Arbitration clauses and complex contracts are used to hobble competitors.
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From there, the company is working to hobble the treaty.
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Climate change is a Chinese hoax to hobble US manufacturing.
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Many times, we push ourselves to hobble through the pain.
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Critics say Trump's budget will hobble responses to terrorist attacks.
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All Thurman could do was hobble back to his corner.
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Isn't that a recipe that could hobble Republicans in November?
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El Niño events typically hobble hurricane development in the Atlantic.
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The campaign to hobble the PML-N has three main prongs.
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We saw him get back up, hobble his way back up.
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The thought that Republicans would hobble it even more is horrifying.
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Real estate executives complained that the requirement would hobble new construction.
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We shouldn't allow fear-mongering to hobble America's free enterprise system.
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That obsession did much to hobble recovery from the financial crisis.
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Slowing the installation of solar will hobble one of their competitors.
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Instead, it would hobble along with higher prices and less competition.
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AFSCME, a case whose likely outcome will hobble public-sector unions.
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Another way to hobble Pheu Thai would be to suborn its membership.
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It therefore has none of the "pumping losses" that hobble petrol engines.
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Who will we see hobble home Monday night, tail between his legs?
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Republicans haven't been satisfied simply to hobble the court's ability to function.
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Hell Gaethje will even hobble opponents with low kicks from the clinch.
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A heavy debt load could hobble Verizon's ability to quickly change lanes.
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The institution is poised to hobble unions far beyond our Cambridge campus.
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It was the sort of success that can hobble a literary reputation.
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Corporate tax cuts that lead to huge deficits could hobble the economy.
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The Gen X'ers, meanwhile, hobble themselves with their need to be in control.
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Conservation groups slammed the proposal as an attempt to hobble species protection efforts.
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On good days I could still climb, so I'd hobble to nearby crags.
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The fight is hurting Bitcoin's public image and could hobble its future development.
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Businesses complain that slow speeds hobble their effectiveness and add to their costs.
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Would Clipper Chip technology, moving at government speed, hobble the fast-moving tech world?
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But one proposed change related to this effort threatens to hobble ad blocking extensions.
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This means that unwieldy intra-coalition politics will hobble the Merkel's ability to act.
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Once energetic seniors, Don and I now hobble around on canes, a geriatric duo.
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It is possible that Biden's disinterest in fundraising won't hobble him this time out.
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The patchy efforts undermine the agreement and hobble direct connections within Africa, say analysts.
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Characters often wear gas masks, hobble on crutches, and have bandages on their heads.
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The older trains hobble along at what can seem little more than jogging speed.
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After about half an hour, I can finally sit up, dress, and hobble home.
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Legal experts have said the president's attacks on CNN could hobble his administration's case.
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The fresh hits to his credibility can only further hobble the White House's economic agenda.
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Companies could hobble competitors that sought to use public information about their products or pricing.
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This explains why wealthy donors and businesses are so eager to hobble the labor movement.
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He dismisses the idea that his firm would try to hobble or exploit a rival.
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The senator was counting on momentum from Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada to hobble Mrs.
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They include inadequate infrastructure, poor-quality schooling, badly designed taxes and regulations that hobble business.
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It remains to be seen whether Trump's policy declarations will hobble his White House ambitions.
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Net neutrality advocates worry broadband providers could use zero rating to hobble competitors and startups.
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The government's top-down approach, closed-mouth bureaucracy and hoarding of information can hobble research.
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Wasn't I perpetuating misery by passing these along to hobble my sisters-in-arms/-feet?
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As it sits, the Supreme Court may hobble Democratic causes from climate change to abortion.
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So I actually think that being committed to a clear, long-term plan can hobble you.
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We need a president who understands how government can hobble innovation, destroy opportunity and restrain growth.
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The summary also hints that authorities will continue to hobble groups deemed to endanger "societal orderliness".
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EPA must be held accountable for its decisions to hobble IRIS and suppress the formaldehyde study.
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Hobble down to your local mediocre supermarket and grab a shrimp cocktail, sauce packet and all.
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Camels hobble around on three legs, with the fourth tied up to prevent them running away.
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Murray said the greens' filing was motivated by their longtime goal to hobble the coal industry.
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He also promised that the F.B.I. would resist attempts to influence or hobble its Russia investigation.
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Beyond his disdain for expertise, Trump has strong personal motivation to hobble the government he heads.
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Some animals escape, minus a limb, and hobble along with the help of their social group.
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During arrest, Maldonado attempted his first escape, and was placed in hobble restraints as a precaution.
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Three men recovering from battle wounds hobble into cage, followed by a woman carrying two children.
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This means that an ever-strengthening dollar will hobble American exporters while fueling an American consumption binge.
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Businesses often complain that high commercial lending rates, often around 18 percent or more, hobble corporate investment.
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Mr Trump might not hobble the armed forces' efforts to deal with the consequences of climate change.
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America can hobble Chinese tech giants by stopping American firms from selling them components such as semiconductors.
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If the answer is no, it could hobble Clinton in key states -- particularly Florida and North Carolina.
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Why push a reform that might hobble the sort of digital economy European officials call the future?
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An accomplice helped her hobble to the getaway car, and then came back for the fallen packages.
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Two small steps can help restore U.S. employment to better-paying wages and hobble the trade cheaters.
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Yet stubbornly weak growth in the developing world will hobble emerging equity markets in time, they argue.
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"Two young maidens should help me into an old-style wooden chair," he added, pretending to hobble.
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The uncertainty threatens to hobble big changes at the group, including the restructuring advocated by activist investors.
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Answering "yes" to an employer's question about a criminal past can hobble one's chances of finding work.
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He sees plenty of opportunities to hobble his adversaries abroad and further cement his position at home.
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"He agreed and stuffed my story, equal pages in both boots, so he wouldn't hobble," he said.
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National laws and approaches will differ, they say, but they should not hobble the global data economy.
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Republicans counter that it would hobble U.S. businesses at the expense of the nation's economic well-being.
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By helping hobble our defense against the dark arts of Putin, McConnell has tainted Donald Trump's presidency.
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Meanwhile, Democratic National Committee members are considering shifts in convention rules tailored to hobble Mr. Sanders's chances.
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The move by Colombia may hobble efforts to reactivate peace talks between the government and the ELN.
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Hobble blindly toward the shower and wash my dirty-ass hair while trying to burn myself awake.
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He backed down but, as things stand, political gridlock fomented by Mr. Fico could hobble the court.
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We take a few selfies with our finisher medals (duh), and then over hobble to the medical tent.
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Businesses often complain that high commercial lending rates, which can reach 18 percent or more, hobble corporate investment.
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And it is unlikely that even Mrs May, who detests mass immigration, could do much to hobble it.
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But unlike with previous drops, the newly emerging drive to regulate the cryptocurrency market could hobble a recovery.
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He says he's not convinced that slowing trade and global growth will significantly hobble the U.S. economy (Bloomberg).
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As the Hoyas hobble into the postseason, Villanova is hoping to reverse its fortunes in the NCAA Tournament.
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And the president is months away from congressional elections that could hobble the second half of his presidency.
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Lack of funding and technical expertise, poor governance, and corruption often hobble big infrastructure projects in developing countries.
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The silencer measure, which sponsors, with straight faces, are calling the Hearing Protection Act, would hobble that defense.
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He warned the panel continues to set a "broader precedent" of noncompliance that could hobble future congressional investigations.
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The games left him so sore that he would hobble around his office for days afterward, Beck said.
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Letting dirt and bird droppings accumulate on a Solar Glass Roof is likely to hobble its energy output.
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He warned the panel continues to set a "broader precedent" of noncompliance that could hobble future congressional investigations.
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Though the rationale behind some looks, especially the hobble skirts, was too much of a mystery to understand.
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And just this month MoviePass reportedly changed user passwords to hobble access for customers who use the service extensively.
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Republicans only pretended to care about debt as an excuse to hobble President Barack Obama and slash social programs.
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Somehow, I threw out my back between last night and this morning, so I hobble around a little bit.
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And a system without rules could be abused to hobble other Chinese firms engaged in legitimate activity (see article).
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You have to sort of hobble your way up or down, awkwardly maneuvering the tank and juggling the hose.
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Planned changes to e-commerce rules could hobble foreign firms operating in the country, such as Amazon and Walmart.
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If so, Trump faces the same in-house splits on North Korea that hobble his trade talks with China.
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The prime minister may reap the rewards of an unexpectedly strong economy, even as he promises to hobble it.
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But, Segal added, it will be impossible for Trump to hobble existing US investigations, even if he wants to.
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Chiefs of staff to previous presidents have said that uncertainty can only hobble Mr. Kelly's ability to operate effectively.
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That's one reason anti-union billionaires and foundations underwrote the Janus litigation: to hobble the strongest part of labor.
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Yes, the prime minister's deal is pitiful, an awkward compromise that will hobble Britain's economy and diminish our power.
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However, Soviet-style inefficiency in other sectors and high debt burdens on industry continue to hobble the country economically.
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Mr. Trump has called the concept of climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to hobble American manufacturing.
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Massive cuts in foreign aid may hobble a Foreign Service already depleted by deep cuts during Tillerson's disastrous tenure.
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After being beaten and falling unconscious, Siddiqui said he managed to hobble out, before being taken to a hospital.
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Yet, as the countdown to the State Championship begins, we see how deprivation can hobble the most promising talent.
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That lack of a show of faith has angered many Democrats and threatens to hobble Ellison, who Sanders has endorsed.
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But for those of us who approach footwear decisions even somewhat pragmatically, fancy occasions mean toe-numbing, hobble-inducing shoes.
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Further strength in the dollar, which has gained nearly 22015 percent since the election, could hobble sales of U.S. multinationals.
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With a chance finally to hobble the Houthis, and stick it to their Iranian backers, he may not want peace.
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I managed to steer the car up the driveway, hobble with the walker inside, and collapse onto the blue couch.
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Grimm's insisting that he was a political prisoner and his candidacy could hobble Donovan, and not just in the primary.
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This fact continues to hobble how much Trump can achieve overseas, and the situation has only deteriorated during this trip.
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The reductions in staff will further hobble the US embassy, which is still recovering from flooding caused by Hurricane Irma.
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The Council has sought to hobble North Korea's nuclear weapons program before, but the country has repeatedly flouted those measures.
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Or it might hobble Bitcoin so much that it could lose its dominant position to one of Bitcoin's many competitors.
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That's a good foundation to start with when it comes time to take more serious steps to hobble net neutrality.
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In the late 1990s, officials in Shanghai tried to hobble an epic opera production he was bringing to New York.
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Chiefs of staff to previous presidents have said that uncertainty is likely to hobble Mr. Kelly's ability to operate effectively.
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Shadowy, underground lenders have flooded the country with a staggering $15 trillion in credit, which threatens to hobble its economy.
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Dust and bad lighting can hobble facial recognition on security cameras, which struggle to track large numbers of people simultaneously.
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A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration's efforts to hobble it.
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Businesses in the East African country have complained that high rates, which average 18 percent or more, hobble corporate investment.
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The Commerce Department is also considering new trade rules for emerging technologies that could hobble academic research and technological competition.
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But some argue that if Trump were to talk tough on trade with Mexico, that could still hobble the peso.
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Mr. Haggis had argued that the women's accounts were vague and would unfairly hobble his defense against Ms. Breest's accusations.
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I hobble to the kitchen to start the coffee and feed the kitty, but no brushes today because momma's no bueno.
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Now Waymo has an opportunity to hobble its would-be competitor in the courts before either company even reaches the market.
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What's changed is that investors are increasingly concerned that China's troubles presage global economic problems that could hobble America's plodding recovery.
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A saga that had threatened to hobble the still-young presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador became instead a crisis averted.
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Whole towns lie in ruins, many workers have fled, been killed or gone to fight, and international sanctions hobble external trade.
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Most important, it would have required the U.S. to hobble one of its greatest competitive weapons: its vibrant fossil fuel industries.
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This focus remains vital today, as competitors would gladly sidetrack antitrust enforcement to hobble rivals and give themselves a leg up.
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The lack of intrigue in the race is expected to hobble the effort to muster a record turnout for Mr. Putin.
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It is exactly such incongruities — breezy blandishments in the face of troubling evidence to the contrary — that hobble "The Kevin Show."
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the Jamal Khashoggi case as a chance to hobble Saudi Arabia, a regional and religious rival.
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American officials, concerned that it would hobble the fight against the Islamic State, have urged the Kurds to delay the vote.
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Republican lawmakers like Mr. Hensarling have been trying to hobble the bureau ever since its creation in 2012 under Dodd-Frank.
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Rapidly-rising U.S. national debt now stands at $23.1 trillion, a level that some experts fear could eventually hobble the economy.
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If Mr. Comey became the subject of those hearings, F.B.I. officials feared, it would hobble the agency and harm its reputation.
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But that could hobble Samsung's efforts to use the technology to catch up with rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, analysts say.
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Some Iowa Democrats describe a kind of enthusiasm gap, worried that Trump and Republicans will hobble Biden, 77, if he's the nominee.
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And the tighter we draw privacy rules, the more likely we are to hobble valuable services, now or down the road. 2.
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The risk they raised then is playing out — the plan could hobble the teams and lead to the exit of talented executives.
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I was forced to hobble to the nearest H&M (bad!) to buy a stand-in pair of shoes to wear home.
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Sanofi said it is unclear whether this will hobble the approval process for sarilumab, which Sanofi develops with U.S. biotech company Regeneron.
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His appointment should alleviate fears that Mr Rajan's exit was a ploy by Mr Modi to hobble a fiercely independent central bank.
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Ever since Trump's election, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Myron Ebell has been leading the charge to permanently hobble the Environmental Protection Agency.
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After the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, conservative lawyers scoured the statute for legal infirmities, hoping to hobble it in court.
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What mattered to him was how a failed vote would hobble his presidency and the ability to get other legislation through Congress.
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Now Mr. Percoco, the problem-solver, could hobble both the administration and the legacy of the man who was everything to him.
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The real reason the Trump administration wants to reduce the agency's budget is to hobble EPA's ability to enforce our environmental laws.
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In the short term, the purge has threatened to hobble a state already deeply divided and infected with widespread distrust and uncertainty.
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The disgraceful unabated leaks sympathetic to the anti-Trump collective continue to hobble the current White House's ability to get anything accomplished.
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But, officers say she was still so belligerent, they had to put a hobble on her to prevent her from kicking them.
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This could hobble Sanders in the crucial battleground state of Florida, with its large Cuban-American population and influx of Venezuelan emigres.
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Pruitt broke with Trump, who has said that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to hobble United States manufacturing.
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It smacks of politicking at its most dangerous -- staking peace and stability as the price in a power play to hobble May.
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The Socialist French government has been reluctant to take on labor unions and make changes to work rules that critics say hobble entrepreneurship.
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But make no mistake, if Amazon can hobble its competitors enough, it'll be happy to charge you for the service and run commercials.
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But panelist Dusan Stojanovic, founder and director at True Global Ventures, said regulation will not hobble the rise of fintech as some feared.
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Conservative critics in Washington, DC, now call it a piece of liberal Utopianism which would hobble America without reining in its main rivals.
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Asset freezes and travel bans target individuals close to the regime; prohibiting the sale of military supplies is meant to hobble the army.
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Three of Temer's ministers have already had to step down due to links to the scandal, which could hobble efforts to restore confidence.
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Three of Temer's ministers have already had to step down due to links to the scandal, which could hobble efforts to restore confidence.
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Opponents, such as then-Senate banking chairman Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, have tried to hobble it by not confirming nominees to its board.
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He went on to declare Julian Assange a "fraud" and suggested that the Agency would undertake invigorated measures to hobble the publishing group.
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Bad roads, grasping officials and tariff barriers still hobble trade between African countries, which is only 11% of total African exports and imports.
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At the 1992 Olympics, Derek Redmond tore his hamstring during a 400-meter heat, but decided to try to hobble to the finish.
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The tax increases in Africa's second-largest copper producer have been strongly criticized by mining firms, which say they will hobble the industry.
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And so, as the class ends and I finally hobble out, that's what I ultimately decide: My success was staying in the building.
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Mr. Neal voted against the original Nafta agreement, and his opposition to the deal could hobble efforts to sign it into law quickly.
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"To me that is the biggest risk in this, that you hobble American corporations so they cannot be globally competitive," Mr. Fratto said.
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Months later, Instagram released its own short-form video feature, which many saw as a further attempt by Facebook to hobble Vine's growth.
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Despite efforts by President Trump and congressional Republicans to hobble the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance marketplace it created is still standing.
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Democrats believe the Republicans abused the power of the majority to hobble the Obama administration, deeply damage Hillary Clinton and protect Mr. Trump.
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Still, the legislature has continued to hobble along through sheer force of will, struggling to maintain legislative procedure and respond to constituents' concerns.
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Huawei itself shows that even the long and mercurial arm of American law can do little to hobble the stars of Chinese technology.
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But Democrats, environmentalists and public health groups have opposed efforts to hobble ozone rules, because the pollutant contributes to health issues like asthma.
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Chic filed retaliatory lawsuits against American competitors, adopting many of the tactics that American companies have used for years to hobble Chinese competitors.
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But where Mr. Armani went awry was in the many tight hobble skirts, which trapped the models' legs and prevented a free stride.
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These approaches can be helped by federal legislation that frees drugmakers from the mandatory discounting, restrictions and reporting requirements that hobble innovate payment schemes.
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The most striking thing about the turnabout is that Paul Ryan has reportedly opposed the move to hobble the ethics watchdog from the beginning.
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The leftover explosives will hamper economic recovery, slow the return of refugees and hobble efforts to rebuild the nation long after the shooting stops.
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Societe Generale first-quarter profit fell 26% over the first three months of the year, as challenging market conditions continued to hobble Europe's banks.
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Though those will no doubt help stymie imports, it is just as likely that trade measures imposed by other governments will hobble India's exports.
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MAR'IB, Yemen – Outside a quiet, rundown building on the edge of the city, a few young boys hobble quietly in the hot afternoon sun.
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Our committee is focused on addressing the unique credit, operational and regulatory hurdles that can hobble even the most courageous, innovative and hardworking entrepreneurs.
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Even if Manning does come back to hobble through another year or two, he likely stamped our lasting memory of him on Sunday night.
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Rauner's office said Mendoza's suspension of payments to information technology contractors would hobble the state's computer modernization, known as the Enterprise Resource Program (ERP).
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Ms. Teachout could focus attention on the ways big business, big agriculture and big monopolies distort the economy and hobble those trying to survive.
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Eliminating "outdated regulations that unnecessarily hobble local broadcast stations will benefit consumers in communities across the country," said the National Association of Broadcasters Friday.
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President Obama's Fiscal Year 28503 budget proposal to limit the tax exemption for municipal bond interest would hobble state and local infrastructure projects nationwide.
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When combined, these two-monumental decisions could hobble the competitiveness of renewable energy and undermine one of America's most important drivers for economic growth.
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One of the most powerful methods to hobble Mr. Obama's domestic environmental initiatives would be to block financing for the E.P.A. and other agencies.
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Now she could only hobble around with crutches or on good days with just a cane, barely able to get out of a chair.
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TOKYO — The United Nations detailed on Friday how North Korea gets around international sanctions designed to hobble the government and its nuclear weapons program.
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And if those inquiries turn out badly for him, Mr. Zinke still faces the threat of criminal penalties that could hobble his political future.
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The suspension could hobble Huawei's smartphone business outside China as the tech giant will immediately lose access to updates to Google's Android operating system.
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At the same time, creating a realistic P.R. issue for a company to navigate — or, in our case, hobble through — is its own challenge.
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Senate Republicans think they've found a powerful way to hobble President Obama's participation in international climate diplomacy through the decades old Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Not to mention the hobble skirt (after having freed women from their corsets on top, he shackled them below) and his wild theme parties.
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His service motion resembles heavy lifting, and long before his hip problems became career threatening, his walk between points looked closer to a hobble.
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" The statement said that Cain "began to violently kick the interior of the patrol car and had to be restrained by a leg hobble.
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The shutdown also threatens to hobble the compilation of key data and reports ahead of the USDA's hotly anticipated annual outlook conference in February.
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Lithuanian Railways was fined €28m for removing a section of track on a cross-border link with Latvia in order to hobble a rival operator.
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For Japan, the likely consequences would be an unwanted, sustained strengthening in the yen that would hurt exports and further hobble a stubbornly sluggish economy.
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They hoped these arrangements would be sufficient to hobble any factions which sought to co-ordinate their actions across various levels and branches of government.
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The opposition bears no blame for the dirty tricks which, over several shameful decades, the government has used to hobble Mr Anwar and many others.
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As the countermeasures advance, regulators need to remember that their job is to hobble the bad guys without undermining the many beneficial uses of drones.
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Activists say corrupt judges, prosecutors and police, in cahoots with lawmakers and businesses, are trying to hobble Ukrainian reforms to preserve a profitable status quo.
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But failure to secure control of the board could hobble Starboard's attempt to force Yahoo to focus on selling its core Internet and advertising business.
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Maria was the most intense such storm to hit the island in at least 80 years, but a weaker storm could still hobble the grid.
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Why it matters: This could hobble a popular new mode of hyper-local transportation, as most U.S. e-scooter companies use vehicles manufactured in China.
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The dogs didn't hobble along with the sagged, twitchy gaits I'd come to expect from Latin American strays, and they showed no fear of humans.
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Sadly, the DRC is not the only place where persistent and brutal conflicts hobble campaigns to fight epidemics, eliminate disease and deliver basic health care.
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Mining companies in Colombia have long complained that legal uncertainty and changeable judicial decisions, as well as protests and attacks by leftist rebels, hobble projects.
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Much of the time, however, the Postal Service makes a valiant effort to be adaptive and solvent, only to watch the government hobble its efforts.
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Numerous factors have fueled this decline, including factory closings, outsourcing and automation, but corporate America's decades-long effort to hobble unions is arguably the biggest factor.
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But let me tell you, the problem with holding the opposite argument is, you can literally hobble the president and his exercise of his core functions.
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Russia's interest in this presidential election is obvious, but what's less clear is why Russia would want to hobble the Democrats and, potentially, prop up Trump.
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He says he is fighting a U.S.-led right-wing conspiracy determined to end socialism in Latin America, hobble Venezuela's economy, and steal its oil wealth.
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The government also worries that the change would hobble Swiss banks, including multinational giants such as UBS and Credit Suisse, which would face mammoth restructuring costs.
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I know the pain that comes with emotional investment, and it does not hobble me, or at least I try my best not to let it.
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Pentagon officials want to be sure China is not able to hobble America's military by cutting off supplies of materials or by sabotaging technology it exports.
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And here Republicans may have forgotten just how badly corruption can hobble an administration and harm a party that is failing to deliver for most people.
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But the legislation before Congress will hobble the rules to prevent lenders or brokers from "steering" trusting homeowners into more expensive mortgages, especially for manufactured homes.
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The administration argued that the acquisition would harm Qualcomm's research and development model and hobble the U.S. company that was leading the world in 5G development.
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That can hobble the ability of foreign companies to do business in China, whether through blocked websites or workplaces that cannot reach Gmail, Google's email service.
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The Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity initiative (AFP) poured millions of dollars into the region to pass legislation that would hobble unions and freeze minimum wages.
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Economists, Wall Street analysts, and even the White House's own experts are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the economy, which Trump is doing his best to hobble.
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They also said cuts to the SEC would hobble the agency in carrying out its duties and implementing the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
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To Trump, the world community is driven, at least in part, by a desire to draw the US into deals like Paris to hobble us economically.
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But the State Department and USAID were unable to deliver because of a lack of money and staff, which has continued to hobble efforts in Afghanistan.
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In doing so, we can win control over criminal justice systems that have for so long been used to attack our freedoms and hobble our communities.
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Democrats fear that a new deputy attorney general could hobble the investigation without ending it, a move that could create havoc ahead of the midterm elections.
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Chris Christie Mr. Kushner, the president's son-in-law and palace gatekeeper, has shown a capacity to hobble his rivals, but few have been finished off.
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An outbreak suspected of killing 43 people is spreading across the lush farmlands of eastern Congo, where ethnic and military conflicts threaten to hobble containment efforts.
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The goose, whose left leg was tightly wound in fishing line, walked with a pronounced hobble; as it swam, the leg dragged listlessly in the water.
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Step back, however, and negotiations involving the French group's state shareholder and Japanese ally Nissan Motor expose the dysfunctional governance which would hobble a broader partnership.
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Administration officials, who felt that the governor was rushing the pick, told Bryant that Hyde-Smith's history as a Democrat could hobble her in the contest.
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And it would be divisive for the nation and a boon to our global competitors if Democrats choose to hobble our national agenda with superfluous, partisan impeachment.
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He was out of breath and sweating, with a pronounced hobble, the source says, adding that they later saw that same man in custody of the police.
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In the run-up to the vote, PH promised that, if it won, it would repeal or amend the laws that were being used to hobble it.
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If companies like AT&T and Verizon can hobble Apple's streams while boosting their own, it could be a real problem for Cupertino's video (and revenue) ambitions.
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The rules are likely to hobble Amazon and Walmart in the short term — a serious blow in a country that both firms targeted for key international growth.
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She waited longer still before she got up and hobble-winced back to the car, with blood leaking from her head, face, and who knows where else.
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And yes, the table below does indeed confirm that developers can choose to hobble Switch performance when plugged into match the handheld profile should they so choose.
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Not because Brennin or Comey or Clapper were convinced that Russia was rigging the election but because they wanted to hobble a much bigger threat, Donald Trump.
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Maduro's government says it is fighting a U.S.-led right-wing conspiracy determined to end socialism in Latin America, hobble Venezuela's economy, and steal its oil wealth.
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Government officials say they are fighting a U.S.-led right-wing conspiracy determined to end socialism in Latin America, hobble Venezuela's economy, and steal its oil wealth.
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So after a 2014 coup against the remnants of Yingluck's government, which had been elected in 2011, the latest constitution goes even further to hobble elected politicians.
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Rejection would hobble European diplomacy and suggest that the EU is too fractured to maintain a common foreign policy in the face of Russian interference in Ukraine.
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Yet Ocasio-Cortez would rather hobble our fight against groups like al-Qaeda than pass up the opportunity to score political points with her far-left base.
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I'd expelled about a half-cup of rusty water before my sphincter snapped shut, and I could shuffle/hobble to the bathroom to finish what I'd sharted.
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HOUSTON/MEXICO CITY/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Venezuelan oil company PDVSA is looking to double exports to India as U.S. sanctions hobble deliveries to the United States and Europe.
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Kudos to Google for the quick response and willingness to hobble their device in order to avoid a PR calamity give its users complete peace of mind.
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In a later financing round, he refused to accept Alibaba's condition for portfolio companies to eschew Tencent investments, a strategy of the giant to hobble its archrival.
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Under this theory, Congress cannot hobble the president by encroaching too much on his powers in its effort to influence the bureaucracy where so much power resides.
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Y Combinator announced Tuesday that it was doing away with pitch presentations from its largest cohort to date as fears about coronavirus continue to hobble young startups.
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The fiscal plan envisages a swollen deficit via a mix of spending cuts, setting the scene for a showdown that could further hobble an already ailing economy.
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Frans Timmermans, the second-ranking official on the European Commission, warned Poland that the new court laws would hobble Poland's judiciary and threaten the rule of law.
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Op-Ed Contributor It is tempting for the United States to exploit its superiority in cyberwarfare to hobble the nuclear forces of North Korea or other opponents.
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Mr. Christie's relatively weak finish in New Hampshire may hobble his efforts there: It is unclear whether he will qualify for the debate in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday.
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Economic downturns, corruption convictions, and lawsuits between the city and developers seemed to hobble large-scale plans, which often razed buildings but put nothing up in their place.
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Cobalt's problematic supply chain, with too much coming from one country and too much coming from the "grey" artisanal sector, may yet hobble its longer-term usage profile.
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Lower taxes will draw their cash home, border charges will hobble their cross-border supply chains and the trade deals that help them do business will be rewritten.
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But since hitting the February lows, the market has managed to hobble back, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above 18,000 for the first time on Monday.
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A pattern is emerging in which Republicans in many states are seen trying to suppress votes, and then to hobble the powers of elected officials they don't like.
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Despite being the largest telecom equipment maker around the world, Huawei relies heavily on its American suppliers, giving the U.S. much leeway to hobble the Chinese firm's production.
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Those lawyers are now accusing the special litigation committee of bowing to Ellison and Catz and attempting to "hobble" the pursuit of a case that the committee greenlighted.
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Republican lawmakers are concerned that the turmoil in the White House, especially the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, will hobble the GOP's hefty agenda.
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Though sentiments like Morano's were common, I also met apprehensive attendees who worry that "swamp creatures" at the Environmental Protection Agency are undermining attempts to hobble the agency.
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On Wall Street, the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell for the third straight day and growth stocks were pressured by worries rising bond yields might ultimately hobble the economy.
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The more likely scenario, as political science professor Jeffrey Segal explained to FiveThirtyEight last year, is that the Supreme Court's five conservative justices hobble the ruling over time.
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McConnell is reluctantly admitting is that Obamacare is fixable, and that the law's ongoing challenges reflect policy choices that Republicans have made in an attempt to hobble it.
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Common Sense In a persistent (and thus far fruitless) effort to hobble giant American technology companies, the European Union has again taken aim at Alphabet's Google search engine.
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It is a fast flier with an unusual defense: When cornered, it vomits an oily green substance that can temporarily blind an attacking falcon or hobble its wings.
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Some Florida Republican leaders had expressed concern to the White House that Mr. DeSantis has taken votes, affecting popular programs like Medicare, that could hobble him in November.
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The fiscal plan envisages trimming a swollen deficit via a mix of spending cuts, setting the scene for a showdown that could further hobble an already ailing economy.
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As they watched him hobble past them into the building, one of the women, an actor named Katherine Kendall, gasped and drew back, a hand over her mouth.
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Some Republicans worry a misfire on the Republican healthcare legislation could hobble Trump's presidency and set the stage for losses for the party in the 210 congressional elections.
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On Monday, House Republicans voted to hobble the work of the Office of Congressional Ethics, or OCE, an independent oversight committee monitoring ethics violations in the House of Representatives.
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It's possible the court intrigue at Uber is nearing its conclusion—just as it's possible the board's obvious dysfunction could once again hobble a chance at a clean landing.
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The opposition, which controls parliament, wants to ditch deals made by Ms Park's conservative administration, and threatens to hobble the unpopular prime minister and acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn.
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The right norms, in other words, could raise a group's collective intelligence, whereas the wrong norms could hobble a team, even if, individually, all the members were exceptionally bright.
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The lingering effects of the dollar's rally and weak global demand probably continued to hobble exports in the second quarter, while imports poured in to meet robust domestic demand.
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And most importantly, the inability to live anonymously will have an enormous chilling effect on speech and behavior, which in turn will hobble society's ability to experiment and change.
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Some Republicans worry a misfire on Trump's first major legislative effort may hobble his presidency and set the stage for losses for the party in the 2018 congressional elections.
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They can promise to hobble Trump's agenda, knowing from experience—Republicans' rejectionism under Obama—that controlling just the House of Representatives is enough do serious damage to a president.
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The paradox of the forthcoming election is that the prime minister is likely to reap the rewards of an unexpectedly strong economy, even as he promises to hobble it. ■
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Worried that complete divestment might hobble a portfolio's performance, however, Ms. Mehta might reduce a portfolio's carbon footprint to, say, 80 percent of a benchmark like the S.&P.
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Such a battle would further hobble the State Department, which has already been weakened by a host of vacancies in top positions and at crucial embassies around the world.
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Together, they can reverse, halt, or hobble Obama's efficiency standards, his pollution standards, his moratorium on coal leasing, his CEA guidance on climate impacts, and his international climate commitments.
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A world tour of tax systems reveals other countries' efforts to redesign their systems and shows how the design of a tax system can enhance rather than hobble economies.
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It would reimpose far-reaching sanctions that could hobble Iran's energy industry, sever it from the international financial system and put a chill on foreign investment into the country.
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The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said Democrats were "manufacturing issues on a daily basis" to string out the confirmation process and to hobble Mr. Trump.
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This administration's international track record on agreements and treaties could hobble any such effort, as partners might wonder if Washington would be a reliable signatory to any multinational agreement.
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Erdoğan responded in a way that seemed calculated to hobble the Gülenists: he started closing down their schools—a crucial source of income—and working to restrain the police.
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Before now, Ms. Le Pen has mainly transcended the barriers that hobble many other Frenchwomen in politics, somehow managing to be both woman and genderless at the same time.
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Corporate restructuring in the troubled shipping and shipbuilding sectors would hobble job growth next year, while consumption was expected to slow due to uncertainties inside and outside the country.
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Demonstrators' anger is focused on a revised law that activists say will hobble Indonesia's anti-corruption agency, and plans to outlaw extramarital sex and penalize insulting the president's honor.
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Labour union ADEDY, which represents about half a million of civil servants, says the changes the administration is trying to usher through parliament would hobble the right to strike.
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And the show has made very clear that even if Bob's horrible behavior never manages to destroy him, his inability to curb his appetites will eventually hobble and kill him.
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Go deeper: A power shift in AI funding may hobble the U.S. A feud between academia and industry over top AI researchers Canadian AI summer school shows its global ambition
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Just being in the vicinity of these behemoths puts the birds in significant danger, and so they hobble past, trying desperately not to step on anything remotely crunchy or squeaky.
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But if you want to hobble the party's chances of winning this seat, or at least ensure the runoff is a vicious bloodbath, then by all means vote for Moser.
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This tightening, which may be accompanied by cuts in public spending, could seriously hobble a Mexican economy that is already struggling in the face of reduced industrial demand in America.
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In a rare show of unity, political parties on both sides of Thailand's divide have said the draft constitution is undemocratic and will enshrine military power and hobble civilian politics.
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Qatari officials have repeatedly said the demands are so draconian that they suspect the four countries never seriously intended to negotiate them, and were instead seeing to hobble Doha's sovereignty.
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Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Monday defended his crusade to financially hobble and eventually destroy Gawker Media, saying at the National Press Club that it was a unique case.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill have a long history of opposing paid family leave, framing it as another layer of federal red tape that would hobble businesses and ding the economy.
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Robert Reich isn't an adviser to Donald Trump, but his advice for the president on dealing with the four Russia scandals that continue to hobble his administration is quite simple.
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Qatari officials have repeatedly said the demands were so strict that they suspected the four countries never seriously intended to negotiate them, and were instead seeing to hobble Doha's sovereignty.
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He was the official primarily responsible for making sure the final deal with Iran was scientifically sound and would truly hobble the country's nuclear weapons program for the long term.
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Trump claims the United States is being taken advantage of by its trading partners, but economists warn that tariffs will hobble the economy, raising prices and destroying jobs for Americans.
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Given Turkey's dependence on foreign oil, higher energy prices — compounded by a weakening Turkish lira — could hobble Turkey's domestic market, eroding disposable income and causing further political headaches for Erdogan.
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Xiaomi's overseas momentum came amid a global slowdown in the smartphone sector and at a time its rival Huawei copes with a technology ban that threatens to hobble international sales.
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The proposal — if enacted — would fulfill a key campaign promise from Trump, who has complained about what he considers excessive federal regulation, and promised to hobble the nation's environmental regulators.
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Still, the courts' increased focus on the issue reflects the proliferation of extreme partisan gerrymanders — maps that do not merely hobble political opponents, but effectively doom them to permanent underrepresentation.
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Might art afford new things to know and new ways to feel about matters that are so dismaying and depressing that they hobble the brain and lock down the heart?
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Obamacare fix Contrary to the President's boasts, the Affordable Care Act -- minus some federal cost-sharing and the individual insurance mandate -- is poised to hobble on for the foreseeable future.
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That announcement sparked heated clashes in Parliament, a demonstration on the streets of the capital, Valletta, and claims that Mr Muscat intended to hobble the investigation before he left office.
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Oversight agencies will have to quickly catch up before a possible disaster creates a backlash that could hobble the industry before it takes off, warn top government and industry officials.
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Even if Mr. Trump doesn't disband the agency, he could simply hobble it by replacing its director, Richard Cordray, with someone who is content to let the market regulate itself.
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Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo questioned why a company already smaller than rivals Procter & Gamble and Unilever wanted to "descale itself", which could hobble its ability to compete in emerging markets.
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It may also hobble BRF's return to profit from its first-ever annual loss in 2016, caused by weak domestic demand and high prices for the corn it feeds to poultry.
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But the announcement triggered a major worry among tech companies and researchers that the new rules could hobble American research in strategically crucial areas like artificial intelligence, robotics and quantum computing.
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But nothing substantial has yet to target what some say has been a deliberate campaign to isolate and economically hobble the black community that dates back to the late 21911th century.
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Pérez said Paraguay would step up cooperation with Brazil's right-wing government, which is trying to hobble the gangs by hitting their finances and sending bosses to high-security federal prisons.
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Late last year, the group — which has raised more than $100 million— began telling donors and supporters it was willing to spend as much as $20 million to hobble Mr. Rubio.
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But that could hobble Samsung's efforts to use the technology to catch up with rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd in the booming business of building advanced chips for other companies.
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Apocalypse is hardly immune from the superhero limitations that hobble its peers—the movie is too long, and there are too many characters, as well as too many callbacks and cameos.
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As the British athlete attempted to hobble forward, clearly in excruciating pain, his dad, Jim, can be seen running down to join him on the track despite objections from security personnel.
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Had Scalia lived, he was a certain fifth vote to hobble public-sector unions, but instead the Court tied 4-4, restoring a lower court holding rejecting the First Amendment challenge.
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That growth has made India the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker and positioned it for further growth as trade tensions and rising costs hobble China's world-leading electronics manufacturing sector.
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LeBron in form as Cavs hobble Bucks MILWAUKEE — By his own admission, LeBron James still is not completely recovered from the left ankle injury that limited to just one preseason game.
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On Wall Street, the tech-heavy Nasdaq had fallen for the third straight day on Monday and growth stocks were pressured by worries rising bond yields might ultimately hobble the economy.
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Power shortages affecting hospitals, schools and businesses have prompted as many as 100,000 Puerto Ricans to flee for the mainland - a level of migration that could further hobble the local economy.
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It has become clear, though, that the goal of voter suppression laws shamelessly championed by Republicans is to hobble the young and minority voters, who tend to favor the Democratic Party.
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In an era of hotly contested races and razor thin margins, voter suppression tactics remain a primary tool used to disenfranchise minority voters, hobble vulnerable communities and obstruct fair election results.
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The conversation is turning to a larger discussion about whether OS updates with these patches will hobble our cherished performance, and the overall effect slower speeds will have on global business.
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He was still on his stomach when Officer Becky Doney—who later told investigators that he'd stopped fighting at that point, which video evidence confirms—placed him in a hobble restraint.
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Facebook employees regularly discussed how to make special exceptions to the company's policies on data-sharing in order to hobble its competitors like Youtube, Amazon, Twitter, and Pinterest, leaked documents show.
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They have successfully pressed for legislation, such as the cap on punitive damages in the hog farm nuisance cases, and devised contract provisions that hobble the effective functioning of our courts.
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The president's complaints about not being appreciated remind us that he takes everything personally and that his personal qualities of heartlessness and intellectual dishonesty will hobble his response to our suffering.
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We know it's painful, and continuing to hobble along through the bad times might seem comforting, but this month you need to muster the courage to sever ties and move on.
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Qatari officials have repeatedly said the demands are so draconian that they suspect the four countries never seriously intended to negotiate on them and were instead seeking to hobble Doha's sovereignty.
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And his legally binding 20-year national plan -- designed as a blueprint for the country's development after years of political crisis -- could hobble future governments' ability to enact policy, critics say.
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The government of President Nicolas Maduro says Venezuela is fighting a U.S.-led right-wing conspiracy determined to end socialism in Latin America, hobble Venezuela's economy, and steal its oil wealth.
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Hubbard, now dean of the business school at Columbia University, told Reuters he worried Trump's comments already hurt the country's image abroad and would hobble his ability to govern if elected.
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Reaching a budget cap deal is a high priority for defense hawks in Congress, who say short-term spending deals hobble the military, preventing them from being able to plan resources adequately.
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Beijing faces intensifying pressure from Western governments and business lobbies to remove investment barriers and other rules that hobble overseas firms from operating in the country, as well as intellectual property theft.
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The Defense Department is supporting the semiconductor industry's argument that further eliminating an important source of revenue on commercially available semiconductors will hobble the ability of U.S. companies to invest in research.
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The attack devastated communications infrastructure, knocked out access to banks and news broadcasts in Estonia, and was the first example of how a cyberattack could be use to hobble a country's citizens.
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The moves are in line with Trump's rhetoric during the presidential campaign, when he promised to hobble an agency he considered bloated, overreaching and a threat to jobs in the United States.
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Because Trump is so widely loathed among liberals and historically unpopular with the broader public, any attempt to impede or hobble him inevitably gets wide circulation in the progressive-oriented media ecosystem.
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The agreement itself now seemed in danger, as Trump had threatened on the campaign trail to "cancel" it (which he can't actually do, but could hobble it by withdrawing the U.S. commitment).
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They've since combined with a Petrobras corruption scandal, the company's $126 billion of debt, the world oil industry's largest, and a plunge in oil prices, to hobble a once-booming oil industry.
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There is strong opposition to an agreement in Germany and Austria, among other nations, where critics warn that a deal would hand more power to corporations and hobble health and environmental protections.
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Take Spicer's response in Friday's briefing as to whether or not Trump believes, as he tweeted in 2012, that climate change is a hoax created to aid China and hobble US manufacturing.
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Here are some of the key revelations from the document dump, including from reports published from earlier leaks:Facebook wielded its control over user data to hobble rivals like YouTube, Twitter, and Amazon.
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High-ranking Facebook employees strategized about how to use Facebook's vast control of user data in order to hobble specific companies it viewed as threats, according to internal messages that leaked Wednesday.
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Reaching a budget cap deal is a high priority for defense hawks in Congress, who say short-term spending deals hobble the military, preventing them from being able to adequately plan resources.
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Reaching a budget cap deal is a high priority for defense hawks in Congress, who say short-term spending deals hobble the military — preventing them from being able to adequately plan resources.
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Less money, less content Cuts to the BBC won't just take chunks out of its own output, it will hobble one of the biggest drivers of an important economic sector, experts warn.
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Last week separate data showed U.S. consumer spending slowed and capital goods orders fell in August as a year-long standoff over China's trade policy starts to hobble the world's largest economy.
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While using plastic can help simplify the booking process, financing the entirety of your trip could hobble your finances, particularly if it takes you a long time to zero out your balance.
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About one child in 800 worldwide is born with clubfoot, and in poor countries they are left to hobble on the sides of their feet; unable to work, they may become beggars.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat-owner Snap fell further on Tuesday as Wall Street fretted over potential regulatory scrutiny that could hobble the business of the social networks.
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It's also interesting that, according to Reuters' Julia Edwards Ainsley, the White House is considering trying to hobble Mueller — using a regulation barring Mueller from investigating anyone his former law firm had represented.
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Despite Trump resuming his pressure campaign on OPEC and Congress advancing legislation to hobble the producer group, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Thursday highlighted the interdependence of OPEC producers and U.S. drillers.
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The missteps, like a misplaced fingerprint sensor and the fact that Samsung has no response for the iPhone 7 Plus 2x optical zoom or cutting-edge Portrait Mode, do not hobble the device.
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She made her red carpet debut at the premiere of Big Mama's House in 2000 and instead of striking her fiercest pose, she had to hobble as best she could down the carpet.
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The "Stans" have also become arenas for geopolitical competition between Russia and the West; why, some may ask, should we hobble ourselves by bringing human rights into the balance when Russia certainly won't?
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By comparison, when Curry sustained his injury in Game 1 against the Rockets — on a simple plant so he could turn to run upcourt — it seemed nondescript except for the hobble that followed.
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Having grown up under Pyongyang's threats to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire," they worry that, even under the best of circumstances, reuniting with an impoverished dictatorship could hobble South Korea's economy.
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The new train system is nearly twice as fast and will have fewer breakdowns, especially since any problematic train car can be removed from the track and will not hobble the whole system.
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Iran agreed to certain measures meant to hobble its nuclear weapons program, while the United States and other major world powers, in return, agreed to slowly roll back sanctions on the Islamic nation.
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Lesnar has a hurting low kick and a good low shot for a man of his size, there's no reason that he couldn't make this work or hobble some opponents while trying. 5.
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But environmental groups said Williams was manufacturing a crisis to justify a project that would rip apart fragile ecosystems, handcuff New York to fossil fuels and hobble the state's march toward renewable resources.
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The insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act is still here, but Republican efforts to hobble the law have yielded new options, and some potential pitfalls, now that open enrollment has begun.
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Google's decision to cut off Android support to Huawei phones will hobble European mobile users and highlights how deeply the Continent relies on American and Chinese companies for gadgets, apps and internet services.
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Now Mr. Whitaker will oversee Mr. Mueller's investigation, prompting concerns that he could move swiftly to shut it down or hobble it, despite serious questions about his own potential conflicts in supervising it.
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Any decision to keep Guantánamo open or to expand it will cement the stain on America's human rights record and allow the broken military commissions system to continue to hobble along toward obscurity.
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Adriano EspaillatAdriano de Jesus Espaillat CabralTestimony from GOP diplomat complicates Trump defense Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Lawmakers mourn death of 'Julia' star Diahann Carroll MORE (D-N.Y.).
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In the first set of the Madrid Open final this month, Bob landed on his right foot after a serve — as he always does, as a left-hander — but suddenly began to hobble.
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Inspiring many followers, Poiret's seemingly revolutionary designs — primary hues, harem pants, hobble skirts and oriental-inspired turbans alongside Cossack-style coats trimmed in fur and folkloric embroideries — originated on the Ballets Russes' stage.
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While his hiring freeze, which is leaving many lower federal jobs unfilled, is part of a broader strategy to hobble or suffocate entire federal agencies, this seems less deliberate and harder to understand.
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During this period, the Federalist Society grew increasingly obsessed with limiting the power of federal agencies to create binding regulations — an agenda that could hobble government bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Operators warn that such a step would disrupt the supply of equipment, increase costs to them and their customers, delay the rollout of next-generation 5G services by years, and potentially hobble existing networks.
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The plan to ease ownership restrictions comes as Beijing faces mounting pressure from Western governments and business lobbies to remove investment barriers and onerous regulations that hobble foreign firms from operating in its markets.
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Expectations of a U.S. rate cut later this month also continued to hobble the dollar, while sparking debate over whether China's central bank will follow suit by lowering one of its key policy rates.
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Depending on how extensive that easing is, annual pickup demand in China could double or triple even if limited parking options hobble demand in the country's biggest cities like Shanghai, executives and analysts say.
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Mutharika, president since 2014, has been tipped to be re-elected, but regular allegations of corruption could hobble his campaign in the impoverished southern African nation where reports of government graft have become routine.
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At the same time, Fusion GPS took money from the Democratic Party to hobble Trump by gathering opposition research to make the case that he colluded with the Russian government to subvert US democracy.
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Operators warn that such a step would disrupt the supply of equipment, increase costs to them and their customers, delay the rollout of next-generation 5G services by years and potentially hobble existing networks.
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Government censors, apparently fearing social unrest, are trying to hobble the campaign, blocking the use of phrases like "anti-sexual harassment" on social media and deleting online petitions calling for greater protections for women.
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The United States, Baghdad and most countries in the region had condemned the vote, fearing it would fuel ethnic divisions, lead to the breakup of Iraq and hobble the fight against the Islamic State.
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PDVSA is looking to increase exports to places like India as U.S. sanctions, designed to cut off the flow of foreign currency to Maduro's government, hobble its deliveries to the United States and Europe.
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Germany has been slow to expand its fiber-optic network, causing its vital export industry to fret that it will lose competitiveness because slow internet speeds would hobble advances in computer-based "digital manufacturing".
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The United States' auto industry, including automakers like General Motors, has also urged the administration not to proceed with tariffs, which they say would hobble companies in the country and raise prices for consumers.
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Already in San Francisco's Bay Area, lawmakers have proposed or passed legislation that would penalize companies that bid on the 2,6003-mile Mexican border wall, as part of a resistance strategy to hobble its construction.
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Already in San Francisco's Bay Area, lawmakers have proposed or passed legislation that would penalize companies that bid on the 2,000-mile Mexican border wall, as part of a resistance strategy to hobble its construction.
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But Zelin's experience highlights growing concerns that a crackdown on terrorist propaganda is crippling legitimate academic study of terrorist groups and could hobble scholars' access to ISIS-related materials that researchers have collected for years.
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His appointment should alleviate fears that Mr Rajan's untimely exit—all recent RBI governors have served more than a single three-year term—was a ploy by Mr Modi to hobble the central bank's independence.
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The Trump administration's unwillingness to ease restrictions when Iran faces this debilitating crisis will severely hobble efforts at engagement for years to come and stain the reputation of the United States as a global leader.
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Funny Business Listening to comedy writers perform their own work on a road trip may help the miles fly by, but it can hobble your sightseeing plans: You might never want to leave your car.
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After a court ruling allowed public workers who opted out of a union to not pay dues, Alaska's governor has a new plan that could hobble unions: The workers have to opt in every year.
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Objectively elegant as was the effect, the whole rigmarole was rendered fairly silly by Mr. Browne's decision to hobble the models' legs together with bondage knots that made them walk at a death-march pace.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) and Sen.
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"My aunt would show up at a Walmart or a Tops store, hobble up in her walker with seven or eight thousand in cash to get a money order to go to Jamaica," he said.
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Fears have spiked that Donald Trump's incoming administration won't settle for simply rolling back President Barack Obama's policies, but may hobble federal agencies by removing reams of data from government websites — or even destroying it.
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On Wall Street, the broad spread of red in futures markets came after growth and tech stocks were pressured on Monday by worries that rising bond yields, which raise borrowing costs, might ultimately hobble the economy.
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Peter WelchPeter Francis WelchBolton lawyers in contact with impeachment committee members: reports Democrats see John Bolton as potential star witness Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Vt.) said last week.
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But assumptions that hackers would hobble not just Facebook but also Instagram and WhatsApp with a DDoS attack rely on a shaky grasp of what that would entail and how prepared companies are to stop them.
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It may well hobble her ability to enact her agenda, and public education advocates—including the heads of the nation's two largest teachers unions—are pledging a constant campaign against her conservative policies if she's confirmed.
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The elevator — the only one in the building — often had bad moods; I didn't like the calls from doctors about how their patients had to hobble up three flights of steps because the elevator was out.
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All you had to do was look at what was actually in Ryan's budget proposals to realize that he wasn't sincere, that he was using deficits as an excuse to bash social programs and hobble Obama.
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The oil industry is worried that new curbs on carbon emissions will hobble business, while environmental advocates are concerned that a failure to act soon to halt global warming will spell devastating consequences for the planet.
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The soldier, Dana Salah Hama, was undergoing physical therapy at his home last week to become strong enough to hobble to a polling station on Monday, when Iraqi Kurds plan to vote on independence from Iraq.
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Leah Vukmir or Kevin Nicholson to drop out of the August primary once polls show who is stronger against Baldwin, to avoid a protracted primary that would hobble the ultimate victor going into the general election.
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Democrats, willing to hobble economic growth in return for the chimera of fairness, are trading vitality for votes, a productive exchange for those more interested in power and patronage than in resurrecting an economically healthy America.
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With forecasts of even deadlier storms for years to come, it makes no sense for elected representatives to hobble a federal agency with frontline responsibilities to protect lives and health after hurricanes — and every other day.
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But defense lawyers in this case argued the secrecy could hobble their clients' ability to receive a fair trial, while privacy advocates say the police are keeping the public in the dark on potentially unconstitutional spying powers.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police on Tuesday carried out a major operation against the First Capital Command (PCC) gang, in the latest attempt to try to hobble the country's most powerful and sophisticated organized crime group.
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In the absence of a strong system to buy bad loans from banks, deciding on haircuts and government capital infusion in banks may hobble resolution of the issue, said another senior banker with a state-run bank.
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The pointy black boots are a half-size too small and have ground my heels into raw, red open wounds, so I hobble into a Duane Reade and pay $12 for two boxes of enormous Band-Aids.
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Its intention in proposing the change, cynics say, was not to open politics to the rabble, but to hobble the Democratic Party of Japan, a left-leaning rival, by attracting more candidates and thus splitting the opposition.
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Another study published in 2013 spells out the parallels between zombies and rabies: zombies are imagined to be as aggressive as rabid animals, with similar drool problems; and they sometimes hobble, mimicking the convulsions of rabies victims.
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The trainer again visited Friedman, who was in constant tears on her chair, but she managed to hobble out and complete the match and was given a massive cheer by the Hisense Arena crowd for her efforts.
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The White House late Friday refused to say whether its strike on Shayrat air base was a one-off action or part of a new strategy designed to hobble the military capabilities of President Bashar al-Assad.
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John Sandweg, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, said the Trump administration's focus on deterring migrants at the expense of other policies had hamstrung Nielsen and would likely hobble McAleenan.
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Rather than challenge popular agencies openly, some in Congress hope to hobble them with one fell swoop of bills that prevent their ability to update rules and regulations—in essence, a slow-rolling shutdown of government safety.
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Foer notes: Amazon can kill or hobble a book, an author or an entire publisher, and did so to Hachette and Macmillan in 2000, delaying shipments and stripping sales links so books couldn't be bought at all.
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But even Cooper and Raddatz seemed stunned into silence at the sheer volume of nonsense Trump was hurling, especially at his blatant attempt to hobble the umpires by claiming he was being given less time to speak.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has adopted a new law banning construction of wind farms close to dwellings and hiking project costs in a move which the industry says could hobble Poland's move to renewables and away from coal.
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Failure of the lines in the current tunnel, which was damaged during 2012's Superstorm Sandy, could come within a decade and would hobble commuting in the metropolitan area that produces 10 percent of U.S. economic output.
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Nations around the world continued to improve their energy efficiency last year, but a slowdown in new policies threatens to derail the progress and hobble efforts to fight climate change, the International Energy Agency warned on Thursday.
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In any normal political campaign, these stumbles would hobble Trump's ability to pass the fabled commander in chief test, in which Americans take their measure of a candidate and decide whether he is fit to lead them.
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Democrats have made it clear that, unable to prove the primary charges they used to hobble a presidency for two years, their follow up act will be to open new investigations and chase other charges around obstruction.
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But he elided an important point: Without a stable approach to the nuclear deal, questions about its fate will distract from and ultimately hobble broader American diplomacy on Iran and other crucial issues in the Middle East.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), has taken the lead.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) from the panel's chairmanship.
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Pentagon officials see national security risks from Beijing's growing military and economic clout and want to be sure China is not able to hobble America's military by cutting off supplies of materials or by sabotaging technology it exports.
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Meanwhile, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo has been trying to improve the group's image among Americans, including by pushing back on a bill meant to hobble the organization at last week's CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston.
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Ahead of a general election scheduled for next year, supporters of the Shinawatras, backed by poor, rural voters, accuse the military government, which took power after a 2014 coup, of seeking to hobble the family and its allies.
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Puerto Rico's leaders will be wasting an opportunity for the PREPA debt crisis if they go forward with the plan that is on the table, and if they succeed they will only further hobble an already battered economy.
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That said, the EU also suffers from not having addressed design flaws that hobble it even as it has grown to its current size of 28 member states with 513 million citizens and a GDP of $18.756 trillion.
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"I expect to see more bills like this one being introduced in other states," said adult-industry lawyer Michael Fattorosi, who added that he also expects Republican-controlled states to try to use existing regulations to hobble pornographers.
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Italy's pile of non-performing loans is the biggest of any country in Europe, making up almost a quarter of the total in the EU. These twin burdens hobble the economy and make it susceptible to any setback.
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Ms. Clements said he showed up for the ceremony in a tiny brick Belleville church, entering at the last minute as 50-some heads swung around to watch a sick man in a tie and slacks hobble in.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) leads the panel as chairman.
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An upper-class woman would have been proud to hobble on her "flowerpot-sole shoes"—embroidered slippers on tall pedestals—and Guo pays homage to them in vertiginous chopines that are lashed to the ankles with satin ribbons.
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It wasn't supposed to take long for the Trump tax cuts to hobble housing prices, particularly in the high-tax, high-cost metro areas where the new law was poised to rip federal incentives to buy new homes.
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If he walks away from that promise, he will hobble his presidency and imperil his re-election — and that of many Republican congressmen and senators — more thoroughly than the best-laid plans of the most anti-Trump Democrats.
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Failure of the lines in the current tunnel, which was heavily damaged during 2012's Superstorm Sandy, could come within a decade and would hobble commuting in the metropolitan area that produces 10 percent of the country's economic output.
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The bill would update the Toxic Substances Control Act amid complaints that its 40-year-old provisions hobble the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from effectively regulating chemicals, including those ranging from asbestos and flame retardants to everyday household products.
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When he beat Richard Kiely in his comeback bout in Ireland two months ago, he stood over his beaten opponent, mocked him to his face, and then pretended to hobble around as if he were standing on drunken legs.
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Indian banks have seen their bad loans surge after an asset quality review ordered by the Reserve Bank of India, which has set a March 2017 deadline for a sector clean-up, as high bad loans hobble credit growth.
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Investors in recent months have become increasingly worried that an ongoing U.S.-China trade conflict may hobble U.S. multinationals just as a year-long an surge in earnings growth caused by new corporate tax cuts is set to end.
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WASHINGTON — It wasn't supposed to take long for the Trump tax cuts to hobble housing prices, particularly in the high-tax, high-cost metro areas where the new law was poised to rip federal incentives to buy new homes.
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Restrictive high waists and narrow hobble skirts were replaced by looser skirts, suits and — shock — trousers and overalls, along with easy-to-wear calf-length dresses, like those in the exhibition designed by Callot Soeurs, Poiret, Lanvin and Vionnet.
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Andrew McCabe, the acting F.B.I. director, rejected the White House's claim that Mr. Comey had lost the support of his colleagues, and pledged to resist any attempt to hobble the investigation of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Peter WelchPeter Francis WelchDemocrats see John Bolton as potential star witness Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony MORE (D-Vt.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Often, a flickering yellow-orange caution light in the distance is the only warning you'll receive before you round a blind corner and stumble across a wounded McLaren or Red Bull, belching smoke and struggling to hobble back to the pits.
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Indeed, as I have shown in recent research, states that pass conservative-backed proposals to hobble unions make it harder for Democrats to win subsequent elections — and therefore make it easier for conservatives to pass a range of other policies.
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The new Nine-Nine is very much the old Nine-Nine: It's a celebration of a workplace community in which individual neuroses, flaws and eccentricities — problems that should hobble any office into dysfunction — somehow add up to a happy whole.
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América is at home, in bed, trying her best to hobble around the house, tearfully asking to be left alone when she flickers with recognition at the frustration of her situation — and then, two years later, she's dust in a container.
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We've all had patients who hobble in with a minor sports injury, are told to lay off the football, and limp back the next week even worse for wear having decided they just had to play that "crucial" weekend match.
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Trudeau was scheduled to make four stops in Ontario before flying later on Saturday to the western provinces of Manitoba and Alberta, where anger against the Liberals is rising over government environmental measures that critics complain will hobble the energy industry.
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Abandoning talk of cracking down on Wall Street executives who "rigged" the economy to hobble the working class, he seeks to undercut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has recovered $22018 billion for consumers from financial institutions that exploited them.
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Top regulators in Washington state, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont said the most recent draft they've seen of legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act would hobble their ability to protect their citizens from unsafe chemicals.
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The effort to hobble the former reality TV star takes a page out of reality television itself, where producers comb through thousands of hours of candid video, index it into an easily searchable library, and then paste together coherent narratives.
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In September, she and her colleague Benjamin Wittes explained how a Trump loyalist could hobble the Russia probe without firing Mueller, including by denying him permission to pursue lines of inquiry or blocking the release of any report that inquiry produces.
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Executives of Fiat Chrysler, Renault and Nissan remain open to the idea that the deal could return, although they caution that conditions imposed by each side could hobble attempts to restart discussions, WSJ said citing people familiar with their thinking.
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Andrew McCabe, the acting F.B.I. director, rejected the White House's claim that Mr. Comey had lost the support of his colleagues, and he pledged to resist any attempt to hobble the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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State anti-SLAPP protections have allowed some newcomers to engage in spirited public debate more freely, as when the startup Zenefits tussled recently with the huge payroll-services company ADP, which Zenefits says is trying to hobble potential new competitors deliberately.
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All that posturing about the deficit was obvious flimflam, whose purpose was to hobble a Democratic president, and it was completely predictable that the pretense of being fiscally responsible would be dropped as soon as the G.O.P. regained the White House.
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Even if OPEC+ adhered strictly to their new pact and political troubles continued to hobble exports from Iran, Libya and Venezuela, the IEA said that only 530,000 bpd of crude would be withdrawn from the market compared to November production.
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Maybe because, in addition to having tasted professional success, feeling supported by a great network, and knowing what I want — and finally feeling entitled to it — I'm newly released from a long list of realities that hobble us uterus-havers.
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In a striking repudiation of official White House statements, the acting director, Andrew G. McCabe, said the inquiry was "highly significant" and pledged to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. would resist any attempt to influence or hobble the investigation.
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U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE talked to lawmakers.
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It's easily possible that a mobile ad blocker might hit upon the right technology to reach a mass audience at any time (the appetite is certainly there), a development that would likely hobble the business prospects for many online industries.
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The higher government spending, coupled with tax cuts enacted in 2017 that reduce government revenues, are contributing to a rapidly rising U.S. national debt that now stands at $23.1 trillion, a level that some experts fear could eventually hobble the economy.
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WASHINGTON — The House resoundingly rejected a far-reaching immigration overhaul on Wednesday, despite a last-minute plea from President Trump, as internal divisions in the Republican ranks continued to hobble legislative efforts to protect the young unauthorized immigrants known as Dreamers.
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My friends flew across the country to make me toast after my mastectomy and drove me from Bed-Stuy to Manhattan in rush hour traffic to help me hobble into an Upper East Side doctor's office and take my top off.
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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. and Mexican negotiators resumed migration talks on Friday as the two sides edged closer to a trade war that could hobble both countries' economies and rattle investors already nervous about Washington's escalating battle with China.
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She took a pointed dig at Conservative rivals, such as anti-EU campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg, who say Britain could block and veto legislation to hobble the EU if it were not able to leave immediately, according to one participant in the summit.
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They get to watch up close as Vikings players hobble off the field in agony on their way to the home locker room as they pass through the club by way of a surreal, casino-like tunnel of personal seat license dystopia.
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Before Mr Ramaphosa can even begin to tackle many of the structural problems that hobble growth, such as a poorly educated workforce and inflexible labour markets, he will have to clean up a government that has been marred by corruption at all levels.
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Many others in Churaman Nagar, her 140-household hamlet of mud huts and a few "pukka" brick houses in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states, also hobble on the knock knees or bow legs characteristic of a condition known as skeletal fluorosis.
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Though Apple has been a minor focus of Warren's tech policy proposals, she believes that the company shouldn't be allowed to put its own products in its exclusive store because it can hobble competitors through the kinds of practices that Spotify is describing.
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That's why she was just as shocked as the rest of us when RuPaul called her up to the front of the stage and told her to sashay (or hobble) away, instead of the bottom two queens—Cynthia Lee Fontaine and Farrah Moan.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory output is expected to have slipped for a second straight month in December, a Reuters poll found on Friday, in yet another sign slowing global demand and trade frictions would hobble the economy for much of this year.
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The nastiest garbage tickets in a windswept obstructed-view belfry of San Francisco's Levi's Stadium, the Super Bowl 210 host, are priced at nearly $220,249, meaning most humans alive cannot afford to watch Peyton Manning wince and hobble around in person on Sunday.
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Combined with decades of anti-intellectual posturing and pernicious legislative attempts to hobble science education in America, outrageous displays like this, whether born out of willful ignorance or duplicitous political maneuvering, have rightly earned the GOP the title of anti-science party.
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Donald Trump and Bob Corker: A timeline Blunt's unease over the issue is echoed by other Republican senators and aides who are deeply concerned the spat could hobble the party's agenda on tax reform and other critical issues, like the Iran nuclear deal.
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MILAN — How so many designers end up on the same inspirational page at the same time is one of those oddities of fashion, like the perennial re-emergence of drop-crotch trousers and hobble skirts, that can seem utterly incomprehensible from the outside.
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Stocks on Wall Street closed lower on Friday, ending the worst week for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index in two years, as investors weighed a brewing trade war between China and the United States that could hobble an otherwise healthy global economy.
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In the Ohio case, the judges applied three tests to assess the House map's constitutionality: whether its drafters intended to hobble their opponents, whether they succeeded and whether there was any other reason the districts could have been drawn as they were.
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The move by Google this week to cut off Android support to phones made by Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, will hobble their European users and highlights how deeply the Continent relies on American and Chinese companies for gadgets, apps and internet services.
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As for the United States Senate, Republicans have long talked of trying to weaken Senator Elizabeth Warren in her bid for re-election this year, not because they think they can win but to hobble her in advance of the 2020 presidential race.
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The British government's plan to withdraw from a seminal European treaty governing the movement of nuclear material is generating alarm that it might hobble Britain's nuclear industry, destroy thousands of jobs and even deny cancer patients treatments that rely heavily on nuclear isotopes.
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To suggest that Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE experienced that one breakout moment is a mistake.
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Unlike in America, where attitudes toward Moscow formed during the Cold War often continue to hobble Russian efforts at public outreach, France has numerous individuals and organizations that speak out for views that mirror Russia's — and its preferences for the French election.
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ERISA also frees employers from state laws designed to hobble the bargaining power of insurers with medical providers, exempts them from costly mandates imposed by state-level political machines, and allows them more flexibility to deliver health care in cost-effective ways.
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WASHINGTON — The Republican tax bills moving through Congress could significantly hobble the United States' renewable energy industry because of a series of provisions that scale back incentives for wind and solar power while bolstering older energy sources like oil and gas production.
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Her skeletal remains and a few bits of clothing were found by a man walking in Utah County's Hobble Creek Canyon, about 15 miles from where the former Mormon missionary was last seen after her class at the Nomen Global Language School in Provo.
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Wheeler, in his ruling in Moda's favor, said that the federal government had to honor the promise originally made to insures when the ACA became law, regardless of whether Congress later tried to hobble that law by barring spending that added to the deficit.
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Here, in all its dark contingency, is the ugliness of pro wrestling—the ruthless unfairness of WWE's corporate engine tangling with another pro wrestler who doesn't want to hang up his boots, but also the possibility that wrestling any longer could hobble him for life.
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Democrats see that the scandal and investigative machinery that was used against them in the Clinton administration can now be cranked up to hobble this president, just as he heads into the months when he needs to be putting legislative points on the board.
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The dollar initially weakened slightly after Republicans in Congress said they lacked the votes to pass their proposed U.S. healthcare system overhaul, and a key committee chairman came out in opposition following Trump's demand for a vote in a gamble that could hobble his presidency.
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What he tells them from the outset — as he learned about himself firsthand — is that many executives hobble themselves unwittingly out of fear or some other driving force that they have no idea even exists, a driver that has be to identified to be conquered.
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Democrats believe they can keep the wind at their backs, with public testimony helping them make an even more compelling case against the president — something that could hobble his hopes of reelection next year regardless of whether he is ultimately acquitted by the Senate.
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The kingdom's subsequent decline into obscurity didn't hobble this factoid's centuries-long fictional afterlife, beginning in the 1100s with the Spanish Hebrew poet Yehudah HaLevi's philosophical reimagining of the Khazar king's conversion, and later spawning novels by writers ranging from Benjamin Disraeli to Michael Chabon.
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Historically, governors do better than senators in presidential contests, so the dearth of female governors—of the women who have run for governor, many have won, but they don't tend to run in the first place—may hobble women's chances of winning the presidency.
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The timing of his kicks as counters is what allows him to hobble his opponents so effectively, but by attempting to throw them in answer to everything his opponent does, he ends up standing on one leg a lot more often than would be safe.
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In a letter to the department, Public Justice said the proposed rules would "hobble Title IX enforcement, placing a premium on protecting schools from legal liability instead of protecting students from harm," and cement some of the worst practices already employed in K-12 proceedings.
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President Trump, you surely could not have wanted your partial government shutdown, your tariffs, your corporate tax cuts and your war on undocumented immigrants to hobble economic growth and to hurt farmers, factory workers, airline passengers, government contractors, retailers, Coast Guard members and F.B.I. agents.
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The children of poverty who survive will most likely hobble through life with mediocre educations — lagging their more affluent peers even before their first day in school and then falling farther behind, deprived of the resources that disadvantaged children in other advanced nations routinely enjoy.
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A scarf in the stars-and-stripes motif encircled his shoulders, and from his neck hung enough gold-and-diamond-encrusted chains to hobble Mr. T. Once he got behind a microphone, the huckster that lives within King animated his aged and weary frame.
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Now, a conservative new governor, Mike Dunleavy, is trying to push through a plan that could hobble Alaska's public sector unions — and put the state on the leading edge of a fight over the collective bargaining power of teachers, police officers and other civil servants.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) is perhaps the most important one.
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Peter WelchPeter Francis WelchDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Intelligence watchdog huddles with members as impeachment push grows MORE (D-Vt.), a member of the Intelligence and Oversight committees, said Wednesday by phone.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Reluctance among Indian traders to ship premium basmati rice to Iran as U.S. sanctions hobble its ability to pay has contributed to a sharp drop in overall exports from the world's biggest supplier of the grain, trade and government sources said.
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"The idea that you can't enter China's market without offering up your intellectual property in this way, without agreeing maybe to hobble some of the security and privacy features of it ... Russia is heading that way, a bunch of totalitarian regimes are heading that way," Joyce said.
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The increase from the world's second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter behind China would hobble global efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, which scientists say is caused by burning fossil fuels and will lead to devastating sea-level rise, droughts and more frequent powerful storms.
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The day after practice, many of the Shock Exchange players—who work as children's book editors, physical therapists, and wine store managers, among other professions—would hobble around their workplaces, quads sore and lower backs tight, some with fresh bruises or maybe even a black eye.
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Her arrest has reportedly sparked widespread anger in China, particularly among the rich and influential, in large part because they suspect the arrest was a naked power grab designed to hobble one of the nation's biggest companies and its ambitions to become a global telecommunications powerhouse.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 26 (Reuters) - A labor union representing Argentine grains port workers on Thursday asked the government to suspend exports, a move that would put upward pressure on world soy prices and hobble the country's main source of revenue as it seeks to avoid default.
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Beyond their legal significance, they arrive at a time when the Republican Party has gained near-unprecedented control of state governments and the House of Representatives — in part, Democrats and advocates of voting rights argue, by creating gerrymanders and voting laws that illegally hobble their opponents.
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The new rule represents Trump's second major effort to hobble the country's foundational environmental laws in as many weeks — showing that even a president about to face a Senate impeachment trial has the power to push a deregulatory agenda that could have lasting environmental and economic consequences.
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They're worried that money raised by Great America, coupled with potentially significant investments in primary races from the Mercer family, which owns a portion of Breitbart, could sink one or two incumbents in primaries and hobble others enough that they lose winnable general election races to Democrats.
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"Adjusting sanctions on companies that help us punish and isolate Russian bad actors like Oleg Deripaska will encourage more companies to cooperate with America to severely hobble Russia," Representative Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade, said in a statement.
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According to Bloomberg, Fiat Chrysler used technology from German auto supplier Bosch, which is also under investigation for its role in providing software to VW. The FCA probe is likely to involve less vehicles than the VW investigation, but considering FCA's precarious debt situation, could still hobble the automaker.
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New leadership at the SEC should make certain that any rule adopted concerning funds' use of derivatives does not dumb down fund portfolios by imposing arbitrary limits that would hobble funds' ability to best serve U.S. investors and put them at a competitive disadvantage to other investment options.
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Reid abolished the filibuster in response to McConnell's vow to filibuster key Obama nominees irrespective of their qualifications, in order to hobble government agencies with liberal missions (the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) and to prevent Obama from flipping ideological balances on federal appeals courts.
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In their bid to stop the court accepting Mr Zarrab's offer of a $50m bail package, American prosecutors alleged that he had paid three Turkish ministers and the head of Halkbank, a state lender, tens of millions of dollars in bribes to keep his business running and hobble competitors.
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The outcome of the race will decide the fate of a critical constitutional case that could throw open the doors of opportunity for students nationwide by invalidating the use of archaic, discriminatory Blaine Amendments to hobble publicly funded scholarship programs that allow K-12 students to attend nonpublic schools.
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A merger between the world's two largest brewers would give the new global corporation, with an estimated $64 billion in annual revenue and control over an astounding 29 percent of the global beer market, an even greater ability to hobble its competitors, at both the production and distribution levels.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — In repeating his readiness to pursue a new nuclear deal with Iran, President Trump this week left unmentioned his administration's aim to hobble what officials call Tehran's "expansionist foreign policy" — an ambitious priority that is far more likely to lead the United States into war.
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The C denoted the fact that it boasted a color screen, because in those days you could choose cheaper laptops with monochrome screens (little did I suspect that Apple users would one day deliberately hobble their devices, turning iPhone screens black and white as an aid to productivity).
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Though he was eventually able to rise to his feet, eschewing the wheelchair that had been brought for him, and hobble across the finish line long after the race ended, with his Jamaican teammates walking slowly and grimly beside him, he soon dropped to the track again and grimaced.
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Oil flows have not been disrupted — so far — and there is no sign that Iran will seek to hobble trade in the fuel by, for example, closing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel that many oil tankers have to pass through when they leave the Persian Gulf.
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"China is building its own internet focused on very different values, and is now exporting their vision of the internet to other countries," he said during a speech at Georgetown University last month, throwing a red flag to critics clamoring for U.S. regulators to hobble Facebook's power and influence.
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But though President Geingob is an avowed friend of the market and seeks foreign investors, populists within his ruling South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) are calling for measures that would hobble the economy still more, by implementing a draft bill known as the National Equitable Economic Empowerment Framework (NEEEF).
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But British regulators (and especially the large insurance industry, which has less EU27 business) reckon it is too big and important to be lashed to the EU. Following the EU's more dirigiste and inflexible rule book after Brexit could hobble it relative to New York and Asian financial centres, they say.
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In a sign of how seriously the issue could hobble a potential Biden presidential run, on Tuesday evening President Donald Trump likened the former vice president to himself, joking at a Republican Party dinner that he wanted to call Biden and "welcome" him to the world of politics in 2019.
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Mr. Trump's reversal was yet another twist in a long-running ideological battle in the West Wing between economic nationalists, who channel Mr. Trump's protectionist instincts, and more mainstream advisers like Mr. Mnuchin, who worry that tariffs and investment restrictions will hurt the stock market and hobble long-term growth.
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Despite warnings from commentators who insisted that looting, vandalism, and the perception of racial antagonism could hobble the efforts of peaceful organizers, protesters managed to change white racial attitudes so rapidly and dramatically that white liberals are now to the left of racial minorities themselves on a number of racial issues.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinEx-Trump aide on Russia testifies for 10 hours as part of impeachment inquiry Oversight panel to subpoena Trump officials next week over deportation deferrals Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Md.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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The panel, now led by Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), is leading the investigation into Trump's dealings with Ukraine amid GOP protest.
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" Undeterred, Trump suggested a few days later that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) could face "arrest for treason.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinEx-Trump aide on Russia testifies for 10 hours as part of impeachment inquiry Oversight panel to subpoena Trump officials next week over deportation deferrals Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Md.) and USCIS Field Operations Directorate Associate Director Daniel Renaud.
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Rob Joyce, the White House cyber security coordinator, said that letting countries inspect source code, the closely guarded internal instructions of software, as a condition for entry into foreign markets was a protectionist effort by certain regimes that threatened a "free and open internet" and could "hobble" a product's security and privacy features.
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But prices are going up and the ACA continued to allow hundreds of billions of dollars to be drained from people's pockets, suck capital from the bottom line of companies and, overall, hobble the economy by letting insurers, along with the drug companies, cost us roughly 17% of our gross domestic product.
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But it is all but politically impossible for Mr. Trump, who counts the powerful gun lobby among his most ardent supporters, to strengthen the A.T.F. The National Rifle Association has long sought to hobble the agency in an effort to curb its ability to regulate guns, which the gun lobby has traditionally opposed.
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Former special envoy Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE is one of the first Trump administration officials testifying as part of the House's impeachment inquiry.
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Peter WelchPeter Francis WelchDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Intelligence watchdog huddles with members as impeachment push grows MORE (D-Vt.), another member of the Intelligence Committee, also pushed back against the GOP's process criticisms — but from a different angle.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) opined that it would only benefit America's enemies — Iran, Russia and the Assad regime.
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And House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) said Trump had committed a "fundamental breach" of presidential decorum — one that threatened national security.
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David's book outlines an exhaustive number of clothing-related fatalities, ranging from long shawls strangling their wearers (a fate suffered by many, including the dancer Isadora Duncan) to high heels causing car crashes to hobble skirts, with their restrictive movement, coming with consequences ranging from the merely injurious (bruised shins) to the fatal (drowning).
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Venezuela's oil production, which has been falling by about 2109,2000 barrels per day (bpd) per month since last year, is on track to fall by at least 21.955,21.972 bpd in 22003, according to numbers reported to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as U.S. sanctions and a lack of capital hobble operations.
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) erased the uncertainty on that question this week, saying he is obliged to do so.
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Behind Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), Democrats have moved swiftly to gather evidence, issuing subpoenas and deposing witnesses with insights into the whistleblower charge.
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As much jaw-flapping, beer-quaffing, and bear-hugging that went on, the performances were well-attended even at their earliest—I was worried that hangovers would hobble Dead to a Dying World's 2PM Saturday time slot, until I looked behind me during the first song and saw that the theater had filled with eager faces.
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" Similarly, when Trump is fighting to stop Sessions from recusing himself, McGahn characterizes his motives, in part, as worrying that he'd be "unprotected from an investigation that could hobble the presidency and derail his policy objectives; and detract from favorable press coverage of a Presidential Address to Congress the President had delivered earlier in the week.
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No matter what the United States does to hobble Huawei — and Mr. Trump's latest stance will only hasten its rise — it will not alter a fundamental problem that clouds the conversation: The United States needs a meaningful strategy to lead the world in next-generation wireless technology — a kind of Manhattan Project for the future of connectivity.
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"... just this week I signed an Administrative Order to reconvene Alaska's efforts to develop a framework to provide Alaskan solutions to the Alaskan impacts of climate change — but I cannot hobble my state and deprive it of the resources and revenue it needs now as we plan for the future," he said in his statement to the committee.
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) has blocked them from consideration citing concerns around federalizing elections and language that does not pertain to election security.
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In a statement Thursday morning, Turner disclosed that the first hour of the deposition consisted of staffers for Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) questioning Volker.
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In September, after months of resistance, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) reversed course and agreed to advance legislation providing $250 million to boost election security.
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" After the Times story, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) went up with a digital ad on Facebook captioned: "BREAKING: Adam Schiff LIED.
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The firm's founders, Hazen Marshall, former policy director to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.), and Monica Popp, former chief of staff to Sen.
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Trump dispensed with niceties in the Oval Office while seated next to the visiting president of Finland to declare that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) is dishonest.
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Second, they illustrate the White House's emerging strategy for trying to resolve its nuclear standoff with North Korea through direct talks with Pyongyang as well as economic measures designed to hobble the regime of Kim Jong Un. The first signs of the new approach came two weeks ago, when Vice President Mike Pence scheduled a secret meeting with high-level North Korean officials.
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Even a water break turns into one of the special's highlights when she admits that her shoes are fucking killing her and her "baby toe's dead" — a fact she illustrates by collapsing her heels and splaying her feet sideways to hobble around the stage, mimicking every woman who dressed up for a club only to realize her mistake too late.
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One short week ago, Season 3 of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" ended not with a bang but a limper, as Shangela, the leader in the polls, was thrown under the hot rod by an extralegally installed electoral body-ody-ody of her competitors, clearing the strip for the perfectly lovely but somewhat uninspired Trixie Mattel to hobble across the finish line.
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It's a model Xavier Becerra in California, Tish James in New York, Bob Ferguson in Washington, and other Democratic AGs have pursued during the Trump era: Well before Nancy Pelosi took up the speaker's gavel again in 22015, blue-state attorneys general from were suing to hobble the administration's policies on everything from immigration and food stamp eligibility to environmental rollbacks.
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EDT: President Trump has lunch with Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE.
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House Democrats took their latest step on Thursday by bringing Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, before the committees leading the impeachment inquiry into the president.
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Texts provided to Congress by former Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE showed Trump administration officials worked to support the president's goal for Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) on Tuesday warned the NBA not to put its profits over free speech when it comes to the democracy movement in Hong Kong.
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Senate Republicans today see little similar imperative to give House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democratic prosecutors weeks to lay out their indictments against Trump on the Senate floor.
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Paul knocked his Republican colleagues earlier this year over an amendment, spearheaded by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.), warning the administration against pulling troops from Syria or Afghanistan.
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Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) announced Wednesday that if the White House tries to "stonewall" the impeachment inquiry, it would be considered an obstruction of justice.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE had already received a subpoena.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) warned the president against "a precipitous withdrawal" that would benefit Russia, Iran, President Bashar Assad of Syria and the Islamic State.
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Though much of the South is accustomed to occasional winter snowfalls, Wednesday's storm was setting records, and setting teeth on edge, in a region where even a couple of inches of snow has the potential to hobble an entire metropolis — as was the infamous case in Atlanta in 238, when a mess of snow and ice stranded thousands of cars on major roads for hours.
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Either way, the team's new fund underscores a growing tendency on the part of limited partners to make bets on parts of the U.S. that are on the rise, thanks partly to soaring costs in places like the Bay Area and New York, as well as competition for talent in such tech hubs — a constant tug-of-war can hobble a startup before it gains meaningful momentum.
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House investigators teed off on the president's remarks, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) saying that Trump broke his oath of office by asking the Chinese to open a probe into Biden (Reuters).
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As Jordain Carney writes, with the party facing growing headaches, Republicans are trying to shift the focus to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), the Bidens and the origins of the Russia probe.
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The party has repeatedly gone after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) for imposing obstacles to action on election security, a point underscored once again in the wake of the bipartisan Intelligence report.
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GOP lawmakers have been pushing for Democrats to release the full transcript of recent testimony from former U.S. Envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, arguing the document will show Schiff has misrepresented the facts.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) said this week he is obligated to do conduct a trial, and has indicated he will do so quickly if Trump is impeached in the House.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) by posting a video using clips from the Disney movie "Pinocchio" to imply that the House Intelligence chairman had been lying about a whistleblower who filed a complaint relating to Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.), who has been pushing for Pelosi to move ahead with the deal as-is, seemed to brush off the idea that Republicans would accept Democratic proposals.
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It later featured an appearance from Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, played by celebrity guest Matthew Broderick.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (D-Md.), originated with him.
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The Senate voted 70-26 in February to advance a resolution authored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) expressing strong opposition to the precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria or Afghanistan.
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To overcome the 60-vote threshold certain to hobble progressive policymaking even if Democrats win a Senate majority in November, Sanders has instead proposed taking full advantage of the vice president's usually unutilized constitutional authority as president of the Senate, which would allow the White House to overrule the Senate parliamentarian's judgments on the Senate's rules for reconciliation bills, if not legislation in a broader sense.
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The message by Kiev Chargé d'Affaires William Taylor was part of an exchange provided to Congress by former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, according to Fox News, which obtained the encrypted texts.
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Emerging from a nearly 10-hour deposition in the Capitol basement, Republican and Democratic members offered decidedly different takes regarding testimony from Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, who resigned last week as Trump's special envoy to Ukraine.
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On Wednesday morning, as the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 2202, Trump blasted "Sleepy Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Memo: Trump tests limits of fiery attacks during crisis Sanders when asked about timeframe for 2628 decision: 'I'm dealing with a f---ing global crisis' Biden holds sizable lead in new Hill/HarrisX 28500 poll MORE" on Twitter, accused the Democratic National Committee of seeking to hobble Biden's main rival, Sen.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, appeared to be a reference to Republican efforts to discredit House Democrats' impeachment inquiry as well as the first whistleblower who raised concerns about Trump's conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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And last week, the Foreign Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE for documents.
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And Democrats' impeachment inquiry, now being led by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), is focused on whether Trump abused his power by asking a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 election to give him a boost.
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Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the Trump administration's former special envoy to Ukraine, on Monday announced his resignation as leader of the McCain Institute for International Leadership amid the furor over his role in efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Biden family.
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Sondland is the third Trump official to face questioning from lawmakers surrounding the Ukraine affair, following last week's closed-door testimony from Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, Trump's former envoy to Kiev, and Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the nation's intelligence community.
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"I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," William Taylor, a top official at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, said in text messages provided by former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE.
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Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the former special envoy to Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees last week and provided text messages from among himself, Sondland and William Taylor, a top official in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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"I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," William Taylor, a top official at the U.S.'s Ukrainian Embassy, said in the text messages provided by former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE.
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Democratic committee chairmen Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (Calif.), Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (N.
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Those sentiments were shared by Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, who argued that China's efforts were not focused on combating terrorism.
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Perry, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and former special envoy for Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE met with Trump on May 23, intending to inform the president that Zelensky was trustworthy and worth meeting with, sources told CNN.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) told reporters on Tuesday that the EU ambassador had messages on a personal device that the State Department is withholding from Congress, with Schiff issuing a formal subpoena on Tuesday evening.
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After Sondland was blocked on Tuesday, Capitol Hill Republicans pressed the White House to block all future witnesses to the Ukraine affair unless Democrats release the full transcript of last week's deposition of Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, Trump's former envoy to Kiev.
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Raskin mentioned Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, who has put the brakes on such testimony, as one potential target.
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We can't avoid each other in our dozens of trips to the laundromat dryers to toast the bugs off our belongings, and when our neighbors scowl at us because they know exactly what the fuck we are doing as we hobble back and forth between our apartment building and the laundromat with huge black plastic trash bags hung over our shoulders, we endure their scowls together as a team.
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But because the debate in the UK is happening at time when the political foundations of Europe are already very weak, a Brexit now has the potential to dramatically hobble the EU. It would remove one of the EU's most powerful countries, force the EU to absorb itself in the process of divorce for many years, and set a precedent for EU withdrawal that other anti-EU populist parties would certainly follow.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (Md.), a former constitutional law professor who serves on Oversight; and Rep.
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Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the former State Department special envoy for Ukraine who stepped down last week amid the rising controversy over the Trump administration's dealings with Kiev, will also resign Friday from his position as the executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) has already come under scrutiny for the business dealings and personal wealth of his father-in-law James Chao, the founder of a shipping company worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Forbes.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE said the U.S. "didn't give Turkey a green light" to invade Syria and attack Kurdish forces in an interview Wednesday.
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While Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE has confirmed he was on the call, no Defense Department officials listened in on the phone conversation.
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Meanwhile, Democrats are widening their scrutiny to include some of Trump's top cabinet officials, including Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE.
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He has survived salvos from critics and messes of his own that were supposed to halt or at least hobble him: the attention to his crossing-the-line physicality with women; the flip-flop about public funding of abortions; the back-and-forth with Kamala Harris about busing; the moment at the fifth Democratic primary debate when he seemed to forget either that she was in the Senate or that she was black.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE later said the officials would not show up for the depositions, although since then, one of the officials has been questioned by lawmakers.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE said Saturday that the State Department has given an "initial response" to congressional Democrats over a request for documents relating to their impeachment inquiry.
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And on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE warned that officials from his agency would not appear for requested depositions due to insufficient time to prepare.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (D-Md.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN on Monday, referring to Trump's GOP defenders.
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After allowing testimony from two witnesses last week — Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, former special envoy to Ukraine, and Michael Atkinson, inspector general of the intelligence community — the White House blocked Tuesday's scheduled deposition of a third State Department official, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.
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The following day, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE imposed travel bans on government leaders and Communist Party officials, alleging they are complicit in human rights abuses.
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"Nancy Pelosi knew of all of the many Shifty Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE lies and massive frauds perpetrated upon Congress and the American people, in the form of a fraudulent speech knowingly delivered as a ruthless con, and the illegal meetings with a highly partisan 'Whistleblower' & lawyer," he tweeted.
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In case you missed them, here are some of our recent pieces:Private data of more than 1,100 NFL players, agents exposedGOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firmsSenator presses voting machine makers on whether they have been hackedWhite House official calls for ending Social Security numbers as means of identificationEuropean Union courts to hear case that could hobble FacebookEC says 2016 hack exposed personal dataEx-Equifax CEO: Tech staff were told to patch security flaw before breach View the discussion thread.
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In a letter sent Tuesday to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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Meanwhile, Giuliani told NBC News that he gave Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE a trove of unverified documents alleging impropriety by the former vice president, which the State Department said it would investigate.
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As Alexander Bolton writes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) is signaling that he's prepared to dispose quickly of articles of impeachment against Trump, if approved by the House, and that any trial convened by the Senate would differ from the 1999 impeachment trial and acquittal of former President Clinton.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE said Saturday that there is still significant work to be done as the U.S. and North Korea begin renewed nuclear talks this weekend in Sweden.
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The president did not specifically mention the texts released Thursday by Democrats, but quoted a Washington Times headline describing Republican opinions of Thursday's closed-door testimony with former State Department special envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, who provided the text exchanges to House Democrats as part of their impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (D-Md.), on Wednesday, as part of a hastily assembled briefing in response to an "urgent" request from the inspector general's office.
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They have subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, Giuliani and Mulvaney for documents related to Trump's conversations with Zelensky and the efforts to hold up the financial aid for Ukraine.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) release a transcript of Volker's testimony before the committee about the controversial call between President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE and the Ukrainian president.
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Democrats emerged Thursday evening from a 10-hour deposition with Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the president's former special envoy to Ukraine, saying that Volker had validated many of the previous assertions from a government whistleblower surrounding Trump's July phone call with the president of Ukraine in which Trump pressed his counterpart to "look into" Biden.
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Text messages provided from former State Department special envoy for Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE and released by the House last week showed Sondland and other officials indicating that a meeting between Trump and Zelensky was contingent on Ukraine launching investigations related to 85033 interference and Burisma, the Russian energy company that Hunter Biden was affiliated with.
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"The American people should read the transcript and they'd do well to do that since the chairman of the intelligence committee manufactured a version of the transcript and read it into the record before the committee," Pence said, referring to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), who Trump has criticized for exaggerating the call during a public congressional hearing.
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But Cummings and the other two committee chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry — Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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And with news trickling out about congressional testimony by Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the former special envoy to Ukraine — which included a text message from Bill Taylor, the former top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, that read, "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance to help with a political campaign" — the president's story will continue to look more and more ridiculous.
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Jim HimesJames (Jim) Andres HimesDemocrats set to grill ambassador embroiled in Ukraine controversy Sunday shows - Second whistleblower grabs spotlight House Democrat: Impeachment inquiry 'likely to stay narrowly focused' MORE (Conn.) Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellNBA draws bipartisan backlash over China response Former Ukraine envoy Volker to resign as head of McCain Institute Intelligence watchdog huddles with members as impeachment push grows MORE (Calif.) and Peter WelchPeter Francis WelchDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Intelligence watchdog huddles with members as impeachment push grows MORE (Vt.).
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE last week urged central Asian countries where members of the Uighur ethnic minority had fled to "resist" Chinese demands to repatriate them in a meeting with foreign ministers representing Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, who served as the special envoy to Ukraine until his resignation last week, still appeared for a 85033-hour deposition on Thursday, in which he provided a series of text messages between himself, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Andrey Yermak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Giuliani and William Taylor, a top official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
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Conservatives in the House are demanding that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) provide answers over his panel's reported contact with a whistleblower who filed a complaint about President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's dealings with Ukraine.
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Lawmakers from three House committees on Thursday began questioning Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the Trump administration's former special envoy to Ukraine, as Democrats accelerate their impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE.
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The intrigue has engulfed Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, who on Wednesday confirmed that he had listened in on the call after days of brushing aside questions about whether he was aware of what Trump said in the conversation.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (D-Md.) offered a similar assessment, arguing that Trump's refusal to comply with congressional requests for documents and witness testimony will simply boost the Democrats' case that he's a lawless president, worthy of impeachment.
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But Cummings and the other two committee chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry -- Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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Relations between Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, and Democrats in the House went from bad to worse after impeachment investigators subpoenaed him to provide information about Trump's interactions with Ukraine by Friday.
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He tells the Ranger the story of the time Coyote got bored with life and crawled into his own asshole and all the world went dark, but the Ranger says he is tired of stories with happy endings, and he peels off his mask (an experience not unlike pulling your pants down in church, he remarks with an embarrassed wince as it rips away), exchanges his white hat for a black one, and borrows Tonto's bandy-legged old paint, Scout, to hobble down into the mining town and raise a little hell, announcing himself, guns blazing, as a wild-ass Cavendish cousin.
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Members of the House Freedom Caucus are calling for the release of the full transcript of former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE's testimony, arguing it would disprove allegations of a quid pro quo between President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE and Ukraine's government.
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C.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyTrump defends Turkey in wake of fierce GOP criticism Overnight Defense: Republicans urge Trump to reverse course on Syria | Dems subpoena Pentagon in impeachment probe | North Korea talks falter Five things to know about Trump's decision on Syria, Turkey and the Kurds MORE were among the dozens of Republicans critical of Trump.
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Contrary to what Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Tillis says impeachment is 'a waste of resources' MORE, Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE, and progressive left wingers would have you believe, the United States still does have an objective rule of law, and the Constitution is not merely a guideline subject to interpretation and application at the whim of power grabs.
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Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoChao met with more officials from Kentucky than any other state: report Ex-senior Trump administration official joins lobbying shop Industry spends big to sell safety of driverless cars MORE met with officials from Kentucky, which her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R), represents, much more than officials from any other state, according to a Politico report published Monday.
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Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, the former State Department special envoy to Ukraine, testified to Congress that he was not involved in or aware of any effort to press Ukraine to investigate allegations against former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by The Hill.
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Y.) said on Sunday that Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE is not complying with the House's impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE.
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The letter contains more than a dozen text message exchanges involving Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiTrey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Trump asked Tillerson to interfere in DOJ case against Giuliani client: report Barr to speak at Notre Dame law school on Friday MORE, Trump's personal attorney; Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, Trump's former envoy to Ukraine; William Taylor, a top official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine; Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union; and Andriy Yermak, a Ukrainian official.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) on Monday warned President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE against pulling U.S. forces out of key positions in Syria, arguing that it "would only benefit Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime," which is responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.
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Over the summer, the other two diplomats — Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, Trump's then-special envoy to Ukraine, and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union — had worked with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiTrey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Trump asked Tillerson to interfere in DOJ case against Giuliani client: report Barr to speak at Notre Dame law school on Friday MORE to win a statement from Zelensky addressing a pair of investigations sought by Trump.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz join colleagues blasting NBA for 'outrageous' response to China Polls flash warning signs for Trump on impeachment MORE (R-Neb.), have spoken publicly against it even as they have also criticized Democratic leaders on impeachment, such as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (Calif.).
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) is signaling that he's prepared to dispose quickly of articles of impeachment against President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE and that any upcoming trial in the Senate will look much different than the 1999 impeachment trial of President Clinton.
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Though the pathways were ice-crusted or snowed under when I visited last month, I watched tourists of all shapes and sizes hobble and skitter over them toward the tree for photographs: the Italian dude with the soul patch posing with double thumbs up; the overweight couple huffing, "You make it to the tree?" to a few young women returning to their car; the young man looking up at the tree, eyes closed and still, face in the sun — a tranquil image of cosmic, momentary oneness were it not for his self-aggrandizing sweatshirt, which read, I AM NOT A GOD BUT SOMETHING SIMILAR.
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Rep. Mark PocanMark William PocanTop progressive calls for Pompeo's salary to be withheld over Sondland's blocked testimony Democrats take Trump impeachment case to voters Democrats press Nadler to hold Lewandowski in contempt MORE (D-Wis.) is advocating for Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE's salary to be withheld until EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland is permitted to testify before Congress as part of Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to testify on Libra | Extremists find home on Telegram app | Warren blasts Facebook for not removing anti-Biden ad | California outlaws facial recognition in police body cameras | China rips US tech sanctions House Democrats introduce new legislation to combat foreign election interference MORE (D-Md.) spoke at the vigil, one of many held at Saudi missions worldwide, and condemned Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's relationship with the Saudi leader.
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE joined in the politics, with a distasteful attack on the Obama administration, suggesting while the Trump administration sent Ukraine weapons with which to defend themselves, the Obama administration sent only blankets, a gross and misleading understatement of President Obama's efforts to shore up Ukraine and an injection of partisan politics beneath the dignity of the secretary's office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's former envoy to Ukraine, Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, said he was unaware of efforts by the president or his officials to press Ukraine to investigate allegations against former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE.
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Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), head of the Intelligence Committee, Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry Trump fires back on impeachment MORE (D-Md.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform panel, and Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE and Pope FrancisPope FrancisLouisiana GOP bring in big names to block Democratic governor Pompeo, Pope Francis urge protections of religious freedom The Hill's Morning Report — Trump takes aim at whistleblower MORE on Thursday discussed the need to protect religious freedoms for Christian minorities around the world and "in particular" in the Middle East, following a meeting at the Vatican.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry Trump fires back on impeachment MORE (D-Md.) and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.) on Thursday blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE for asking China and Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE, calling it a "fundamental breach" of presidential decorum and a threat to national security.
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"Your failure or refusal to comply with the request, including at the direction of or behest of the president or the White House, shall constitute evidence of obstruction of justice of the House's impeachment inquiry and may be used as an adverse inference against you and the president," wrote House Intelligence Chairman Committee Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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J.) is requesting that the State Department's internal watchdog investigate how Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE and other top officials handled a controversial packet of documents that was turned over to Congress this week amid the growing scandal over President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's interactions with Ukraine.
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Text messages provided by the former special envoy to Ukraine show administration officials indicating that a meeting between the Ukrainian leader and President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE was contingent on investigations requested by the U.S. Following Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE's nearly 220006-hour deposition behind closed doors on Thursday, a trio of House committees released a batch of text messages submitted as part of his congressional testimony.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE has admitted he was on Trump's July 25 call with the Ukrainian president, and a rough White House transcript showed Trump brought up Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrBarr to speak at Notre Dame law school on Friday Giuliani predicts Senate Judiciary will call on Biden to testify on Ukraine Trump confidant: Impeachment inquiry is a 'mortal threat' to presidency MORE during the conversation with Zelensky.
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Two Trump administration officials reportedly drafted a statement meant to be released by the Ukrainian government announcing investigations related to President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's political rivals in the U.S. The New York Times reported Thursday that Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE, Trump's former envoy to Ukraine who tendered his resignation last week, was involved in drafting the statement along with Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union (EU).
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Trump was asked Monday afternoon about the barrage of criticism that rolled in throughout the day from the likes of Graham, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) and former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyTrump defends Turkey in wake of fierce GOP criticism Overnight Defense: Republicans urge Trump to reverse course on Syria | Dems subpoena Pentagon in impeachment probe | North Korea talks falter Five things to know about Trump's decision on Syria, Turkey and the Kurds MORE, all of whom argued a U.S. retreat could harm relationships with allies and lay the foundation for a resurgence of ISIS.
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Biden needs to convince a majority of Democratic delegates that he will fight for causes and values that Democrats deeply believe in, and that while he will seek national unity and bipartisanship when possible, he will fight like hell against the obstructive partisanship of Republicans such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (Ky.) — who began acting to destroy the presidency of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDemocrats' satisfaction with 2020 candidates among highest in decades: Gallup Maggie Rogers shares letter from 'huge fans' Barack and Michelle Obama Budowsky: Biden and Warren at POTUS Rubicon MORE even before Obama was inaugurated.
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"We deeply regret that President Trump has put us—and the nation—in this position, but his actions have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort MORE (D-Calif.), Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry Trump fires back on impeachment MORE (D-Md.) and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds House Democrat breaks from party, says House should vote to start impeachment inquiry MORE (D-N.
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"We are concerned that this was an abrupt decision taken in the face of reported opposition from military and diplomatic advisers, and that thousands of hardened ISIS fighters and thousands more ISIS supporters currently in detention may become free to fight again as their Kurdish captors turn to defending themselves against a Turkish incursion," Graham and Coons wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: Giuliani must testify under oath Trump to hold Louisiana rally for GOP candidates in governor's race McCarthy shares 'Stranger Things' parody video criticizing impeachment MORE (N.Y.).
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"We are concerned that this was an abrupt decision taken in the face of reported opposition from military and diplomatic advisers, and that thousands of hardened ISIS fighters and thousands more ISIS supporters currently in detention may become free to fight again as their Kurdish captors turn to defending themselves against a Turkish incursion," Graham and Coons wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: Giuliani must testify under oath Trump to hold Louisiana rally for GOP candidates in governor's race McCarthy shares 'Stranger Things' parody video criticizing impeachment MORE (N.Y.).
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Biden and Warren should directly and aggressively confront Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOn The Money: Fed officials saw rising risk of recession | Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz blast NBA for 'outrageous' response to China | Prospects dim for trade breakthrough with China Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Pompeo insists US didn't give Turkey 'green light' to invade MORE for using his department to revive partisan attacks against former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Support for impeachment reaches highest level in Fox News poll Trey Gowdy out at Fox News amid talks to join Trump defense team MORE and should state— in speeches from Berlin to Notre Dame University — that America must forever be a leader of the free world and champion of democracy and human rights and must never be an ally, friend or supporter of dictators, human rights abusers and mass murdering tyrants.
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Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Democrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Graham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony MORE told House investigators Thursday he warned President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiTrey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Trump asked Tillerson to interfere in DOJ case against Giuliani client: report Barr to speak at Notre Dame law school on Friday MORE that his Ukrainian sources alleging wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE and his son Hunter were not credible, according to The Washington Post.
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