He said he wanted to smooth the way for reforms.
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Some in the private sector are trying to smooth the way for all parties.
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Higher prices for crude oil could smooth the way for similar deals among industry survivors.
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Its support for private sector development programming helps smooth the way for successful development finance transactions.
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Hurston was moved and brought him gifts, food and insect powder, to smooth the way for his telling.
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But President George W. Bush lifted the designation in 2008 to smooth the way for aid-for-disarmament negotiations.
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China has promised to smooth the way for Chinese IPOs through the establishment of the SSE's "technology innovation board".
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The other thing that could smooth the way for Cohen is his money, to the extent he still has it.
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Renewed isolation would cut Cuba off from the trade and investment it needs to smooth the way for economic reforms.
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That more than any other development might smooth the way for more realistic, rational, and improved relations between our nations.
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Black took the reins of the Budget panel, passing the budget that helped smooth the way for the tax overhaul.
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You'll recall that she's the widow of a Dothraki warlord (Khal Drogo), so perhaps that will smooth the way for her.
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Contacts between Kushner and China's U.S. envoy helped smooth the way for the meeting, according to current and former U.S. officials.
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It was the latest in a series of gestures by the North meant to smooth the way for a summit meeting.
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Her conciliation-minded girlfriend, Natalie (Amber James), arrives first so as to smooth the way for the set-to that follows.
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On paper, that could smooth the way for a left-wing coalition after Podemos offered its backing to the Socialists on Friday.
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It was unclear whether the Italian-French deal on STX France could smooth the way for a compromise on Vivendi's role in TIM.
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Several of the most sweeping and controversial changes had to be rolled back in order to smooth the way for the committee vote.
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A positive ruling on Opal would help smooth the way for Gazprom to build Nord Stream 2, which has not received EU regulatory approval.
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But Ms. Verma said she hoped the new federal guidance would smooth the way for states to make such changes as they see fit.
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On May 28th, in order to smooth the way for a summit, America delayed the implementation of a fresh round of sanctions against the North.
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And it folds in the $1.5 trillion in higher deficits allowed by the new budget resolution Congress has passed to smooth the way for tax cuts.
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France's Iliad agreed to become Italy's fourth mobile operator to help smooth the way for CK Hutchison Holdings to merge its 3 Italia with Vimpelcom's Wind.
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Mr. Inhofe said that he expected that Mr. Jackson, a Washington veteran, would do the same to help smooth the way for Mr. Pruitt's chosen deputies.
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The lists of compliments you're hearing have been written at the behest of a mediator to smooth the way for a more civilized division of assets.
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The deal helps smooth the way for the planned expansion of PNG LNG, roughly aligning Santos' 13.5% stake in the LNG project and the new gas field.
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The deal could smooth the way for the Senate to pass the legislation for a second time before they leave in mid-August for a summer break.
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The meeting was an attempt by Trump to smooth the way for Gorsuch's confirmation, but his attempt may have been colored by his continued criticism of Democratic Sen.
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Bottom Line Nation | Part 3 Private equity firms have used sophisticated but indirect political maneuvering with state and local entities to smooth the way for growth and revenue.
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He wants to smooth the way for bilateral negotiations and last month sent former President Fidel Ramos as his special envoy to meet Chinese representatives in Hong Kong.
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Aigner returned from Tehran earlier this month with agreements by three Iranian banks to open branches in Munich, which could smooth the way for more trade in coming years.
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Senior U.S. officials, including Pompeo and Alice Wells, the State Department's top diplomat for Afghanistan, have visited Kabul in recent weeks to try to smooth the way for talks.
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Britain wants to smooth the way for its new WTO schedules by ensuring all other countries are happy with its plans before it officially proposes its new WTO terms.
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The so-called weekly moving average convergence-divergence (MACD) of the S&P is pointing to positive inertia that could smooth the way for the market to push higher.
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Along with continued monetary easing from the European Central Bank, it should help smooth the way for other European banks to bring deals in the coming weeks, he added.
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Rajoy needs the abstention of the opposition Socialists to form a government, but they have steadfastly refused to smooth the way for an administration led by their main rivals.
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Chest Binding Helps Smooth the Way for Transgender Teens, but There May Be Risks People who use binders report symptoms like back and chest pain, overheating and shortness of breath.
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That would ease tensions with both Ciudadanos and PSOE and could smooth the way for a different PP leader to become prime minister in partnership with one of the other parties.
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Moreover, some analysts see Britain shifting closer to U.S. foreign policy positions after Brexit, in part to help smooth the way for a major free trade deal with the United States.
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Kickstarter officially launched on Wednesday in Singapore and Hong Kong, a move the company expects will smooth the way for startups in the region keen to be part of the crowdfunding phenomenon.
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The field is gaining momentum following several high-profile failures in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the FDA appears eager to smooth the way for further approvals in the field.
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Others have a called it a power grab meant to smooth the way for the 32-year-old's widely anticipated rise to the throne and his bid to overhaul the Saudi economy.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union formally filed for divorce at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, following many months of diplomatic preparations to smooth the way for the historic move.
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Aigner returned from Tehran earlier this month with agreements by three Iranian banks to open branches in Munich, which she says could smooth the way for more trade and investment in coming years.
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Artists have the ability to move the conversation to places corporations and politicians cannot or will not go, and to smooth the way for political change years before the document signings and handshakes.
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U.S. concessions over ZTE could also smooth the way for U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc's $44 billion takeover of NXP Semiconductors, which has been delayed by a lengthy antitrust review by China's Ministry of Commerce.
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Kingdom officials described the extraordinary purge as a crackdown on corruption while others called the exercise a power grab meant to smooth the way for the 32-year-old's anticipated rise to the throne.
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The American Council for the Blind has an online list of all manner of products that can smooth the way for people with limited or no vision, including information on where to buy them.
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This year's meeting, the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), was supposed to address some difficult questions to smooth the way for major talks next year in London to update the climate framework.
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Since late last year, Mr. de Blasio has been making moves that could help smooth the way for a run by Ms. McCray for Brooklyn borough president, should she decide to go forward with it.
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Before applying for an A-share listing on China's main bourses, firms generally need a three-year track record of profitability, though the country has made progress to smooth the way for loss-making, high-potential tech firms.
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China has finalized regulations for a Nasdaq-style innovation board that promises to smooth the way for Chinese technology IPOs and, if successful, could raise Shanghai's profile as a capital-raising competitor to Hong Kong and New York.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has eased customs regulations on imports of soybean through some northern border checkpoints, the commerce ministry said, a move that could smooth the way for shipments from neighbors such as Kazakhstan, Russia and perhaps Ukraine.
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The idea behind Zhongguancun IC Park (the IC stands for integrated circuit), according to Wu Chunyan, one of the park's sales team, is that it will smooth the way for new chip companies, and not just through subsidised rents.
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By overtaking the 137-year old Socialist party as the main left-wing force and raising fears of a hard-left government, the alliance may even boost support for Rajoy and smooth the way for a PP-led government.
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Snowy is fully owned by the federal government, which earlier this year bought out the company shares owned by the states of New South Wales and Victoria for A$6.2 billion to help smooth the way for the expansion.
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They said the announcement built on Mr. Kim's earlier decision not to protest joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea — a step that did smooth the way for Mr. Trump to accept Mr. Kim's invitation to meet.
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A legislative proposal put forward by the commission in the autumn of 2015 sought to smooth the way for securitisation by setting up common rules and establishing a special category of "simple, transparent, and standardised" securitisations with fewer regulatory requirements.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has finalised regulations for a Nasdaq-style innovation board that promises to smooth the way for Chinese technology IPOs and, if successful, could raise Shanghai's profile as a capital-raising competitor to Hong Kong and New York.
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But that effort has spurred criticism that the Trumps' roles in government smooth the way for the trademark approvals, and that the prospect of future Trump business in China clashes with the White House's attempts to challenge the country over trade.
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For U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, which has seen its $44 billion takeover of NXP Semiconductors delayed by a lengthy antitrust review by China's Ministry of Commerce, reconsideration of the ZTE penalty could smooth the way for the deal to move forward.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has started a trade war and China will defend itself, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen said on Thursday, urging the United States to "take the gun" of tariffs away to smooth the way for talks.
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The British government has said it would like a transition deal to smooth the way for business, but a top Bank of England official said on Wednesday that would probably need to be agreed by Christmas to prevent jobs from seeping abroad.
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Even with President Donald Trump and the markets calling for lower interest rates, the Fed is not likely to make a move when it meets this week, though it is expected to smooth the way for a rate cut later in the summer.
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How the Chinese Government Is Helping Google Sell Ads in China ($) Wayne Ma writes about a little-known partnership between Google and China over advertising — an act of corporate diplomacy intended to smooth the way for the return of other Google projects to China.
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They believe the PiS leadership sees the tribunal not as an institution responsible for upholding the rule of law, as it is supposed to be, but rather as an organ that should smooth the way for the elected government to do as it pleases.
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Progress at the latest meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) board, which wrapped up on Saturday evening in Bahrain, was viewed as key to smooth the way for U.N. climate talks in December tasked with agreeing rules to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb global warming.
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Doug Oberhelman, the new chairman of the Business Roundtable and CEO of Caterpillar, said that while addressing lawmakers' concerns in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a challenging task, congressional leaders and the Obama administration will eventually reach an agreement and smooth the way for passage of the 12-nation pact.
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According to the report, Mr. Scharf's immediate predecessor, C. Allen Parker, explicitly told a member of the bank's board in May that Mr. Blankenstein had promised him that the Trump administration would continue to smooth the way for the bank — even after Mr. Blankenstein resigned that week over racist statements he had made as a law student.
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The company has tried to smooth the way for the pay structure tweaks by offering a temporary minimum payment guarantee (for the next six weeks; until November 4) to offer couriers an earnings back-stop — in case they do not earn up to the peak minimums it expects them to (between £9p/h and £11 p/h, depending on time/day).
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A Washington, D.C.-based law firm headed by Dean Whiting is hired to smooth the way for the merger. Bennett Holiday is assigned to promote the impression of due diligence to the DOJ, deflecting any allegations of corruption.
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Simpson was unable to provide. Baldwin's final achievement was to smooth the way for Edward to abdicate in favour of his younger brother who became George VI. Father and son both demonstrated the value of a democratic king during the severe physical and psychological hardships of the world wars, and their tradition was carried on by Elizabeth II.
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Andrè builds for his uncle beautiful bows, many mounted in tortoise and gold and he devotes his last years of his life to smooth the way for his descendant." Paolo Sarri (translated from Italian) "Fetique, Victor: Very hard bows. Firm. Dense sound especially when dense wood used. Some (maybe a minority) poor examples from workshop stamped with his name.
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This was an arranged diplomatic intercultural marriage to smooth the way for the HBC to establish its Fort Simpson, a.k.a. Port Simpson, at Lax Kw'alaams in 1834, in Ligeex's territory. The most famous holders of the name were a series of men named Paul Legaic in the late nineteenth century. HBC employee Arthur Wellington Clah, a Gispaxlo'ots house-group chief, intervened and saved the life of the Anglican lay missionary William Duncan in Lax Kw'alaams.
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The carriers spent most of the ensuing week repairing storm damage and returned to Ulithi on Christmas Eve. The accelerating tempo of the war, though, ruled out long repose in the shelter of the lagoon. Before the year ended, the carriers were back in action against airfields in the Philippines on Sakishima Gunto, and on Okinawa. These raids were intended to smooth the way for General MacArthur's invasion of Luzon through the Lingayen Gulf.
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Niece of Alaric, Duke of Dunstable and sister of Ricky, Linda is a pretty, slim young girl with blue eyes and chestnut hair, who appears in A Pelican at Blandings, visiting the castle with her uncle shortly after becoming engaged to Johnny Hallyday. She objects to being roughly treated in court, but has strong motherly instincts when those she loves are hurt. Gally, who works hard to smooth the way for the couple, refers to her as a 'popsy'.
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De Klerk was appointed to lead a country racially segregated by law, but won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with the late Nelson Mandela for working to end Apartheid. In the exclusive interview, de Klerk discussed his "real friendship" with Mandela and how the fall of the Berlin Wall helped smooth the way for Apartheid's collapse. He also discussed the corruption allegations regarding South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup and the government of Jacob Zuma.
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Edward VIII, flaunting his upper-class playboy style, suffered from an unstable neurotic character and needed a strong stabilising partner, a role that Mrs. Simpson was unable to provide. Baldwin's final achievement was to smooth the way for Edward to abdicate in favour of his younger brother, who became George VI. Both father and son demonstrated the value of a democratic king during the severe physical and psychological hardships of the world wars, and the tradition was carried on by Elizabeth II.
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The daughter brings her father back with her in order to smooth the way for her own marriage, but the reunion with the first wife – a melancholy poet – is disastrous: They have nothing in common, and the father returns to wife number two. In the war years, Naruse went through a slow breakup with his wife Sachiko Chiba (who had starred in Wife! Be Like a Rose!). Naruse himself claimed to have entered a period of severe depression as a result of this.
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On December 4, 1786, Washington was chosen to lead the Virginia delegation, but he declined on December 21. He had concerns about the legality of the convention and consulted James Madison, Henry Knox, and others. They persuaded him to attend it, however, as his presence might induce reluctant states to send delegates and smooth the way for the ratification process. On March 28, Washington told Governor Edmund Randolph that he would attend the convention, but made it clear that he was urged to attend.
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In 1811, he became a partner in a new firm, which eventually became Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company, a major supply house associated with the North West Company. He served in the Montreal militia during the War of 1812. In 1815 and 1816, he helped Colin Robertson during his expeditions to the Athabaska country. Moffatt helped bring stability to the fur trade in Canada by helping to smooth the way for the merger of the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.
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The conflicting objects which he kept before him, resistance to French aggression on the west, and to Russian and Prussian aggressions on the east, and the pursuit of more territory for Austria, compelled him to divide his exertions and his forces. Thus in 1793–94 he recalled troops from the west to participate in a partition of Poland, thereby taking pressure off France, and doing much to smooth the way for her subsequent victories. Some of his actions cannot be described as other than criminal. He was certainly responsible for the murderous attack on the French envoys at Rastadt in April 1799.
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Worried that the eagles will not move to the forest before it's too late, one of the spirits (Bokuriko) shapeshifts to appear as an eagle, only for him (and the children) to discover that the dam people are actually looking to kill the eagles and thus smooth the way for the dam to be built. Bokuriko escapes, but is injured. He is healed thanks to the spirit of the cherry tree. Miyori is given a greater understanding of her and the forest's place in the world and vows to protect it, even if she must sacrifice herself.
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The Lords Privileges Committee subsequently recommended (on 14 May) that Lord Truscott be suspended from the House. The investigation into the allegations concluded Lord Truscott had broken rules on exercising parliamentary influence in return for money by agreeing to "smooth the way" for lobbyists, make introductions to other peers and ministers and to lobby officials. In a BBC interview on 14 May, Lord Truscott stated that "I apologise for being entrapped and for using loose language". On 20 May the House of Lords considered the Privileges Committee report and voted to suspend Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn for six months, the first such action since the 17th century.
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She is at first clumsy and naive about Embassy life, but she is aided by Philip Cliffe-Musgrave. A former student of Alfred's and friend of the family, the young career diplomat, Philip, is at ease in the complex world of French politics and society. He and Fanny work together to find a way to dislodge the former ambassadress who has retained residence in the Embassy, and try to smooth the way for Alfred to concentrate on the complexities of his new position. Various characters in the novel often mutter, "Don't tell Alfred," when anything difficult or dramatic occurs in the day-to-day life of the Embassy, hence the title.
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In 2002 Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price obtained a letter written by Tony Blair to the Romanian Government in support of Mittal's LNM steel company, which was in the process of bidding to buy Romania's state-owned steel industry. This revelation caused controversy, because Mittal had given £125,000 to the British Labour Party the previous year. Although Blair defended his letter as simply "celebrating the success" of a British company, he was criticised because LNM was registered in the Dutch Antilles and employed less than 1% of its workforce in the UK. LNM was a "major global competitor of Britain's own struggling steel industry". Blair's letter hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.
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Although Blair defended his letter as simply "celebrating the success" of a British company, he was criticised because LNM was registered in the Dutch Antilles and employed less than 1% of its workforce in the UK. LNM was a "major global competitor of Britain's own struggling steel industry". Blair's letter hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union. It also had a passage, removed prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend". In 2004, Price announced his intention to begin a process of impeachment against Tony Blair following controversy over the Iraq War, with the backing of Plaid Cymru and SNP MPs as well as Boris Johnson and Nigel Evans.
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On the accession of Ismail Pasha, Nubar Bey was in the prime of life. He was already on friendly terms with him; he even claimed to have saved his life — at all events, it was a coincidence that the two had together refused to travel by the train an accident to which caused the death (on 14 May 1858) of the prince Ahmed, who would otherwise have succeeded Said. Ismail, himself a more capable man than his immediate predecessors, at once recognized the ability of Nubar, and charged him with a mission to Constantinople, not only to notify his accession, but to smooth the way for the many ambitious projects he already entertained, notably the completion of the Suez Canal, the change in title to that of khedive and the change in the order of succession.
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Prior to World War II, General Motors briefly owned Eastern Airlines, but sold it by 1938 to quell any monopoly concerns and smooth the way for wartime production contracts. While the sale of the commercial airline meant GM did not have access to in-house air transportation, there was still a vital need for quick transportation between GM facilities. During the company's involvement in wartime production between 1940 and 1945 many of the individual divisions acquired military aircraft to aid in production and efficiency at plants widely dispersed across North America. Harold R. “Bill” Boyer of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a former General Motors vice president and head of GM Cadillac Cleveland Tank Division was key in the creation of the air transport infrastructure within GM. In 1948, GM updated and consolidated the corporate aircraft under the control of Operations-Central Office Aircraft, within the Central Office Manufacturing Staff.
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Crystal Shackleford (Geraldine Fitzgerald) lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet) and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West (Peter Lorre) to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny, the wish will be granted. Since money will make their dreams come true, the three go in on a sweepstakes ticket for the Grand National horse race together and agree that they will not sell the ticket if it is chosen, but will hold on to it until the race is run. Shackleford would use the money to try to win her estranged husband back, Arbutny to smooth the way for his selection to the prestigious Barrister's Club, and Johnny to buy a bar and live in it. The stories of the three strangers are revealed.
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They stated that the collection was used as collateral on a $12 million loan that Johnson Publishing received from Capital Holdings V firm, which is owned by Hobson and Lucas, in 2015.Ebony, Jet photo archive likely to land in museum (Billionaire power couple Mellody Hobson and George Lucas are helping smooth the way for a transfer of the historic collection) Crain's Chicago Business April 30, 2019] In July 2019 as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, the more than 4 million item Ebony and Jet archives were auctioned off in Chicago. Winning the week-long auction was the $30 million bid by a consortium of foundations led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with co-purchasers the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The archives will go to the Getty Research Institute and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to be made digitally available to the public.
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Controversy ensued in 2002 as Adam Price exposed the link between UK prime minister Tony Blair and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in the Mittal Affair, also known as 'Garbagegate' or Cash for Influence.Lakshmi Mittal, steel mill millionaire Thursday, 14 February 2002, extracted 11-01-07Q&A;: 'Garbagegate' Thursday, 14 February 2002 extracted 11-01-07 Mittal's LNM steel company, registered in the Dutch Antilles and maintaining less than 1% of its 100,000 plus workforce in the UK, sought Blair's aid in its bid to purchase Romania's state steel industry. The letter from Blair to the Romanian government, a copy of which Price was able to obtain, hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.Plaid reveals Labour steel cash link Monday, 11 February 2002, extracted 11-01-07 The letter had a passage in it removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend".
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In the early fifties of the 19th century the taste for mountaineering rapidly developed for several very different reasons: A great stimulus was given to it by the foundation of the various Alpine clubs, each of which drew together the climbers who dwelt in the same country. The first was the English Alpine Club (founded in the winter of 1857–1858), followed in 1862 by the Austrian Alpine Club (which in 1873 was fused, under the name of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the German Alpine Club, founded in 1869), in 1863 by the Italian and Swiss Alpine Clubs, and in 1874 by the French Alpine Club, not to mention numerous minor societies of more local character. It was by the members of these clubs (and a few others) that the minute exploration (now all but complete) of the High Alps was carried out, while much has been done in the way of building club huts, organizing and training guides, &c.;, to smooth the way for later comers, who would benefit by the detailed information published in the periodicals (the first dates from 1863 only) issued by these clubs.
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