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Mariah is holding the line ... she wants $50 mil.
Which is why she is holding the line against impeachment.
Holding the line could test the strength of Democratic leadership.
Raising prices dampens demand, while holding the line cuts into profits.
She dives into battle, holding the line against a hail of German bullets.
He talked of "holding the line" while waiting for democracy in mainland China.
Holding the line in response to this fiscal squeeze also has political limits.
Mr. Cuomo, as he has in previous years, emphasized holding the line on spending.
And Republicans are holding the line "It's not really changing our opinion," Iowa Sen.
Reading Snodgrass's Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line, makes the clues to Anonymous's identity apparent.
To the south is the Iraqi border, where Iraqi troops are holding the line.
But holding the line on Internet equality appears to have won the day over free.
At this week's gathering, Rosengren joined the eight-member majority that favors holding the line.
I'm glad you're holding the line, I think Facebook has to hold the line. Agreed.
He talked of "holding the line" while waiting for democracy to stir in mainland China.
Sitting House Republicans, however, see a vulnerability behind Pelosi's holding the line during the shutdown.
"We are holding the line and hanging on," an executive with a service firm said.
For now, their public comments have been all in the direction of holding the line.
But it also means holding the line on church teachings that young activists disagree with.
We have to say this is what Republicans are doing: We are holding the line.
He also does a better job than Blackburn of holding the line within his party.
"Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis," which was written by retired Navy Cmdr.
MORE, Guy Snodgrass, discusses his new book 'Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis.
Those who favored holding the line worried about financial stability risks that low interest rates posed.
In holding the line, the RBI's monetary policy committee is seeking to establish its inflation-fighting credentials.
The EU is holding the line on sanctions with strong backing from Germany, despite the usual squabbling.
Valenti's commitment to holding the line for a certain common-denominator feminism in hostile territory is admirable.
Under Moynihan, Bank of America has steadily trimmed expenses while holding the line on or increasing revenue.
With a few exceptions, such as South Africa, the continent is holding the line against genetically modified crops.
"Now that trade talks have deteriorated, the case for holding the line at 7 [was] weaker," he added.
Ashraf Ghani, the embattled Afghan president, needs United States help in holding the line against an invigorated Taliban.
While many agents groused about the changes, Mueller was implacable, withstanding the withering criticism, and holding the line.
Until, then, he sees his refusal to sell as a political act, holding the line against unchecked development.
For Trump and his allies, it is an existential battle where nothing is more important than holding the line.
Obama suggested Wednesday that some Republicans may be holding the line in public while privately appearing ashamed of their stance.
For those governors running for president, the numbers show wide variation in their records in holding the line on taxes.
The right edge of the Supreme Court seems keen to erase that distinction; for now, the chief is holding the line.
That means kicking up rowdy confirmation fights over his Cabinet picks and holding the line against Trump attacks on Obama's work.
That is a more plausible explanation than anything about Maryland holding the line on prices, because that is just not happening.
Mr Assad's father, Hafez, a member of the Alawite minority, clung to power partly by holding the line between the country's faiths.
I'm sure I'm not the only reader who would hope to find the Book Review holding the line against this sloppy usage.
"We are holding the line," said Todd Insler, chairman of the unit of the Air Line Pilots Association that represents United pilots.
"She was holding the line for the mayor while everyone just attacked," said Councilman Carlos Menchaca, the chairman of the immigration committee.
Ooo, ooo, what if he was one of the guys holding the line when Drogon makes his first pass through the Lannister line?
Red-state Senate Democrats, so far holding the line against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, are expected to wait on centrist Republican Sens.
Honda in particular is also well-known for holding the line on pricing at dealerships, declining to discount models by offering big incentives.
It'd be great if we could spend more money, but just holding the line in this current political environment is a huge necessity.
After nearly a year and a half of holding the line, though, the leadership of the 115th Congress may be about to break.
Even the populist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Greece was grudgingly holding the line on spending in order to stay in the eurozone.
"So from a basic balance-of-power perspective, we are not holding the line nearly as well as we should be," she added.
They argue New York City bucked national trends by holding the line on poverty better than other major American cities during his tenure.
From holding the line on the government shutdown to voting to rescind Trump's national emergency declaration, House Democrats have so far hung together.
According to the Alfred press release, Holding the Line, which originated at Bennington, was Rosen's first ever solo show, at the age of 90.
You're not indefinitely helping an occupying power, but rather holding the line until the legitimate political process has a chance to curb Trump's excesses.
In holding the line on interest rates this week, the central bank said it expected inflation to slow in October after rising in September.
Meanwhile, the company is boosting its headcount and spending on infrastructure for AWS after holding the line on such costs last year, he said.
So why is Samsung finally ditching the headphone jack after three years of holding the line against Apple, which ditched the jack in 2016?
These two women lament that they have been holding the line for decades against a Republican Party that refuses to consider pro-choice policies.
But Jamie Allen of the Asian Corporate Governance Association predicts they will have a hard time holding the line against powerful companies in other sectors.
"Holding the line has a huge positive impact on the system," he said, even as he insisted he was pushing for changes to the system.
They'd been holding the line in favor of more speech, even if that includes some of the nastiest things you would see on the internet.
They understood that holding the line against the Kaepernicks of this world means keeping the progressive barbarians at bay, something already baked into the game.
Or you could look at the inertia and incompetence of the Trump administration and say our institutions are holding the line and checking Trump's worst instincts.
" A number of bombshell details were reported in the lead-up to the release of Snodgress's memoir, "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis.
Another is that he was making sure that the president knew that he was holding the line — against telling the truth about the matters under investigation.
It was the 18th straight quarter the company has managed to improve operating leverage, meaning it has grown revenue while cutting or holding the line on costs.
The complaint frames "Holding the Line" as a "testament" to Mattis' "quiet and steady efforts" to lead the Pentagon, but says little about the book's actual content.
It's also because the factory that bottles it had a chill little sideline making Molotov cocktails that many credit with holding the line against Soviet invasion in 1939.
Guy Snodgrass' book, "Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis," comes out next week, and reporters who got early copies are starting to write about it.
Not every senator is as enthusiastic as Hatch and Toomey, but the person who's really holding the line so far is House Ways and Means Chair Kevin Brady.
What we are doing is we are holding the line and letting you know when our constitution is violated, when your rights are being taken away from you.
More staid brands such as Charles Tyrwhitt and Thomas Pink never went so narrow with their standard ties, each holding the line at 23.74 centimeters, or 3.15 inches.
When profits are high, they can afford pay rises—whereas in times of economic stress, holding the line on pay may mean the difference between survival and failure.
During a tireless campaign, marked by endless beer-and-bratwurst sessions, he tilted rightwards on topics like energy and migration while holding the line against the AfD's radicalism.
The state on Monday approved some raises and school funding -- but only a fraction of what the teachers' union demanded, so thousands of teachers are holding the line.
Get the military paid and properly funded so it can plan and effectuate an overwhelmingly dominant national security strategy, while holding the line on all other government spending.
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS HOLDING THE LINE ON RAISING RATES AT A TIME WHEN, BY YOUR OWN CALCULATION, JOB GROWTH IS FIVE TIMES THE SUSTAINABLE RATE.
The Old Line State has been having some trouble holding the line on real estate prices, with the average home price in the D.C. suburbs approaching $800,000 last year.
" One source familiar with the situation said Mattis's interpretations are simply "holding the line until a semblance of normalcy is restored during the tumultuous first year of this administration.
And the timing was likely to complicate the American push for peace talks with the Taliban, which requires maintaining pressure, or at least holding the line, on the battlefield.
This "proactive resistance" shows that we don't have to settle for holding the line: We can and will keep demanding progress on the road toward reproductive freedom and gender equality.
"He's firmly, as commander in chief, wanting to make sure we're holding the line on Iran and so he's asking us to stand with him on that position," Roy said.
Yet the Army continues to deny his request for an honorable discharge, holding the line on its initial conclusion that a suicide attempt amounts to a serious act of misconduct.
The SWAT -team members periodically helped herd I.D.P.s onto buses or direct them toward the camps, but for the most part they focussed on holding the line along the cemetery.
The contract includes an $11,000 per member signing bonus, performance bonuses, two 3 percent annual raises and two 4 percent lump sum payments while holding the line on health care costs.
The walk-outs are in states where largely Republican-controlled legislatures have cut funding for public schools, primarily as a means of cutting or at least holding the line on taxes.
Beyond repricings, middle market lenders in general are holding the line on pricing compared to the broadly syndicated market where more often than not spreads are slashed even further during syndication.
For a while, even as the failures mounted, Mr. Mattis seemed to be holding the line: He looked like a Spartan Marine helping rescue America from a willfully ignorant, libertine businessman.
" By holding the line on unauthorized immigration and rethinking free trade, Decius argued, Trump could help foster "solidarity among the working, lower-middle, and middle classes of all races and ethnicities.
However, the chances of the U.S. central bank holding the line rose sharply Monday as oil prices spiked, with traders now assigning the equivalent of a 34% chance of no move.
The book, "Holding the Line: Inside the Pentagon with General Mattis," is written by Mattis's former communications director and chief speechwriter, Guy Snodgrass, and is expected to be published in late October.
Wade, but at the cost of increased restrictions on access to abortion — holding the line at a provision that would have allowed a husband to veto his wife's exercise of the right.
But by ignoring the need for a long-overdue increase in staff salaries and instead "holding the line" on the legislative branch spending bill, the senators effectively voted to further empower private lobbyists.
They must also do the far less difficult but enormously important and obvious work of holding the line on zero-tolerance policies for sexual misconduct — instead of giving golden parachutes to repeat offenders.
But if the party has any hope of succeeding -- defined here as winning back control of the House and holding the line in the Senate -- it needs to strike some kind of equilibrium.
All throughout history you can find examples of people standing up to terrifying regimes and holding the line against them, and surviving against all odds just by force of sheer, bloody-minded obstinacy.
And, to borrow from his description of Mattis, he is "a badass" who eventually offended his hero and won a pre-publication battle with the Pentagon over the release of Holding the Line.
In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Flanagan said that the two areas in which he and the governor were in agreement were holding the line on property taxes and cutting middle-class rates.
"I am heartbroken that I could not do more for PC Keith Palmer who gave his life in holding the line against terrorism and defending democracy," Ellwood said in a statement he posted online.
With a vote on the biggest tax rewrite in three decades set for Tuesday, Republicans were working to ensure party members were holding the line in favor of the legislation against entrenched Democratic opposition.
Similarly, in Holding the Line, Snodgrass classifies two kinds of senior leaders around Mattis: "attenuators," who took his bad moods in stride, and "amplifiers," who passed along his harshest criticisms, unfiltered, to their subordinates.
Incrementalism may assist holding the line against a resurgent Taliban, but isn't likely to change the course of the longest war in U.S. history and may be a recipe for endless war without victory.
But if you were a Trump supporter hoping to see her as a valiant stalwart, holding the line against some sort of coming darkness, well, it would be harder, but you could probably do it.
For now, Republicans are holding the line behind Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's position that they should start the trial and hear arguments from House prosecutors and Trump's defense team before deciding what to do.
The retired general went to great lengths to align the Pentagon's message with the president's, Guy Snodgrass recounts in "Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," which will be published on Oct. 29.
I'm one of the Republic's clones, holding the line at a landing pad, firing barrages of blood red laser fire at a platform across the water, pushing back a seemingly endless tide of beige battle droids.
Task & Purpose reports the new book, "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis" by former Mattis speechwriter and communications director Guy Snodgrass recounts that Mattis always tried to translate Trump's demands into ethical outcomes.
Military news outlet Task & Purpose reported that an upcoming book, "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," written by the former secretary's erstwhile speechwriter and communications director Guy Snodgrass, divulges and outlines the accusation.
Despite the meetings, party leaders believe they are holding the line on the nomination, with little wavering by Republicans in the face of a strong push by Democratic groups against Republican senators in their home states.
On an August visit by The New York Times to Chah-e-Anjir, the area near Lashkar Gah where the police officers and soldiers were massacred on Tuesday, the Special Forces were then holding the line.
President Donald Trump is holding the line on his threat to veto any spending bill that doesn't include at least $5 billion to fulfill his campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A guard's job used to be to get in the way — a burly body creating a sliver of daylight for a running back or a stand-tall guy holding the line against a surging pass rush.
That means holding the line on a 20 percent corporate tax rate and ensuring revenue-driven policies like an alternative minimum tax don't undo the benefits from pro-growth policies like full expensing of business investment.
"As an institution, we don't focus on the Hollywood glamour of the job," Guy Snodgrass, a former TOPGUN instructor who wrote the forthcoming book "Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," told INSIDER via email.
Last year, Americans for Prosperity and the Club for Growth targeted an incumbent House Republican, then-Representative Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, for being too close with House leadership and not holding the line on government spending.
"A sustainable approach to cooling is central to addressing climate change" both in terms of holding the line on emissions and cutting the risks from increasing heat, said Marc Sadler, from the World Bank's Climate Funds Management Unit.
By holding the line on government spending, cutting taxes on working Hoosiers and job creators, maintaining strong reserves and making the right investments, we can keep the cost of doing business low while attracting and retaining talent and investment.
There is also a show, Holding the Line: Ceramic Sculpture by Stanley Rosen at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum of Alfred University (October 19 – December 30, 2017), curated by Jamie Franklin, but I saw only the one at Stephen Harvey.
You're holding the line like you're defending Gralea, but just as the city was befallen by Daemons, the enchiladas break the phalanx and now everyone at the Phoenix, Cincinnati and Spokane offices are inquiring about the interference on the line.
Holding the line for the Supreme Court will likely mean four-to-eight years of liberal justices under a Democratic President Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
The revelations in Snodgrass's book, "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," come less than a day after the Pentagon announced Microsoft had won a hotly contested $10 billion cloud computing contract that Amazon was favored to win.
The final tally among the 10 voting members saw three dissents from Fed presidents – Eric Rosengren of Boston and Esther George of Kansas City, who favored holding the line, and James Bullard of St. Louis who wanted a half-point cut.
"In the context of the current state of affairs, I don't want to make a political statement that somehow we're not united as a nation in our stand in holding the line against Iran," Mr. Roy said in a brief interview.
But the general acknowledged the serious challenge of holding the line in what increasingly resembles a frozen conflict — one that locks Ukraine into a dangerous illusion that spending and acquiring more will give it the edge over a hybrid enemy.
De Waal quotes one American psychologist, insistently holding the line of our humanness at our ability, even as children, to work together toward a shared goal: "It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together," the psychologist says.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Abe faces the opposite forces, with the Japanese government holding the line that all claims to reparations over the comfort women and wartime slavery were settled by the two countries' bilateral trade agreement from the 1960s and other diplomatic agreements.
It was seen as a direct affront to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who's holding the line against a far-right resurgence in Europe and within Germany, and as a violation of the norm of ambassadors staying clear of other countries' domestic politics.
Set Boundaries With Compassion Establishing and holding the line on boundaries can lead to some of the most unpleasant moments in the parent-child relationship — but approaching those moments with compassion and kindness goes a long way toward keeping your blood pressure down.
He is someone who held one of the Fed's most influential positions and not only stated a position on rate cuts — he's against — but also encouraged holding the line as a way to spite Trump and perhaps torpedo his reelection chances next year.
All of which means that there will be a battle royale between the two leaders -- as Schumer seeks to lure four Republican senators to support his push for witnesses while McConnell tries to keep a majority in support of holding the line.
Trump recently praised McConnell for holding the line on the president's Supreme Court nomination of Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' Sen.
Not only are IS fighters holding the line against Iraqi soldiers and their American backers after ten weeks of fighting in Mosul, but they are also fending off Turkish troops 515km (320 miles) to the west, around the town of al-Bab in northern Syria.
A portion of this margin improvement was due to MS holding the line on expenses, with the compensation and benefits as a percentage of net revenues (comp ratio) in wealth management decline to 56% from 57% in both the sequential and year-ago quarters.
Although Trump has frequently assailed Iran's aggressive behavior beyond its borders, he offhandedly announced last Thursday that he would "very soon" pull out the 2,000 American troops in Syria — where, by opposing Bashar al-Assad, they are also holding the line against expansionism by Iran.
" Holding the line on rates "would give the Committee time for a fuller assessment of the ongoing effects on economic activity of last year's shift to a more accommodative policy stance and would also allow policymakers to accumulate further information bearing on the economic outlook.
"At this stage, stock markets appear to be holding the line despite the correction of the post U.S. election moves in the dollar and bond markets that is now well and truly under way," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, in a note.
In the Task & Purpose review of "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," a book about Mattis' time in the Trump administration, former Defense communications director Guy Snodgrass lays out the general's conflicts with Trump, including legal and ethical concerns over the Pentagon's lucrative contract.
You also aren't allowed to place your cover on the bar, place your phone on the bar, or answer your phone while at the bar," said Guy Snodgrass, a former TOPGUN instructor and author of the book "Holding the Line: Inside the Pentagon with General Mattis.
But, I think it bothered me that somehow even though we – I felt were holding the line in a way that many companies haven't been able to in China, meaning there was no discipline of our employee, there was never a suggestion that we weren't supporting him.
Which is to say it, too, relies on a version of Trump that isn't the version he's currently showing off on the campaign trail — where most of his criticisms of Obama have been that Obama is too willing to negotiate and compromise where he should be holding the line.
But holding the line on that prioritization will be harder if Democrats take back the power to pass policy, as the impulse is always to start with bills that immediately improve people's lives, as opposed to bills that will improve the process by which you can improve people's lives.
While the Trump administration is taking credit for stabilizing the Affordable Care Act, industry experts say insurers are holding the line on rates largely because they raised them so much a year ago in response to the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the future of the repeal effort.
No matter how the Republican presidential primary unfolds from here, all the factions of the #NeverTrump movement—the party operatives attacking him; the conservative opinion leaders holding the line against him; the Republican delegates loyal to Ted Cruz after the first ballot at the party's July convention—face severe conundrums.
John was strolling down a street at the Sundance Film Festival and he's praising Democrats for holding the line in the budget war that caused a government shutdown, saying they need to stand up to the man who referred to countries in Africa as well as Haiti as "shithole" countries.
But the true impact is felt on those Connecticut residents, so the report shifts that amount to the Connecticut tax burden, the second highest in the country (12.6 percent of total income.) For those governors running for president, the numbers show and wide variation in their records in holding the line on taxes.
And with this group, it was literally our fathers' or grandfathers' blood that had been shed in first liberating the Continent from fascism and then our generation's and our children's put at risk in holding the line against massive, echeloned Soviet tank armies for over four decades until the Wall was toppled.
In "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," author Guy Snodgrass presents a fly-on-the-wall view of how the retired general operated at the Pentagon amid myriad crises, from issues with North Korea and Iran to trying to get on the same page with a chaotic White House.
During the Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting at the Pentagon in January 2018, Trump was briefed by Mattis on the Defense Department's strategies and internal assessments, Guy Snodgrass, a retired US Navy commander and Mattis' former speechwriter, said in his book, "Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis," out next Tuesday.
Barron's latest cover story explains how hard it would be to prevent that growth: Just holding the line at 78% of GDP over the next three decades would require finding massive, immediate savings in the budget — $400 billion over the coming year, rising gradually to $2060 billion by 2048, using 2019 dollars.
For Mr. Rajoy, who has had its own problems keeping himself in power in Madrid (it took two elections, in 2015 and 2016, for him to retain his premiership), holding the line on Catalan independence plays to the wishes of conservative Spanish voters who form the bulk of his Popular Party's constituency, and who expect nothing else from him.
Here's where things stand: President Donald Trump is as insistent as ever on securing more than $5 billion to fund a physical barrier at the southern border (though he's now open to steel instead of concrete), and Democrats are similarly holding the line, refusing to provide more than the $1.3 billion they've offered up for border security.
"Governor Baker and Lt. Governor Polito are grateful for the support of Republicans, Democrats and independents from across the commonwealth who believe in their bipartisan record of delivering results for the people of Massachusetts, from nationally-recognized efforts to battle the opioid crisis, to making state government more accountable and efficient and holding the line against tax increases," Baker campaign spokesman Terry MacCormack told Fox News.
Titled "Holding The Line: Inside the Pentagon with General Mattis," the book description says its contents are drawn from Snodgrass' "meticulous notes" that he kept during 17 months working for Mattis, which include anecdotes on how he reacted when he learned of major policy decisions over Twitter rather than from the White House, and how Mattis "minimized the damage done" to allies and slow-rolled some of Trump's more controversial decisions.
In Holding the Line (a metaphor for service members defending the country but also for steady staters defending the Constitution), Snodgrass describes how Mattis worked together with "the adults"—Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, economic adviser Gary Cohn, and national security adviser H.R. McMaster (who sometimes rubbed Mattis the wrong way)—to defend mainstream defense, diplomatic, and economic policies against Trump's inchoate impulses.
Gerry ConnollyGerald (Gerry) Edward ConnollyHistory in the House: Congress weathers unprecedented week Democrat grills DHS chief over viral image of drowned migrant and child Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers struggle to understand Facebook's Libra project | EU hits Amazon with antitrust probe | New cybersecurity concerns over census | Robocall, election security bills head to House floor | Privacy questions over FaceApp MORE (D-Va.) predicted Pelosi would have plenty of backing within her caucus for holding the line.
Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyOvernight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces White House eyes September action plan for gun proposals Trump phoned Democratic senator to talk gun control MORE (D-Conn.), who is cosponsoring the Iran amendment, said there was a "strong belief" among several members of the caucus that NDAA is the right vehicle for holding the line about demanding a vote on Iran.

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