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Still, the signs of that fraying are all too evident.
No scratches, no discoloration, no bend marks, no fraying, nothing.
Just be sure to keep an eye on any fraying.
It's called Lightning, though a better name would be Fraying.
Pros: Durable and dependable, great classic looksCons: Fraying laces, weight
But well before the visit, the agreement was already fraying.
They all slept on fraying mattresses, sharing a single toilet.
The cushions are fading, the springs sagging, the corners fraying.
And yet the reforms Gorbachev pushes, while necessary, lead to the fraying of the Soviet Union, a fraying that eventually pushes communism aside and results in the much purer authoritarianism of the current regime.
Snip off the edges of the pockets, too, for extra fraying.
But signs of the market fraying at the seams are multiplying.
Russia is a growing menace, and the transatlantic alliance is fraying.
Moreover, the vaunted liquidity buffers of China's financial system are fraying.
But now the case against Mr. Weinstein appears to be fraying.
The librarian, John Myers, carefully flipped through its fraying brown pages.
The basic contract at the heart of democratic societies is fraying.
Recently there has been a sense that the caravan is fraying.
Its local candidate's headquarters sit defiantly in a fraying Muslim neighborhood.
"The American dream is alive, but fraying," Dimon said in a statement.
But at its most nightmarish, it sinks fully within Sawyer's fraying mind.
No, we have challenges, we have fraying, but are these things systemic?
Whatever coalition of the willing may have existed, it is clearly fraying.
The case has added tension in fraying ties between Taipei and Beijing.
So I suspect there is some fraying that needs to be addressed.
Ties with Turkey fraying Relations with NATO ally Turkey have frayed, too.
There's been some fraying on the House side of the Capitol, though.
He glanced at his wristwatch, its fraying band wrapped in duct tape.
The two women were consumed by work, and their relationship was fraying.
But at her orchestra rehearsals, the fraying threads were impossible to miss.
If the fabric is getting holes and fraying, that affects us all.
It's tugging on the community's already-fraying fabric, imperiling the entire town.
China's vast economy and the global supply chains it feeds are fraying.
Deal Professor The share ownership system in the United States is fraying.
Now it looks as if it could be fraying on the edges.
For now, drivers are resigned to the waits, but tempers are fraying.
These are strange days for Russian/American relations: days of fraying allegiances.
This uninspiring performance reflects the fraying international and domestic foundations of world order.
But there is also a sense that things are fraying at the edges.
First, a fraying EU may be susceptible to the president's brand of bilateralism.
Meanwhile social support systems are fraying, especially for those without a college degree.
But over time the taboos on women in public life seem to fraying.
Second, the normally clockwork practice of the committee writing its bills is fraying.
Even so, the relationship with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is fraying.
"The Venezuelan military has definitely shown a fraying at the edges," Ramsey said.
But the chances of those settlements remaining secret are fraying by the day.
Graffiti tags on some homes speak to the fraying of the neighborhood's aspirations.
President Trump is Exhibit A of this fraying connection between politics and economics.
The rope is running out, fraying and unraveling — get a move on, boys.
With his Bloods set already fraying, the murder unspooled Mr. Lawrence's world entirely.
And what's becoming clearer is the fraying of the social fabric that results.
It's the fraying of relations with allies that has lawmakers worried the most.
It's 1.5 meters long, and has a braided nylon covering to prevent fraying.
Finish off raw edges and prevent fraying with Pinking Shears by P. LOTOR.
Our communities are fraying, from Charlottesville to Chicago, and we must take action.
That struggle — swinging, mentally, between feeling like prey, or like predator — is fraying her.
As a result, the tapestry of rules designed to help businesses globally is fraying.
But you do not have to look hard to see that society is fraying.
But the consensus is slowly fraying; to lose the French would be a shock.
The second front is the contest between France and Germany, whose partnership is fraying.
She smiles, even as she's fraying from the effort of keeping up perfectionist standards.
The move came as a nuclear deal with North Korea appeared to be fraying.
That labeling the media as treasonous did little to repair America's fraying social bonds?
And it would help reassure those who worry that the transatlantic bond is fraying.
The fraying of America is real, but it is primarily about ideology, not shopping. 
The cease-fire was a week old and fraying when the green light came.
So given all that, even if I.N.F. is fraying, abandoning it makes no sense.
It was a state of fraying relations so dire it attracted brief national attention.
Ms. Halvorson's fraying, sparkplug style makes her as singular a guitarist as they come.
The work drags on in the blazing heat amid rising tensions and fraying tempers.
As the coronavirus spreads, it is exposing the fraying seams of our overextended world.
It is all about overturning the fraying, much despised, but paradoxically cherished status quo.
The system is fraying under record ridership, and trains are breaking down more frequently.
Insects, birds, ocean plankton are diminishing, and the social fabric of humanity is fraying.
ONLY a couple of weeks ago Angela Merkel looked to be treading a fraying tightrope.
Political order and democracy is fraying, and there's a newfound aggressiveness in Russia and China.
"There's been a kind of fraying of social networks to some degree," says Dr. Vinson.
This anti-anti-Trumpism is now the glue holding together the otherwise fraying Republican coalition.
The way Elizabeth balances it all (though she's clearly fraying at the edges) is admirable.
In the years after the crash, you could feel the fabric of the country fraying.
Its braided ballistic nylon covering keeps it strong and prevents fraying even with intense use.
Otherwise, election night will mark the fraying of the traditional party system — including mainstream conservatism.
Americas aren't just becoming busier; they're also trying to find connection within fraying social networks.
Europe is fraying around the edges; low tariffs and transportation costs cannot get much lower.
The partial cease-fire in Syria that began on Monday night showed signs of fraying.
He said relations between his office and Wilson-Raybould had clearly been fraying for months.
The hollowing out of these relationships, the fraying of bonds rather than a dramatic break.
There are even signs that the bipartisan consensus in Washington to support Cicig is fraying.
Just as electoral standards are fraying, citizens' trust in elections and their outcomes is plummeting.
DES MOINES, Iowa — The nonaggression pact between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is seriously fraying.
Breakingviews columnists discuss why the latest twists overshadow the fraying global alliance of three automakers.
Democrats' top foreign policy priority is now repairing the alliances that have been fraying under Trump.
The apparent rise in Trump's chances of reelection is fraying Democrats' nerves and focusing their minds.
No need to enter the fray when your opponent appears to be fraying by the seams.
During the Jubilee, Betty gives a speech meant to unify the fraying dynamics of the townspeople.
The event will take place as the trans-Atlantic relationships that D-Day forged are fraying.
Investigators said fraying and faulty power lines, caused the fires, along with breaking and falling poles.
For the past few weeks, a sense of fraying has lingered over France, particularly in Paris.
Increasingly, however, there are signs that the Russo-Israeli understanding over Syria has begun seriously fraying.
The European alliance is fraying and democratic freedoms in formerly "safe" democracies are being rolled back.
They never tangle, and you never worry about cables fraying or rubbing noisily against your shirt.
But Trump's rise coupled with the anti-Washington fervor gripping the GOP is fraying Republican nerves.
But on a recent morning, water began to drizzle from the tap, and tempers were fraying.
Even the calmest of fans would have had trouble watching Wednesday's game without fraying some nerves.
Many areas where the power had returned had suffered continuous glitches, damaging appliances and fraying nerves.
To do that, Kagan concludes, Americans must first address the fraying of the liberal order domestically.
Stress — such as radiation or pollution — may hasten aging by fraying telomeres even faster than usual.
He worried about upsetting his grandparents and fraying his bond to the rest of his family.
But leading up to this year's U.S. Open, the 122-year relationship seemed to be fraying.
Relationships are also fraying as families are forced to live for extended periods in confined spaces.
Now heroin is fraying family bonds like never before, they say, a devastating response to crisis.
It's also less susceptible to fraying and everyday wear and tear thanks to its sturdy construction.
The Danes, playing with nerve-fraying intensity, created the impression of a super-quartet spanning centuries.
But the shoulder kept fraying, and Sharapova has also struggled with intersection syndrome in both forearms.
The first toothbrush was made by fraying the edges of a twig by the ancient Babylonians.
I'd say that you can feel the very fabric of this reality fraying underneath the characters.
But despite these efforts, Cruz's crusade to stop Trump appears to be fraying at the seams.
Yet that dominance appears to be fraying, strained by the same forces taxing Republicans in Congress.
However the deal is fraying and new groups are springing up to destabilize the West African nation.
Furthermore, the union seems to be fraying at the edges, with some member states debating an exit.
The (ostensibly) trade-only event draws immense attention, but it has long been fraying at the edges.
The pressures of Central Park were fraying Olmsted's nerves, while his budget overruns were vexing the board.
The tumble will fray everything up — the rawer the edge, the more fraying and distressing will appear.
"Like the thing on the end of your shoestring, it helps it keep from fraying," she says.
The United States and China imposed import tariffs on each other, fraying nerves on global financial markets.
Along with the economic struggles since Maytag's departure, Ms. Pollard sees evidence of a fraying civic fabric.
The fraying of the Trump-Sessions relationship is particularly notable because Sessions is ideologically sympathetic to Trump.
This is a continuation of the fraying that seems to be going on with the trade talks.
The situation in Syria on Sunday showed that the cease-fire that began last Monday was fraying.
But he is as much a symptom of the fraying international order as an agent exacerbating it.
"Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, bonds of trust and respect are fraying," said Mrs.
If the G-85033 and its aftermath are any indication, this sacred alliance is also fast fraying.
"What Happened to Perfect," a fraying-romance song, places somber organ chords behind an increasingly desperate plea.
Fraying of the paved surface made it difficult for two large vehicles to drive past each other.
But in the run-up to this year's Open, the 122-year relationship seemed to be fraying.
"You're seeing a little bit of the coalition fraying," the administration official said in a background briefing.
It is fraying at the edges but its words, in ink on parchment, are still perfectly clear.
It has disrupted politics, too, surfacing hypocrisies and fraying the social fabric of this proudly cosmopolitan city.
And that was the case in some places and cities where the largest social structures were fraying.
Until Tuesday, the main concern for riders had been long and unpredictable delays in a fraying system.
The Nicaraguan social fabric is quickly deteriorating as the opposition is fraying under the onslaught of pressure.
Still, Israel is undergoing significant demographic changes that are fraying the idea of a common Israeli identity.
Dolan-Leach's clever thriller explores the fraying ties that bind twin sisters named Ava and Zelda Antipova.
There have also been a few new signs of fraying political fealty to the president among Republicans.
At the end of the LOC's fraying bibliographic chain, Surplus Books inspires a certain feeling of futility.
But the apartment deteriorated, and her landlord didn't fix windows when they jammed or repair fraying electrical wiring.
The Army's decision comes at a time when consensus among the Sioux and protesters appears to be fraying.
The grand alliance of Islamists and nationalists that he knitted together after the coup seems to be fraying.
Iraqi, Kurdish and local Sunni forces are closing on the city, with American support; the jihadists are fraying.
And, after one pretty big scroll, I could see the fraying of our relationship in the messages.     Cringe.
After taking office, Mr Duterte agreed a truce with the Philippines' communist insurgents, though it is now fraying.
LHP C.J. Wilson will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery to address fraying to his labrum and rotator cuff.
And for every dollar it raises, I will lose another fragment of my already fraying faith in humanity.
Impact: Yun's warnings inspired Senator Bob Corker's comments that the administration is fraying diplomatic efforts, per these sources.
The film used fraying family bonds to expand and intensify the horror its teen hero was living through.
He suggests the catalyst could be fraying diplomatic and military ties between the United States and its allies.
After less than a week, the partial cease-fire declared by Russia and the United States is fraying.
The bonds within Europe have been fraying for some time, but this year has been the worst yet.
Mounting frustration and discontent are fraying the trust that is essential currency for the digital economy to function.
Acquiring the land from a host of owners proved to be difficult, fraying the patience of local residents.
Friends have given Julie various good luck charms — new bling that Ramelle sports along with her fraying tutu.
Worse, his cheating amounts to abusing the trust of others and fraying the social bonds that sustain us.
A protracted fight over taxes would be particularly rough on a Republican Party already fraying on the edges.
But Mr. Lhota now confronts a dire challenge: The subway is plagued by skyrocketing delays and fraying infrastructure.
The group of Uber executives that formed the inner circle around Travis Kalanick, the chief executive, is fraying.
The collection opened with a sequence of hairy, fraying tweeds in Chanel colors like tobacco, caramel and beige.
Now, with the subways overwhelmed by soaring delays and fraying equipment, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov.
All the signs indicate that that culture is fraying amid growing distrust by employees toward Alphabet&aposs management.
The European Union, the world's most ambitious attempt to adapt democracy to the growing global interconnectedness, is fraying.
Go deeper: WeWork picks up the pieces after ousting its CEO Silicon Valley's fraying cult of the founder
But the initial fraying between Pence and Trump on Saturday could send a signal to donors to stay away.
This seems apparent in the way that the fabrics have been tightly stretched, with fragments fraying at the ends.
But overall, the coalition she'd managed to assemble in New Hampshire eight years ago showed significant signs of fraying.
You know these types of people, or you've been Dani, or her and Christian's fraying relationship feels cringingly relatable.
BROKEN windows, fraying nets, chairs with missing legs; the Yidnekachew Tessema Stadium in Addis Ababa has seen better days.
The ties between Republican elites — elected officials, donors and Washington insiders — and voters have actually been fraying for years.
In a fraying America, perhaps the one thing that can bring unity is the obtuseness of the business press.
In Pittard's unconventional novel, a couple on a road trip deal with raging storms and their own fraying marriage.
We see the effects all around us — from the fraying of American communities to concerns about our national government.
But those dotting the Harare-Beitbridge roadside, just outside the capital, are in trouble, with their bark fraying off.
At each stage of life, the long-standing teacher philosophy of "slow and steady wins the race" is fraying.
"I'm really worried about the stability of the West, we're not there yet, but it's fraying, " Kasich told CNN.
Yet just when it needs strengthening, the link between Germany and Greece may be at risk of fraying further.
The coalition behind it is fraying in the face of a reluctant White House and a balking Mr. McConnell.
Rebuilding our fraying infrastructure would be expensive, but we can afford it — and it might well pay for itself.
This underinvestment leaves red states poorer and less educated — and thus prone to a fraying of the social fabric.
A thick tension had coiled around Liverpool, fraying the nerves of its players, darkening the minds of its fans.
I saw in this film the unraveling of two people who don't quite know where their fraying threads are.
Further concerning investors is growing tension in the Middle East, where relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran are fraying.
Hilton's departure stemmed from fraying political alliances in Rousseff's governing coalition, part of the broader chaos enveloping her administration.
But the flow of new revelations about what she knew, and what she did, are further fraying the company's reputation.
Assange's lawsuit is the latest strain on a fraying relationship between the long-term house guest and his Ecuadorian hosts.
But that relationship seems to be fraying now amid acrimony over process concerns, which have sometimes eclipsed Sanders' policy agenda.
The business community has been a reliable cheerleader for the GOP and its legislative priorities; now, that alliance is fraying.
But the New York task force now shows signs of fraying, raising troubling questions for the algorithmic accountability movement nationwide.
Reversing the cycle of institutional fraying, gaping inequality and mental distress seems likely to require a much broader civic rejuvenation.
The public is increasingly turning against them, the alliance with Mr Saleh is fraying and the Houthis themselves are divided.
In a world where democracies have been fraying and autocracies rising, a democratic win in Venezuela would have outsized significance.
It wouldn't be the last time Cohn's pressure on companies would contribute to the fraying of relationships among company management.
A united Europe, the great achievement of the second half of the 20th century, is in imminent danger of fraying.
But now that political consensus is fraying, and the broken social contract that lay behind the original uprisings remains unrepaired.
Test Drive: Soft and lounge-y, like that perfectly worn pair of underwear you love, minus the fraying and holes.
A booming economy and family-friendly company policies have helped, but a fraying federal safety net is also a factor.
The government campaign against the gangs continued, and the truce — though still in effect — was fraying, its future in question.
Why would her father have shed that beautiful crisp white coat for the fraying pants and shirts he now wore?
But the connections are fraying, tensions are spreading and my-nation-first populism is gaining, including in the United States.
And the post-ISIS Middle East is getting more complicated, fraying old alliances -- and forging new ones -- day by day.
The sacred social compact that provides the juice for our democratic Republic to work is fraying and beginning to spark.
The fraying of ties between the separatists and the government presents yet another division that hampers Yemen's path to peace.
"It was his decision," another aide said of the fraying pact, adding there were opportunities for him to take control.
If you really fear that the fabric of the country is fraying, strict measures to hold it together seem warranted.
You note one in your book: the scary feedback loop between the fraying of the country and unequal political participation.
Signs are growing that hitherto solid domestic support for Ottawa's stance is fraying amid fears of the potential economic damage.
In fact, even when it's touching on topics of emotional manipulation, romantic betrayal, and mental fraying, HWBM always remains playful.
During Trump's presidency, the alliance with Britain - famously nurtured by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 225.7s - is increasingly fraying.
It's got a soft and quite lovely cloth surface, a non-slip rubber bottom, and a stitched periphery to prevent fraying.
But a series of missteps and a fraying relationship with the president dwindled his authority and credibility inside the White House.
If I succeed and push myself harder, I will increase my chances of fraying at the seams on a cellular level.
During Trump's presidency, the alliance with Britain - famously nurtured by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s - is increasingly fraying.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Iran this week to explore options for preserving the fraying nuclear non-proliferation pact.
Unfortunately, what I discovered was the the Griffin BreakSafe USB-C cable worked a lot like a fraying or broken cable.
But it appeared to set off a pent-up explosion of anger towards Trump over weeks of patience-fraying political tribulations.
The rural housing crisis is driving young people out of villages, fraying social ties and creating a "demographic imbalance", said O'Connell.
In the fraying and polarized America of Donald Trump, the Weimar Republic looks more like a mirror than a fading photograph.
Clinton but said she worried that Mr. Trump might be better suited to capitalize on Americans' concerns about fraying social order.
BEIJING — Has K-pop become one of the first victims of a recent fraying of relations between China and South Korea?
During Trump's presidency, the alliance with Britain - famously nurtured by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 2.53s - is increasingly fraying.
Another Chinese company proposed to build a port for Sweden, but backed out amid fraying diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A booming economy is one reason, along with state and local family-friendly policies, but also a fraying federal safety net.
Nothing will unite an increasingly fraying Republican Party more than trying to remove the president anywhere but at the ballot box.
The groove these players produce offers a seductive, swaying contrast to the airs of fraying unease coming from the other instrumentalists.
The young lineup is having trouble on the road, and the starting rotation is fraying a bit, which might be expected.
As we have recently learned, the modernized U.S. nuclear force is seriously fraying the slender thread on which survival is suspended.
Meanwhile, Democrats will press the case that Republicans are mounting a sham trial — and Republican unity shows little signs of fraying.
In this fraying, blue-collar city, where a quarter of the 95,000 residents are foreign born, word whipped across social media.
The thought: Everybody in this grim world of fraying housing blocks — surly cops, troubled children and bewildered parents — is in trouble.
Unable to form a government after two inconclusive elections this year, Mr. Netanyahu is hanging onto office by a fraying thread.
He held it up, and we all squinted at the flattened forest green square with plastic hairs fraying at its edges.
Despite initial outrage and a fraying of ties over Litvinenko, both the US and UK sought rapprochement with Moscow within years.
In Asia, the fraying of America's nuclear umbrella could encourage China to increase its military adventurism in the South China Sea.
Paul's paranoia infects them all until the fraying, thin bonds they've formed reach their inevitable breaking point in a painful climax.
Caught in the middle are France's frazzled commuters, whose endurance — the strength of their fraying nerves — may ultimately determine who wins.
There is a broader social compact that allows a society to work and prosper together, and that, too, has been fraying.
Meanwhile, 1,900 miles to the southwest of St. Louis, the citizens of San Diego hold to their team by a fraying rope.
Refugees and others see Islamabad as driven by a strengthening in Afghan-Indian relations while its own ties with India are fraying.
Her baggy dark denim jacket is also cropped and fraying at the edges, but what really steals those show are those sunglasses.
At that convention, it appeared that the longstanding alliance between GOP policy and (largely white) evangelical Christianity was, for some delegates, fraying.
Ignoring Apple's customary fraying charger cables (which can just be replaced), the other issue I'm facing with my current iPhone is storage.
But a president who serves only the base will lead to a further fraying of America's social fabric and even greater polarization.
But Trump's delayed ad push — opening him up to be battered by a multimillion-dollar Clinton onslaught — is fraying some Republican nerves.
Democratic nerves are fraying ahead of Tuesday's governor's race in Virginia, a contest most in the party had expected to win handily.
The two governments trade barbs at the United Nations, accusing each other of deceit and bad faith; arms control agreements are fraying.
Fraying nerves further, North Korea warned on Tuesday of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of American aggression .
At the DNA level, there's evidence showing that plant-based diets are better at stopping people from fraying at the ends—literally.
Acrimony between Turkey and Europe over the Turkish government's purges and repressions is fraying their deal to curb the flow of refugees.
The two countries have long had a special relationship, but it's been fraying — and Mr. Trump shows little desire to revive it.
Eighteen years ago, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam published "Bowling Alone," a seminal book about the fraying of America's civic fabric.
Even without breakdowns, the amount of work it takes every day to keep the trains running on the fraying system is staggering.
CreditCreditJustin Gilliland/The New York Times On any given day, many things can provoke frustration on New York City's fraying subway system.
Knott's colicky poems assume the reader's malign intentions, imagining the page as a place of conflict or, at best, of fraying truce.
The relationship has paid diplomatic dividends, and today's fraying Sino-American relationship may represent a compelling reason for further China engagement regionally.
When he took office in 1975, the city was in trouble, threatened by bankruptcy, public-employee strikes and a fraying social fabric.
When he took office in 1975, the city was in trouble, threatened by bankruptcy, public-employee strikes and a fraying social fabric.
Ms. Enos is a credibly fraying voyeur, all anxious looks and nervous starts, but "Never Here" is too emotionally antiseptic to engage.
Among his challenges: the company's fraying relationship with the F.A.A., which has become more willing to openly question Boeing in recent weeks.
Despite higher tariffs announced in the past week and fraying trust, trade negotiations between the world's two largest economies haven't been abandoned entirely.
If she goes early, the fraying coalition could collapse, leaving Mr Merz scrambling to form a new government or holding an early election.
The Economist: Can you tie the rise of populism and fraying of a democratic ethos in America to a decline in social infrastructure?
In short, our modern depression may be a product of inequality, poor health, high stress, fraying social networks, and tech-induced social isolation.
Baker has taken an unregarded thread of American life, from the fraying edge of the land, and spun something rousing, raucous, and sad.
Martin Sheen is extraordinary as the film's fraying emotional center; Marlon Brando, in a famously shadowed and ad-libbed performance, is deeply unsettling.
That was all the proof many Saudis needed that the alliance that has underpinned the regional order for decades was fraying — perhaps irreparably.
S. relationship fraying in recent years, attention to Kosovo is scarcer than ever, and policies the current administration does encourage are often incendiary.
S. Helsinki Commission, fraying or fatigued, Berlin's leadership and resources are now more essential than ever to both trans-Atlantic and European security.
They bring us novels of the post-apocalypse — philosophical explorations of what the world might look like when the fraying center finally shears.
An already-fraying global economic order: The Trump tariffs circumvent the World Trade Organization, the global referee underpinning a stable, multilateral trading system.
There's also a 10-minute cover of "Tizita," the lovely, waltzing old ballad, which Mr. Mergia eventually dissolves into a fast, fraying surge.
The money and time the MarketWorlders spend fixing the edges of our fraying social order could be used to push for real change.
But, with the U.S. Open headed back to Shinnecock Hills next month, the relationship between the tribe and the U.S.G.A. may be fraying.
" He added: "Our very weakness — as a result of Brexit, as a result of fraying trans-Atlantic ties — was an attraction for Russia.
This world order — call it Pax Americana or American imperialism, as you like — has been fraying since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The fraying relationship between Uber and one of its largest shareholders has opened a rift in the boardroom of the ride-hailing service.
That allowed me to be optimistic about Turkey's future and retain my confidence as a citizen despite our fraying democracy and individual liberties.
At a time of fraying trust in authority figures, children — who by definition have no authority over anything — are increasingly driving the debate.
While the deal with Assad was holding, cease-fires that the Kurds had struck with rebel groups were fraying as the rebellion changed.
He still has much work to do to convince the public — and his low approval ratings and fraying relationship with Congress won't help.
Scientists suspect that this decline is due in large part to a concomitant fraying of our brain's white matter, which is its wiring.
Several lawmakers have expressed concern that the impeachment saga was further fraying the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and undermining U.S. interests in the region.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Iran this week, during which he will explore options for preserving the fraying nuclear non-proliferation pact.
Predictably, the truce is fraying already, with opposition groups crying foul as Syrian forces continue to pound rebel-held areas around Damascus and beyond.
"We are feed up with what's happening here," community leader Martha Pitt said, saying unemployment and poor local services were also fraying residents' nerves.
Europe is fraying: The nationalist right has taken office in Poland and Hungary, and has the ground crumbling under German Chancellor Angela Merkel's feet.
So the veil between the living and the dead is fraying right where Midnight happens to be and that's drawing evil to the town.
The summit appeared to demonstrate fraying ties between the U.S. and its traditional allies, with one photo seemingly summing up divisions in the room.
The #MeToo movement is about protecting women, and we need to keep that in focus, because the chances of fraying alliances are very real.
Investigators believe the girl took precautions to keep the cords dry but was not aware of fraying on the extension cord, the statement says.
Special Operations Forces are overworked, over-deployed, stretched thin, and even "fraying," as former Special Operations commander General Joseph Votel put it in 2014.
Critics consider the deputy crown prince a hothead, whose dangerous obsession with Iran, Saudi Arabia's rival, is feeding sectarianism and fraying relations with America.
Eleven relatives, including her parents and two siblings, share a one-bedroom apartment in Glicério, a fraying, drug-infested neighborhood in downtown São Paulo.
In a tweet Thursday morning the president suggested that "purposely false and inaccurate reporting" was a "very big part" of the fraying political discourse.
But American officials long saw Mr. Álvarez, a former college professor, as a pragmatist who prevented ties between the countries from fraying even further.
"Chase Me" is the first original track we've heard from the soundtrack, a fiery, fraying four minutes with Big Boi and Run The Jewels.
The coat was half a generation old, cared for just enough to make for viable employment wear, the details on it fading and fraying.
This narrative, inexplicable and fraying at the edges, is what's so horrifying — which, for aesthetically tuned-in fans of horror, is exactly the point.
But that hope is fraying as a growing number of athletes are openly criticizing competitors who have a history of using performance-enhancing drugs.
"We already know Einstein's theory of gravity is fraying around the edges," said Andrea Ghez, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He was most recently in China last month, his fourth visit in three years, but bilateral ties have been fraying, particularly over territorial disputes.
He left it to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to praise the institutions built after World War II that are fraying under populist movements.
And the raw emotion of the shutdown is fraying some labor unions that are typically united on matters that affect their personal bottom lines.
President Emmanuel Macron of France called last week for the creation of a European army amid a fraying NATO alliance with the United States.
"Weave," with bright green pigment on a yellow ground has trompe l'oeil "fraying" edges, while "July" mimics the irregular arrangements of vernacular patchwork quilts.
Such venues effectively blot out a part of the neighborhood when not in use, reducing foot traffic and fraying the fabric of the community.
That deal has, however, been fraying since President Donald Trump pulled out the United States in 2018 and reimposed crippling economic sanctions on Tehran.
But the alliance was already fraying by Monday morning, with Kasich saying Indiana's voters should still back him despite the apparent pact with Cruz.
Sadly, our democracy is challenged not just by the fraying of a democratic political culture through ever-intensifying polarization and demise of traditional norms.
By devoting energy to Maya's daily struggles, Anna doesn't have to talk about her parents' fraying relationship and can more easily distract herself from it.
Even in the United States, the nationalist tendencies of the Trump administration — and the nationally dominant Republican party — assist in the fraying of national unity.
It's impossible to watch season-ender "Life Is a Cabaret" without wondering how these fraying friendships have fared since the episode filmed in late February.
They warn that any reform of the fraying "liberal international order" will take us back to the trade wars—and shooting wars—of the 1930s.
A deep and dubby number, "Shinkansen" powers forward with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine through sparkling chimes and an onslaught of fraying acid.
"Life in Hong Kong has dramatically changed, pushing the economy into recession, fraying faith in the authorities and pitting neighbors against one another," they write.
For starters, what about taking advantage of rock-bottom interest rates to tap the world's excess funds to build and repair a fraying public infrastructure?
People are angry about inequality, corruption and environmental degradation, and as the economy slows they are becoming harder to pacify That deal is now fraying.
He also said that fraying international policy cooperation would make it harder for the U.S. to find a successful way out of its trade wars.
The forms might be read as plants, seeds, hands, fraying electrical wires, or perhaps unraveling braids of hair — Hassinger doesn't exclude any of these readings.
The movie stumbles, however, in juggling its side plots, and the intrusion of current events -- including fraying U.S.-Mexico politics -- makes for an awkward fit.
The constant war with the media is often an effective tactic for Trump, as he seeks to ensure no fraying of his powerful political coalition.
The Cinderella scenario seems hopelessly retrograde — not to mention that a social safety net, however fraying, exists largely because of efforts by agitators like Rose.
He has steadily tightened his control over the government, the military, the media, courts, schools and even the internet, fraying relations with Turkey's Western allies.
Yet there is growing evidence that, beyond these high-profile gestures with limited effect on the ground, economic ties between Venezuela and Russia are fraying.
But if Americans' unease amid affluence tells us anything, it's that we won't fix what's ailing our economy until we rebuild our fraying social contract.
When it does, it is not the craftsman fraying the edges for effect, nor the composer letting go of every theme in the fourth movement.
These include the trade conflict between the United States and China and America's fraying relations with allies like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Mexico.
In fact, the water is apparently still sitting on the same airport runway where it was unloaded last year, partially covered with fraying blue tarps.
Michelle is a progressive who despairs over our fraying democracy and the white-nationalist government that has been elected by a minority of the country.
Two years ago, the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén threw out a fraying truce that the previous government had worked out with the gangs.
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It&aposll probably add fuel to the fire as the truce between the two senators&apos campaigns has shown signs of fraying in recent days.
A better option is to pressure the industry to move away from high-shedability clothes where it can, returning to quality goods that resist fraying.
What we need is the same as everyone else: investments to ensure America's democracy, which is fraying under the weight of corporate power, can succeed.
The four central performers chart their characters' fraying ties with a graceful, instinctive grasp of the hierarchies and role playing that occur within such relationships.
Mr. Brafman seized on a number of errors made by Mr. DiGaudio, the lead detective, during a time when the case appeared to be fraying.
" Thrush posted on Facebook on Tuesday about his "new job: Covering poverty and the fraying social safety net under Trump … A dream (beat) come true.
The Westbindung (Western integration), a staple of German foreign policy since Adenauer, is fraying as extremist parties on the left and right cosy up to Russia.
The ideologies that held together the big political groupings of the 20th century are fraying, and the internet has lowered the barriers to forming new groups.
They howl through the canyons of Santa Monica and whip the palm trees that line the streets of Los Angeles, driving up dust and fraying nerves.
It's got a Kevlar fiber core and is nylon braided for supreme durability, meaning you won't need to worry about it breaking or fraying on you.
Telomeres are like little caps on the ends of DNA strands that keep the genetic material from fraying, and they become shorter as we grow older.
Would I have embraced my true self when I was a child, a teen, instead of tugging at a series of fraying threads that spanned decades?
But the Colorful Balloons situation, the July partial ban of WhatsApp and today's blockage could signal that Facebook's relationship with China is fraying rather than strengthening.
In order to hold that fraying coalition together, he has to find common enemies to rally against because he doesn't have an appeal to them otherwise.
The actions, on top of the recent dairy dispute that Trump first brought up last week, illustrate the public fraying of relations between the neighboring countries.
The fraying of Hosszu's bonds with her national federation strengthened her alliance with Tusup, who has passed his tendency for derring-do on to his wife.
But rarely in his career has Anthony been so public about his feelings, and perhaps some of the bonds between himself and the franchise are fraying.
The coordinated response is a win for Britain's prime minister, Theresa May, and a show of unity by NATO allies after a year of fraying ties.
Republicans and Democrats have agreed for years that the country's bridges, railroads, broadband and other structures are badly fraying and in need of repair and improvement.
A second structure, found on the head of the same specimen, had a central shaft that branched off near the midpoint almost like a fraying rope.
Now a grandfather, he has aged easily into the role of global-citizen humanist, lecturing on the role of artists and culture in a fraying society.
When it works well it encourages all involved to be a bit nicer and restores the bonds of trust that have been fraying in our society.
With its fraying rhythmic patterns and ruptured flow, "Prairie Burn" connects the rolling Midwestern landscapes of Ms. Rosenbloom's youth with an air of turbulence and risk.
Telomeres are tiny caps on the ends of chromosomes, often compared to the tips of shoelaces, which help to prevent fraying and damage to our DNA.
Football May Take a Toll on the Brain, Even Without Concussions The brains of college football players showed signs of "fraying" after a season of play.
As in "The Moviegoer," they reach for family ties — fraying, disintegrating, even in the once tightly connected South — as an instinctive response to their spiritual vertigo.
The pieces may be elaborately bulbous or bulging; tatty or fraying; they may or may not make allowances for their wearer's arms, or faces, or vanity.
Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and its longtime ally Australia could be fraying after President Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had a contentious phone call.
Many also speak of urges to leave due to a fraying in their mental health, a personal price paid for the systemic stresses of campus life.
But Khan has inherited a host of problems at home and abroad, including a brewing currency crisis and fraying relations with Pakistan's historic ally, the United States.
D-Day was an especially powerful moment -- it marked the point when America formally succeeded war-ravaged Britain and its fraying empire as the world's top power.
The bonds of trust between nations are fraying, and the old saw that the European Union advances only in times of crisis is being tested to destruction.
He has been agitating single-mindedly against the nuclear deal, even at the risk of fraying Israel's close ties with the United States during the Obama administration.
Beat Wittmann, partner at Zurich-based Porta Advisors, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Wednesday that the Swiss had more to lose from a fraying of relations.
It can do with further improvement, however, as the braided webbing on its exterior makes for unattractive bulges in the cord, and it's also susceptible to fraying.
Telomeres are the tips of chromosomes that protect DNA while it's being copied -- like the aglet at the end of a shoelace that prevents it from fraying.
As such, Soccer without Borders, more than anything, will arm Klinsmann's legion critics with further ammunition against his fraying credibility after nearly five years on the job.
Telomeres prevent you from losing important bits of DNA during cell replication—they are often compared to the plastic tips on shoelaces that keep them from fraying.
Just out of prison, Mr. Marte was leading a decidedly humbler existence, spending his nights on a fraying suede couch at his mother's apartment on Rivington Street.
But a new national Pew Research Center poll released this week suggests the bonds that delivered him to the White House could be fraying since his inauguration.
Footsteps Leopold Mozart would have admired the marketing skills of the persistent young men in ratty wigs and fraying red waistcoats who prowl Stephansplatz, Vienna's central square.
We talked about how overworked we felt, about our growing discontent with medicine, about our detachment from our patients and about our fraying relationships with other doctors.
The removal of the governor, Atta Muhammad Noor, raised fears of additional political pressure on Mr. Ghani and of further fraying of the coalition government in Kabul.
But the resistance is now openly fraying, suggesting that gambling is no longer a potent moral issue that animates voters and politicians the way it once did.
We had agreed it would be wonderful to have kids close together (they'll be friends!) but we hadn't considered our own friendship, which was now rapidly fraying.
He also pulled some punches when it came to Trump, a nod to the fraying tradition of bipartisan solidarity with the commander-in-chief during diplomatic trips.
Putin has sought to ally with Trump at a time when U.S. ties to Europe are fraying, and both presidents are critical of the EU and NATO.
The machine has easy threading, an automatic bobbin winding system, three pressure feet (all-purpose, zipper, and buttonhole), and built-in reverse stitching to prevent fraying seams.
There's a chance that changing my dose would help keep the edges of my thoughts from fraying with anxious self-loathing, the way they still do sometimes.
The Kremlin is dismayed by fraying informal communications channels between Western and Russian intelligence agencies, she said, and sees the espionage world as a realm without rules.
Indeed, the best episodes of the run — particularly the fifth, which centers on Elizabeth's coronation and the former King Edward VIII's feelings on his abdication of the throne as spurred by said coronation, and the ninth, which contrasts Elizabeth's slowly fraying marriage with Churchill's slowly fraying body — could be largely lifted out of the series proper and shown on their own, as beautiful examples of Morgan at his best.
That distinction belonged to the court's two swing votes, Sandra Day O'Connor and then Anthony M. Kennedy, respectively the philosopher queen and king of our fraying republican order.
The drama was playing out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, a new peak in the Russia investigation and fears that Moscow&aposs aggression may go unchallenged.
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The shorts are, as a rule, two to three sizes too large and almost always include an elastic waistband with a looped, fraying white string hanging crotchily adjacent.
It could also help maintain relationships that are at a higher risk of fraying—such as among military couples, who are often separated for months at a time.
Under an EU-brokered agreement, Macedonian politicians have agreed to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the scandal and to hold early elections, but the process is fraying.
You can make the gift even sweeter by purchasing a handful of lightning and micro USB charger cables since those things have a habit of fraying and disappearing.
From tediously dead-eyed and peeved, to vocal chord-fraying window-smasher, Sandler is like no one else when it comes to channeling an undercurrent of atavistic anger.
But the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is likely to strain America's fraying capacity to coalesce as a national community at a moment of heightened political conflict and division.
Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit wrote in his 1984 book "Reasons and Persons" that time has a way of fraying the connection between an individual and his past self.
It is an approach for rebuilding the foundation of our economy, for repairing the social fraying of our society, and for renewing our country in the 21st century.
She politely but firmly opposed the idea of a second referendum on Scottish independence, something which Northern Irish unionists fear could cause further fraying of the United Kingdom.
He rebuked his "10-year opposition party" that was accustomed to being against things, and not for things, amid signs his hold on his restive caucus was fraying.
With the fraying of the transatlantic alliance and an assertive Russia and China, she has acknowledged that Germany must take more of a political leadership role in Europe.
But after people get their fill of free office snacks in the years to come, they'll enjoy a front-row seat to the system fraying at its seams.
He'd be conceding far more brazen collaboration between WikiLeaks and an authoritarian power than we've seen in the past, which would further damage the group's already fraying credibility.
Mr. Henshall is just fine as a weary producer of fraying integrity who falls for a beautiful young co-worker, Diana Christensen, who is (poor thing) television incarnate.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's citrus industry on Sunday called for the government to rebuild the country's fraying relationship with China, fearing trade tension may harm its booming export market.
A series of posted warnings along the fraying seaside bluffs, where the stubble field gave abrupt way to the tides below, advertised the dangers of erosion and instability.
Of the supporting players, Ms. Shear (of "Dirty Blonde") stands out as a fraying embodiment of the defensive desperation to which much of her world has been reduced.
The fraying husks of central Iowa corn are still tidily wrapped on northern Iowa corn, and have not yet lost their greenish twinge in Minnesota, tasseled in rows.
Many nations are edging toward developing or improving a host of nuclear forces, leaving the world restrained from Armageddon only by a fraying understanding of the horrific consequences.
At the beginning of the game, the Weavers realize that the Pattern of the world is fraying, so they transform into swans and abandon the island, leaving Bobbin behind.
Yet glaring American weaknesses, such as fraying infrastructure and fractured politics, are outweighed in the WEF analysis by the country's strengths in areas like business sophistication and technological readiness.
Saeed has been under house arrest since January after years of living freely in Pakistan, one of the sore points in the country's fraying relationship with the United States.
In an age where the old political and economic rules don't hold, and societies are fraying, experts need to figure out what is a living wage for such workers.
The structure of employment law that served the nation over the past eight decades is fraying, shot through with loopholes that employers use to their advantage to shortchange workers.
Case and Deaton make a plausible case that "slow moving and cumulative" social forces -- lack of labor market opportunities and fraying of the accustomed social fabric -- are key explanations.
The fraying patience of vendors is obvious from the following moves, reported by the Journal: LG Electronics and Samsung are demanding cash up front for delivery of certain goods.
The last hurrah of the old boys club or a new challenge to the LME's still dominant but fraying franchise as setter of global benchmarks for industrial metals pricing?
Although she did not name Trump directly, the federal government's assistance to the island has been widely criticized, particularly after Maria laid siege to Puerto Rico's already fraying infrastructure.
The execution over the weekend of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has brought into focus the fraying relationship between the United States and what has long been a crucial ally.
Saeed was put under house arrest in January after years of living freely in Pakistan, one of the sore points in the country's fraying relationship with the United States.
" That's why Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, wrote in his April letter to shareholders that the American Dream is alive but "fraying for many.
Few directors are better at carving into familial dysfunction than Noah Baumbach, whose "The Squid and the Whale" and "Margot at the Wedding" were searing portraits of fraying homes.
Hafiz Saeed was put under house arrest in January after years of living freely in Pakistan, one of the sore points in its fraying relationship with the United States.
One of the big themes this season is how their core group of friends is not only growing and changing, but also fraying and being pulled in different directions.
The Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz commands an entire wall with "Yellow Abakan" (1967-68), a weaving of coarse-grained, fraying yellow sisal suspended like a jacket on a hook.
She believes prayer in the school grounded her children and all others that walked the halls, acting as a moral compass, keeping the moral fabric of society from fraying.
So as I studied the names in the fraying New York Life ledgers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, I wondered: Could we identify their descendants?
And yet the show's most important themes — migration, debt, fraying European unity and the historical antecedents of today's populism and intolerance — are ones Athenians have reckoned with for years.
The fact that Trump could be elected at all — and dispense with the parts of Obamacare he disagrees with — has shown them the fraying seams of our political system.
"Maybe I should stop being real / maybe I should get on Twitter" But while Kanye seems, to us, to be fraying, he would insist he's as good as ever.
"Market expectations are for a significant rally in crop prices and equipment sales, but fraying NAFTA ties pose a risk to this recovery thesis," Volkmann said in a research note.
Their summit Monday in Helsinki will play out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, the investigation into Russian election meddling and fears that Moscow&aposs aggression may go unpunished.
In my slightly fraying climate-control leggings and a tank top from some college event many years ago, I am embarrassed, icky, not just because the moves are undeniably sexual.
The president is so temperamental, so willing to threaten to renege on past agreements if he doesn't see an upside in them, that trust in America's traditional commitments is fraying.
Cob's death is not the only horrible thing that Bobbin does - until he realizes that the world is not only fraying but disintegrating, and he needs to help repair it.
But Haidari Wujodi, 19903, maintained his daily routine, switching his shoes for comfortable sandals that he wears with socks as he arrives at his desk behind stacks of fraying periodicals.
Instead, it is forcing the Taiwanese and Americans to deal with the fraying ambiguities of a one-China policy, as all three move slowly towards a new, more dangerous endgame.
All three of the parties backing a December election hope to take seats from the beleaguered Labour Party, which is fraying badly due to Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's divisive leadership.
The initial allowance—$2 million—is for the basics, like removing debris, fixing the fraying roofs, and giving CPR to the generators, three of four of which are having problems.
Nearly six months into the antigovernment protests, life in Hong Kong has dramatically changed, pushing the economy into recession, fraying faith in the authorities and pitting neighbors against one another.
Still, the trend highlights Venezuela's fraying social fabric and the heavy toll that a deep recession and soaring inflation are taking on the country with the world's largest oil reserves.
After attempting to record a new set of songs, it became clear the band was fraying apart, and in August of 1999 they played five final shows in the Midwest.
It can only go as bugnuts as it does because he's right there at its center, trying to hold the fraying pieces of his mind together by any means necessary.
And Uber had to contend with unforeseen factors, including fraying trade talks with China that spooked the stock market in the same week that the company decided to go public.
The emergence of the coronavirus could pose a tough test for a public health infrastructure that is fraying at the edges due to years of budget cuts and limited resources.
And some health data experts worry that these kinds of partnerships pull at the fraying threads of the US's aging privacy laws and the patchwork of regulations covering medical data.
The solutions of the neoliberal era offer no serious ideas for how to restitch the fraying social fabric, in which people are increasingly tribal, divided, and disconnected from civic community.
If we think we're at a point where the country could not become more divided and the very fabric of the country is fraying, impeachment would surely test that theory.
With technology stocks top of mind for investors worried about fraying trade relations, CNBC's Jim Cramer turned to one "blast from the past" stock making a serious comeback: Akamai Technologies.
We've said nothing of the fraying of Europe's fabric with Brexit, or the flaring racial tensions in the US, with police shootings of black men and reprisal shootings of officers.
As the parents, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie (known for the British Office and Game of Thrones, respectively) share a fraying marriage where neither participant quite realizes anything is wrong.
With major averages teetering around correction territory, defined as a 10 percent drop from the most recent high, Trump upped the ante for the election amid fraying nerves on Wall Street.
Put this together with the growth of executive power and the fraying of constitutional checks on it and the risks of something going seriously wrong in the White House are obvious.
The season is doing such exquisite work with the deterioration of this relationship that I sometimes forget we never actually saw the three years of slowly fraying bonds between the two.
The Canadian dollar fell as much as 0.6 percent to $1.3437, while the Norwegian crown slid 0.7 percent against the dollar, pulled down by fraying market sentiment and weak oil prices.
After night of burning and bombing, mourning in Baghdad People directed their anger at the government, citing incompetent management of the country's fraying infrastructure and its apparent inability to protect citizens.
The end result may be a fraying of the trade alliances America could have used to take China to task for its tech policies, and an increase in China's global standing.
Trump has been the greatest mischief maker since Loki, an instigator of countless broken friendships among conservatives, with institutions fraying as former allies violently fought over Trump's fitness for the presidency.
The first close-up on the central character is so detailed, you can see the fraying, stains, and stitching on his old shirt, and the rough nap of his corduroy vest.
Diplomats say fraying unity in the wider European Union means difficulties are becoming more evident and the consequences more public, regardless of the geopolitical issue the bloc wants to help resolve.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois is poised to re-enter a budgetary limbo on Sunday with the expiration of temporary spending authority for the state's cash-strapped universities and fraying human services network.
The EU enters the 2030s in one piece, but divided and less relevant, its high relative living standards fraying as Europe falls behind economic rivals and its population ages and shrinks.
The message the leaders hoped to project was that the Western alliance remained united despite fraying ties within the European Union, particularly Britain's recent vote to leave it, known as Brexit.
But such traditional community ties are fraying amid the urban bustle and some are now wishing they had a secured an insurance payout, rather than relying on the goodwill of others.
He will also address "the fraying domestic support for democratic systems in our own countries," specifically the impact that fake news and social media have had on democracy around the world.
But it's not much of a stretch to see in the rules issued by the Trump administration last week the fraying of civil society as the United States has known it.
Yet U.S. sanctions of any sort would likely hammer the Turkish lira, which has shed 14% of its value against the dollar this year in part due to fraying U.S. ties.
In the United Kingdom, pressure from the UK Independence Party led the Tories to hold the Brexit referendum, which attracted numerous working-class voters and is now fraying the European project.
Yet much of what Ehrenreich spoke about—inequality, the fraying social safety net, her alternating feelings of terror and hope when she looks towards the future—feels more relevant than ever.
Its soft and tactile surface feels great and tracks beautifully, and unlike many other cloth mouse pads, this mat has a stitched frame around the edges that prevents warping and fraying.
Shrieking violins suggest some fast-approaching threat, while bow sticks striking their strings evoke fraying nerves or an inundation of tiny insects; and chaotic percussion simulate the protagonist's heart-racing panic.
Now it must get out ahead of other technology inventors in 5G, possibly while paying billions in fines and dealing with a painful restructuring and fraying relationships with its biggest customers.
Animal Cord Protector Not only are these animal cord protectors adorable, but they can also help prevent the outer part of your lightning cables from fraying and tearing from regular use.
They do things like provide disaster relief, teach coal miners coding, help veterans write résumés, educate young people about the opioid epidemic and generally patch holes in America's fraying social fabric.
The plans to set up the base came as Moscow's ties with the West were rapidly fraying over Russia's annexation of Crimea, tit-for-tat sanctions and the war in Syria.
This growing closeness has largely been driven by Beijing, much to the alarm of some observers, but China could also be the thing that pulls an increasingly fraying NATO back together.
Alas, that merely brings the Byrdes into contact with a new array of unsavory characters, while fraying their familial bonds, straining alliances and loyalties and inflicting no shortage of collateral damage.
But the relative lack of an effect on oil prices suggested that the agreement was not working, and the tough talk has raised concerns that unity in the group is fraying.
What should aid in human mobility becomes a weapon against the imagined caregiver — fraying the nerves of both unsuspecting palms and the part of our brain that responds to physical injury.
By contrast, Fringe (another recent television show that explored interdimensionality) had more sweeping ambitions that ultimately bogged down the show in meticulous discussions of the fraying politics between its two parallel universes.
Their fraying ends hang down under the metal roof, below eye level, and form lines dividing the club's tiny garden — a contemporary art installation with no visitors, in the unlikeliest of places.
The Middle East is spiraling deeper into the mire of fraying borders and sectarian disorder while violence in places such Syria is unleashing a tide of desperate refugees that is destabilizing Europe.
The look, which involves fraying your brows into a tree-looking shape and adding "ornaments" of glitter and jewels (and in some cases a green tint), is taking off on social media.
Also, it's interesting that when Joe hesitates to tell him about the fraying veil over Midnight, the Rev solemnly says that he's a Reverend who will hear confession and keep the secret.
The resale of more than 500,000 tonnes of product in recent weeks has kindled memories of 2014 when buyers ripped up purchase contracts, fraying counterparty trust and costing companies millions of dollars.
The problem for Bruno Le Maire and President Emmanuel Macron is that sticking their noses into Renault's affairs risks fraying a partnership with Nissan that is essential to the French carmaker's future.
The dollar has strengthened against the Turkish lira, driven by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and fraying ties between the United States and Turkey, a NATO ally.
Merkel blamed the fraying of the multilateral order on a "double transition" - the gradual fading of the direct memory of searing global conflict and the sheer pace and scale of technological change.
Trump's recognition of the unified effort between America and France served as a bookend to a trip to Paris that at times underscored the fraying relationship between the president and U.S. allies.
Yet the evidence suggests that the industry's "hope in a bottle" strategy exploited human suffering to sell more suffering — fracturing families, fraying social networks, draining social services and spreading trauma and despair.
He still did not understand that his mother had been murdered and, to him, her family's no longer helping meant a fraying of relations and reminded him that his mother was dead.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The weeklong vacation for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha is nearing an end, and the partial cease-fire that began on Monday night is showing signs of fraying.
The cordial relations between Apple and Netflix showed signs of fraying last November, when Netflix, led by Reed Hastings, stopped allowing people to sign up for its service through Apple's iTunes store.
Fines for littering in New York City's subway will double to $100 from $50 next week, the latest move by transit officials to address the problems afflicting the city's fraying subway system.
The immigrant father, an intimidating patriarch, blames the American water for his inability to have at least one son — and the play tracks his fraying relationship with the women in his family.
Upon it would invariably lay a vintage item in distress, like a torn pair of 90-year-old silk bloomers or a fraying velvet capelet last worn before the automobile was invented.
The post-World War II order is fraying as fighting spills across borders and international institutions — built, at least in theory, to act as brakes on wanton slaughter — fail to provide solutions.
Elsewhere, the fraying, red-and-gray gradations of a wall-mounted tapestry are the flattened lengths of a fire hose, the principal weapon used against black civil rights activists in the 1960s.
The cool tiled floor of the shrine is often carpeted with devotees, some carrying tiffins of food on outings with their children, others in fraying and torn shalwar kameez prostrate in prayer.
Now, I agree that there is some fraying at the margins and if anybody loses faith, you know, the problem that Musk had is that he has set himself up for failure.
But with technology advancing to the point where just about anyone with a smartphone can secretly record an office conversation, nerves are fraying about such betrayals in Brazil's increasingly paranoid political establishment.
The 236th Avenue station is one of dozens that have been closed or are scheduled to be closed as part of plans to modernize New York City's antiquated and fraying subway system.
There have been growing fears that New Zealand's close economic relationship with China was fraying after Ms. Ardern was unable to schedule a visit there to follow up on a November invitation.
J&J has also argued that some tests picked up "background" asbestos – stray fibers that could have contaminated samples after floating into a mill or lab from a vehicle clutch or fraying insulation.
It's also a great example of how World War Z uses the metaphor of a zombie apocalypse to examine the assumptions and weaknesses of the fraying neoliberal order of the 1990s and 2000s.
J&J has also argued that some tests picked up "background" asbestos — stray fibers that could have contaminated samples after floating into a mill or lab from a vehicle clutch or fraying insulation.
Overnight, sources told Reuters that the fraying relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn has raised questions about how long Cohn will stay in his job.
Republican leaders, however, have been rallying around McConnell, fraying the already tense relationship between Congress and the White House as they try to achieve any major items on their lengthy to-do list.
Yet Trump's demeanor obviously falls short of the elevated standards established by the likes of Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan, and appears to risk fraying that faith in his office still further.
In Azari's interpretation, Trump and Carter might be polar opposites as human beings, but their presidencies are in a similar place politically, defined by outsiders trying to keep a fraying political coalition together.
The espionage allegations in Moscow underscore fraying relations between Russia and the United States over a host of issues, including Russia's election interference and U.S. economic sanctions imposed as punishment (The Washington Post).
The two major party candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, have both come out against the agreement, and support for free trade is fraying, even in the normally pro-trade Republican Party.
To the Editor: Re "Refugees Are a Fraying Lifeline for Upstate Cities" (front page, May 13): After living on Long Island for over 50 years, I retired and moved to Rochester in 2003.
By 2014, as I muddled through the mess that was the Sochi Olympics, with its displaced citizenry, disappearing dogs, dilapidated accommodations and distressing price tag, my emotional tether to the competition was fraying.
We're doing so much virtually that when we go home at night, our dogs and cats increasingly are beings in our lives that want to interact with us when other relationships are fraying.
It brings to mind the fraying details of Nadia's reality in Russian Doll, the loss of control both she and the Mileses (both of them) feel as their lives spin out of control.
That includes not only Reading, Pa., the steel town where the play is set, but also a beleaguered part of the United States in which jobs are under siege and identity is fraying.
On "Good Guy," a fraying sonic mumble over piano that forms the centerpiece of Blond(e), he relays a story of a series of well-intentioned misconceptions that happen with a blind date.
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She's currently in casual relationships with three men with radically different personalities: Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent, of the Saw films and Canada's Rookie Blue) is an older investor and father in a fraying marriage.
A fraying agreement There was an uptick in violence Friday, when the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that four civilians were killed in airstrikes in Idlib, without identifying who carried them out.
For me, coming to terms with my gender, a process that took years — most of my life so far, really — was a little like wearing a sweater and picking at a tiny, fraying thread.
They represent the warning lights flashing on the dashboard; they are indications that an international system that has long been so historically exceptional in its effectiveness and stability is now fraying at the edges.
But investors are skeptical that AKP's long-promised reforms can transform a slumping economy hooked on foreign debt, and also worry about fraying diplomatic ties with the United States that could bring more sanctions.
But pricey store renovations, delivery commission fees and value deals led to a fraying relationship between McDonald's management and its U.S. franchisees, who formed an independent group a year ago to address their concerns.
John Kasich of Ohio, formed to deny Donald J. Trump the Republican presidential nomination, was already fraying almost to the point of irrelevance on Monday, only hours after it was announced to great fanfare.
Steven Levitsky, a Harvard professor and a co-author of the recent book "How Democracies Die," cautions that new laws aren't enough to knit together the fraying civic fabric that allowed for Trump's rise.
Ahead of the summit, Russian diplomats have stressed the need for strategic stability talks, saying existing arms control treaties are fraying at the edges and they fear Washington will withdraw from the INF treaty.
At that point, the case appeared to be fraying, and Mr. Brafman continued to pile on, releasing emails between Mr. Weinstein and his two remaining accusers in a relentless attempt to undermine their credibility.
The currency has shed nearly 10% of its value against the dollar this year in part on fraying diplomatic ties and the risk of U.S. sanctions if Turkey accepts delivery of the S-400s.
It also demonstrates the degree to which the wall has come to be a major sticking point between the two neighbors, fraying decades of friendly relations and potentially blocking progress on other vital issues.
But in this moment when the foundations of the international system are fraying and under attack, with revanchist Russia and revisionist China making moves, the US should have a serious person in this post.
His bonds with the president seem to be fraying daily, and Mr. Bannon has told friends his status as "staff" — compared with Mr. Kushner's familial relationship with the president — will ultimately dictate his departure.
At the time, the city's subway system was ascendant, but the plan would have raised at least $500 million annually that could have been used to counter festering problems, including a fraying transit infrastructure.
If jurors do begin deliberations, it might be just in time given the fraying nerves that have become evident among prosecutors and defense attorneys during the long trial of the notorious "pharma bro" Shkreli.
Eastwood, in nearly half a century as a major filmmaker and even longer as an axiom of popular culture, has chronicled the fraying of that cloth, and also plucked at a thread or two.
Conversely, Maine ended sheltered workshops starting in 2008, and has seen a massive uptick in "community based non-work activities", showing the pitfalls of failing to replace a fraying system with a meaningful alternative.
Many of the social problems we face today — the fraying social fabric, widening inequality, anxieties over immigration, concentrated poverty, the return of cartoonish hyper-masculinity — are the same problems she faced 130 years ago.
She had personal concerns — including the curtailed tax break on state and local taxes — but she was more upset about how it would hurt middle- and lower-income families and the fraying safety net.
But investors are sceptical that AKP's long-promised reforms can transform a slumping economy hooked on foreign debt, and also worry about fraying diplomatic ties with the United States that could bring more sanctions.
His appeal highlights a paradox that is challenging the status quo in Western democracies and fraying the European Union: voters are spurning the mainstream in favor of anti-establishment populism in times of economic wellbeing.
The diplomatic spat is the latest sign of fraying relations between the oil producing African nation and France, its former colonial ruler, following a French probe into the origins of the ruling Bongo family's wealth.
The lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and fraying ties with the United States.
As well as fraying an already tenuous relationship with Moscow, the new sanctions will add to the tension between Washington and Beijing that has been building in recent most of an increasingly bitter trade war.
Denmark imposed temporary identity checks on its border with Germany on Monday following a similar move by Sweden, dealing a double blow to Europe's fraying passport-free Schengen area amid a record influx of migrants.
" Committee chairman Greg Walden advised everyone to chill, using his best Dad voice: "I appreciate that we've all been here for nearly 24 hours, and tempers are fraying, and we're all a little tired here.
The fraying economy had left many of them unsure, Gezici said citing his company's March 16-17 poll, and added that rather than the AKP's past successes, voters were more focused on candidates' future promises.
But when Trump and Putin sit down in Helsinki the spotlight will be on everything but their crucial talks on North Korea, Syria, Iran and fraying disarmament treaties and fears of a new arms race.
And the uneasy truce between the government and insurers, which followed adoption of the health care law, appears to be fraying as some of the large companies say they are leaving or sharply scaling back.
On Thursday morning, the MAGA crowd was biting back at suggestions that Trump's would-be deal with Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the second in as many weeks, was fraying their faith.
European shares closed just below the unchanged mark, as weak results from the troubled auto sector weighed and investor confidence in a rally that has sent stocks shooting up this year showed signs of fraying.
Also, the fraying economy could wallop companies before government agencies can get vast new loan programs set up — a process widely expected to take until mid- or late April, if not longer, for some programs.
Sterling stores, once the envy of the mall, are now shabby, the disembodied busts of necks and stand-alone fingers fraying at the edges, their thin layers of paper velvet curling up at the seams.
But his policies have hurt poor- and working-class Americans left behind by fraying social safety nets, ailing cities and failing schools; they are ever more likely to land in the state's exploding prison system.
Efforts to salvage consensus among the Group of Seven rich democracies on the economy, trade and environment were fraying around the edges even as leaders were arriving before their three-day summit in southern France.
In Pennsylvania, where Republicans have traditionally soldered together a coalition of rural whites who are more culturally conservative and upscale suburbanites mainly concerned with taxes, an abortion-rights battle could further dismantle that fraying alliance.
But faced with angry broadsides from President Trump, who is seeking cooperation from Saudi Arabia to force gasoline prices lower ahead of midterm elections in the United States, that cooperation now looks to be fraying.
Complicating her busy life is the steady drumbeat in the tabloid press concerning her marriage to the star New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, with TMZ and The New York Post reporting on its fraying.
Aiden, the older of the two, knows her history from reading one of his father's books; but though Grace may be fraying from gruesome flashbacks and hideous dreams, it's Aiden who's by far the creepier.
It is also another sign of a fraying partnership with the US EV maker, which is set to diversify its battery supplies to include South Korea's LG Chem and China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL).
Together we have over 50 years of experience working on and watching the American-Israeli relationship, and what concerns us most is the fraying of shared values that set it apart from other bilateral bonds.
Some members of the House have pushed back in response to the damage done by Trump's trade wars, inconsistencies and fraying relations with allies and multilateral institutions designed by his predecessors in the White House.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Tempers are fraying in Chancellor Angela Merkel's new cabinet before she gathers ministers on Tuesday for a two-day retreat aimed at team-building in the ruling coalition, which took power just last month.
If Seehofer pushes ahead with the plan under his authority as interior minister, Merkel could be forced to dismiss him, further fraying the coalition but potentially helping the CSU in its regional battle with the AfD.
FRAYING TRUST Shareholders at Japan's second-biggest automaker voted in favor of a new governance structure and 11-member board to address lax auditing revealed after the arrest of Ghosn over financial misconduct allegations he denies.
European bourses followed Asian peers down, putting the MSCI's gauge of stocks around the world on course to break seven days of gains, with reports of renewed tensions in U.S.-China trade talks also fraying nerves.
We got a glimpse of what the Samson Option would look like earlier in the campaign when Trump's relationship with Republicans was fraying and he talked about withholding primary endorsements from Paul Ryan and John McCain.
On Monday, Trump firmed up his fraying alliance with GOP leaders with a speech to the Detroit Economic Club recommitting himself to supply-side economic doctrine, but with new policy specifics that are vintage Paul Ryan.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nerves are fraying in the Brexit talks, negotiators are trying to work out if the other side is bluffing about walking away, and a ticking clock is fast narrowing British options come March 2019.
ATHENS (Reuters) - The European Union's authority is fraying as governments and politicians in many members challenge EU policies and take aim at "Brussels bureaucracy" in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the 28-nation bloc.
The result is a fraying social contract between Belarussians and Lukashenko, a former state farm manager who has ruled for nearly a quarter of a century promising jobs, steady incomes and stability in exchange for obedience.
Political time is ultimately a theory about the president-party relationship, and one way to address a fraying coalition is to nominate a leader who isn't identified with any of the warring factions or old icons.
But this is still the same old Trump—the same Trump who acts entirely on his fraying instincts, who is motivated by his foundational insecurity, and who has no regard for anyone who isn't Donald Trump.
Although the Norwegian welfare state is still light years ahead of the fraying social safety net in America, Norway has not entirely been insulated from the consequences of 30 years of neoliberal capitalism around the world.
The lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and his fraying ties with the United States.
If thousands more refugees reach Greece, Greek officials fear being left to care for them for years, with little support from other members in the European Union, exacerbating social tensions and further fraying a strained economy.
The Manganiyars who live around the village of Dantal say they are now finished with their feudal-style bondage — another sign that India's centuries-old caste system may not be completely disintegrating but is definitely fraying.
Suzanne Demko, who lives in Silver Spring, Md., and leads clinical teams in rare tumor research at the Food and Drug Administration, paid $7,087 for three well-worn wristwatches, their thin leather bands cracked and fraying.
In the office, which is adorned with Facebook logos, fresh fruit is at the agents' disposal in a small room where subdued colors and decorative moss growing on the walls are meant to calm fraying nerves.
Emanuel points out that he inherited many problems from Daley's twenty-two years in office, including a budget deficit totalling $637 million, violence in low-income neighborhoods, and fraying relations between the police and the public.
The whole thing was an embarrassing blunder for Apple, and sad for the rest of us who want to charge all the things without dealing with multiple stations or fraying Lightning cables once and for all.
The Turkish lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and fraying ties with the United States.
The already widely violated truce began fraying more quickly some two weeks ago near Aleppo, where the Syrian army accused rebel groups of taking part in assaults by Islamists who are not covered by the ceasefire.
"The pull-back by Qatar Insurance is another sign that the fraying of political ties between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors is also damaging economic ties," said Jason Tuvey, Middle East economist at Capital Economics in London.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Nerves are fraying in the Brexit talks, negotiators are trying to work out if the other side is bluffing about walking away, and a ticking clock is fast narrowing British options come March 2019.
HONG KONG — Police officers in Hong Kong on Sunday fired tear gas and fought with angry demonstrators outside a luxury hotel, another sign of fraying civility in a financial hub roiled by nearly five months of protests.
Newman's Huffington Post biography claims his book, Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine, "explores the underbelly of modern medicine and the fraying of the patient-doctor bond, using patient narrative and examples of misconstrued research."
Of course, there are obvious problems with his record — the fraying of traditional alliances, the trade war with China slowing down the global economy, and North Korea testing missiles again — that Democrats rightfully can hit Trump on.
That may sound lofty or difficult to a lot of people, but when we're faced with catastrophic climate change, extreme wealth inequality, and a fraying social fabric, defending a failed status quo is no longer an option.
The process I'm suggesting isn't dramatic, but it is different from the usual U.S. approach, and I think it might help to repair the fraying quality of our relations and reconstruct some common ground and common goals.
Where shooting June's fraying psyche in medium shots didn't quite pay off, getting a glimpse of Serena Joy struggling to hold her interest in her own life works much better via this slightly cool, distanced shot selection.
But the former Soviet republic's failure to tackle corruption and implement reforms has already derailed a Western aid program that keeps its economy afloat, and a ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in the east has been fraying.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Tuesday protested to Rwanda over the killing of two of its nationals by Rwandan security personnel and demanded that they be punished in a further sign of fraying relations between the neighboring states.
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares stalled on Wednesday as weak results from the troubled autos sector dragged the market down and investors' confidence in a rally that has sent stocks shooting up this year showed signs of fraying.
Denmark has imposed controls on its southern frontier with Germany in a move that is intended to stem the flow of migrants but will also deepen concerns about Europe's fraying commitment to the free movement of people.
That struggle became one of the subjects of the 2011 documentary "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest," a fascinating film that captured the group as it was fraying on its 2008 reunion tour.
Paicho Journal PAICHO, Uganda — Just after dawn, Patrick Ogik placed a wooden yoke over the bulging necks of his two oxen and attached a metal plow behind them, the ropes, fraying from wear, tied to the animals.
Populism is still potent, and the E.U. also faces a fraying alliance with the U.S., a budget fight with Italy, Russian aggression, increasing authoritarianism in Hungary and Poland, and shaky or coalition-less parliaments across the bloc.
But whoever the intended audience was, it dovetailed with his team's aggressive push to get Mr. Weinstein's side of the story into the public conversation at a delicate time, as the criminal case against him is fraying.
Not mincing words, he said that Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, now feels free to "treat Britain with contempt" because, in the age of Brexit and a fraying NATO alliance, it is isolated from its Western allies.
With their money driving a huge share of political spending, it's no surprise our social safety net is fraying — and, after the billionaire-backed GOP tax cuts, working-class Americans now pay higher tax rates than billionaires.
For over 20173 years, jazz had been fraying into attenuated alliances: free improvisers and avant-garde composers; jazz-rock fusion musicians; and, in Los Angeles more than New York, studio musicians combining soul-jazz with easy listening.
Her success will depend on support and collaboration from other European officials who are already grappling with challenges like Britain's exit from the European Union, the rise of populism and fraying diplomatic relations with the United States.
In June, a report by the U.S. Army War College described America's military clout as "fraying" and bluntly concluded that the era of U.S. global military primacy that followed the fall of the Berlin wall was over.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Senior South Korean officials, including President Moon Jae-in, are launching a series of meetings with U.S. counterparts in a bid to jumpstart stalled denuclearization talks with North Korea and mend fraying ties in their alliance.
Instead, both Girls Trip and Ryan are more concerned with the fraying friendship between Ryan and her girlfriends: hungry-for-clicks gossip website editor Sasha (Queen Latifah), funemployed Dina (Tiffany Haddish), and doting mother Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith).
European Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair an EU summit with Turkey on Thursday and Friday, was flying on to Ankara to discuss the fraying pact with Turkish leaders after tough talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades.
Most sentient beings immediately snip away at the fraying ends of the festival wristband before the water has turned hot for the post-comedown shower, but you: you've worn these vessels of bacteria like a badge of honor.
That fraying contributed heavily to Clinton's inability to match the 66 million votes Obama garnered in 2012 -- the so-called "Obama coalition" -- by just enough, in just the right places, to lose the race to the White House.
What's been broadly reported by now is that global democratic freedoms are in their 20th year of decline, a result both of surging autocracies like Russia and China, fraying freedoms in liberal democracies and Western complacency about both.
The President argued that while the rules of politics in a rabble-rousing moment might be fraying, some things -- like the nomination of a Supreme Court justice --- are so vital that they should be above the partisan swamp.
Further fraying market nerves, the European Commission on Thursday said a draft 2019 budget from Italy was in "particularly serious non-compliance" with EU rules, setting the stage for a possible unprecedented rejection of the country's fiscal plan.
The latest sign of fraying relations between Gabon and its former colonial ruler follows a French investigation into the origins of the wealth of the Bongo family, which has ruled the oil-producing west African nation since 1967.
The Chinese government would see the suspension of drills as a prelude to the eventual withdrawal of US military forces on the Peninsula or, even better, a fraying of the alliance between Washington and Seoul, Glaser told CNN.
In "The Winter Palettes," an evocative time capsule written for Harpers & Queen in 25.993, Solomon meets avant-garde Soviet artists in the age of glasnost and finds their solidarity fraying in the face of overnight fame and fortune.
But McIlroy's round was worth toasting in the clubhouse on Friday, with nerves fraying and tree limbs swaying in gusty conditions that whipped sand out of the bunkers on the 18th into spectators' faces at one uncivilized stage.
ST. LOUIS — Amid all the turmoil and uncertainty, with his White House seemingly fraying, his legislative agenda stalled and his electoral base in danger, President Trump these days finds one area of comfort: talking about his tax cuts.
By the time they met in Paris on Saturday, the trans-Atlantic alliance that was to be showcased by this weekend's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I appeared to be fraying instead.
It wasn't the America you see on CNN or hear about on NPR, but rather it resembled a traveling circus performing under the sprawled-out tent of democracy—and the tent was faded and fraying at the edges.
"We have a President of the United States who is savagely fraying the bonds of our nation by speaking consistently words of hatred, words of division, words of demonization and demagoguery," Booker told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday.
The comments appeared to be the latest sign that an uneasy truce between the party's two most powerful figures might be fraying once more, and now that Mr. Ryan has announced he is not running for re-election.
Monetary policy is tightening, government spending is expected to expand substantially, and, as the American presidential election and the vote in Britain to leave the European Union show, trade relations and other ties among nations may be fraying.
Fraying business confidence since the summer, when a sudden rift emerged between Arab powers, means the recent rapid growth of major Gulf airlines will also be under scrutiny when the Middle East's largest industry showcase opens on Sunday.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has committed another breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog policing that deal said on Thursday, further fraying the landmark accord.
The subscription allows me to give off the vibe that my closet is brimming with shirts and dresses cut from the latest trends rather than containing fraying cardigans and the other items I've held onto since high school.
Instead, the Trump administration used the appointment of a relatively standard-issue conservative Supreme Court justice to bring an already-fraying Republican coalition back together, and divert the media conversation away from an Executive Order that sparked global backlash.
Consider, for example, the way campaign 2019 ended, with a controversy that brought together the concerns many liberals and minority Indians have about Modi and his allies: The rise of hardline Hindus and the fraying of India's secular fabric.
At one point, we randomly drove off the main road to find the border fence had become totally useless - its barbed wire folded and pinned back by a fraying piece of clothing so that an adult could easily pass.
The election is being closely watched in financial markets, with the political uncertainty weighing on the lira, which was hit by a crisis last year and is still under pressure due to Turkey's fraying ties with the United States.
Others with whom we chatted in the bus, the press room and the various little outcroppings and branded shacks with fraying signage (CBS News's was utterly in tatters, but the team looked undeterred), felt sure it would be delayed.
In February, black car driver Douglas Schifter shot himself outside City Hall in a pointed act of protest, after detailing his agony over his fraying finances on Facebook, and blaming city officials for failing to adequately regulate the market.
The Mountain accumulates a sense of dread as it progresses, subtly fraying its own sense of reality as Andy's mind deteriorates — or alternatively, as it dismisses the notion of much separation between those who are mentally "well" and not.
HNA's long-term strategy of debt-fueled growth, which peaked with its purchase of stakes in Hilton Worldwide Holdings and Deutsche Bank, is fraying, compounding the company's problems as it struggles to allay concerns over its opaque shareholding structure.
The changes that Germans see in the world — terrorism, authoritarianism and a fraying world order — is the type of change they want to by protected from by someone who has proven to be able to do it: Angela Merkel.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Iran as part of a three-country Middle East tour next week, during which he will explore options for preserving a fraying nuclear non-proliferation pact, a ministry spokeswoman said.
In a fragmented, lonesome Los Angeles, its queer institutions fraying just as the city floods with newcomers who, however subconsciously, expect the city's lush lifestyle to improve their life, dinners like these are creating a much-needed community hub.
Relations between the two neighboring communist countries have shown signs of fraying in recent years as North Korea stepped up its missile and nuclear tests, and China supported American-led efforts to impose increasingly tougher sanctions against the North.
A newly fraying relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn has raised questions about how long Cohn will stay in his job, say two people with close ties to the White House.
While Tillerson has tried to patch up fraying ties with Russia, he nonetheless has been more vocal than the president in criticizing some of Russia's actions overseas, including its aggression in Ukraine and its role in the Syrian conflict.
The Iran prisoner issue most recently entangled France, just as President Emmanuel Macron was engaged in a diplomatic outreach with Iran to reduce tensions over the fraying 2015 nuclear agreement that was abandoned by the United States last year.
His fraying protective shield is likely to bind him ever more closely to longtime aides who have yet to blink -- often at considerable cost to their own reputations -- as well as to his blood relatives and adoring political base.
Whatever optimism you might have about the world not ending in 1987 is tempered by the idea that no matter who survives the final season of The Americans, they will step into a world that almost immediately starts fraying.
When Donnie and his husband, Adam (Colin Hanlon), arrive, we learn that they are weathering relationship problems — Donnie's a homebody and wants kids; Adam likes to party — which are not helped by the nerve-fraying juice cleanse they are on.
Sporting a white "Make America Great Again" cap, Trump made the remarks Thursday morning before boarding Air Force One to visit a Texas town near the border — his latest move amid fraying negotiations with Democrats over an ongoing partial government shutdown.
Featuring a tinplate interior, a TPE jacket exterior, and wrapped internal wires to prevent friction or fraying, it can hold over 30,000 bends of 90-degree bend tests and up to 275 lbs, making it 25.593 times tougher than standard cables.
Chuck and Wendy's fraying marriage, a plot that played out across the season, has also created an uncomfortable possibility -- namely, that Wendy appeared to be experiencing an attraction to Axe, with whom she has always been extremely close strictly professional terms.
The lira has lost more than two-fifths of its value against the greenback this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and fraying ties between the United States and Turkey, a NATO ally.
The crisis poses three types of risks: for other emerging markets, nervous that investors will flee as contagion spreads; for Turkey's economy, which is staring at a deep recession; and for the West, whose fraying bonds to Turkey could finally break.
The issue is expected to dominate a visit to Turkey by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday and Friday at a time when relations between Washington and Ankara are fraying over a range of other issues as well.
She stripped a soft piece of bark from a fraying cedar trunk to demonstrate how it can be used as fiber for clothing, and detailed how to extract vitamin C from western hemlock needles by steeping them in boiling water.
By 23, the relationships at the core of that system inside the Clinton universe were fraying, and Band was forced to explain himself in a 12-page memo to the lawyers, the Clinton family and members of the Clinton Foundation board.
But in using the term, he risks further fraying the already strained relationship between the Obama and Putin governments at a time when they are mired in a series of global crisis where their separate and mutual interests are at stake.
Erdogan arrived at the G-20 meeting following a humiliating election defeat for his party in rerun elections in Istanbul, while the country recently entered its first recession in a decade and faces fraying relationships with NATO and the European Union.
Shadows of 1979: Wright, also a fellow at the Wilson Center, noted a palpable sense that "the revolution is fraying" as the revolutionary generation ages and Iran's leaders show a "lack of imagination in solving the problems" facing the people.
But the firebombings of restaurants and mosques may point in another direction, towards a fraying of that solidarity and resilience, so memorably expressed by Tony Walsh in his poem "This is the Place", performed at the first vigil on May 23rd.
This relatively recent interest in, and legal defense of, privacy was a result of industrialization, rapidly growing cities, and the fraying of a local social fabric that once enmeshed (to not say ensnared) everyone within a set of expectations and possibilities.
Khan's election was only the second democratic transfer of power since Pakistan's 303 independence, and came at a time when relations with on-off ally the United States are fraying over alleged Pakistani support for militants waging war in Afghanistan.
Voicing frustration at the fraying in the joint Western approach to Moscow, Juncker said "close coordination among allies" was key to ensuring that curbs on business with the Russian energy, defense and financial sectors, imposed in July 2014, are effective.
Amy Duggar, niece of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, is on the latest season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, where she and her husband of less than two years, Dillon King, underwent intense therapy to mend their fraying marriage.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Fraying at the Edges," by N. R. Kleinfield (special section, May 1): Given what is at stake — millions of lives and billions in dollars in continuing medical costs — why is Alzheimer's not a national priority?
PARIS (Reuters) - The United Nations' cultural agency wants to use the reconstruction of Iraq's second city Mosul as a way to restore its credibility and show how a fraying multilateral order can be revived, its director general said on Monday.
In the Middle East and across Asia, in Russia and Eastern Europe, even in Britain and the United States, war, terrorism and the pressures of globalization are eroding democratic values, fraying alliances and challenging the ideals of tolerance and charity.
A lot of the conservation work isn't visible to visitors, including metal supports that had long ago broken off inside and were addressed, as well as additions like nylon Maline net intended to invisibly arrest further fraying in worn areas.
The fraying unity within the Union is being glossed over, but the fact is that the CDU and CSU sisterly love has been rudely tested ever since CDU leader Merkel unilaterally decided on an open door immigration policy in 2015.
I wouldn't dream of leaving the house without finessing every detail of my outfit, even if I'm going to the corner shop; he would wear a paint-stained, fraying, decades-old sweatshirt to a party, if I didn't stop him.
The decision, by the newly empowered Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appeared to reflect a judgment that China's continued opposition to the deployment of the American missile defense system was not succeeding in fraying the South Korean government's alliance with Washington.
With Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany at odds, and the initial American-British love fest fraying over wild Trump outbursts, Macron is probably the last best hope for America's allies to restrain the apocalyptic side of Trump's nature.
The film's director, Drake Doremus, first made an impression on me with his 22013 picture "Like Crazy," a story of young love fraying apart because one character, a British woman with a limited visa, might have to leave the United States.
WASHINGTON — John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, described on Tuesday a nerve-fraying few months last year as American authorities realized that the presidential election was under attack and feared that Donald J. Trump's campaign might be aiding that fight.
It may be notable that we have raised this money at the same time that the traditional Silicon Valley / "fintech" model is showing some signs of fraying, with the CEO of SoFi stepping down last week after sexual harassment allegations.
But the fraying story lines seem to be a deliberate narrative strategy meant to convey the chaos of life and distortions of memory, and the bright threads of meaning that can be extracted, with imagination and will, from the mess.
The rising tensions and the potential for greater control over Hong Kong's political and legal systems by the Communist Party have raised questions over the long-term commercial viability of Hong Kong and the integrity of its fraying social fabric.
The government shutdown is fraying U.S. air travel in ways big and small, not just spawning long security lines at some airports but canceling some pilot training, delaying purchases of bag-scanning equipment and preventing some companies from adding new planes.
In the last two decades, Colombia has dramatically reduced its violence from peak levels, seriously weakened several drug cartels, and reached a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which is admittedly now fraying and bringing new risks.
TOKYO — Under intense pressure from the United States, South Korea reversed itself at the last minute Friday and extended an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a sign that the Seoul government wanted to halt fraying relations with the two countries.
The news comes as the Trump administration's judicial confirmation process -- that almost seamlessly pushed through a record number of appellate court nominees as well as two Supreme Court nominees during Trump's first two years in office -- seems to be fraying.
The key political question is whether his more open questioning of the #metoo movement to confront sexual harassment and violence will also strain his already fraying hold on the women voters in his coalition, particularly those without a college degree.
ZGC Capital, which runs an accelerator for startups but is backed by the Beijing local government through its Zhongguancun Development Group, told Recode that "we have reduced our investment activity" in the US due to fraying relations between the two countries.
The firm has reduced plans to back US-based companies in the wake of both FIRRMA specifically and fraying US-China relations more broadly, sources say, and in recent years has lost some of its personnel that worked on American investments.
But the show's "let's just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" instinct gets a lot more complicated — and frankly, weirder in a distracting way — when it's applied to something as immediate and relatable as our culture's own fraying reality.
Currency moves this week in response to a new bout of trade war angst have been fairly muted but Thursday's jump in the yen - which tends to attract demand in times of political strife and market turmoil - suggested investor nerves are fraying.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy and Hungary, two of the Kremlin's closest allies in Europe, said on Monday there could be no automatic extension of the European Union's sanctions against Russia, the most public sign yet of fraying unity on how to deal with Moscow.
DeLillo has never written about Donald Trump, but his entire body of work is suffused with the paranoia and the sense of fraying identity that animate many of Trump's supporters—albeit with a postmodern tinge that is hardly present at a Trump rally.
But amid President Donald Trump's Twitter tirades; the vulgar rant from his new communications director; the open internecine sniping; and the White House staff shakeup, the President offered two revealing hints about the policy direction he believes may rebuild his fraying political support.
The warming ties -- Trump and the senators were bitter GOP primary opponents and have occasionally engaged in public feuding since the inauguration -- come as the President's relations are fraying with Senate Republicans just as he's relying on them to help pass his agenda.
So while the courts should step up and refine their approach to sexting, it's time adults step up and give guidance to young people and help them become thinking, happy, secure and productive people who can go on to humanize our fraying society.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday denied his former personal attorney Michael Cohen's claim that he knew in advance about a highly controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting, the latest public breach in the fraying relationship between the President and his former confidant.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turkey has slapped anti-dumping duties on U.S. cotton imports, a U.S. industry trade association said on Monday, fraying relations between one of the world's top fiber growers and one of its biggest customers amid weak global prices and demand.
With the threads of the Astana process fraying, there is an opportunity for Pompeo to re-engage the Turks bilaterally, and link them back into a reinvigorated UN-led Geneva process that is the only hope of achieving an inclusive political agreement.
On Thursday night, that something looked like this: In a fraying section of downtown Rio, a pack of the world's most venerated chefs were rushing around a slapdash kitchen amid a crush of volunteers as they improvised a dinner for 63 homeless people.
While the cannabis legalization movement has the same broad goal — the legalization of cannabis — it's fraying into two sides: activists who want social justice considered above industry-friendly legislation, and the increasingly well-capitalized cannabis companies and investors on the other side.
Contrary to popular belief, Glastonbury is not Paris Fashion Week — which is worth remembering when you're contouring your face with glitter and hand-fraying cutoffs just that little bit higher in your dressing-room-tent...only to end up missing your favorite band.
In an election year in which many voters appear to be embracing outsider credentials over experience, Mr. Bayh could find that there are limits to the good will that voters will extend to a candidate with fraying connections to his home state.
The role of the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy is seen as less prestigious than the other top institutional positions, but its importance has grown, especially as the bloc tries to save its fraying nuclear deal with Iran.
He and Mr. Thomas will now have to tackle the challenge of turning the fraying Star of Hope into a modern museum, complete with the humidity controls, handicap ramps, additional exits and sprinkler systems necessary when inviting the public to come en masse.
But things had been fraying in our hands, and the camp was free and silent, so I walked through the resistance of my cautious husband and my small boys, who had wanted hermit crabs and kites and wakeboards and sand for spring break.
Mr. Johnson's statement — in which he also disclosed the woman's identity — aggravated tensions in a trans-Atlantic relationship that started fraying after Mr. Trump feuded publicly with other British officials and denounced Britain's ambassador to Washington, forcing him to give up his post.
WASHINGTON — Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday to become the 2577th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol's fraying upper chamber.
The fraying of international trading arrangements and the rise of nationalist imperatives have been driven by intensifying public anger in many countries over widening economic inequality, and the perception that trade has been bountiful for the executive class while leaving ordinary people behind.
The dollar came off its highs later in trade, but was still near its highest level since June 2017 on worries over President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for lower interest rates and fraying ties between the United States and Turkey, a NATO ally.
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly fraying relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn has raised questions about how long Cohn will stay in his job, say two people with close ties to the White House.
But that focus on procedure and process, on the way the job gets done and not always the job itself, is paired with a somber portrayal of the continued fraying of the Jennings family unit — with the briefest of hopes at the end for renewal.
Ripped curtains and fraying bits of cardboard cover windows of the empty storefronts along the main shopping street in Sakata, a town on the northwestern coast of Japan that once thrived as a major trading hub for rice and later as a fishing port.
The inaugural National Conservatism conference, hosted by the Edmund Burke Foundation, is an attempt to build a new vision of conservatism less wary of state power and more focused on addressing American social ills like fraying family ties and the hollowing out of small towns.
Maybe we've already seen some faint signs of fraying, in Draymond Green's tirade during halftime of that incredible game at Oklahoma City, or in the fact that someone who was there must have leaked some of the details of his complaint to the press.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan said on Tuesday it had apprehended a Chinese activist who had slipped away from his tour group last week, and authorities were deciding whether to deport him or risk fraying relations with Beijing by granting him sanctuary as a political refugee.
"Everyone wants to say he is not Obama, he is not good-looking or charismatic or a great speaker like Obama, but there is a fraying of confidence toward traditional leaders and everyone is ignoring it and praying that it goes away," Kofinis said.
Speaking at a news conference with Mr. de Mistura, Mr. Kerry said that the deal was fraying in some areas and had collapsed in others and that legitimate talks on a cease-fire were impossible unless all of the involved parties were committed to it.
This is showing signs of fraying after a welter of rulemaking, but Stefan Ingves, chairman of the Basel Committee of banking regulators from nearly 30 countries, said "very good" progress was made on an outline deal during a meeting in Chile, which ended on Tuesday.
Jonathan H. Adler, a Case Western Reserve University law professor, noted that presidents of both parties had been centralizing control over executive branch decisions in the White House since the 1980s, and portrayed Mr. Trump's threat as foreshadowing further fraying of institutional checks and balances.
It was obvious from the second the Commander pulled out a beautiful beaded dress for June that this particular part wasn't going to mimic the book, which instead had June shrug on a hasty smear of lurid red lipstick and fraying Vegas showgirl castoffs.
Rex Tillerson arrived in Turkey on Thursday for two days of what are expected to be uncomfortable meetings between allies whose relations have been fraying over a number of issues, above all Washington's support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara calls terrorists.
Fraying sanctions enforcement prompted U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Robert Menendez to write a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this month expressing "deep concern" that efforts by the United States and South Korea to engage with North Korea may lead to sanctions violations.
Despite what Machiavelli said, great leaders don't have to be feared, they just need to listen, Blake explains to CNBC Make It. And while Brady might appreciate feedback, his fraying relationship with the coaching staff may exemplify the risks of this unforgiving management approach.
The last four years have seen a push from researchers and archivists to digitize the annals, slowly making them more accessible to the public, but many of the faded, fraying documents are almost too fragile to endure that process, according to the conservators there.
They pressured the M.T.A. to spend billions of dollars on opulent station makeovers and other projects that did nothing to boost service or reliability, while leaving the actual movement of trains to rely on a 1930s-era signal system with fraying, cloth-covered cables.
As Katie, an exacting Angeleno preparing for her boyfriend's surprise birthday bash, Ms. Jacobson found her dramatic debut almost as nerve-fraying as her character's cruise along Skid Row in search of a detox facility, yet again, for her heroin-addicted brother, Seth (Dave Franco).
The strained vocals and fraying music of the reimagined opening sequence are unsettling, leading into a video made up of a mixed bag of 3D, hand-drawn animations, and live-action shots in as many distinct, bizarre, lo-fi styles as there are participating artists.
While the public, thankfully, is hearing the message, there is a hidden danger: As we retreat into our homes, we can lose sight of our essential connections to one another and forget about the plight of those most vulnerable to the fraying of social bonds.
Among the stacks of overstuffed plastic boxes exploding with garments — skimpy transparent neon tops, a pair of American-flag-patterned pants, scarlet sweaters trimmed with fraying fringe — some eight provisional assistants are busy helping Ta put the finishing touches on his spring 2019 collection.
"He's on the edge now, of something not good happening," said one of the commentators on Australian TV. The commentator was John McEnroe, who of course is as expert as any at diagnosing the fraying emotions of a player on the verge of losing control.
The perpetrator, Sergeant Jawed, was an Afghan Army soldier whose betrayal of his American allies was another sign of fraying relations between Afghan and American forces, who have grown increasingly distrustful of each other as the grueling war continues with no end in sight.
In an age of atrocity, the unruliness of the people and a fear of the future have combined with terror, naked terror, to make the love of children an all-purpose proxy for each fraying bond, each abandoned civic obligation, the last, lingering devotion.
And bitter, of course, because it is only a year since Haaland arrived in Austria; only a few weeks since Salzburg's courageous, quicksilver young team — melded together by Jesse Marsch, its American coach — was fraying the nerves of Liverpool and Napoli in the Champions League.
The quick version of their book, and their research, is that our chromosomes rely on protective caps (called telomeres) akin to the tips that keep shoelaces from fraying; healthy living, they claim, can preserve or even restore those caps to slow the effects of aging.
But it is also a clear sign that the country lacks the sort of popular movement necessary to make progress against today's great challenges: a fraying democracy and dysfunctional government; a stagnation of living standards for much of the population; a violently warming planet.
I'll be interested now to see whether she can offer a compelling story about what ails the country — how we've come to suffer from fraying democracy, stagnant mass living standards and a violently warming planet — and what she will do to change our course.
Around this time of year, getting dressed can start to feel pretty repetitive: a tried-and-true parka, a blanket scarf that's fraying at the ends (not intentionally), and a pair of duck boots everyone and their mother swears by, even if they don't look that cool.
A long-standing Senate tradition that gave senators clout over judicial nominees from their home states has been fraying for years, meaning Democrats have less of a chance of blocking appointees they oppose, as they did with some success during Republican former President George W. Bush's administration.
A bomber jacket with the presidential patch bought to replace the fraying one Kennedy often wore is also being sold, along with a draft of a letter to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with hand-written notations, offering to name a Polaris submarine after him.
Lee Merritt, who is representing Edwards' family, praised Haber for his willingness to correct the initial account, saying it was a "big deal," given the current climate, where skewed accounts or a lack of transparency around police shootings has led to fraying trust with the public.
Republican unity on U.S. tax overhaul shows sign of fraying Pastors stand firm as Trump's U.S. evangelical base weakens Student accused in Washington school shooting blamed 'bullying' Lightning strikes behind Las Vegas Strip casinos as a thunderstorm passes through Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. September 13, 2017.
It will win again if it can overcome the challenges of the fraying relations between a politically-divided United States and a fragmenting Europe to stay firm to a vision and mission that is more positive than whatever Putin devises in his latest term of office.
There are multiple reasons why it's good for the two Presidents to talk given critical national security issues including the war in Syria, North Korea, fraying arms control agreements and the desperate state of relations between two nuclear powers with the capacity to wipe out humanity.
Given his position overseeing the largest police force in America, Mr. de Blasio might have used some of his time to advocate the kind of accountability police departments around the country must bear to help stem the cycle of distrust and violence that is currently fraying cities.
The fraying relationship between the two unraveled when Mr. Jusino accused Mr. Eugene of recruiting a student from a high school on Long Island and enrolling him at Progress in the fall of 2014, using his own address in Brooklyn and claiming to be the boy's uncle.
WASHINGTON — Republicans scrambled on Tuesday to mitigate the damage done by President Trump's embrace of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over his own intelligence agencies, setting a public hearing in the Senate next week, examining new sanctions on Moscow and reaffirming the fraying Western alliance.
The city has an ever more strident police force, pliant judges, fraying institutions and political prisoners from an opposition movement that is increasingly in favor of independence, a scenario that was rarely even discussed before Beijing started tightening its grip on the city three years ago.
Pros: Soft and comfortable cloth surface, anti-slip rubber base, stitched edges prevent fraying, multiple sizes available for just about any desktop setup, and it's a great value at $24 for the standard matCons: The non-sealed fabric collects dust and dirt more quickly than some others
Though the United States and China reached a new trade truce at the end of last week, the enduring controversy over Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey's tweet in support of Hong Kong protestors points to an irreversible fraying in the economic ties between the two countries.
In the halls of Davos, where global leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum this week to discuss fraying international ties, two realities were becoming clear: China plans to honor the deal, and everybody except the United States may be about to lose a lot of business.
Donald Trump (or his next secretary of state) would be well advised to read this timely and comprehensively informative book, since no foreign topic will engage the 45th president more acutely than the currently fast-fraying relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
The speech, likely peppered with calls for unity and reconciliation, is going to be delivered to a Congress plagued by fraying negotiations and partisan divisions on issues such as sanctions on countries like Russia, federal funding and the ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
That frustration, combined with a fraying social fabric and long-term corrosion in economic opportunity, has created a volatile atmosphere in Ashfield: anti-immigrant, distrustful of the political elite and receptive to populist appeals from the right that would have been jeered a few years ago.
Part mortuary, part inn, these hotels serve a growing market of Japanese seeking an alternative to a big, traditional funeral in a country where the population is aging rapidly, community bonds are fraying and crematories are struggling to keep up with the sheer number of people dying.
Today, just as western-style liberal democracy is showing cracks in the facade in the face of globalization, boxing is like the fraying teddy bear of the industrialized West's collective childhood—no longer that rare combination of cultural institution, major league sport, and favored metaphor for life's struggles.
First proposed in the 1950s and taken up four years ago by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a response to fraying EU unity, an EU armed forces is seen as strengthening the global power of the bloc, which is an economic giant but a geopolitical minnow.
Some anglers who fish braided line have had trouble with grooves being cut into these guides, which can result in heavy fraying, but I've used mine for a couple of years now and have yet to spot even a nick on any of the guides on my rods.
NBCUniversal heads into the next three Olympics — all of them in Asia — faced with a critical question: Was the lower-than-expected prime-time viewership for the just-completed Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro a fluke or a harbinger of fraying audiences over the next six years?
The budget discipline that Brussels, urged on by Germany and other northern nations, tries to impose on member governments as a condition of membership in the euro currency, is fraying as calls grow, especially from poorer southern countries, to move away from austerity policies after years of lackluster growth.
Beijing has pledged $57 billion in loans for Pakistan as part of China's vast Belt and Road initiative, deepening economic and diplomatic ties between the neighbors at a time when relations between Islamabad and Washington are fraying over how to deal with Islamist militants waging war in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON — The rise of Imran Khan, a former cricket star who is Pakistan's likely next leader, could complicate new talks between American diplomats and the Taliban about ending the war in Afghanistan, officials said, fraying an already strained relationship between the nuclear-armed Islamic nation and the Trump administration.
But a visit by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the California capital, Sacramento, on Wednesday produced an unfiltered shouting match that was remarkable even for the long-embattled antagonists, and seemed to be a culmination of fraying relations between the conservative administration and the country's deepest blue state.
Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr and his lieutenants have increasingly exerted authority in politically sensitive investigations at the Justice Department, fraying relationships with prosecutors at the powerful US attorney's office in Washington, DC, and leading to an unprecedented walkout of the career attorneys handling the Roger Stone case.
I came away wondering about the fraying, endangered notion of citizenship, and what it really means to be a citizen of a Western democracy, when a combination of fear and political expedience has resulted in the abandonment of thousands of children to this sprawling ISIS prison in the desert.
WASHINGTON — President Trump's campaign to rein in North Korea is about to get a lot more complicated, as a progressive new leader in South Korea and fraying ties with China leave the United States with fewer partners to press Kim Jong-un on his nuclear or missile programs.
Meanwhile, in remarks at a business summit on Monday ahead of this week's meetings, Singapore PM Lee said: "ASEAN has great potential, but fully realizing it depends on whether we choose to become more integrated, and work resolutely towards this goal in a world where multilateralism is fraying under political pressures".
Related: An Unaccompanied 2147-Year-Old Dies in Attempts to Reach His Sister in the UK Denmark imposed temporary identity checks on its border with Germany on Monday following a similar move by Sweden, dealing a double blow to Europe's fraying passport-free Schengen area amid a record influx of migrants.
The words seem to be fraying, coming apart at the seams, but the shoelaces also invest the Constitution — written and signed solely by white men, some of them slaveholders — with colorful multiplicity and a tropical flair, perhaps linked to Jamaica: an emphatic endorsement of democratic inclusivity in a profoundly troubled time.
STEP from the fraying lobby into the tiled interior of Akebono-Yu, Tokyo's oldest sento, or public bath-house, and there is an almost churchlike silence, interrupted only by the tinkle of spring water and the odd groan of pleasure from one of the elderly customers sinking into its tubs.
But, as the documentary shows, the move unleashed a media feeding frenzy that previewed the fights that would roil America in 2016, fraying the couple's relationship, drawing excoriations from talking heads and internet trolls, at times alienating their four other children and indelibly etching Coy's name into cyberspace's inexhaustible memory bank.
While reports going back decades indicate that teaching has always been a nerve-fraying profession, some experts say the current political climate, the public perception of teachers and public schools, and a Fed-level push to improve standardized test scores are all drivers of sky-high teacher stress and burnout.
Following the court's ruling, he was dragged back from a UN summit in New York to face the music in Westminster, where MPs now have ample time to grill him not only about his fraying Brexit plans but also on allegations of corruption during his stint as mayor of London.
Again, this massing of hard, nerve-fraying fact makes clear that this monument is meant to perturb, not console, in contrast, say, to Montgomery's official Civil Rights Memorial, a 1989 Maya Lin design located near the Southern Poverty Law Center, which soothes the visitor with resonant words and interactive contact with flowing water.
But in the context of the escalating coronavirus, the new policy will mean food-insecure Americans—from those like Murphy, who already depend on the fraying social safety net, to those now facing layoffs and struggling with health care costs—will face more barriers to food access exactly when they need it most.
With relations between Malaysia and North Korea fraying over the killing, a high-level North Korean delegation, including the former deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Ri Dong-il, arrived in the Malaysian capital to discuss taking Mr. Kim's body to North Korea, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported from Kuala Lumpur.
The Nunn-Lugar's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program is gone, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty has been canceled, the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) has been suspended, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is fraying and the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and Open Skies treaty are being questioned.
Even that growth is vulnerable to headwinds from elsewhere — a slowdown in China, downturns in Brazil and Russia, tightening in other emerging economies, a fraying European Union threatened by the refugee crisis and potential departure of Britain, and the effect, especially in the Middle East and Africa, of low prices for oil and other commodities.
Although economics shapes S.W.B., so do social and political factors: despite immense economic growth, Chinese citizens are no happier today than they were in 1990 (fraying social ties, created by rural-to-urban migration, may be to blame), while in many Latin-American countries people report higher S.W.B. than their otherwise low Q.O.L. predicts.
He said he couldn't sleep last night and got up to dress long before the sun rose over Roland Park, the tony North Baltimore neighborhood where he lives with a childhood mentor (navy chinos, eggshell Oxford shirt and, of course, his trademark royal blue Patagonia puffer vest, now faded and fraying around the collar).
With nerves fraying and threats flying about walking out without a deal come the March 2019 deadline for departure, the pound took a knock when EU negotiator Michel Barnier said a new round of talks this week had ended in continued deadlock over a British refusal to clarify how much it will pay on leaving.
Or the Swiss animated film Ma Vie de Courgette (French for "my life as a zucchini"), which doesn't depict American poverty, but does depict a different country's fraying social safety net, as a bunch of kids from troubled backgrounds are thrown into the same group home and learn to take care of each other.
A MINUS Amber Mark: Conexao EP (Virgin EMI) Uber-bohemian r&b crooner gets down to structure on four legible songs-not-tracks that outline a love affair whose tether has been fraying for far too long: eros in bloom, then sex isn't everything, then I love you anyway, then prove you're worth the work.
Because while the thinking behind Church in the Darkness is interesting, and seems like it wants to capture a lot about the fraying social fabric and rise of different forms of radicalism in the 1970s, much of what I actually saw and did as a player was like a vastly simplified version of Shadow Tactics and the like.
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The congressional GOP is openly struggling with the United States' relationship with Russia during President Donald Trump's overseas trip this week — with some worried about fraying U.S. alliances and Russian President Vladimir Putin 's growing influence and others pleased to see improved relations and fearful of getting on the wrong side of the leader of their own party.
Number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh surges: UNHCR Children and teenagers are among the wounded Rohingya in a crammed Bangladesh hospital A newly fraying relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and top economic adviser Gary Cohn has raised questions about how long Cohn will stay in his job, say two people with close ties to the White House.
In a race that was closer than expected, with Clinton still likely eking out a small popular vote victory while losing the all-important Electoral College, anything fraying at the edges becomes significant enough to change the course of history, preventing the passing of the baton from the nation's first black president to its first female president.
Shortly after Taiwan President and DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen took office in May, China cut off official communication with Taipei because she has refused to accept China's view that the self-ruled island is a part of China, and ties between the two sides since she won the presidential election in January have been fraying.
The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, son of NERV's director, and Neon Genesis Evangelion is ultimately an examination of the intersection points of Shinji's deep trauma: a neglectful father, a dead mother; the horror of warfare, piloting the Evangelion against supernatural threats; his inability to connect with those around him; ultimately, the very fraying of reality itself.
Let's count the ways: While worse-positioned than most old-line food makers (heavily dependent on passe canned soup, and on condensed soup at that), Campbell is representative of the group's difficulties: fraying loyalty among younger consumers for older brands and processed foods, rising commodity costs with little pricing power, and stiffer competition from retailer-controlled private-label products.
That is to say, the most important social divide today is between a well-educated America that is marked by economic openness, traditional family structures, high social capital and high trust in institutions, and a less-educated America that is marked by economic insecurity, anarchic family structures, fraying community bonds and a pervasive sense of betrayal and distrust.
As our nation becomes more polarized than ever, as our people become more dependent on government to solve their problems, and as the "haves" in our society become more and more separated from the "have nots," national service will help to keep our American tapestry of many races, national origins, religions, and other heritages from fraying any further.
In the face of unprecedented economic, military, and diplomatic competition from China and fraying relations to our foreign allies,  Congress must be willing to tackle the challenges of the 21st Century while preserving the system of checks and balances that has served the country well since the Founders made it the centerpiece of our constitutional system.
Over the intervening tracks of cinematic, electronically fraying R&B, he offers a vision for achieving that change, a journey of self-discovery with detours through broken hearts, Parisian stoops, and jazzy speakeasies filled with Balenciaga and purple fox fur-clad women (the 30-second stretch that invokes the last two being one of the best pop songwriting moments of the year).
Yet even today there's something soporific about this French-speaking city marooned within Flemish-speaking Flanders, beset by administrative and linguistic divisions and the lethargy that stems from them, home to a poorly integrated immigrant population of mainly Moroccan and Turkish descent (41 percent of the population of Molenbeek is Muslim), and housing the major institutions of a fraying European Union.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's decision to slap steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is fraying his relationship with congressional Republicans.
Trump cannot unilaterally lift sanctions, but even if he doesn't grant Putin any of those wishes during their upcoming summit, Trump has already given the Russian President the item that was at the top of his list: the fraying of the ties that bound Western democracies, which had allowed the United States to lead the world's strongest alliance for the past 70 years.
In his essay "The Precession of Simulacra," the French savant Jean Baudrillard recalls the story by Jorge Luis Borges in which the Empire's cartographers spend years drawing up a map so detailed that when it is done it covers exactly the territory of the Empire, and imperial decline is plotted by the fraying of the map until only a few shreds remain.
In a report published in the journal Health Psychology, scientists found that African Americans who reported racial discrimination over a 10-year period showed signs of faster aging at the cellular level  Researchers said the aging takes place in the shortening of telomeres, which are repetitive sequences of DNA that sit at the tips of chromosomes and keep them from fraying.
Travel eight hours to the east, to the Fort Peck Reservation, or another two to the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, and the story is one much closer to that of Hardy and Nome—a fraying trust between Native women and a legal system that has for decades allowed repeat offenders to walk free in small communities, continuing a cycle of trauma.
But it's the conclusion that's likeliest to actually happen, so long as anti-Trump conservatives remain uncomfortable admitting the scope and severity of America's racism problem—if they continue, as David Brooks did last week, to define Trump's America as one "marked by economic insecurity, anarchic family structures, fraying community bonds, and a pervasive sense of betrayal and distrust," to the exclusion of racism.
The latter involves a slow fraying-at-the-seams of Elliot's visual and aural consciousness: After six days without sleep, pixelated glitches appear around the edges of objects, his friend Leon starts talking backward, lines of code flash into view, the drum of a clothes dryer spins endlessly in his enormous eyes even when he's far from the laundry room, a ballplayer dunks on infinite repeat.
L, whose work has grown more urgent over the years: there's the 21981-foot-long American flag, dramatically fraying at its edge, that he installed at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles in 21990, and the stinging 2016 performance piece at Art Basel, to which the artist arrived in a white stretch limo, dressed in a white gorilla suit and clutching a Birkin-esque handbag.
This is not to say that the Islamic State is invincible, but so long as the causes that gave rise to the extremist group are permitted to persist — the broken politics in the Arab and Islamic world, the fraying and delegitimization of state institutions, as well as ongoing geostrategic rivalries and foreign interventions — there will be opportunities for the Islamic State and like-minded groups to rebound.
The author is known for her rich worldbuilding, her complex female characters, and her use of fantasy to tell deeply political stories about broken worlds and dysfunctional societies; Stone Sky takes you inside such a world, where humans have been battling for survival against apocalyptic climate "seasons," and the fraying or rebuilding of certain character relationships could mean the perpetuation or end of humanity.
But some are already taking stock of the far more enormous investment a full recovery will surely require: rebuilding a health care system and energy grid that had been fraying before the hurricane and are now a shambles, and relief from a debt crisis that had set off its own wave of devastating consequences, including forcing officials to declare a form of bankruptcy this year and spurring an exodus.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's trip to France to mark the centennial of the end of World War I was overshadowed by controversy, underscoring the fraying relationship between the president and his European allies.
Informed by his experience as a Vietnam vet, Cannon would depict the anxieties of his age (atomic mushrooms, the fraying of Enlightenment individualism, assimilation, and much more) with the brashness of a Pop artist, a taste for color that incorporates the lessons of European Modernism, and the influence of his contemporaries who continued to record, document, and illuminate the stories of their age (Fritz Scholder was his professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM).
Instead the French are focused on their country's failures: its dispatch under Vichy of Jews to their deaths, its painful colonial past in Algeria, its faltering attempts to integrate one of Europe's largest Muslim communities, its vulnerability to terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice, its expensive and sometimes rigid welfare state, its ambiguous relationship to global capitalism, its fraying model of "laïcité" (or secularism) designed to subsume religious difference in the values of the French republic — all are endlessly agonized over.
Trump's most recent attack on the trans-Atlantic relationship came Friday, when he threatened to impose additional tariffs against the European Union -- this time on car exports to the US. The Trump administration has already implemented tariffs on steel and aluminum exports from Europe sparking a retaliatory response from the EU. While the relationship has been fraying for months, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered what is perhaps the most ominous assessment to date last week, warning that the trans-Atlantic partnership may not last forever.
But in this instance, I&aposve heard from the ambassadors from our key European allies that they are concerned that "America First" is turning into America alone and whether it&aposs in the path towards the Singapore summit with North Korea where our South Korean close ally was not consulted before the announcement was made, or it&aposs in the path forward towards trying to ask restrain Iran&aposs behavior and Russia&aposs behavior that the close relationship we use to enjoy with Germany and France and the United Kingdom is fraying a bit.
The following is an excerpt from his new book, "Transaction Man: The Rise and Decline of the American Dream," an account of how the concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality in the US.According to Lemann, a Transaction Man (who may be a woman) often works on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley in a job that is literally transactional — in fields such as private equity, venture capital, or hedge funds — and is fundamentally skeptical but likes to do things quickly and forcefully.

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