difference between the two candidates.
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Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine said her low-lying Pacific island state was struggling fiercer storms and increasing seawater flooding that is contaminating fresh water with salt.
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To keep the fights fair, the filmmakers created a fiercer, more weaponized Mothra, borrowing design elements from more intimidating members of the insect family (praying mantises, wasps).
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But in recent years, as downtown Davenport boomed — warehouse buildings with waterfront views became upscale condos, trendy shops and new restaurants — the river seemed to grow fiercer.
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Executives at automakers such as Geely and Ford Motor Co partner Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd have said they expect fiercer competition to weed out weaker players.
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Deliberate outages like these could become the new normal in an era in which scientists say climate change is leading to fiercer blazes and longer fire seasons.
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Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine said her low-lying Pacific island state was struggling with fiercer storms and increasing seawater flooding that is contaminating fresh water with salt.
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The painting was originally donated to the Berkshire Museum by Rockwell, making a controversy that erupted last year over its deaccessioning even fiercer than the usual public backlash.
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"Tightening regulation, fiercer competition, inadequate credit demand and continuing risk exposures," will continue to weigh on the banking industry, AgBank Chairman Zhou Mubing said in his earnings statement.
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Changing energy systems is crucial because climate impacts are putting lives in danger as a result of fiercer typhoons, longer droughts, more flooding and rising seas, he said.
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Op-Ed Contributor IN the fight to fend off Donald J. Trump's conquest of the Republican Party, there has been no fiercer faction this year than the Mormons.
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Sony, for instance, recently announced its own set of truly wireless earbuds with noise-cancelling that cost just $200, and competition in this category will only get fiercer.
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But still, for Trump to win through would require a far more fortuitous series of events — a McCain-style sequence, except twice over and against far fiercer opposition.
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This traps the heat of the sun, causing a global climate disruption, and warms the seas, killing vibrant tropical coral reefs and spawning bigger, fiercer "superstorms" at sea.
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Energy systems in the Southeast are particularly vulnerable, the report said, with some 200 power plants and oil refineries exposed to flooding from hurricanes and fiercer storm surges.
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But the next few years will be a critical period for Miami to adapt to a host of threats—rising tides, fiercer storms, and an elderly canal system.
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The report also mapped out which bird species are likely to face additional dangers from climate change, such as increased springtime heat, fiercer wildfires or rising ocean levels.
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"Competition has become fiercer," said senior CAAM official Xu Haidong, adding that independent Chinese brands, rather than joint venture ones, were bearing the brunt of the sales slide.
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In some ways, the new numbers tell a familiar story: Older Americans express fiercer pride in the country as it exists, than more rebellious young people seeking change.
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Fiercer competition and an inflated belief in its own products are among some of the challenges facing the world's largest company, according to BK Asset Management's Boris Schlossberg.
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Since the Republicans won back the House of Representatives in 1994, it's been a much fiercer competition between the two parties than at most times since the Civil War.
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And never has the competition for the kinds of assets he prefers — big companies that are easy to understand but hard to dislodge from their competitive positions — been fiercer.
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It would be unfortunate if the current wave of panic over Russian interference ended in fiercer excoriation of American "deplorability," without generating more productive ideas for reinvigorating deliberative democracy.
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Fears that the United States and China were spiraling into a fiercer, more protracted trade dispute that could derail the global economy have shaken investors in the past week.
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The conference system – each team playing opponents in their division eight times, four each against the rest – has certainly helped stoke rivalries, and none is fiercer than Panthers' with Sheffield.
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Because the pool of players is so small, Iceland doesn&apost chop and change its squads as much as countries with more abundant talent, where competition for places is fiercer.
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The make-up of its next government could be crucial; a coalition that includes the thrifty Free Democrats will be fiercer on euro reform than one with the Social Democrats.
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But perhaps it would do what it's done so far: lead to yet fiercer wars for our attention and data, which would incentivize yet more unethical modes of capturing it.
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But he still understands well what goes through his colleagues' minds when industry comes calling, and he says the battle to keep them in academia grows fiercer by the year.
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Conventional firms face fiercer competition from tech giants—the likes of Netflix are winning viewers directly rather than via cable-TV packages, as Facebook and Google are taking ad revenues.
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In May, the bank had already lowered its targets for fee income and financial margins with clients in 13, as it saw fiercer competition, especially in the card-processing business.
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One innovation is making competition even fiercer: Hedge funds and asset managers are increasingly using so-called algo wheels to automatically route trades to the broker with the best performance.
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The internal struggle for conservative hearts and minds is perhaps no fiercer than here in the Texas panhandle, a region known as one of the most Republican in the nation.
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What's more, with Microsoft now worth almost $880 billion in market value, the competition to get hired at the company is fiercer than ever, with millions of applicants each year.
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The militants are also expected to put up a much fiercer fight in the western half of Mosul because the battle will determine whether their self-proclaimed caliphate will survive.
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It is also changing the rules for mainstream journalists in the fierce business of unearthing secrets, and for the government and corporate officials in the fiercer business of keeping them.
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She said the now-discarded data was collected and shared over a number of years to help states, cities and towns build resilience to fiercer storms, floods, droughts and wildfires.
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Across the United States, every element of the country's energy infrastructure, like oil wells and nuclear power plants, will be stressed by droughts, heat waves, rising seas and fiercer storms.
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So for a fiercer take on your favorite seasonal classics like Chelsea boots, lace-ups, and over-the-knee styles, we suggest slithering your way into something new this fall.
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As vegan meats go mainstream and the competition gets fiercer, seitan sausages, taco crumbles and bacon are getting tastier — far more so than their old, bland health-food store brethren.
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It wasn't long before the galaxy was abuzz with the question that had been asked in one fateful, drunken moment: Which side of the world has the fiercer alpha predator?
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Danai Gurira may slay zombies in her day job, but as a global activist she's taking on much fiercer foes – poverty, sexism and the spread of HIV/AIDS among African women.
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Project Scorpio, as it's described, should make the Xbox a fiercer competitor, a system that can process sharper graphics, bigger, more ambitious games and handle massive VR worlds, such as Fallout.
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Our excitement for you could not have been fiercer, with the promise of nostalgic IP, a fresh spin, and a beautiful aesthetic, plus the social relevancy of witch power in 2018.
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But while Booker's gentler approach frustrates Trump's fiercer critics, it's easy to imagine it appealing to voters who just want to move on from an ugly, conflictual era in American politics.
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Bottom lineAs competition in the premium credit card and rewards credit card space has grown fiercer, American Express has doubled down on what it knows best — travel, experiences, service, and exclusivity.
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"At Cielo, his big challenge will be to regain competitiveness in the payments sector, in which competition is getting fiercer," XP Investimentos analyst Andre Martins said in a note to clients.
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"A challenging outlook in France and fiercer competition in the UK with the entrance of Wesfarmers should continue to weigh negatively on the investment thesis into 2016-17," said analysts at Barclays.
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By the time Matthew reaches Florida's eastern shores tomorrow evening, it's expected to be a powerful Category 3—possibly even a Category 53 storm, commanding fiercer winds than Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Competition among card processors got fiercer in April as Rede, the country's second largest card processor, said it would advance payments to merchants in as little as two days, charging no interest.
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The climate and health office is the agency's only program meant to help state and local governments prepare for the health consequences of fiercer storms, longer droughts and other extreme weather events.
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Quinn, who made the leap from Boston University to the N.H.L. when he replaced Alain Vigneault after last season, said he was seeking a fiercer approach when his squad has the puck.
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The gap between the top teams is set to shrink, with the midfield battle fiercer than ever and cars lapping faster with stable regulations and the same Pirelli tyres as last season.
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These tend not to be particularly high-tech: shade netting helps protect grapes from fiercer sunshine; training vines higher puts them farther from rocky soils, which tend to radiate heat at night.
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In a securities filing late on Monday, Brazil's largest fixed-line operator said its net revenue fell 9.5% year-on-year to 5.1 billion reais due to a fiercer competition in Brazil.
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Competition is growing fiercer, Roche drugs unit chief Dan O'Day said on Thursday, with Rituxan copies to be joined by rival versions of Roche's breast cancer medicine Herceptin in Europe this year.
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When they visit his table, Ms. Boone pulls out a stack of pictures of a younger, fiercer Mr. Schneider, which she presses upon each visitor after her husband has scrawled his autograph.
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The biggest problem facing efforts to reshape water use in an era of climate change, population growth and fiercer competition is inertia - a reluctance to abandon old ways of doing things, Gleick said.
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Are there other, even fiercer dragons left in Valyria, who could turn the tide in favor of the humans when they clash with the Night King, his White Walker army, and ice dragon?
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised to pass a law by the end of last year but has faced fiercer opposition over this from within coalition ranks than any of his other reform plans.
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" Last week, state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times accused Australia of making itself "a pioneer of hurting China's interest with a fiercer attitude than countries directly involved in the South China Sea dispute.
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The latest version features many of the same qualities the team had last year, but with a fiercer and more efficient go-to scorer in Kawhi Leonard and a handful of new faces.
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By taking Mansour out, the U.S. has thrust the Taliban's leadership into turmoil, opening the possibility that Sirajuddin Haqqani, an even fiercer enemy of the U.S. and the Afghan government, could take control.
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Some expect the economic crisis will ultimately narrow the gap between Baghdad and Erbil, but the oil industry source said it could have the opposite effect as competition for scarce resources becomes fiercer.
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In the photographic portraits (collected and contextualized in a 18953 volume titled " Picturing Frederick Douglass "), he sometimes looks like a fiercer George Washington—Roman nose, intense scowl of virtue, swept-back classical hair.
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And with a saturated smartphone market, stalled growth and competition fiercer than ever, you can see why they're pushing the boat out — or, well, bending the screen back — to try to stand out.
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We awoke today to an even fiercer battle between these two cities, with a storm of insults — about corruption, crime, smog and cocaine — that suggests the birth of a new great urban rivalry.
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The competition amongst the women's soccer stars vying for a spot on the USWNT's 18-person Olympic roster is just as fierce — if not fiercer — than the competition for the gold medal itself.
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It would build fiercer rivalries and more loyal fans, your favorite player would never leave you, and the pay structure would be totally competiti... alright, fine, so I see how this might not work.
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Iraqi commanders in eastern Mosul say IS resistance there has been fiercer than anything they have seen previously in the fight against the militants, who have targeted Iraqi troops with hundreds of car bombs.
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The rivalry between the two will only grow fiercer (even though Samsung is also among Apple's most important suppliers of components, and is expected to provide OLED screens and chips for Apple's latest phones).
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It is about the dearth of major track and field moments in the United States between Olympics, where the glut of medal events means competition for mindshare even at the Games is ever fiercer.
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"For years I could only understand these pursuits of shadowed water, blind rivers and terrible depths as fierce versions of the death drive — fiercer even than what drove the most fearless mountaineers," he writes.
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Top executives such as Geely's founder, Li Shufu, to the president of Ford Motor Co's partner Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd, Zhu Huarong, have said they expect fiercer competition to weed out weaker players.
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Not only has it succeeded, with an air of inevitability, but it has done so after a tournament in which the standard has been higher — and the competition fiercer — than in any previous edition.
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Not only has it succeeded, with an air of inevitability, but it has done so after a tournament in which the standard has been higher — and the competition fiercer — than in any previous edition.
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But the report is spot-on in its mantra: The faster we switch to a world economy run on renewable energy, the better we can attenuate the consequences—stronger storms, rising seas, fiercer wildfires.
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The moves suggest that Mr. Trump is preparing to unleash an even fiercer assault on immigration, which could include making it much harder for migrants to receive asylum — or even closing the border altogether.
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Minutes from the ECB's meeting last month, also published on Thursday, showed policymakers broadly agreed on extending its asset purchase scheme but that a decision to keep the bond buys open-ended generated fiercer debate.
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With the move, Amazon is positioning itself as an even fiercer competitor to Instacart, Walmart, and several regional delivery services that are all competing to bring more of the $800 billion US grocery market online.
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But the low-cost carrier, which issued a profit warning this week and its shares dropped 11 percent in response, is suffering its most turbulent period, beset by strikes, high fuel prices and fiercer competition.
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LMC Automotive senior market analyst Alan Kang said one reason Ford is struggling in China is "fiercer competition" in the car market there, where luxury brands are suffering amid the rise of local Chinese brands.
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In the coming decades, as communities in high-risk locations face larger and fiercer storms, and low-risk locations start to become high-risk locations, disaster preparedness will become a top issue for many governments.
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Itau Unibanco, the country's largest private-sector lender, launched a voluntary severance program on Monday and revealed it may close up to 400 branches this year as it is slashes costs to face fiercer competition.
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But most importantly, she decided that if any of that was going to happen, it would be entirely on her terms, with her rules, larger and fiercer and bolder than anybody could have ever expected.
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Taken together, Apple&aposs earnings results and the smartphone market share estimates from Canalys and Strategy Analytics suggest the tech giant is on pace to give market leaders Samsung and Huawei fiercer competition throughout 2020.
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But, as the state looks to a future with more frequent and fiercer fires, it is still figuring out how to mandate policy provision while keeping prices reasonable and insurance firms in business, Lara said.
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Some Democrats expressed concerns that the killing of Tehran's top general could lead to a fiercer beating of the war drums in Iran and could put American interests in the Middle East at risk. Sen.
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The National Climate Assessment, a broad government report on climate change released last year, found that every part of the country's energy infrastructure will be stressed by droughts, heat waves, rising seas and fiercer storms.
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The report details how climate change is already affecting America—through more frequent floods and droughts—and what to expect from falling crop yields, the spread of disease-carrying bugs, fiercer hurricanes and much else besides.
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"Despite the big welcome party (for banks relocating from London to Frankfurt) we must not forget that competition in the home market will get even fiercer," BDB president Hans-Walter Peters told weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
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To a large extent, that alliance has held, and perhaps grown stronger, which helps explain why there has not been fiercer opposition to the various policies that effectively limited Asian-American matriculation at many selective institutions.
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Following multiple investigative reports published last year, Russia's coordinated cheating has been accepted as fact among top Olympic officials, in spite of a largely defiant response from Russian authorities that has grown fiercer in recent weeks.
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However, a sharper-than-expected slowdown in the US market - which is a key profit driver for Japanese automakers - and in Asia, as well as fiercer-than-expected competition in these markets could shrink margins further.
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The prospects of global economy being derailed by the United States and China sliding into a fiercer, more protracted dispute had rattled investors on Monday after China announced plans to hit back with tariffs on U.S. goods.
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For the time being, the tensions can be managed with some deft diplomacy, but they will get fiercer if prices climb above $75, the United States tightens sanctions on Iran significantly, or the global economy slows further.
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Poor countries won firmer assurances that rich ones would help pay for their efforts to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions and to adapt to rising sea levels and fiercer floods, droughts, storms and other climate-related problems.
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When rhetorical sparks do fly from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other, Ornstein said, the fiercer words have tended to come from congressional opponents, as when Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich laid into President Bill Clinton.
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But there are also worries the two sides will struggle to deliver on the promises made in Sweden — and that if the fighting does resume, it could be fiercer and exact a higher human cost than ever.
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"From Jim Crow to Civil Rights," Michael J. Klarman's revisionist history of Brown, documents that the clash it precipitated between Southern white supremacists and Northern integrationists became an inferno — much fiercer than Eisenhower, or any leader, predicted.
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"Big tech is the biggest threat to free speech at this moment in time, and there is no fiercer advocate for the First Amendment than Breitbart News," said Alex Marlow, Breitbart's editor-in-chief, in an announcement.
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But far from making them weaker, motherhood makes Ripley and Samus fiercer, more lethal, more willing to walk into hell wielding a flame-thrower or a missile launcher and come back with their children or not at all.
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The audience for late night is smaller than that of prime time, but the battle between "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on CBS and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC is perhaps fiercer than ever.
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IBM has struggled to keep its top line steady over the past several years as competition in technology has grown fiercer; the company's revenue has declined for 22 quarters in a row as of its October earnings report.
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Mr. Jones had been a plaintiff in the case, and his story foretold two of this year's major themes: Battles over ballot box access not only continued, but became fiercer in a climate of division and tight races.
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It's a slow-motion disaster made all the more dire by the fact that very few people in Jakarta have insurance, one of the handful of things that can help a population ride out rising seas and fiercer storms.
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Bacock said efforts to restore tribal water rights are encouraging, but ignore the bigger problem: that the West's first-takes-all water rights system makes no sense in an era of ever-greater shortages and fiercer competition for water.
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Rocky III: Rocky got cocky, got beaten by a much younger and fiercer fighter, and to regain his old form had to go do homoerotic shuttle sprints on a beach with Apollo Creed and go swimming for a bit.
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Asians are also the most vulnerable to climate catastrophe, with melting Tibetan glaciers, less predictable rains upon which its farmers depend, and fiercer storms and rising sea levels threatening huge, sinking megacities such as Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai and Shanghai.
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All that happened alongside most of cable TV realizing that specificity and diversity could be profitable, that making many shows with smaller, fiercer fan bases could be as valuable (and much easier) than making one hit that appealed to everyone.
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The lack of current protections for coral reefs globally doesn't just leave them vulnerable as storms grow fiercer, as acidification caused by carbon dioxide pollution robs them of chemicals needed to flourish, and as warmer waters lead to worsening bleaching.
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Even the firm's popular pay-television service, which has 12m subscribers across Africa, is struggling, because of tumbling local currencies that make buying American content more expensive, and fiercer competition from firms such as Netflix and StarTimes, a Chinese rival.
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A comforting answer to the first question could be that the urban attacks reflect the increased pressure the Taliban have been under in rural areas since Donald Trump acquiesced to his generals' call for more troops and a fiercer air campaign.
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In Saudi Arabia, Arab leaders praised Trump's calls for a fiercer fight against terrorism -- and welcomed the quickly vanishing human rights conditions on arms deals -- but made no firm commitments about increasing their military effort in the fight against ISIS.
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Competition in the music streaming industry has never been fiercer, with the likes Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, and Pandora all tirelessly vying to match (and one-up) each other's active subscriber count and become number one once and for all.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australia will have more extremely hot days and a longer and fiercer fire season, and parts of the continent will spend more time in drought as rainfall decreases, according to a report by top government scientists released on Thursday.
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The coalition offensive is now seeking to advance westwards on AQAP-held towns along a 600-km (370-mile) stretch of Arabian Sea coastline between Mukalla and the government's base in Aden, where militants appeared to be mounting fiercer resistance.
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Instead, it led to a friendly discussion of the kinds of things they had both seen: Because of climate change, the always shifting weather in West Texas was showing greater extremes, including more severe drought and fiercer inundations when storms came.
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The police response was quicker and fiercer than in past weeks, perhaps in a sign of waning patience, and clashes continued until the very early hours of Sunday morning local time, where angry crowds gathered outside of Mong Kok police station.
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Fears the United States and China are spiraling into a fiercer, more protracted trade dispute that could derail the global economy, has rattled share markets in recent weeks, and the selloff accelerated on Monday after China announced plans for retaliatory tariffs.
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Setting the budget has always been a tug of war, but was fiercer than ever this time because Britain's exit from the bloc last month came amid costly new challenges, from climate change to managing migration and a growing digital economy.
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On Monday, aid agency Oxfam said wilder weather and fiercer wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes in the last decade, and the problem would worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate threats.
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However, that's changing fast, and experts are saying this year's competition could be fiercer and better than ever due to countries investing more money and interest in their women's programs (although, to be clear, most think there's still a long way to go).
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What started as inconveniences to developing on Apple's platform that, over time, became the status quo are now being reexamined by critics with far fiercer opinions of the tech industry, and that could mean serious changes to Apple's business are on the horizon.
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In any event, it is doubtful such a scheme would be affordable or otherwise practical, considering the effects of rising sea levels and fiercer storms, both consequences of global warming, which the Republican president either does not believe in or care about.
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Each city is pushing toward the goal in its own way, to help meet the emissions-cutting goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aim to hold off the worst impacts of global warming, from fiercer storms to more frequent crop failures.
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With the world focusing on the U.S. elections, the debate about what makes a suitable leader has never been fiercer, but the co-chair of the world's largest private charitable foundation hopes that one day there'll be a woman in the White House.
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Without that, the world will miss its goals - set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement - to curb global warming, exposing billions of people to more of the fiercer storms, deeper droughts, crop failures and other disasters the world is already seeing, scientists say.
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And, of those, the torrent that drains the far slope of the southern Rockies, the Colorado, seemed to draw the love and the lore—it had deeper cataracts, bigger flows, gnarlier rapids, bolder boatmen, and fiercer fights over dams and acre-feet.
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Minutes from the European Central Bank's latest policy meeting, released on Thursday, showed policymakers had broadly agreed on extending their quantitative easing (QE) scheme, albeit at a lower level, though a decision to keep the asset purchases open-ended appeared to generate fiercer debate.
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Suggesting there were no fiercer fighters for conservative values than a small-town "hockey mom," the former beauty-pageant winner professed a love of hunting with guns and thought it more important that the United States increase drilling for oil than fret about climate change.
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Now we are at another hugely plastic moment — a moment when the world is experiencing four climate changes at once: There's a change in the climate of the climate — the hots are getting hotter, the wets wetter, the droughts drier, the forest fires fiercer.
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But as I read, I found myself far more affected by the smaller, fiercer story of Tess and Beth's early years — the story of feral friendships formed in extreme circumstances, of surviving abuse and finding the power to seek revenge or walk away from it.
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He tried to motivate his players by having Iowa's uniforms redesigned to resemble the black and gold ones worn by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the N.F.L.'s dominant team at the time, and having the university's avian logo retooled to give it a fiercer aspect.
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And though their father, Richard Williams, in one of the great sports predictions, saw the future clearly when he said the younger, fiercer Serena would turn out to be the better player, perhaps not even he realized how wide the gap would eventually grow.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fiercer weather and worsening wildfires drove more than 20 million people from their homes over the last decade - a problem set to worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate threats, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday.
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KATOWICE, Poland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As costs soar from fiercer storms and rising seas, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu is forming a coalition of vulnerable nations prepared to sue fossil fuel companies to pay for damage linked to climate change, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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"By authorizing the rollout of the next generation broadcast television standard on a voluntary, market-driven basis, we open the door to a substantially improved, free, over-the-air television broadcast service, and fiercer competition in the video marketplace," proclaimed FCC boss Ajit Pai at the time.
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The battles in this ongoing war have become fiercer in recent weeks as the standoff between Apple and the FBI has played out in the courts and in the media, and both law enforcement and the tech community have further entrenched themselves in their opposing positions.
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Now 79 and so more age-appropriate for the part, the rightly venerated actor has returned this summer to the same role, in a far more intimate but even fiercer production that opened on Thursday at the Duke of York's Theater here and runs through Nov. 3.
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They returned in October of this year with "Fresh Faced" (watch further above)—a rudely addictive tune that soars high and dives deep, like the Cocteau Twins but with less reverb and a fiercer, faster pop bite—after deciding to slow down and figure things out.
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LONDON/MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fiercer weather and worsening wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes over the last decade - a problem set to worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate threats, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday.
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In order to avoid many of the most severe consequences of climate change — including deadlier heat waves, fiercer droughts, and food and water shortages — global carbon dioxide emissions would need to steadily decline each year and reach roughly zero well before the end of the century.
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If the images in "Heart Attack of the Soul" are tender and bittersweet, the final series, "Antechamber of a Nude" (1999), which was produced upon a return to the same institution and is devoted exclusively to the women in it, is much fiercer and more uncompromising.
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And with Alex Morgan angling for a chance to come back from maternity leave to play in the Olympics and Mal Pugh gunning for a return to the national team after getting cut before qualifiers, the internal competition on the front line may be fiercer than ever before.
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Setting the seven-year budget is always a tug of war, but it is fiercer than ever this time because Britain's exit from the EU last month has left a 75 billion euro ($81 billion) gap at a time of costly new challenges from climate change to migration.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Felipe Calderon before him, waged an all-out offensive against the cartels and tried to take out the leaders of those organized gangs (like the notorious Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán), which didn't stop them so much as fracture them into smaller, but fiercer networks.
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Today, we may giggle at the idea of #goals, but the desire to accumulate images of all the things we wish we could have and lives we wish we could live speaks to a longing and loneliness that, if it goes unacknowledged, can curdle into something much fiercer and darker.
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Prospects of the global economy being derailed by the United States and China sliding into a fiercer, more protracted dispute has knocked more than 113% off the S&P 500 since hitting an all-time high on May 1, putting the index on course for the biggest monthly decline since December.
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"Passenger numbers can increase in a geometric ratio in the coming years ... fuelled by the strong demand of Chinese spenders for travel and the emerging Chinese consumer economy," Law said, while adding that Hong Kong would see "fiercer" competition from mainland airports that were aggressively launching new long-haul flights.
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The task comes at a time when the bidding for top-tier TV repeats, in particular, is fiercer than ever, as content owners see more demand for older content that still commands an audience, and are incentivized to keep more of that content on their own direct-to-consumer offering.
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In a sign that the country's fledgling EV industry is already consolidating as rules get tougher and competition fiercer, Shen Haiyin, co-founder and CEO of Singulato Motors, said his company and four others - CHJ Automotive, Hongxing Automobile Manufacturing Co, AIWAYS and WM Motor - have discussed an alliance for months.
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But just as Khan was suddenly loosed from his symbolic exile and restored as a totem of national pride when Communism fell, when Prokopi falls, hope for a future of Mongolian self-determination comes in the form of a far more ancient, even fiercer symbol of restored national pride: T. bataar.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's purge of the nation's top homeland security officials is a sign that he is preparing to unleash an even fiercer assault on immigration, including a possible return of his controversial decision last summer to separate migrant children from their parents, current and former administration officials said Monday.
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"The competition has become even fiercer, because if you have a good quality business with good profits then that's something that private equity owners still want to own, once they have factored in what they think might happen over the next three to four years in terms of Brexit and their business performance," he said.
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Over a third of the galleries featured at Frieze Los Angeles have local spaces, and many, both from here and elsewhere, feature LA-centered programming — at Kordansky's booth, Kathryn Andrews installed work informed by the famed Black Dahlia case (which is fiercer, sleeker, and cooler than the press materials citing it as "LA noir").
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China retaliated on Monday with higher tariffs on a revised list of $60 billion worth of U.S. products The prospect of the global economy being derailed by the United States and China sliding into a fiercer, more protracted dispute has rattled investors and sparked a sharp selloff on equities markets in the past week.
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"The United States would not be able to move us even an inch with the device it is now weighing in its mind, and the further its mistrust and hostile acts toward the DPRK grow, the fiercer our reaction will be," the official said, using the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.
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But, as I would discover as an undergrad in the halls of the Philosophy Department at the University of Pittsburgh, a redoubt far stauncher than the planet Vulcan of a logic far fiercer than Surak's, the Vulcan way had little to do with philosophy and even less to do with logic, and there was certainly nothing alien about it.
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With an ever-sinking coast and a front-line position for the fiercer hurricanes and other weather threats related to climate change, the state has begun to advertise itself as a disaster laboratory, a place to figure out how to combat storm surge or how to resettle imperiled communities — or how to keep track of the dead.
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"We hereby make it clear once again that the United States would not be able to move us even an inch with the device it is now weighing in its mind, and the further its mistrust and hostile acts toward the DPRK grow, the fiercer our reaction will be," read a statement from North Korea's foreign ministry.
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Itau also increased provisions after posting extraordinary tax gains, following similar moves by rivals Banco Bradesco SA and Banco Santander Brasil SA. Fee income and insurance gains rose 11.9% from a year earlier, as fee management, investment banking and card issuance offset fiercer competition in the payments business from newcomers such as PagSeguro Digital Ltd and StoneCo Ltd .
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For some, it revealed the dangers of over-civilization: the (relatively) barbarian Germans had proved physically stronger and militarily fiercer than French men softened by modern, urban life and the influence of women … Paintings like Sylvestre's did not offer an accurate representation of the Roman past, but served as vehicles for late nineteenth-century French anxieties about national decadence, the "racial" degeneration of French men, and geopolitical competition in an age of aggressive nationalism.
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