Both supporters and opponents are girding to argue their case.
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There were signs that Republicans were girding for a loss.
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But Hollywood studios are already girding themselves for the new reality.
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Maybe we will be very lucky, though I am girding myself.
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I'm girding myself for many more trips to the police station.
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Apparently, he was ripping buds and girding his loins with fireball shots!
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We're girding ourselves for the normal onslaught of buzzwords and meaningless jargon.
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Conservatives are already girding for a battle over raising the debt ceiling.
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Wall Street is girding for its role as the White House battleground.
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He and neighbors in about a dozen buildings are girding for battle.
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Like other fans, they're girding themselves for the end of their obsession.
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Local health authorities are girding for battle against mosquitoes when it gets warmer.
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He'd be one of many exhausted soldiers, girding himself for a muddy slog.
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But at a moment when an extra girding helps, Mr. Ninomiya offers one.
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Judge Freier is girding herself for the hearing, even looking forward to it.
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Now, both are girding for a monthslong quest for delegates across 50 states.
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But whether girding for war or bracing for diplomacy, Israel must be prepared.
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Big tech is girding for renewed government focus on end-to-end encryption.
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The Sierra Club, a conservation group, is also girding for more action from Trump.
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Lilly is also girding for biosimilar competition for its top-selling insulin product Humalog.
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That has both sides girding for a long battle over every possible swing vote.
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Republicans are girding themselves for a partial government shutdown, just in time for Christmas.
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Wall Street is girding itself for the arrival of the coronavirus in its workforce.
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Now, a once-invincible organization, and its chief, are girding for a legal reckoning.
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Well aware of the strategy, those Democrats are already girding against the attacks. Rep.
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Like many Viners, she been girding for bad news for years, just in case.
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The incoming Trump administration is girding for battle with House GOP leaders on several fronts.
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Vindman to describe his alarm over president's call with Ukrainian leader, girding for Republican attack.
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But governments are girding for the possibility, especially when the weather turns warmer in spring.
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Former adversaries are banding together, girding against upheaval in a rapidly changing health care environment.
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Democrats have been girding for an effort to keep Nance from assuming the diplomatic post.
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She looks like she's girding herself to be asked questions she doesn't want to answer.
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California was girding in 2015 for a soaking El Niño weather pattern that never came.
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And now for the free stuff, she said, girding herself to be trampled to death.
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But other State officials said they were girding for a fight in Congress and beyond.
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To live through 2017 has required girding oneself daily against a rising sense of panic.
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Unlike the intractable complications of politics, girding the grid for an uptick in demand is straightforward.
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He is now on the ground in Brussels where they have been girding for his arrival.
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Girding for the battle ahead, the White House contacted outside lawyers as it seeks impeachment counsel.
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Scrapping the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be more onerous, with Democrats girding for a fight.
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But others are girding for battle, setting up internal fights over spending for later this year.
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Both proponents and critics of the Iowa bill said they are girding for another legal battle.
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I know you must be girding for the crushing defeat the Patriots will sustain this weekend.
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While it's certain that the company is undergoing some major growth, it's also girding for potential regulation.
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Girding for the battle of his life, Lee rallied his family and close friends to his side.
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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may be girding for a fight, but some colleagues are expecting an amicable relationship.
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Police forces around the United States began girding for what they feared was an impending race war.
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They are girding for a confrontation, building defenses to protect families and workers from the next administration.
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" Dad sighs audibly before girding his loins for another painful attempt to express himself verbally: "Kill the fly.
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After all, I'm not the one girding up for a difficult meeting that could make me look bad.
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Mediator So the threat we have been waiting for — girding for — has finally arrived from the presidential level.
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California lawmakers are girding for ideological battles with the Trump administration over immigration, the environment and criminal justice.
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Our colleagues Alexander Burns and Katie Glueck wrote that the Biden campaign has been girding for this fight.
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From their respective command posts in their respective capitals, both nations are girding themselves for a long confrontation.
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After watching shows in Milan, our reviewer says it's clear that fashion is girding women for a fight.
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She had a stony look on her face the entire time, as if girding herself for a tough battle.
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"Others ... are girding for a fight and confident in their boss and the likely political outcome," the official said.
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Big metals consumers like auto manufacturers and construction firms have been stockpiling supplies, girding for a disruptive trade war.
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Meanwhile, environmental activists and some states see this as a vulnerability and are girding themselves for a legal fight.
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The bond market, though, is girding for an inflationary environment, making conditions ripe for a reappearance by the bond vigilantes.
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Stripping away the manual arithmetic allows each game to move at a clip, girding the tension from devolving into monotony.
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I'm girding myself up, preparing for some serious battle, but I'm letting the banshee yell be yelled by other people.
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They are girding for massive cuts in financial assistance, dirtier air and the potential of drilling along the Pacific Coast.
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Health officials are girding for an increase of Zika cases, especially in southern states, as the U.S. mosquito season starts.
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Health insurers — who may have to raise rates or bail out of state insurance markets — are already girding for battle.
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Today it is the American left, not the right, that is girding for a generation of bitter Supreme Court defeats.
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They have accepted that they have lost their nomination this year and are girding themselves to fight in other arenas.
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Curbelo is in the former camp, while the new Congress — girding for a fierce presidential election — is more in the latter.
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The many economic players girding for a no-deal Brexit have been anticipating something like this surreal scenario for some time.
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Zimbabweans were girding themselves for a protracted and bitter impeachment battle as Parliament convened to oust their stubborn leader on Tuesday.
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For now, an administration that had appeared to be girding for conflict seems more determined to find a diplomatic off-ramp.
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But fishermen across the nation are girding for hardship, and planning protests in Dhaka, if officials do not offer them compensation.
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So much of life is about girding oneself against disappointment and adversity, but must those lessons begin freshman year at MIT?
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Another angle: Pro-Europe "remainers" are girding for new battles over how Brexit will affect trade and immigration, among other issues.
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But the GOP has been girding for a showdown with Democrats over the inquiry, which they believe is being conducted unfairly.
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The White House is girding itself for an eruption of violence, coordinating plans with several agencies to protect American citizens abroad.
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Waste Management executives expect their recycling business to shrink again this year, and others in the industry are girding for more cuts.
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Andrew M. Cuomo on how to handle the city's homelessness crisis, and both sides are girding for a long and grinding year.
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Back home, investors were also girding themselves for the July-September quarter results, starting with software maker Infosys Ltd on Oct. 14.
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Rather, their focus on bathrooms showed they were girding to hear a case on it and create new law in the future.
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Any nominee will be evaluated, Clarke said, adding that the group is girding for a nominee who is hostile to civil rights.
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Western Republicans and miners are girding for a fight over coal mining royalty rates and a moratorium on public land lease sales.
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Section 702 is not up for renewal until the end of 2017, but lawmakers on both sides are already girding for battle.
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As for the Democrats, there were signs, under the leaden skies on the National Mall, that they were already girding for battle.
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The robe opens at his chest, revealing a pale, unflattering paunch, about which his hands cross stiffly as though girding his loins.
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Girding for battle with SalesforceBen Pimentel has an interesting look at ThoughtSpot, an AI analytics company that recently raised $248 million in funding.
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The two immediately bonded over mutual musical interests (the electro and industrial vibes girding "Better" among them), and their respective experiences as outsiders.
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But whether the mood has really shifted or whether Catalans were simply resting and girding for the next confrontation was hard to tell.
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U.S. officials are girding for local outbreaks, especially in southern states such as Florida and Texas, as summer mosquito season gets under way.
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Coastal tourism business groups were girding for a long fight against the proposal, which comes as the Gulf Coast recovers from the Deepwater spill.
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PhRMA, the main trade group for drugmakers in DC, added $10 million to its war chest this fall, girding for a battle over pricing.
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Defense hawks are girding for a fight as the House readies a short-term funding measure to prevent a government shutdown on Oct. 1.
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Its signature hunk of marble, the David, looks less like he's girding for Goliath than like he's posing between squats at the local Equinox.
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Some legislators from both parties, already wrangling over the Kavanaugh nomination and girding for November's elections, seemed to wish the matter would simply disappear.
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The president's lawyers were already girding for a possible fight over whether they could assert executive privilege to keep parts of the report secret.
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Investors hunkered down Thursday, as signals from China and the United States suggested that both nations were girding for a long-term trade fight.
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And Mr. Frelinghuysen had not been acting like a candidate girding for what was shaping up to be the battle of his political career.
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And they are girding for Manigault Newman to release more of her tapes, which she has teased at in a string of television interviews.
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The lawyers fear that Mr. Cohen will not be forthcoming with them about what was in his files, leaving them girding for the unknown.
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Trump's emboldened approach to foreign policy has led to equal anxiety in European capitals, where leaders are girding with steely resolve for his July visit.
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The Trump administration appears poised to roll back ObamaCare's anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients, a move that has activist groups girding for a fight.
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While suddenly throwing up a trial balloon of cooperation, the White House is girding for a period of political confrontation once the Mueller probe ends.
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After years of on-and-off debate over nearly snoop-proof security, the industry is girding for new pressure from law enforcement around the world.
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But they also are girding for long-term spending pressures from rising health care costs, pensions and school infrastructure, among other expenses, the report said.
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Tough against all odds and obstacles, not unlike Detroit itself, the Silverdome probably stood there Saturday night on the eve of destruction girding for the worst.
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The Federal Aviation Administration requires a $22015 registration for drones over 25 pounds, and insurance companies are girding for a wave of drone-related accident claims.
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The president and the Democrats may be girding for a constitutional clash, but their campaigns are working to capitalize on the moment with fund-raising appeals.
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Following a reserved and fitful start, the show delivered some of the political punch Washington and Los Angeles — and everyone in between — had been girding for.
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The Federal Aviation Administration requires that every hobby drone owner register with the agency, and insurance companies are girding for a wave of drone-related accident claims.
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But it's not an easy issue for lawmakers of all stripes, especially when hackers have an economically crippling cannon pointed at the infrastructure girding up these locals.
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Clinton's campaign is already girding for a potential fight with Chaffetz and his colleagues, drawing battle lines that will likely harden very quickly if Clinton takes office.
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"We are girding for a fight, wherever it may come, in the courts, in the Congress, through the executive branch," Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said.
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Well, communications and data are incredibly important to everybody, from military applications to civilian applications, so it's not surprising that there's ... So, girding the globe with satellites?
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Some ended up water damaged because of roof leaks; Mr. Johansen and his coterie had not yet mastered the art of girding modernism for New England winters.
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And the industry is already girding for a fight over drug price regulation in 2017, recently asking its members to contribute an additional $100 million in dues.
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Election officials and observers say they are hoping for an orderly final day of voting, but they are girding for the possibility of fights, intimidation and, perhaps, worse.
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Since then, China has lent Venezuela some $0003 billion (primarily to be repaid in oil) and established a complex joint funding operation girding more than 600 investment projects.
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It also can go a long way toward mentally girding yourself for the emotional upheaval that some caregivers experience when they find themselves in the parent-child role reversal.
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Instead, manufacturers are girding for a protracted period of conflict that will disrupt supply chains and change the companies' calculations about where to expand and where to cut back.
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The Met has also been girding for the logistical challenges of checking proof of residence without segregating people in a separate line as if they were second-class visitors.
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And it was clear in the optics of many of the witnesses, who dressed as if girding themselves for the thinly disguised war that their testimony would likely spur.
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It also can go a long way toward mentally girding yourself for the emotional upheaval that some caregivers experience when they find themselves in a parent-child role reversal.
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The next big battle in decarbonizing electricity is finding zero-carbon substitutes for natural gas — maybe utilities are farther along in girding for that battle than I had thought.
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Donald Trump apologized early Saturday for lewd and sexually aggressive remarks he made a decade ago -- and then made it clear he is girding himself for a nasty political battle.
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In preparing the market for a summer interest rate hike, the Federal Reserve is actually girding itself for an economic downturn, Forester Value Fund Portfolio Manager Tom Forester, said Wednesday.
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Right now, Cleveland is girding itself for the Republican National Convention—an event that is likely to attract the same white supremacist groups that have been vocal supporters of Trump.
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Family planning groups are girding for a fight, but for the time being they're waiting to see how closely the Trump administration's finalized rules hew to their initial proposed rules.
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions sued California this week for not doing enough to find and punish unauthorized immigrants, and said on Wednesday he was girding for an epic battle.
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At the very least, they are girding for him to use his influence to block AT&T's proposed purchase of Time Warner, which Mr. Trump railed against during the campaign.
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Under-girding all of it this is that accident from Act I, the mobility it takes from a character, and the costs of trying to get some of it back.
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Public radio and television broadcasters are girding for battle after the Trump administration proposed a drastic cutback that they have long dreaded: the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Opinion Columnist On June 26, 1940, as Britain was girding for the onslaught of the Luftwaffe after the fall of France, Clementine Churchill wrote her husband, Winston, an admonishing note.
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It comes at a time when businesses are already girding for increased costs due to a wide-sweeping labor reform making its way through Congress, set to give unions more power.
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"I am just girding for the legal battle, and that could be a lot of fun — a face-off with Jeff Sessions," King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg told BuzzFeed News.
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It's only a year ago that the world's big iron ore miners were lamenting the passing of the Chinese-fueled "super-cycle" and girding themselves for a period of low pricing.
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Jim Hodges of South Carolina, who campaigned there on Thursday with Mr. Clinton, said the former president was girding for a hard-fought election if Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee.
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And here in North Carolina, residents were girding for a hard recovery in places like Hope Mills, where Marie Pelkey, 42, stared through the trees at her younger sister's waterlogged home.
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They were preparing for both a race war and a revolution: stockpiling weapons — many stolen from nearby military bases, others obtained on the largely unregulated firearms market — and girding for battle.
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Legal organizations, advocacy groups are girding for a fight Two nonprofit organizations have already committed to challenging this regulation in court, should the Trump administration publish this as its final rule.
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The events showed that Venezuela may be girding for a long war of attrition on the streets as the opposition calls for sustained civil disobedience against Mr. Maduro's accumulation of power.
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Along with a reinforced display, however, Samsung does appear to be girding itself for the possibility that consumers will find creative and new ways to mangle the display — accidentally and otherwise.
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But with a cooling economy at home and a looming leadership shake-up, the last thing President Xi Jinping wants is a trade war, though officials are girding for that possibility.
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At a time when many other states in the region are girding themselves against possible Russian adventurism, the German armed forces are desperately short of equipment, money and, above all, public support.
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In Europe, there has been more bellicose rhetoric from Italian politicians, many of whom appear to be girding for battle with European Union authorities after unveiling a bigger-than-expected budget deficit.
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The least comfortable task, though, will most likely be girding for personal attacks from Mr. Trump, who has shown an eagerness to resuscitate Clinton scandals — real and imagined — at virtually every opportunity.
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Why it matters: Institutions that have long cared for children, like the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, public school districts and hospitals, are girding for what could be a devastating financial blow.
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But now it is 2017, and as the Yankees packed their bags on Sunday in Pittsburgh and prepared to head to Boston, they seemed to be girding for a measuring-stick series.
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Their strategy, NBC has learned, is to convert delegates in the crucial 254 days between the end of the primaries and the convention — while girding for a floor fight in Cleveland if necessary.
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The addition of Ted Olson, who was President George W. Bush's Supreme Court lawyer for three years, indicates Brady and his team may be girding for a battle at the nation's highest court.
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Girding for a general election that must be held by May, members of Modi's cabinet seized on data from a private recruitment agency to present a more rosy picture of the job market.
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Election Day 2018: 0 Days to Go As voters headed to the polls, Republican Party officials began Tuesday guardedly hopeful about keeping control of the Senate but girding for losses in the House.
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Beckham's departure seems a strong indication that the team is girding for a period of rebuilding and will no longer be chasing a playoff berth in 2019, or perhaps even beyond next season.
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When Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses by a commanding margin last month, a Washington lobbying firm sent out a memo to clients girding them for what a Sanders administration might look like.
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And one White House official who talked to the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza certainly seemed to be girding for conflict: "This is going to be high-stakes poker," the White House official said.
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Rather than scattering like rats leaving a sinking ship – as many Republican House members already have done by announcing they will not seek re-election – Republicans should be donning armor and girding for battle.
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Now imagine that this line is so long that it runs for more than 40,000 miles through the dark recesses of all the world's oceans, girding the globe like the seams of a baseball.
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Nor will it provide any solace to those L train riders who are already girding themselves for a possible multi-year shutdown of the Canarsie tube under the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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After making major leaps forward under the most assertively pro-gay rights administration in U.S. history, LGBT groups are girding for a far different experience in states where Republicans control the levers of government.
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As the marchers rally this weekend, they are girding for battles — and an increasing number of legal challenges — on a vast range of fronts: abortion rights, changes to Medicaid and Medicare, and environmental regulations.
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His exit comes as the White House is girding itself for a string of departures around the one-year mark of Trump's presidency, which is expected to leave key absences across the West Wing.
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Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, opponents are girding for battle over the determination of some Republicans to add funding for what are called "cost-sharing reduction" payments and "reinsurance" to the upcoming omnibus spending bill.
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And veteran fact-checker Snopes is girding itself for the fight with a crowdfunding effort it hopes will free it from a dependence on internet platforms for which the truth is a secondary consideration.
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While we're already girding ourselves to see how people will find ways to be outraged about those cups, too, our cold hearts were warmed to see that the unity cups are already achieving their goal.
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"The fact that Trump weakly hid from TV cameras while signing this new Muslim ban shows that the White House is girding for more protests like they've never seen before," Green said in a email.
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Silicon Valley is girding for another political battle with the liberal city at its core, San Francisco, in a contest that could turn that celebrated pinnacle of success in tech — the IPO — into a boogeyman.
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To be sure, faced with hegemonic Republican power at the federal level, our representatives in Washington need our support, but we may best have their backs by girding for real action at the state level.
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But the time together was fleeting and by August, Mendoza-Sanchez was in a car with her children on their way to the airport in Mexico City, girding herself to be separated from them again.
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Instead, the movie has substituted a half-baked revenge plot for their leader, Sam Chisolm (Washington), who goes about assembling the team and girding for battle against not just 40 bandits, but a veritable army.
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The government announced on Tuesday that Iraqi forces had recaptured all of Mosul east of the Tigris River that splits the city, and were girding for an onslaught on the jihadists on the western bank.
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Republicans have argued that Moore, who was accused of sexual impropriety by multiple women near the end of the campaign, was a unique candidate, but the loss has some Republicans girding for a difficult 22001.
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The news about the canceled legal appointments came as White House officials were girding themselves for an interview on Sunday evening on the CBS program "60 Minutes" with the porn star known as Stormy Daniels.
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Although Goldman has pledged its cooperation, the firm has also claimed that it is innocent of the Malaysian charges and may well be girding for a fight with the Justice Department to limit its liability.
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But whether Trump and his opponents would follow through was far from clear, with both sides entrenched in long-held positions and girding for 2020 elections, reluctant to give the other side a political victory.
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It is nearly 11 o'clock, the crowd of 4,600 already girding for the main event, and the repeated blows to his head will soon exact a toll from which this boxer, Magomed Abdusalamov, will never recover.
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The USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer, arrived on Friday in Otaru, Japan, one of five U.S. destroyers equipped with Aegis ballistic missile defense systems that are girding for the potential launch, according to several sources.
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Across the country, people are talking about expectations being either too high or too low; they're either selling the team short by not believing in the guys or they're not properly girding themselves against the inevitable.
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It was the latest in a series of moves by Trump to repeal Obama-era rules aimed at girding the United States against climate change, which Trump has described as a hoax by the Chinese government.
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Stephen K. Bannon is intent on remaking the G.O.P. along nationalist lines, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump seem eager for their paterfamilias to negotiate with Democrats, Peter Navarro is girding for a trade war with China.
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Democrats appear to be girding for battle, but if, as is likely, Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama, becomes the attorney general, it does not appear to be a fight that the minority can win.
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The sobering inference from the ascendant quality trade is that it's consistent with a market girding for tougher times, While not predictive in itself, this pattern is one seen in the run-up to a bear market.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many U.S. government agencies are girding for possible steep cuts in their annual budgets, the top U.S. derivatives regulator on Monday signaled he was optimistic about the possibility of keeping his agency's budget flat.
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Emboldened by their midterm successes and enraged by the handling of elections in Florida and Georgia, Democrats are now girding for what many on the left view as an existential fight over voting rights across the country.
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Mr. Mnuchin is girding for what will probably to be a long and intense battle with Congress as House Democrats, using a provision of the tax code, have formally requested six years of Mr. Trump's tax returns.
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Now many of those companies and their workers are girding for expected changes to immigration policy under President Trump that the companies say could hurt their ability to tap the technical talent they need to stay competitive.
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The projects have been aimed at removing toxic waste, restoring wildlife habitats and girding against invasive species such as the Asian Carp in the vast freshwater bodies, which hold one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.
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The group, whose lightning advance through swathes of the two countries and declaration that it had established a new caliphate stunned world leaders in 2014, is now girding for an offensive against Iraq's Mosul, its most prized possession.
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It was this opening salvo in Trumpian zero-sum politics, of the world's most powerful man girding for a roiling two years more in office, that was captured on the front page of the Times here in London.
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The site's expansion of political coverage comes at a time when other news outlets in Washington are concerned about staying relevant with readers — and girding for tensions with a president-elect who denounces reporters as dishonest, or worse.
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HOUSTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. energy, agricultural and chemicals companies are girding for a summer standoff over trade as a midnight deadline approaches for Washington to impose the next round of tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods.
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The move is more evidence that lawmakers in the nation's most populous state, where Democrats hold two-thirds majorities in both houses of the legislature, are girding for possible court battles after Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
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But delays are the name of the game in ambitious space-based businesses, and OneWeb hasn't been just procrastinating — it has been girding itself for mass production, raising funds to set up launch contracts and improving the satellites themselves.
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Comments last week from Fed officials suggested the stock market's steady rise, still low long-term bond yields and a sagging dollar are girding the Fed's intent to raise interest rates again this year despite concerns about weak inflation.
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In Saxony-Anhalt, a poll published this week showed the AfD overtaking the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's coalition partner in Berlin, for the first time, a humiliation for a party that is girding for big losses on March 13.
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A loss that is reverberating globally and reminding the world of what sustained attention can create: a revisiting of norms, a redoubling of effort and a girding of determination to do better and do more to protect the vulnerable.
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In the way an Impressionist painting reveals its brushstrokes and modern architecture its girding, erasure reveals the selection process behind all language and all storytelling, and it tends to pop up when people are wary of what's being chosen for them.
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After years of subpar returns, industry members are girding for a rough go of it in 2016, with the possible exodus of investor cash and a re-examination of the traditional 2-and-20 fee structure paramount among the changes.
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According to interviews with over half a dozen current and former White House aides and campaign officials, they are girding for the possibility of a political landscape — and, possibly, a West Wing — that could look very different after Election Day.
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As I began processing the trauma of a natural disaster and girding to unpack and settle into our new apartment, in an unfamiliar neighborhood, removed from what little regularity I had achieved — all I wanted, I must confess, was my mother.
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Since legalizing sports betting in California will require amending the state's Constitution, lawmakers, lobbyists and tribal leaders are now girding for a drawn-out, perhaps yearslong fight before anyone in the state makes a legal bet on a sporting event.
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He added David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle to his gold-plated bullpen, acquired starters Sonny Gray and Jaime Garcia to bolster the rotation and gave the Yankees the look of a team that was girding for a deep run into October.
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While the climate wars that flared up during the George W. Bush administration subsided under President Barack Obama, scientists are girding for battle again, now that President-elect Trump appointed climate deniers to lead each of the environment-related cabinet agencies.
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Or maybe I could do what the young people do — some kind of cosplay that lets me suit up as a Viking, or a "Star Wars" storm trooper, or even the rampaging DC Comics character Harley Quinn, girding my loins for economic battle.
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Advocates and opponents of new penalties on imported solar panels are girding for the next phase of the battle now that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that imports are a substantial cause of harm to the domestic manufacturing sector.
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Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz is girding for an admittedly long, narrow path to clinching the GOP nomination before the GOP convention in July, a tightrope walk that has no margin for error if he is to dethrone Donald Trump at the ballot box.
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The patent decision underscores how individual companies have been dragged into Brazil's volatile presidential campaign, with right-wing front-runner Jair Bolsonaro criticizing certain investments by Chinese firms, and investors girding for more intervention in state-controlled companies should a leftist win.
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Donald J. Trump, girding for a long battle over presidential delegates and a potential floor fight at the Cleveland convention, has enlisted the veteran Republican strategist Paul J. Manafort to lead his delegate-corralling efforts, according to people briefed on Mr. Trump's plans.
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The UAW had in fact been doing this since the beginning of the year, saber-rattling and girding for a strike; by some measure, even if GM hadn't given away the farm with its offer, the membership still would have had to walk.
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Now he is girding for battle with a newly empowered Democratic opposition — one armed with subpoena power and a long list of questions about his conduct in office and ties to Russia — and it has brought out a fresh aggressiveness in him.
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Meanwhile, "curveonoiacs" who just can't give up their obsession, could make themselves feel better by girding their portfolios against recession with floating rate funds, bank stocks, dividend stocks and equity real estate investment trusts invested in warehouses, apartments and low-priced hotels.
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TSA agents aren't getting paid and are calling in sickFrom Time:With screeners already calling in sick in larger-than-normal numbers, U.S. airports are girding for disruptions next week if the partial government shutdown continues and Transportation Security Administration officers miss their first paycheck.
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After fans on Kickstarter met the $500,000 goal for upgrades, Megabots started girding their mechanical loins, testing five weapons against a mock KURATOS, their Suidobashi robot opponent: a 12-foot-high, 9000-pound bot that could hold a starring role in Pacific Rim 2.
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Pro-Brexit forces are also girding for the possible impact of a planned march in central London in support of holding a second referendum that would give British voters the option of remaining in the EU despite the 2016 vote in favor of leaving.
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In a sign that the White House is girding for a battle with the ousted FBI chief, White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway hammered Comey in an appearance on "The Today Show" for having to amend his remarks the last time he testified before Congress.
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General Motors, girding for a possible downturn, shut down its plant in Lordstown, Ohio, in March, one of four factories in the United States that it plans to mothball by the end of this year, eliminating more than 10,000 factory and white-collar jobs.
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In the early 20103s, the American evolutionary biologists Russell Lande and Mark Kirkpatrick gave Fisher's theory a formal mathematical girding, demonstrating quantitatively that runaway sexual selection could happen in nature and that the ornaments involved could be completely arbitrary, conveying no useful information whatsoever.
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You may still be sketching out a plan for tomorrow's festivities, or picking up some plonk to bring to your mother-in-law's place, or girding yourself to face the vicious, unyielding traffic that lies between your home and wherever it is you're going.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump hired on Wednesday a Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, a sign that the White House sees no immediate end to its legal problems and is girding for a combative relationship with a new Congress after the midterm elections.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping's rule in China has been marked by a muscular stance in many areas – from corruption to foreign policy - but investors and business leaders hoping that the nation's most powerful leader in decades will drive market reforms are girding for disappointment.
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But the appointment shakes up a Democratic political world that had already been girding for fundamental changes as its three most senior elected officials, all of whom are over 70 — Mr. Brown, Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein — prepare to exit from the scene.
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For "Thrones" producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, that took the form of "Confederate," which has prompted a backlash based strictly on its premise: An alternate history in which the South seceded, slavery lingered into modern times and the country is girding for a third Civil War.
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Girding for a general election due by August, Najib was given a taste of the discontent rife in the countryside when hundreds of farmers flocked to Kuala Lumpur last month to protest a pending EU move to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuel.
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Their presence loomed over Season 1, but now it seems likely they'll take front and center — I'm girding myself for double-agent and triple-agent secret infiltration stories that are rarely as interesting as two characters just telling the truth and seeing where that takes them.
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Nancy Pelosi is girding for a mortal challenge to her leadership of the Democratic Party after the November elections or even sooner, and in a signal of reassurance to anxious lawmakers says that she is deliberately building a "bridge" to a new generation of party leaders.
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Critic's Notebook In Sunday's season premiere of HBO's "Veep," Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is locked in a cliffhanger electoral-college tie, girding for a recount in Nevada and facing the possibility that Congress may give the presidency to her running mate and frenemy, Tom James (Hugh Laurie).
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Now, as the battle against the coronavirus leads to unemployment and economic uncertainty, our cover story looks closely at FIRE, whose followers were often directly affected by the financial crisis of 2008 and who by and large believe they're girding themselves for the economic realities of the future.
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The steel girding that built the Plaza, 10,000 tons of it, was hammered by the rough, tough rivet gangs, "cowboys of the sky," who in 1906 exploded with resentment and beat a hated supervisor to death as he stepped shakily out onto the scaffolding on the eighth floor.
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But Ms. Warren's campaign has also indicated that it aims to look toward Super Tuesday even before the Nevada contest is over, and both Ms. Warren and her advisers have repeatedly signaled that they are girding for a monthslong campaign of collecting delegates and a possible convention fight.
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The possibility of a second Supreme Court vacancy in the near future is subtly affecting the strategy of the Republican Trump team in the final stages of selecting a candidate and of Democratic opponents girding for what could be years of political turmoil surrounding the composition of America's highest court.
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This border is a psychological one because, from the highway, you don't see the built-up cities that flank the girding roadways, the hidden malls behind the trees, the small towns once brightly lit and jumping with music and people and commerce but, in the 1940s, bypassed by the interstate.
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Still, the repeated girding for violence that has become a feature of Paris life since last fall — the boarding-up of store windows, the streets emptied of citizens, the heavy police presence — underscores the persistent social and economic tensions in the country, which the government's efforts have failed to quell.
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LOS ANGELES — Girding for four years of potential battles with President-elect Donald J. Trump, Democratic leaders of the California Legislature announced Wednesday that they had hired Eric H. Holder Jr., who was attorney general under President Obama, to represent them in any legal fights against the new Republican White House.
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Bangladesh, which saw at least 1,200 die and more than 41 million people affected by monsoon rains and flooding in 2017, is girding for a battle against climate change, Ricardo Safra de Campos, a Research Fellow at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter, told CNN.
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Alarmed by Donald J. Trump's victories in seven states on Super Tuesday, Republicans desperate to sink his presidential bid moved on Wednesday to battle him on two fronts, attacking him with millions of dollars in television ads in Florida while girding for what would be the party's first contested convention in 40 years.
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Nightcap: The latest news and political buzz from CNN Politics | Sign up Clinton is preparing to spend far more in New York than she originally budgeted, according to people close to the campaign, a fact that underscores how the campaign is girding for a fight and knows it needs to spend money to win.
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Labor leaders have been girding for Trump to appoint pro-business regulators at the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board, and to roll back key regulatory initiatives of the Obama administration such as the Labor Department rule granting overtime pay to more than 4 million salaried workers, both unionized and not unionized.
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As millions of citizens in the US shelter in place while girding themselves for the double whammy of an accelerating outbreak and a vicious economic recession, it is natural enough to look at Taiwan's example and wonder why we didn't do what they did, or, more pertinently, could we have done what they did?
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And so it was that Josh Malmuth, the creator of the new sitcom "Abby's," stared at the sky one night last fall as his production ground to a halt, girding himself for another shoot to be interrupted every 15 minutes or so by an assistant producer with word of a plane, or a helicopter, or perhaps a drone.
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This closely watched race in the suburbs north of Atlanta has been widely billed as a referendum on Donald J. Trump's presidency, and local residents are girding themselves for a new bombardment of money and messaging as the two major parties fight for the chance to brand the Republican president as either damaged goods or a wily survivor.
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While lawmakers and President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE were previously girding for a shutdown fight over funding for his proposed border wall, Bush's death diminished the appetite for a showdown this week.
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Faced with the demoralizing prospect of a third consecutive loss in a presidential race, conservative Republicans are girding for an extended clash on two fronts in the months ahead: one with a Hillary Clinton administration that could look like a reprise of the partisan battles of the 1990s, and another with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill who rejected Donald J. Trump.
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With the monthslong budget impasse appearing to be on the cusp of a resolution, lawmakers were girding for a fight over the fate of young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children, known as Dreamers, as well as Mr. Trump's plan to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico and other possible immigration policy changes.
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But the fervor and pitch of the opposition basically reflected the present Democratic Party at its worst: unstinting in defense of bureaucracy and its employees, more excited about causes dear to the upper middle class than the interests of the poor, and always girding for the battle with the Real Enemy, religious conservatives, no matter what the moment actually demands.
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Is it possible that you've accumulated so much scar tissue, back and forth with political opponents that has you girding for it all the time that makes it difficult for you to lead effectively, interact effectively with people on the other side there's a mask up and you can't – HILLARY CLINTON: Well, all I can tell you is that there's no evidence of that in my public career.
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There he will meet with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia to commemorate the 275th anniversary of a naval battle the countries fought alongside one another during World War II. And the city, where protests against Trump policies have erupted in parks, airports, schools, churches, synagogues, mosques, museums, restaurants and streets, to name just a few locations, is girding for what, in the inflamed atmosphere, may be a battle of its own.
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As Republicans prepare to dismantle Obamacare, the longtime House Democratic leader is facing her biggest fight in years, perhaps the biggest since she twisted dozens of Democratic arms to pass the bill in the first place seven years ago And this time, she's girding for battle without the key allies — Harry Reid and Barack Obama — who helped her muscle through the law that ultimately cost her the speakership and catapulted Democrats into the minority.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE's (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, a sign that Trump's allies may be girding for battle against Republican incumbents they view as insufficiently loyal to the president.
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Officials there are girding for the inspector general's office to drop a detailed report that's been in the works since January and will address the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe, including then-FBI Director James Comey's controversial move to announce less than two weeks before the presidential election the discovery of additional emails potentially relevant to the investigation of Clinton, and whether FBI Deputy Director McCabe should have been recused from the case for alleged ethical conflicts surrounding his wife.
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