That will further ratchet up the tension in May's party.
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Everything really started to ratchet up during these Trump rallies.
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The approach served to ratchet up support for the party.
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But it won't take much to ratchet up the suffering.
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Ratchet up awareness, create heroes, draw more recruits to the caliphate.
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Really, though, Washington just wants to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang.
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Some suggest canceling the nuclear agreement to ratchet up the pressure.
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The Chinese authorities began to ratchet up pressure on Bitcoin miners.
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"China has to ratchet up the pressure," Turnbull told Australian radio.
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Price-level targeting would ratchet up the seriousness of the effort.
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So, China may be prepared to ratchet up the pressure on Pyongyang.
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Go deeper: Trump seizes chance to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela's Maduro
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Havana's support for Caracas led Washington to ratchet up sanctions against it.
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First, on Friday, America would ratchet up the 10% tariffs to 25%.
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The hope was that regulators could ratchet up these standards later on.
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Their detention is likely to ratchet up tensions between Canada and China.
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This all comes as Cruz continues to ratchet up the ground war.
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In the pit, jittery 16th notes in the basses ratchet up tension.
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Payments will ratchet down, and fixed fees ratchet up, gradually through 272.
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The sure way to win is to ratchet up the crisis atmosphere.
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Then, when Washington tightens the noose again, ratchet up tensions and repeat.
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Experts in China are also widely expecting trade tensions to ratchet up.
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Then the captors hung up, apparently hoping to ratchet up the pressure.
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"This would ratchet up all of those concerns to 11," he said.
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Other countries would have their willpower fortified and steadily ratchet up their commitments.
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As the impacts of global warming ratchet up, so will the emotional toll.
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Her victory will likely deepen that deadlock and ratchet up pressure from Beijing.
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It may be appropriate to cut interest rates to ratchet up economic growth.
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Larvae production will ratchet up from 7 tonnes to 300 tonnes per month.
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The previous Obama-era standard continued to ratchet up fuel efficiency after 2021.
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To ratchet up pressure on Maduro, who began a second term on Jan.
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That could finally begin to change if policymakers and regulators ratchet up the pressure.
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Brussels is expected to ratchet up pressure on Switzerland if no deal is reached.
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That runup may have tempted some individual investors to ratchet up their stock allocations.
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If Assad commits another atrocity, does that mean Trump will ratchet up the response?
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But they signal that the government is ready to ratchet up pro-growth measures.
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The Hill: Dems unveil a slate of measures to ratchet up pressure on Russia.
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Yet each time talks collapse because Assad's forces ratchet up their offensives and sieges.
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The trade war that the U.S. has unleashed on China continues to ratchet up.
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World leaders could then push each other to ratchet up their ambitions over time.
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Instead, she has chosen to ratchet up the risk of a no-deal exit.
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They ratchet up the level of what we are allowed to expect about service.
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Things could get worse if the United States and China ratchet up their actions.
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The more that Trump behaves like Trump, the more that pressure will ratchet up.
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"On the second [album], we fully intend to ratchet up the cruelty," he says.
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Beijing said it was ready to respond if Washington chose to ratchet up trade tensions.
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Trump's full statement: Go deeper: Trump seizes chance to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela's Maduro
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This week's launch takes another major step to ratchet up pressure on the Trump administration.
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Now is not the time for Musk to ratchet up his fear-mongering AI rhetoric.
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The agreement was designed for countries to ratchet up their promises, not to reduce them.
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Earlier this year, it nominated four candidates to Energen's board to ratchet up the pressure.
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The vote is designed to ratchet up pressure on Turkey to curtail its repressive tactics.
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Before any good breakup scene, McCullah explains, it's important to ratchet up the dramatic tension.
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More generally, however, anti-Washington sentiment seemed to ratchet up significantly under President Barack Obama.
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So, at Bonn, diplomats focused on ways to encourage countries to ratchet up their ambitions.
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They ratchet up their language to a degree that weakens its currency for direr circumstances.
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Now there's opportunity to ratchet up the pressure on policymakers even more, Ms. Miller said.
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Nudging China to ratchet up the pressure on North Korea is not a bad thing.
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The development is expected to ratchet up pressure on Manafort to cooperate in Mueller's probe.
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Is The Handmaid's Tale supposed to ratchet up the horrors so we continue to be entertained?
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It is possible that a combination of tax cuts and government spending could ratchet up GDP.
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But Amazon continues to ratchet up the spending, especially in areas like shipping, logistics, and fulfillment.
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But they haven't had the experience of just trying to destroy things or ratchet up tension.
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And ProMotion does more than just ratchet up the refresh rate, it also ratchets it down.
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But Democrats are talking about it, and the pressure for action could start to ratchet up.
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As tensions with Iran ratchet up, the need to identify lines of direct communication is increasing.
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What is clear, though, is that Iran's move could ratchet up tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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Amazon's introduction into the grocery business is likely to ratchet up competition in the grocery sector.
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So I think it's an area where Russia can look to sort of ratchet up tensions.
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The Raptors also tried to ratchet up their defensive pressure in the paint, with mixed results.
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The Democratic ticket needs to ratchet up its "X factor" wattage, not tone it down further.
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The Trump administration continues to take steps to ratchet up pressure on the EU and China.
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Yes. Will it ratchet up pressure on Kalanick to reduce his ownership control in the company?
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The move could ratchet up tensions with federal lawmakers who see Beijing as a privacy threat.
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It's basically a license for Trump to ratchet up tensions with Tehran in 280-character tantrums.
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Pipelines and other infrastructure produce steady income, allowing midstream companies to ratchet up payouts to investors.
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He continues to find evermore inventive ways to ratchet up his crack down on illegal migration.
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If they ratchet up the rhetoric on encryption, this could become a very ugly year for tech.
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White House officials began to ratchet up language about a "crisis" in order to set the stage.
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It is unsettling for liberals to know that, even in the minority, Islamists can ratchet up restrictions.
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H1Z1 is already a fast game, and the addition of vehicles manages to ratchet up the intensity.
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As recession fears ratchet up, chances that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again do, too.
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It's not unusual for trailing presidential candidates to ratchet up the rhetoric as the election date nears.
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They can't destroy us — now — but they will ratchet up the pain if they get the ammo.
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I don't think it would've been healthy to set out to ratchet up that level of crazy.
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Markets fell sharply on the news, and tensions with Pyongyang are likely to ratchet up — and quickly.
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Lawmakers are under pressure to ratchet up their tactics to match the country's increasingly partisan battle lines.
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May, encouraging other contenders to ratchet up their anti-European rhetoric to win support from Euroskeptic activists.
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This is supposed to drive down insulin levels, ratchet up calorie burn, and help fat melt away.
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A board challenge could ratchet up pressure on Campbell, however, to explore a sale with more urgency.
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I hope Drake gets a 10-day contract at some point, just to ratchet up the circus.
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A default would also ratchet up pressure on U.S. Congress to legislate a fix for Puerto Rico.
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The president has continued to ratchet up tensions with Pyongyang in a series of recent cryptic statements.
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The Paris climate deal was meant to provide a structure to ratchet up those efforts over time.
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Still, the administration has sought since its first days in office to ratchet up pressure on Iran.
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The U.S. might need to ratchet up this response by destroying North Korean missiles on the ground.
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To ratchet up the torture, it is held in mid-July, when 120-degree temperatures are common.
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However, a board challenge could ratchet up pressure on Campbell Soup to explore a sale more actively.
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The exquisitely swoopy, nonsensically named Ferrari F12berlinetta offers lots of ways to ratchet up the $320,000 base price.
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Another way to turn out your supporters is to ratchet up the intensity of the choice they face.
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And then the next week proceeded to ratchet up his rhetoric, back to level 15 where it'd been.
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With no clear successor or challenger in sight, Mr Biya probably has no need to ratchet up repression.
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There are some car wrecks and explosions nearby, to provide obstacles and ratchet up tension during the driving.
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And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where we just ratchet up the baseline as for these rates.
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As recession fears ratchet up, the chances that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again do, too.
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These poor results will just ratchet up the calls for change from Marcato and other increasingly other investors.
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As others build on the foundation, the overall sophistication of products, both analytical and otherwise, will ratchet up.
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Another reform would free judges from having to ratchet up sentences for drug offenders convicted on simultaneous charges.
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These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level.
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The subpoenas significantly ratchet up the ongoing fight in which environmentalists are trying to punish Exxon Mobil Corp.
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But there are occasions when Curry appears to ratchet up the degree of difficulty just to challenge himself.
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If Taiwan can ratchet up private sector manufacturing in one month, the United States most certainly can, too.
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Instead, most countries will wait until the next few years before discussing how to ratchet up their efforts.
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The assurances in other songs, like "713" and "Nice," also arrive in settings that deliberately ratchet up discomfort.
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They're not going to ratchet up on the excitement level to where a lot of actors play them.
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"We felt we needed to ratchet up the deterrence," the PGA Tour's chief of operations Tyler Dennis said.
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"Listen, we can ratchet up the pressure and make things even worse for you," he says he argued.
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Gardner last year called on Trump to "ratchet up pressure" on North Korea ahead of the president's inauguration.
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But long-running tensions between the United States and Iran are now far more likely to ratchet up.
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As we approach the end of the calendar year, the pressure to move old models will ratchet up.
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What will it matter if countries ratchet up their targets if they aren't even meeting their current ones?
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A staggering 71 percent of self-described liberals saw new technologies as likely to ratchet up economic inequality.
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Among the considerations was that a statement might provoke those spreading the smears to ratchet up their attacks.
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Yet they also mean to significantly ratchet up entitlement spending with universal health care, free college and more.
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Once they have cleared the playing field of their competitors, they could ratchet up prices to decompress margins.
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The deteriorating environmental conditions of the Institute and an approaching desert storm ratchet up the tension even further.
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But to the extent that clashes do ratchet up in scale, the evidence suggests they will help Trump.
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After Trump then threatened to ratchet up the tariffs even further, the Dow Jones plummeted 572 points on Friday.
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Trump vowed on Thursday to ratchet up tariffs unless Mexico stopped people from illegally crossing into the United States.
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The revelation will ratchet up pressure on Salvini to answer questions about what he knew about the Moscow negotiation.
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It's one of several subpoenas various House committees have issued as they ratchet up their probes into Trump's finances.
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The EU said France and the Netherlands may also need to ratchet up efforts to meet the 2020 goal.
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If big emitters refuse to cooperate with them, shareholders could ratchet up pressure with public statements, resolutions and votes.
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The bigger threat to the deal is Trump's apparent intention to ratchet up pressure in the region on Tehran.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that the Trump administration plans to ratchet up trade pressure on China.
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A reclassification of drivers could significantly ratchet up Uber's costs because it does not pay contractors full-time benefits.
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Any actions, whether prohibiting Venezuelan oil imports or freezing Venezuelan-owned CITGO gas stations, would ratchet up the suffering.
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"The media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the President and everyone in this administration," Sanders said.
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Meanwhile the expected interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve next month will ratchet up the cost of borrowing.
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That opened the door for Donald Trump and his minions to ratchet up their tawdry "lock her up" campaign.
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When they ratchet up the volume, the sound rises like a tsunami that temporarily submerges everything else in darkness.
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"When you have community spread you're going to ratchet up the kinds of mitigations that you have," said Fauci.
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The delay is likely to ratchet up tensions in what is a crucial vote in Africa's most populous nation.
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But economists and investors say the tensions could ratchet up quickly, and that the tariffs could become more punishing.
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So plenty of contests should ratchet up to playoff intensity as teams fight to avoid an early summer vacation.
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Like all demagogues, he has no choice but to continue to ratchet up his worst words and worst behavior.
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He said the figure had been set mainly to encourage all countries to ratchet up their ambitions for climate finance.
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"The decision to ratchet up to this level seems to have been related to that unfavorable battlefield situation," he said.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to ratchet up pressure on its allies to ban Huawei, pressure that hasn't been well-received.
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The call to the EU follows other steps Israel has taken to ratchet up its fight against the boycott movement.
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And, just in case this failed, he ordered Iran's atomic agency to be ready to ratchet up its enrichment programme.
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Apple shares are down 7% for the month through Tuesday's close as China and the U.S. ratchet up trade fears.
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But, in a dramatic bid to oust Maduro, Washington has sought to ratchet up the pressure on the socialist premier.
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Erdogan has previously threatened to push further east, a move that would ratchet up tension in Syria's multi-sided conflict.
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The back story: Ng ran Google's early AI effort, Google Brain, before helping China's Baidu ratchet up its AI effort.
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The nuclear-armed rivals have seen tensions ratchet up in the past few months over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
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"These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level," Trump tweeted.
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Despite Rosenstein's denial, the Times story threatens to further ratchet up tensions between Trump and his top law enforcement officials.
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As Comcast and Disney ratchet up bids for 21st Century Fox assets, Verizon says it's staying out of the fight.
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The international community has sought to ratchet up pressure on North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test in September.
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He also threatened to ratchet up promised tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports from 10% to 15%.
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Ridley Scott watched a screening of it before filming "Alien," to help him ratchet up the terror of his movie.
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But Hunter is trying to ratchet up the pressure, saying it's in his colleagues' best interest to help out Trump.
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Things ratchet up until a chaotic wrestling stew is created, a six-person (seven this year) maelstrom of simulated violence.
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Trump called on Obama to step down from the presidency and challenged Clinton to ratchet up her language about terror threats.
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Against such a backdrop, the election of Ms Tsai of the independence-minded DPP was always likely to ratchet up tension.
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WATTERS: Right, he will walk away and then he&aposll ratchet up the sanctions, and start squeezing them even more drastically.
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This trailer makes particularly effective use of Michael Jackson's Thriller, using Vincent Price's classic, funky voiceover to ratchet up the horror.
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However, strong U.S. economic growth will inevitably push the Fed to ratchet up rates, putting pressure on gold, said ICBC's Kendall.
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And as for those highly capitalised startups who are staying private for now, their valuations continue to ratchet up, he added.
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And even then, a bad loss would ratchet up establishment pressure for him to quit and clear the field for Rubio.
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The UN Security Council has voted to ratchet up sanctions in response to the continued development of North Korea's nuclear program.
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This echoed comments from peer Temasek which is looking to temper the pace of its investments as trade tensions ratchet up.
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Saudi Arabia's informal price targets tend to ratchet up as realised prices rise, with its targets tending to be somewhat elastic.
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That's going add complications for workers, and it's going to really, really ratchet up the anxiety that I think people feel.
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"These rules ratchet up the standard for schools to be held responsible," Hanna, the End Rape on Campus policy manager, said.
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Strong corporate governance should diminish the chances of unpleasant surprises and also ratchet up pressure for improved management and business performance.
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"Everyone knows that Russell isn't going to ratchet up the rhetoric," Erickson, who now counts Moore as a close friend, says.
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The international community has sought to ratchet up pressure on North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test earlier this month.
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One of the central planks in President Obama's climate plan is a rule to ratchet up fuel economy standards through 20113.
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It would also ratchet up tensions between the US and Arab countries that want to see a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
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A dramatic upswing in prices so far this year has prompted President Donald Trump to call on OPEC to ratchet up supply.
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"North Korea has an incentive to ratchet up provocations," said David Kim, a North Korea expert at the Stimson Center in Washington.
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One minute after midnight in Washington on May 10th, America carried through on its threat to ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods.
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But as the tensions ratchet up in the solar system, it becomes clear that the protomolecule was designed for something much bigger.
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The operation, which would guarantee free passage through a key waterway, could ratchet up already high tensions with China, the outlet noted.
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Undoubtedly, the Israelis want to ratchet up the pressure on the Trump administration, perhaps fearing the U.S. is "getting soft" on Iran.
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Still, the Knicks are expected to depend on Rose to ratchet up their tempo on offense after two plodding (and losing) seasons.
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Allyn Stewart, a producer of the film, said it was not a case of taking creative license to ratchet up the drama.
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It's targeting iconic American products such as motorcycles, orange juice, bourbon and denim, in an attempt to ratchet up pressure on Trump.
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If consumers show further signs of pulling back, then business leaders are likely to ratchet up the heat on Trump even further.
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A potential Democratic takeover of the House this November would ratchet up congressional scrutiny of the White House and the counsel's workload.
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There are tricks to ratchet up the calorie burn from your workout if you do fall into that higher level of activity.
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Expect Beijing to ratchet up its rhetoric and possibly even engage in meddling as the federal election campaign shifts into high gear.
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Creation of safe zones could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria and mark a major departure from Obama's more cautious approach.
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Set up that system, show that it can work, and then ratchet up its ambition until it is adequate to the task.
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On the other hand, if members of the majority decline to step up, they should expect Democrats to ratchet up the pressure.
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Tiffany's shares ad fallen nearly 12% this month on U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to ratchet up a trade war with Beijing.
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State and local politicians have demanded that President Donald Trump use his power to ratchet up the US's industrial production of equipment.
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A predator may ask a child for a photo, then ratchet up the demands to videos, increasing the level of sexual content.
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This batch of weaker-than-forecast economic numbers led traders to ratchet up their bets on easier monetary policy from the Fed.
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So unless you calculated that yelling about unfair visitation would ratchet up his guilt, it was destined to drive him further away.
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The timing has raised questions about whether the Trump administration unveiled the charges to ratchet up pressure on China before the talks.
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The development is expected to ratchet up pressure on Manafort to cooperate in Mueller's probe now that his longtime ally is cooperating.
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There are many ways that Dark Souls tries to ratchet up tension, and the inability to pause is just one of them.
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He pledged a week ago to ratchet up tariffs, starting with a 5% levy June 10 and topping out at 25% by October.
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The president has already started to ratchet up his rhetoric and recently declared "our country is full" during a visit to the border.
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On March 1, Trump must decide whether to ratchet up tariffs from 10% to 25% on some $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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By next year the signatories are supposed to have fleshed out precisely how to calculate, review and ratchet up their nationally determined contributions.
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However, some market participants believed the domestic political uncertainty might embolden Trump to ratchet up trade tensions with China over a trade conflict.
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Only the PBMs know the true costs at each stage, and this knowledge allows them to ratchet up profits far from prying eyes.
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As bond markets sold off after the ECB comments, money market pricing suggested investors were ratchet up their rate-hike bets once more.
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President Donald Trump, who has demanded Beijing cut the trade surplus, could use the latest result to further ratchet up pressure on China.
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Where Tenet had worried about waning political support for the black site program, Goss wanted to ratchet up the pressure on al-Qaida.
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These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed," the president tweeted Tuesday, adding: "and in November they ratchet up to yet another level.
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The House will ratchet up the fight this week when it's expected to vote on and pass a resolution to block the declaration.
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The statement will ratchet up tensions between the world's two largest economies ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to China next week.
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Competition for eyes and ads keeps heating up as Alphabet, Snap, Twitter and Facebook's core platform all ratchet up original and curated content.
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After weeks of private discussions, Barington went public with its demands to ratchet up pressure on a company it thinks can perform better.
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The supply halt nudged Ford's crosstown rivals "to ratchet up incentives on the current models to go after weakness at Ford," he said.
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The trick: Threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension, amplify it with tweets and taunts, and then compromise on fairly conventional middle ground.
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"We now need to ratchet up emission reductions and political pressure before the next round of Paris cuts arrive in 2020," she said.
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And the hope was that by cooperating and exerting diplomatic pressure on each other, all countries would steadily ratchet up action over time.
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If the S.E.C. wants to send a message to companies, it may need to ratchet up the pressure by pursuing an enforcement action.
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The severe measures adopted Monday in Budapest may dramatically ratchet up the confrontation between the Orban government and European Union institutions in Brussels.
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Mr. Kudlow said on Wednesday that more sanctions could be coming as the Trump administration seeks to ratchet up pressure on Mr. Maduro.
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Analysis of past police shootings has found that officers themselves sometimes are the ones who ratchet up the tension in already combustible moments.
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It also lets Amazon, which accounts for almost half of all online sales in the United States, ratchet up pressure on other retailers.
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With our subways in crisis, advocates are trying to ratchet up political pressure to fix the system by highlighting the most nightmarish journeys.
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Trump last week promised to ratchet up planned tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese consumer goods imports, including shoes, from 10% to 15%.
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The hope was that countries would collectively ratchet up their efforts, slowly inching toward the deep cuts needed to stave off 22 degrees.
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A vote to call Bolton would also ratchet up pressure from Trump's allies to subpoena Hunter Biden, which could drag the process out.
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With each slow slip in the Puget Sound-Vancouver Island area, the chances of a Pacific Northwest megaquake ratchet up ever so slightly.
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The findings are certain to ratchet up pressure on Trump, and his Republican allies in Congress, to continue funding the payments to insurers.
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The moves underscore Democrats' plan to ratchet up pressure on the GOP over the growing questions surrounding President Donald Trump's ties to Moscow.
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The shutdown is entering its third day, and over the weekend both sides appeared to dig in and ratchet up the blame game.
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In his remarks to activists, Mr. Obama urged them to stop moping and to ratchet up their opposition to Mr. Trump by Thanksgiving.
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The two recent developments from Washington are expected to boost business and consumer spending and ratchet up federal borrowing, which would spur inflation.
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On the heels of Friday's bombshell, the stakes of Cohen potentially reaching a cooperation agreement with prosecutors seemed to ratchet up even higher.
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These rules helped underpin the Paris climate agreement, under which all countries agreed to tackle their own emissions and ratchet up ambitions over time.
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The action comes as the world's two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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It's fast and responsive, and the screen is good looking even though you have to manually ratchet up the brightness to see it outdoors.
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But Flake is now out of the picture, choosing to retire and ratchet up his Trump critiques from the refuge of lame-duck status.
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The action comes as the worlds two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call Chinas unfair trade practices.
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And while the competition might ratchet up the fanboy wars, it's ultimately a good thing: The rest of us consumers will be the winners.
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But broad measures against the country's vital oil sector – for which the United States is the biggest customer - would significantly ratchet up Washington's response.
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President Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign-style rally Wednesday night in Nashville as Republicans ratchet up efforts to pitch their healthcare plan.
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ET, Gaffigan and company ratchet up their odd, slightly dystopian world view for more absurd situations and even a bit of social (media) commentary.
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And while the competition might ratchet up the fanboy wars, it's ultimately a good thing — the rest of us consumers will be the winners.
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" But while acknowledging these trends, he conceded, "I still think we're going to see costs continue to ratchet up at the majority of schools.
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At the same time, the US has recently been in this situation before and Trump ultimately did nothing military other than ratchet up sanctions.
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President Donald Trump's abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal may dramatically ratchet up military tensions in the Middle East, political analysts warned on Wednesday.
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He landed in Beijing aiming to convince a reluctant China to ratchet up pressure and punishments on its recalcitrant nuclear-armed ally North Korea.
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That puts its delegates at the center of a campaign of lobbying, coaxing and wrangling that the presidential campaigns are beginning to ratchet up.
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President Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign-style rally next week in Nashville as Republicans ratchet up efforts to pitch their healthcare plan.
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Yet much of that feels like killing time between the shoot-'em-ups and fights, which again ratchet up the violence to cartoonish levels.
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A child welfare group organized a march on Saturday, calling on the police to arrest the parents and ratchet up the charges to murder.
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In Denmark, a number of smaller, craft distillers are experimenting with aquavits that ratchet up the juniper flavor, while keeping the necessary caraway character.
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But he described it as a distant line of action behind other moves meant to ratchet up diplomatic and economic pressure against Mr. Maduro.
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Officials are urging New Yorkers to get vaccinated and some have called on the federal government to ratchet up its efforts in New York.
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The changes will go into effect at midnight Monday and ratchet up pressure on Tehran while worsening a divide with Europe over diplomatic strategy.
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Diaz-Balart told The Hill last week that the Trump administration "has different options on the table" to ratchet up sanctions against the country.
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But critics of the Trump administration in the US were furious that it did not take the opportunity to ratchet up measures on Russia.
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Trump said on Thursday he would ratchet up tariffs unless Mexico stopped people from illegally crossing the border it shares with the United States.
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The White House has looked to ratchet up the pressure on Huawei for years, with members of Congress from both parties backing its efforts.
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Mr. Trump needs to be firm, not reckless in his talk, ratchet up sanctions and find a way to engage the North in negotiations.
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Why this vote was big: The vote came after both sides appeared to dig in over the weekend and ratchet up the blame game.
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The Taliban is expected to continue to ratchet up attacks around the country and have refused to discuss a cease-fire with Afghan officials.
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The Taliban is expected to ratchet up attacks around the country now that negotiations have failed and have refused to discuss a cease-fire.
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If they violate the agreement, the Trump administration would ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods, according to one person with knowledge of the negotiations.
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The bottom line: The balance of power between the two sets of companies has been shifting as policymakers ratchet up scrutiny of Big Tech.
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Google's move comes as the world's two top economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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The Cohen and Manafort cases ratchet up political pressure on Republicans ahead of November elections in which Democrats hope to take control of Congress.
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That trick is to threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension, amplify it with tweets and taunts, and then compromise on fairly conventional middle ground.
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One day earlier Mr Trump had called Mr Xi to tell him that, if China would not ratchet up pressure on North Korea, America would.
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On the other hand, the suspensions do give both Washington and Seoul an easy option to ratchet up diplomatic pressure should Pyongyang resume weapons tests.
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The preliminary report doesn't assign blame, but it's likely to ratchet up the pressure on Boeing and the regulators who green-lit the new model.
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The decision comes just days after President Trump accused China of election interference and as trade tensions between the two nations continue to ratchet up.
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Over the weekend, Trump said he would ratchet up tariffs on $20.9 billion worth of imports from China, the world's largest consumer of industrial metals.
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It took more than 193 hours for state media to report President Donald Trump's threats, tweeted on May 5th, to ratchet up tariffs on China.
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Mr Trump might have thought that his threat would ratchet up pressure on China, helping to squeeze out more concessions just before the finishing-line.
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As regional tensions ratchet up, Iran has continued flight-testing its missile arsenal, most recently in last week's launch of a Shahab-3 ballistic missile.
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The glut could reach 3 million if Iran lives up to its vow to ratchet up exports to 1 million bpd as soon as possible.
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The U.S. has sought to ratchet up the pressure on Russia to sever its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Venezuela, but to no avail.
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Launched in 2012, Much Better Adventures started life by listing the best independent skier-run chalets in Europe, seeing it ratchet up 50,000 overnight bookings.
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Or the anti-Trump groups might decide an alliance between Cruz and Kasich isn't enough and ratchet up the pressure on Kasich to drop out.
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The expanded criminal allegations ratchet up the pressure Manafort faces to cut a deal with the special counsel's office as he awaits two criminal trials.
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If we're measuring from some esoteric vision of a perfect community (except for boobs) then Twitter and Facebook should ratchet up the ban hammer immediately.
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Wang Yi said at a forum in Singapore that a U.S. campaign to ratchet up pressure on Beijing will not "have any effect," Reuters reported.
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Crude traders may be under-estimating the president's determination to end what he has termed a "terrible" deal and ratchet up the pressure on Iran.
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The developments are sure to ratchet up tensions with China, which have fluctuated for several months as a result of the administration's actions on trade.
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At times, she has been a fierce ally of the administration, using her position to ratchet up tensions with Iran and push pro-Israeli policies.
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And in April, after the border numbers reached their zenith, Mr. Miller was instrumental in Mr. Trump's decision to ratchet up the zero tolerance policy.
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But many fliers contend that the real benefit is to the airline, which can significantly ratchet up the price of the most coveted award seats.
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But the president has continued to ratchet up the pain, using arcane measures generally reserved to combat terrorism and nuclear proliferation to punish Chinese companies.
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It is currently unclear whether the World Dream will ratchet up additional safety precautions and how long it will stay in quarantine, Leung told RTHK.
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Kyle: This is uncharted constitutional terrain, and Pelosi seems to be exploiting it to ratchet up pressure on the Senate to promise a fair trial.
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Trump could use his bully pulpit Tuesday night to ratchet up the pressure on both Democrats and Republicans to get on board with his proposal.
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When deployed correctly, developers can be economic multipliers — coefficients that dramatically ratchet up the output of the teams and companies of which they're a part.
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Analysts have warned that Israel's new openness could ratchet up tensions, making it harder for Iranian leaders to ignore attacks and pushing them to retaliate.
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This call for an investigation could end up being a test of the body's credibility and ratchet up pressure on member states to take action.
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The move is intended to ratchet up pressure on Democrats, who have insisted they will not negotiate with Mr. Trump until the shutdown is over.
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The international climate talks being held in 2020 will be the first chance for countries to increase their ambitions and ratchet up their original NDCs.
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But given that the company showed some positive signs this quarter, it looks like industry watchers can ratchet up their expectations headed into the fourth quarter.
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States could ratchet up driver education requirements and make tests harder to pass, to make sure the new drivers hitting the road know what they're doing.
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You have irresistible force and immovable object kind of working against each other, so i think they're probably going to ratchet up the tariffs, I think.
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The persistently benign inflation reported by the Labor Department on Friday could, however, ratchet up White House pressure on the U.S. central bank to cut rates.
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President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he would ratchet up tariffs to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods starting at 12:01 a.m.
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Late last month, Trump urged OPEC producers to ratchet up production levels to prevent further price rises ahead of the mid-term elections in early November.
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But for now (or if you work for a place without a retirement plan) start or ratchet up your contributions to an IRA or Roth IRA.
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Overlord is an impressive directorial statement from a confident filmmaker who can handle dynamic action sequences and ratchet up tension like an action and horror veteran.
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That will further ratchet up the pressure on countries and companies in emerging markets which borrow heavily in dollars, Turkey being one of the main ones.
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The rule would have created a framework to possibly ratchet up emission cut requirements long into the future, according to analysis released Monday by Rhodium Group.
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The move is an apparent part of a broader strategy by President Vladimir Putin to ratchet up Moscow's political and economic influence in the Middle East.
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Hours after President Trump canceled his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump's administration hinted that it might ratchet up sanctions against his country.
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With the BOE joining the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan in easy monetary policy, the pressure will only ratchet up on yields, Grant said.
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Democrats also will have to answer tough questions about whether to dramatically ratchet up taxes on the country's wealthiest residents — a position favored by freshman Rep.
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When you take a series of steps that ratchet up tensions, you shouldn't be surprised when the intelligence tells you 'hey, tensions have been ratcheted up'.
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While the new sanctions will certainly ratchet up the pressure on the Iranian government, there is no guarantee the regime will take steps for positive change.
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Another remake, Bishop Briggs's version of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart," jettisons the hints of playfulness in the original to ratchet up the power-ballad drama.
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And I think we would have been much better doing that than continuing to ratchet up of who has the biggest threat available at the time.
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Tiffany's shares, which have fallen nearly 12% this month on U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to ratchet up a trade war with Beijing, rose to $85.05.
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Britain hopes its decision will encourage other governments to follow suit before 2020, when countries are due to ratchet up their goals under the Paris Agreement.
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What will be the consequences of Attorney General Jeff Sessions's plan to ratchet down federal oversight of police departments and ratchet up the war on drugs?
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The president's decision to ratchet up decades of simmering conflict with Iran set off an extraordinary worldwide drama, much of which played out behind the scenes.
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Lindsey Graham to ratchet up his defense of President Donald Trump, as House Republicans race to influence the Senate GOP's strategy in a looming impeachment trial.
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"Richard would tell a politician, 'You need to do x , y , and z , or else we're going to ratchet up the rhetoric against you,' " Erickson says.
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So far, investors are betting this latest dust-off will only be a transitory headwind since neither country has indicated a desire to ratchet up tensions.
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It's also possible that the activity at the facility is a chess move in North Korea's negotiating strategy, Schmerler said, to ratchet up pressure on Washington.
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The question is whether strategists will ratchet up numbers, like they did last year, as the S&P surged nearly 2000 percent into the year-end.
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As countries succeeded on their modest targets, received international approbation for it, and got comfortable taking action, the thinking went, they would ratchet up their ambitions.
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U.S. diplomats have made clear they are seeking a diplomatic solution but proposed the new, tougher sanctions resolution to ratchet up pressure on North Korea's leader.
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It's those details that were likely to ratchet up the costs of the event, though the massive fireworks display that will cap the evening has been donated.
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And the idea that we are going to now ratchet up the rhetoric and potentially cause a firestorm, that is really not where the Democrats have been.
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Stocks took another sharp drop Monday, but Kashkari said broader economic indicators are showing little signs of stress as the two sides ratchet up their tariff duel.
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So Apple has made a big bet to increase that possibility to ratchet up that least upper bound: seeing if people will pay more for its products.
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The enhancement technique allows the team to ratchet up the resolution, so that it can make out objects as small as 2 inches, according to the team.
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Pundits who preach transparency and allege malfeasance are almost always invited back to appear on talk shows because they ratchet up the conflict that draws ratings; 5.
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The U.S. Trump administration has sought to ratchet up pressure for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
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Between the lines: Many of North Korea's steps over the last 6 months have seemed designed to ratchet up pressure on the Trump administration to make concessions.
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At that same conference, Merkel made clear that Germany would not be bullied over this spending and that they'd already promised to ratchet up their monetary commitment.
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And so if everybody&aposs decided they&aposre optimistic about the country and they go out and buy stuff, then the firms will ratchet up their production.
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The Trump administration policy on North Korea has been to ratchet up the pressure on Pyongyang with sanctions in order to push them to the negotiating table.
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The longer it takes to ratchet up resources the longer it will take for the anti-slavery forces to get on an even footing with the traffickers.
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And the throngs of foreign delegations at Airshow China in the southern resort of Zhuhai indicate China is succeeding - even as tensions ratchet up in the region.
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That said, just because the game's built in a way that doesn't artificially ratchet up the tension doesn't mean that it plays everything straight and sunshiny, either.
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The figures show countries that develop national strategies to curb risks from extreme weather are faring better as climate change strengthens and disasters ratchet up, Rauch said.
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Democrats, now in control of the House, plan to ratchet up the pressure on Trump with hearings on a range of topics that could damage him politically.
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Most generally, severe sentences ratchet up the pressure on defendants to admit guilt and plead guilty to get a deal – whether or not they are actually guilty.
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What's next: In the coming days, supporters of the UN resolution will ratchet up the pressure for the Assad regime and Russia to comply with the ceasefire.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong have been protesting in the streets amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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She told me how, after the Reverend Franklin mesmerized the congregation with his poetic homilies, his teenage daughter would rise behind him to ratchet up the spirit.
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Instead, moments where the puppets are shown in minute closeup — a character's flushed expression, a pair of hands nervously clutching one another — ratchet up the emotional intensity.
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Whenever the series needs to ratchet up tension, while also turning the emotional and psychological screws on Philip and Elizabeth, Brand is there to write the episode.
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Still, while opponents can ratchet up the rhetoric, there is little they can do to unravel the deal: It does not need approval from the City Council.
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We would be wise not to ratchet up that anger, as President Emmanuel Macron of France belatedly acknowledged when he yanked the proposed hike in fuel taxes.
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Golden State surrendered 39 points in the opening quarter and fell behind by as many as 17 points, only to gradually ratchet up the pace after halftime.
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But confusion over who should be tested and shortages of crucial materials for preparing samples have complicated efforts to ratchet up the number of people being screened.
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And as the makers of political thrillers like "House of Cards" and "Scandal" know all too well, television must ratchet up the stakes lest viewers lose interest.
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Keep increasing your rates On her rapid ascension into six-figure freelancing, Johnston also effectively leveraged an intentional rate strategy that helped her ratchet up her earnings.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong have been protesting in the streets amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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But for many of the Democratic activists who remained in Washington, Mr. Trump's inauguration was a time to ratchet up public protest and dissent against his presidency.
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Washington (CNN)Democratic groups are preparing to spend millions on impeachment-focused messaging to ratchet up the pressure on Republican senators facing tough reelection bids in 2020.
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A senior administration official told CNBC on Friday that there was "zero" engagement between the Trump administration and China as the two countries ratchet up trade tensions.
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There was a big opportunity here to restructure how we expand school options and ratchet up our expectations for all schools to perform at the highest level.
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The US is now engaged in an effort to drastically ratchet up pressure on Iran in what US officials say is an attempt to change Tehran's behavior.
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Plus there's reason to be concerned that, as manufacturers ratchet up the already jet-engine-level blowing power of their devices, they're only making the situation worse.
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"The series is handsomely dressed, and Mr. Blakeson has the blunt ability to ratchet up tension," Mike Hale wrote in his review in The New York Times.
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Jeff Session hints at plan to ratchet up the war on drugs Jeff Session hints at plan to ratchet up the war on drugs Attorney General Jeff Sessions says fighting violent crime is his top priority, and in a memo released Wednesday, the former Alabama Senator dropped a hint as to how he'd like to achieve that — through reviving the wildly unpopular and largely unsuccessful war on drugs.
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The return of sanctions, first implemented during the Obama administration, fulfills President Donald Trump's vow six months ago to ratchet up pressure on Iran, despite widespread international criticism.
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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since President Trumps administration last year quit an international deal to curb Irans nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions.
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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since President Trump's administration last year quit an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions.
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It's not every day that you'd tell a retiring client to ratchet up their stock exposure, but if she has some guaranteed income, it just might make sense.
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I can't say I've necessarily felt deprived of bass response with other planar magnetics, but the D8000 ratchet up both the quality and quantity to an unprecedented level.
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Late last month, President Donald Trump urged OPEC producers to ratchet up production levels to prevent further price rises ahead of the mid-term elections in early November.
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One of my favorite things early on is there is a regrettable decision to ratchet up the pressure on Kim Jong-un with a series of bomber flights.
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Why it matters: If Iran were to withdraw even partially from the deal, it could see its economy plummet further while military tensions with the U.S. ratchet up.
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President Donald Trump has taken steps to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Guaido, recognized by the United States and more than 50 other countries, including Colombia.
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Beyond just making mothers feel guilty for giving babies formula, there's a potential to ratchet up feelings of anxiety or increase the odds of postpartum depression, Kurth noted.
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The talks in Poland are meant to put those goals into action -- setting the "rulebook" for countries to track the emissions and ratchet up their ambitions over time.
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Instead, they are playing a purely political game, attempting to ratchet up the political costs should President Trump dare to exercise his constitutional authority to fire his subordinates.
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What is left to do now, from their perspective, is to ratchet up the military threat in the hope that intimidation will ultimately bring North Korea to heel.
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But the vote aims to ratchet up the pressure on Mr. Erdogan, whose leadership has taken an even more authoritarian turn since a failed coup attempt in July.
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First-person shooter video games top the video-game market while Hollywood films ratchet up representations of extreme violence and reinforce a culture of fear, aggression and militarization.
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A photo-op with Netanyahu and senior figures from Arab countries in Warsaw would be a win for Washington as it seeks to ratchet up pressure against Tehran.
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And so last year, Wall Street started to ratchet up the pressure on Mayer to separate Yahoo's core internet business from its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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The decision on Tuesday by Mr. Trump to end the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation could ratchet up tension between the countries.
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And when people keep coming, Mr. Trump and his allies will simply ratchet up their demands — he has already called for an end to due process for noncitizens.
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The report projects that global oil use for cars will peak by the mid-2020s as countries ratchet up their fuel-economy standards and deploy more electric vehicles.
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A decrease in Venezuelan exports could raise global oil prices, bolstering the economies of Russia and Iran just as Washington prepares to ratchet up sanctions on those countries.
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That amount will increase by another $10 billion in three months, and the Fed will continue to ratchet up the volume until it reaches $50 billion next year.
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Each spoonful is a ratchet up in sourness: pickled chiles declaring themselves in the depths, along with pickled garlic, pickled cabbage and a generous slosh of rice vinegar.
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Mr. Bloomberg himself signaled plans to ratchet up attacks on the party's nominal front-runner, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, trying to shift focus to a progressive foil.
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But Paul argues that the killing of Soleimani, which he said on CNN was an "act of war," will only ratchet up the possibility of an armed confrontation.
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The methods of Thomas Hoving, the freewheeling director of the Met between 1967 and 1977, exemplified the tactics museums began deploying to ratchet up their attendance and revenue.
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In 2016, signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change pledged to reconvene in five years to "ratchet up" their nationally determined contributions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Johnson said on Sunday that for talks with North Korea to be successful, the president has to keep up pressure on the regime and even "ratchet up" sanctions.
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" In a statement, Engel said, "It's unacceptable that the administration continues to waive certain sanctions on Burma while refusing to ratchet up the pressure on the Burmese military.
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The Chinese leadership would certainly prefer to see Pyongyang find a way to remove pressure from Washington than to ratchet up further sanctions on its North Korean ally.
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As tensions between the US and Iran ratchet up, oil has spiked along with gold prices as traders fear energy supply disruptions and flock to haven assets. 4.
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Amazon's promotion will further ratchet up the pressure on these incumbent retailers, making it cheaper still to buy online from the company that recently hit a $1 trillion valuation.
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The plan was for countries to ratchet up their targets in the coming years, but if you had trouble running a 5K, would you sign up for a marathon?
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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since President Donald Trump's administration last year quit an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions.
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Once the first child starts college and the Lees turn 46, they can ratchet up their retirement plan savings to 12.2 percent and continue to fund the college plan.
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Glaser from CSIS echoed that sentiment, adding that if a candidate from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party was elected, China would ratchet up military, diplomatic and economic pressure.
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The South is threatened, the North is threatened, and the two sides, convinced they are right, ratchet up preparedness to a point where conflict becomes more and more likely.
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COMPANIES ARE ALLOWED TO NOT ADMIT GUILT AND YET PAY THE FINE AND WE KEEP HEARING IF IT KEEPS GOING WE'RE GOING TO RATCHET UP BUT IT NEVER HAPPENS.
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Now that Batman v Superman has been set loose on the world, Warner Bros is ready to ratchet up the hype for its next DC Comics film: Suicide Squad.
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The Trump administration policy on North Korea to date has been to ratchet up the pressure on Pyongyang with sanctions in order to push them to the negotiating table.
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Trump remained bellicose – saying a deal was potentially close, but reserving the right to ratchet up tariffs "very substantially" against Beijing if no deal was sealed early next month.
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President Donald Trump announced last month that he would ratchet up the trade war with China and impose 10% tariffs on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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The partial government shutdown is now almost certain to deprive federal employees of at least one paycheck, a development that will ratchet up the political stakes higher than ever.
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Landlords will either bow out of the market, always max out on the rent increases available to them, or ratchet up the rent immediately when a new lease begins.
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And so Mr. Trump has continued to ratchet up the fear factor with each subsequent attack abroad or at home, always using it as proof of his own rightness.
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The problem is it's unclear if the US can ratchet up the pressure any more, especially after Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this month.
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The pressure will no doubt ratchet up over the weekend, and Taylor hopes that if he can not hoist the trophy on Sunday then one of his compatriots will.
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Absent the dispatch call of "weapon(s) in a hotel room," there is no evidence on the video that justifies the officer's need to vocally ratchet up the temperature.
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One, a favorite of misguided workplace dramas and period pieces about bold and angry men, is to ratchet up the interpersonal conflict as high and as fast as possible.
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China has begun to make good on some concessions, but the Trump administration is wary — and plans to ratchet up the pressure on Beijing's trade, cybersecurity and economic policies.
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Trump mentioned Warren as recently as Thursday night at his campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, reusing his favorite nickname for her -- and vowing to ratchet up his attacks.
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Trump's threat to put tariffs on a key European export — and once again ratchet up trade tensions with the economic bloc — has sparked backlash from European officials and companies.
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But the rhetoric surrounding his coronation was geared to ratchet up enthusiasm for the governor, who is dealing with an unexpectedly prickly challenge from the left from Cynthia Nixon.
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Ron Johnson said Sunday that President Donald Trump must continue to ratchet up pressure on North Korea to denuclearize, even as the two countries prepare to meet for talks.
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But much of the blame must also fall on now deep-seated uncertainties on the trade front, as the United States prepares to ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Earlier in the day, the president said that Iran "appears to be standing down," adding that he would ratchet up "punishing" sanctions rather than take military action to retaliate.
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The alleged attack is the latest incident involving oil tankers in the Red Sea and Gulf region, and is likely to ratchet up tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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The Democratic group Need to Impeach is airing new ads pushing four Republican senators to remove President Donald Trump from office, as public pressure campaigns surrounding impeachment ratchet up.
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That's a story you can tell without a demon involved at all, but it certainly helps to have Pazuzu (The Exorcist's main villain) there to ratchet up the tension.
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The two findings of guilt ratchet up the political pressure for Trump and fellow Republicans ahead of November's congressional elections in which Democrats are seeking to regain control of Congress.
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The allegation will likely ratchet up tensions with Iran's rival Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, which along with the United States have been working to isolate the Islamic Republic.
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Republicans in the House and Senate had filed legislation to ratchet up offenses for assaults on police in 2016, during the Obama administration, but those bills ultimately died in committee.
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It doesn't hurt that this sounds like it may be using a sample of Justin Timberlake's "Sexyback" (which itself was sampling Eddie Bo's "Hook & Sling") to ratchet up the danceability.
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It has been a little slower than Germany and the U.K. to ratchet up trade with Beijing, but Chinese interest in French aerospace, alcohol, cosmetics and luxury goods is growing.
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But with few other countries matching Washington's financial and oil measures, Vecchio said the Venezuelan opposition hoped to convince others to follow suit to further ratchet up pressure on Maduro.
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"The supply disruptions inflicting the oil market continue to ratchet up... As these issues linger, we expect an increasing supply risk premium will price into the market," the bank said.
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The request would help to "ratchet up the tension," James Edward Hoare, associate fellow at Chatham House, an independent think tank in London, said, according to an NBC News report.
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US officials then urged those with the ability to persuade Pyongyang to ratchet up the pressure to get him released, said a source, who is familiar with the government's efforts.
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Series 7 did away with the studio audience, and Rimmer was mostly absent, replaced by Lister's crush Kristine Kochanski (giving the show an excuse to ratchet up the sexist jokes).
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This year, the world number three is coming to Spieth's home turf and McIlroy said a potential duel with Texan Spieth would ratchet up the atmosphere to Ryder Cup levels.
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It is a way for renewables to create their own long-term energy storage and dispatchable generation, their own backup, which they can leverage to ratchet up and grow further.
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The killing has severely strained relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and officials in Istanbul have regularly leaked new information about the case to ratchet up pressure on the kingdom.
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Tension between Tehran and Washington have risen since U.S. President Donald Trump's administration last year quit an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions.
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The state legislature has avoided taking up abortion issues in recent years, part of a detente between Democrats and Republicans over issues that are likely to ratchet up partisan rhetoric.
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Biden himself spoke to more than 100 financiers at the weekend event — and signaled that he's going to ratchet up his attacks on Trump in the Ukraine scandal, donors said.
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It is not enough to increase U.S. bomber warning flights over the Korean Peninsula or to ratchet up tough talk that is patently disconnected from any credible threats of retaliation.
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And yet, even as it is at times critical of Iran's actions and policies, Qatar is in an unenviable position as tensions over the collapsing Iranian nuclear deal ratchet up.
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The bills would limit the revenue that tech companies could make from financial activities and ratchet up regulation to make it less appealing for the firms to pursue banking licenses.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering sanctioning Venezuela's crude industry in a bid to ratchet up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reported Thursday, citing an unnamed U.S. official.
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Bezos may be a key player in the Silicon Valley scheme to destroy privacy and ratchet up excess in the interest of mammonism, but for the moment, he's a hero.
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Sources have told Reuters that Chinese leaders are likely to stick with that growth target for 2018, even as they ratchet up efforts to prevent a destabilising build-up of debt.
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That duty will gradually ratchet up over the coming months: 10 percent on July 1, 15 percent on August 1, 20 percent on September 1 and 25 percent on October 1.
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Trump appeared to be reviving an old playbook by threatening to ratchet up tariffs on Beijing in the hopes of applying pressure on China to force negotiators to strike a deal.
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That clearly shows that the tariff situation and the trade wars are having negative impacts on actual economic activity and it's going to get worse it we ratchet up another level.
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The United States might ratchet up tensions with Iran by sending thousands of troops to the Middle East — a sign that the Trump administration may be preparing for a serious fight.
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The fee would be based on the amount of carbon in the fossil fuel, and ratchet up over time, starting in January 20183 as $15 per metric ton of carbon content.
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Both sides seem uncertain whether he will tighten sanctions on Iran or ratchet up JASTA, the new law that allows Americans to sue Saudi Arabia for losses on September 11th 2001.
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Trump issued his first call in the campaign for Obama to step down from the presidency and challenged presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to ratchet up her language about terror threats.
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As they reflect on these questions, many of his clients, he said, have been tempted to ratchet up their exposure to the U.S. stock market in hopes of getting higher returns.
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In a bid to ratchet up the pressure, the U.S. has flown one plane after another filled with aid to the border this week and staged high-profile visits from Sen.
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Trump's defense secretary, Jim Mattis, declined to directly answer a question about whether he was concerned that Trump's rhetoric might ratchet up tensions in the region, increasing the chances of miscalculation.
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Creation of safe zones could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria, including increased U.S. air power to enforce "no fly" restrictions and ground forces to protect civilians in those areas.
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New DOJ involvement could ratchet up the pressure on universities like Harvard that place a premium on racial and ethnic diversity and ramp up the stakes for some Asian-American students.
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But it does anticipate a further incremental slowing in the absence of a supportive Federal Reserve and as corporations ratchet up debt following a period of "unspectacular, mediocre" growth, he said.
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Conway's comments come as Trump continues to ratchet up his complaints about a "rigged" electoral system and the possibility of widespread voter fraud as he questions the legitimacy of the election.
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The CIT analysis was published the same day British newspaper The Times reported that Russian and Syrian government forces plan to ratchet up their military assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
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As it stands, it looks like the campaign will come down to who voters hate less, with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump working very hard to ratchet up the negativity.
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Sources have told Reuters that Chinese leaders are likely to stick with that growth target for 2018, even as they ratchet up efforts to prevent a destabilizing build-up of debt.
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Having internalized that lesson, Trump may be tempted to ratchet up hostility with Iran to distract from controversies over his ties to Russia and his failure to advance his policy agenda.
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The pressure to become profitable will ratchet up once these companies become public, said Jordan Stuart, a portfolio manager for Federated Kaufmann funds who often purchases companies' stock in the IPO.
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To ratchet up pressure on Iran, the U.S. Treasury Department slapped new sanctions on elements of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military unit loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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However, Trump did ratchet up the rhetoric against Iran's destabilizing activities in the region and pledged to counter them, particularly singling out the activities of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Yet even as the loudest voices in President Donald Trump's administration ratchet up their protectionist talk, experts aren't ready to sound the alarm that a "trade war" has officially kicked off.
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Brent crude traded above $78 a barrel on Wednesday, which could ratchet up the pressure on OPEC and Russia to unwind their ongoing production deal to curb a global supply overhang.
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Venezuela has been a key focus of the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America, with Trump taking numerous steps to ratchet up pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Washington would be left just two realistic options: stand down and look feckless or ratchet up the conflict into a full-blown proxy war and commit to finishing off the regime.
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However, immigrant rights groups and even some loyal to Trump have expressed concerns that the president, with Miller's encouragement, will ratchet up his crackdown on illegal immigration, with potentially disastrous results.
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Thrones has managed to ratchet up its production values with each season, and having fewer episodes will likely allow more time for the team to polish every hour of the show.
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On Wednesday, Washington imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up pressure on Havana to end its support for Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
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Demonstrators have protested for more than five months in the streets of Hong Kong, amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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Under the Paris deal, signed by world leaders in 2015, virtually every country on Earth agreed to submit a plan for curbing emissions and vowed to ratchet up efforts over time.
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To ratchet up the film's bizarro quality, Ryan made frequent use of a fisheye lens that warped the scenes to wild effect, underscoring the strangeness of the fictionalized Queen Anne's court.
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The announcement from Beijing came at the end of a week that saw tensions ratchet up between the United States and North Korea, with the leaders of both countries trading insults.
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If four Republicans make the leap across the aisle and vote with Democrats, then witnesses will be in play, which would ratchet up the level of drama and unpredictability at trial.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's latest sanctions against Iran will target the country's non-oil industries and ruling elites while the U.S. will ratchet up enforcement of existing sanctions, VICE News has learned.
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Such a move could ratchet up tensions in a region riven with interrelated wars, including the multi-layered conflict in Syria where Iran's presence has brought it into conflict with Israel.
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It also serves as fodder for supporters of the 85033 Paris Agreement, who say it shows that countries need to stick to their pledges and continue to ratchet up their commitments.
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Even as the US-China trade war drags on and tariffs ratchet up, the likelihood of tech companies quickly shifting manufacturing out of China — or moving it at all — is low.
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It also serves as fodder for supporters of the 28503 Paris Agreement, who say it shows that countries need to stick to their pledges and continue to ratchet up their commitments.
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Anti-government demonstrators have protested in the streets of Hong Kong for six months amid increasing violence and fears that China will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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Top Democrats predict as many as a dozen GOP lawmakers will cross the aisle and support their piecemeal government funding bills designed to ratchet up pressure on Senate leaders to act.
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Apple went on to say that it will help law enforcement agencies with their investigations to the extent that it can, but will also continue to ratchet up its security measures.
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The moves by Washington are set to ratchet up the pressure on Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro and will effectively prevent investors who operate in the United States from buying PDVSA bonds.
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Why it matters: The report says the U.S. will have to ratchet up actions to adapt to global warming-related impacts at the same time that cuts to greenhouse gases are made.
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Trump's aides, including top economic advisor Larry Kudlow, have previously said that talks between the two economic superpowers remain ongoing, even as both sides ratchet up their tariffs on each others' imports.
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Throughout the year, Pyongyang has been abundantly clear that it will not wait around while negotiations stagnate but will continue to ratchet up pressure on the Trump administration to reach a deal.
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Trump's response is to fight back, barnstorming all three states to ratchet up the anger of his base over impeachment and get out the vote in notoriously low-turnout off-year elections.
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Investors have started to ratchet up expectations for an ECB rate cut by year-end, with markets pricing in more than a 60% chance of a 10 bps cut by year-end.
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Then she begins to ratchet up the creeping unease by discussing Alexander Fleming, the father of antibiotics, who predicted two years after penicillin was introduced that the drug wouldn't be good forever.
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Let's just hope that as world leaders get together this week to discuss climate for the first time since Paris, we can find a way to ratchet up the ambition even further.
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It's sure to ratchet up tensions with North Korea, which has recently resumed short-range missile testing, despite President Trump's efforts to rein in Kim Jong-un with a pair of summits.
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Todd Stern, Obama's special envoy for climate change, told me this week that while this is the intent of the Paris Agreement, countries are not legally bound to ratchet up their ambitions.
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The announcement was Tehran's third move in six months to ratchet up pressure on the West in response to President Trump's decision to exit the nuclear agreement and reimpose sanctions on Iran.
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Washington (CNN)One of President Barack Obama's defense secretaries warned that the Iranian regime could ratchet up its attacks and nuclear ambitions now that the US has abandoned the Iran nuclear deal.
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A bipartisan group of a dozen senators on Monday called on the Obama administration to ratchet up pressure on China to stem the excess supply of steel flowing into the United States.
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The move by Washington are set to ratchet up the pressure on Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro and will effectively prevent investors who operate in the United States from buying PDVSA bonds.
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The US has said if North Korea lags in its promises to denuclearize, it will quickly ratchet up the "maximum pressure" campaign that brought North Korea to the table with economic sanctions.
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Trump's tweets and declarations that things are "going well" and that "there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea to deal with" only ratchet up the pressure to produce results.
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The Senate will come into session Friday at noon, giving Congress only 12 hours to prevent a partial lapse in funding as both sides dig in and ratchet up their shutdown rhetoric.
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The Liberals have so far tried to maintain calm as tensions ratchet up, relying on visits from cabinet ministers and to key states to press the message that trade benefits both sides.
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For LGBTQ people, these family obligations ratchet up the pressure to remain closeted—and it goes some way to explain why gay men like Cheng Jiansheng feel compelled to marry heterosexual women.
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On Friday, the administration announced another set of sanctions to ratchet up the pressure, this time against Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, which it charged with helping the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Bernie Sanders' campaign will ratchet up its criticism of Joe Biden and highlight the senator's record in three new TV ads rolled out Wednesday and set to run in upcoming primary states.
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In signing the agreement on Friday, Mr. Trump sought to ratchet up the pressure on President Xi Jinping of China, with whom he will meet on Saturday amid an escalating trade war.
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Or, to put it another way, he uses thriller tactics — a ruthlessly objective camera, editing rhythms that ratchet up the anxiety of quiet moments, disciplined performances — in the service of documentary ends.
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The American troop presence could ratchet up to levels not seen in a foreign country since President George Bush sent more than a half-million troops to the Middle East in 1990.
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Iran is threatening to dramatically ratchet up its response to the U.S., if President Donald Trump succeeds in halting crude sales from the Persian Gulf when sanctions snap back on the country.
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International cooperation and support will be critical for Latin American and Caribbean countries' ability to fulfill their Paris commitments and to ratchet up their pledges in the future, as climate negotiators intended.
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Just to ratchet up the tension, he tells his commander (William Fichtner) that he intends to complete the perilous assignment in a mere three weeks, before the weather can thwart their plan.
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Mass protests for more democracy and autonomy have rocked Hong Kong for more than five months, with escalating violence and fears that China will ratchet up its response to end the unrest.
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"I can assure the rest of the world that President Trump will continue to ratchet up the pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran so that their behavior will change," Pompeo said.
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Even as Democrats have moved into a new investigative phase with their rapidly advancing impeachment inquiry, Trump has shown no signs of letting up, ensuring the constitutional clash will only ratchet up.
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It's my hope that in addition to satisfying my curiosity about my favorite game, the suit will also ratchet up the pressure on OPD to better comply with transparency laws for everyone.
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Justin Fairfax, the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association's first chairman, told POLITICO that the 2016 election created a "great sense of urgency" among Democrats to ratchet up their campaign operations in the states.
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All this is the stuff of spy craft that makes us think of big budget movies that ratchet up the tension until we find release in something blowing up or someone dying.
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On Sunday, Trump said he would ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China, escalating the trade dispute marked by tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing amid ongoing talks.
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The comments followed his weekend threat to ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China, even as ongoing talks between Washington and Beijing as were set to continue this week.
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The latest moves by the ratings agencies on Mexico's sovereign rating could also ratchet up pressure on the oil company's own rating, which is teetering on the brink being downgraded from investment grade.
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Germany and France were among the nations to ratchet up the pressure on Russia, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to support the resolution.
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The committee is planning a Thursday vote to authorize the subpoenas, which would ratchet up the Democrat-led panel's investigation into possible obstruction of justice and examination of the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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U.S. President Donald Trump sought to ratchet up pressure on China for trade concessions by proposing a higher 2300 percent tariff on $216.4 billion worth of Chinese imports, his administration said on Wednesday.
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Interest rates have also risen on expectations that Trump's economic plans will accelerate growth and inflation and the Federal Reserve will ratchet up the pace of hikes to its benchmark overnight lending rate.
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Last April, the Enough Project published a major report outlining how a commitment to a modernized targeted sanctions regime would ratchet up the pressure on the massively corrupt senior officials in the regime.
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Bankers see China's manufacturing and technology, media and telecom sectors as the most at risk from the trade war, as tit-for-tat tariffs ratchet up the pressure on the country's major exporters.
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So far, automakers have done a commendable job meeting the latest fuel economy standards, which gradually ratchet up year by year, and which set different targets for different sizes and categories of vehicles.
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White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney is hitting the Sunday show circuit this week as the Trump administration and GOP leaders ratchet up the pitch for their proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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As a result, he appears intent on ditching the first element of what appears to be an interagency consensus recommending recertifying the nuclear deal, while embracing calls among officials to ratchet up pressure.
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That data has taken on particular significance after recent strong wage growth data prompted investors to ratchet up expectations for U.S. rate hikes this year and sparked a rout in world stock markets.
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The embassy move, which was bound to raise tensions no matter the timing, played into the hands of Hamas and others, who sought to use it as an excuse to ratchet up conflict.
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The United States is even looking at sanctions on senior Chinese officials and companies linked to allegations of human rights abuses there, which would further ratchet up tension amid their blistering trade war.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Commonwealth Bank, HSBC and Citi are betting that Australia's central bank will cut interest rates more steeply than previously thought as global trade tensions ratchet up and domestic hiring intentions slow.
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SUPPORT: China will ratchet up support for the economy this year by cutting taxes and keeping liquidity ample, the official Xinhua news agency said after an annual meeting of Chinese leaders and policymakers.
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The new rule was likely to ratchet up transatlantic tensions over corporate taxes while eliminating one more strategy U.S. companies can use to cushion the blow from increasingly aggressive EU tax collection efforts.
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Although it was unclear how the zones would work, creating any safe havens could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria and mark a major departure from President Barack Obama's more cautious approach.
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Through the deal with its largest partner, Ocado will ratchet up its delivery business by building robotically operated warehouses for Kroger in the United States, raising the stakes in the battle with Amazon.
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But until that happens, he's likely to keep swaying back and forth, pushed by his desire to ratchet up pressure on China and pulled by the pressure the stock market puts on him.
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The latest moves by the ratings agencies on Mexico's sovereign rating could also ratchet up pressure on the oil company's own rating, which is teetering on the brink being downgraded from investment grade.
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The letter, sent by the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, called on nations to ratchet up of ambition and action and match what many cities are doing globally to kick carbon to the curb.
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Formal opposition in Parliament to a no-deal departure would ratchet up pressure on the government to seek a postponement of the deadline, something that would be contingent on an agreement between Mrs.
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Russian political analysts suggested that the Kremlin had no need to ratchet up its confrontation with Ukraine — it had already achieved what it wanted by destabilizing the country through support for the separatists.
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It's the latest turnaround on tariffs for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly dangled threats to ratchet up import duties on goods from China and other countries, including Mexico, as leverage in negotiations.
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The agency is likely to ratchet up the use of "tolling agreements," under which potential defendants agree to waive the statute of limitations for a period to allow the completion of an investigation.
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While previous efforts to launch negotiations came to naught, some experts say there are signs that the Taliban could be persuaded to talk if Afghan and American forces ratchet up the military pressure.
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U.S. President Donald Trump sought to ratchet up pressure on China for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, his administration said on Wednesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump sought to ratchet up pressure on China for trade concessions by proposing a higher 0.793 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, his administration said on Wednesday.
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The cautious undertone echoes comments from smaller Singapore peer Temasek Holdings which is looking to temper its pace of investments this year as trade tensions ratchet up between the United States and China.
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"The US is doing what it can to ratchet up sanctions pressure on North Korea, but that won't be enough unless the Chinese do the same," a former State Department official told CNN.
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The productions tend to be sparse — spooky electronic sounds, an occasional acoustic or electric guitar, hefty but discreet drums — and even where the choruses ratchet up, Cabello's voice often stays close and confiding.
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He missed the third debate stage, and as the requirements ratchet up — a process he says serves only the best "money launderers" — it's unlikely he'll make the cut for any more this fall.
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Trump's tweet, which appeared to raise the specter of a US military response, served to ratchet up tensions in a region already on edge after Saturday's audacious attack on the Saudi oil field.
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The world's growing appetite for oil will leave plenty of room for both Saudi Arabia and the United States to ratchet up production, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said in a CNBC interview.
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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele ratchet up the absurdity to play milquetoast cousins in search of their too-cool-for-school pet kitten — name: Keanu — after it's snatched during a home burglary.
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But after a slight attempt to do so — he tried to be "nice" in campaign rallies this weekend, to limited success — he appears to have decided to ratchet up his rhetoric yet again.
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To avoid dangerous warming, countries need to ratchet up their ambition dramatically, which will only happen if countries have clarity about what others are committing to, and confidence that they are meeting those commitments.
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It's part of a multipronged effort "to ratchet up the pressure on China," said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer of cybersecurity company Carbon Black and a former top cybersecurity official for The World Bank.
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He wrote the leaders of Denmark, Norway, Canada and Germany last month to ratchet up the pressure, saying "the United States is increasingly unwilling to ignore the European failure to meet shared security commitments."
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is using confrontations at the US–Mexico border to ratchet up calls for a border funding showdown with less than two weeks to go to avert a partial government shutdown.
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Also, while the parties are required to come back to the table to ratchet up their climate ambitions, they are not legally bound to cut pollution by a certain amount in a certain timeframe.
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President Donald Trump's administration has taken steps to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognized by the United States and more than 50 other countries as interim president.
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As Alex Ward wrote, the tests were likely a signal to Trump: "North Korea has an incentive to ratchet up provocations," said David Kim, a North Korea expert at the Stimson Center in Washington.
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The discussions are swiftly approaching a March 2 deadline when the United States has said it will ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, lifting them to 25 percent from 10 percent.
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With U.S. trade duties threatening to ratchet up pressure on China's already slowing economy, Beijing has rolled out a string of growth-boosting measures from ramping up infrastructure spending to cutting taxes and fees.
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Companies had emphatically encouraged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) to undo the Obama administration's plans to ratchet up greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency rules for cars through 2628.
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The result will be to undermine the long-term role of the dollar; ratchet up the public debt; and undermine the current expansion through a spiral of protectionist measures and rising uncertainties for business.
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But it is likely to ratchet up tensions with law enforcement officials and Democrats who believe the order is an improper effort by Trump and his congressional allies to interfere in an ongoing investigation.
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Democrats will scour Kavanaugh's record looking for issues that might be able to fire up their own base — and also ratchet up the pressure on the Republicans most likely to vote against Kavanaugh: Sens.
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"This risks being complicated with important political decisions expected to be made during that time – not least of which including the planned tariff ratchet-up dates in the US-China trade war," he wrote.
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It will inevitably ratchet up fears in Northeast Asia that raging tensions between the US and North Korea could trigger a miscalculation that could quickly lead to the most ruinous conflict in many decades.
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Thursday's vote will mark the first effort by the committee to move forward with subpoenas related to the issue and is likely to further ratchet up tensions between House Democrats and the White House.
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The hard truth is that unless the four major carbon players — the U.S., China, European Union (EU), and India — make ambitious cuts over the coming decade, carbon emissions will likely continue to ratchet up.
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In November, following an attempted Houthi missile strike near the Saudi capital, Riyadh, the Saudis decided to ratchet up their blockade of Houthi-held ports, which exacerbated critical shortages of food, fuel, and medicine.
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We saw oil prices obviously going higher, jet fuel costs are obviously going higher as a result and you've seen capacities start to ratchet up as well, since the fourth quarter of last year.
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But it also is neither an effective nor an efficient way to police the border and is likely to ratchet up international tensions in a way that could take a long time to unwind.
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The Nets are among the teams that want to ratchet up their pace and stretch the floor with loads of 3-pointers, and they have a core of young players building toward that goal.
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Activity was detected at the North's main rocket test facility around the time of the failed summit, fueling concern that Pyongyang may be about to resume weapons development to ratchet up pressure on Washington.
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Maybe over time, Disney will need to ratchet up the restrictions as it sees what its users do, but it's great that Disney+ is starting with relatively generous policies for devices and video quality.
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The alliance could try to persuade other governors to ratchet up their ambitions, though those prospects are uncertain, since barriers to climate policy in Republican-leaning states are often as much political as technical.
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Did some of the characters in Mr. Trump's circle seek to ratchet up their status or fatten their wallets by sucking up to Russians and wittingly or unwittingly expose themselves to foreign intelligence operatives?
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Expect her to ratchet up her attacks on Bloomberg for previously linking the 2008 financial crisis, in part, to a decline in "redlining," a practice in which banks didn't make loans in certain areas.
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It is the harshest such diplomatic action since the waning days of the Cold War and is almost certain to ratchet up tensions between two governments that were already struggling to find common ground.
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Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said governments will face a tougher test in coming years when they have to ratchet up national ambitions to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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That tension radiates outward to the political landscape of the show: the power plays and backstabbing and spurned populaces with chips on their shoulder gradually ratchet up the pressure on an already fragile stability.
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ET. (CNBC) The world's growing appetite for oil will leave plenty of room for both Saudi Arabia and the U.S to ratchet up production, Amin Nasser, CEO of energy giant Saudi Aramco, told CNBC.
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To ensure these scenarios do not come to pass, the Trump administration should not be swayed by Iran's recent provocations, and must continue to ratchet up the pressure on the failing Iranian terrorist regime.
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Washington imposed sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA on Monday, a step that is likely to curb its crude exports to the U.S. and ratchet up the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has taken steps to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Guaido, who has been recognized as president by the United States and more than 50 other countries, including Colombia.
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The drone shoot-down comes as tensions between Iran and the United States have risen since Trump's administration last year quit an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions.
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Others said the historically frosty ties between the U.S. and Iran had only begun to thaw in the final years of the Obama administration, leaving them wondering whether tensions will ratchet up again under Trump.
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And if Yahoo does not sell before the upcoming proxy fight with Starboard Value that is sure to ratchet up the volume, we might all want to invest in a good set of ear plugs.
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Trump's hinting that he might pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal could ratchet up tensions, especially as the war against ISIS, which saw Iran and the US essentially on the same side, winds down.
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It was a calmer start from Europe's main bourses after Trump's threat to ratchet up tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods triggered the biggest sell-off in European equities since March.
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The latest developments ratchet up the wrangling for control over Redstone's $40 billion empire, amid questions over whether the magnate is making his own decisions or is even of sound enough mind to do so.
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"If anything this scandal is only serving to ratchet up the level of conversation related to the film and raising the awareness of it to even higher levels," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst at Comscore.
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Only $50 billion of worth of U.S. imports remain without tariffs on the Chinese side, fueling speculation China will need to resort to other methods of retaliation if Washington continues to ratchet up the pressure.
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While experts say both sides would take care to avoid armed confrontation in the oil-rich Gulf, U.S. threats of reprisals for the missile test, coupled with Iran's defiant reaction, could ratchet up tensions dangerously.
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This time around, critics are likely to ratchet up focus on Trump's intent behind the policy while the administration is expected to make its case for why the order is necessary to protect national security.
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The fact that our Kurdish forces were the key in halting, and then rolling back, the ISIS scourge encouraged Kurds living beyond our borders to ratchet up their dreams of being part of our region.
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This sentence is a word salad designed to ratchet up the hyperbole, until it crosses into the realm of untruth: The Affordable Care Act didn't actually require anyone to "buy" birth control or subsidize abortions.
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At odds with the president's ambitions to ratchet up growth to 3 percent, the current chair's aim of monetary policy has shifted to maintaining growth on an even keel rather than stimulating the economy further.
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Plueger also said the deal with Airbus may drive Boeing to take another look at the 100 to 149 seat space and at least contemplate an alliance with an existing planemaker, to ratchet up competition.
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The past year has seen mounting pressure on generic drugmakers, as speedier approvals of generic products by U.S. regulators ratchet up competition in the sector, squeezing smaller players such as Impax, that lack bargaining power.
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According to a report by El Mundo, May 2019 saw the respective countries ratchet up the trade war even further with additional tariffs, affecting total imports of Chinese goods and nearly 75% of US products.
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Rooney's comments place him alongside several other Republicans squarely in the corner of President Donald Trump, who has continued to ratchet up his criticism of the FBI and Department of Justice as Mueller's investigation progresses.
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But most other Republicans have said little about the specific allegations of obstruction or cooperation with the Russians during the 2016 campaign, even as Democrats who control the House ratchet up their post-Mueller investigations.
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Sources have told Reuters that Chinese leaders are likely to stick with a growth target of around 6.5 percent for 2018, even as they ratchet up efforts to prevent a destabilizing build-up of debt.
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In the mid-1990s, the warnings were simple and direct: ratchet up sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, and it will be pushed ever more deeply into the arms of its most rabid extremists.
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A digital clock was taped to the middle of the pipe, a feature that experts say is typically shown on fictional bombs in an attempt to ratchet up dramatic tension, but unnecessary in real life.
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The unit had been trading relatively calmly since the start of 2019 until Trump's vow last week to ratchet up tariffs on Mexican goods unless the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border stopped.
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Jafari's remarks came amid heightening regional tensions after Israel and the Gulf Arab states attended a summit in the Polish capital Warsaw this week where the United States hoped to ratchet up pressure against Iran.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called for a bipartisan effort to "ratchet up" sanctions on Moscow following U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki earlier on Monday.
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More than 130 representatives from an array of industries met with senators on Tuesday to ratchet up pressure on lawmakers — many of whose constituents work for companies dependent on Nafta — to keep the deal intact.
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The JCPOA includes a dispute resolution mechanism that if activated would ratchet up the pressure on the Islamic Republic, bringing closer the possibility of reimposing United Nations sanctions that were rescinded under the 2015 deal.
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As part of the agreement, Mr. Trump pledged to reduce the tariffs he has placed on $360 billion of Chinese goods, in return for China's commitment to ratchet up its purchases of American agriculture products.
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Tensions have flared in Nicaragua since President Daniel Ortega's leftist ally Evo Morales was toppled in Bolivia, encouraging the local opposition and prompting Ortega to arrest activists and ratchet up pressure on opponents.
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Barr's comments are likely to ratchet up Democrats' unease over the attorney general that's already simmering over Barr's role in the Mueller investigation and the decision there wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute obstruction of justice.
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China agreed to increase limits it has placed on foreign ownership in its financial services sector, ratchet up certain intellectual property protections and boost purchases from U.S. farmers who have suffered from Beijing's tariff retaliation.
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Touches of violin, trumpet, and sax ratchet up the cinema potential, and when Ronnenfelt sings ballads like "Plead the Fifth," it's as though he's discovering the softer registers of his voice for the first time.
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Given a couple more generations of refinement, the Surface design team should have ironed out any lingering fit and comfort issues while the audio engineers can be expected to ratchet up the quality of the internals.
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Washington (CNN)The Chinese government on Wednesday threatened to retaliate if President Donald Trump follows through on his plan to ratchet up tariffs on Friday, just as the two countries try to finalize a trade deal.
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Therefore, it is imperative that the next administration not only ratchet up pressure on the regime, but that it work with Congress, the international community and our allies in the region to counter North Korean aggression.
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With U.S. trade duties threatening to ratchet up pressure on China's already slowing economy, its policymakers have shifted focus in recent months to growth-boosting measures, from ramping up infrastructure spending to cutting taxes and fees.
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With U.S. trade duties threatening to ratchet up pressure on China's already slowing economy, its policymakers have shifted focus in recent months to growth-boosting measures, pushing banks to lend more and bringing down financing costs.
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"Walmart made a concerted effort on service during the holiday shopping season and created the 'holiday helpers' program to really ratchet-up their ability to provide service and it seems that really paid off," VanAmburg said.
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Misery takes place almost entirely in the bedroom where Paul is recuperating from an accident and then held against his will; the claustrophobic setting helps the film ratchet up the tension to a nearly unbearable degree.
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We need to do better, which is why the Paris agreement was designed to be a living document, with nations reconvening every five years to take stock of global progress and ratchet up the energy ambition.
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Trump has threatened to place penalty taxes on up to $500 billion in products imported from China, a move that would dramatically ratchet up the stakes in the trade dispute involving the globe&aposs biggest economies.
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The "Premium Streaming" plan, which Verizon spokeswoman Kelly Crummey told Gizmodo would roll out on November 3rd, would cumulatively ratchet up the price to $95/month for a single line for 1080p or higher resolution streaming.
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Specifically, that Facebook's decision to ask political groups to publish the ads they buy could generate even more interest in ad buys as firms see what their rivals are up to and ratchet up their spending.
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The South Korean President's visit to the White House came after Trump approved a series of measures designed to ratchet up pressure on North Korea -- while also sending signals to China about the US' shrinking patience.
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Speaking at the car maker's annual meeting in Munich, Chief Executive Officer Harald Krueger appeared to ratchet up the pressure on Westminster and Brussels to settle a deal which does not harm the car industry. bit.
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They want the House to formally censure Trump, ratchet up congressional investigations on the threat of domestic terror posed by so-called "alt-right" groups, and debate whether Confederate statues should remain in the US Capitol.
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The addition of centrifuges is among several steps Iran has taken in recent months to ratchet up pressure on the West in response to President Trump's decision to exit the 2015 nuclear agreement and reimpose sanctions.
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With U.S. trade duties threatening to ratchet up pressure on China's already slowing economy, its policymakers have shifted focus in recent months to growth-boosting measures, from ramping up infrastructure spending to cutting taxes and fees.
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A neoconservative who believes the U.S. is being infiltrated by Islamists, Bolton can be expected to ratchet up tensions around the globe—and to create disturbances with allies and with members of both parties in Congress.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that his 90-day deadline for completing trade talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could be extended -- while also threatening to ratchet up tariffs if he isn't happy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are striking back at the U.S. Congress and White House over their push to cut regulations, as Republicans ratchet up attacks on rules they say hurt business and give bureaucrats too much power.
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In an early morning tweet, Trump described the measures as "the most biting sanctions ever" and warned they would "ratchet up to yet another level" in November, when US sanctions on Iranian oil will be reimposed.
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Pompeo also said the US will grant temporary waivers to eight "jurisdictions" from energy-related sanctions that will also be reimposed on Monday as the Trump administration seeks to ratchet up pressure on the Iranian regime.
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Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for attorney general and long-time critic of H-13Bs, could ratchet up scrutiny of the application process and impose such severe penalties and fines that companies will stop using the program.
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Now, let's ratchet up the sacrifice: Suppose you were required by law to turn the thermostat up to 75 in the summer, and down to 66 in the winter, in order to reduce your carbon footprint.
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Boyd had intended to ratchet up his Muay Thai skills in Thailand, then move to Brazil to focus on Brazilian jiu jitsu, with the United States and its burgeoning professional fight circuit as his final destination.
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If Mr. Burr were to join Mr. Schiff in demanding transmission of the whistle-blower complaint, that would ratchet up the pressure on the White House to at least reach some accommodation with the intelligence committees.
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The museum determined — in consultation with the New York Police Department — that as long as the protests were peaceful and did not threaten the artwork or visitors, forcibly removing people would only ratchet up tensions further.
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The plan would ratchet up the royalties paid by fossil fuel companies that drill and mine on the nation's more than 600 million acres of public land, raising fees from roughly 12 percent to 18 percent.
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With the rial flatlining, President Trump, with his new secretary of State and national security advisor in place, should move quickly to stymie the flow of hard currency into Iran and ratchet up the economic pressure.
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The plan would ratchet up the royalties paid by fossil fuel companies that drill and mine on the nation's more than 85033 million acres of public land, raising fees from roughly 12 percent to 18 percent.
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Traders dialed back bets the U.S. central bank would ratchet up the pace of rate increases on Monday to between two and three hikes from three to four hikes last week, according to interest rates futures.
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"One of my concerns arising from the young age of the suspects in this case is that there'll be pressure on police to ratchet up aggressive enforcement on kids as young as 13," Mr. Levine said.
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Manafort's was the first indictment Mueller announced in late 2017 and his team used the criminal prosecution to ratchet up pressure on him throughout 2018 as it sought his cooperation on matters central to the probe.
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Broadcom plans to unveil a new approximately $120 billion offer for Qualcomm on Monday, aiming to ratchet up pressure on its U.S. semiconductor peer to engage in negotiations, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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The administration is placing inordinate faith in China, North Korea's main trading partner, to ratchet up the pressure by cutting off fuel supplies to bring North Korea to the negotiating table, if not to its knees.
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The arrests are a dramatic display of civil disobedience in the nation's Capitol, although one that has become relatively common as activists seek to ratchet up their attempts to draw attention to the Republican health bill.
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump sought to ratchet up pressure on China for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, his administration said on Wednesday.
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It wasn't perfect—there's a moment that uses a baby in a low-hanging fruit way to ratchet up tension, and the final moments reassure the player that pulling the trigger all those times was absolutely necessary.
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The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada's ambassador to the United States told the Globe and Mail, in a move certain to ratchet up tensions with China.
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Trump appeared to be reviving an old playbook by threatening to ratchet up tariffs on Beijing in the hopes of applying additional pressure on China to force negotiators to strike a deal as early as this week.
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For the U.S., strategists have urged caution as tensions ratchet up, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gauge of recession probability over the next 12 months now at 27.5%, the highest since the financial crisis.
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Sondland's testimony is likely to ratchet up the Democrats' focus on the concerns top officials expressed about Giuliani's involvement in Ukraine — and how they disagreed with Trump's insistence on using his private attorney to negotiate diplomatic efforts.
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" Antonio Ledezma, the former mayor of Caracas, now living in exile in Spain, made an impassioned plea to Mr. Pence to ratchet up pressure on the Maduro government, and provide "not only humanitarian aid, but humanitarian intervention.
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And while creepy kids are right up there with scary masks as elements that can ratchet up the terror in any film, The Orphanage doubles down and gives us both—a creepy kid in a scary mask.
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The executive order comes at a delicate time in relations between China and the United States as the world's two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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The scene's subtextual purpose, to the extent it has one, is to ratchet up and then dissolve the tension between dainty Pee-wee and the macho bikers: It barely registers that the sequence serves zero narrative function.
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But, we already know he's going ratchet up the intensity of his world-ending plot to creating the actual apocalypse soon (the events of this episode take place less than three years before nukes end the world).
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But if policymakers ratchet up pressure too much, then talent, capital, and companies will flock to other countries, which means the United States loses out on the incredible benefits that high-growth startups bring to our country.
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That changed on May 5, when President Donald Trump unleashed an angry barrage of tweets, complaining that China had reneged on promises it had made in the talks and threatening to ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.
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Political tensions have pushed Spain's borrowing costs sharply higher in recent weeks, and though tensions are sure to ratchet up as Thursday's deadline passes, investors are hoping Rajoy's uncompromising stance will bring some stability to the region.
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The Trump administration has taken several steps in recent weeks to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognized by the United States and more than 50 other countries as interim president.
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That strategy has been on full display on the campaign trail over the past week, as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders ratchet up their attacks on Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton days out from the Iowa caucuses.
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For the film's big premiere, Blake managed to ratchet up her glam factor yet another notch, wearing this Carolina Herrera cocktail dress with a patent leather bustier top and big tulle skirt embellished with patent leather flowers.
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Auto liability rates may increase between 3 and 8 percent as insurers continue to ratchet up rates because of higher accident rates due to distracted driving and rising costs to fix damaged vehicles, Willis Towers Watson said.
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is considered to have played a major role in convincing fellow Republican Trump to ratchet up pressure on Maduro, subtly reminding him of the importance of swing state Florida in the 2020 election.
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Policymakers are likely to ratchet up support for the economy to fend off a sharper slowdown and job losses, but analysts say the room for aggressive stimulus is limited by fears of exacerbating debt and structural risks.
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One person close to the White House said senior aides have resisted efforts from Trump allies inside and outside Congress to ratchet up the pressure on Justice Department leaders over the FBI's use of a confidential source.
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López Obrador, who made ending the war on drugs one of the pillars of his campaign, has been under increasing internal pressure to ratchet up enforcement against the cartels after widespread violence killed 13 people on Oct.
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The development has both deflated Democrats and put them on the defensive, forcing them to shift tactics and ratchet up pressure on Barr to release Mueller's full report, as well as the underlying evidence that shaped it.
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In recent years, China has sought to ratchet up the pressure on Saudi Arabia over the form of currency in which their oil trade is conducted, with Riyadh now enjoying less and less oil purchases from Beijing.
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According to court documents submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller, the Russian ambassador informed Flynn a few days later that, in response to Flynn's outreach, Russia decided not to ratchet up its retaliation against the United States.
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Earlier on Monday, the White House said it was revoking or restricting U.S. visas of Nicaraguan officials connected to the violence against protesters, the latest of several moves to ratchet up pressure from Washington on Ortega's government.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The uncertainty surrounding France's upcoming elections appeared to ratchet up for debt investors on Monday, as the premium over Germany that France pays to borrow in bond markets climbed to its highest in three years.
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The unique position Gowdy has carved has left the partisans on both sides guessing as to where the South Carolina Republican will land as the special counsel investigation -- and the Republican efforts to undercut it -- ratchet up.
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MIAMI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up U.S. pressure on Havana to end its support for Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
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The first exercise meant to evaluate progress made by countries in meeting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) will just be around the corner in 2018, and will enable countries to ratchet up actions and commitments before 2020.
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As long as this polarization persists, we can either ratchet up an increasingly irreconcilable debate about how to govern ourselves together, or we can simply do fewer things as one nation, and devolve power to local levels.
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But he defended his decision to travel to Riyadh and meet with Saudi officials, saying his trip was aimed at reinforcing ties at a critical moment, as the United States tries to ratchet up pressure on Iran.
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But while Trump appears poised to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran and could ratchet up hostilities against it, the prospect of war with North Korea is the thing really keeping Americans scared of their own shadows.
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The WHO urged Europe to ratchet up its efforts when tackling the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to a decline in the rate of new cases in China as evidence that bold action does work to reduce the spread.
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Legal experts say Gates is also likely a key figure in cooperation with the probe and will ratchet up the pressure against Manafort, in an effort to also get him to flip to working with federal prosecutors.
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China on Thursday urged the United States to return to reason after the Trump administration sought to ratchet up pressure for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25-percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
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Officials described the action as the latest effort to ratchet up pressure on Iran for its "destructive and destabilizing behavior" beyond the reimposition of sanctions lifted under the Obama administration as part of the Iranian nuclear deal.
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The president's decision to ratchet up decades of simmering conflict with Iran set off an extraordinary worldwide drama, much of which played out behind the scenes, interviews with dozens of administration officials, military officers and others show.
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Accepting Saddam Hussein's explanation that the attack, which killed 37 sailors, had been an accident, American officials promptly used the episode, which came at the height of the Iran-Iraq war, to ratchet up pressure on Tehran.
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They inflate hopes, cut deals, sign agreements, secure sanctions relief, and then violate whatever deal they made, leaving them not only enriched economically, but sitting in positions to ratchet up demands in the next cycle of drama.
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The administration could have a more immediate impact on the oil market if it decides to ratchet up sanctions in Venezuela, where economic crisis and mismanagement have caused sharp declines in the petrostate's crude output, said Croft.
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As for what comes next, he said, the next two to three days will be key in seeing whether talks can quietly continue through back channels or if tensions ratchet up to where they were last year.
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But if that doesn't happen, some members hope to use the upcoming Speaker's race to further ratchet up pressure on congressional leaders to prioritize the issue, for example by agreeing to attach reforms to must-pass bills.
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According to a document seen by Reuters, Trump is expected to order the Pentagon and the State Department to craft a plan for the safe zones, a move that could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria.
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The steps also come at a delicate time in relations between China and the United States as the world's two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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"The Trump administration is absolutely determined to ratchet up tensions and the Iranians will of course, being hardliners there, want to do the same," said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Virginia-based industry consultancy Teal Group.
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Excerpts from Voice of Jihad, al-Qaeda's propaganda magazine (with the group's damning edicts against its enemies voiced incongruously in Tom Hollander's clipped British tones) ratchet up the on-screen tension between the terrorists and the security forces.
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Germany, in part because of its history with Poland, has been less openly critical of its eastern neighbors, but it has tacitly supported Macron and steps by the EU to ratchet up pressure on governments in the east.
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The original plan was to ratchet up the spiciness of the questions as the wings got hotter, but Evans and Schonberger quickly abandoned that approach because they discovered it's hard to talk when your mouth is on fire.
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We expected at the time of our latest sovereign rating review in July that the planned vote would be declared unconstitutional by the Spanish courts and that tensions between the central and Catalonian regional governments would ratchet up.
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After years riddled with false starts and high-profile failures, it appears the sun is indeed beginning to shine on solar power, as even oil and other fossil fuel intensive companies ratchet up their investment in sustainable energy.
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The decision to press for extradition follows a debate within the government, divided between those who want to ratchet up the response to Russia and those who see the request as a futile political gesture, the Guardian reported.
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But Moscow has already been heavily sanctioned by the US over this and is bracing itself for even stronger measures as the US Congress considers how to ratchet up the punishment and to deter Russia from future meddling.
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This may be an attempt to ratchet up the tensions without actually disrupting the flow of crude, as the Iranians would also suffer if the Strait of Hormuz was actually closed or suffered severe restrictions on vessel movements.
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Germany, in part because of its history with Poland, has been less openly critical of its eastern neighbours, but it has tacitly supported Macron and steps by the EU to ratchet up pressure on governments in the east.
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The lawsuit is ASIC's second against ANZ in 10 months as regulators ratchet up scrutiny of big lenders following a national inquiry into financial misconduct that drew complaints authorities were too easy on the A$140 billion sector.
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Bring in the young The CMS is also proposing to ratchet up marketing to "young invincibles" to lure them into the risk pool, a much-discussed shortcoming that has contributed to sicker-than-expected membership and lower enrollment.
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Sigmar Gabriel, dogged by ill health and forced to quash rumors he will quit, is under unprecedented pressure but moving left would ratchet up tensions within Germany's ruling coalition where the SPD is junior partner to Merkel's conservatives.
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The Center for International and Strategic Studies, which closely monitors North Korean launches through its Beyond Parallel initiative, said historical data shows that Pyongyang is set to significantly ratchet up its testing in the first half of 2018.
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Brazilian officials, desperate to tamp down the vicious drug gangs before the Olympics, let the army and the police ratchet up violence, to the point that last year the police committed one-fifth of the homicides in Rio.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. The prescription of conventional medication could plummet following today's legalization of medicinal cannabis, with campaigners now set to ratchet up pressure on the government to legalize recreational cannabis, VICE can reveal.
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Independent government estimates suggest the tax plan could add at least $1 trillion to the $20 trillion in national debt in 10 years as the Treasury Department would ratchet up borrowing to compensate for shortfalls in tax receipts.
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During a series of public appearances in and around the South Korean capital on Tuesday, Trump defended his provocative threats toward Kim, but declined to repeat the type of fiery bombast which has helped ratchet up tensions here.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has already purchased S-400 defense systems from Russia and hopes they will be delivered in July, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, an announcement likely to ratchet up tensions with NATO ally Washington.
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"It takes time for miners to ratchet up output ... mills need to try diversifying their portfolio raw material to avoid shortages (of certain products)," said Li Dong, a general manager at international trading company of Shandong Jianbang Group.
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Unlike a civil inquiry, which can result in a monetary penalty, a criminal investigation would ratchet up the pressure on Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple and could result in significant fines along with efforts to break them up.
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The premier darting event, the William Hill World Championship, has grown into a three-week, $3-million-purse affair, replete with cheerleaders and thunderous walk-on music, and the sport's promoters work tirelessly to ratchet up the show.
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Under the Paris agreement, each country submitted a voluntary pledge to tackle its greenhouse gas emissions and then agreed to meet every five years to review their collective progress and prod one another to ratchet up their efforts.
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In other words, they can ratchet up the likelihood that the stigma of impeachment will attach to the presidency and potentially to other senior officials like the secretary of state for preventing Congress from carrying out its duties.
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When victims don't pay, some gangs have begun publicly releasing private files to ratchet up the pressure — as was the case with Southwire, one of the world's largest electrical wire and cable manufacturers that operates out of Georgia.
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McConnell's speech will ratchet up pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who presided over Trump's historic shaming last month but tried to bolster Democratic demands for new witnesses by declining to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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Still, Trump's statement took many Pentagon officials by surprise Tuesday, in that they know of his desire to ratchet up border security, but are not sure what he meant exactly, according to multiple Defense Department and military officials.
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Trump, who has demanded Beijing cut the trade surplus, could use the latest result to further ratchet up pressure on China after both sides last week imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on $20.83 billion of each other's goods.
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While Iran might well continue to adhere to the JCPOA — because it serves its nuclear, economic and diplomatic interests so well – it could choose to break free of the nuclear agreement's restrictions and ratchet up its nuclear program.
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The relationship between Caitlin and Tommy, played with bright congeniality by Mr. Sublett, takes some surprising turns, yet we don't get enough stage time with them for these to seem more than a device to ratchet up the stakes.
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It was the latest of Trump's efforts to ratchet up his claims of presidential power, and it prompted House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler to declare that the White House was trying to make the President into a king.
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On Sunday, Trump said he would ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China, escalating the dispute marked by tit-for-tat duties between Washington and Beijing as ongoing talks were set to continue this week.
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"If the government continues to ratchet up the pressure on the independent press, media freedom in Aung San Suu Kyi's Burma will look a lot more like the media repression during the military junta," Human Rights Watch's Adams said.
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That is hardly the brash attitude that executives took on previous visits to the Detroit show, when the former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, vowed to ratchet up Volkswagen brand sales in the American market to 800,000 vehicles by 2018.
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Europe's main bourses and Wall Street futures were firmly back in the red after Trump's threat on Monday to ratchet up tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods triggered the biggest global sell-off since March.
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MIAMI/WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up U.S. pressure on Havana to end its support for Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.
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Britain left the EU last month and no longer has a seat at the table when it comes to discussions over financial regulation, giving France an opportunity to ratchet up the pressure to win more clearing business for itself.
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Britain left the EU last month and no longer has a seat at the table when it comes to discussions over financial regulation, giving France an opportunity to ratchet up the pressure to win more clearing business for itself.
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Every country would voluntarily pledge to restrain its greenhouse gas emissions and meet regularly at the United Nations to ratchet up ambitions over time — all in the hopes of keeping global warming below the "dangerous" level of 22015°C.
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Meanwhile, Washington continues to ratchet up the pressure on Tehran, with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday labeling Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization — the first time America has formally labeled another country's military a terrorist group.
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"If tensions ratchet up between the United States and North Korea, then China will end up in the middle, being seen as working closely with the country which is the problem, not giving up its nuclear weapons," Glaser said.
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SYDNEY, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Commonwealth Bank of Australia said on Thursday it expects two more rate cuts from the country's central bank by February, as indicators on hiring intentions point to weakness ahead and global trade tensions ratchet up.
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It would also ratchet up the pressure on Finance Minister Taro Aso, who said he had no intention to step down over the affair which led to the resignation on Friday of the National Tax Agency chief, Nobuhisa Sagawa.
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With seven appropriations measures still needing a presidential signature, Democrats are expected to begin passing individual bills this week to try to ratchet up pressure on Senate Republicans to take up bills unrelated to DHS and the border fight.
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U.S. President Trump has made up his mind to impose "pretty significant" tariffs on Chinese goods, an administration official said on Thursday, as Beijing warned that it was ready to respond if Washington chose to ratchet up trade tensions.
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New sanctions announced at the same time, against three drug kingpins, and 22019 companies that they control, also reflect a U.S. policy of continuing to ratchet up pressure on the Maduro regime, and these measures should command regional support.
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It's likely that trade advisor Peter Navarro, who has taken an aggressive stance over policy with China, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross have prepared measures that the White House can use to ratchet up pressure against China, Nacht said.
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Japan and the United States are working to hold their first bilateral trade talks under a new framework in July, Japan's Foreign Ministry said, in a sign Washington may ratchet up pressure on Tokyo to open up its markets.
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The strikes would ratchet up pressure on a weakened Maduro by giving several million state employees, a traditional bastion of government support, a chance to demonstrate their frustration with an administration that has overseen Venezuela's deepest ever economic crisis.
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Lebanese and regional analysts, whether supporters or opponents of Hezbollah, said it appeared that Mr. Hariri had been pressured to resign by his patrons, the Saudis, as they and the United States ratchet up efforts to counter Iranian influence.
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And a partisan upholding of his national emergency declaration over a wall along the southwestern border has prompted Mr. Trump to ratchet up harsh words against immigration as he seeks to galvanize supporters ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is considered to have played a major role in convincing fellow Republican Trump to ratchet up pressure on Maduro, subtly reminding him of the importance of the Cuban-American vote in presidential swing state Florida.
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Every country would voluntarily pledge to restrain its greenhouse gas emissions and meet regularly at the United Nations to ratchet up ambitions over time — all in the hopes of keeping global warming below the "dangerous" level of 2°C.
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And if the United States and China continue to ratchet up tariffs on each other's goods, he said, "you'd continue to expect downward pressure" on the states in the index, which also covers activity in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.
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The move, announced on Tuesday, was seen as an attempt to ratchet up pressure on the company, which controls 72 percent of the e-cigarette market in the United States and whose products have become popular in high schools.
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Big picture: The president's decision to ratchet up decades of simmering conflict with Iran set off an extraordinary worldwide drama, much of which played out behind the scenes, interviews with dozens of administration officials, military officers and others show.
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This move would ratchet up the costs to Beijing of its domestic policies, and in the process the United States can take a stand against the OBOR — and in support of millions of Chinese citizens now living in terror.
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Trump may periodically lavish praise on Putin, but his cabinet and the Congress continue to ratchet up financial sanctions against Russia's corrupt elite and have supported weapons sales to Ukraine and Georgia to help defend them from Russian attacks.
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But that insurance pool needs to be robust enough to handle all the threats that might come along over time — especially as climate change threatens to ratchet up the intensity of wildfires and extend the length of fire seasons.
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But at a time when rivalry between the patchwork of different ethnic groups in the country has increasingly come into the open, Rahmani said the evident objective of the attacks was to ratchet up the tensions to create instability.
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Mr. al-Hussein sought on Tuesday to ratchet up the pressure by urging the United Nations General Assembly to set up a separate body to investigate the individual criminal responsibility of the authorities involved in the operations in Myanmar.
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Washington (CNN)A growing number of senators from both parties plan to ratchet up their push to stiffen sanctions on Russia and demand Congress have the final say if President Donald Trump decides to weaken penalties on the country unilaterally.
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But it was vague on the details, such as how to measure financial flows to developing nations and how countries will report and monitor curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and ratchet up national goals every five years to limit global warming.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Foreign ministers and senior officials from 60 nations gather in the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday where the United States hopes to ratchet up pressure against Iran despite concerns among major European countries about heightened tensions with Tehran.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will ratchet up support for the economy in 2019 by cutting taxes and keeping liquidity ample, the official Xinhua news agency said following an annual meeting of top leaders amid a trade dispute with the United States.
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As Delta Air Lines takes its first steps towards offering free Wi-Fi with a two-week pilot test that began May 13, the Atlanta-based carrier could ratchet up pressure for other airlines to make the service more widespread.
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Beijing said its top negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, would go to Washington for talks this week, as planned, even after U.S. President Donald Trump's threat on Sunday to ratchet up tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods.
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Clinton partisans will take the FBI recommendation as the "all clear" sign to ratchet up the pressure, and will likely adopt the line that this is all old news, and that like Benghazi, simply another conspiracy ginned up on the right.
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"They believe that if they ratchet up the heat in key red states where there's a large agricultural community that's voted for Donald Trump that it will somehow change the situation," said Paul Burke, Asia director at U.S. Soybean Export Council.
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"Our hope is that studies like ours will put the rubber on the road for policy makers," Heron said, adding that the Paris climate accord was an important first step, but that we need to ratchet up the ambition even further.
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The media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration and certainly we have a role to play but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well.
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Trump is poised to impose new sanctions on multiple Iranian entities, seeking to ratchet up pressure on Tehran while crafting a broader strategy to counter what he sees as its destabilising behaviour, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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The administration of President Donald Trump has taken several steps in recent weeks to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognized by the United States and more than 50 other countries as interim president.
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At first Tyrese says there's no beef, but watch him ratchet up the rhetoric as he continues to grouse that the release date of 'F9' was pushed back to 2020 to accommodate The Rock's work schedule for the spin-off.
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LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.
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As a rationale for her proposal to ratchet up taxes on big companies, Warren laments that U.S. corporate tax revenue has fallen significantly, both as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) and as a share of total tax revenues.
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Analysts have said that a spiraling trade dispute between Beijing and Washington could also ratchet up tensions over other regional hot spots, such as the South China Sea, claimed in whole by China and in part by some Southeast Asian nations.
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A dozen senators call for crackdown on Chinese steel: A bipartisan group of a dozen senators on Monday called on the Obama administration to ratchet up pressure on China to stem the excess supply of steel flowing into the United States.
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The combination of an on-demand, autonomous transportation service with faster-than-a-jet speeds between cities is another sign that Hyperloop One will continue to ratchet up expectations in its quest to upend the world of freight and public transportation.
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The Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials familiar with the matter, that the Trump administration is planning to ratchet up the trade pressure on China through new tariffs and by threatening to block Chinese technology investment in the United States.
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But as the U.S. and our partners ratchet up pressure, we should also make clear to the North Koreans that if—but only if—North Korea meets specified benchmarks towards dismantling its nuclear program, the pressure can be gradually reduced.
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The Liberals have so far tried to maintain calm as tensions on trade ratchet up, relying on a series of visits from cabinet ministers and senior officials to key states and constituencies to press the message that trade benefits both sides.
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Analysts have said that a spiralling trade dispute between Beijing and Washington could also ratchet up tensions over other regional hotspot issues, such as the South China Sea, claimed in whole by China and in part by some Southeast Asian nations.
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It's hard to find a Republican who ran for office without calling to reform and reduce government spending — almost as hard as it is to find any now who seem to care as their party continues to ratchet up the spending.
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TRADE TENSIONS: U.S. President Trump has made up his mind to impose "pretty significant" tariffs on Chinese goods, an administration official said on Thursday, as Beijing warned that it was ready to respond if Washington chose to ratchet up trade tensions.
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On Friday, Moody's hinted that it may look to review Italy's debt rating, citing concerns over the two anti-establishment parties' fiscal plans that could ratchet up spending by as much as 100 billion euros ($117 billion), according to some analysts.
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Sources have told Reuters that Chinese leaders are likely to stick with a growth target of around 6.5 percent for 2018, the same as last year, even as they ratchet up efforts to prevent a destabilizing build-up of debt.
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The Russians know this, and their military moves are instead meant to ratchet up the political pressure on Kiev — and to prepare just in case some day Ukraine feels strong enough to try to take back the Donbas by force.
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JERUSALEM — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday defended his decision to meet with Saudi officials this week, saying his trip was aimed at reinforcing ties at a critical moment, as the United States tries to ratchet up pressure on Iran.
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Obama has also been trying to coax countries like China to participate in a global climate deal, in which every country would voluntarily pledge to restrain its emissions and meet regularly at the UN to ratchet up ambitions over time.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China, escalating the dispute marked by tit-for-tat duties between Washington and Beijing as ongoing talks were set to continue this week.
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But two bank trade groups noted in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee that a provision to fight tax dodging by multinationals could ratchet up the cost of providing risk management services to Main Street companies, causing market disruption.
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If signed, the executive order would come at a delicate time in relations between China and the United States as the world's two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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Based on my extensive experience of wildlife tourism (alligators, Louisiana), this means the tour operator knows exactly where the wildlife is but they're going to drag you around for a few hours to ratchet up the drama and sell drinks.
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The slower prepayment speeds in August may be short-lived as lenders seek to ratchet up their businesses in anticipation of a pickup in refinancing with 30-year mortgage rates hitting their lowest levels since the autumn of 2016, they said.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump tried to assure the American people that his administration would take new steps to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak, announcing a spate of public-private partnerships to ratchet up the feds' response to the national emergency.
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Despite its unusual premise and the way its action can stretch credibility, "The Americans" actually has been remarkable for how straightforward its plotting is, and for how it doesn't withhold information from the audience simply to ratchet up the drama.
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So obviously, we are rooting for Sessions to stay right where he is … and, um, keep persecuting immigrants, ratchet up imprisonments for nonviolent crimes and maybe go back to his old dream of imposing the death penalty on marijuana dealers.
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If Trump fails to get a majority, it will merely ratchet up the stakes, as 85033 percent of the delegates become unbound on the second ballot — and they will likely be determined to end the process by choosing a nominee.
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Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the agreement during a White House ceremony Wednesday after nearly two years of escalating trade tensions that saw both sides ratchet up tariffs on hundreds of billions' worth of each other's goods.
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The report also served as a means for the administration to ratchet up pressure on China, which, in a change from 2016, was named one of the worst human trafficking offenders, along with Iran, Russia, North Korea and 19 others.
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Under the Paris agreement, every country submitted an individual plan to tackle its greenhouse gas emissions and then agreed to meet regularly to review their progress and prod one another to ratchet up their efforts as the years went by.
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But as trade tensions ratchet up between the U.S. and Europe, Kaeser revealed that he had met with Trump and senior administration officials this week to seek to clarify his position, and does not expect to be caught in the crossfire.
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The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday along party lines to release the memo to the public -- an aggressive move that could feed a GOP push to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and ratchet up a battle with the Justice Department.
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The trade skirmish with China could get uglier in the months to come as President Donald Trump has threatened to ratchet up the pressure on Beijing with a new round of tariffs on more than $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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But it will damage his standing just a year before the general election and ratchet up pressure on him to get rid of Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, who has also been targeted by the Sweden Democrats over the IT scandal.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Trump has made up his mind to impose "pretty significant" tariffs on Chinese goods, an administration official said on Thursday, as Beijing warned that it was ready to respond if Washington chose to ratchet up trade tensions.
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Travel Tips An African safari can be an expensive vacation proposition — many camps in prime game-viewing areas run close to four figures per person per night, and the multiple flights required to reach them ratchet up the cost even more.
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The announcement came one day after the world's largest publicly listed oil company said it would ratchet up its U.S. investments to $50 billion over the next five years, in part due to the benefit of recent U.S. tax cuts.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean and US special forces troops recently conducted drills simulating the infiltration of an enemy facility, US military photos seen by Reuters on Monday show, as tensions with North Korea ratchet up ahead of a year-end deadline.
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In a television appearance this month, Mr. Abe compared his efforts to ratchet up economic growth — through a mix of stimulus policies widely known as Abenomics — to the 10 way stations that climbers pass on their way up Mount Fuji.
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Mr. Trump faces a series of decisions over the next several weeks about whether to ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods, impose new duties on imports of foreign cars and keep metal tariffs on trading partners like Canada and Mexico.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to ratchet up the war on drugs by undoing Obama-era sentencing reforms signals an about-face on drug policy, and the move has prompted an outcry from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
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While Trump wants to get a deal with Mexico wrapped up soon, the likeliest scenario is that the two countries will strike an agreement between June 10 and July 1, when the tariffs ratchet up to 10%, a senior administration official told CNBC.
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An apparent North Korean ballistic missile launch and a White House warning that "all options are on the table" with regard to North Korea came within minutes of one another and appear set to further ratchet up tensions between the two countries.
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The Clinton years saw the co-opting of a neoliberal economic agenda from the right, and when George W. Bush moved to ratchet up the drug war in Mexico through the Merida Initiative, the model he turned to was Clinton's Plan Colombia.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior officials of Venezuela's government, military and state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday, U.S. officials said, seeking to ratchet up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to scrap plans for a controversial new congress.
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In a key annual economic conference held this month the country's top leaders said they will ratchet up support for the economy in 2019 by cutting taxes and keeping liquidity ample, while promising to push forward trade negotiations with the United States.
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The trade war between the world's two largest economies is being blamed, at least in part, for slowing their pace of growth, especially in China — even as the two countries suspend plans to ratchet up tariffs while trying to negotiate a deal.
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ASHLEY WEBSTER, FOX NEWS BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Rhetoric and headlines and tweets, Neil, but the Dow and investors certainly taking notice, as these trade tensions -- we will call it tensions for now, not a war -- between the U.S. and China continues to ratchet up.
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Analysts said it could be the most significant development in U.S. steel trade in a quarter of a century, and will likely ratchet up tension between China and major steel producing nations, as the global industry grapples with chronic oversupply and sluggish demand.
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There was a need to prepare for the likelihood for the trade war to ratchet up tensions to geopolitical areas including the South China Sea, said Wei, adding that the trade conflict might last for 30 years or even half a century.
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There is a need to prepare for the likelihood for the trade war to ratchet up tensions to geopolitical areas including the South China Sea, said Wei, adding that the trade conflict might last for 30 years or even half a century.
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But when Lifetime ended in 1997, guitarist Dan Yemin was already looking to expand on what his band had built, attempting to find a way to ratchet up Lifetime's aggression without cutting out the bubbly guitar melodies he'd become so adept at crafting.
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Pompeo has yet to decide whether, once he releases the State Department's Rohingya atrocities report, to ratchet up characterization of the violence as crimes against humanity or genocide or to avoid any such label, the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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North Korea is "trying to ratchet up the threat to create political pressure in the US and elsewhere to get talks," says Carl Schuster, a Hawaii Pacific University professor and former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center.
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Policymakers are likely to ratchet up support measures to prevent mass job losses that could pose a threat to social stability, but analysts say the room for aggressive stimulus is limited by fears of adding to already high debt levels and structural risks.
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The U.S. government also reported that domestic oil production increased to 9.34 million barrels a day from 9.32 million the week earlier, a sign that shale producers continue to ratchet up output even with oil floundering in the high $40s per barrel.
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Pompeo has yet to decide whether, once he releases the State Department's Rohingya atrocities report, to ratchet up characterization of the violence as crimes against humanity or genocide or to avoid any such label, the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The spectacular collapse of the U.S. House healthcare bill last week will ratchet up pressure to find revenue as part of any tax reform bill, since the proposed healthcare reforms were expected to cut federal deficits by $22 billion over the next decade.
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Going this route, they believe, would increasingly ratchet up pressure on at-risk Republicans who are facing tough reelections, energize the Democratic base and potentially flip the Senate if the GOP stands in their way and denies a popular nominee a vote.
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Going this route, they believe, would increasingly ratchet up pressure on at-risk Republicans who are facing tough re-elections, energize the Democratic base and potentially flip the Senate if the GOP stands in their way and denies a popular nominee a vote.
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Conservative members of Congress are stepping up calls for the Trump administration to declassify sensitive files related to their scrutiny of the Trump-Russia dossier, the latest move that is likely to ratchet up tensions between House Republicans and the Justice Department. Reps.
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On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would ratchet up tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China, escalating a trade dispute marked by tit-for-tat duties between Washington and Beijing as ongoing talks were set to continue this week.
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Once a company locks down an exclusive contract, it can ratchet up what you pay for garbage collection since it no longer has to compete with other trash companies; then the trash hauler makes more money and covers the franchise fee costs.
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Mr. Johnson believes that with sufficient exposure and a positive message he can attract both the young, progressive voters who are backing Mr. Sanders and Republicans who want limited government but fear that Mr. Trump would ratchet up spending and start trade wars.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration on Tuesday continued to ratchet up pressure on China, releasing an updated report showing Beijing has done little to fix its unfair practices less than two weeks before the leaders of the two economic superpowers plan to meet.
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Deadline at midnight tonight ... Axios' Jonathan Swan, in last evening's weekly Sneak Peek newsletter, went inside Trump's negotiating style: The trick: "Threaten the outrageous, ratchet up the tension, amplify it with tweets and taunts, and then compromise on fairly conventional middle ground."
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's leaders are likely to maintain this year's growth target of "around 6.5 percent" in 2018, even as they ratchet up efforts to prevent a destabilizing build-up of debt in the world's second-largest economy, according to policy sources.
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The roommates trope allows them to have that epiphany while being super domestic and acting as if they're already married, resulting in a heady bouquet of confusion, sexual tension, gratuitous touching, and any number of sweet romantic moments that ratchet up the excitement.
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Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement damages U.S. international credibility and diplomatic relations, cedes U.S. leadership in developing the clean energy technologies of tomorrow and weakens a framework to ratchet up ambition across countries to address the growing threat of climate change.
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"It will certainly ratchet up pressure on the Dems to initiate impeachment proceedings, but I don't think it changes the fundamentals much," said Jeff Flake, the former Arizona senator who is one of the few prominent Republicans to openly defy Mr. Trump.
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Trump's dismissal of Pyongyang's missile tests, his push to ratchet up South Korea's payments to stay under the US security umbrella and his criticism of Seoul raise concerns that North Korea is successfully driving a wedge between Washington and Seoul, analysts said.
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Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the outcome showed the limitations of Mr. Trump's truculent approach to trade, in which he tries to ratchet up pressure on trading partners to force them into making a bilateral deal.
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Having failed to persuade the Russians to fix the alleged violation, some military experts say, the United States needs to ratchet up the pressure by announcing plans to expand missile defenses in Europe and deploy sea-based or air-based nuclear missiles.
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MOSCOW — The governing party in Armenia thwarted the opposition leader's effort to become prime minister on Tuesday, setting the stage for continued upheaval as street protesters ratchet up their efforts to force the ruling elite to loosen its grip on the country.
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"What is needed is someone behind the scenes who ... while publicly both sides ratchet up the pressure, is working to find a solution that meets both parties' near-term objectives and provides a road map to the future," the former commander said.
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Republicans have continued to slam the impeachment process as an unfair process that's predetermined to try to overturn the results of the 2016 election, and their attacks on the Democrats will only ratchet up as an impeachment vote gets closer to reality.
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Trump in recent months has intensified his rhetoric again North Korea, warning of "fire and fury" if North Korea continues to threaten the U.S. The international community has sought to ratchet up pressure on North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test.
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"When we have anti-fascist counterprotests — not that they are the same as white supremacists — that can ratchet up the violence at these events, and it means we can see people who are violent on their own be attracted to that," Segal said.
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It also comes at a time when the Trump administration has added China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, citing security risks as the world's two largest economies ratchet up tariffs in a battle over what U.S. officials call China's unfair trade practices.
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BRASILIA/GENEVA (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was due to arrive in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to ratchet up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down.
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In order to confront Russia, McMaster, who was tasked by the Army with reviewing the Kremlin's use of "hybrid warfare" in Ukraine, has called for a more robust military presence to be deployed to Russia's borders to "ratchet up the costs" of future aggression.
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The Houston-based oil refiner appointed a new board of directors earlier this year and cut ties with PDVSA following U.S. sanctions designed to stop the flow of U.S. dollars to Venezuela and ratchet up pressure to force socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power.
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Mexico's announcement last Wednesday also seemed like an attempt to ratchet up the pressure on the US. "If Trump announces a US withdrawal from NAFTA, well, at that moment the negotiations stop," Raul Urteaga, head of international trade for Mexico's agriculture ministry, told Reuters.
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" Rudy looks to jack up pressure on probe's one-year anniversary - Bloomberg : "President Donald Trump and his legal team are planning to use the one-year anniversary this week of Robert Mueller's appointment to ratchet up pressure on the special counsel to close his investigation.
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BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress may intervene on how much companies can charge for some drugs following a move last year by Turing Pharmaceuticals to ratchet up the price of a treatment for deadly parasite infections by 5,000 percent, Roche's head of pharmaceuticals said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a U.S. naval ship's entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahead of a NATO summit, the RIA news agency reported.
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After recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, Paris, Burkina Faso and other places too numerous to mention, you have to wonder why a Hollywood studio would put out a film such as this one, which is practically guaranteed to ratchet up the paranoia factor.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Seventy percent of Canadians say they will start looking for ways to avoid buying U.S.-made goods in a threat to ratchet up a trade dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump, an Ipsos Poll showed on Friday.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to build support for repealing a new excise tax on potentially billions of dollars in private college endowments – just as some of the most prestigious schools in the country ratchet up their battle against the tax. Rep.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani army officer died on Tuesday after being shot by Afghan forces in a border clash, Pakistan's military said, a development likely to ratchet up tension between the neighbors who sources said were beefing up troop numbers on either side.
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Washington (CNN)Days after President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, tensions in the Middle East have spiked sharply, raising concerns that the pending US Embassy move to Jerusalem will further ratchet up conflict with unpredictable outcomes for the Middle East.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The vast majority of national commitments in the 19903 Paris Agreement are inadequate to prevent the worst effects of global warming, scientists said on Tuesday, naming the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries as among those that must ratchet up their efforts.
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A US official said prior to Haley's remarks that the presentation is part of a new Trump administration effort to ratchet up pressure on Tehran as the administration weighs whether to stay in the Iran nuclear deal which was negotiated by the previous administration.
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And he's a bigot, whose attitudes show that, at worst, he has contempt for Latinos, Muslims and anyone who looks like the "other," and at best, that he's cynically scapegoating immigrants and people of color to ratchet up his support amongst white working-class voters.
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Against the backdrop of economic crisis, endless tales of official corruption, and an astronomical crime rate, Bolsonaro rode a visceral anti-progressive backlash to office with precious little substance to his campaign beyond a promise to ratchet up state violence against criminals, real or imagined.
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As the U.S. and its trading partners continue to ratchet up trade tensions, some states – particularly ones President Donald Trump won in 25.4 – can expect to feel a much bigger economic impact than others, according to data compiled by the nation's largest business lobbying group.
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It is a habit that he apparently believes keeps him in touch with his middle-class roots—which serves as a perfect, if inadvertent, example of how de Blasio's own cluelessness and the press's venom combine to ratchet up his reputation for self-righteous victimhood.
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North Korean foot dragging is compounding the problem, these sources say, along with a slew of domestic challenges ranging from incomplete staffing, intelligence leaks, rivalries within the Cabinet and presidential tweets that ratchet up the pressure on Pompeo by presenting an overly rosy picture.
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The statement mentioned the possibility of a meeting in Washington between Abbas and Trump -- which would only ratchet up the pressure on Netanyahu to make concessions if Abbas presents himself as a partner for peace, willing to compromise for the sake of an agreement.
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Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners said Monday that if the Senate ends up attaching energy tax provisions to the FAA bill, the organizations will ratchet up pressure on lawmakers across the Capitol to oppose the language or pass a clean-extension of FAA.
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"The COVID crisis is shaking up Washington, and since more stimulus packages are likely to be on the table, we expect K Street to continue to ratchet up their attention and spending," Lisa Gilbert, vice president of legislative affairs at Public Citizen, told The Hill.
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The letters closely track sentiments Mr. Trump has expressed publicly as he seeks to ratchet up pressure on Iran while at the same time scale back American involvement in a region that has consumed enormous resources and lives in the years since the Sept.
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SÃO PAULO — The front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, was in a serious but stable condition on Friday, recovering from near-fatal stabbing amid predictions that the attack will lift his standing and ratchet up tensions in the most uncertain vote in years.
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So, starting in 22005, countries have agreed to meet every five years to take stock of their emissions-cutting efforts to date, compare them with what is needed to stay below 22025 degrees of warming, and then figure out how to ratchet up their ambitions.
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BEIJING — In a diplomatic gamble, President Trump is seeking to enlist China as a peacemaker in the bristling nuclear-edged dispute with North Korea at the very moment he plans to ratchet up conflict with Beijing over trade issues that have animated his political rise.
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If forced to reclassify their fleets of drivers and delivery workers as employees, it could massively ratchet up the costs these companies incur at a time when private and public companies in this market are facing pressure from investors to prove they can be profitable.
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The back-and-forth between Russia and the U.K. comes as British officials ratchet up pressure on Moscow over what they allege was a Russian government attempt to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, using a military-grade nerve agent.
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Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners said Monday that if the Senate ends up attaching energy tax provisions to the FAA bill, the organizations will ratchet up pressure on lawmakers across the Capitol to oppose the language or pass a clean-extension of FAA.
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Trump and his son-in-law and Middle East fixer Jared Kushner enthusiastically embraced the crown prince, or MBS as he is popularly known, and saw the kingdom as a powerful partner in a new effort to ratchet up confrontation with Iran across the region.
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SANTIAGO, June 11 (Reuters) - Chilean Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica said on Tuesday the government of the South American mining powerhouse would favor neither private nor state investment as it seeks to ratchet up output of its world-leading reserves of ultralight battery metal lithium.
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In other words, countries still have to ratchet up their ambitions a lot in order to limit warming to 1.5 degrees—aggressive emissions reductions would need to start today, and our CO2 output would need to be brought to net zero in about forty years at most.
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The bottom line: "The ability to ratchet up global climate mitigation relies on all levels of government and various actors, but these efforts must now be matched with solid scientific approaches to assess mitigation effort, document progress and highlight the lessons learned over time," it finds.
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In other words, President Trump has some time here to ratchet up the pressure again, to unlock the lockbox where all our sanctions have been the last few years, and to use any other means of state power possible to coerce the regime to change its behavior.
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In his 16 months as heir to the throne and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, he has been the Arab leader most willing to join the Trump administration in its campaign to ratchet up pressure on Tehran and roll back its regional influence.
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The Times' report, citing two people briefed on the matter, comes as House Democrats ratchet up their impeachment inquiry centered on Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by issuing a subpoena to the White House and a documents request to Vice President Mike Pence.
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Director: Trey Edward ShultsWriter: Trey Edward Shults Trey Edward Shults' debut feature Krisha may not have been a horror film in the traditional sense, but it was made in the style of the genre and showcased Shults' ability to ratchet up suspense in a confined space.
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Between the lines, via Axios' Jonathan Swan: China hawks inside the administration have long argued the administration should ratchet up tariffs on March 1 because the Chinese have given nothing they can be held to on the most important structural issues that Trump mentions in his tweets.
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But the move is likely only to ratchet up tensions between the White House and the Maryland Democrat after both the administration and the Trump Organization have defied three of his subpoenas this week alone -- and have pushed back against a number of his other demands.
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But if countries do manage to ratchet up their efforts to curtail global emissions in the decades ahead, then 2015 may mark the year we learned that humans are capable of coming together and addressing one of the most fiendishly difficult environmental problems we've ever faced.
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FOR THE past two weeks Chinese and American negotiators have been locked in talks in Beijing and Washington to end their trade conflict before the deadline of March 1st, when America will ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods or, perhaps, let the talks stretch into extra time.
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They include forced technology transfer and cyber theft, intellectual property rights, services, currency, agriculture and non-tariff barriers to trade, the sources said, adding the two sides were pushing for an agreement by a March 257.08 deadline, after which U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will ratchet up.
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They include forced technology transfer and cyber theft, intellectual property rights, services, currency, agriculture and non-tariff barriers to trade, the sources said, adding the sides were pushing for an agreement by March 20.1, the deadline after which U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will ratchet up.
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Although this image is somewhat embedded in reality, the pair's expensive, anachronistic duds, coupled with such surreal touches as an orange stuffed rabbit planted between them, ratchet up the unexplainable factor, but not so far as to distract you from the painting's shimmering, almost too-sweet color.
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The U.S. has been trying to block shipments of refined fuels to the Latin American country to prevent it from blending it with its heavy crude oil to make it more suitable for export, part of an effort to ratchet up pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its meddling in U.S. elections and aggression against Ukraine, the latest congressional effort to push President Donald Trump to ratchet up Washington's response to Moscow.
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Glen said he would ensure London remained one of the largest global centers for trading and clearing derivatives The derivatives industry in Europe, where London dominates, is worried the EU will ratchet up pressure to move clearing of euro-denominated contracts from Britain to the continent.
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In a wide ranging question and answer session at an event organized by the policy Exchange think tank, Ryan also said he wanted to "ratchet up" sanctions on Iran but believed a nuclear deal struck in 2015, and previously criticized by Trump, would remain in place.
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Mark Galeotti, a professor at New York University who studies Russia, told The New York Times that he views an all-out conflict as unlikely, and believes Putin is simply trying to ratchet up the pressure in order to strengthen his hand at the negotiating table.
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Kim Jong-un continues testing ballistic missiles and refuses to give up his nuclear weapons despite the administration's strategy of "maximum pressure," which relies on military posturing, sanctions and a rigid diplomatic position to ratchet up the costs of the nuclear program to an unacceptable level.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The vast majority of national commitments in the 2015 Paris Agreement are inadequate to prevent the worst effects of global warming, scientists said on Tuesday, naming the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries as among those that must ratchet up their efforts.
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Abroad, the climate crisis will ratchet up inequality, cause some small island nations to disappear entirely, and require less developed countries to forgo the pathways to development forged in the twentieth century, all issues the next American president will have to deal with and plan for.
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BEIJING — Two Canadian men detained in China since December have been formally arrested on espionage charges, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, a move likely to ratchet up tensions between China and Canada that broke out with the arrest of a Chinese tech executive in Vancouver.
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Under that agreement, nations submitted voluntary pledges to curb their emissions in the near term and to ratchet up their efforts in the future; the idea was to limit the rise in global warming to well below two degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.
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Thursday's sanctions were intended to send two messages: that the Trump administration will continue to ratchet up economic pressure on Pyongyang until North Korea ends its nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, and that the relationship between the United States and Turkey continues to be troubled.
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In addition to Mr. Trump's comments about unfair trade during his visit to Beijing this week, Republicans in the House and Senate introduced legislation with strong Trump administration support that would ratchet up considerably the federal government's scrutiny of Chinese acquisitions of companies in the United States.
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Under Barack Obama, the EPA, the auto industry (cowed by its near collapse and government bailout in 2009), and the California Air Resources Board agreed on a new set of national standards that would gradually ratchet up miles per gallon standards and reduce allowable emissions through 2025.
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WHEN IN CITIES, RELY ON WALKING TO GET AROUND Private cars and taxis can ratchet up the cost of your trip significantly because fuel costs in Britain are high — a day of sightseeing in London by taxi, for example, can easily run a few hundred pounds.
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In September, the President said in a tweet, "Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser," and he has since continued his calls for the whistleblower to be outed as House Democrats ratchet up their impeachment inquiry and tensions over the whistleblower's identity have deepened.
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Washington (CNN)A top US military official in Asia said North Korea could launch a long-range missile as part of its promised "Christmas gift" to the US, a move that could ratchet up pressure on President Donald Trump as he enters his reelection year. Gen.
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Inter-rebel competition sometimes takes the form of outbidding, whereby rebel groups ratchet up the intensity and brutality of their attacks to bolster their credentials as the most committed and capable champions of the rebel cause, and thus maximize shares of recruits, popular support, and external aid.
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While Trump wants to get a deal with Mexico wrapped up soon, the likeliest scenario is that the two countries will strike an agreement between June 10 and July 1 — the date when Trump's tariffs on Mexican goods ratchet up to 10%, a senior administration official told CNBC.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, concerned his travel ban could be stopped cold in the judicial branch after a less-than-stellar rollout, is leaning into fear, attempting to ratchet up terror concerns by telling audiences that he has learned considerably more about terror since taking office last month.
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To facilitate these divulgences and ratchet up the realism of these mock-interviews, Malik and his team drew inspiration from their own experiences and consulted with real border officers to formulate authentic questions for their detainees and attempt to replicate the foreboding tone and setting of an actual interview.
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CEO Sundar Pichai further told employees Google would overhaul its reporting processes for harassment and assault to provide more transparency about reported incidents, and that it would ratchet up the pressure on employees who do not complete mandatory sexual harassment training by dinging them in their performance reviews.
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"The strategic issue here seems to be an attempt to reclaim the narrative on Russia sanctions from Congress, rather than a real attempt to ratchet up the pressure on Russia," said Adam Smith, former senior adviser to the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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Washington (CNN)Newly released emails related to Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer to gather damaging information on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ratchet up the possible legal liability for the President's son and other campaign operatives involved with the Russians last year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is considering recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that could upend decades of American policy and ratchet up Middle East tensions, but is expected to again delay his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy there, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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But this murder case is threatening to ratchet up opposition to the United States' large military presence, which dates to the end of World War II. "We've heard apologies and promises of prevention hundreds of times, for decades, but it hasn't had any effect," said Okinawa's governor, Takeshi Onaga.
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I won't reveal any of the reversals, compromises, betrayals and threats that ratchet up the tension, but by the play's ambiguous conclusion it's become clear that the color of the swimsuit Mr. Breaux wears throughout its duration — a red the color of fresh blood — was not chosen at random.
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"When you decide to ratchet up something like prosecuting people for the attempted crossing of the border, you have to ratchet something else down, and it's pretty clear that's what happened to drug smuggling," said Cecilia Muñoz, head of the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Obama administration.
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Trump's defiance of House Democrats has helped ratchet up pressure on Democratic leaders to formally begin the impeachment process set out in the U.S. Constitution to remove a president from office - an inquiry that some rank-and-file Democrats see as giving legal heft to House investigations of Trump.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering executive action to further restrict the sale of Chinese telecommunications equipment in the United States, people briefed on the discussions said, in a move that could ratchet up tensions between China and the United States as the countries vie for technological dominance.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering deep cuts in the budgets of the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it looks for money to ratchet up security along the southern border, according to a person familiar with the administration's draft budget request.
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Their refusal to work with Republicans unless a full-blown repeal is taken off the table has helped to ratchet up pressure on the president and his allies to come up with a replacement before eliminating a health care program that delivers insurance to about 20 million Americans.
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Nearly every country on Earth has submitted a voluntary (if woefully inadequate) plan to restrain its greenhouse gas emissions, and the 2015 Paris deal created a formal process by which leaders could help one another ratchet up ambitions over time and push for stronger action at future meetings.
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It appears the order may have only been used to ratchet up pressure on Canada and Mexico — Trump has since said he'd rather renegotiate NAFTA than withdraw from it entirely — but it was further evidence that Bannon's economic nationalism would continue to be a driving force inside Trump's White House.
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As the world continues to battle to cut the use of fossil fuels fast enough to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, governments are exploring not just ways to ratchet up carbon-cutting ambitions but also ways to suck the carbon that is already there back out of the atmosphere.
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Employees will increasingly find that their employer health plans limit access to doctors, hospitals, and certain high-priced drugs; reduce coverage for add-on benefits or dependents; or ratchet up deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and other forms of patient cost-sharing (under the sub-header How Could Plan Design Change?).
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And given that some NRA leaders -- just like some in Trump's base -- feel that they are victims, we can expect to see North, Nugent and others in the NRA orbit ratchet up the inflammatory and divisive rhetoric against those trying to reduce the number of people killed daily by gun violence.
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"We can ratchet up sanctions on Russia, not water them down," Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE (D-N.
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Trump is seeking to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang following his visit to Tokyo, where he declared that Japan would shoot North Korean missiles "out of the sky" if it bought the U.S. weaponry needed to do so, suggesting the Japanese government take a stance it has avoided until now.
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A fault with an early batch of CDC testing kits limited testing capacity from the start and officials in states and cities are sounding the alarm that they lack the capacity for mass diagnosis as the virus spreads, even as the White House strives to ratchet up production of new tests.
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The El Salvadorian gang, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, is infamous for its brutality and gang loyalty and has a large presence in the U.S. Sessions's visit coincides with the Trump administration's law and order agenda, however the president has continued to ratchet up his criticism of Sessions in recent days.
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Here are some of the people speaking out against Sessions' actions: Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to ratchet up the war on drugs by undoing Obama-era sentencing reforms signals an about-face on drug policy, and the move has prompted an outcry from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
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Iran's latest escalation — exceeding a key limitation of the 2015 nuclear agreement — continues its calculated, 2-pronged strategy to ratchet up pressure on the U.S. The big picture: In the past 2 months, Iran or its proxies have allegedly attacked 6 oil tankers, shot down 2 U.S. drones and struck Saudi oil infrastructure.
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After that, the contortions surrounding the kidnapping, and Gail's efforts to gain her son's release with the help of Getty's fixer, Fletcher Chace (Mark Wahlberg), become more conventional, building to a thriller-like conclusion that seeks to ratchet up the tension but proves so conspicuously crafted and Hollywood-ized as to sacrifice authenticity.
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And whether politically motivated, or perpetrated by an evil person or a sociopath seeking to ratchet up a body count, or in the case of Las Vegas, a still unidentified motivation, the concordant thread seemed to be an "assault rifle" in the hands of someone who shouldn't be in possession of one.
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NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department would ratchet up its issuance of bills in the fourth quarter in a bid to raise the amount of cash on hand if Congress and the White House reach a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, Morgan Stanley analysts said on Tuesday.
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The secretary of State even skipped a dinner for foreign ministers that was attended by Ri. The awkward gathering came one day after the U.S. proved successful in convincing members of the Security Council, most notably China, to ratchet up sanctions on North Korea in response to the nation's increasingly aggressive behavior.
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The Treasury Department's sanctions on the Venezuelan vice president for playing a major role in international drug trafficking was an overdue step to ratchet up pressure on the Venezuelan regime and signal that top officials will suffer consequences if they continue to engage in massive corruption, abuse human rights and dismantle democracy.
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Trump's tweet, which appeared to raise the specter of a US military response, served to ratchet up tensions in a region already on edge, though the vice president's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Monday morning that the President's claim the US is "locked and loaded" may not refer to military action.
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Washington (CNN)As tensions between the US and Iran ratchet up, the Trump administration is looking at what military options may be needed to keep vital waterways in the Middle East open in the wake of attacks on Saudi oil tankers by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on July 25, according to two administration officials.
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The government failed (Wall Street Journal) U.S. government plans to ratchet up emphasis on social distancing (Wall Street Journal) A promising treatment for coronavirus fails (New York Times) Kushner coronavirus team sparks confusion, plaudits inside White House response efforts (Washington Post) State by state Pence said all Grand Princess passengers in quarantine would be tested.
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An issue lurking in the background is whether the Second Circuit might ratchet up the requirement to show how a friendship serves as the basis for a gift by requiring proof of a "meaningfully close personal relationship," language used in the Newman decision that was not specifically rejected by the Supreme Court in Salman.
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In conversations with several White House sources familiar with Trump's decision-making process, the president had indeed monitored the chatter of cable news, the internet and print media after his decision to kill Soleimani, following that with various tweets threatening to ratchet up sanctions and even destroy 52 Iranian sites, including some cultural ones.
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It's "all a part of China's strategy — ratchet up pressure on Taiwan in both large and small ways — especially while the world is focused on the crisis on the Korean Peninsula," said Thomas Shattuck, research associate at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, who added that the incident revealed the poor state of cross-Strait relations.
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S.) Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) v 2-Simona Halep (Romania) Watson soars as Wimbledon swelters Former players blast Tomic after lackluster Wimbledon loss Keys rooting for Kvitova to conquer Wimbledon on comeback Ostapenko ready to ratchet up aggression Beckham Junior has tennis talent, says Dimitrov Compiled by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Ed Osmond
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The committee is now at a standoff with Trump Jr. over the subpoena, while Trump Jr.'s Republican allies ratchet up pressure on Burr to drop the matter and Democrats demand punitive measures against Trump Jr. While the subpoena was only revealed last week, the negotiations have been ongoing for several months, before Mueller finished his investigation.
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To her dismay, the federal Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon emissions from existing power plants, likely will encourage electric utilities to increase their wind power capacity, and she fears states will expand their own versions of the PTC as well as ratchet up standards requiring utilities to increase their use of wind, solar and other renewables.
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Last week, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE even promised to ratchet up his divisive rhetoric after many of his critics were sent pipe bombs by one of his supporters.
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"The Trump administration's desire here is to continue to gradually ratchet up sanctions on the Maduro government, and this is something that is lighter, maybe lower-hanging fruit as they consider sanctions on the oil sector that would be more politically controversial and produce a sharper economic bite," both in Venezuela and in the United States.
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Perhaps Judge Ellis, a veteran of the federal bench who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, bought the argument that Mr. Manafort was being targeted to ratchet up the pressure on others as part of the broader inquiry into Russia's actions in the 2016 presidential campaign, as his lawyers put it to Judge Ellis ahead of sentencing.
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While Mr. Pence came with an old message — that the United States would continue to ratchet up "maximum sanctions" until the North dismantled its nuclear arsenal — Ms. Kim delivered messages of reconciliation as well as an unexpected invitation from her brother to the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, to visit Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
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Trump administration refuses to mandate increased production There's one way that the US could increase the production of protective equipment, medical gear, and tests: President Donald Trump could invoke the Defense Production Act of 1950 — or the DPA — which would allay the shortages by giving Trump the power to control supply chains and compel producers to ratchet up manufacturing.
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"I would certainly agree that the bellicose rhetoric has increased under the Trump administration, but the policy of trying to ratchet up pressure on North Korea using sanctions and offering talks only after North Korea meets some onerous preconditions is similar to the Obama administration," said Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association.
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"When confronted with evidence of their criminality, their misrule and their abuse of human rights, Russian Government officials generally do one of three things: They will obfuscate, they will offer stale comparisons, or they will ratchet up the level of vitriol in their rhetoric," Patten told members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at the time.
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For many, the concern is that the appointment of Bolton -- exactly the kind of advocate for US overseas intervention that Trump pilloried on the campaign trail -- marks a belligerent turn for the Trump administration that could doom attempts to save the Iran nuclear deal, increase the possibility of a clash with North Korea and ratchet up tensions with Moscow.
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To lay the groundwork for any new attempt to privatize the system, the political right would no doubt ratchet up its rhetoric about Social Security going "bankrupt" and needing "modernization," even though there are modest and manageable measures to keep the system solvent for most of the rest of this century — without putting retirees' benefits at risk.
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She sensed when to ratchet up the drama -- most memorably when she told her own story of being bused to school, culminating with the indelible line "that little girl was me" -- and when to pull back (for example, Harris made clear that she thinks former Vice President Joe Biden is not racist or ill-intentioned, but simply out of touch).
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SHORT-TERM BETTING But with the newly imposed 25% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods - part of Trump's effort to ratchet up pressure on China for an elusive trade deal - traders of short-term interest-rate futures are back to betting the Fed will cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point by December to counter a slowdown.
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"4 Karma" is the sort of radio-friendly house jam that would have dominated Club MTV 20 years ago, with a full-throated delivery by Cinematic Orchestra vocalist Heidi Vogel who delivers a powerful hook that might drag the current deep house doddlers back to an era when soulful house could raise the roof and ratchet up top 10 hits.
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With a January 1 deadline to ratchet up US tariffs to 25% on more than $200 billion in Chinese imports approaching, players in Washington are increasingly desperate for any sign of de-escalation, according to interviews with more than a half a dozen business executives, Wall Street analysts, lobbyists and industry groups, including some with close ties to the Trump administration.
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Wednesday's announcement represents the latest effort by the Trump administration to ratchet up pressure on Tehran, which President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has consistently singled out as a key adversary.
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"The agency is closely following the developments because there is a possibility that North Korea could fire an array of ballistic missiles this year under the name of a satellite launch and peaceful development of space, but in fact to ratchet up its threats against the United States," the lawmakers told reporters after a closed-door briefing by the spy agency.
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A US official said that the presentation of the evidence will help make the case that Iran is in violation of multiple UN security council resolutions 331 and 2216, part of a new Trump administration effort to ratchet up pressure on Tehran as the administration weighs whether to stay in the Iran nuclear deal which was negotiated by the previous administration.
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U.S. diplomats have made clear they are seeking a diplomatic solution but proposed the new, tougher sanctions resolution to ratchet up pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "It sends the unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will invite further punishments and isolation," Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said after the 15-0 vote.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE intends to ratchet up his appearances on the campaign trail in support of Democrats starting after Labor Day, The New York Times reported Sunday.
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He'll be running what used to be Disney's most important asset and is still one of the most powerful forces in TV. But ESPN's subscriber base has been declining, as audiences cut the cord or don't sign up for cable in the first place, and it is on the hook for costly sports programming deals that continue to ratchet up.
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"It's a show of force, and I think it is intended in part to intimidate, and that's worrisome from the U.S. and Taiwan's point of view because we don't know how much more they are going to ratchet up these pressures and tensions," said Bonnie S. Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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He'll be running what used to be Disney's most important asset, and is still one of the most powerful forces in TV. But ESPN's subscriber base has been declining, as audiences cut the cord or don't sign up for cable in the first place, and it is on the hook for costly sports programming deals that continue to ratchet up.
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U.S. diplomats have made clear they are seeking a diplomatic solution but proposed the new, tougher sanctions resolution to ratchet up pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "It sends the unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will invite further punishments and isolation," Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said after the 15-0 vote.
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Even as the top US diplomat seeks to ratchet up the pressure, he threw an olive branch to North Korea during remarks to the press on Tuesday: "We hope that at some point, they will begin to understand that and that we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them about the future that will give them the security they seek," he said.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Monday reiterated his pledge to ratchet up pressure on China with increased tariffs, despite his initial threats from a day earlier contributing to a slide in stock market futures.
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U.S. President Trump said last week he would "absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees fleeing violence and that Europe had made a mistake by admitting millions of refugees.. According to a document seen by Reuters, Trump is expected to order the Pentagon and the State Department to craft such a plan, a move that could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria.
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The brief, which will be made public on Thursday, will lay out their legal arguments for why China does not deserve the designation of a "market economy," a distinction that would entitle it to preferential economic treatment under the W.T.O. The move is likely to ratchet up trade tensions with China, which the White House has called one of the world's biggest trade offenders.
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With the advent of a GOP-led 21625th Congress and presidency beginning in January, a clarion call should be sounded across America's business community on the urgent need for employers to ratchet up education of their employees on the top economic policy issues affecting American jobs and, with that education, urge them to become employee-advocates for those policies in the halls of Congress.
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The new sanctions will include a 90-day wind-down period for companies involved with Rosneft to disentangle their interests with the company, and The Rosneft sanctions come as the White House has sought avenues to ratchet up its maximum pressure campaign on Maduro and his regime's backers — Russia being the largest — after an effort to replace him with opposition leader Juan Guaidó fizzled early last year.
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"That would allow the Kremlin to ratchet up the conflict at a later point if it desired to further pressure Kiev," he writes: The most likely state in which Donbass will remain into the foreseeable future is thus a frozen (or not-so-frozen) conflict, where there is no major fighting yet no complete ceasefire, and where negotiations on implementing Minsk II continue yet show scant real progress.
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The case of the "quiet kid who was good at soccer" hauled from high school to a deportation center turned Mr. Rivera-Sarmiento into a cause célèbre in Houston, a textbook case of what immigration advocacy groups fear could happen as schools tighten discipline in the wake of school shootings, the police ratchet up sweeps for gang members and local law enforcement draws closer to the federal immigration authorities.
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The Trump administration's move is likely to ratchet up tensions with Moscow, despite President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's desire to achieve better relations with Russia to cooperate on issues such as North Korea.
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The Raptors have to be realistic about not only the era in which they exist, but about the aging curves of their two stars, the flexibility they'd sacrifice keeping everyone together, and the perceived benefit of making consistent playoff runs—both to the players and the organizational equity in the NBA and in the city (where competition for winter attention is about to ratchet up once again following the resurgence of the Maple Leafs).
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As tensions on the Korean Peninsula ratchet up, new analysis suggests the North Korean government is "primed and ready" to conduct its sixth nuclear test — a move that would be seen as a direct threat to the safety of South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. While the exact timing of such a test is unknown, it could happen as early as Saturday, when the country prepares to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of its founder.
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Kaine and his fellow Senate Democrats want to ratchet up pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.), who earlier in the day blocked a Senate vote on House-passed legislation to reopen government agencies not connected with the partisan standoff over the border wall.
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Democrats, Schumer said, have four demands of their GOP colleagues: Ratchet up sanctions against Russia, demand administration officials on the trip testify before Congress, stop attacking special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE and demand that the 12 Russians indicted last week be sent to the United States for trial.
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Paradoxically, some of the figures most fiercely loyal to the president in public are the most worried in private about what happens if he is weakened over the course of 2019 as special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE grinds toward the conclusion of his probe and Democrats use their House majority to ratchet up the pressure on the president.
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But even if the trade war is swiftly resolved, or if fears about the economy dissipate, there are larger structural forces that could ensure Treasurys and other sovereign bonds continue to yield next to nothing, according to Mark Grant, the chief global strategist for fixed income at B. Riley FBRGrant's view is that the negative bond yields across Europe and in Japan, coupled with demand for a safe haven from the US-China power struggle, will ratchet up demand for Treasurys.
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