What is more, ratcheting down is harder than ratcheting up.
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We also haven't seen a ratcheting up of trade issues.
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Special Counsel Bob Mueller is ratcheting up his probe again.
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SO IN ANY CASE WE WERE RATCHETING UP THE CONTOUR.
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The next thing I know, he's ratcheting up to execution.
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For Mr. Cruz, the pressure has been steadily ratcheting up.
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He's a master at ratcheting up the tension and risk.
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But the United States has been ratcheting up the pressure.
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The music industry is ratcheting up its fight against YouTube.
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Netflix is ratcheting up its content warnings on 13 Reasons Why.
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On North Korea, specifically, she has emphasized ratcheting up US sanctions.
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President Donald Trump wasted little time ratcheting up pressure on Iran.
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Hackers could've also made this into a worm, ratcheting up profits.
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Senior European diplomats have been ratcheting up their campaign for months.
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"Each side is ratcheting up," German, the former agent, told me.
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But the mass exodus is ratcheting up tensions in neighboring countries.
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And, as if sensing weakness, Amazon is ratcheting up the pressure.
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Mr. Trump is also ratcheting up his trade war with China.
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The letter comes as U.S.-North Korean tensions continue ratcheting up.
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Around the same time, he began ratcheting up levies on China.
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However, there are signs he is ratcheting up the heat again.
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It feels like a ratcheting up of calamitous forces already well underway.
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Ratcheting up the debate could impact the type of person Trump selects.
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The Trump administration has been ratcheting up pressure on Venezuela and Cuba.
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That is ratcheting up pressure on the sector to embrace new technology.
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America has spent the past year ratcheting up its confrontation with China.
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The announcement coincides with Trump ratcheting up Washington's trade dispute with China.
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The Islamist fundamentalist group has been ratcheting up an offensive across Afghanistan.
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Committed shooters are intent on slaughter and ratcheting up the body count.
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Friday's announcement coincides with Trump ratcheting up Washington's trade dispute with China.
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And Tuesday's meeting could see Trump administration officials ratcheting up that pressure.
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Airlines are ratcheting up flights to St. Lucia for the high season.
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But the army is slowly ratcheting up the pressure on its critics.
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Iran ratcheting up its confrontation with Saudi Arabia is of critical importance.
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Meanwhile, President Trump has been ratcheting up his rhetoric on Twitter about ICE.
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We've seen a ratcheting up of the rhetoric when it comes to Iran.
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ANOTHER week, a further ratcheting up of trade tensions between America and China.
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"This reform is ratcheting up the cost of voter buying", Karim told me.
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So a ratcheting up of sanctions is unlikely to have the desired effect.
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In doing so, he and his base are ratcheting up extremism in America.
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"Anxiety's ratcheting up," said Hafeez Lakhani, a college admissions coach in New York.
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Hampered by limited resources, the police are responding by ratcheting up their brutality.
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But ratcheting up the level of tariffs would eventually start to pinch consumers.
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After a long climb in crime rates, the country was ratcheting up sentences.
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I asked PayPal why it has been ratcheting up its stock-based compensation.
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Both sides have since imposed tariffs on one another, ratcheting up the dispute.
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Therefore, a ratcheting up in trade war rhetoric is consistent with the downtrend.
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Now that job candidates are scarcer, many firms are ratcheting up those efforts.
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The first would start with a ratcheting up of sanctions by the United States.
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And Trump is ratcheting up, saying he will double metals&apos tariffs on Turkey.
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China rejects those accusations and accuses the United States of ratcheting up tensions unnecessarily.
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Trump keeps the pressure on Congress So far, Trump is ratcheting up the pressure.
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He had these quotes from Steve Jobs about ratcheting up our species through taste.
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There was a long, deliberate process of ratcheting up, building trust, and forming institutions.
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But the orders also initiated numerous policies ratcheting up immigration enforcement across the nation.
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Discussions around the "rule book" for assessing and ratcheting up pledges could prove contentious.
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The tough sanctions have seen Iran lash out in various ways, ratcheting up tensions.
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Or is it the ratcheting up of geopolitical tensions by Trump himself against Iran?
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Now city officials are ratcheting up the fight against another traffic headache: parking scofflaws.
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And it's a strategy that demagogues know has to keep ratcheting up to work.
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Trump has derided the WTO as a "catastrophe" and his administration is ratcheting up tariffs.
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And unlike the alternatives, it will do so without ratcheting up the conflict inside Syria.
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And Washington is ratcheting up the pressure in a bid to isolate the country's leadership.
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The tests began ratcheting up over the summer, as did Trump's rhetoric against the country.
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AARP is ratcheting up pressure on senators to vote against the Republican ObamaCare repeal bill.
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Now, pressure is ratcheting up from the Hill and free traders in the West Wing.
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But as a mode of organization building, it requires a constant ratcheting up of threat.
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But deep into the night, both sides were still ratcheting up the conflict. Maj. Gen.
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President Trump is ratcheting up his threats to impose more tariffs on Chinese-made goods.
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It then imposed visa restrictions on Chinese government officials, further ratcheting up pressure on China.
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They all hope to do so quickly, as fuel efficiency requirements are ratcheting up every year.
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For a year or more until early this summer, China backed a ratcheting-up of sanctions.
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China rejects those accusations, and in turn blames the United States for ratcheting up tensions unnecessarily.
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So far, he's made progress on many of those goals, ratcheting up the stakes for environmentalists.
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So, they can start ratcheting up what's called an internal rate of return, or an IRR.
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The ratcheting up of trade tensions also drove the offshore Chinese yuan to four-month lows.
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But the prospects for a major breakthrough are slim given the recent ratcheting up of tensions.
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At the same time the U.S.-led coalition is ratcheting up pressure, its planes targeting ISIS.
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Trade tensions between the U.S. and China — the world's two largest economies — have been ratcheting up.
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Insult comics face enormous pressure to keep ratcheting up the noise level or risk becoming irrelevant.
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Keep in mind that ratcheting up the violence is not exactly a new tactic in Afghanistan.
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The UAE has been ratcheting up its economic activities in the Red Sea basin as well.
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Tensions are ratcheting up ahead of the next general election, due to be held by May.
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Their neighbors in the collaborative, California and British Columbia, are ratcheting up already-ambitious climate programs.
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Whoever is making them knows everything that's happening and is going to happen — ratcheting up the drama.
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Congress has recently been ratcheting up its scrutiny of how major online platforms handle political ads. Sens.
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America has pulled out of the nuclear accord with Iran and is ratcheting up sanctions against it.
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Ratcheting up provisioning to the sector average would knock that down to a still-manageable 9 percent.
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In some ways, it also feels like Musk is only ratcheting up his rhetoric on these subjects.
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When cash flooded out of the country in 2016, the central bank retreated, ratcheting up capital controls.
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Mark DeSaulnier, requested documents from Purdue relating to the Sacklers' level of involvement in ratcheting up sales.
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Ratcheting up the pressure, new Prime Minister Teresa May has said she plans to overhaul governance rules.
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"This is a ratcheting up of the temperature around the negotiations," he told Irish national broadcaster RTE.
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Global health officials are quietly ratcheting up concern about H7N9 bird flu, per the New York Times.
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Her appointment was met with another bond market rally and a ratcheting up of rate-cut expectations.
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North Korea continues to pursue an aggressive testing schedule with its missile program, ratcheting up regional tensions.
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Europe's new antitrust charges represent a further ratcheting up of the region's often frosty relationship with Google.
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Cyber criminals are ratcheting up efforts to target devices with cryptocurrency malware, according to a new report.
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They are going to keep ratcheting up tariffs until the eurozone and China come to the table.
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Last week, Warren unveiled a different plan — the Accountable Capitalism Act — aimed at ratcheting up corporate governance.
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As a result, the administration is once again ratcheting up economic pressure on Pyongyang and its enablers.
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In a ratcheting up of tensions, the Pentagon has halted delivery of F-35 parts to Turkey.
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With that decision to jettison the nuclear deal, President Trump began ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran.
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Ratcheting up these tensions will create still more openings for Sunni extremists such as the Islamic State.
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The idea is to provide an incentive for companies to keep ratcheting up their investments in research.
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But American officials are increasingly ratcheting up pressure on Huawei, which is China's largest telecom equipment company.
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Mutual combat almost completely prevents one person from ratcheting up aggression without the consent of both parties.
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When we started making progress toward financial independence, we started ratcheting up our savings and tightening our spending.
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Clinton campaign accuses FBI of 'blatant double standard' Clinton's allies are also ratcheting up scrutiny on Trump's character.
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Heightened tensions The annual exercises have traditionally led to a ratcheting up of tensions with Seoul's northern neighbor.
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As we can see from tech ratcheting up its response following Charlottesville, no policy is set in stone.
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The state media has been ratcheting up China's position in the run-up to the Trump-Xi talks.
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It's basically just ratcheting up the economic sanctions that were already put in place [under the Obama administration].
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The Trump administration has taken a hard-line approach to Iran, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries.
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The recent slump in the Chinese market, GM's largest, and plateauing U.S. demand are ratcheting up the pressure.
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Trending Five new African camps are ratcheting up the luxury factor while also promoting their commitment to sustainability.
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"Investors are trying to adjust to the ratcheting up of trade tension," Matt Phillips of the NYT writes.
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The big picture: The cost of going to public or private school has been ratcheting up for decades.
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The commercial space industry is ratcheting up the frequency of rocket launches and the sizes of its vehicles.
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Therefore, the United States should move toward "rapid, not incremental, ratcheting up of Iran-type sanctions," he said.
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Because that's a technique on the part of the administration: just keep ratcheting up to a higher court.
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Campos started reselling on Amazon in 2401, and plans to keep ratcheting up his sales volume each year.
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Moore said analysts have been ratcheting up their earnings forecasts based on what companies said during earnings season.
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Berg is also skilled at ratcheting up tension — which is sort of remarkable, given his preferred subject matter.
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As it inches closer to its IPO, Lyft is ratcheting up its spending in the hopes of impressing investors.
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Traders reacted negatively on Monday to Trump ratcheting up the rhetoric amid this tenuous time and China's retaliatory tariffs.
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Even inside, I find myself ratcheting up the brightness up to 80 or 90 percent most of the time.
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Tiny cast, limited setting, and a lot of quietude before the increasing horror begins ratcheting up to a frenzy?
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Kim Jong Un is likely to respond to these latest statements -- and continued US sanctions -- by ratcheting up tensions.
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Both sides will be ratcheting up their sales pitch as the legislation makes its way to the House floor.
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He is now ratcheting up his campaign to transform Turkey's system of government from a parliamentary to presidential one.
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Since the referendum, tensions have steadily escalated, with Baghdad ratcheting up sanctions after the Kurds scheduled elections for Nov.
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The case takes on additional significance with Trump ratcheting up immigration enforcement, placing more people in detention awaiting deportation.
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Raiffeisen Bank's shares have dropped 16 percent since the ratcheting up of sanctions on Russia was announced on Friday.
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There, the Fed proposed easier rules for smaller firms while ratcheting up requirements as banks got larger in size.
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All idols then fail, more and more consistently, to deliver on their original promises, while ratcheting up their demands.
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Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone like the one seen above, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries.
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Italy extended restrictions on movement to the entire nation, joining a list of countries ratcheting up their control measures.
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Tightening the screws The data bill isn't the only Indian regulation ratcheting up the pressure on big tech firms.
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The next move could be a ratcheting up of the attacks on Chinese-listed companies in the United States.
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It's Tuesday evening, the House is back in session and President Trump is ratcheting up his feud with Sen.
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Step 4: A tit-for-tat ratcheting-up of tensions ensues, with parties threatening or engaging in aggressive action.
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The news comes after a ratcheting up of tensions between the superpowers and fears of a potential trade war.
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The deadly suicide bombings at Istanbul's largest airport are ratcheting up fears over aviation security in the United States.
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Ratcheting up solar to produce approximately 1 percent of global electricity has required a lot of technology and investment.
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The DHS rationale for separating families is that ratcheting up the punishment against these Central Americans will deter immigration.
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With the ratcheting up of greenhouse gas emissions, they said, new heat records are bound to be set frequently.
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And on the China front, the trade war seems to be ratcheting up, with both sides considering more measures.
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"Instead of a ratcheting up of punishment or desire to make sure these guys really feel the impact, we should focus instead on ratcheting up prosecutions — so executives know that they're on notice and you can't get away with this," Ashley Nellis, a senior research analyst at the Sentencing Project, told me.
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Much like the DACA fight and the recent family separation debacle, Trump's actions are ratcheting up the pressure on legislators.
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The test comes after a ratcheting-up of tensions between the US and North Korea over the past several months.
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"Ratcheting up sanctions pressure demonstrates that there is a cost to violating Security Council resolutions," she said in an email.
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Even before the latest regulatory developments, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were ratcheting up pressure on tech companies.
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Talk of Oprah running for president in 2020 is ratcheting up, thanks to her powerful speech at the Golden Globes.
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China faces a ratcheting up of tariffs soon, and its tech giant, Huawei, has been severed from its American suppliers.
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It's two and a half hours of tension slowly ratcheting up the dread until it hits its truly horrifying climax.
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With the U.S. and China ratcheting up protectionism and trade tariffs, "India is going to be affected certainly," Subbarao said.
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They blame Democrats for ratcheting up a confirmation battle over a jurist that they say is well within the mainstream.
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The action marked the latest in a series of moves by Trump's administration aimed at ratcheting up pressure on Iran.
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Tensions have only escalated since, with both sides ratcheting up tit-for-tat punishment, creating even more issues to resolve.
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In recent weeks, Ms. Harris sought to reset her campaign, in part by ratcheting up her attacks on Mr. Trump.
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As such, the auto industry has been especially impacted by the ratcheting-up of tariffs with our global trading partners.
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Global Health While trying to avoid alarmism, global health agencies are steadily ratcheting up concern about bird flu in Asia.
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Production in Venezuela is plummeting, and an expected ratcheting up of sanctions by the Trump administration could further hamper imports.
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In the interest of ratcheting up the suspense, that saga will be kept under wraps for a paragraph or two.
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But authorities see the fire risks ratcheting up with the influx of travelers, few of whom may understand the dangers.
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They bring the caretakers to their dogs, ratcheting up the care in their own homes when they go on vacation.
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Advertiser boycotts and protests at the Manhattan headquarters of News Corp, one of Mr. Murdoch's companies, were ratcheting up pressure.
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Kowshik noted Trump had avoided ratcheting up protectionist comments in recent days and has instead hinted at ambitious tax cuts.
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Joe Biden's campaign has responded by slowly ratcheting up his condemnations of the president and calling directly for his impeachment.
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RBI's shares briefly dropped 15 percent last month after the United States announced a ratcheting up of sanctions on Russia.
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Dems target Trump taxes House Democrats are quickly ratcheting up their oversight of the Trump administration -- and his personal finances.
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They seek to forgo a dangerous path of ratcheting up U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports that would dearly cost both countries.
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Concerns about an economic slowdown are being fanned by a ratcheting up of trade tensions between the United States and China.
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So far Republicans are refusing to speak aloud the word being implied — impeachment — but they are ratcheting up their warnings nonetheless.
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Both Clinton, Trump and their outside groups are drastically ratcheting up their television purchases for the final days of the campaign.
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The Fed was tightening aggressively and the president was ratcheting up trade protections against an export-reliant Asian economic Power (Japan).
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President Obama is doing his part by ratcheting up pressure on Congress to pass the sweeping agreement before he leaves office.
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Editorial As the effort to oust President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela by referendum gains support, his government is ratcheting up repression.
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In addition, the drug manufacturers understand the PBMs incentives, so they respond by constantly ratcheting up the list prices of drugs.
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Washington is ratcheting up pressure on China over the country's alleged theft of trade secrets, even as the dispute quickly escalates.
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For the incrementalist political strategy to pay off, though, RGGI has to spend some of that capital and keep ratcheting up.
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By asking for delays, they can prolong a defendant's stay in jail, ratcheting up the pressure to take a plea deal.
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The three detentions by the Chinese government are being seen as ratcheting up the pressure on Canada to release Ms. Meng.
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In this scenario, American officials would play a quietly constructive role in helping craft the rule book for ratcheting up pledges.
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He said that Mr. Trump will continue to keep ratcheting up the pressure on Democrats about the "Medicare for all" proposal.
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But with the Trump administration ratcheting up its enforcement efforts, crossing into Texas was considered harder than ever before the storm.
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And I think it's very smart for him to be running, introducing himself to the public and ratcheting up his profile.
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"There is a very large probability of the U.S. ... ratcheting up the fed funds target range," DZ Bank's Hendrik Lodde said.
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The Trump administration is ratcheting up sanctions against the Syrian government in response to the chemical-weapons attack earlier this month.
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Singing and dancing take over when talking and walking no longer suffice, communicating what can't be said, ratcheting up the emotion.
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Brent crude climbed back above $74 per barrel as traders factored in a ratcheting up of tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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On Friday Williams said wage growth has been "ratcheting up" and is likely to intensify, helping lift inflation along with it.
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Supporters argue it may continue to do so, in part by ratcheting up pressure on China to rein in its ally.
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California's climate and energy policies have been getting steadily more stringent for years, ratcheting up through a predictable and transparent process.
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The US and China have had a range of trade disputes for years, with longstanding tensions ratcheting up after Trump took office.
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Oil prices have crashed around 30 percent over the last two months, ratcheting up the pressure on budgets in oil-exporting countries.
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Ratcheting up trade concerns, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose tariffs on $11 billion worth of European Union products.
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There's also a way to pump up the blues in your sky photos — without ratcheting up the saturation of the entire scene.
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It's the type of ratcheting up that's necessary if the visual cortex is going to create full images from sparse input data.
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Susan Thornton, who until July was the State Department's top Asia adviser, said the increased military activity is ratcheting up the risks.
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Bond and equity prices, too, have reacted more to the steady ratcheting up of the trade war rather than interest rate policy.
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That might explain why Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric to levels that are alarming people even more than they were before.
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"A further ratcheting up of measures against China in January is still a risk," strategists at MRB Partners said in a note.
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The breakthrough represented in ProPound has been ratcheting up protein levels without diminishing the same plant's yield or oil content, Dzisiak said.
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Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, agrees that the search means prosecutors are "ratcheting up the pressure" on Manafort.
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As an overall industry, dollar stores have been ratcheting up growth in both sales and square footage for the past several years.
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These are the targeted tools that are quietly ratcheting up pressure against the efforts by China to acquire cutting edge American technology.
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But Trump's histrionics drove him deeper into a no-win situation at exactly the point when the political pressure is ratcheting up.
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This includes ratcheting up fees on CERN, the scientific research organization that found the "God Particle" and where the web was invented.
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DUP leader Arlene Foster described it earlier on Wednesday as a "blood red" line, in a ratcheting-up of the party's rhetoric.
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President Trump caught flak on Saturday after ratcheting up his barbs on NFL and NBA players, prompting criticism from various professional athletes.
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The tune ended like that, ratcheting up before dropping off, and it was just enough to meet ravenous expectations in the crowd.
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His era captures his every move, ratcheting up the excitement to a fever pitch with each highlight buzzing across social media channels.
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Ratcheting up the pressure on 'Rocket Man' The biggest soundbite of the speech was obvious from the moment it passed Trump's lips.
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Prices could move far higher in the event of a prolonged outage or ratcheting up of tensions including retaliatory strikes, Cottle said.
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The president last month ordered trade officials to prepare an additional $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese products, further ratcheting up tensions.
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Ratcheting up the punishment last year, Congress passed the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act, aiming for the nation's economic jugular.
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He reacted to his declining numbers by ratcheting up what worked before: becoming a louder, more extreme, more abrasive version of himself.
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The next year, Mr. Noriega annulled the results of Panama's presidential election, ratcheting up pressure on the United States to take action.
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The National Weather Service is ratcheting up its language to make sure people understand that this storm is not a normal event.
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He said concerns over the trade war were dragging down markets, with investors spooked by the ratcheting up of trade war tensions.
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U.S. lawmakers are making a show of their support for protesters and ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump to the same.
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And nothing seems to delight him quite so much as ratcheting up the suspense when he has an important decision to make.
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The stock market has rallied strongly since the November election, and Wall Street has been busy ratcheting up economic growth projections this year.
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The real estate mogul and former reality TV star was ratcheting up primary wins and on pace to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
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For Obama and Biden, that's meant ratcheting up the warnings about the damage they claim Trump is already inflicting on the country's standing.
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Trump last year used bellicose rhetoric toward North Korea and threatened "fire and fury," ratcheting up tensions with the reclusive nuclear-armed country.
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Why it matters: Apple had been giving Intel an increasing share of the iPhone modem business as tensions were ratcheting up with Qualcomm.
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Ankara has now been hit by three bombings in a space of five months, ratcheting up security fears across the city and Turkey.
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But even those have a certain off-the-assembly-line quality, as well as a need to keep ratcheting up the military hardware.
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Ross also referenced Canada's import tax on ultra-filtered milk, further ratcheting up trade rhetoric with the United States' second biggest trade partner.
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But the incoming president and Congress have other options for ratcheting up pressure on the Iranian regime, options that can be enacted unilaterally.
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Iran is ratcheting up tensions in the Gulf, with its seizure of a British-flagged tanker, yet oil prices have been relatively unaffected.
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It began by ratcheting up sanctions on Iran and further threatening to sanction European allies if they don't cease all trade with Iran.
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Violence in the the Israeli-occupied West Bank is ratcheting up, as tensions over Israeli settlements in the area continue to boil over.
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It is focused instead on ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran in an apparent effort to force Tehran to also violate the deal.
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That provision could encourage companies to fight regulatory claims rather than settling them, ratcheting up the cost of pursuing cases by civil regulators.
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Regulators around the world are ratcheting up pressure on the trucking industry to slash emissions of soot and carbon dioxide from diesel trucks.
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The administration has not shared evidence proving it had good reason for ratcheting up tensions in the Middle East by killing Maj. Gen.
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Not surprisingly, opponents are ratcheting up their doomsday predictions of catastrophe if more working people are paid for all the hours they work.
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" The report also warns that ratcheting up the U.S.-China trade war would "disrupt supply networks and weigh on confidence, jobs and incomes.
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The chaos and ongoing crisis have triggered a mass exodus of Venezuelans seeking refuge in neighboring countries, ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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On Friday, with the president ratcheting up his trade rhetoric, Americans for Prosperity continued to make the case for the GOP tax cuts.
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As I mentioned last night, the liberal media monitoring group Media Matters has been ratcheting up the pressure on major Fox News advertisers.
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Swonk says that but the pressure is ratcheting up as the experience based economy heats up as Americans travel and eat out more.
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Since 22016, the Security Council has unanimously adopted eight resolutions ratcheting up sanctions on North Korea over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
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The reversal is ratcheting up concern that other safety rules could get caught in the crosshairs of President Trump's effort to reduce regulations.
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Still, the recent ratcheting up of tension on the Korean Peninsula has made the question of supply chains something more than just academic.
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Further ratcheting up the acrimony, Huawei is preparing to sue the United States government for banning federal agencies from using the company's products.
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Now the hedge fund is ratcheting up pressure by naming five directors and laying out a 131-page plan on where to make changes.
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Then 2.5—all the while ratcheting up the range, from the original 265 miles per charge to the current, top of the line 335.
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Bolton's penchant for ratcheting up tensions has at times caused anxiety in other areas of the administration, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The two appeared more affirmative when it came to the possibility of "ratcheting up" economic pressure on Syria and Russia, as Johnson described it.
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"This is a ratcheting up of the rhetoric from the Chinese authorities - instead of 'we're watching' you, it's now 'we're investigating' you," he said.
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With Washington ratcheting up trade pressure, Chinese policymakers have shifted their focus in recent months to easing credit conditions and shoring up business confidence.
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India blamed that attack on militants crossing over from the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan, quickly ratcheting up tensions between the two countries.
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He said the Panama Papers were ratcheting up the pressure on those that had not joined, such as the United States, to sign up.
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"That engendering an oppositional mode towards government and ratcheting up negativity as a mainline discourse, you wound up somewhat birthing Donald Trump?" queried Cuomo.
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" From shaming his congressional colleagues over banning refugees to ratcheting up his rhetoric against Trumpcare, Murphy is "embracing Trump's techniques to resist Trump's presidency.
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Since then, its fishing vessels and coastguard and builders of massive artificial islands have acted as if might makes right, remorselessly ratcheting up tensions.
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The ratcheting-up of laws punishing criminal conduct in the context of protests could spur courts to view those laws with a skeptical eye.
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Ratcheting up military and economic pressure on North Korea does not change Kim's calculus that nuclear weapons are the best option for regime survival.
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China just signed a deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund on renewable energy cooperation and is further ratcheting up investment in the industry.
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WASHINGTON — There is a long tradition of presidential candidates ratcheting up their language when they are trailing in the closing weeks of an election.
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Venezuela's opposition supporters will take to the streets for nationwide anti-government protests on Tuesday, ratcheting up the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro.
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The bilateral meeting in Japan aims at heading off a ratcheting up of U.S. tariffs on imports of consumer and other goods from China.
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Trump's campaign took a dark turn in the final weeks of the campaign, ratcheting up fears over illegal immigration and threats to national security.
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Since the Supreme Court weakened the federal Voting Rights Act in 2013, he noted, several states have been "ratcheting up" their voter ID requirements.
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If the trade aggression keeps ratcheting up, though, he thinks it could end the good times in Iowa and the rest of the country.
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The IMF's estimate does not include Trump's threatened 5% tariffs on goods from Mexico starting on Monday over immigration issues and ratcheting up monthly.
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It marked the latest in a series of moves by President Donald Trump's administration aimed at ratcheting up pressure on Iran in recent months.
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But the European Union has not pressed the issue, fearful of ratcheting up tensions over sovereignty issues after Britain's vote to exit the bloc.
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It would certainly make it harder for the Trump administration to implement its policy of ratcheting up what it calls "maximum pressure" on Iran.
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Our phones bing and buzz with near-constant developments — a school closing here, a community on lockdown there — ratcheting up the tension and stress.
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Market shockwaves: Stock markets around the world dropped sharply Monday as investors braced for a further ratcheting up in the US-China trade war.
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Mr. Trump has responded to the lack of progress by steadily ratcheting up American tariffs on Chinese goods and finding other ways to retaliate.
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"There was an intensification, the rhythms of the city and the street and how that influences you, there was a ratcheting up," he said.
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It has been ratcheting up pressure since President Tsai Ing-wen, whose party has traditionally favored independence for Taiwan, took office two years ago.
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" Trump has been ratcheting up his rhetoric against North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un, whom he refers to as "Little Rocket Man.
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A disastrous war in Yemen, the attempted isolation of Qatar, and ratcheting up hostility with Iran are strategic policy failures on the prince's resume.
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A number of banks are ratcheting up buybacks and dividends after passing stress tests, which marks good news for their investors in a difficult year.
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President Donald Trump&aposs explosive Twitter threat to Iran&aposs leader comes as his administration is ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic.
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A cheerful father dutifully ignores his buzzing phone as he drives three laughing young girls to the pool — each vibration ratcheting up the underlying suspense.
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The Obama administration later issued much more stringent smog and mercury rules, as well as ratcheting up dozens of other regulations, particularly on coal plants.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average also plunged 297.036 points to close at 113.53,4.5, ratcheting up a combined two-day loss of more than 20.7182,20.7170 points.
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The ECB has been ratcheting up the pressure on banks to offload their soured credit, which it says ties up capital and curbs fresh lending.
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From here forward, further ratcheting up the trade war will bring visible pain to American households, with implications for his re-election chances next year.
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By ratcheting up tensions with Israel, the referral to the ICC would seem to further diminish prospects of success for an expected U.S. peace plan.
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Alberta's premier warned against attempts to veto the pipeline, ratcheting up political tension that helped undermine the stock market debut of Kinder Morgan's Canadian unit.
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The move, which has not been finalized, would be a significant ratcheting up of pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters.
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The minutes will not reflect a further ratcheting up of U.S.-China trade tension since the meeting, which may also limit its impact on markets.
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Since the summit, North Korea has once again begun ratcheting up its rhetoric towards Washington, telling Trump he threw away "a golden opportunity" in Vietnam.
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He has also compared Mitch McConnell to the Russians and unleashed a television ad ratcheting up his racially charged attacks on the Senate majority leader.
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What's happening: In both the U.S. and Europe, politicians and regulators are ratcheting up to curtail the market power of Big Tech and other industries.
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Bush is ratcheting up his attacks on Trump heading into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary as he seeks to fins his footing in the GOP race.
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"Becoming more self-aware and ratcheting up one's EQ would be helpful to all of them and all of us that have to see them."
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In the days prior to the meeting in Canada, Trump, the kingpin in the alliance, had been ratcheting up increasingly caustic rhetoric over trade tariffs.
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Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)European business and political leaders are ratcheting up the pressure on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver an orderly Brexit.
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MEADOWS: Well, I think what we&aposre going to see is not only a ratcheting up on the sanction regime, but really all their allies.
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Tensions around Carillion have been ratcheting up for weeks, forcing the government to hold a string of crisis meetings to discuss how they should respond.
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Andrew Cuomo announced a new slate of measures to combat the coronavirus during a Friday press briefing, ratcheting up the state's workforce reduction to 100%.
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But a German diplomat said ratcheting up pressure on Tehran was like walking a tightrope: push too hard and the whole deal could fall apart.
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Washington threatened to slap tariffs on $4 billion of additional EU goods, ratcheting up pressure on Europe in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies.
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Ratcheting up the country's ability to detect the disease is crucial to understand how the coronavirus — now confirmed in at least 12 states — is spreading.
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And the dollar dipped in July after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia expelled 755 American diplomats, ratcheting up tensions between the two nuclear powers.
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Last January, Washington recognized Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head-of-state and began ratcheting up sanctions and diplomatic pressure in an effort to oust Maduro.
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Eighteen defendants have pleaded guilty in the case so far, ratcheting up pressure on the scam's remaining alleged participants, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said.
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American forces on Friday killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, fueling anti-American protests across Iran and ratcheting up tensions between the two longtime adversaries.
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President Donald Trump has since indicated a de-escalation of the crisis, though he has promised a further ratcheting up of economic sanctions against Iran.
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Stocks fell on Friday after the U.S. confirmed that an airstrike killed Iran's top military commander, sending oil prices surging and ratcheting up geopolitical concerns.
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Afghanistan: Taliban still playing bloody games Despite ratcheting up aerial and ground offensives against the Taliban, violence in Afghanistan has not decreased in recent weeks.
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The rest of the world simply won't continue ratcheting up its ambitions and taking on costs while the US pursues a course of climate unilateralism.
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Before Woods made his birdie putt, the other players in his group, Dustin Johnson and Jason Day, rolled in birdie attempts, ratcheting up the pressure.
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The backstory muddles rather than clarifies the front end, and the long wait for the climax is more of a dawdle than a ratcheting up.
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The road to ratcheting up the pressure on Iran — a sectarian rival hated by the Saudi kingdom for its version of political Islam — seemed open.
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And already, Democrats are ratcheting up their attacks, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warning Trump on Thursday that his party is prepared to do battle.
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However, Washington threatened to slap tariffs on $4 billion of additional EU goods, ratcheting up pressure on Europe in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies.
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China appeared to be signalling to the world that it was ratcheting up pressure on its troublesome friend, as the Americans have long insisted it should.
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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the Trump administration withdrew last year from an international nuclear deal with Iran and began ratcheting up sanctions.
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At the same time, Trump's tweets have drawn criticism for the way they have sent certain stock prices tumbling, and ratcheting up tensions with foreign governments.
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"It's complicated by the ratcheting up in trade tensions, but right now it seems that the current stance of monetary policy is insufficiently accommodative," he said.
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Then you have this very intense ratcheting up of immigration, and now the refugee crisis on top of that, and, alongside refugees, the threat of terrorism.
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The U.S. dairy lobby is ratcheting up the pressure on Canada as the NAFTA talks draw closer, demanding concessions the Canadian government looks unwilling to grant.
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On FOX News Radio: The FOX News Rundown podcast : The Trump administration has restored sanctions on Iran, ratcheting up pressure to stop their nuclear weapons programs.
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It would be quite the symbolism to mark the outset of 2018 after a year of tensions ratcheting up over potential conflict on the Korean peninsula.
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The writers counted on us seeing the huge explosion coming, ratcheting up the tension with the drawn-out dressing scenes and classical score, and then boom.
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China – tariffs: The administration on Tuesday threatened tariffs applied to another $200 billion in Chinese goods, ratcheting up a trade war between the two countries (Bloomberg).
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The Trump administration has undertaken a multi-faceted approach to pressure Maduro to give up power by backing Guaidó, ratcheting up sanctions and sending humanitarian aid.
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As Trump was ratcheting up his rhetoric undermining May, she was battling rear-guard actions in her own party trying to bring her down over Brexit.
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The Trump administration, like the Obama administration, hopes that China will influence Kim Jong Un to behave responsibly while simultaneously ratcheting up sanctions on his regime.
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Square itself was inking landmark deals with the likes of Starbucks and ratcheting up its valuation, and PayPal, Verifone, Amazon and others moved into the space.
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On Wednesday in Miami, Bolton announced a series of new sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Maduro and the countries that support him.
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The song's meandering tempo and tense atmosphere, punctuated with eerie cackling throughout, stood apart in a genre that, by 33, was continually ratcheting up in intensity.
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Moreover, all five companies beat analysts' expectations in their first earnings reports since coming public, ratcheting up Wall Street's expectations and sending their stocks higher still.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani military court sentenced an Indian accused of espionage to death on Monday, potentially ratcheting up tension between the two nuclear-armed states.
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Ratcheting up the stakes, Kesha remains signed for up to three more albums, barring appeals, with Dr. Luke's label, Kemosabe, a joint venture with Sony Music.
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"The housing market pressure on both older Americans and younger Americans is ratcheting up right now," said David Weidner, managing editor for economic research at Trulia.
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Tariffs on $16 billion of Chinese goods will go into effect on Thursday, ratcheting up the price of chemicals, seafood and other goods imported from China.
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From his vantage point, the single biggest impact of the flea-borne typhus outbreak has been a ratcheting up of fear of people who are homeless.
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BEIRUT — Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombed the southern edge of Idlib Province on Saturday, ratcheting up military pressure on the densely populated rebel-held bastion.
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In the meantime, the committee's most substantial impact may be an indirect one: ratcheting up the pressure, through its public hearings and written questioning, on regulators.
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For several years then, the Police Department, under the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, had been ratcheting up the pressure in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
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Similarly, rebalancing public spending by ratcheting up working-age benefits at a higher rate than pensions would be more politically palatable than making cuts to pensions.
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But Yerxa said he was skeptical that ratcheting up tariffs on China created the right atmosphere to reach a similar agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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And giving engagement with North Korea another go, despite the past frustrations of trying to negotiate with the North, is preferable to ratcheting up the tensions.
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Stocks tanked on Monday after more cases of the coronavirus were confirmed over the weekend, ratcheting up worries over the virus' impact on the world economy.
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Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new "fight mode," which it says will frustrate and disincentivize bot operators from their malicious activity.
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"We keep ratcheting up the sanctions, and one I'm calling for is to cut off the import of all oil products to North Korea," she said.
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Indeed, tensions around Carillion have been ratcheting up for weeks, forcing the government to hold a string of crisis meetings to discuss how they should respond.
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In recent weeks, protests have begun occurring on other days as well, ratcheting up the tension between Israel and militant factions in Gaza, led by Hamas.
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India fired yet another missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions over the brewing arms race with neighboring nuclear giant China.
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At the same time, the Trump administration has heightened tensions in the Middle East by ratcheting up pressure on Iran and deploying military resources to the region.
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But Washington is expected to start gradually ratcheting up such operations soon even if discussions with allies have not been completed, according to the senior U.S. official.
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Pyongyang said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat the international community has been powerless to contain.
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Seoul (CNN)South Korea is ratcheting up its rhetoric against Pyongyang with a new threat: Come at us, and we'll cut off the head of the snake.
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A freer hand Bolton's penchant for ratcheting up tensions has at times caused anxiety in other areas of the administration, according to people familiar with the matter.
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That's despite what plays like a pretty significant ratcheting up of the violence quotient, which, even with the kids maturing, doesn't make those scenes any less unpleasant.
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Du Plessis was asked by Parliament's business committee whether chief executives were seeking to out-do each other on pay, resulting in a ratcheting up of rewards.
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Both protesters and law enforcement have released statements this week detailing injuries suffered by police and activists, with each side accusing the other of ratcheting up tensions.
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The U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and re-imposed sweeping sanctions on the country, ratcheting up tensions and leaving the future of the accord unclear.
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Economists have been ratcheting up expectations for first-quarter growth and now many of them see it tracking closer to 2% than 1%, as it had previously.
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Apart from fiddling with clichés, he delights in creating characters and then testing them in fiendish ways (sometimes literally), ratcheting up the tension and the body count.
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A breakthrough would mean any kind of deal — even a temporary one — to stop Trump from ratcheting up China tariffs in January, as he's scheduled to do.
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So, now Team Clinton is ratcheting up the "Trump is a racist!" drum in hopes of getting the pundits and the voters to talk about something else.
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Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the Trump administration withdrew last year from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran and began ratcheting up sanctions.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday designated a powerful branch of Iran's state military as a terrorist group, ratcheting up already tense relations between Tehran and Washington.
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At the same time, the United States has shot down its first Syrian air force jet, ratcheting up tensions with Bashar al-Assad's sponsors at the Kremlin.
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Still, it did require dedicated resources, pulling as many as a dozen people off of their existing tasks, ratcheting up the priority level and getting it done.
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The Trump administration may have dialled down its stand-off with the European Union, for now at least, but it is ratcheting up the pressure on China.
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A host of nations, led by the U.S., recognized Guaidó last month as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Nicolas Maduro to step aside.
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On the other hand, if he wanted to engage Iran, he's sending all the wrong signals by sanctioning the Iranian supreme leader and ratcheting up the pressure.
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Trump allies insist that, politically speaking, this is good news for the president, ratcheting up pressure on Democrats to shift away from blanket opposition to his policies.
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The company is ratcheting up production of the Model 3 at its California plant, and expects to begin filling more than 300,000 pre-orders sometime next year.
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The United States can help to prevent a ratcheting up of tensions by strengthening the incentives for North Korea to choose a peace treaty over nuclear weapons.
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The Washington Wizards' star backcourt of John Wall and Bradley Beal looked exhausted come fourth quarters, while the Raptors were capable of ratcheting up their defensive intensity.
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It doesn't help that the two most important humans in this equation, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, are ratcheting up the rhetoric with each passing day.
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Job openings are at a record high; consumer confidence, according to the Conference Board, was the highest in August since 2000; and capital investment is ratcheting up.
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Gandhi tried to sheath her authoritarian regime with a veneer of lawful authority by ratcheting up the use of existing laws of preventive detention and police powers.
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Hyperinflation has roiled the country's economy, and food and medicine shortages have become increasingly common — none of which was helped by the ratcheting up of U.S. sanctions.
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Epperson, who lives and trains in Fort Collins, Colorado, is getting his body acclimatized to higher heat by slowly ratcheting up the temperature in which he trains.
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Haynes is an expert at ratcheting up tension, so when someone poisons one of Sarah's dogs, you know something bad is about to happen to Sarah herself.
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The financial services industry is ratcheting up its support of legislation that would set nationwide data security standards and require businesses to notify customers following a breach.
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The proposal comes as North Korea continues to defy the international community and make progress on its nuclear and missile programs, ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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"Ratcheting up of trade tensions between the U.S. and China has brought oil prices under significant selling pressure," said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy.
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Multiple Natural Resources subcommittee chairmen expressed openness toward ratcheting up the pressure through subpoenas and other tactics to address what they saw as stonewalling by the agency.
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Democrats are ratcheting up their coordinated investigations into Trump's business dealings as the Justice Department prepares to release findings from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe on Thursday.
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"As the partisan struggle for political, cultural and legal supremacy grows even more bitter, political spending is ratcheting up," political analyst Francis Wilkinson observed in Bloomberg View.
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Ratcheting up more tariffs on consumer goods could take a bite out of a strong economy, minimizing what has been one of Trump's major campaign talking points.
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He touted his decision to withdraw from the "horrible" Iranian nuclear deal and urged other countries to join the US in ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran.
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All closed at their highest levels since early May when Trump knocked global stock markets by ratcheting up tariff rates on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods.
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But these facts made no greater dent in what Trump said to Congress than they have since he began ratcheting up his law and order rhetoric last July.
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That has worried Democrats and public health groups, who have been ratcheting up their advocacy efforts with a flurry of letters to the president and other administration officials.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday recognized Juan Guaido, the head of Venezuela's opposition, as the country's interim president, ratcheting up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
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The revised competition rules for the 2018 Hyperloop Pod competition released today reflect the importance that Musk is placing on ratcheting up the maximum speed of prototype pods.
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This development comes as European officials told CNN they believe ISIS is ratcheting up its planning for international attacks to retaliate for losses in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
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The urge to seek truth among unconnected dots is nothing new, but social media has supercharged that urge, ratcheting up the speed and spread of the resulting theories.
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Yet it is a testament to Mr Eka's gift as a storyteller, particularly his skill at ratcheting up and tactically releasing tension, that he keeps readers enthralled nonetheless.
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Mittal said he was not worried that a further ratcheting up of trade tensions would derail the global economic outlook, given much improved sentiment in the steel industry.
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The attack stoked fears that the spy agency's powerful cyber weapons could now be turned to criminal use, ratcheting up cyber security threats to a whole new level.
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Citigroup this year has been ratcheting up its expectations for soured loans for its two North American credit card businesses, Citi-branded cards and cards issued for stores.
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Clinton and Sanders are ratcheting up their rhetoric as the former secretary of State looks to defend turf in New York ahead of the state's April 19 primary.
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Many local police officials expressed fury that they were left out of any decision-making, ratcheting up friction between local Kashmiri police and Indian soldiers on the ground.
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"Bolton's speech today signaled a ratcheting up of pressure on Venezuela and Cuba, but also a new level of administration focus on the crisis in Nicaragua," Marczak said.
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But we do have convincing evidence that ratcheting up the war on drugs, as Mr. Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, want to do, would not work.
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Mr. Maduro has been ratcheting up his rhetoric against Colombia in recent weeks, accusing his neighbor of plotting with the United States to violently oust him from power.
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American and European negotiators are at odds over what to include in a prospective trade deal, ratcheting up trans-Atlantic tensions and jeopardizing talks before they even begin.
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Mr. Trump has responded by vowing to "totally destroy" North Korea if forced to defend the United States or its allies, while ratcheting up economic pressure through sanctions.
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He has done his best to make the race competitive, attracting tens of thousands of supporters at rallies across the state and ratcheting up his rhetoric against Clinton.
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The Trump administration imposed new economic sanctions on Venezuela on Friday, modestly ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled government of President Nicolás Maduro for increasingly repressive policies.
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I just — I feel very gross inside, and my anxiety is ratcheting up and I'm just deeply worried about what's going on and the state of the country.
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Aside from the defense authorization bill, Congress could pass other measures, from ratcheting up sanctions on Syria to sanctioning foreign individuals who provide support to the Syrian government.
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The United States last year recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the OPEC nation's legitimate interimpresident and began ratcheting up sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Maduro's government.
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Democrats are positioning themselves by accusing Trump of acting rashly, without considering the consequences of escalation ratcheting up with Iran and without seeking the input of congressional leaders.
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Lindsey said his openness to the idea was due, in part, to his belief that Trump's current strategy of ratcheting up tariffs on Chinese imports was losing steam.
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But why has it placed itself in a situation where, for two years now, it has been ratcheting up tensions in the most volatile part of the world?
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During her presidency, the EU baulked at recognizing Swiss stock exchange equivalency beyond the end of 2018, ratcheting up pressure on Switzerland to strike a new trade deal.
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Jeb Hensarling, who runs the House Financial Services Committee, have also argued for ratcheting up capital requirements to a level that would prompt big banks to split apart.
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Two days after his return to Beijing, North Korea launched the rocket, widely viewed as a ballistic missile test in disguise, further ratcheting up tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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You'll be amused by how its trapezoid shape overflows your grip, you'll be happy ratcheting up its volume dial, and you'll be downright delighted by the music it makes.
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Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are ratcheting up, which is just what North Korea wants, as the reclusive state pits global powers China and the U.S. against one another.
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In a ratcheting up of tensions, protesters tried to take over some military bases and police stations but were pushed back by security forces, state TV said without elaborating.
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The big worry among security experts, per the NYT: those troops may never leave the area as a show of force, further ratcheting up tensions in a fraught time.
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Before meeting Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the Trump administration invested a lot of effort in ratcheting up sanctions against North Korea as part of its "maximum pressure" strategy.
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The gradual ratcheting up of partisanship has been underway since the 1980s in the Senate, and this is surely part of the natural outgrowth of that rising partisan tension.
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A congressional aide suggested the Trump administration wanted to signal it was ratcheting up pressure on Iran by targeting the IRGC, but not to disrupt diplomacy of U.S. allies.
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And with Mr. Trump ratcheting up his rhetoric against immigrants, and Mr. Nelson linking Mr. Scott to the president in Spanish-language ads, those sensitivities are even more acute.
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Successes like "Black Panther" notwithstanding, the venture comes at a challenging time in the film industry, with ticket sales declining last year and competition from streaming services ratcheting up.
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"It is a calibrated, incremental ratcheting up of pressure on Pakistan," said Sameer Lalwani, co-director of the South Asia program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington.
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Trump announced a new 10% tariff on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, ratcheting up a trade war that has raged on for more than a year.
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Ratcheting up its response, Israel blew up a car carrying a Gaza man it said was a terrorist, and published video of that airstrike as a warning to others.
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Still, he sought to apply positive spin to the trade war on his final day here, a turnabout after ratcheting up tensions in the lead-up to the summit.
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In September, there were attacks on Saudi oil fields that the US blamed on Iran, ratcheting up tensions even more and temporarily throwing the global oil industry into turmoil.
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In the US on diplomatic business, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called for ratcheting up sanctions on Russia amid fresh evidence of Kremlin meddling in UK and American politics.
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The U.S. government last week raised tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union, ratcheting up pressure on the EU to resolve a dispute over support for plane makers.
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Democrats also notched another victory when Bolton announced he would be willing to testify in Trump&aposs trial, ratcheting up the pressure on McConnell to agree to call witnesses.
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There's a requirement that countries present new NDCs every so often, but many can simply resubmit their original commitments rather than ratcheting up ambition during each new pledge period.
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That assessment was intended to determine how the industry was adapting to new standards and whether it was feasible to continue ratcheting up the average fuel efficiency as planned.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is resisting House Democrats' demands for documents and testimony relevant to their impeachment inquiry, ratcheting up the clash between Congress and the Trump administration.
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The ban has thrown into disarray prospects for sales at some of the largest tech companies and drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, further ratcheting up tensions over trade.
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Looking ahead: To join the E.U., Serbia would have to compromise on Kosovo, which Russia and Serbia refuse to recognize, and which Mr. Putin accused of ratcheting up tensions.
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Keep cycling through this basic routine, adjusting n at each step and ratcheting up the divisor, until the result of the division is less than 2—then you're done.
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It's certainly possible that Trump is entirely innocent, but Mueller certainly does not appear to have reached that conclusion, and pressure is steadily ratcheting up on critical Trumpworld figures.
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The biofuels industry has been ratcheting up pressure in Washington in response to actions from the EPA it sees as threatening the program, which was designed to reduce carbon emissions.
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When the rich fight over college admissions, they send a message that only a handful of schools will do, ratcheting up the anxiety levels for everyone in the education business.
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For much of his presidency, Obama seemed to adopt the view that global warming was best tackled by limiting fossil fuel demand — via measures like ratcheting up vehicle fuel efficiency.
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ET. Options for Obama include scaling up financial sanctions on Russia or engaging in an online counterattack, though Obama has warned against ratcheting up tensions into a full-scale cyberwar.
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Germany has suggested making accommodations over trade with the United States for fear of triggering a ratcheting up of tensions over cars that would embroil companies like BMW and Mercedes.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's government has been ratcheting up pressure on Iran with sanctions since Washington withdrew a year ago from a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
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But, more so than in the past, Amazon is ratcheting up the pressure on manufacturers of goods that the online retailer is unable to sell for a profit, executives say.
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In the run-up to the bill, 37 of Argentina's 72 senators said they would oppose the bill, while 31 declared their support, ratcheting up pressure to sway undecided lawmakers.
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In the buildup to Lochte returning to USA Swimming-sanctioned competition on June 30, he's declared that he's ratcheting up his Olympics 2020 training, citing his upcoming fatherhood as motivation.
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Trump said on May 5 he would raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10% to 2019%, ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to agree to a deal.
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Huawei has sued the U.S. government, saying a law limiting its U.S. business is unconstitutional, ratcheting up its fight against a government bent on closing it out of global markets.
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Schumer's letter comes a day after three Democratic senators filed a lawsuit challenging Whitaker's appointment, ratcheting up the court effort to declare his placement atop the Justice Department as unconstitutional.
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Like white nationalists as a whole, "many members of the so-called alt-right have decided that targeting Jews and ratcheting up anti-Semitic language is a strategy," she said.
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The ratcheting up of the finger-pointing raises questions about how quickly lawmakers may be able to get an agreement to end the shutdown, which started at 2628:28503 a.m.
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Warren is ratcheting up her tactics as well by taking aim at DeVos, a Trump Cabinet official who has faced vehement opposition from the left, including from powerful teachers unions.
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A spate of killings by the police has put a renewed focus on de-escalation tactics developed to prevent some confrontations and keep others from ratcheting up to lethal force.
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Tensions between North Korea and South Korea appear to be ratcheting up again just as a senior Russian official is warning of an "apocalyptic scenario" developing on the Korean Peninsula.
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China – intellectual property: Administration officials are ratcheting up pressure on China in response to the country's alleged theft of trade secrets, even as the dispute escalates beyond the two countries.
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Apple and law enforcement officials are ratcheting up the tone in their legal battle over a locked terrorist's iPhone, with both sides preparing to dig in for a long fight.
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"We would prefer not to have to deal with this," Rapinoe said of ratcheting up the equal-pay fight a few weeks before the team's Olympic opener on Aug 3.
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China and the U.S. have been ratcheting up trade threats in recent months, leaving the tech sector particularly vulnerable — with tech supply chains for American companies often rooted in China.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has indicated its support for an opposition leader, ratcheting up pressure on Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro as he embarks on a disputed second term.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday recognized Juan Guaido, the head of Venezuela's opposition, as the country's interim president, ratcheting up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
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Cody needed to get out of his perceived doldrums, and he did so by having the best match of his career, ratcheting up his rich boy villainy to parodic levels.
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The reaction she's been getting since then has been buzzy, with those plays ratcheting up and up, but what happens when she's faced with an arena full of potential fans?
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Malema, who promotes the nationalization of mines and banks, is ratcheting up the rhetoric ahead of local elections in August, where Zuma and the ANC could face a tough test.
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But it is indisputable that his strategy of ratcheting up pressure on other world powers like Russia and China has delivered the most punitive sanctions ever enforced on North Korea.
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U.S.-Iranian tensions have risen since Trump withdrew a year ago from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and major powers and began ratcheting up sanctions to throttle Tehran's economy.
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Over the past year, Bolton has threatened military action multiple times, telling Iran there will be "hell to pay," ratcheting up tensions wherever possible and extending potential pretexts for war.
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Two more months passed before President Trump announced on Twitter that he was ratcheting up the trade war and threatening to impose even stiffer tariffs on almost all Chinese imports.
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Shelf-stable goods makers react As people rush to buy canned food and other nonperishable items, big consumer goods companies are trying to meet demand without needlessly ratcheting up production.
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But while Israeli politics have stood still, the context surrounding them has changed a lot — ratcheting up the stakes at a time when Israeli voters couldn't make up their minds.
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Stocks closed lower Monday after a ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a sharp decline in information technology stocks, which posted their worst day since August 17.
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Cheaper packages from rivals are ratcheting up the pressure and also threaten Hastings' goal of reducing the company's cash burn, which hit $3.3 billion last year, by around $1 billion.
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But when the island's new President, Tsai Ing-wen, took office last year, she effectively repudiated the two-China concept, suddenly ratcheting up the temperature between Taiwan and the mainland.
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The air strikes targeting Hezbollah forces fighting in support of the Syrian government prompted Damascus to fire Russian-supplied surface-to-air missiles at Israeli jets, ratcheting up regional anxiety.
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The ratcheting up of threats against Venezuela – and, for that matter, Iran – do not make Americans more secure and do not improve the chances for a just and peaceful solution.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised a further ratcheting up of economic sanctions against Iran in the wake of attacks on two Iraqi military bases housing American troops.
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The administration is heading for geopolitical affray on multiple fronts, including ratcheting up tensions with Iran, engineering a new confrontation with China and seeing its relations with Russia steadily worsen.
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President Trump responded to that news by threatening to unleash "fire and fury" on Pyongyang, ratcheting up concern among U.S. allies and partners that the countries were hurtling toward conflict.
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"The board should be asking whether Loeb's analysis is correct and not be concerned about his tactics and whether he is ratcheting up the pressure or not," the investor said.
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And during most of that period, it made them stronger, oftentimes (with a few notable exceptions) deepening racial divisions and ratcheting up racial fear in white people's favor in the process.
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Trump told aides he wants to move ahead on a plan to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, Bloomberg News reported, further ratcheting up trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.
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The administration has been focused on steadily ratcheting up the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran over the last year, a campaign that's meant to change Tehran's "behavior" administration officials say.
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It comes at a time when major corporations are ratcheting up internal security measures to better protect themselves from cyberattacks, following a spate of high-profile data breaches in recent months.
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Oil prices will be closely watched as U.S. on Monday reimposed oil and financial sanctions on Iran, ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear, missile and regional activities.
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As far as trade policy is concerned, his self-assessment would indeed be true—if tweets and executive orders ratcheting up tensions in a growing number of trade disputes constituted progress.
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Ever since 2010, the Obama administration has been ratcheting up fuel economy standards for new cars and light trucks in an effort to cut carbon emissions and reduce US oil dependence.
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The United States early on Friday increased tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods to 25% from 10%, ratcheting up a 10-month trade war between the world's two largest economies.
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Why it matters: Tensions between Iran and the U.S. have been ratcheting up for weeks, with military intervention briefly on the table at the direction of national security adviser John Bolton.
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But by separating the Uighur and Han further, and by imposing huge costs on one side that the other side, for the most part, blithely ignores, they are ratcheting up tension.
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For all its ratcheting up of political controls at home, the Communist Party does not seem concerned about the effect of exposing so many of its people to freer societies abroad.
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Washington (CNN)Democratic groups are ratcheting up pressure on Senate Republicans over their effort to vote on a major health care measure before Congress leaves town for the July 4 recess.
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Jaish-e-Mohammad had taken responsibility for the deadliest attack on security forces in Indian Kashmir in 30 years of insurgency, ratcheting up tension between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.
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As this year's trade season approached, the Raptors complicated things further by playing poorly, ratcheting up the "is this team even good enough with an extra piece" side of the equation.
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The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Chinese technology firms and that may be a long-term strategy that continues — even if a trade deal is reached, one expert told CNBC.
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The better course would be to join with like-minded countries in ratcheting up WTO trade enforcement and establishing new global norms on issues like the conduct of state-owned enterprises.
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Trump's announcement on Thursday extended tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods the United States imports, ratcheting up a protracted tussle that has weighed on global growth and battered equities.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself warned Pakistan to expect a strong response to the attack in the Pulwama district of Indian-controlled Kashmir, ratcheting up tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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But the detention of Mr. O'Connor, a high-level executive, is raising fears that the Chinese government is seeking harsh punishments against overseas operators and ratcheting up pressure on the industry.
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Markets benefited from relief that U.S. Congress struck a deal on the country's debt limit and that there had been no further ratcheting up of the North Korea crisis in Asia.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armed men holed up at a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan took several doctors hostage on Wednesday, ratcheting up tension in their 10-day standoff with security forces.
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With tensions ratcheting up over North Korea, a U.S. Navy carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson was dispatched to waters off the Korean Peninsula, the Navy announced Sunday.
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Geopolitical risk seems to be ratcheting up daily and, with China and the United States raising the trade war stakes, investors are justifiably concerned about the impact on the world economy.
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On Friday, Trump authorized a doubling of tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum imports - to 50 percent and 20 percent, respectively - ratcheting up a diplomatic dispute with the NATO-member country.
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Moving forward, China will respond to the latest escalation in the trade wars and dig in its heels as the Trump administration continues ratcheting up tariffs on goods emanating from China.
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And so over the past year, Wall Street has been steadily ratcheting up the pressure on Mayer to separate Yahoo's core internet business from its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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Trump said on Sunday he will raise tariffs on $100 billion worth of Chinese goods from 2125 percent to 2125 percent, ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to agree to a deal.
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Washington's decision in April to include on its sanctions blacklist Russian firm Rusal, one of the world's biggest aluminum producers, signaled to Russian business that Washington was ratcheting up the pressure.
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EUROPE: Also worrying the market was the U.S. government ratcheting up pressure on Europe in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies, threatening tariffs on $4 billion of additional EU goods.
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China defends its construction as necessary for self-defense and says the United States is responsible for ratcheting up tension by sending warships and military planes close to islands Beijing claims.
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Ever since 22000, the Obama administration has been ratcheting up fuel economy standards for new cars and light trucks in an effort to cut carbon emissions and reduce US oil dependence.
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AMC has leaned into the promotional benefits of Lincoln leaving -- the season is being heavily promoted as "Rick Grimes' Final Episodes" -- ratcheting up the pressure to craft a meaningful, satisfying sendoff.
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But the latest Des Moines Register poll of Iowa finds Sanders in first and Warren close behind, ratcheting up pressure on both candidates ahead of the first-in-the-nation vote.
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Robert Hormats, who served as undersecretary of State for former President Barack Obama, blames both leaders for ratcheting up the tensions in a situation he said mirrors others around the world.
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AS raised its unsolicited cash offer for British food delivery service Just Eat to $6.5 billion on Monday, ratcheting up the pressure on rival bidder Takeaway in their bitter takeover battle.
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By ratcheting up its membership to nearly 5 million and channeling gun owners' passions and concerns into electoral and legislative results in municipalities and states, the NRA turned its grassroots gold.
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North Korea's first official statement on the assassination of Kim Jong Un's half brother blamed Malaysia's government, ratcheting up regional tensions as the increasingly bizarre investigation moves into its 10th day.
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All these attacks, some dubbed terrorist attacks, some not, have been ratcheting up the anxiety of Americans and the rest of the planet, especially in the wake of obsessive cable coverage.
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Thursday's dual subpoena authorizations signal the Judiciary Committee is ratcheting up its probes into the Trump administration ahead of the panel's high-profile hearing next week with former special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Trade and tariffs have been topics of increasing tension between the two countries since Trump started ratcheting up the heat earlier this year in a series of escalating tariffs on Chinese imports.
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The government recently amended its laws in an effort to combat human trafficking and slavery, ratcheting up penalties to life imprisonment and the death penalty in cases where their victims had died.
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That report found a "pattern and practice" of city officials repeatedly targeting black people with tickets for small infractions like jaywalking, and then ratcheting up the fees for partial payment or nonpayment.
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Facebook and Twitter first disclosed Russian-bought ads last fall, revealing posts paid for in rubles and ratcheting up the number of users who saw the advertisements in the months that followed.
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"It is shameful that ICE is ratcheting up fear and terror in young people who courageously stepped out of the shadows," Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement.
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"We're going to keep ratcheting up the minimum standards and our expectations from the companies; it's not a finished business," said Meryam Omi, head of sustainability and responsible investment strategy at LGIM.
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Pompeo has also been involved in ratcheting up the pressure on Iran through sanctions, messaging and military planning, flying to US Central Command this week to discuss regional security with military leaders.
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"I believe that balance sheet policies are more credible if we can show that there is not a persistent ratcheting-up effect in the size of the Feds asset holdings," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Petropavlovsk has said it will remove the board member representing the Russian gold miner's biggest shareholder Kenges Rakishev, ratcheting up tensions between rival investor groups over management of the company.
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Tensions have risen between Tehran and Washington since the Trump administration withdrew a year ago from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran and began ratcheting up sanctions to throttle Tehran's economy.
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But a slowdown in China, a ratcheting up of trade tensions and the looming expiration of a key U.S. tax credit to encourage EV adoption still promise to make the job harder.
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President -- the Trump administration imposed -- ratcheting up sanctions, this time for chemical weapons use, that nerve agent in the U.K. But here is the question, John, a lot of people are asking.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed U.S. calls for a ceasefire in northeast Syria despite Russia ratcheting up international pressure on Ankara over its "unacceptable" week-long military operation against Kurdish-led forces.
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Since establishing that target in 2011, the Fed has managed to meet it only a handful of times, and with the trade war ratcheting up it is again drifting out of reach.
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President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement last year and is ratcheting up sanctions on Iran, aiming to strangle its economy by ending its international sales of crude oil.
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The response to Trump's decision to go ahead next week with 10 percent tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, ratcheting up to 25 percent in January, was unusual and unexpected.
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We cannot now sit by and watch hatred and cruelty ratcheting up again; fomenting the current trend towards retrenchment, polarization and chauvinistic nationalism until it explodes in another devastating confrontation of peoples.
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President Obama is ratcheting up the pressure on Senate Republicans to at least talk about his plan to nominate someone to the Supreme Court to replace the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia.
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The euro tumbled to a fresh six-month low on Tuesday, while yields on Italian debt climbed — ratcheting up the extra borrowing costs or spread that Rome pays in comparison with Germany.
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The team eventually became part of a mobile phone revolution in the developing world, in which public health researchers were ratcheting up efforts to use these pocket computers to address health problems.
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President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday a police helicopter had attacked the Supreme Court in a ratcheting up of Venezuela's political crisis, but a grenade tossed at the building did not explode.
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The power of The Thing lies in John Carpenter's masterful ability to make the sweeping isolation of the Antarctic feel palpable through careful world building and a slow ratcheting up of tension.
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The United States and China slapped fresh tariffs on each other on Sunday, ratcheting up a tit-for-tat trade war that has rattled financial markets and triggered a global manufacturing recession.
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Pressure had been ratcheting up on the team to allow The Daily News access, including statements issued in recent days by the Professional Basketball Writers Association and the Associated Press Sports Editors.
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The Libyan developments were one of the biggest concerns of this former counterterrorism official, who was involved in targeting for the Obama administration and explained the ratcheting up of airstrikes on Libya.
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That same month, President Trump, who had been steadily ratcheting up pressure on China to make a new trade deal with the US, announced tariffs against Chinese solar cells and washing machines.
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Accused by lawmakers of failing to take adequate precautions to protect the territories more than 4,000 miles away, the British government had begun ratcheting up its aid in the territories by Thursday.
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Previously, Egypt's security services have reacted to much smaller protests by ratcheting up repression, usually in the form of mass arrests that have seen critics cast into jail for months or years.
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Is Iran, whose military involvements around the region have brought it into conflict with the Islamic State while also ratcheting up tensions with Saudi Arabia and its fellow-Sunni clients, overreaching itself?
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Comcast is ratcheting up the pressure on Disney over its pursuit of Sky, analysts told CNBC on Friday, shortly after it dropped out of the race to acquire Twenty-First Century Fox.
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While the final numbers aren't in, economists Friday were ratcheting up growth projections to 3 percent or better for the fourth quarter, after December's strong retail sales and revisions to prior months.
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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian carried out a stabbing and shooting attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, killing an Israeli soldier and a civilian, and ratcheting up tensions ahead of Israeli elections.
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China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea, Taiwan and U.S. officials said on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions.
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But some of the initial optimism was dampened after The Washington Post reported the U.S. will condemn China over hacking and economic espionage, potentially ratcheting up tension between the two countries once again.
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Markets also benefited from relief that the U.S. Congress struck a deal on the country's debt limit and that there had been no further ratcheting up of the North Korea crisis in Asia.
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Of course, any new U.S. action against the North could prompt Kim to resume missile and nuclear tests, ratcheting up tensions and putting the world back on the brink of a nuclear crisis.
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President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal last year and is ratcheting up sanctions on Iran, aiming to strangle its economy by ending its international sales of crude oil.
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Online and brick-and-mortar businesses alike have been ratcheting up their investments in e-commerce in Mexico, pressuring retailers to stay ahead with efficient logistics, broad inventories and fast, hassle-free shipping.
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Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has openly called on Venezuela's military to choose between the constitution and President Nicolas Maduro, ratcheting up a showdown as the economy in the oil-rich country is imploding.
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Or where we saw it, it was something that maybe the Afghans were sort of ratcheting up the perception of the threat, in order to keep people engaged and interested in the issue.
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Lufthansa pilots in Germany said they would extend strike action that began on Wednesday until Friday, ratcheting up pressure on management in a long-running pay dispute and promising further disruptions for travelers.
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Skill trees aren't anything unique, of course, but Spider-Man's works particularly well, slowly revealing new skills and abilities while ratcheting up the complexity in a way that feels natural and not overwhelming.
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Shares in the index are now up 1 percent in three days thanks to local funds ratcheting up their buying and foreign funds slightly easing their selling of Qatari shares, bourse data showed.
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The Trump administration took the trade war up another notch, calling China a currency manipulator and ratcheting up expectations that the White House has other moves it could make to retaliate against China.
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There's a ratcheting up of interest, a feast for those fascinated with popular culture in the infotainment era and who may view celebrity deaths not only as news stories, but sources of entertainment.
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But 2018 marks a decade since the Italians last won a championship, their 16th constructors' crown in 2008, and the pressure — always intense even at the best of times — has been ratcheting up.
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That means markets are not only fully pricing in a 10-basis- point rate hike in October, but pricing also suggests investors are ratcheting up expectations for a second hike by end-2019.
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The idea that ratcheting up inequality will somehow lead to strong growth, better jobs, and higher living standards is substantively ludicrous — and not at all what Trump's working-class supporters had in mind.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has been ratcheting up pressure on Iran with sanctions since Washington withdrew a year ago from a 2015 international nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
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This marks a ratcheting up of pressure on banks and brokers that trade currencies as central banks are already cracking down on the practice known as "last look" in a new voluntary code.
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Rather than ratcheting up aid to meet ever-increasing price tags, we must get at the root of the affordability crisis by addressing the most fundamental component of any organization: the business model.
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Not only has no sitting president of the United States met with a North Korean leader, Trump and Kim have spent the last 15 months calling each other names and ratcheting up tensions.
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The "commitments to self-discipline", as the documents were titled, were part of a nationwide ratcheting-up of security in preparation for official celebrations of 70 years of Communist rule on October 1st.
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Full plate Mulvaney will take over the job as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is once again taking center stage, with developments in recent days ratcheting up the legal jeopardy Trump could face.
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The administration has so far downplayed the impact of Trump's ratcheting up of trade tensions on US producers by emphasizing the long-term benefits of his efforts to even out US trade relationships.
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Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox said it had secured a deal to buy Britain's Sky on Wednesday, ratcheting up the pressure on rival bidder Comcast to return with an even higher offer.
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WASHINGTON — The United States said Monday it was reimposing economic sanctions against Iran that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran but also worsening relations with European allies.
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If Scripps wants to allow for multiple champions while keeping the total number in check, it can devise various means of weeding out contestants in the final rounds besides ratcheting up word difficulty.
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Trump last year withdrew the United States from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, and is ratcheting up sanctions seeking to end Iran's international sales of crude oil and strangle its economy.
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Also, North Korea, long an ally of China, has repeatedly ignored United Nations prohibitions against conducting nuclear tests, ratcheting up its arms program with a series of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests.
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Why it matters: This is a further ratcheting up of trade tensions between the two countries, and also marks the first time any U.S. president has used the currency manipulator label since 1994.
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White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney suggested Friday that Americans ignore the media's coverage of the coronavirus, arguing that journalists are ratcheting up fears to try to hurt President Donald Trump politically.
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The White House powwow would come two days after Trump announced that he was implementing financial penalties on Turkey over its military incursion into northern Syria, ratcheting up tariffs and pausing trade talks.
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North Korea conducted its largest-ever underground nuclear test on Sunday, just days after firing a missile that flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, sharply ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects to hit U.S. imports with additional duties from July, ratcheting up a transatlantic trade conflict after Washington imposed its own tariffs on incoming EU steel and aluminum.
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As we've seen this huge inequality gap grow, and more uncertainty and anxiety around our children's futures and their well-being, I think we see that kind of invisible labor really ratcheting up.
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"As the U.S. president is ratcheting up trade tensions, he is using tariffs to pursue non-economic goals which is worrisome and highlights the risk of a solution being very far away," said Hense.
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The ratcheting up of support from black leaders has at times had the feel of superficial one-upmanship, with each candidate trying to prove he or she is the most popular among black celebrities.
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View jobs A tech behemoth that needs no introduction, Microsoft first launched in India in 1990 and has since been ratcheting up its presence to capitalize on the country's growing pool of IT talent.
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Photo: APThe Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), which kicked off in San Francisco Wednesday, marks a major ratcheting up of the local and state-level revolution against the Trump administration's backslide on climate action.
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Apple shares jumped Monday after the U.S. and China reached a trade cease-fire, just as concern was ratcheting up that the iPhone maker would be next to be entangled in the trade dispute.
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While Trump has publicly said, "I hope not," when it comes to a possible war with Iran and reportedly expressed the same sentiments with his team, he should take responsibility for ratcheting up tensions.
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The two sides have yet to reach a breakthrough that will prevent the United States from ratcheting up tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods, a move that would force Beijing to retaliate.
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So far, this has led to a ratcheting up of US intervention in the Middle East — and a sidelining of the Trump campaign's "America First" approach in favor of a more conventionally interventionist policy.
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Washington's Wilson Ramos hasn't been shy about ratcheting up the offense, ripping a two-run double in Tuesday's 5-0 triumph to increase his RBI total to seven during his 33-game hitting streak.
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Trump last year withdrew the United States from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, and Washington is ratcheting up sanctions seeking to end Tehran's international sales of crude oil and strangle its economy.
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U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's crude oil exports come into force from November 0003, with Washington ratcheting up the pressure on governments and companies around the world to slash their Iranian oil imports to zero.
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Given the way Mr Xi has been ratcheting up his tech-nationalist rhetoric, it is hardly likely that he will back away from "Made in China 2025", as Mr Trump's negotiators want him to.
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It is ratcheting up its attacks as U.S.-allied forces gain ground, with the support of the United States, in the conflict that has raged for five years, causing devastating civilian deaths and destruction.
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Italy will not ratify the European Union's free trade agreement with Canada, its new agriculture minister said on Thursday, ratcheting up an international trade spat and potentially scuppering the EU's biggest accord in years.
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Instead of slowly ratcheting up rules that would force automakers to hit fleetwide an average fuel economy standard of around 54 miles per gallon by 2024, the new standards would freeze at 2021 levels.
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But labor advocates have long warned that ratcheting up the pace of operations in messy, humid slaughterhouses will further endanger plant workers, who already face higher rates of injury than those in other industries.
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The dollar hit a fresh 17-month low versus the yen on Monday despite Japanese officials' ratcheting up warnings that Tokyo will take appropriate steps as needed to curb disorderly moves in the currency.
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Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to restrain North Korea, which on Tuesday announced that it had successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that showed it could strike anywhere in the world.
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A California transit agency is ratcheting up pressure on President Trump to unblock federal funding for an electrification project, which suffered a major setback last week after its grant money was put on hold.
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While Kim sprints to ready his deadly nuclear weapons arsenal, Amano is ratcheting up the IAEA's readiness, should sanctions bring Kim to talks and let him get his inspectors back inside the hermit kingdom.
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While that provides some hope, remember that the president previously hailed an agreement with China in which it would buy more American goods only to see a ratcheting up of trade rhetoric and tariffs.
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Much of the media's reaction to the CBO's report has been to suggest that modernization costs are out of control and are ratcheting up higher, and that some programs will have to be cut.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel earlier this month, ratcheting up tensions along a vital international oil shipping route.
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That may soon change, as public outrage over police killings of civilians is ratcheting up pressure on elected officials to radically revise police contracts that make it almost impossible to bring officers to justice.
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John Bolton, the US national security adviser, has been one of the top proponents of ratcheting up US actions against Venezuela to bring more pressure to bear on the Maduro regime, the sources said.
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If Microsoft's customers feel the company is ratcheting up costs on them unfairly, they will look at ways to get rid of Microsoft's products, which has become easier to do now than ever before.
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But this reckless ratcheting up of the threat should be unacceptable to everyone, and is most proximately offensive to the generation of people who will be forced to answer for such a horrifying legacy.
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China chastised the U.S. on Monday for engaging in what it deemed "trade bullyism" as $200 billion worth of tariffs went into effect, ratcheting up a trade war between the world's two largest economies.
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For example, for the past few weeks, Trump has been ratcheting up the hysteria about the caravan of migrants who are making their way north from Latin America in search of a better life.
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Concerned that other GOP candidates could get caught flat-footed, leaders are now ratcheting up pressure on Republicans in typically safe districts to boost their fundraising efforts and prepare for tighter-than-expected races.
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As the Kurds rush headlong to embrace their region's first steps toward independence, their neighbors and allies, led by the United States, are ratcheting up demands to cancel a referendum on independence from Iraq.
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A heartbeat after Mr. Trump's Pittsburgh visit, he was back in full brawler mode, ratcheting up the fear-mongering and immigrant-bashing that he is counting on to drive his base to the polls.
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China defends its construction as necessary for self-defense and says the United States is responsible for ratcheting up tension in the region by sending warships and military planes close to islands Beijing claims.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Donald Trump needs "an intervention" after his latest "temper tantrum" at the White House, ratcheting up her criticism of a president she says is not fit for office.
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Yet it is the first since Mr. Trump took office vowing to "solve" the North Korea problem, and since he began talking about ratcheting up economic sanctions and raising military pressure on the North.
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He conjured the kind of "America First" toughness, populist rhetoric and refusal to stand with elites against the heartland that powered his 2016 triumph and which he is ratcheting up ahead of November's election.
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The Trump administration widened its trade blacklist to include some of China's top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities and ratcheting up tensions ahead of high-level trade talks.
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Tensions in the Turkey-US relationship have been steadily ratcheting up for weeks, even as the NATO allies cooperate on other fronts, perhaps most importantly coordinating over the US air base in Incirlik, Turkey.
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Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei sued the U.S. government saying a law limiting its U.S. business was unconstitutional, ratcheting up its fight back against a government bent on closing it out of global markets.
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"There is some risk aversion in the marketplace to start the trading week, as the U.S. is ratcheting up its economic sanctions on Iran," said Jim Wyckoff, senior analyst with Kitco Metals in a note.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of "terrorism" in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in Indian-ruled Kashmir.
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But by ratcheting up rhetoric and tariffs against China, Trump has caused the U.S. dollar to strengthen even more compared to the yuan and other currencies, said Taimur Baig, chief economist at Singaporean bank DBS.
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President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on North Korea, refusing to rule out eventual military action and declaring that the United States "will not stand" for Pyongyang menacing America or its Asian allies.
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Companies in Britain and elsewhere are ratcheting up preparations in the event of a chaotic Brexit in March, after a transition deal agreed by Prime Minister Theresa May with Brussels was rejected by UK MPs.
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Last week the Democratic Unionist Party's leader, Arlene Foster, said avoiding a customs border which separates Northern Ireland from mainland Britain was a "blood red" line for the party, ratcheting up rhetoric on the issue.
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The two dams were budgeted to cost 46 billion shillings ($446 million), he said, but the treasury borrowed 63 billion instead, needlessly ratcheting up Kenya's ballooning public debt, which stands at around 55% of GDP.
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In the Roman Republic, the patrician populares promised their proletarian base immediate economic benefits; when they were unable to deliver, they held together their disparate coalition by ratcheting up conflicts both at home and abroad.
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" Asked if perhaps the administration has assigned officials "good cop" and "bad cop" roles, Nauert sidestepped, saying, "We've talked about our pressure campaign ... that campaign is working, it is ratcheting up the pressure every day.
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This is all the more surprising considering how rapidly the Trump administration is ratcheting up import tariffs on China and how difficult it will be for China to accede to U.S. demands without losing face.
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Still, he stuck by his previous assessment that North Korea will restart nuclear and missile testing and the United States will restart joint military drills after the Paralympics in March, ratcheting up tensions once again.
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"I really worry that someone is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation ... they have to realize that they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence," Paul said.
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The two dams were budgeted to cost 46 billion shillings ($446 million), he said, but the treasury borrowed 63 billion instead, needlessly ratcheting up Kenya's ballooning public debt, which stands at around 13% of GDP.
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Tensions between Washington and Beijing dominated the run-up to the meeting, with the Trump administration ratcheting up pressure on President Xi Jinping to rein in North Korea and threatening punitive trade measures on steel.
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In recent weeks, the Kingdom has exercised a more assertive regional foreign policy, ratcheting up its military campaign in Yemen and taking a more aggressive stance against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sixty global investors on Friday called on the oil and gas industry to do more to tackle climate change, ratcheting up pressure on company boards ahead of several high profile annual shareholder meetings.
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China has vowed that it will not play defense in the escalating trade war, ratcheting up tensions as a new list of items subject to tariffs, including technology and consumer goods was anticipated from Washington.
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C., are set to unveil new legislation ratcheting up scrutiny on Chinese investments in the United States, according to a draft of the text and talking points obtained by CNBC and verified by congressional aides.
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Part of the reason China was willing to take a harder line against North Korea was to curry favor with the U.S., but Trump has proposed tariffs on Chinese exports anyways, ratcheting up trade tensions.
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Gillespie said Trump's invoking lynching to characterize his situation also represented "an escalation of the language of defensiveness" and suggested he could continue ratcheting up the fiery rhetoric much as he had throughout his presidency.
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The mass exodus is ratcheting up tensions in countries such as Peru, Ecuador and Brazil even as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces the introduction of "a magic formula" to get his country back on track.
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The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill before the Fourth of July recess that would give Congress the power to review any easing of sanctions on Russia, ratcheting up pressure on the House to do likewise.
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Investors are trying to adjust to the ratcheting up of trade tension between the United States and China, and assess the impact of the continuing dispute on the global economy, corporate profits and consumer spending.
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Ratcheting up his criticism of Tehran, Mr. Bolton tied the attacks this month on four oil vessels at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to "naval mines almost certainly from Iran," apparently without presenting evidence.
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While the two sides continue to negotiate, Washington has begun ratcheting up pressure on China — threatening sanctions over its treatment of Muslims and ethnic minorities and now protesting the World Bank's financial support of China.
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China has suffered a loss of sales in the American market, but the Chinese government has taken an increasingly hard line, and it is not obvious that ratcheting up the tariffs would produce better results.
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China has suffered a loss of sales in the American market, but the Chinese government has taken an increasingly hard line, and it is not obvious that ratcheting up the tariffs would produce better results.
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But surely teaching children to endure boredom rather than ratcheting up the entertainment will prepare them for a more realistic future, one that doesn't raise false expectations of what work or life itself actually entails.
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The latest ratcheting up of rate-cut bets follows comments from ECB policymakers on Monday euro zone inflation remains unacceptably low and the central bank will ease policy further if necessary to boost price pressures.
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But especially with the stakes ratcheting up, I think Game of Thrones needs to return to the sense we had last season that these conflicts are about something weightier than a mere game of thrones.
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That starts with substantive disagreement on trade policy, the substitution of crude nationalism for neoconservative foreign policy, and a ratcheting up of essentially overt racism rather than an effort to reach out to people of color.
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North Korea said last year it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and has been ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations appear powerless to contain.
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India has been ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan, seeking to diplomatically isolate it at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and winning expressions of condemnation from the United States, Britain and France over the attack.
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Brussels has been ratcheting up pressure on non-member Switzerland to agree a pact that would sit atop an existing patchwork of 120 sectoral accords and have the Swiss routinely adopt changes to single market rules.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is frustrated that Turkey has not released U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, according to the White House, which is ratcheting up pressure on Ankara to free him after two years of detention.
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The S&P 500 is down around 2% since then and analysts fear the ratcheting up of trade tensions along with the new tariff will lead to trouble for a wide range of stocks they cover.
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German 10-year government bond yields were headed for their biggest weekly fall in seven weeks in a sign that a ratcheting up in U.S./China trade tensions have exacerbated concern about the global growth outlook.
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The two dams were budgeted at 46 billion shillings ($446 million) but the treasury borrowed 63 billion instead, Haji said on Monday, needlessly ratcheting up Kenya's ballooning public debt, which stands at around 55% of GDP.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy will not ratify the European Union's free trade agreement with Canada, its new agriculture minister said on Thursday, ratcheting up an international trade spat and potentially scuppering the EU's biggest accord in years.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Monsanto Co has won support from eleven U.S. states in its attempt to stop California from requiring cancer warnings on products containing glyphosate, ratcheting up a legal fight over the company's popular weed killer.
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Instead, Western nations are responding to Saudi aggression by addressing the war in Yemen, ratcheting up pressure on the Crown Prince to enter a ceasefire agreement that will put an end to the three-year conflict.
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Trump has asked for $5 billion in wall funding and is ratcheting up the pressure for Congress to allocate money for the wall, which he promised on the campaign trail would be paid for by Mexico.
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The Wall Street Journal reports: A pro- Donald Trump super PAC is ratcheting up activity, setting a fundraising goal of at least $15 million as the New York businessman moves toward clinching the Republican presidential nomination.
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North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Hokkaido in northern Japan and landed far out into the Pacific Ocean, according to Japanese and South Korean officials, further ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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MORE will introduce an amendment to the annual defense policy bill to provide a strategy for the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, the Arizona Republican said Monday, ratcheting up his criticism of the Trump administration.
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Whereas Super Meat Boy had players sprinting through on a timer, focused on ratcheting up the death count, The End is Nigh has no such timer and moves at a much slower, more puzzle-centric pace.
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And it's not just the quantities of lingerie ratcheting up at the end of the week, it's the price points: average Friday-night lingerie orders are 140% pricier than Monday-night hauls ($308 and $126, respectively).
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LONDON (Reuters) - The ratcheting up of trade tensions between the United States and China is "worrisome", the head of the OECD said on Wednesday after the two countries traded blows over $50 billion of import tariffs.
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Asian stocks slumped to 25-1/2-year lows as brief gains earlier in the session gave way to renewed pressure on oil prices and disappointing Chinese data, ratcheting up investor concerns about the global economy.
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S. tensions began ratcheting up after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of a deal last year between Iran and global powers that aimed to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
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MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration imposed financial sanctions on Nicaragua's vice president, Rosario Murillo, and a top aide on Tuesday, ratcheting up pressure on the Sandinista government to end its brutal crackdown on a popular uprising.
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Video Explainer The United States has steadily been ratcheting up the pressure on Iran, including designating the country's military as a foreign terrorist organization and setting the stage for a potential confrontation in the Persian Gulf.
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And understandable Palestinian frustration over the near impossibility of obtaining building permits in Area C does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that ratcheting up the tension with Israel in Area C will solve this issue.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise in a new interview to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections.
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She has also appeared to audition for the part by ratcheting up her attacks on Trump, providing Clinton with a glimpse of how effective she could be in the vice president's traditional role of attack dog.
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MORE will introduce an amendment to the annual defense policy bill to provide a strategy for the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, the Arizona Republican said Monday, ratcheting up his criticism of the Trump administration.
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FINANCIAL INDUSTRY SPARS WITH RETAILERS OVER DATA BREACH BILL: The financial services industry is ratcheting up its support of legislation that would set nationwide data security standards and require businesses to notify customers following a breach.
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The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies.
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Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's education agenda was defined by a ratcheting up of the stakes associated with tests for students and schools, and a strong focus on judging teachers using data gleaned from exam results.
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However, the official said that, given that the missile was believed not to have been an ICBM and that Pyongyang had not carried out a new nuclear explosion, any response would seek to avoid ratcheting up tensions.
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NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan on Friday to expect a strong response to a suicide attack that killed 203 paramilitary policemen in Kashmir, ratcheting up tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "stabbed us in the back" with a "double cross" at the G7 summit, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said Sunday, ratcheting up already sky-high tensions between the two neighboring allies.
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He was heading to Washington for two days of talks but Trump's insistence that China "broke the deal", and then Beijing's response that it would retaliate against tariffs were ratcheting up the stakes.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus is ratcheting up pressure on suppliers like United Technologies to cut costs for its Canadian-developed A220 jetliner as it expands factory facilities to cope with anticipated demand for the former Bombardier model.
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Because CPU speeds are ratcheting up at an alarming rate, it's clear that a robot like the Sub1 could keep us safe while drive and solve untold numbers of Rubik's Cubes on demand at the same time.
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The two dams were budgeted to cost 46 billion shillings ($446 million) but the treasury borrowed 63 billion instead, Haji said on Monday, needlessly ratcheting up Kenya's ballooning public debt, which stands at around 55% of GDP.
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But the official said that given that the missile was believed not to have been an ICBM and that Pyongyang had not carried out a new nuclear explosion, any response will seek to avoid ratcheting up tensions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state's crucial primary elections.
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OTTAWA/WINNIPEG (Reuters) - The U.S. dairy lobby is ratcheting up the pressure on Canada as talks to renegotiate NAFTA draw closer, demanding concessions the Canadian government looks unwilling to grant, according to people familiar with the file.
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Former Obama administration officials have likened the move to an "escalation," but it is Iran that has been ratcheting up tension over ballistic missiles and support for terrorism since the nuclear deal was reached in mid-2015.
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It helped capped a miserable night for Rubio, when he failed to win a single delegate of the four states that voted -- ratcheting up pressure to win his home state a week later or quit the race.
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It was a far cry from last year, when he'd boasted of North Korea's ability to send missiles to the US mainland, ratcheting up threats of nuclear annihilation as President Donald Trump responded in equally fiery tones.
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Modi ordered air strikes in February on the suspected camp of a militant group based in Pakistan that had claimed responsibility for a deadly car bombing in disputed Kashmir, dramatically ratcheting up tension with the neighboring nation.
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Still, everything about this project feels as if it's merely checking off boxes, including the late arrival of wrestling star John Cena as the imposing ex of Dusty's wife (Alessandra Ambrosio), ratcheting up the posturing and posing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. regulator responsible for ensuring the soundness of the country's banking sector said on Wednesday it is ratcheting up its scrutiny of risks posed to institutions by fluctuating energy prices and interest rate changes.
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Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear program have failed, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, ratcheting up the rhetoric over the death of an American student who had been detained by Pyongyang.
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Ratcheting up the difficulty makes shooting more difficult — Sniper Elite games have always taken a realistic approach to bullet physics at higher difficulties, and this is no exception — but it doesn't make your Nazi targets any smarter.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A liberal coalition on Thursday started a campaign to label socially conservative organizations that oppose transgender rights as hate groups, ratcheting up the antagonism between opposing sides on one of America's most contentious debates.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone bond yields rose sharply on Thursday as comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen overnight were viewed as ratcheting up pressure on the European Central Bank's commitment to its loose monetary policy.
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The interview style he perfected followed a pattern: feigned obliviousness, wrestlers ratcheting up the verbal or physical intensity of their actions, a whiff of frustration or bemusement, then throwing it back to the announcing table or ring.
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Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, released a new batch of their own income tax returns on Friday, ratcheting up the pressure on her opponent, Donald J. Trump, to begin making public his own forms.
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Tencent Holdings and the Alibaba Group are ratcheting up their no-holds-barred contest to dominate the ways 770 million internet users communicate, shop, get around, entertain themselves and even invest their savings and visit the doctor.
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"You can't make up for a lack of saving and compounding by ratcheting up your market risk in your 60s and 70s," said Kate Stalter, senior financial advisor at Better Money Decisions in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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The two moves are part of the Trump administration's dual-track strategy for taming the nuclear threat from North Korea — ratcheting up economic pressure on the government through sanctions while simultaneously offering a diplomatic pathway to peace.
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Early in his presidency, he enacted measures (mostly symbolic) to lighten the tax load on the wealthy and employers, while ratcheting up the burden (again symbolically) on the less well-to-do, including retirees on state pensions.
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China defends its construction as necessary for self-defense and says that it is rather Washington that is responsible for ratcheting up tensions in the region by sending warships and military plans close to islands Beijing claims.
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China defends its construction as necessary for self-defense and says it is the United States that is responsible for ratcheting up tensions in the region by sending warships and military planes close to islands Beijing claims.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of "terrorism" in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in Indian-ruled Kashmir.
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President Trump claimed Thursday the "Fake News" is pushing for a "major confrontation" with Russia, ratcheting up his defense of the summit with Vladimir Putin on the third day of damage control over their controversial joint press conference.
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The comments mark a ratcheting up in tensions between the world's two largest economies over a trade dispute, which is already impacting industries ranging from steel to cars and causing unease over which products could be targeted next.
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The response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to go ahead next week with collecting 21 percent tariffs on another $2199.2 billion of Chinese goods, ratcheting up to 25 percent in January, was unusual and unexpected on Tuesday.
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While China has for now ruled out broad monetary loosening amid a multi-year effort to combat excessive financial risks, the country's economic data showed signs of weakness even before the latest ratcheting up of trade war tensions.
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But the impact of this presidential election will also be felt as far away as the US, where the Trump administration and powerful Republicans in Congress have been ratcheting up pressure on the government of Brazil's neighbor, Venezuela.
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"We strongly urge both the Russian Federation and Ukraine to refrain from any ratcheting up of actions or rhetoric and remind both of the need to contain this incident so as to prevent a serious escalation," she said.
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Market expectations of another Fed rate hike by the end of the year soared to 90 percent this week, Spain is in political crisis, U.S.-North Korea tensions are ratcheting up, and yet ... markets don't care one jot.
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The Hong Kong dollar fell to an eight-year low against the greenback, ratcheting up concern that its central bank would have to intervene to maintain the dollar peg and tighten monetary policy to an already slowing economy.
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The administration is set to begin reimposing sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 deal next month and has been ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic that many suspect is aimed at regime change.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A jump in holdings of palladium-backed exchange-traded funds is ratcheting up pressure on a market that has seen years of deficit, threatening to push prices, already up by a third this year, higher still.
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North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - The ratcheting up of trade tensions between the United States and China is "worrisome", the head of the OECD said on Wednesday after the two countries traded blows over $50 billion of import tariffs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the genome of the Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard, discovering intriguing secrets behind the impressive speed and endurance these cold-blooded predators muster by ratcheting up their metabolism to mammal-like levels.
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Exactly what he meant by that comment is very far from clear – in many respects, NATO has found new energy since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, dramatically ratcheting up exercises and multinational deployments, particularly in Eastern Europe.
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Larry Fink said China was a top BlackRock priority after Beijing last year granted foreign asset management companies greater access to the world's second-biggest economy, even as trade tension between China and the US are ratcheting up.
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In recent months, countries including South Africa, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe have been ratcheting up their efforts to uncover tax evaders, while the Group of 7 nations have also agreed to take a tougher stance on the issue.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Bank of Italy plans to adopt investment criteria which reward companies that take action on climate change, joining other central banks, commercial banks and fund managers in ratcheting up pressure on boardrooms to go green.
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Instead, Washington might simply be left slowly ratcheting up sanctions, issuing statements about building on penalties that are already in place against the mining sector, using targeted oil sanctions, freezing foreign assets or eventually imposing an import ban.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ousted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry said on Tuesday any "insinuations" he mis-handled a dispute with Japanese telecoms firm NTT DoCoMo Inc were baseless, ratcheting up a war of words with the Tata Sons board.
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The letter's sharp tone signaled a ratcheting up of pressure on longtime Chief Executive Sally Smith one day after the company said it would increase its share repurchase plan by $300 million without giving details on the timing.
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The announcement came as the Turkish and Saudi chief prosecutors ended three days of meetings as part of a joint investigation into Mr. Khashoggi's murder without progress and Turkey seemed to be ratcheting up its pressure for answers.
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The bilateral meeting, aimed at heading off a ratcheting up of U.S. tariffs on imports of consumer and other goods from China, is likely to be the most closely watched event at the G20 summit, hosted by Japan.
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Leslie J. Ghize, the executive vice president of Tobe, a consumer culture and creative think tank, believes this ratcheting up of fidgety, tactile design serves as a reality check or antidote to the fakeness of the virtual realm.
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After ratcheting up tariffs on $550 billion of Chinese imports on Friday and "ordering" U.S. companies to start looking for alternatives to China, Trump and White House officials sent conflicting signals from the G7 meeting over the weekend.
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Trump said Thursday that another $16 billion of tariffs are expected to go into effect in two weeks, before ratcheting up the stakes to warn that measures totaling $500 billion in Chinese goods could soon come into force.
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And the expertise needed not only on technologies but on such matters as capital flows, market dynamics and business practices is rapidly ratcheting up, and must be accommodated if decisions are to be both well informed and timely.
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The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China's top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities and ratcheting up tensions ahead of high-level trade talks in Washington this week.
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The measure represents a major escalation of pressure against the Kremlin, because it singles out a number of key stakeholders as a way of ratcheting up the costs to Russia's leadership of their country's increasingly hostile international behavior.
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"China is stepping into the void left by the U.S., and it's ratcheting up its efforts to write trade deals with other countries," says Kim Catechis, head of global emerging markets for Edinburgh-based investment firm Martin Currie.
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"The policy of strategic patience has ended," Mr. Tillerson said, a reference to the term used by the Obama administration to describe a policy of waiting out the North Koreans, while gradually ratcheting up sanctions and covert action.
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Trump under pressure Two weeks after Attorney General William Barr issued a four-page summary declaring that the much-longer, still-unseen Mueller report largely exonerated the President, Congress is ratcheting up the pressure to see for itself.
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Given the rather far-fetched premise of this tale of mutual sexual obsession, the authors do a neat job of ratcheting up the suspense when Jessica begins going out on assignments to pick up married men in bars.
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Alarmed by the dominance of U.S. and Chinese tech companies such as Google, Amazon or Huawei, the EU is leaving behind the "laissez-faire" attitude of the early 2000s and ratcheting up regulatory pressure to protect its businesses.
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"As we're learning more about the horrific conditions in the Trump-era detention centers, things are ratcheting up, and people are looking for more ways to express that frustration," said Shannon Coulter, a founder of the #GrabYourWallet campaign.
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The note anticipated that a ratcheting up of the trade war between the world's two largest economies, along with the burgeoning tensions between the U.S. and its neighbors to the south, is likely to take its toll on growth.
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Traders said Trump remarks offered support to appetite for risky assets such as stocks, although caution remained high after Beijing retaliated on Tuesday with its own tariffs on U.S. goods, ratcheting up the tensions between the world's top economies.
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The paradox Trump faces is that if he is forced to go it alone and continue ratcheting up tensions with Iran, he risks sparking a war and breaking a campaign promise by sending more troops to the Middle East.
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The effort was revealed two days after North Korea tested a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska, ratcheting up tensions with the United States and adding to worries about North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's nuclear weapons plans.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday the world would stand together against North Korea after the country fired a missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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Faced with the possible collapse of the Afghan Army and police in Helmand, the Pentagon began ratcheting up the role of American Special Operations forces there last autumn, stepping up air attacks and putting more advisers on the ground.
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The bilateral meeting, aimed at heading off a ratcheting up of U.S. tariffs on imports of consumer and other goods from China, is likely to be the most closely watched event at the G-20 summit, hosted by Japan.
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In Matus' view, the Fed's intransigence will ultimately result in inflation increasing to a level beyond which central bankers are comfortable, forcing them to raise rates and cool off the economy to prevent prices from ratcheting up too high.
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SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - China's central bank launched spot checks on leading bitcoin exchanges in Beijing and Shanghai, ratcheting up pressure on potential capital outflows and knocking the price of the cryptocurrency down more than 12 percent against the dollar.
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Gold prices rose on Friday, heading towards their first monthly gain since January on increased safe-haven demand, after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to levy tariffs on all Mexican imports, ratcheting up concerns of a global economic slowdown.
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Despite the restricted number of elements, not all of the brands on the large paintings were immediately apparent due to Simon's crops and color changes — evidence that he was ratcheting-up the level of abstraction as the series evolved.
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In their struggle to cool red-hot property prices in Australia's big cities, authorities are ratcheting up measures that could dent the whole market but avoiding more targeted steps that have had some success in New Zealand and China.
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The U.S. has led a host of nations in recognizing national assembly leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Maduro to step aside amid an ongoing humanitarian and economic crisis in the country.
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China's increasing military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead to a Beijing-controlled air defense zone, they said, ratcheting up tensions with other claimants and with the United States in one of the world's most volatile areas.
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The forthcoming measures are widely expected to create an oversupply of high-sulfur fuel oil while sparking demand for IMO-compliant products — thus ratcheting up the pressure on the refining industry to produce substantially more of the latter fuels.
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The effort was revealed two days after North Korea tested a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska, ratcheting up tensions with the United States and adding to worries about North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons plans.
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Colleges know that many prospective applicants equate a lower acceptance rate with a more coveted, special and brag-worthy experience, and these colleges endeavor to bring their rates down by ratcheting up the number of young people who apply.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese officials have been mostly measured and moderate in their response to U.S. President Donald Trump's ratcheting up of a trade war with Beijing in recent weeks through his announcement of a series of punitive tariffs.
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Ratcheting up the pressure on Democrats to unite behind a single stop-Sanders candidate, an influential donor for Mr. Biden circulated an email to his political network calling for some rivals to the former vice president to drop out.
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Warren is ratcheting up her rhetoric against Trump and the violence at his rallies as the controversial GOP front-runner looks to lock up more delegates in five states on Tuesday, following scuffles at an event over the weekend.
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North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
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The central scenario at our latest review in July was for a ratcheting-up of tensions between the central government and the Catalonia regional government following a Spanish constitutional court declaration that the planned referendum in Catalonia was illegal.
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MOSCOW — Ratcheting up pressure on Belarus to join it in a "union state," Russia rejected pleas from its increasingly balky ally on Friday to provide it with cut-rate oil supplies, insisting that it could not provide any discount.
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MANILA — A day after the United Nations Security Council passed its toughest sanctions against North Korea, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson met with his South Korean and Chinese counterparts here in hopes of ratcheting up pressure on Pyongyang.
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North Korea conducted the nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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Before Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, announced that he was jetting in to cast what is expected to be a vote in favor of starting debate, President Trump spent Monday ratcheting up pressure on Republican senators to get onboard.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ordering the country's largest e-cigarette manufacturers to turn over information related to their marketing and promotional practices, ratcheting up pressure on an industry that's already under intense scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators.
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"My own guess is this is just a negotiating tactic from the White House aimed at ratcheting up the pressure on China and giving a tangible show of U.S. leverage ahead of the upcoming meeting in October," he said.
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Senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, will visit Mexico on Wednesday and meet President Enrique Pena Nieto, the Mexican foreign ministry said, after a ratcheting up of tensions over trade and plans for a border wall.
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There's a similar story in transportation: Since 2011, the federal government has been steadily ratcheting up fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks, although the Trump administration has proposed to halt the toughening of those standards after 2021.
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Such an escalation would raise prices for companies and consumers on products imported from China and could incite additional retaliation from China, further ratcheting up a trade war that has already begun to inflict economic damage in both countries.
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It is ratcheting up welfare handouts and pressure on state workers, has skilfully fomented divisions within the opposition, barred Maduro's two main rivals from standing, brazenly uses state resources in its campaigns, and benefits from a compliant election board.
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Beijing has been ratcheting up pressure on the island it claims as its own territory by poaching its diplomatic partners and barring its representatives from international gatherings, while staging threatening military exercises and limiting the numbers of Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan.
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Catalans came out onto the streets on Tuesday to condemn the police action, shutting down road traffic, public transport and businesses, and ratcheting up fears of intensifying unrest in a region that makes up one-fifth of the Spanish economy.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on the EU in a 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A U.S. court case against a wealthy Turkish gold trader is a "clear plot against Turkey" that lacks any legal basis, Ankara's government spokesman said on Monday, ratcheting up rhetoric ahead of a trial that has strained diplomatic relations.
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North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies sued the U.S. government on Thursday, saying a law limiting its American business was unconstitutional, ratcheting up its fight back against a government bent on closing it out of global markets.
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But the official said that, given that the missile test was believed not to have been a threatened intercontinental missile test and that Pyongyang had not carried out a new nuclear explosion, any response will seek to avoid ratcheting up tensions.
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Trump has accused Sanders several times in the last week of selling out by endorsing Clinton -- each time ratcheting up his words -- but his comment on Monday is the most direct comparison Trump has made between Clinton and the devil.
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South Korea's is far from the only government ratcheting up the minimum wage, but the others that have opted for such big increases have typically been those of wealthy cities or regions in rich countries, such as Seattle and Alberta.
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The speed with which the trade spat between Washington and Beijing is ratcheting up – the Chinese government took less than 11 hours to respond with its own measures – led to a sharp sell-off in global stock markets and commodities.
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Asian equity markets dropped to a six-month low on Monday while gold prices climbed as investors sought safe-haven assets because of the ratcheting up of the trade dispute between China and the United States, the world's two largest economies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States told some large foreign firms this week they should stop trading jet fuel with Venezuela or face sanctions, according to two industry sources, ratcheting up pressure intended at removing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power.
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From day one, American businesses have viewed a trade war as a significant step back for the economy, with the result being a stock market rollercoaster ride and urgent pleas for President Trump to abandon his focus on ratcheting up tariffs.
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The U.N. security Council imposed a ban on North Korea textile exports and a ceiling on the country's imports of crude oil on Monday, ratcheting up sanctions designed to pressure North Korea into talks about its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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North Korea said last year it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and has been ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations appear powerless to contain despite successive rounds of sanctions.
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Plans to rejuvenate the comparatively poor hinterland and narrow a divide with prosperous coastal regions have mushroomed under President Xi Jinping, who is ratcheting up pressure on local officials to find equitable, cleaner and more sustainable drivers for China's slowing economy.
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Amidst a sea of smooth-skinned men in tank tops that look just like him, you can see his panic starting to build, ratcheting up from a 4 to a 10 when he's called in to audition immediately upon arrival.
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In an effort to avoid ratcheting up tensions, the USMNT's supporter group the American Outlaws has decided to remove a panel of their pre-match display, known as a "tifo," in order to make sure no one will be offended.
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After a ratcheting up of protectionist rhetoric between the U.S. and China, 38 percent of investors said they saw the threat of a trade war as the biggest risk, well ahead of concerns about central banks, market structure or inflation.
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In an environment where data is the new oil and Jeff Bezos is seen (by some) as the next John D. Rockefeller, the pressure in Washington (and Brussels and Beijing) will keep ratcheting up, said Bruce Mehlman, a prominent tech lobbyist.
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KIEV/CHISINAU (Reuters) - The powerful head of Moldova's ruling party Vlad Plahotniuc on Thursday accused Russian authorities of harassing him and other officials with dozens of bogus legal cases, ratcheting up a long-running diplomatic row between the two countries.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COMMENTARY Paul Wallace: Britain's gravest economic challenge isn't Brexit John Lloyd: Why social democrats have become irrelevant But forcing Hariri to resign and ratcheting up tensions with Iran over Yemen has backfired on the prince and his advisers.
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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday the world would stand together against North Korea after the country fired a missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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Tensions rise North Korea and the Trump administration have exchanged a barrage of verbal volleys for months, ratcheting up the tension on the Korean peninsula and around the world as the rogue regime in Pyongyang openly threatens the United States.
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear program have failed, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, ratcheting up the rhetoric over the death of an American student who had been detained by Pyongyang.
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ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad, has taken responsibility for the deadliest attack on security forces in Indian Kashmir in 30 years of insurgency, ratcheting up tension between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.
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He appears to want Congress to pass new deal-breaking terms that Iran will never accept, leverage the Europeans into joining, and force Iran through sanctioning the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and ratcheting up the pressure to accept a new accord.
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The new fees are being introduced just as Ryanair plans to move into Lufthansa's home hub of Frankfurt, stepping up its push into bigger airports and ratcheting up pressure on the German carrier, which is expanding its own budget flights.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-run Congress declared President Nicolas Maduro a "usurper" on Tuesday, and the U.S. government indicated its support for an opposition leader, ratcheting up pressure on the socialist president as he embarks on a disputed second term.
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In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea "very easily if they want to," ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to exert more influence to rein in Pyongyang's increasingly bellicose actions.
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Although President Obama is gradually ratcheting up the battle against the Islamic State, he has refused to involve the United States in a military fight with Mr. Assad, and is expected to maintain that policy until his successor takes office.
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Global shares have been shaken in recent days by a ratcheting up of the U.S.-China trade conflict, with the Communist Party's People's Daily on Friday using a front page commentary to say the trade war would never bring China down.
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Those assertions came in response to questions about whether the business was permanently crippled by regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crisis, ratcheting up capital requirements and putting restrictions on banks' ability to place big bets with their own capital.
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Mounting signs of an economic slowdown and a ratcheting up of the U.S.-China trade war have caused global oil demand to grow at its slowest pace since the financial crisis of 2008, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
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Google's Cloud business revamped its sales team's compensation, ratcheting up the incentives — and the pressure — to maximize sales, as CEO Thomas Kurian ripped a page out of a playbook long favored at sales-driven software companies like Oracle and SAP.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. oil refiners, beset by the weakest profit margins in six years, have been laying off workers, revamping operations and ratcheting up pressure on regulators and lawmakers to tweak the renewable fuel program, whose costs have ballooned.
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American officials assume, with good reason, that Mr. Erdogan is ratcheting up his criticism to press Washington to comply with his demand that Mr. Gulen, a former ally who broke with him a few years ago, be extradited to Turkey.
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The White House on Monday labeled Bob Woodward "reckless" and "careless" after some administration officials refuted claims attributed to them in his new book "Fear: Trump in the White House," ratcheting up its war of words with the Watergate reporter.
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The dollar initially dipped after North Korea fired a missile early on Friday that flew over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido far over into the Pacific Ocean, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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And when we didn't respond, they kept ratcheting up their wretched behavior to the point where Trump thinks he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and Putin thinks he could poison a wayward spy in London, and get away with it.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Yemen's Houthi rebels carried out multiple drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities on Tuesday, a day after Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers had been damaged in an act of sabotage, ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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He says the president is likely to deliver a "serious and disciplined speech" because Trump thinks the US has real things to gain from rallying support for his own initiatives before that audience, like ratcheting up pressure on North Korea.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 30-day ban on foreign visitors from most of Europe in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus — ratcheting up his administration's response after battling criticism for previously downplaying the crisis.
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Now, amid an escalating trade war, tensions are ratcheting up: • Conflict with China is intensifying amid unresolved concerns about American leadership and overreach that built up during the era of globalization, and in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other distant battlefields.
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LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Publication of Libor interest rates that have become unreliable would be allowed for months but not years to ensure an orderly cessation, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has said, ratcheting up pressure to ditch the tarnished benchmark.
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"We're here together because we think it's important to send a very clear message that we are going to respond to North Korean aggression by further ratcheting up economic pressure so that we can have a serious negotiation," Van Hollen said.
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A group that opposes affirmative action filed an appeal Tuesday of a federal ruling that Harvard had not intentionally discriminated against Asian-American applicants, ratcheting up a challenge to decades of Supreme Court decisions upholding race-conscious selection in college admissions.
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President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on Democrats to support a sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax code following his surprise deal with the party's leaders to raise the debt ceiling, fund the government and fast-track hurricane relief.
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North Korea on Friday conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - In their struggle to cool red-hot property prices in Australia's big cities, authorities are ratcheting up measures that could dent the whole market but avoiding more targeted steps that have had some success in New Zealand and China.
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He said China would probably retaliate by weighing whether the actions were in line with World Trade Organization rules before slowly ratcheting up pressure on U.S. businesses, for example by buying from a European company such as Airbus instead of Boeing.
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And last month, Trump used his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York to hammer Iran over its support for terrorism and aggression against US allies in the Middle East, ratcheting up the tensions between the two countries.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Mounting signs of an economic slowdown and a ratcheting up of the U.S.-China trade war have caused global oil demand to grow at its slowest pace since the financial crisis of 2000, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
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Trump reacted to China's imposition of new tariffs on $75 billion in annual imports from the United States by ratcheting up his own tariffs to 30% on $250 billion of Chinese goods, and to 15% on the remaining $300 billion in annual imports.
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The Democratic National Committee announced on Friday that the sixth Democratic primary debate would be held in December at the University of California, Los Angeles, while ratcheting up the polling and donor criteria for candidates to qualify for a coveted spot onstage.
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The two dams were budgeted to cost 46 billion shillings ($446 million), but the treasury borrowed 63 billion instead, Noordin Haji, the director of public prosecutions, said on Monday, needlessly ratcheting up Kenya's ballooning public debt, which stands at around 55% of GDP.
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Beyond its humorous and often accurate portrayal of high school crushing-out life, "Pretty in Pink's" soundtrack made Rolling Stone's "The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time" with Hughes' nicely-curated new wave picks ratcheting up all of the emo taking place on screen.
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China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea, Taiwan and U.S. officials said, ratcheting up tensions even as U.S. President Barack Obama urged restraint in the region.
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This ratcheting up of tensions between China and the self-governed, democratic island opens up another fault line for Washington in its dealings with Beijing, with the Trump administration already at odds with China over trade, North Korea and the South China Sea.
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Regulators have sought to limit risky lending in the $624.33 billion leveraged loan market, which provides financing to companies to back acquisitions including JAB Holding Co's purchase of single-serve coffee maker Keurig Green Mountain, by ratcheting up the scrutiny of banks' underwriting.
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BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Commission launched a legal case on Tuesday against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for refusing to take in asylum seekers, ratcheting up a bitter feud within the 28-nation bloc about how to deal with migration.
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Senators have been jockeying over DACA for months, with the fight ratcheting up this month as several House Democrats and a growing number of progressive senators warn they will not support a government funding bill without a deal on the program. Sen.
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The main problem with the "Let's try solving this" strain of TV's true-crime wave is that it tends to breed hyperbole and bad habits, ratcheting up pressure to deliver some kind of conclusion, while teasing out and hyperventilating over relatively small details.
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The summit also brings together Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a time when Washington is ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to rein in North Korea after it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile and threatening the Chinese with punitive trade measures.
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These include high-costs of developing new projects given their remoteness, the workforce is skilled but pricey with some of the highest wages in the industry, compliance costs are high and there has been a small ratcheting up of the political risk.
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The market has fluttered — and recovered — every time there has been some kind of ratcheting up in tensions between North Korea and the U.S. And the market reacts to the Fed's handling of its own balance sheet reduction and decisions on rate hikes.
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"Sovereign debt and increased focus on oligarchs are two areas that seem to have broad support for us to look at further ratcheting up our responses," Republican Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said during a hearing.
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China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea, Taiwan and US officials said today, ratcheting up tensions even as US President Barack Obama urged restraint in the region.
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. bid to block China's Huawei Technologies from buying vital American technology threw into question prospects for sales at some of the largest tech companies and drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, further ratcheting up tensions over trade.
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White House advisers warned that additional trade measures related to steel, aluminum and other products from China could be coming, a signal that Mr. Trump is ratcheting up the protectionist policies he has long espoused as part of his "America First" approach.
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Two scene changes in the first act slow the proceedings just when the tension should be ratcheting up, notwithstanding the presence of an A-list design team in Christopher Oram (sets and costumes) and Neil Austin (lighting), both of whom are Tony winners.
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Ratcheting up an investigation that has been criticized by news organizations and press-freedom groups, the San Francisco Police Department said a freelance journalist who had obtained a leaked police report was a suspected "co-conspirator" in the purported "theft" of the document.
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Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that ratcheting up tariffs to 25 percent would put substantial pressure on Chinese leaders to devalue their currency even more, to help offset any further losses to exporters.
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When Donald Trump was ratcheting up his next-level attack on the press last January — threatening legal action to stop publication of Michael Wolff's fly-on-the-wall White House book "Fire and Fury" — I was chasing presidential payments to a porn star.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape said on Monday he will accept debt assistance from any country that offers the best terms, ratcheting up pressure on Australia to offer a sweetened deal to protect its standing in the region.
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The Chinese government broke its promise to stop hacking U.S. businesses and stealing their trade secrets, the Trump administration declared Thursday, ratcheting up tensions between two of the world's cyber superpowers and adding fuel to a trade war that has spooked global markets.
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Ratcheting up sanctions, obtaining unfettered United Nations authority to interdict suspect cargo going in or out of the North, increasing Pyongyang's political isolation and seeding information into the North that can increase regime fragility are all important elements of a pressure campaign.
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"This would be another step in ratcheting up the pressure," said Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute who said he raised the concept of investment restrictions with the White House after negotiations with China broke down in the spring.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Millions of hens may need to be culled in the Netherlands after traces of a potentially harmful insecticide were found in eggs, a Dutch farming group said, ratcheting up the strain on a sector still reeling from a bird flu outbreak.
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President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, ratcheting up tensions between the US and Iran, but in the aftermath, the US has struggled to explain and justify why it had the infamous commander was killed.
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The opinion piece in the Washington Post both participates in and highlights a trend of recent years: There is a ratcheting up of tensions between versions of stories about subjects like US activities in the name of national security, peacekeeping, and border management.
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On Monday the Russian government said it would be forced "to take measures" if the United States began developing new missile systems, ratcheting up the rhetoric after US President Donald Trump said he would ditch a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty.
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BEIJING — The Chinese government is ratcheting up pressure on South Korea over its plans to deploy an American missile defense system, with the state-controlled news media urging the public to boycott South Korean retail products and threatening diplomatic and even military repercussions.
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Moscow (CNN)The Russian government has said it would be forced "to take measures" if the United States began developing new missile systems, ratcheting up the rhetoric after US President Donald Trump said he would ditch a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty.
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It is not giving away too much to reveal that after ratcheting up the tension, Fridlund does not take readers to the sunless place many might guess — a warren of child pornographers deep in the woods, an inconvenient hole in the ice.
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WASHINGTON — The United States imposed sanctions on five Russian individuals on Wednesday, including the leader of the Republic of Chechnya, for alleged human rights abuses and involvement in criminal conspiracies, a sign that the Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on Russia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rip up her plan for Britain's departure from the European Union, ratcheting up pressure on May as she prepares to face her divided party at its annual conference next week.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff increase to 0.6 percent on $24 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, and Beijing said it would strike back, ratcheting up tensions as the two sides pursue last-ditch talks to try salvaging a trade deal.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff increase to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, and Beijing said it would strike back, ratcheting up tensions as the two sides pursue last-ditch talks to try salvaging a trade deal.
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The attack in the Syrian town of Douma on Saturday, which witnesses and medical workers said used chemical weapons, has resonated far beyond the war-scarred community's destroyed buildings, ratcheting up tensions among world powers and threatening to escalate Syria's multi-sided civil war.
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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A security guard outside a branch of one Iraq's most powerful paramilitary groups shot and killed a protester on Friday while trying to push back a crowd, police sources said, ratcheting up tensions over a lack of basic services sweeping southern cities.
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The government stoked the fires of Kurdish grievances, and the PKK returned the favor in-kind -- ratcheting up its terror attacks on the Turkish state, mainly against security institutions like the police, which have increased in number and frequency over the past five years.
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Everyone in the mobile space already knew everything I just outlined above — they were wise to Intel's tricks, and they knew that the minute they adopted a hypothetical low-power x863 CPU then Intel would use ISA lock-in to start ratcheting up its margins.
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The isolated state on Friday set off its most powerful nuclear explosion to date, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo has been ratcheting up a conflict between the government and one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's most powerful institutions, as the church increasingly becomes a focal point for opposition to Kabila's efforts to stay in power with no mandate.
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Asked about calls from the United States, Japan and others for China to put more pressure on North Korea, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said it was not China ratcheting up tension and the key to a resolution did not lie with Beijing.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Arkansas regulatory body voted on Wednesday to bar the use of a weed killer critical to Monsanto Co's seed sales for a second consecutive summer, ratcheting up a standoff after the company sued the state to prevent restrictions on the product.
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North Korea set off its most powerful nuclear blast to date on Friday, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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He is still scheduled to join Xi, the Chinese President, for a working dinner on Saturday to hash out a possible ceasefire to the trade war that has roiled their countries and threatens to wreak havoc on the global economy if the ratcheting-up persists.
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Raising the stakes, a mystery group calling itself ShadowBrokers has taken credit for leaking cyber-spying tools that are now being turned to criminal use, including ones used in the recent WannaCry global ransomware attack, ratcheting up cyber security threats to a whole new level.
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North Korea set off its most powerful nuclear blast to date this month, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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When asked where to buy, given ratcheting up trade tensions and a potential resolution of the Italian political crisis, Gartside said that following a "brutal May" for bonds denominated in local currencies, these beaten-down EM assets could be a place for investors to look.
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LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rip up her Brexit proposals, ratcheting up the pressure on May as she prepares to face her divided party at its annual conference in two days time.
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In 2000, tiring of the scene's limited playlist, modern ballroom pioneer Vjuan Allure sampled that "ha" in a remix specifically tailored to battles called "The Allure Ha." Vjuan's new of ballroom dispelled with traditional verse-verse-break song structure, ratcheting up the drama instead.
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But that approach is once again creating fissures within Mr. Trump's own team, with his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, adamantly opposed to ratcheting up the tariffs and Peter Navarro, a key trade adviser, advocating the higher duties, people with knowledge of the discussions said.
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Beijing began ratcheting up pressure on Ms. Tsai's government shortly after her inauguration speech in May 2016, in which she declined to yield to Chinese pressure to recognize both sides as part of one China, with each having its own interpretation of what that means.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving swiftly to ensure that China is keeping its promises to protect American intellectual property, ratcheting up searches for counterfeit goods at ports and increasing pressure on e-commerce companies like Amazon to halt online sales of Chinese knockoffs.
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WASHINGTON — A sharply divided House voted on Thursday to force President Trump to come to Congress for authorization before taking further military action against Iran, in a sharp response to his ratcheting up of hostilities with Tehran without the explicit approval of the legislative branch.
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The filing signals a ratcheting-up in the size of the corporate targets of activist investors, who through behind-the-scenes cajoling or sometimes high-profile public proxy wars try to force companies to change their strategies with an eye toward profits for themselves.
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Ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Huawei and its affiliates, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today that it has brought 16 charges against Huawei in a sprawling case with major geopolitical implications (you can read the full 56-page indictment here).
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In Korea for sure, and apparently in Syria, the continuing pursuit of whatever goal Washington is seeking and ratcheting up global tensions without showing any sings so far of benefitting the U.S. For example, as regards North Korea the administration supposedly has a clear goal.
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Instead, the president wants Congress to increase security along the border by ratcheting up patrols, surveillance and fencing, in return for relief for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients in an immigration deal that could be tied to the 2628 spending bill.
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The Chinese authorities on Monday accused both men of espionage, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries, just days before a Canadian court is set to begin hearing whether Ms. Meng should be extradited to the U.S., where she is wanted on fraud charges.
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Neoconservative thinkers and politicians such as John McCain and Marco Rubio favor a coercive approach to North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, confrontation with leftist regimes in Latin America, and a ratcheting up of American involvement in proxy conflicts with Russia in former Soviet republics.
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China is strategically buying up key technologies in Germany while protecting its own companies against foreign takeovers with "discriminatory requirements", German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Saturday, ratcheting up his rhetoric against Chinese acquisitions of German companies ahead of a trip to China this week.
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WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff increase to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the United States and China as they pursue last-ditch talks to try to salvage a trade deal.
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In part, it seems the pressure on rebels is ratcheting up because the longer the talks go on and keep stalling as they have this year, and previous years, the more it becomes clear the United States has little leverage over Russia, and even less over Assad.
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Slumping industry demand in China, the world's largest auto market, and an escalating price war in the lucrative U.S. pickup truck segment are ratcheting up the pressure on GM. Other automakers, including U.S. rival Ford Motor Co and Germany's Daimler AG, offered disappointing forecasts last week.
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When it was announced that a carrier strike group headed by the USS Carl Vinson was being deployed to the Korean Peninsula, it was seen as a ratcheting up of tensions with North Korea, which was reported to be on the verge of a nuclear test.
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While some calm has returned to world markets after a ratcheting-up in U.S.-China trade tensions over the past week, fixed income markets continue to benefit from the expectation that a bitter trade war raises global recession risks and strengthens the case for monetary policy easing.
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That's why the image of him in the doctored video body slamming and repeatedly punching a person in the face who represents a media outlet he has been railing against is so dangerous -- particularly as he has been methodically ratcheting up his attacks on the press.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday vowed the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan, extending the 16-year campaign there with a promise to beef up the American military presence while ratcheting up pressure on other countries in the region to help turn the tide.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution condemning Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump who has aligned himself with the Saudi kingdom in the aftermath of the brutal killing.
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"It should not happen a third time without Kim understanding that -- while diplomacy might continue -- there will be consequences in terms of a ratcheting up of the maximum pressure campaign, and certainly no prospect of another summit with President Trump," Hannah said about Pompeo's upcoming trip.
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The Chinese authorities on Monday accused both men of espionage, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries, just days before a Canadian court is set to begin a hearing on whether Ms. Meng should be extradited to the U.S., where she is wanted on fraud charges.
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The GOP has been ratcheting up pressure on Democrats to hold public hearings, formally vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry — as has been done in the past — and release the transcripts of their closed-door briefings, accusing Democrats of trying to shroud their impeachment investigation in secrecy.
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But with Mr. Trump expected to formally outline his 2018 budget priorities for the first time on Thursday and an April 28 deadline looming to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year, the stakes of failing to reach an agreement are ratcheting up higher.
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"If the Fed is basically holding serve and you have a dynamic where if we can get a trade deal done and you have the cyclicality, this does not mean runaway global PMIs, it doesn't mean that, necessarily, you get industrial production ratcheting up," he said.
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The requirements of the genre dictate that Rough Night must continue ratcheting up its characters' bad decision-making and hysteria as the film progresses, but Aniello and her co-writer Paul Downs (also of Broad City) keep the mania grounded in the subtleties of the group dynamic.
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WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and three allies chastised China for economic espionage on Thursday, ratcheting up tensions as U.S. prosecutors indicted two Chinese nationals linked to a spy agency on charges of stealing confidential data from American government agencies and businesses around the world.
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Chinese officials also confirmed last weekend that they had launched a separate investigation into whether American exports of sorghum were receiving government subsidies or being sold at unfairly low prices abroad — a measure widely interpreted as a response to the Trump administration's ratcheting up of trade barriers.
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It's hard to argue that the debates would be significantly different without Trump—they'd still mostly be about ISIS and immigration and the economy—but Trump has provided the fireworks and the curveballs, ratcheting up the rhetoric and forcing the debates themselves to be tests of his candidacy.
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According to estimates from advertising tracking firm MediaRadar, the retail site cut out virtually all TV spending in the months following its sale to Walmart in August, while ratcheting up its online ad budget by a whopping 250 times what it spent in the same period the year before.
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Flanagan has made a habit of directing female protagonists in small spaces (Oculus and Hush both feature female protagonists confined to a single location, for example), and the parameters of Gerald's Game allow him to do what he does best — explore his female characters while ratcheting up tension.
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But Modi who is heading a Hindu nationalist-led government has taken a consistently strong position on national security, launching air strikes last month on a suspected militant camp in Pakistan that led to retaliatory raids by Pakistan in a dramatic ratcheting up of tensions between the nuclear-rivals.
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Fox News hosts and conservatives have seized on the messages and are ratcheting up their efforts to discredit Mueller's investigation as he begins to reach into the president's inner circle in his investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
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The resolution, which was spearheaded by House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, is the latest step by conservatives who have been ratcheting up the pressure on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to comply with congressional demands related to the FBI's Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations.
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"As the one year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA fast approaches, Washington is ratcheting up the pressure on Iran through diplomatic, economic, and now even military means," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Hill on Monday.
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But Democrats are warning that the White House, which stayed out of the fray during much of these talks, is ratcheting up demands, insisting on including border wall money in exchange for continuing to pay insurance companies subsidies to bolster the Obamacare marketplace, which they say is a nonstarter.
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The White House published a video on Wednesday of families who have been "permanently separated" because a loved one was killed by an immigrant in the country illegally, ratcheting up GOP efforts to tie the death of an Iowa college student to the need for stricter immigration laws.
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Geopolitical jitters added to the sour mix after North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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The chef loves artichokes, too, but also knows that with such a popular item, there will be cases and cases to be peeled and pared down, which will mean a ratcheting up of the labor hours and a swelling of the compost bags from all those trimmed, unusable leaves.
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Ratcheting up the pressure in a bitter battle between New York City and the state over health care costs, the city's public hospital system is planning on suing New York State officials over a payment of some $380 million in federal funding it says the state is unlawfully withholding.
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The moves come as the White House has been ratcheting up pressure on North Korea following a fiery exchange between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim earlier this year, in which Mr. Trump declared on Twitter that America's nuclear arsenal is "much bigger" and more powerful than Mr. Kim's.
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The Europeans and Iranians, who say they will continue adhering to the deal, hope to manage the fallout, but despite his assurance that he is "ready, willing and able" to negotiate a new agreement, Mr. Trump has no obvious plan B, except ratcheting up the pressure on Iran.
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Elsewhere … "Really feels like the White House is flailing these past few days, in no small part because they've managed to open a two front war in DC by ratcheting up the impeachment resistance and making major unpopular foreign policy choices," Matt Glassman of Georgetown's Government Affairs Institute wrote.
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In an era of "flight shaming" and increased public awareness over climate change, the organizers of next week's event are ratcheting up efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the conference, which draws politicians and CEOs to the Swiss Alps for panel discussions, closed-door meetings and parties.
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Oil prices jumped on Friday, and stocks fell, on news that a powerful Iranian military leader had been killed in a strike authorized by the United States, ratcheting up geopolitical tensions in a region that supplies around 25 percent of the world's oil and threatening to disrupt global supply.
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The LGBT legal advocacy group Lambda Legal is opening a new Washington office in an expansion aimed at ratcheting up a fight against the Trump administration for which the group is planning to raise an additional $25 million over the next four years, on top of its existing budget.
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A White House transcript of a July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky reveals Trump's efforts to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, further ratcheting up talk among Democrats to conduct an impeachment investigation.
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Greenblatt's conclusion was that a 40 percent cut below 23 levels looked doable, but it would take major changes across a wide variety of different sectors, from boosting clean electricity to ratcheting up building efficiency to managing pastures better to reducing car travel to cutting the HFCs in air conditioners.
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By the end of the weekend, techies were ratcheting up the volume by the hour with increasingly more emotional, moral-high-ground statements, as well as offers of gobs of money (Google, Lyft, Uber and high-profile techies like Chris Sacca and Tony Faddell), food (DoorDash) and even homes (Airbnb).
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The auteur knows how to build anticipation as well as any horror helmer, and he takes the time to establish the contentious rhythm between Elio and Oliver over the early weeks of the latter's visit, ratcheting up the sexual tension until their eventual union feels as explosive as it does inevitable.
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Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the Crisis Group think-tank, and other regional sources said that if Iran was responsible, it was clearly trying to show it could threaten global oil supply with a view to deterring the U.S. and its allies from further ratcheting up the pressure.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats, eager to sink the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, are ratcheting up demands for a mountain of documents about his time working in George W. Bush's White House, a sign that the high-stakes battle is quickly devolving into a process fight.
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Those waiting periods push women further and further into their pregnancy, ratcheting up the price so that it reaches between $218 and $1,100 between 12 and 18 weeks and upwards of $4,000 up to 103 weeks since the last menstrual period, according to Fatimah Gifford, marketing manager of Whole Woman's Health.
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North Korea's nuclear arsenal has reached another milestone—in this case it looks like its achieved the ability to strike inside the US, according to a US intelligence report obtained by the Washington Post—so President Donald Trump is adding his own unique flavor to the customary ratcheting up of tensions.
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The rules require buyers of political ads to identify who is paying for them after criticism of Facebook's role in the U.S. presidential election in 2016.. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, had assured Congress that his company was ratcheting up its efforts to root out interference ahead of November's election.
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BEIJING — Some of China's largest companies may pose a systemic risk to the country's banks, a senior banking official said on Thursday, in the latest signal that Beijing is ratcheting up scrutiny of a financial system plagued with hidden debt that poses a hazard to the health of the economy.
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Off hand, those include legal quibbles about Justice Harry Blackmun's original opinion, the role conservative media has played in ratcheting up the rhetoric in the context of incidents like the 2009 murder of Dr. George Tiller, and examples of hypocrisy on the part of certain politicians featured, among them Missouri Gov.
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"Downhill" replicates many of the touches that made "Force Majeure" so powerful, alternating between long, static images of chilly snowscapes with more intimate scenes of heated psychodrama, and ratcheting up that tension with occasional, gunshot-like explosions in the distance that accompany the release of pressure on the slopes by avalanche management equipment.
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China added fuel to the fire of the increasingly rancorous trade war with the United States with a defiant front-page commentary on the Communist Party's People's Daily, ratcheting up tensions the day after U.S. President Donald Trump officially blacklisted Chinese telecom Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from doing business with U.S. companies.
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MAX BOOT, CNN ANALYST: A lot of the reason we were on the brink of nuclear war, I mean, part of it to be sure was because of the North Korean nuclear tests and their missile tests but also because of the reckless and irresponsible rhetoric from Donald Trump ratcheting up tensions.
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But the economics of using an electric car for urban and suburban ride sharing are better, and sales to ride-sharing services could help GM meet electric car sales mandates that will be ratcheting up over the next several years in California and other states seeking to crack down on greenhouse gas pollution.
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The request for documents is an indication the New York Department of Financial Services is ratcheting up an early stage investigation into Caliber, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lone Star Funds, a large private equity firm based in Dallas, said a person briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly.
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A series of outside groups and committees, viewing the race as one of the last referendums on President Donald Trump before November's midterms, have steadily poured money into the special election in Ohio's 12th Congressional District, ratcheting up the national implications in the race between Democrat Danny O'Connor and Republican Troy Balderson.
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With Europe focused on a refugee crisis and Britain's exit from the European Union, and America riveted by a presidential election, this is plainly a time for ratcheting up tensions, keeping Ukraine off balance and even raising the threat of a wider war to achieve what are essentially economic and political goals.
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These are times when our president has prioritized building a wall to keep out what he considers illegal immigrants and sees a moral equivalence between neo-Nazi white supremacy groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va. These are times when the president is ratcheting up his rhetoric about a trade war with China.
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Even if Mr. Trump's provocative remarks were part of a deliberate strategy for ratcheting up pressure on North Korea — and on China, which as the North's main food and fuel supplier has more influence on it than any other nation — they would be at odds with the measured approach of his predecessors.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, cautioned his colleagues to remain calm and reserve judgment, but Republicans are already whispering among themselves about a potential negotiation over witnesses, and Democrats — who need only four Republicans to join them in voting to hear new evidence — are ratcheting up the pressure.
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Saudi Arabia has been steadily ratcheting up repression as it has put more journalists behind bars each of the past eight years, with at least 26 journalists imprisoned — even as the country hosted a media summit that somehow drew a thousand participants to one of the most repressive countries in the world.
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The attention to Saudi Arabia also comes at a time when Ms. May's political opponents are ratcheting up their denunciations of her Conservative government's support for the two-year Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged that impoverished country into a humanitarian catastrophe of disease and famine with no end in sight.
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Perceived safe havens such as the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc received a boost against the dollar, though the greenback was broadly stronger against a basket of currencies after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, ratcheting up a trade dispute with Beijing.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been ratcheting up tariffs on China with the aim of pressuring the world's second-largest economy to strike a trade deal with terms more favorable to Americans, and for months had been calling on the Fed to lower interest rates to support the U.S. economy while he did so.
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TRUMP U.S. President Donald Trump has been ratcheting up tariffs on China with the aim of pressuring the world's second-largest economy to strike a trade deal with terms more favorable to Americans, and for months had been calling on the Fed to lower interest rates to support the U.S. economy while he did so.
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Preferred pharmacy networks are projected to reduce federal Medicare Part D costs by up to $85033 billion over the next decade while CMS' own estimates conclude that the AWP proposal will increase beneficiary premiums by as much as $28 billion, while ratcheting up government costs by as much as $82 billion over the next decade.
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Critics of 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 have accused the administration of ratcheting up tensions in the region and heightening the threat of war.
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Along those lines, Rostow reflexively argued for a "flexible response" when it came to military escalation, from ratcheting up the role of military "advisers" — that is, embedded Special Forces — in the early 1960s, to bombing North Vietnam starting in 1965, to steadily increasing the United States' expeditionary combat presence in the mid- and late 1960s.
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As he opened a four-day visit that will focus on security, diplomacy and trade — and is filled with flourishes designed to please Mr. Trump and highlight the close ties between the two leaders — the president appeared to risk ratcheting up Japanese anxiety that any nuclear agreement with North Korea could neglect their concerns.
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Now, city and transit officials are ratcheting up their efforts with a new program aimed at persuading homeless people to leave the subway by offering to waive a civil summons if they agree to go with outreach workers who can offer a variety of services, such as a bed in a shelter or medical treatment.
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Saturday's fighting did not arise out of the blue: It came as a ratcheting-up of hostilities a day earlier, when an Israeli army officer was wounded by an explosive hurled across the barrier fence from Gaza, and an unarmed 14-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed as he climbed the fence.
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The slain Iranian military commander was killed by a U.S. drone at Baghdad International Airport late last week, ratcheting up already deteriorating tensions between Iran and the U.S. The potential for a further escalation has prompted some to sound the alarm about the prospect of an unplanned oil supply shortage in the Middle East.
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GENEVA — The United Nations' top human rights body decided on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate atrocities that the country's army is said to have committed against Rohingya Muslims, ratcheting up pressure on the country's leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, to curb the conduct of the powerful military.
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In 2017, after a ratcheting up of North Korean saber-rattling, the president warned of "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if Pyongyang continued to threaten the U.S. Following rounds of diplomacy, Trump became the first U.S. president to meet with his North Korean counterpart at a summit in Singapore in 2018.
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And I think them sort of bailing on this or seeming to bail on it and ratcheting up their rhetoric only to then get slapped down by us and now they&aposre coming back to the table, I mean, goodness I mean, why can&apost they just you know, be an adult and have a normal negotiation process here.
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But the organization was so aggressive that social media accounts linked to it went after people it perceived to be too soft on Iran, at a time when the Trump administration is exerting what it calls "maximum pressure," ratcheting up military and economic pressure on Iran after pulling out of the landmark nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.
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Not only are there independent companies like Instacart and Shipt vying for customers, Amazon just dropped $13.7 billion to acquire Whole Foods, giving it a brick-and-mortar presence inside cities, while Walmart is ratcheting up the competition via its grocery pickup business and even today's move to start delivering groceries inside customers' freezers and refrigerators.
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S. Huawei affiliates * Walmart says prices will rise due to tariffs but will cope WASHINGTON/BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. bid to block China's Huawei Technologies from buying vital American technology threw into question prospects for sales at some of the largest tech companies and drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, further ratcheting up tensions over trade.
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"I think what's happening is that the president is giving Xi Jinping a couple of months to see what he can do in terms of ratcheting up pressure, making a diplomatic approach to the North Koreans and so on with the ultimate objective of getting them back into some sort of formalized talks about denuclearization," said Haggard.
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"But if you compare that with the ratcheting up of rhetoric and the increase in tensions between the United States and Russia over the issue of Syria, specifically over Aleppo, over the past couple of weeks, this does give Lavrov and Kerry a chance to reset that rhetoric and perhaps get back to some discussion," he said.
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"If you do this kind of ratcheting (up) of rhetorical tensions but also sending military hardware into the region, if you do that absent of any kind of offramp or door or window for the North Koreans to consider walking through and reengaging in any sort of discussions, bad things are going to happen," Carroll said.
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Movie studios aren't trying to change the world It happened during a week in which streaming services were throwing fistfuls of cash and ratcheting up prices, but Nation was at an entirely different level (according to a play-by-play from The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix even outbid Searchlight with $20 million, and still lost the movie).
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With the stock market setting record highs and interest rates steadily ratcheting up, a protection fund may be helpful to certain investors, specifically those committed to the continued ownership of some portion of their stock position as a core long-term holding — to cost-effectively and tax-efficiently preserve their unrealized gains while keeping all upside potential.
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"If you do this kind of ratcheting (up) of rhetorical tensions but also sending military hardware into the region, if you do that absent of any kind of offramp or door or window for the North Koreans to consider walking through and reengaging in any sort of discussions, bad things are going to happen," he added.
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Tech, Media, TelecomsGoogle Cloud has changed how it pays its salespeople, ripping a page out of the Oracle playbookGoogle's Cloud business revamped its sales team's compensation, ratcheting up the incentives — and the pressure — to maximize sales, as CEO Thomas Kurian ripped a page out of a playbook long favored at sales-driven software companies like Oracle and SAP.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE on Friday pledged to respond to China's latest round of tariffs "this afternoon," further ratcheting up the trade war between Washington and Beijing.
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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 is ratcheting up pressure on Congress to pass the revised trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
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Read more:Being the frontrunner takes its toll: Joe Biden is more disliked than Bernie SandersJoe Biden says he's not worried about Elizabeth Warren's surging popularityUndecided 2020 voters like Andrew Yang and Joe Biden the most of all the Democratic candidatesBiden and Trump are ratcheting up the campaign domain drama by buying the URLs to each other's campaigns
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Clearly, both the media and the political class bore some responsibility for ratcheting up the pressure on him, instead of calling — as they could have — for cool deliberation to determine what actually happened, how severe his offenses were, and whether they should overshadow the many reasons his constituents might wish him to keep serving (as polls suggested they did).
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The move by Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte represents a ratcheting up of his investigation, led jointly with the House Oversight Committee, into the decisions made by the Justice Department and the FBI before the 2016 election -- an investigation that has stoked mistrust of the law enforcement agency and drawn the ire of Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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In Omar and Tlaib's case, Trump actively lobbied Israel—another democracy that's straining under the weight of a mercurial and conspiratorial leader under criminal suspicion—to treat the pair of congresswomen, in essence, as Jew-haters, a ratcheting up of the fact-free rhetoric that has targeted the "squad" as un-American and led to fears for their safety.
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But his references to North Korea as an "imminent threat" that requires "immediate attention" did not provide a clear picture of how he intends to proceed and in what way the Trump administration's approach would differ from President Barack Obama's policy of strategic patience — waiting out the North Koreans while ratcheting up sanctions and covert action.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump lauds tariffs on China while backtracking from more To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE (R-Neb.) was more colorful in his objections when Trump, on Thursday, suggested ratcheting up the proposed tariffs on China even further.
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Malaysian police have added another name to their list of 11 suspects in the assassination last week of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged older half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The country's Royal Police named a North Korean diplomat as a suspect on Wednesday, further ratcheting up already tense relations between the two countries.
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I suspect you've heard the policy justifications for securities class actions as a necessary complement to regulatory policing of the capital markets: Class actions, among other things, give small investors a shot at recovering damages they couldn't otherwise afford to pursue; assure accountability by ratcheting up the financial exposure for misbehaving companies; and push development of securities law liability theories.
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The Put a Price on It DC campaign is touting a plan that would impose a fee on all companies buying and selling fossil fuels in DC (starting at $20 a ton of carbon in 2019 and ratcheting up to $150 per ton in 2032), and direct most of the money to dividend checks, with the biggest checks going to low-income people.
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Other than a change of leadership within North Korea or an extremely improbable and almost certainly ineffective and counter-productive US military strike, the only likely means of driving this perceptual change among North Korea's leaders would be by ratcheting up sanctions and other non-military coercive measures to the point of undermining their grip on power in the absence of denuclearization. 4.
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If you are considering hiring a true business generalist, then at least try to get a sense for the practice areas in which he or she most often provides counsel and be sure there is significant overlap with your needs, including experience working with startups specifically; also, consider ratcheting up the required minimum level of experience to at least 7-10 years. 2.
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The Put a Price on It DC campaign is touting a plan that would impose a fee on all companies buying and selling fossil fuels in DC (starting at $20 a ton of carbon in 251.80 and ratcheting up to $21.70 per ton in 24), and direct most of the money to dividend checks, with the biggest checks going to low-income people.
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U.S. leaders should adopt elements of the playbook used with Iran that are applicable to the Sudanese political and economic context and begin by immediately ratcheting up financial pressure and tightening sanctions enforcement on Sudan, deploying modernized sanctions that more sharply target the military and financial assets of those most responsible for continuing conflict, atrocities, and mass corruption in Sudan.
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How effective his final sequence of interventions is at ratcheting up the look that sells magazines is almost entirely in the hands of the model or actor and, given how their careers can be impacted by the extent to which they get the desired look, the associated side effects and health risks of loading and cutting water are often overlooked.
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While the excuse that "everyone else does it" should not absolve the United States of its past transgressions, the past four years have been illuminating: Russia, China, Iran, and their ilk have benefited greatly from the asymmetries of information, while cracking down in increasingly violent acts against their own advocates for transparency and ratcheting up aggressive campaigns against their democratic neighbors.
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While Washington was focused on the highly visible ratcheting up of tensions between the United States and Iran over the past few weeks, the Trump administration quietly began rolling out its first real red line on the Iran nuclear program, which is that any reduction in the one year timeline it would need to produce enough material for a bomb is unacceptable.
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After a weekend that saw massive, nationwide protests against Trump administration border policy, with many in the crowds calling for the elimination of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the White House is ratcheting up its defense of the agency, and on Monday it took aim -- with a pair of baiting, bogus online attacks -- at a pair of big-name critics.
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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 said Friday that the press is "truly the enemy of the people," ratcheting up his use of the derisive label to attack the news media.
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They have two avenues — the impossibly hard one of being willing to go back and re-examine their core assumptions and their blaming of others (the Russians, the racists), and doubling down in shouting about the horrible movie they see unfolding before them, ratcheting up the rhetoric, thinking that if they just shout louder the ears won't be so deaf.
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And if nothing else, Hereditary is relentlessly well-crafted, with first-time feature director Ari Aster expertly ratcheting up the tension as he progresses from a relatively benign inciting incident (a woman isn't sure how to cope with the death of a mother she had complicated feelings about) to an ending that pushes past metaphor into some other thing entirely.
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THE TOPLINE: As North and South Korea make progress toward cooling tensions on the peninsula, 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 is ratcheting up his rhetoric.
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