"Any lessening of the violence, lessening of the fighting, any pause that's actually implemented, would be very much welcome," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
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Feelings of love, and a lessening of the fear of death.
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Still, the unions have shown no sign of lessening their opposition.
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There was a lessening in tensions, and this goes against that.
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KBW said risks remain from a competitive environment, but with lessening impact.
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Such inducements include subsidies, easier financing, and a lessening of red tape.
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There's been — as you know, there's been no lessening of the sanctions.
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Unexplained-wealth orders may help by lessening the initial burden on investigators.
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It's another way Samsung's lessening the device's reliance on a smartphone connection.
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She insisted on organic seeds and fabrics, lessening workers' risk of cancer.
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Twitter and Google make their findings known later, lessening the PR blow.
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By treat it, I mean just lessening the severity and the duration.
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Or maybe we can say that we are lessening sanctions in the hope.
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"We're very conscious of not lessening the product we're putting out," Ponting said.
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Kent believes Batman's vigilante justice will result in a lessening of civil liberties.
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And they're not accepted by the vast majority of retailers, lessening their usefulness.
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Although the gender gap in small-business finance still exists, it is lessening.
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Even before the latest attack, the conflict was showing no signs of lessening.
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It must demonstrate that the mergers pose a significant threat of lessening competition.
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A feeling of unity, love, and a lessening of the fear of death.
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Bigger aerosols would fall out of the atmosphere sooner, lessening the cooling impact.
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No meeting with Mr. Trump, no easing of sanctions, no lessening of tensions.
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Few Americans were impacted by the crashes, lessening the usual public outrage, he said.
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A lessening of tensions in Syria, too, might soothe tempers back in Saudi Arabia.
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It also improves the water retention of soil, thus lessening the need for irrigation.
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HEAA affirms our promise to America of not just lessening—but eliminating –health disparities.
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Are companies just lessening their demand for credit because of already high leverage ratios?
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Late at night the most likely storm track shifted slightly east, potentially lessening damage.
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The inconsistency and sometimes overzealousness of enforcement of those rules seem to be lessening.
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"China wants to help Myanmar by lessening the international pressure on it," he said.
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Lessening the queerness of your art and yourself can be detrimental to your mental health.
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The results are lessening investor concerns about increased spending on privacy and security-related matters.
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"This suggests that such subsidies might be helpful in lessening disparities," Keating added by email.
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Facebook is considering this change to improve user experience by lessening competitive pressure between users.
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The result will be a gradual lessening of violence in Mexico and Central American countries.
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Much of the debate around higher-education inequity focuses on lessening the cost of tuition.
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Any lessening of pressure on Tehran will, at this critical time, only reward its aggression.
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Analysts say the incident may reduce user engagement with Facebook, lessening its clout with advertisers.
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We haven't seen any sign that that is lessening, diminishing our influence or our reach.
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She then narrowly survived a no-confidence vote, lessening the prospects for a general election.
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Analysts said that reflected a lessening of need for metal in China after a recent shortage.
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A surge in digital payments may be contributing to the lessening demand for lower denomination bills.
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They wanted to pivot away from NATO and toward Putin's Russia, lessening sanctions on the latter.
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Overall, Russian investment activity looks to be lessening in 2016 and 2017, with fewer rounds recorded.
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Some geologists, he notes, now think the asteroid impacts were spread over time, lessening their effects.
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Reducing research restrictions and lessening penalties for users would be a step in the right direction.
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Preventing and lessening the severity of existing cardiovascular disease and diabetes should be a key tactic.
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All they require is lessening the massive barriers to moving and working abroad that currently exist.
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As red and blue states pull further apart, the result is not a lessening of tensions.
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Stitch Fix said it anticipates "modestly" lessening its marketing spending through the rest of fiscal 2020.
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A decline in international enrollment is also lessening some of the competition applicants face for spots.
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EST: The RAND Corporation is holding a briefing about lessening the risk of Syrian refugee radicalization.
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Is there really something so lessening, something analogous to begging or borrowing, about being a waiter?
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For example, tests can be designed for open-book, timed conditions, lessening any concerns about cheating.
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They can work on lessening the sentence if Ambrose comes to work for him at the Academy.
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Storm surge will be a concern, peaking late Friday night through midday Saturday, then lessening after landfall.
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Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine any evidence of environmental damage lessening the Trump administration's appetite for oil.
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So they built ever more tools to give apps access to users' attention, instead of lessening it.
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Saif Saeed Ghobash said that tourism ensures a path to lessening the UAE's historic reliance on hydrocarbons.
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If a lessening of competition is found, the CMA can either seek remedies or block the deal.
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Looking up through the lessening rain, one of the workers saw the figure of a pregnant woman.
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The CMA's remit is to ascertain whether merger situations could result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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Slowly, though, the conversation around sexual assault is getting louder, and tolerance for this behavior is lessening.
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"Even when black women get represented, it's always in the way of lessening their blackness," says July.
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It gets ultra trippy, two dimensional images gaining and lessening depth at the turn of a dime.
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The stimulus package is largely considered to have curbed the Great Recession, lessening its impact on everyone.
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If you want to continue lessening your flow, you need to continue taking ibuprofen – 600 mg daily.
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Clearly, the Trump administration has made tremendous progress when it comes to lessening tensions with North Korea.
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That's because the US is now the world's leading oil producer, lessening its reliance on foreign crude.
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Thus far, the Chinese have shown no interest in lessening the tension -- they believe this is Chinese airspace.
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While taboos around mental illness are slowly lessening, the reality is, it's still hard — and kind of scary!
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The lessening of Brexit risk pressured the safe-haven yen and helped the U.S. dollar up to 109.10.
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The common theme is one of time-spread volatility but a lessening of any LME stocks price signal.
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The neighbors are also discussing reconnecting railways and roads, and lessening guard posts along the heavily militarized border.
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A 2014 sector reform aimed at lessening Slim's dominance had previously barred America Movil from charging the fees.
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But the greatest safety practice is in preventing or lessening potential confrontation, which is where United dismally failed.
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Capitec has been lessening its dependence on lending by growing its revenue from transactional banking in recent years.
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"We knew we were not lessening his commute when we bought this home," Ms. Coffey, a teacher, said.
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Meanwhile, the growing popularity of other beauty products are lessening the importance of lipstick sales as a bellwether.
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Even "syndrome" has an air of sophistication, an augmentation rather than the lessening that "deficit" or "defect" brings.
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Saudi oil, compared to other petro-states and companies, has a lower carbon intensity when produced, lessening emissions.
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But Ryan's outreach to conservatives has gone a long way toward lessening the acrimony in the GOP conference.
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"He was lessening the faith the people of New York had in their Police Department," Judge Stein said.
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"The apple cider vinegar will help reduce the appearance of the spider veins by lessening the redness," she says.
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All came after Thompson-Robinson was forced out after fumbling with 222:215 remaining, lessening the margin of defeat.
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That could allow Scotland greater access to the EU's single market, while lessening the threat of a Spanish veto.
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Zakaria asked Peña Nieto whether he envisioned the battle against the drug cartels lessening in the next several years.
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"Being a snob could actually be socially counterproductive, lessening one's ability to move across different social networks," Vanderbilt notes.
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"It can't be a lessening, in my opinion, of the options the president has," said North Carolina Republican Sen.
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Lessening their talent would probably reduce the chance James will stay in the first place, but you never know!
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Many on the right too often attribute this decline wrongly to a lessening in the support for unions overall.
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Barkin said that lessening uncertainty on trade and "lowering the volume" would provide a big boost to the economy.
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The explosive chemical ignited in the pipe bomb but the pipe itself did not explode, lessening its impact, Gov.
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But headgear has been effective in lessening head trauma caused by stick-to-head or ball-to-head contact.
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Of course, the biggest change could just be eliminating games and shortening seasons, lessening exposure to hits all together.
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Commercial flight innovation was the next step forward, quickening travel and further lessening the geographical divides of the country.
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When you increase blood flow, you help to restore oxygenation to the tissue, thereby decreasing inflammation and lessening discomfort.
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But the advantages are clear, and there's a path towards lessening the resource burden in creating these systems, too.
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Yet it's possible, said study author Julia Raifman, that the rates dropped thanks to a lessening of social stigma.
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The carbohydrates rapidly fuel muscles, lessening some of the physiological stress of working out and prompting less inflammation afterward.
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The system helps the motorcycle get rolling from a stop, lessening the chance of a stall off the line.
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And "while the stigma associated with male sexual assault is lessening," men still overwhelmingly refrain from reporting these crimes.
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Candidate after candidate trying to drag Biden down by lessening the accomplishments of the President under whom he served.
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By lessening my hold on his future, I have become more open to the present: that beautiful, ephemeral thing.
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Scanwell's can be performed completely at home, reducing time for a diagnosis and lessening strain on the supply chain.
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But empirical evidence, Bebchuk and Tallarita said, shows that lessening accountability leads to worse decisionmaking and decreased corporate performance.
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U.S. corporations have been lessening their dependence on China, diversifying their supply chains to other Asian and European nations.
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Democrats advocate lessening union financial disclosure in the United States instead of requiring it as they seek with Mexico.
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Seoul eventually said it would hold off on scrapping its military intelligence sharing agreement with Tokyo, lessening tensions somewhat.
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It's almost impossible for any kind of lessening of tensions right now because of what they did in the election.
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It concluded that the deal would result in a substantial lessening of competition at both a national and local level.
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The Nikkei stock index ended up 2.5 percent as risk appetite recovered, lessening the appeal of safe-haven government debt.
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Nonetheless, the report recommended several areas for systematic reform, such as lessening caseloads and improving investigative training for social workers.
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Dimon also said "too big to fail" fears have been eradicated, lessening the need for current regulations like Dodd-Frank.
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In the interim, Beijing has tantalizingly offered to purchase American goods and services in exchange for the lessening of sanctions.
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The most obvious reason for the lessening chances is the simple loss of U.S. commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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FHA, in particular, helps working-class Americans get homes by lessening the insurmountable down payment needed for a home loan.
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Some analysts think the chavistas will find a more popular candidate to replace him, lessening the need for electoral thievery.
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The explosive chemical ignited in the pipe but the pipe itself did not explode, lessening its impact, New York Gov.
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I also know that we are not powerless when it comes to lessening the burden communities can face from disasters.
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This should allow SpaceX to reuse without any refurbishment required, lessening the time and money cost of relaunches further still.
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It has several health benefits like reducing cortisol levels that cause stress, lessening blood pressure, and slowing the heart rate.
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However, the trader emphasizes that he is buying in the money calls, lessening the probability of Gordon losing that premium.
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It also is known to contribute to improved insulin and blood sugar control, lessening the risk for Type 2 diabetes.
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By lowering the value of its currency, China is making a United States dollar worth more, lessening that financial hit.
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Fewer people consider themselves religious today than in the past, lessening the need for a traditional funeral in a church.
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With Merkel in office for three terms by now, we would predict a lessening of electoral support for her party.
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The warmer weather was seen accelerating lagging crop maturity and lessening the risk that yields could be damaged by frost.
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It's an event that impacts our culture that is lessening and will go away, and that I think is a shame.
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Smart infrastructure placement can drive generation into the grid where it's needed most, lessening stress on large and often outdated grids.
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"This decision does not represent any lessening of U.S. commitment to our strategic goals in Syria," Nauert said in her statement.
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Lessening the impact of this disparity, though, is the fact that American forecasters do have access to the European models' simulations.
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As he has worked on the script, Mr. Graham has reduced his online presence, lessening his use of Twitter and Facebook.
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If that inquiry, which lasts up to 24 weeks, does not find a lessening of competition, the transaction will be cleared.
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Supporters of the idea say it would be a way to improve communication with Pyongyang without lessening the pressure of sanctions.
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At the same time, we've also seen in many areas of the country a lessening of the restrictions surrounding marijuana use.
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Forcing survivors to disclose by requiring a police report adds insult to literal injury, burdening survivors instead of lessening their pain.
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It contributes to the lessening of stigma and the normalisation of discussing mental health: here's hoping that others follow their lead.
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There's simply no way to justify a lessening of social distance principles when those stats are staring you in the face.
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More likely is that the administration will seek other ways to increase competition by lessening the privileges granted to the GSEs.
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Reducing this military footprint, and thus lessening the havoc the United States wreaks abroad, must be a priority for the left.
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The program, aimed at lessening the burden of student loan debt and increasing recruitment and retention, will begin later this year.
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Focusing health care policy on innovation can go a long way toward reducing the rancor and lessening the pre-ex problem.
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Healthy soil is more efficient at capturing carbon, supporting plants, wildlife, and insects, and lessening the impact of floods and droughts.
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Even in lessening the charges against Manafort, prosecutors still have significant leverage over him if he isn't helpful to their investigation.
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Then again, one team could be a wild card and cross over into the other division, lessening the chances of a meeting.
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The chicken cull resulting from the strike would have alleviated some of that pressure by lessening oversupply, said Theurer, the Barclays analyst.
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Tapping water from Mulanje Mountain "will ensure that some water will be supplied using gravity, thereby lessening the energy costs", she said.
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"This is not a change of policy or a lessening of this government's determination for these changes to come about," he said.
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"At face value, one could suspect that a lot of the pain in China was sort of lessening," said Action Economics' Rupert.
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Latinos are also going to college in greater numbers, lessening the skills gap that helps drive the structural barriers to business growth.
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Precision medicine uses the body's immune or hormonal system to attack cancer cells, lessening harm to healthy cells and decreasing side effects.
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"With a stroller, the child can squirm around, sleep, be a kid — it's lessening the strain on the parents," Hooks told R29.
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It is also critical to identify options for avoiding or lessening these risks, from traditional plant breeding to genetic modification to supplements.
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Ordinary Zimbabweans, who participated in the protest on July 6, have stopped joining protests since then, lessening the pressure on the government.
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"The economic crisis and public discontent are lessening the chances of President Omar al-Bashir running for the 2020 elections," he said.
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Maduro's reelection in May 2018 was denounced as a sham by critics, and the country's economic woes show no sign of lessening.
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In addition, tariffs generally have a depressing effect on global trade, lessening the demand for new aircraft to transport goods and people.
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Mr. Moon's government says that such a declaration will encourage North Korea to denuclearize by lessening its fear of the American intentions.
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But the Saudi monarch, almost 83 years old, has shown no signs of lessening his son's near-total control over the kingdom.
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Improving productivity across the board could help satisfy rising meat demand while lessening the need to clear broad swaths of rain forest.
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During that time — and even while vaccines are being produced — the circulating viruses can mutate, lessening the effectiveness of the chosen vaccine.
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The BoE said its tolerance for above-target inflation was lessening even if Britain's departure from the European Union remained a risk.
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Trish Amato, 43, was hired too late to get a traditional pension, lessening the need to hang on to a GM job.
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The resistance among top House Republicans to the stability funding appears to be lessening, but rank-and-file conservatives remain an obstacle.
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Meanwhile, Berchtold was up on kidnapping charges, and Berchtold's wife, Gail, used the affair information to blackmail the Brobergs into lessening the chargers.
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Along with those other stocks, shares of Align are rebounding as they also benefit from lessening concerns about competitive price pressures, Kreger said.
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"Several users and reviewers note that this simply shifts the benefit of notification to another location, rather than lessening the load," Juniper noted.
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So while the tech giants work on lessening the impact of smartphone addiction, in the end, real change has to come from within.
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Unfortunately this piece is hung in a narrow corridor outside of the main exhibition, lessening the impact of its presence in the exhibition.
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The goal is to maximize returns by lessening the chance a major market event would have a devastating effect on an entire portfolio.
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But when America's economy prospers, they can also suffer, because the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, lessening demand for emerging-market assets.
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It was nightfall before word came that the fire near the Hoffmans&apos home was lessening, thanks to firefighting efforts and changing winds.
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But the gradual lessening of the backwardation was a real-time indicator that strongly suggested the balance between supply and demand was shifting.
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The central bank said its tolerance for above-target inflation was lessening even if Britain's departure from the European Union remained a risk.
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Pemex, or Petroleos Mexicanos, on Friday cited a late October deepwater pre-salt oil auction in Brazil for lessening interest in its project.
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This would allow the bus to cruise above the traffic jams that plague roads in urban China, while lessening the gridlock for others.
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"Even if official data understate the degree of inequality, the trend of lessening inequality is believable," says Li Shi of Beijing Normal University.
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That would create another way to build trust while lessening a potential military threat about which both sides have good cause to worry.
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"The meditation seems to act like a 'hard reboot' for his brain, almost instantly resolving mood swings or lessening anger," Ms. Simmons said.
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The measure also includes a provision for companies to sign leniency agreements lessening their punishments in exchange for providing pertinent information to prosecutors.
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But Trump's new national security adviser should at least treat Russia rationally: Seek cooperation where possible and strive for a lessening of tensions.
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Increasing diversity among officers may not be enough alone to lead to lessening racial disparity in police shootings, according to a new study.
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That will often mean lessening the roles of humans in jobs that can now be done more efficiently and accurately by computer software.
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That chunk of money will either have to be made up by other nations or disappear altogether, lessening EU investment in Eastern Europe.
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And that he was limiting the use of a secondary pitch, a slider, in hopes of lessening the strain on his troublesome elbow.
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Lessening any potential effect on polar bears of that work, which involves heavy trucks traversing the tundra, is causing the delay, he said.
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Fur farmers have a financial interest in lessening their environmental strain: A too-warm planet may mean citizens who no longer need fur.
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People say they see a difference in the lessening of wrinkles and sagging skin and in the dewiness and softness of their skin.
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Some states make it easier to get driver's licenses, lessening the chance of being dragged into the deportation machine by a traffic stop.
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What's more, the women regarded coding as a safer job because it kept them indoors, lessening their exposure to street-level sexual harassment.
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Alberto's projected storm track has shifted eastward since Friday, lessening its threat to the active oil production areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The levels of oxygen released by the tank are regulated based on the time the final ascent takes, but lessening those can be risky.
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GOP leaders have talked about removing the subsidies altogether or lessening the total amount spent on them, and have discussed repealing the coverage mandate.
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Mindfulness is thought to have wide-ranging effects, from lessening depressive symptoms to reducing anxiety and helping to deal with chronic pain and trauma.
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However, Trump's Republican Party controls both the Senate and House of Representatives, lessening the chance of passing any measure opposed by the White House.
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Hermine's march up the East Coast shifted toward the east Sunday, lessening the storm's impact on coastal New Jersey, Delaware and New York City.
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China also asked that America recognise it as a market economy at the World Trade Organisation, lessening the scope for punishment in trade disputes.
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But new rumors suggest, at the very least, the new Galaxy will be getting a bigger battery, hopefully lessening the pangs of smartphone nostalgia.
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And while higher U.S. yields may have given the dollar a lift for the moment, Yamamoto saw the correlation between the two lessening ahead.
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Moreover, by limiting themselves to wedge issues that wouldn't really move the needle in lessening gun violence, the Democrats are limiting their negotiating position.
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These brain changes can have significant effects on mood and cause depression, ultimately lessening a person's ability to lead their best and healthiest life.
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This should help to procure ongoing multilateral and bilateral debt, in turn, lessening the risks of a fiscal and/or balance of payments crisis.
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An alternative bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in February contains measures aimed at lessening the severity of some federal sentencing guidelines.
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"As being unmarried becomes more of a social norm, it is likely that lifestyle differences between married and unmarried people are lessening," he said.
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Neom is the centerpiece in bin Salman's Vision 2030 plan to modernize and diversify the Saudi economy, lessening the kingdom's reliance on fossil fuels.
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Some observers suggest that the court ruling could backfire on liberal activists, lessening the sense of urgency around the search for a congressional remedy.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was considering whether a merger of the two would result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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"When you impose tariffs, what you are doing is increasing prices for the folks at home and therefore lessening their purchasing power," Bell said.
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Russia might want to think about a compassionate release for Paul Whelan, lessening the number of people for whom Russia is responsible by one.
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A half-hour session of running changes the interior of the knee, it suggests, reducing inflammation and lessening levels of a marker of arthritis.
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"President Moon said if President Trump asks, South Korea will be ready to do its part, lessening the United States' burden," Mr. Kim said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, also a Democrat, was still considered a step forward for those pushing for lessening drug penalties, particularly the expungement of records.
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Warmer ocean temperatures Warmer ocean temperatures could also be playing a role in the lessening ice, something that scientists have been warning about for years.
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Those numbers could change, the report notes, especially if the economy continues to improve, driving down defaults and lessening the effect of the 2008 recession.
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It should discourage the formation of the sprawling coalitions that wield power in Brazil, lessening the need for pork and patronage to hold them together.
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Lessening the impact of this disparity, though, is the fact that American forecasters do have access to the European models' simulations, through a cooperative agreement.
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The result, he explained, was a lessening of a more linear or impactful relationship between the Science and Technology community and near-term weapons developers.
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The drug is thought to mimic some of the positive effects of calorie restriction by lessening the amount of sugar the body produces and absorbs.
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But the President can still publicly champion values like open political discourse and free expression as a means to lessening the root drivers of extremism.
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A result was a lessening of my pre-diabetes and an improvement in my thyroid disease to subclinical, something I could not achieve with medications.
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The unmanned aerial vehicles will help the NYPD gather key information as situations unfold before officers arrive, lessening the danger to them, the agency said.
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"We had some lessening of expenses in some key areas last year," Brian Olsavsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, said on a conference call with analysts.
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Perhaps classes to help immigrant Muslim women adapt to the European culture and its values would be beneficial and a step toward lessening the strife.
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I also think the easy access to pornography via the internet has really dented men's libidos, lessening the need for going out on the hunt.
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In Ms. Wohl's play, it has a flattening effect, the verisimilitude of the casting lessening the theatricality of a piece so dependent on make-believe.
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With the Chrome update, the company hopes to come out ahead by lessening the temptation of web users to install more comprehensive ad-blocking software.
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Even fidgeting is beneficial, a study from July showed, lessening the otherwise detrimental effects of long bouts of sitting on blood flow to the legs.
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British American Tobacco — An analyst at Bank of America upgraded British American Tobacco to buy from underperform, citing lessening regulatory risks in the near term.
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Depriving them of votes and lessening this total will therefore weaken their mandate, these nonvoters say, and marginally diminish their ability to instate an agenda.
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Sprint's network plan involves boosting its cell coverage through small cells and lessening its reliance on traditional large-cell installations owned by the nation's tower providers.
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Analysts are also concerned that by lessening the chances of an economic slowdown, the move may put the kibosh on further Bank of Japan (BOJ) easing.
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Its major reforms include lessening "three strikes" sentences, granting exemptions to mandatory minimum sentences, and allowing for nonviolent offenders to work toward early release from prison.
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Australia likely even have enjoyed its first quarterly current account surplus since 1975, lessening its reliance on foreign funding at a time when markets are stressed.
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"The only lessening of competition that would occur is if this merger is blocked," said Daniel Petrocelli, the lead lawyer for AT&T and Time Warner.
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Clinton, meanwhile, had clearly dialed back her tone, dropping the shouting and lessening the tense exchanges with the Vermont senator, while talking more to the audience.
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Another option is "air lubrication," which involves blowing air bubbles below ships to reduce friction, lessening the amount of dirty fuel needed for cross-world voyages.
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One will lead to higher growth, reduced financial risk and a lessening of inequality; the other will see all those measures head in the wrong direction.
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Stocks and bonds can — and have — shown positive return correlations throughout history, lessening the ability of a 60/40 portfolio to provide the benefit of diversification.
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By having a full stomach, Beyder says, you're slowing down the rate at which you get messed up and lessening the likelihood of making a mess.
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Greenhand's strategies for lessening an overpowering high are eating a big meal, exercising, and if all else fails, crawling into bed and going to sleep. Congratulations!
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"We've come a long way with being in the public eye, but in terms of lessening violence, there hasn't been a lot of change," he said.
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In Denmark, for example, similar reductions in income have been found after hospitalizations, but government programs help replace some of the losses, lessening people's financial burden.
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Breathe in this pose for three breaths, going deeper as it feels comfortable for you or lessening the stretch if it feels like too much pressure.
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By 1975, North Vietnam was on the verge of conquering the south, and the need for educational facilities that were out of harm's way was lessening.
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The emergency cut moved up the Fed's action, lessening the need for another move at the March meeting, Bullard said, but policymakers are tracking developments closely.
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" Long before Trump's rise, they found that: "motivating people to reduce prejudice by emphasizing external control" resulted in worsening rather than lessening "explicit and implicit prejudice.
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Many of these physicians believed they were helping poor Indigenous communities by shrinking family units, and lessening the burden of more mouths to feed, Stote writes.
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Among American Jews, a growing rate of intermarriage with gentiles is lessening attachment to Israel, and Jewish organizations are increasingly divided over support for the country.
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The extra USB port means you can plug in your phone to charge as well, possibly lessening the number of dangling wires by your bedside table.
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And the recipient non-profits reasonably fear that even the possibility of disclosure would reduce donations, lessening their ability to participate in the marketplace of ideas.
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That Diane unknowingly thanks Marissa for the work Jay did in finding a witness suggests that the tension at the firm shows no signs of lessening.
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While changing established habits requires a high degree of motivation, the promise of shrinking plaque and lessening one's risk for heart attack should be quite motivating.
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The company reported by far its most profitable quarter in history late Wednesday, lessening concerns of a looming cash crunch that had been weighing on shares.
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"Continued weak productivity growth, relatively high labour costs, plus weakening labour-force participation are lessening economic capacity to support good outcomes in wellbeing," the OECD wrote.
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Why shouldn't someone who knows how to think long term and is interested in lessening the world's pain get to use those powers instead of him?
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After a review into the mine's operations, some shafts at risk of closure would continue to operate, lessening job losses, Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman said.
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Drug cartels are increasingly either selling fentanyl in pill form or cutting heroin with fentanyl to boost its potency, thus lessening their need for naturally grown opioids.
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"The Government has failed to meet its burden of proof to show that the merger is likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition," proclaimed Leon.
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"What she saw made her devoted to lessening the suffering of a lot of the Syrian refugees and everything she does is for that purpose," he said.
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Established creators — like Crowder, who reaches more than 4 million people — often have a large audience ready to buy products, significantly lessening the severity of the punishment.
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Barra also cited the company's efforts to shift many of the affected hourly workers to other plants, lessening the impact of the cuts among blue-collar workers.
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The performance enhancements do go a way toward lessening that feeling of sacrifice, while the Retina Display gives the MacBook another thing to lord over the Air.
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He's spoken powerfully about the disproportionate impact of the drug war on young people of color, tasking his administration with lessening inequities in the criminal justice system.
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"People talk about a sense of oneness with the universe, that lessening of selfhood that's associated with a more spiritual, heady, altered state of consciousness," she said.
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Lessening that reduction by even a mere 1 percent, to have more revenue for other reforms like Rubio's child tax credit, was a "massive" fight, Rubio said.
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The reformists and their allies have the modest goal of preventing a principlist victory, or at least lessening their power in the parliament and Assembly of Experts.
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He has argued that the issue divides Republicans, many of whom remain averse to lessening criminal penalties of any kind, and could dampen enthusiasm at the polls.
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With her cart filling and her agony lessening, Ms. Gutierrez saw her sweet and reliable teammate in a new light: He possessed a dry wit and charm.
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This is beneficial for the same reasons the new headers work: it helps someone with low vision orient she/he navigate an interface, also lessening strain and fatigue.
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And by avoiding, or lessening, bouts of these blues you're less likely to say "to hell with it" and double your debt by buying that Madewell leather jacket.
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The on-ear and around-ear models have a curved headband aimed at lessening the pressure on the ears, and the ear cushions are made of memory foam.
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President Barack Obama called for more research into smart gun technology as part of a series of executive actions he announced last week aimed at lessening gun violence.
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The Communist Party has shown no signs of lessening its grip on the country however, and political repression and control has only increased under Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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But if the Falcon 9 needs numerous inspections and refurbishment between landings and follow-up launches, that's going to require extra money, lessening the cost savings of reusability.
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Their sex scene in his office bathroom is over-the-top in a way that feels passionless — as if Renata were lessening her anger through ridiculously loud sex.
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The BLM rule simply makes straightforward financial and economic sense, and it also helps to reduce risks by lessening climate warming pollution, smog and toxic carcinogens like benzene.
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"To date, it's had no effect, we haven't seen any lessening of demand, but that's not to say it shouldn't be something that we're concerned about," he said.
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Pincus and Hoffman can also work toward their stated goal of lessening the gulf between the super-rich and everyone else when it comes to influencing party platforms.
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" The tax agency said that an accountable care organization participating in Medicare could be tax-exempt because it advances "the charitable purpose of lessening the burdens of government.
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Folding beaten eggs into mousses and custards can both lighten the mouthfeel by introducing air, and can sharpen the flavors by lessening the need for butter and cream.
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Van Hollen originally had an amendment in the defense authorization that would prevent any new deals with China lessening penalties against a company that had been recently punished.
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The regulator argued that the deal, along with the appointment of Pacific National to operate the Acacia Ridge Terminal, would likely result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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They involve lessening burdens: removing paperwork that does not positively affect patient care, lightening bureaucracies and dissolving the form-filling, diagnosis-coding, button-pushing culture of modern medicine.
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For those who do choose to travel home, experts said driving is preferable to flying as it reduces contact with other people, lessening the risk of getting infected.
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The power of the United States may be lessening in a relative sense, but the country has its tentacles in projects and countries virtually all over the world.
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A truly viable third party is the only way I can envision a long-term lessening of the polarization in both Washington, D.C., and many of the states.
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Exercise seems to be especially potent at lessening the likelihood of developing seven common malignancies, the new recommendations add: colon, breast, endometrial, kidney, bladder, esophageal and stomach cancers.
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But on Sunday, a viral tweet resurfaced a rarely-discussed method for lessening menstrual flow – and gynecologists told Insider it is valid, safe, and should be common knowledge.
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Yet despite the British public's increased knowledge of environmental issues around plastic, Ms. Nicholls said that supermarkets and retail companies were performing poorly in lessening their plastic footprint.
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U.S. stock futures were jumping on optimism generated by a potential phase one China trade deal, and a lessening of Brexit-related uncertainty following the U.K. election results.
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In Western Pennsylvania, for example, nonresidential construction is booming, and there is no sign of lessening, said Jeff Nobers, executive director of the Builders Guild of Western Pennsylvania.
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China keeps a firm hand on the financial system and has the ability to throw money at problems that emerge, lessening the chances of a shocking financial crash.
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The adoption of a negative interest rate in February has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero, further lessening the rationale for lenders to buy the sovereign bonds.
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Looking at the last three names on the list, consolidation and commoditization in these categories is moving sales online, and lessening the dependence on physical stores, JLL predicts.
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A peaceful and successful Olympic Games, good relations with China (which can aid economic growth), and a lessening of tension are high on a list of Moon's goals.
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Rather than be derailed by endless worrying, deal with the uncertainty productively: Ask your interviewer directly when you can expect to hear back — lessening the impact of that trigger.
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The fans even booed and chanted throughout a first period video tribute to Tavares, lessening only slightly when footage of him aired of him in the Long Island community.
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Both have been lessening their workload recently, with the Queen handing off patronage of 25 charities to various younger members of her family at the end of the year.
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"There's some feeling that if you show compassion for the girls, you're somehow lessening what happen to Bella," she added, referring to the victim Payton Leutner by her nickname.
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It's possible that biologists will figure out how to add this trait to other plants, boosting their productivity while lessening the need for chemical fertilizer, which is hugely polluting.
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It was one of the largest fines ever implemented for robocall violations, and it signified that the federal government would prioritize lessening the burden of these calls on consumers.
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Economists had estimated the tax breaks would inject about A$7.5 billion ($5.18 billion) into the economy over 2019/20, lessening the need for a reduction in interest rates.
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That result would still guarantee her a Senate seat and immunity from arrest, but is seen lessening her chances of making a new run for the presidency in 2019.
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This will entail increasing the credibility of our threats and promises, and lessening our sensitivity to Russia's false indignation and knee-jerk protests to defensive U.S. and NATO activities.
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The supreme heat seems to be sticking around despite the lessening effects of El Niño NASA made these high temperature measurements thanks to satellite data and ground-based observation.
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"Lessening the risk of concentrated assets is key to securing financial stability, which is what we are interested in," said Choi Jong-ku, Chairman of the Financial Services Commission.
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However, the Transports index rallied 5 percent last week, essentially lessening the divergence between itself and the Dow, which had been hitting all-time highs while the transports lagged.
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"We hope the dismissal of these cases reflects a lessening of trade tensions as our leaders continue to dialogue," National Sorghum Producers Chairman Don Bloss said in a statement.
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But this traditional establishment formula is no longer the determinative advantage it once was because the value of money is lessening with new campaign technologies that do things differently.
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And gradually, demand grew: By the mid-70s, increased access to birth control and legalized abortion and lessening stigma of single parenthood plummeted the supply of healthy white babies.
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The government promised on Wednesday to spend 400 million pounds ($540 million) on replacing unsafe cladding on public high-rise blocks, lessening the burden on cash-strapped local authorities.
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The argument that Democrats should be making again and again is that Trump is taking actions that directly harm Americans by lessening health care coverage and increasing its cost.
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The bureau said the asset sales were needed to prevent a substantial lessening of competition in the supply and development of some crop protection products and specialized packaging plastics.
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The ACT government carries out an annual cull, which it says is aimed at lessening the animals' impact on ecosystems and threats to some local flora and fauna species.
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"We would positively anticipate that caffeine intake and caffeinated coffee consumption may be beneficial for lessening rosacea severity as well," he said, "but this would require further clinical investigation."
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Italy is showing very early signs that it may be turning a corner with the coronavirus as the number of new deaths and cases lessening, according to multiple reports.
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Ami Dang, a musician and Maryland native, expressed a similar sentiment: Many in the arts can buy houses and rent inexpensive studios, lessening the financial pressure artists frequently face.
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"Some have tried to portray today's decision as somehow lessening the disastrous effects of the FCC's recent net neutrality repeal," said Harold Feld, senior vice president of Public Knowledge.
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That&aposs not just because Amazon is lessening its dependence on those companies, but also because the retailer is slated to start moving non-Amazon packages in its network.
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The reason, they argued, is that limiting the President's authority could curtail the United States' ability to respond effectively to nuclear threats, thus lessening the deterrents to nuclear war.
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The main sticking point is increasing base pay and lessening teachers' reliance on one-time bonuses for having students with high test scores or working in a high-poverty school.
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"The FTC quickly decided that the combination did not create a significant danger of lessening competition in any market," Erik Gordon, a business professor at the University of Michigan, said.
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"Very large U.S. corn and soybean crops added to the buildup in global stocks that has weighed on markets, diminishing price volatility and lessening trading opportunities," spokeswoman Lisa Clemens said.
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By eventually removing large numbers of cars from the road, Uber says, it will help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, lessening the effects of climate change.
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And last week, The Tampa Bay Times reported that the Florida legislature "failed to pass many of the bills they identified as essential" to lessening the damage from future storms.
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However, it is unfortunate that the CCCS is taking a very narrow market definition in arriving at its conclusion that the Transaction has led to a substantial lessening of competition.
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"The way I would word it is that some kids are walking out to show support for lessening school violence, in honor of the people in Florida," Ms. Peterson said.
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Results showed encouraging improvements in weight-gain and a lessening of anxiety and depression along with a low dropout rate, a perennial problem when treating any kind of eating disorder.
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One future is business as usual, which continues the rapid increases in wind and solar and also slow, gradual and uneven lessening of — but not abandoning — oil and natural gas.
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"It's not equitable to have a situation where you're increasing the burden on lower-income citizens and lessening the burden on wealthy citizens," said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee.
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Even as the markets' risk averse mood eased slightly and regional equities gained, lessening the appeal of the perceived safe-haven yen, the dollar shed 296.705 percent to 21.1 yen .
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The fire is now 65 percent contained, according to the AP. Conditions have improved in recent days, with cooler, more-humid weather lessening the threat to homes and other buildings.
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The scene was too complicated as I had written it, and I was trying to make it simpler without lessening the tension or giving away what was going to happen.
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Such units are now helping countries in Central and Eastern Europe receive gas from abroad, lessening their dependence on Russia for energy and creating a more globally integrated energy system.
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Some fans may view this as a betrayal, muses performer Alexis Fawx, lessening the authenticity of a shot, misrepresenting advertised scenes, or otherwise mucking with the integrity of a fantasy.
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" He continued, "We need to keep having the puck a lot more and lessening the opportunities the other team has, and I thought we did a good job of that tonight.
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Calling a new election now reduces her time to organize and coordinate effectively with the main opposition party, the center-left Democrats, in essence lessening the threat she poses to Abe.
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As with the Huawei chip, the time spend offloading all this data processing to the cloud should be vastly reduced, theoretically improving performance and again lessening the strain on battery life.
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He limited communications with the outside world, according to American and Iraqi intelligence officials, which meant his organization operated with sparing input from him, lessening the practical effects of his demise.
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Anti-abortion advocates often fend off accusations that they're merely "pro-birth" because they're not focused on advancing policies that benefit infants and mothers, like parental leave or lessening maternal mortality.
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The deal would have resulted in a substantial lessening of competition at both a national and local level, with prices rising in stores, online and at petrol stations, the CMA said.
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Then again, maybe more research should have been done before also declaring that porn "can impact brain development and functioning [and] is linked to lessening desire in young men to marry."
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Power up: One of the big advantages with Harvey was the fact that, by and large, the power grid stayed up, lessening the need for cell towers to rely on generators.
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In fact, I probably lost sleep over the decision, weighing the potential power sacrifices I'd be making for the promise of portability and the lessening of long-term lower back pain.
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And although this path won't necessarily garner sexy headlines, especially since there's little that's seemingly dramatic about preventing something, it could possibly prove really dramatic in lessening the burden of cancer.
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Lessening the burden of government debt on future generations, he argued, is the right thing to do, as is implementing the structural reforms that will make the British economy more competitive.
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"A lot of people assume this encourages use instead of trying to prevent it, but it's about lessening the risk of a harmful behavior," says Jazmin Rivera, the TYSA program manager.
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By lessening the burdens of care and bringing parity to the way plans cover these new innovative oral treatments and traditional IV treatments, we can improve outcomes and adherence for patients.
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The existing standards not only help to improve America's health in the near-term, they also help protect public health for decades to come by lessening the impacts of climate change.
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Yet that trend is seen as more of a tax on consumer spending than a sign of overheating demand, greatly lessening the need for an interest rate response by the RBA.
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The plan to tackle drought in southern Africa is part of a global initiative by the Red Cross to help one billion people by 2025 by lessening their reliance on aid.
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America Movil, which holds more than half of Mexico's mobile phone subscriptions, saw its profitability fall sharply after a 2014 telecommunications overhaul by the government, aimed at lessening the firm's dominance.
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Furthermore, a trade deal between the United States and China, and the prospect of an orderly Brexit are lessening the two main risks the ECB had said were clouding the horizon.
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A trade deal between the United States and China, and the prospect of an orderly Brexit are also lessening the two main risks the ECB had said were clouding the horizon.
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The governor said he knew that any lessening of Ms. Clark's sentence would be denounced by law enforcement groups, a prospect he found painful to contemplate after years of mutual support.
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I want to stress that while most of the above is about lessening the visible effects of vitiligo, I personally do not consider it a disorder, an illness, or a disease.
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The flow of Central Americans seeking asylum in the U.S. has simultaneously been lessening as a result of the more restrictive policies put in place by the Trump administration and Mexico.
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The deal contains enforceable labor provisions that require Mexico to adhere to International Labor Organization standards to drive Mexican wages higher, lessening Mexico's attractiveness as a place for labor-intensive investment.
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From the obvious of having a steady income to fund your new venture, to forcing yourself to focus only on what delivers the highest impact and lessening the pressure on yourself.
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But the White House wants to try to take steps to uphold the enforcement of the law, while at the same time lessening the trauma of children being separated from their parents.
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Given the tumultuous nature of Trump's presidency, Democrats could have concluded that the way to victory in 2020 is to promise voters a "return to normalcy" and a lessening of political conflict.
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We need to recognize that entertainment choices have consequences -- more of us need to change the channel and stop conflating our news and entertainment choices, thereby lessening the influence of talking heads.
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As in the EU at large, lessening the relevance of national borders would seem wiser than redrawing them and, in the words of one senior EU official, "opening the gates to hell".
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The prospect of the U.S. lessening its role in the strategically important waterway indicated a weakening of a nearly 40-year-old U.S. policy to defend national interests in the Persian Gulf.
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But in a world where the U.S. rate outlook is probably neutral ... and there is some lessening of the economic data, expecting people to drive a sell-off is hard to do.
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Not every image is of or about women, but every photo fulfills the goals of Renstrom and the magazine's editor-in-chief Ellis Jones: lessening the deficit in representation of female artists.
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The other side: Opponents of decriminalization argue that by lessening the consequences for drug use, more people will do drugs, which they say will fuel addiction, drug dealing networks and other crime.
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"There is, indeed, an apparent lessening number of Africans in the city," says Gordon Mathews, a professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who has studied globalization in Guangzhou.
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As Robert McGregor noted on Twitter, however, the demo we saw didn't seem to recognize when a user's hand should logically be blocking parts of the image, lessening the "mixed reality" impact.
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"Sellers are giving up full control over pricing, and Amazon is lessening their anti-competitive liabilities," said Blair Anderson, managing director of Anderson & Associates, a firm that helps merchants sell on Amazon.
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Yet because the planning system so limits the supply of land for development, extra council building risks crowding out the private-sector sort, lessening the impact on the overall number of homes.
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"If we were to see, around the world, a proliferation of new barriers, what we'd see is a lessening, a slowing down, of global growth," Lew told CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims said on Thursday that after inquiries with stakeholders he "formed the view that neither acquisition would result in a substantial lessening of competition".
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However, because plastic is found in an inordinate amount of items these days, policy changes like bag taxes or bans are a more permanent solution to lessening our dependence on plastic products.
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Fernandez won a Senate seat for the province of Buenos Aires under Argentina's list system on Sunday, but finished second, lessening her chances of staging a comeback for the presidency in 2019.
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Listing the Saudi Aramco IPO was a vital part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's push to restructure the national oil company for long-term sustainability, lessening its dependence on oil revenue.
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To solve this problem, it is necessary to meet halfway rather than run in the opposite direction," Wang said, according to the statement, adding the current lessening in tensions was "hard-won.
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The move higher follows comments Tuesday by Jerome Powell, incoming Federal Reserve chairman, on potentially lessening regulation on banks, putting the group on pace for its best weekly performance in a year.
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ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said the regulator had concluded there was "not likely to be a substantial lessening of competition in any market" after the deal was restructured to address officials' concerns.
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The shift remakes the United States' approach to the world, putting more of a focus on trade and the economy while lessening the emphasis on issues like human rights and regional conflicts.
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By Monday evening, the volcano's activity was lessening, and is expected to continue to diminish in the coming days, Eddy Sanchez, director of the seismological, volcanic and meteorological institute Insivumeh, told reporters.
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"If the South Korean public perceives a lessening of the U.S. security commitment to South Korea, they will become alarmed," says Dan Sneider, an expert on the Koreas and Japan at Stanford.
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Moreover, plans aimed at reducing economic inequality—lessening personal debt, and dealing with the rising costs of health care, housing, and education—should resonate beyond the 40 percent in the bottom tier.
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Some companies and social media users have been calling on people to forgo asking for refund, with the hope of lessening the impact on small businesses, the arts and the service industry.
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We have documented how these irreversible surgeries not only risk assigning the wrong gender, but also have potentially lifelong consequences, including a loss of fertility, lessening of sexual sensation, and chronic pain.
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The company is also lessening the number of movies that 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) releases theatrically, and is increasing the number of movies that will exist exclusively on Hulu.
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In contrast, Warren's plan caps student debt cancellation at $50,000 and gradually phases out the benefits for those earning between $100,000 and $250,000—thereby lessening the subsidy for upper-income college graduates.
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People teaching the next generation of banking executives say they are yet to see any lessening of interest and corresponding dip in enrolments in courses aimed at the highly paid financial sector.
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This Nature Climate Change paper gets into possible strategies: lessening enteric fermentation from cows by adding certain chemicals to feed; better manure management; or even switching to fewer but better-fed animals.
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The technique could extend the range of drone package delivery, or allow your drone to meet the shipper's drone mid-air for an exchange, thereby lessening the risk of a package being stolen.
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Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published the preliminary findings of its probe into the deal on Wednesday, concluding that there could be a significant lessening of competition if the deal went ahead.
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The regulator identified 629 areas where there could be a substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in supermarkets, 290 areas where online competition could be reduced and 65 local overlaps in smaller convenience stores.
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The Justice Department encapsulates the idea early on in its complaint: If allowed to proceed, this merger will harm consumers by substantially lessening competition among traditional video distributors and slowing emerging online competition.
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The next update to Microsoft's Edge browser will automatically pause Adobe Flash when it detects it in ads and animations on a website, reducing power consumption and lessening the load on your computer.
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Consumer product verification: Walmart has carried out pilot projects with IBM, using blockchain to track Chinese pork, with the idea of lessening the chance that it comes from infected farms, and Mexican mangoes.
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The regulator identified 629 areas where there could be a substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in supermarkets, 13 areas where online competition could be reduced and 65 local overlaps in smaller convenience stores.
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" The last step refers to population and suggests using "proven and effective policies that strengthen human rights while lowering fertility rates and lessening the impacts of population growth on emissions and biodiversity loss.
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By lessening the pressure users feel to compete for attention, platforms can both make themselves healthier for frequent users and boost engagement among those who may have self-protectively phased out of sharing.
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Although the violence in Syria has fallen off since Russia, Iran and Turkey launched a plan for de-escalation zones in May, the lessening in fighting has not translated into more aid deliveries.
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But the fighting — which left scores dead, including Kurdish and government fighters and civilians — embittered many Kurds, awakening memories of repression over the decades and lessening the prospects of reconciliation with the government.
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UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) raised questions over the proposed deal in May, saying that it was considering whether a merger of the two would result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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The bank's marketing strategy seizes on a frustration so common among consumers that several financial reforms imposed after the 2007-2009 financial crisis were focused on lessening fees and making them more transparent.
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Today's mantra of "flattening the curve" — or lessening the spike in illnesses, thereby slowing the infection rate to reduce the burdens on the health care system — would not apply to a bioterror attack.
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But there are also added benefits: Reusable shopping bags are stronger than the plastic bags that stores distribute, and they are environmentally friendly — great for cutting down waste and lessening your carbon footprint.
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"Rather, we aim to clarify that the conclusion that our transaction with Grab led to a substantial lessening of competition, and that Uber intentionally breached the law, is unsupported and incorrect," it added.
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Still, the industry as a whole is not moving quickly enough on emissions reduction and lessening hydrocarbons reliance, critics say, thanks in part to the attractive profits currently stemming from loftier oil prices.
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Australia may have even enjoyed its first quarterly current account surplus since 1975, lessening its reliance on foreign funding at a time when global markets are stressed and providing scope for some fiscal stimulus.
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That strategy includes lessening the company's dependence on weather-sensitive categories such as apparel, and beefing up its offerings in areas that can't easily be replicated online or duplicated by others in the space.
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But the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has since softened its tone on children's digital media use, lessening the guilt-trip that many parents might feel as their toddler peacefully pokes at an iPad.
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" (Echoes of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' claim that "good people don't smoke marijuana.) It's a familiar pattern: Voters clearly supporting lessening restrictions on marijuana, only to be thwarted or slow-walked by their representatives.
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And it has also lost out as growth has picked up outside the United States, with other countries' central banks moving towards tighter monetary policy, lessening the gap between the Federal Reserve and others.
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Though a deal has yet to be finalized, the European Union wants Jordan to allow Syrian refugees to obtain work permits, thus lessening, in theory, their need to make the perilous journey to Europe.
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And the space agency notes that the supreme heat seems to be sticking around despite the lessening effects of El Niño — a period of abnormally high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that influences weather.
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And while a face-to-face with Trump would help make Kim a media darling, there's a more significant benefit for him: a greater likelihood that other countries would consider lessening pressure on Pyongyang.
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"We do not believe there is any evidence of a lessening of competition as a result of our minority stake, nor any reasonable prospect that there will be," the airline said in a statement.
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This April, the EPA announced that they would be lessening the regulations for 2021 after determining that the standards would be too stringent and fearing they would cause sale loses in the auto industry.
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"What the business community will be looking for over the next two years of the Trump Administration is a lessening of the conflict with our good friends, allies and trading partners," Mr. Bolten said.
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The president, ever the showman and clearly wanting to set a new precedent for lessening the stature of the occasion, called on his wife to pin the presidential Medal of Freedom on Rush Limbaugh.
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As a result, the nation's municipal bond market is bigger and more developed than in most other countries, and that makes public financing of infrastructure much more attractive, lessening the need for private partnerships.
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In modern England this preoccupation is lessening as the public schools have become less isolated, but the old boys in William Trevor's novel are very old boys, indeed, and hardly belong to modern England.
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"I'm in favor of the categorical exclusion as it pertains to improving defensible space and lessening the threat from forest fires hitting populated areas," said Bob Roper, the retired Ventura County, California fire chief.
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Lessening the risk of serious upheaval when Britain leaves the world's biggest trading bloc on March 33 could also allow the Bank of England to raise interest rates, which would further underpin the pound.
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On Friday the US showed little sign of lessening pressure on Pyongyang, imposing new sanctions against 27 entities and 28 vessels either registered or flagged in several countries, including North Korea, China and Singapore.
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The dollar retreated in 22016, partly because economic growth picked up outside the United States, with other countries' central banks moving towards tighter monetary policy, lessening the perceived divergence between the Federal Reserve and others.
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With a background in markets and law, that approach may play more to Powell's strengths, while lessening the influence of technicians who have focused on issues like estimating neutral rates of interest and full employment.
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"The lessening of U.S./Mexican tension clearly helps the mood somewhat, and obviously helps the peso, but the U.S./Chinese trade conflict has much wider implications," Societe Generale strategist Kit Juckes wrote in a note.
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By simply focusing on original and/or function designs and avoiding well-known trademarks and copyrighted characters, you'll go a long ways toward lessening the likelihood of finding yourself a target of an IP lawsuit.
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But it may offer a road to rapprochement where there was none before, and a lessening of tensions on the peninsula which, though exacerbated by Mr Trump, have been a serious long-standing security concern.
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"It really does a dynamic job on the tech side of measuring time, giving guests and carriers a good marriage of time goals so we have the best shot at lessening the time," Garutti said.
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These changes–all approved by the board of directors —include dismissing Emil Michael, former senior vice president of business, and lessening the responsibilities of CEO Travis Kalanick, who is now on a leave of absence.
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The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore's ruling that the transaction led to a substantial lessening of competition, and that Uber had intentionally breached the law, was "unsupported and incorrect", Uber said in a statement.
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They've been snapped up by Americans—and people around the world—with hopes of lessening their risk of heart disease and stroke, keeping their minds sharp, improving eye health, and a number of other uses.
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One source of Trump's ire was his belief that Bolton or his team had leaked details of a discussion in which Trump suggested lessening a hurricane's effect by using nuclear weapons, according to CBS News.
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A regular meditation practice can provide quite a few powerful boosts to your health and well-being, including reduced anxiety and depression, improved memory function and attention span, and even a lessening of chronic pain.
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Some high-profile tech executives, like Google cofounder Larry Page, have praised the premise of a four-day workweek, and studies have shown that it could have benefits like decreasing burnout and lessening gender inequality.
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If they join Heller in forcing the bill to move to the left (by lessening the cuts to Medicaid, or keeping Planned Parenthood funded), it could derail the whole effort if conservatives refuse to compromise.
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While there are valid arguments to be made for lessening American involvement in the Middle East, this kind of precipitous action is the worst possible course, and will only increase bitterness against the United States.
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Similarly, by creating its own studio, Apple can own some of its TV+ content outright, lessening the need to negotiate licensing fees with other studios, and also giving it the rights for things like merchandise.
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Perhaps most embarrassing was the February rejection for insufficient data by U.S. regulators of Celgene's filing seeking approval of ozanimod, a MS drug seen as critical to lessening reliance on the flagship cancer treatment Revlimid.
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Top Bank of England official Ben Broadbent is not ready to raise interest rates just yet, he said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, substantially lessening the chances that borrowing costs will rise soon.
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"We fear that other respondents will invoke this agreement as a precedent in future recalls, thereby lessening safety for far more consumers than are affected by this agreement," Commissioners Robert Adler and Elliot Kaye wrote.
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"We are convinced that its implementation will promote the lessening of military activity and tension on the Korean peninsula and the forming in Northeastern Asia of a system of equal and indivisible security," he said.
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In Sparks, Mr. Sanders reiterated his support for comprehensive immigration reform with a path toward citizenship for undocumented immigrants, for criminal justice reform aimed at lessening discrimination toward blacks and for pay equity for women workers.
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The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore's (CCCS) ruling that the transaction led to a substantial lessening of competition, and that Uber had intentionally breached the law, was "unsupported and incorrect", Uber said in a statement.
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MEXICO CITY – The security advisers for President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that amnesty legislation aimed at lessening violence will be developed with the input of crime victims and presented to Mexico&aposs congress.
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Keep in mind, too, that while this subpoena is litigated, the statute of limitations period for whatever crimes may have been committed continues to run, lessening the amount of time prosecutors have to make their case.
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Chrome's strong market position means it can oblige advertisers and websites to comply with minimum standards, removing the most annoying dross whilst lessening incentives for users to install third-party blockers that screen out almost everything.
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The so-called Interconnector Turkey Greece Italy (ITGI) Poseidon pipeline scheme - stuck in limbo for years - was first conceived back in 2003 as a way of lessening reliance on Russia by bringing in central Asian gas.
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McCrory on Friday signed one of the measures, lessening the governor's control over the state elections board, and is expected to approve the latest actions before turning over the weakened office to Cooper on Jan. 7.
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Prior reporting by the Journal has indicated the Chinese government views Huawei as a top priority, and that it has made clear that lessening the penalties imposed on the company is a precondition for a deal.
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With reusable rockets, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and other organizations like NASA won't constantly be wasting them by letting their costly launch stages burn up in the atmosphere, thus considerably lessening the financial burden of repeated missions.
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A necessary part of any training regimen, tapering refers to the gradual lessening of miles and workouts to give your body time to recover in the two to three weeks leading up to a big race.
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That includes lessening the intrigue around the biggest match of the show, between IWGP Heavyweight champion Kenny Omega and Hiroshi Tanahashi, because Kenny Omega's contract is also up and he's rumored to be heading out, too.
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However, with plans to make the World Cup an every-four-year event, the NHL and NHL Players Association have positioned the showcase to become hockey's prime global property, lessening the need for the Olympic spotlight.
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While a stronger European economy has been welcomed by the Fed, lessening risks to the global economy, a move by major central banks to all tighten monetary policy simultaneously has not been seen for a decade.
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At the time, climate scientists told me that, if Democrats ever decided to mobilize on global warming, a plan as aggressive as Cortez's could make a tangible difference in lessening some of warming's expected catastrophic effects.
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If the military gets even more money from the president, there will be even more impetus to send it abroad to fight such counterproductive wars that generate more blowback terrorism at home—thereby lessening U.S. security.
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These rodent studies suggest that opioid drugs aren't as effective at lessening pain in women and, as a result, women may be prescribed a higher dose, or take opioids for a longer time, the authors say.
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On the heels of President Donald Trump beginning to suggest that the time for lessening social distancing and other restrictive measures to slow the spread of coronavirus may have arrived, Patrick took things a step further.
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Back in Washington, the departure of hawkish U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton sent oil prices southwards on Tuesday, with his exit seen as lessening the chance of a military conflict between the U.S. and Iran.
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With so many different kinds of pacifiers available on the market now, nervous moms and dads can choose the right size and shape for each stage of infant growth, greatly lessening any cause for orthodontic concerns.
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Social transformations can ameliorate the crises of poverty and racism, lessening the need for self-medication on the part of the poor and removing the justifications that have led to a crisis of mass, racialized incarceration.
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Between the lessening importance of in-store events, pivot to e-commerce, and expansion on a global scale, Black Friday's role has changed over time, even as it remains a significant part of the retail calendar.
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The rods contained boron carbide, which hampered reactivity, but the Soviets decided to tip them in graphite, which facilitated reactivity; it was a bid to save energy, and therefore money, by lessening the rods' moderating effect.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), said on Thursday that it took the preliminary view that combining the companies would amount to a "substantial lessening of competition in the supply of out-of-home advertising services".
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Throughout the campaign, Ryan stressed that a "unified Republican government" could deliver on the promises his party has made for years -- such as reforming the tax code, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and lessening federal regulations on businesses.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top Bank of England official Ben Broadbent is not ready to raise interest rates just yet, he said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, substantially lessening the chances that borrowing costs will rise soon.
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Trump will show "energetic leadership" in engaging with foreign nations and "look for ways that he can bring those extraordinary deal-making skills to bear on lessening tensions and solving problems in the world," Pence told NBC.
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DESPITE a lessening of tension between Iran's government and the West since last year's agreement over the country's nuclear programme, draconian punishments of criminals and dissidents persist, according to a report by the UN's Human Rights Council.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri said on Wednesday he would increase welfare subsidies and lower workers' income taxes as part of a package of measures aimed at lessening the impact of the country's economic crisis.
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Apple's gone a little ways toward lessening hurt by dropping prices on adapters, but along with the added expense, it's tough to ignore the irony of plugging in various sorts of dongles in the name of elegance.
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When a child is born into a strained marriage, for instance, that child becomes like a third party, naturally absorbing some of the stress from the parents' relationship and lessening the intensity of the issue between them.
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Jared Bernstein, a fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, tells Axios that part of the reason is globalization and the lessening power of labor unions.
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The method was also associated with the lessening of symptoms and shorter hospital stays for SARS patients during the 2002 outbreak, and has shown signs of effectiveness in treating novel coronavirus patients in China, NBC News reports.
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She, like some other Hispanic activists and progressive groups, has balked at what she sees as a lessening of commitment on immigration issues by Democrats like Ms. Sinema who are trying to woo independents and moderate Republicans.
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But Boyle's colorful, kinetic visual style fits the teeming Mumbai backdrop, and the director somehow balances dark subject matter (police torture, child prostitution) and sunnier moments (a closing-credit Bollywood dance number) without lessening either's emotional punch.
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The 2015 Texas Legislature helped reduce this burden on people by cutting the margins tax rates by 25 percent and lessening the compliance cost for a total taxpayer savings of $2.6 billion that began January 1, 2016.
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Rainstorms are probably the first solution that comes to mind for a drought as sustained and severe as California's, but snow is actually preferable because it falls slower and refills reservoirs more gradually, lessening the chance of flooding.
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Laurence Chandy, a fellow at Brookings Institution's global program, said that while a cashless society is "a way of lessening the chaos" in Zimbabwe, it can't fix the crisis alone -- people need to start trusting financial institutions again.
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"The key takeover was that any deal will need parliamentary approval which means it could get watered down, lessening the blow from a nasty divorce," said Peter Ng, senior FX trader at Silicon Valley Bank, in a note.
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He has been one of the loudest voices warning Silicon Valley and the world of the threats posed by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) and has set up a not-for-profit outfit devoted to lessening it.
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Britain has a carbon tax floor that heaves gas more quickly into an advantageous position price once prices are falling and carbon is up, while in Germany this impulse is missing, lessening the price effect, the executive said.
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You may already be adding turmeric to your meals because of its vast whole-body health benefits, such as lessening the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and other inflammatory conditions, as well as fighting Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
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WE DON'T HAVE THOSE CLAUSES AND HAVEN'T FOR MANY YEARS WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT IN THE BROADER CONTEXT, AS YOU THINK ABOUT THE INDUSTRY, THE LESSENING OF REGULATION OF SMALL AND MIDSIZE BANKS IS A REAL ISSUE.
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Speaking beside his Chinese counterparts at the US-China Diplomatic and Security Forum in Washington on November 9, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said there would be no lessening in the number of US freedom of navigation operations.
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And I'm not entirely sure how to design a system that preserves the genuinely valuable work they do while dramatically lessening the role of billionaires in general, even as I think the latter shift is important and necessary.
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The idea is that these will help promote muscle recovery by lessening inflammation, and while tart cherry juice does have some good data behind it, some experts are now questioning if decreasing post-workout inflammation is so wise.
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Chinese state media on Monday stressed the limits of new United Nations sanctions on North Korea, and also slammed the United States for its "arrogance", saying Washington needed to understand it also has a role in lessening tensions.
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And yet pain in childbirth, which some thought to be foundational to what we call Judeo-Christian morals, could be largely subdued without any loss to mother love; consumption was cured without lessening the romance of romantic poetry.
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His exhortation to business to help "raise the platform on which our whole society stands" was of a piece with panels on how to make "profit with purpose" and on the role of firms in lessening social inequality.
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After concerns that Mr. Pérez would turn his attention to his new project — leaving taxpayers to make up the difference — he has publicly assured his namesake museum that it will not see any lessening of his financial support.
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"Relying more on fiscal policy to support domestic demand and defray the costs of the trade war is the wiser choice ... Lessening the burden on monetary policy will also lighten the pressures on the currency," the analysts said.
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The problem for Ryan is that the make-more-people-work vision of fighting poverty, at least when not accompanied by government spending to get everyone a job, doesn't have a great track record of lessening material deprivation.
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Finally, whether any of these actions contribute to lessening the border crisis will depend not on who sits as homeland security secretary but whether and how Congress and the administration find common ground to fix our broken immigration system.
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The Competition and Markets Authority said on Friday that ICE's control of Trayport, which the exchange and clearinghouse operator bought in late 2015 for $650 million in stock, would result in a "substantial lessening of competition" in two markets.
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Avatars being creepy is kind of a given, though I'm not sure Facebook is lessening the creepiness any in this update… The new avatar looks will be rolling out in Facebook Spaces over the next week, the company says.
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As Instagram becomes a more prevalent part of our everyday lives — and all signs point to the fact that it is — the availability of the "public figure" designation has started to seep into public consciousness, lessening the term's value.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Stiff new U.S. sanctions against Russia would only have a limited impact on its oil industry because it has drastically reduced its reliance on Western funding and foreign partnerships and is lessening its dependence on imported technology.
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"The key take away was that any deal will need parliamentary approval which means it could get watered down, lessening the blow from a nasty divorce," said Peter Ng, senior FX trader at Silicon Valley Bank, in a note.
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The concern with Trump, though, isn't that he will read laws creatively to change U.S. policy, fully aware that courts might reverse him (he enters power, after all, with unified control of government, lessening the need for such creativity).
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When they've also tried to replicate their earlier findings with larger sample sizes, and added in ibuprofen to see its effects, their results moved in the opposite direction: acetaminophen and ibuprofen increased in-group positivity, rather than lessening it.
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Azzato said that the company's fully computerized system, which makes use of a high-tech greenhouse, enables them to grow salads year-round, thereby lessening the need for imports that can be costly, in both financial and environmental terms.
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And it's absolutely the case that the national debt increased by $9 trillion during President Barack Obama's time in office, but many were scratching their heads at Trump's implication the debt was lessening because markets are increasing in value.
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"Grab had, with its advisers, assessed that the transaction would not result in a substantial lessening of competition," so said Daren Shiau, who is co-head of Allen & Gledhill's Competition & Antitrust practice, one of the firm's that Grab retained.
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And although no headgear, even hard-shell helmets, has been proven to prevent all concussions, headgear has been effective in lessening head trauma caused by stick-to-head or ball-to-head contact, which does occur in girls' lacrosse.
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In recent years, many scientists and other experts have focused their attention on short, intense workouts, typically called high-intensity interval training, because the duration is so slight, lessening the likelihood that people will be too busy to exercise.
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Britain's competition watchdog said it was inviting comments as to whether the 1.27 billion pound merger would lead to lessening of competition in the UK, as the deal would result in Stonegate taking control of some 4,000 additional pubs.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina judge on Friday temporarily blocked a state law hours after incoming Democratic Governor Roy Cooper sued to void Republican-backed legislation lessening his control over state and county elections boards, local media reported.
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Candidates like Yang have been able to raise substantial hauls this cycle by relying on small-dollar donors, lessening the need for high-dollar backers who can give to outside groups in excess of the legal maximum, which is $2,800.
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And Clance and Imes have done the world a service by identifying and describing impostorism: Simply learning that impostor syndrome is a thing, and that lots of people experience it, can be helpful in lessening impostorism's intensity ( for most people).
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Strengthening of the loonie could make the country's exports of autos, maple syrup and other goods more expensive in international markets, lessening the likelihood the Bank of Canada would diverge for too long from its global peers, according to some economists.
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Security services had feared an experienced bomb-maker could be at large but a source with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on Thursday Abedi might have made the bomb himself or with an accomplice, lessening the risk of another attack.
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Chao has been a popular pick among tech industry executives focused on transportation, owing to her signalled interest in enlisting more public-private partnerships in solving transportation problems, and in lessening regulatory barriers for private entities working in the space.
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The Obama administration wasted no time in proclaiming that a lessening of tensions with the Islamic Republic had averted a much more serious diplomatic incident and declared a victory of President Barack Obama's signature policy of talking to U.S. enemies.
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By drawing the wheedling synth line to the front of the mix, adding a weighty bassline, and simplifying the original's skittering production, he's managed to make the track hit even harder, without lessening the impact of Romy Madley-Croft's dazed vocal.
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Paramount, which for the last four years, has ranked last among Hollywood's major studios in terms of domestic market share, is trying to rebuild its pipeline after a long period of lessening risk by releasing fewer films, which also limited profits.
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"[W]e are starting to see a lessening in the severity of the moves, especially in the foreign exchange market where the market is looking for confirmation of action before committing to a trend," Rakuten Securities Australia said in a note.
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Stabilizing the climate would also provide significant economic benefit—billions of dollars saved from lessening the severity of extreme weather and sea level rise, as well as billions more from the avoided health impacts of a warmer, more polluted atmosphere.
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In the United States, the primary concern for regulators is assessing the probability of a "substantial lessening of competition in a relevant market" arising from the proposed transaction, according to the government's enabling statute, Section 85033 of the Clayton Act.
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Trump has previously rallied against the decision to lift sanctions, arguing that the lessening of economic pressure has provided a lifeline to the Iranian regime and emboldened the country's hardliners -- pointing to Iran's ballistic missile tests as evidence of this.
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These would finance the management of the migration crisis in countries that have been affected the most, like Italy and Greece, and encourage African countries to develop their economies, lessening the desperation that pushes migrants to risk their lives by fleeing.
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The legislation makes it easier for felons to obtain professional licenses and allows state attorneys to determine whether juvenile cases should be taken up in adult courts while lessening or getting rid of criminal penalties tied to driver's license suspensions.
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But it has fallen on worries that Trump would not succeed in pushing through his economic agenda, and as other countries' central banks have moved towards tightening monetary conditions, lessening the divergence between their policies and that of the Federal Reserve.
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In an era when so-called message discipline has been made into a cardinal virtue for candidates, draining much of the spontaneity out of campaigns but lessening the margin for error, Mr. Trump said out loud what was on his mind.
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What they found: The authors found that verapamil with the insulin regime helps preserve the pancreas cells that naturally produce insulin (beta cells), lessening the amount of added insulin needed as the disease progressed, while also helping stabilize blood sugar levels.
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The notes were raised in May 2014 and included a portability clause, which allowed the debt to stay in place after a change in ownership, lessening the need for CVC to raise fresh debt at the time of the buyout.
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Still, a treatment that is effective in reducing the duration of the presence of the virus even in milder cases, and in lessening the impacts in moderate symptomatic patients, would be a huge benefit to the ongoing fight against the coronavirus.
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In a 2019 essay for the Knight First Amendment Institute, Jeff Gary and Ashkan Soltani argued that "restricting or lessening" the ability to microtarget ads would be more effective, and raise fewer free speech issues, than any law policing online discourse.
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The International Olympic Committee and South Korean organizers have said repeatedly that they hope North Korea's participation would lead to a peaceful Games, a sense of reconciliation and a lessening of concerns that nuclear brinkmanship would interfere with the event.
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While a drop in tensions and a lessening of the North Korean threat would benefit Japan, Tokyo has reason to be concerned about being left out of negotiations, as it hopes to raise the issue of Japanese abductees with Pyongyang.
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"Job growth appears to be shifting from small to large companies due to the lessening impact the global economic environment had on large companies earlier in the year," said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and head of the ADP Research Institute.
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Unlike Medicare fee for service (FFS) which places no limits on out-of-pocket costs, those costs under MA plans are limited to $6,700 annually – and cost sharing is typically limited to $85033,400, lessening patients' out-of-pocket financial exposure.
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While these same state governments are salivating over the tax revenues from marijuana sales (Colorado alone collected $135 million in taxes in 2015), lessening the burden on our police, courts and prison systems will also save them millions of dollars.
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However, the two major commercial aircraft makers, Boeing Co and Airbus SE, as well as the Pentagon, have been known to use their significant purchasing power to seek concessions from their suppliers and may not welcome a potential lessening in competition among them.
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YABUCOA, Puerto Rico – The remnant of Tropical Storm Beryl rushed over Dominica but then dissipated, lessening the threat to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which had braced for heavy rains and strong winds less than a year after being battered by hurricanes.
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" Although his conversation, speaking at the Grammy Museum for a screening of the Grammy-nominated HBO documentary "The Defiant Ones" did hint at lessening his role and responsibilities: "The next chapter, whatever intensity I'm working, will be to help streaming come to scale.
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Volin said Pemex will export the crude from a recently remodeled terminal adjacent to its Salina Cruz refinery on the Pacific coast, lessening dependence on its export hubs clustered in the Gulf of Mexico, especially when they are hit by bad weather.
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The big picture: The ambition around the world for the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement is lessening, fueled by nationalistic leaders like Trump and Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has criticized the deal and withdrew from hosting this same conference next year.
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The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved Xofluza, the first novel treatment approved for the flu in almost 20183 years, which targets the virus at an earlier stage in its development in the human body in the hopes of lessening recovery time.
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Although most of the videos focus on people walking around in an enclosed space for a short period of time, lessening the potential for serious harm, a popular challenge has emerged on YouTube wherein creators participate in the challenge for 24 hours.
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"While we believe near term PC unit declines have been impacted by a lengthening in the PC refresh cycle, we view this lengthening as slowing over time, lessening the deleterious impact on overall company growth," Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Christopher Rolland said.
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A report by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA endorses the Henoko plan, which also calls for relocating thousands of American Marines to Guam, Hawaii and Australia, as the "only realistic" solutions to the demands of lessening Okinawa's burden and meeting security needs.
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"Job growth appears to be shifting from small to large companies due to the lessening impact the global economic environment had on large companies earlier in the year," Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and head of the ADP Research Institute, said in a release.
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" The state senator said that studies back up the resolution's claim that links pornography to "lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity," which the text says demonstrates that smut "has a detrimental effect on the family unit.
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The University of Pennsylvania's ophthalmology department advises that the center of the monitor should be about four to eight inches lower than the eyes to minimize dryness and itching by lessening the exposed surface of the eyes because they are not opened wide.
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"The ACCC was concerned that the joint marketing arrangements were likely to have resulted in a substantial lessening of competition in the market for the supply of gas to buyers in the southern states," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said in a statement.
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"(CMA) considers that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the undertaking offered, or a modified version of it, might be accepted by the CMA to remedy the substantial lessening of competition identified by the CMA," the watchdog said in a statement.
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While some have suggested lessening the profit motivation for police by moving funds into general revenue funds, we know from the rising use of fees in criminal courts, this is no panacea as city officials may still pressure police to seize assets.
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The CMA has therefore found that the merger could lead to a substantial lessening of competition in the supply of customer-operated ATMs in the UK. Diebold Has Until 26 August 2016 To Offer Proposals To Resolve Competition Concerns Identified By Cma.
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What had made her sympathize with Oliver was the same thing, Hal knew, that made her out of synch with anyone who'd been encouraged to see the world in terms of ever-increasing degrees of power, instead of lessening degrees of freedom.
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While lessening our environmental footprint is important, Starbucks (and other companies making similar decisions) seem to have forgotten one major concern: How a world without plastic straws will impact people with disabilities, many of whom use these types of straws out of necessity.
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The Chinese lessors can be hampered by a lack of management talent, experience and industry connections - ties which can smooth over everything from marketing a plane once a lease comes to an end, to lessening the impact of a client airline's bankruptcy.
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What scientists do know is that if you treat a baboon with antibiotics, reducing the amount of alpha-gal-producing microbes in its gut, and thus lessening the stimulation they provide, the quantity of alpha-gal antibodies in its bloodstream also declines.
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Dr. Johnson noted that as the field of cancer research matures, more efforts are being made to fine-tune treatments — lessening doses or duration, or even dropping some forms of therapy entirely for certain patients — to minimize harsh side effects without sacrificing efficacy.
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Experts say the tactic of mowing people down avoids the need to obtain any explosives or weapons and can be carried out by a "lone-wolf" attacker without using a network of fellow militants - all lessening the risk of alerting security agencies.
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While financial market volatility or a further rise in the dollar's value represent downside risks to U.S. growth, the IMF saw upside risks from oil prices, including a delayed positive effect on consumption and a lessening drag from reduced oil-related investment.
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McConnell, whose Republicans control majorities in both houses of Congress, repeated earlier criticism of a resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate urging Suu Kyi to do more for Myanmar's ethnic minority Rohingya population, and lessening the chance that any such measure could pass.
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The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) said it has the mandate to review whether any mergers will result in a "substantial lessening of competition" and take any action to intervene in the deal, but it has yet to receive notice from the companies.
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That has not stopped a raft of attacks in the country, such as the truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day last July, by "lone-wolf" assailants who did not use a network of fellow militants — all lessening the risk of alerting security agencies.
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"However, as a clinician and an active surgeon," he said, "I believe there are enormous opportunities for lessening complications in surgery by manipulating diet," even for short periods of time -- temporarily adjusting what a person eats may still affect the body's response to injury.
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Bayer's Chief Executive Werner Baumann has described antitrust procedures as going to "unimaginable depths", with more than 4 million pages of documents provided to EU investigators, but the delays have also allowed the target company to cut its debt, lessening the financial burden for Bayer.
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Media Secretary Matt Hancock said he accepted regulators' opinions that the deal did "not give rise to a realistic prospect of a substantial lessening of competition" and did not raise concerns about the range of views and the free expression of opinion in Britain's newspapers.
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Here's the key segment of concern to the commission: About the Section 54 Prohibition under the Competition Act & Merger Procedures Section 54 of the Act prohibits mergers that have resulted, or may be expected to result, in a substantial lessening of competition in Singapore.
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The unit is aimed at lessening the company's dependence on state water utility company Cesan and avoiding production cuts at times of water crises as the state suffered in 2015 and 2016, said Jorge Ribeiro, president of operations at ArcelorMittal's Brazilian flat steel division.
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Although President Donald Trump has bragged that the US has the "Highest stock market EVER, best economic numbers in years," these papers peek behind the economy's high numbers, spotlighting how the rich are getting richer by charging higher markups on goods and lessening competition.
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Goldman Sachs analysts on Wednesday raised their expectations for a September rate hike to 30 percent from 25 percent and also upped their odds for a rate rise in December, after hearing the FOMC say it sees near-term risks to its economic outlook lessening.
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By region, revenue in the company's southern Latin American business - which includes Brazil and Argentina - fell 91.53 percent to $488.3 million "Avon continues to be challenged, reflecting share loss and lessening consumer relevance in many markets," Stifel analyst Mark Astrachan said in a note.
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Hayward could still run pick-and-roll action when necessary, but lessening the load would dramatically increase his efficiency, especially if he attacked more via hand-offs, cuts into space, and open shots off screens, much like how the Celtics currently use Avery Bradley.
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And furthermore — especially in its reiteration of Trump's pledge to repeal the Johnson Amendment — it's an indicator of the greatest anxiety among the aging moral majority, who feel their influence waning: a lessening grip on the political power they've enjoyed over the past few decades.
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Interestingly, research suggests that there is a particular dynamic at play between fake news and alternative facts: third parties, including the news media and respected individuals, can be effective antidotes to the toxicity of alternative facts, sapping their staying power and lessening their impact.
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But it has fallen on worries that Trump would not succeed in implementing other programs he campaigned on, in particular infrastructure, and as other countries' central banks have moved towards tightening monetary conditions, lessening the divergence between their policies and that of the Federal Reserve.
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That debate comes at a time when countries large and small are rethinking their approaches to the drug issue, adopting policies that experts say breach current global conventions against drugs by legalizing some substances in some places — and lessening punishment for offenders in others.
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Some suggested that Saudi Arabia and its regional allies had ways of striking back at what they saw as a betrayal by the United States, by lessening their investments in the United States or dialing back their engagement in joint military and security programs.
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Attorney General William Barr lifted the hiring freeze in April, and sweeping federal reforms and sentencing guideline revisions have continued to clear out prison cells and shorten prison time for thousands of people convicted of drug crimes, partly lessening the need for new correctional officers.
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"At the conclusion of its investigation, CCCS has found that the Transaction is anti-competitive, having been carried into effect, and has infringed section 54 of the Competition Act by substantially lessening competition in the ride-hailing platform market in Singapore," the agency wrote.
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NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Borrowing costs on U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages climbed from their lowest level in nearly three years in line with a jump in bond yields tied to lessening worries about U.S.-China trade tensions, Freddie Mac said on Thursday.
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"We believe that by focusing on safety without lessening safety or environmental safeguards, we have produced the kind of public policy that is good for America, is good for energy security and is good for economic security," Scott Angelle, BSEE's director, told reporters Friday.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Expanded negotiations against North Korea announced on Thursday would "be very" good if they succeed in cutting off imported goods, and showed lessening support from China toward Pyongyang, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC in an interview on Friday.
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That said, it's hard to imagine that Mueller would agree to a plea deal with Manafort -- thereby lessening his charges from what could have been eight decades down to just 10 years maximum -- if he didn't think the former campaign chairman had worthwhile information.
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I knew that it had not been carefully considered, given the pressure to make so many decisions, and that letting these banks grow unhindered to $100 billion could in fact provide a more competitive environment, lessening, even marginally, the foundation of the mega banks.
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In this Saturday edition of Giz Asks, we reached out to top experts in invertebrate zoology and marine biology (and PETA) to try to answer some of these questions, and to determine whether this eatery is lessening the lobster's pain or just wasting perfectly good weed.
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One plausible theory for his recent "escape" was that the government needed him to preserve the "Pax Sinaloa," the relative calm and lessening of violence that occurred as a result of Guzman and his cartel winning a 10-year war for supremacy that took over 100,000 lives.
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And even if it doesn't, recent milestones in the country's hydrogen bomb testing may have left Kim Jong Un confident that North Korean engineers now know how to build adequately light and powerful warheads for ballistic missiles, potentially lessening the immediate need for a test site.
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"As a direct result of South32's proposed acquisition of the Metropolitan Colliery, BlueScope is concerned about the lessening of competition which would likely have the effect of increasing coal prices for the majority of our coking coal requirements," BlueScope said in an email sent to Reuters.
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The theory is quite simple: Uber, along with other ride-hailing startups, will decrease carbon emissions in cities where it operates by lessening people's reliance on personal automobiles, minimizing traffic congestion on roads, and eventually disincentivizing the perks of owning a vehicle in the first place.
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Aside from the graphics, plot line, and group-bonding experience, the game features an element of "luck" as the player advances in the game, making them feel like they were closer and closer to winning each time, lessening the likelihood of taking a break from the game.
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The competition watchdog gave the BT-EE merger a provisional thumbs up back in October, saying it did not expect the acquisition to result in a substantial lessening of competition in any market in the UK — owing to minimal overlap between the pair's areas of strength.
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"The next period has its challenges: lifting Sudan from the list of so-called state sponsors of terror, the large debts ... and lessening the burden on the economy with the support of our brothers and friends," Mahmud Dirir, Ethiopian mediator in the negotiations, told a press conference.
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The classic 60/40 rule — an investor should put 60 percent of their portfolio in stocks and 40 percent in bonds — is popular for a reason: It has a good historical track record of delivering equity-like returns, while lessening the risk of serious annual portfolio drawdowns.
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New FDA interim rules released this week will likely pave the way for hemp farmers to qualify for better insurance and financing, lessening their risks in the case of poor weather or if their buyer disappears, said Ken Anderson, founder of Wisconsin-based hemp processor Legacy Hemp.
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The new study, published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, also suggests that the virus disintegrates over the course of a day on cardboard, lessening the worry among consumers that deliveries will spread the virus during this period of staying and working from home.
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At that point, the wings' effectiveness is hugely degraded, roll control becomes difficult and the nose drops unavoidably in what is known as a G-break, so called because it may be felt as a brief lessening of the normal (unaccelerated) 1-G pull of gravity.
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ICE beat arch-rival CME Group to buy London-based Trayport in December last year but the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an in-depth investigation in May after deciding that the tie-up might be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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The legislation rewrites parts of Dodd-Frank, including raising the threshold at which banks are subject to certain federal oversight and lessening scrutiny on smaller banks, including regional banks like BB&T, SunTrust, Key Bank, and American Express, as well as on community banks and credit unions.
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Image 2 of 2 MAE SAI, Thailand – Authorities overseeing the rescue operation for 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand said they have a "limited amount of time" to get them out, as they raced against worsening weather and lessening oxygen underground.
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I've also written before about the lack of especially original, stand-out British woman pop stars (Charli XCX and Jorja Smith cannot, try as they might, handle the burden alone.) But today, with the release of Mabel's debut mixtape Ivy to Roses, I think that dearth might be lessening.
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It also shows that nearly six years after its enactment, the law remains a divisive political issue not only because it is associated with Mr. Obama, but also because for much of the middle class, it is at least perceived as costly and lessening consumer choice, polls show.
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Let's jump to the second, after first gazing at this extremely gleeful use of an exclamation point in a historic antitrust opinion: I will then evaluate whether the Government has carried its burden to show a likelihood that the challenged merger will result in a substantial lessening of competition.
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"It is great news that the CMA has approved our acquisition of EE. We are pleased they have found there to be no significant lessening of competition following an in-depth investigation lasting more than ten months," BT Chief Executive Gavin Patterson said in a statement on its website.
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After a 12-year hiatus, the NHL and NHL Players Association have rebooted the World Cup along with plans to make the showcase an every-four-year event, positioning it to become the league's prime global property while lessening the need for the spotlight the Olympics can provide.
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At first glance, the five-time All-Star might seem badly miscast in D'Antoni's offense, but for the purpose of lessening Harden's burden and offering some variance to an attack that's increasingly predictable as a playoff series develops, Griffin can unlock so much more than meets the eye.
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With nearly 5 percent of the planet's population and almost a quarter of its prison population, the country has invested a tremendous amount of money in the corrections system without the statistics necessary to tell us whether that money is actually reducing crime, improving fairness or lessening recidivism.
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The world's three largest producers - Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States - all indicated they were pumping at record or near-record levels, while the United States said it would allow waivers that could allow buyers to keep importing Iranian oil, lessening the threat of a supply crunch.
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Those in opposition to the president doubt his allegiance to anything objective and would characterize even the revised presidential statement as based primarily upon animus toward those of Islamic belief and a general lessening of America's long-standing welcome of refugees seeking escape from violent and brutal conditions.
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And there's no way to know who these un-named male co-stars are, or whether their "pay cut" went into Stone's quote to even things up, or just brought the guys down to her level (thereby lining the pockets of some producer or lessening a faceless studio's bottom line).
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Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) referred Sainsbury's proposed 993 billion pound ($299 billion) purchase of rival Asda, the British supermarket arm of Walmart, for an in-depth, or "phase 22", review, saying it could result in a substantial lessening in competition in places where both chains had shops.
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While it might be reassuring to know that you're probably not the only one who feels this way (even if it seems like everyone else in the class is a master), Morton says that the key to lessening your worries actually lies in what you tell yourself before the class.
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"Taking action to tackle air pollution in the U.K. will reduce the pain and suffering for many people with long-term chronic health conditions, not to mention lessening the long term demands on our NHS (National Health Service)," Andrew Goddard, the RCP lead for the report, said in a release.
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NASA is keeping things moving with its X-59 program — the one where it's developing a modern supersonic aircraft that proves the viability of lessening the traditional supersonic "boom" to a mere supersonic "thump," in order to show that supersonic commercial passenger flights over land could be a real thing.
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These findings suggest that a single half-hour session of running changes the interior of the knee, reducing inflammation and lessening levels of a marker of arthritis, says Robert Hyldahl, a professor of exercise science at B.Y.U. and lead author of the study, published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology.
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Lessening pressure on Iran will also decrease the regime&aposs incentive to engage in regional provocations, like the strike on Saudi oil facilities or the oil tanker detention, and it will strengthen the political hand of moderates in Tehran, who are drowned out by extremist voices when maximum pressure is applied.
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In essence, these results suggest that large amounts of exercise can up someone's risk of developing plaques, while also lessening the likelihood that he will die from a heart attack precipitated by those plaques, says Dr. Laura DeFina, the chief science officer for the Cooper Institute, who led the study.
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" Asked if Trump would be a mediator over Kashmir, Pence said: "I think you're also going to see an energetic leadership in the world, prepared to engaged and to look for ways that he can bring those extraordinary deal-making skills to bear on lessening tensions and solving problems in the world.
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Finally, they used the motion-capture data and complicated mathematical formulas to determine that the 4% shoe had slightly changed how the men ran, reducing the amount of muscular activity around their ankles and within their feet, lessening the amount of energy they burned with each step and making them more efficient.
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"Having some sort of deal or at least lessening tensions with the EU increases pressure on our other trading partners that we are certainly negotiating with at the time, [and also] bolsters the spine of the Trump administration, thinking tariffs are the threat that can get the job done," Dupler told CNBC.
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The bill is aimed at lessening the influence of big money in politics and it takes aim at Citizens United, the landmark 2010 Supreme Court decision, by calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the high court ruling that opened the door to unlimited spending by corporations and unions to influence elections.
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But according to a new POLITICO/Qualcomm 5G Global Survey of people in the U.S. and 10 other countries across Europe, Asia and South America, a global divide exists on how willing people are to accept a lessening of privacy in return for a new era of super-fast networks and interconnected devices.
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There's a density to the rhymes—lots of internal rhyme and careful composition—that sounds much more worked over and like it's coming off a page than the more stripped-down material that would come soon after (not that there was any lessening of quality; I challenge you to rap along to "Go DJ").
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"At no extra taxpayer expense, we can put more food into food aid and have it arrive months faster to feed millions of additional starving people without lessening the critical role of American farmers," Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a bill sponsor, said in a statement.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday that it had opened a review into the merger of the two companies, which will look into whether the deal could result in a "substantial lessening of competition" in the U.K. The CMA says it's inviting comments on the transaction from interested parties until Feb. 6.
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And three, which the State Department considers a top issue, that government officials understand the strong link between the promotion of religious freedom and the lessening of terrorism and the increase of stability in their countries.. The ministerial comes to a climax on Thursday when Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will both speak.
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But these are not insurmountable, and demanding that countries address these issues works toward everyone's benefit while also lessening the reliance of the region on the U.S. In short, the U.S. should set a clear agenda for the Middle East and then encourage, cajole, bully, threaten, and deliver on those threats when needed, all with local Arab assistance.
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"Little by little he gathered that the main thing the men wanted was to put a stop to the habit of 'speeding-up'; they were trying their best to force a lessening of the pace, for there were some, they said, who could not keep up with it, whom it was killing," Sinclair's working-class hero ruminated.
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Alternative "behavioural" remedies were proposed during the CMA's inquiry such as requiring Trayport to grant all customers access to its products and services on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms" or opening up access to its software, but the watchdog said it generally preferred "structural" remedies to the threat of a substantial lessening of competition, such as divestitures.
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This retrospective, titled Broken Time, is framed by a repeating bas relief motif of giant pills — a visualization of the countless drugs those infected with HIV ingested in hopes of lessening the deadly effects of the illness — and the collective's most iconic image, a repeated pattern of the "AIDS" acronym modeled after Robert Indiana's famous "LOVE" prints and sculptures.
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Luckily, you don't need a huge budget or a week off from work to take an amazing vacation – there's a national park not too far from you, allowing you the opportunity to get outdoors (spending time in nature has shown to have lasting benefits such as lessening stress and improving mental health) and get amazing content for your social media feeds.
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"This kind of informal 'joint-venture' is deeply concerning because it comes at a time when there is already justifiable concern that the recent wave of telecom and media mergers is lessening competition and increasing the risk that would-be competitors will instead collaborate in ways that harm consumer interests," said a source familiar with the matter who asked not to be named.
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New devices, many of them making use of eye-tracking technology, have allowed patients to describe their symptoms to doctors, caregivers and family members, ensuring that they receive better medical care, and have also enabled them to resume some of their hobbies and stay in contact with people via social media, lessening the physical and social isolation of the disease.
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If these figures do not capitulate—one thinks of the eight lonely individuals who stood in Red Square in 1968 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and as a result, reports one survivor of the gulag, "made millions stop being afraid"—we may be emboldened to resist or overcome that danger, which can have the tonic effect of lessening our fear.
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Bermudez and Cha characterized North Korea's ballistic submarine program and ballistic missile program as an "emerging threat," explaining in their report that North Korea appears to be "making real progress in developing a second leg of the nuclear triad, bringing them closer to a survivable nuclear force and lessening prospects for full denuclearization," a Trump administration priority that it has struggled to achieve.
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" S.C.R. 9 Concurrent Resolution on the Public Health Crisis claims that there's a "pornography epidemic that is harming the citizens of Utah and the nation" and that watching porn is "linked to lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity," as well as "the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography.
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Dr. Iltefat Hamzavi, a dermatologist and the director of investigative studies at Henry Ford Medical Center, co-authored a 2017 study in the Journal of the American Association of Dermatology that showed that when ingested in pill form, Polypodium extract had a measurable effect in lessening redness caused by UVB rays, the UV radiation that is typically implicated in skin cancers and sunburns.
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" The extent to which "just singing" and "just recording" aren't considered proper hallmarks of genius is lessening now that we are in the age of poptimism — what the writer Saul Austerlitz in a 2014 New York Times essay calls a reaction against "'Rolling Stone disease,' whereby Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen were treated as geniuses and the likes of Marvin Gaye and Madonna as mere pop singers.
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Macron seemingly tackled the issue by sticking with a wardrobe — the bright pink coat worn to deplane, the yellow coat she wore to Mount Vernon, and the white dress and jacket she wore on Tuesday — created by what has become her go-to fashion brand, Louis Vuitton, thus promoting a French name and lessening the amount that could be said about her choices. Mrs.
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There's the winery in California that uses rail to lessen its carbon footprint, the once-shuttered shingle factory in Ohio that is now a booming trans-load facility, the fertilizer facility in Illinois that is lessening dependence on imported nitrogen, the wind turbine installation in Colorado, port facilities across the nation providing American consumers with the goods they use every day – all sustained by freight rail.
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Spotlighting sexual misconduct has become a cudgel in the hands of those who would unseat President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, lessening its impact and even its validity.
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Uber and Didi (and others) are lessening their focus on the subsidy model as they aim for profitability — Didi claims to be profitable in around half of its 400 cities in China, Uber said it is profitable in parts of the U.S. and will be in China in two years — so a $10 billion war chest is a deterrent to prevent the other party from playing the subsidies game.
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"(We) would welcome the confirmation of the CMA that it will look in detail at the potential impacts that this merger could have on the operation of the domestic energy market, and undertake a full investigation if there is any risk of a lessening of competition within the sector," Rachel Reeves, chair of the cross-parliamentary Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee, wrote in a letter to the CMA.
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Not only that, but commercial video games could kick artificial intelligence research into high gear by dramatically lessening the time and money required to train AI. "If you go back to the original Doom, the walls all look exactly the same and it's very easy to predict what a wall looks like, given that data," said Mark Schmidt, a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
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Apple's acquisitions have historically presented one of the clearest possible looks into the company's future product roadmap, this acquisition marks the strongest indication yet that Apple is working on its own head-mounted display One of the primary use cases for eye-tracking technology in headsets is called "foveated rendering," which tracks a user's gaze on a display and renders the focal area at full resolution while blurring out the extraneous areas, lessening processing loads significantly.
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