PRETORIA, South Africa — The nation's tax chief steeled himself.
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Steam billowed up as the rocket steeled itself to rise.
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I took a deep breath, steeled myself and stepped back in.
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I think that this incident is the one that steeled me.
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A vacuum-steeled stainless steel cooler (which he'll pass down to you)
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She steeled herself to what she thought I was going to give her.
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The warrior's daughter steeled herself, drew her eyes up and stepped into battle.
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She had lived a difficult life, she said, which steeled her for challenges.
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But Trudeau said that from the start, he steeled himself for all possible outcomes.
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So I was steeled to have the breath knocked out of me once more.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson steeled his people Thursday for a harrowing period ahead.
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Though the path ahead for constitutional Indigenous recognition again looks murky, advocates remained steeled.
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Zeynep Tufekci EVERY morning since August, I have steeled myself to enter an alternate universe.
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I steeled myself, planning how I would defend my daughter against an anticipated racial slight.
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They were largely Jewish, Marxist, steeled in marathon arguments at City College of New York.
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Some responded by moving apartments and offices; all of them steeled themselves for longer commutes.
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" Mr. Hemsworth steeled himself and, after several beats, answered in a commanding, accented baritone, "Mioly Siorus.
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Sarah and I met outside a church on Fifth Avenue, her eyes already steeled with resolve.
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I snapped on my Speedo, steeled my courage and exited the warm lodge into the chill.
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The market is dropping, and I've steeled myself to watch my portfolio sink to new lows.
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Some steeled themselves for a stream of presidential invective or even Mr. Barr's departure in response.
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Obama had steeled himself for the meeting, determined to act with high courtesy and without condescension.
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Outside the court, Antonitza steeled herself for another unbearable stretch of minutes spent worrying about her son.
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Halep finally breached Davis's serve to move 14-13 ahead and steeled herself to close it out.
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His appreciation for people he met who are working for change steeled him to continue speaking out.
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This has conditioned listeners not to be steeled for, but to eagerly embrace, unfamiliar and challenging work.
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I steeled myself to be disappointed but unsurprised by TEFAF's lack of inclusivity of both women and minorities.
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But they kept on striving, steeled to the insults, positioning themselves for a breakthrough they couldn't yet see.
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He has steeled himself for another political battle after years of facing down opponents in scorched-earth fashion.
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Then she steeled herself to the task at hand, much as she did in preparation for a big game.
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But there was a patient before him, so he steeled himself and saw it through, and the patient survived.
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Despite the overarching steeled-by-adversity template into which she wedges these stories, each retains its own intrinsic drama.
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Since George H.W. Bush, successive presidents have steeled themselves to negotiate with North Korea about its nuclear and missile programmes.
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But in her speech at the Credit Suisse conference she told investors the experience steeled her for future political battles.
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A pile of curbside construction debris wasn't very assuring, but I steeled my nerves, and we headed into the cacophony.
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But Tanaka steeled himself and struck out Jose Ramirez and Jay Bruce — both on splitters in the dirt — to escape.
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Others steeled themselves for a trip to the police hospital, part of which has been turned into a makeshift morgue.
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""But with this album," Brown continued, "he steeled us against the future and gave us not just anthems but prayers.
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Inside Arlit, the houses are built with a castle-like thickness, steeled against an endless onslaught of Saharan dust and wind.
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Timberlake: I just steeled myself that this was what I was going to do and just was determined to do it.
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The pair grasped onto their last shreds of hope and resilience, steeled themselves for whatever may come, and took the leap.
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But she steeled herself to run again, and clinched her position with a second world championship win at the shorter distance.
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Europe's steel industry is getting hammered by tariffs and gluts, but one tucked-away mill in Austria has steeled itself for tumult.
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Now, as he read "O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits/The agile precincts of the lark's return", the strange words burned.
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It was an 80-minute ode to black self-love, adorned with trombones and Fela Kuti samples and brimming with steeled optimism.
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She had steeled herself for the onslaught, because, as she noted, Mr. Wang is a friend, and because his clothes suit her.
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The prime minister seems to have steeled himself to such critiques, which resurface every year around the July 4 anniversary of Entebbe.
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They were steeled by a healthy irreverence for authority and committed to the common man (particularly if he happened to be white).
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Having steeled themselves for the worst, the major family collectors that fuel Miami's art scene were collectively exhaling when the storm passed.
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Stephanie Thomas stared down the video camera, steeled to shed her clothes and share her deepest insecurities with a roomful of strangers.
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Finally steeled myself to watch #ObamaFarewell this morning and had to add more sugar to my Cheerios to cover all the salty tears.
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The killing of Mr. Hostey was the start of a fateful two weeks that may have further steeled Mr. Abedi's urge for revenge.
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Slight height difference aside, Longoria blue-steeled like the best of 'em — who just so happened to be in the same frame as her.
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By 1990, while in Texas for a conference, Mr. Hill steeled himself to return for the first time to the site of the assassination.
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Ms. Mirfield, the skeptical voter in Davenport, said after the event that the Sears story had steeled her to support Ms. Warren after all.
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Terrified by the darkness, she whimpered at first, then steeled herself and called for her father until she was too hoarse to shout anymore.
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I steeled myself as I walked with the prosecutors down a dingy corridor toward a courtroom to testify against Rob, as I called him.
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Considered a conspicuous success story among the countries upended by popular uprisings in 2011, Tunisia has of late steeled itself against a growing Islamist threat.
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This was the farthest I ever made it, as I steeled my soul against the endlessly dreary missions set in the tombs of the undead.
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While many players would keel over when down two sets against Nadal and his persistent, grinding style of tennis, Medvedev steeled himself and settled in.
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"Beanpole" begins to take shape barely 20 minutes in, after a horrifying incident that will be hard to stomach for even the most steeled moviegoer.
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He represented many of the late-signing stars, who might have been willing to cut their losses earlier had he not steeled them to remain patient.
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Time as a working musician not only honed Thundercat's technical chops, but also steeled him for life as a public figure, with all its attendant anxieties.
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After months of finding only low-paying jobs in Isaan, insufficient for supporting a family, Rittidet steeled himself to leaving his family and hometown once again.
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This fact may be one of the most remarkable things about our relationship: I have already forgotten how it feels to be steeled against Millie's screams.
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Mr. Kenworthy steeled himself, as a half-dozen friends, publicists and Nordstrom executives looked on; the atmosphere took on the jittery excitement of a middle-school dance.
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Every time I steeled myself and put another dozen or so tomes in the Little Free Library my wife had constructed for the purpose, a weight lifted.
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Dawdlers fear no aggression from the rear; for five weeks now, I have steeled myself, gripping the left handrail, against jostles and grunts that did not come.
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Andrew M. Cuomo said news of the second New York patient should not cause alarm, and steeled New Yorkers for the prospect that the virus would spread.
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At the same time, she suppressed her emotions and steeled herself to cope with the mental burden of being soothing and pretty to broken and dying men.
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Meeting in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, with the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, above left, Mr. Pence said that "the tragic events" had "only steeled" America's resolve.
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When Adam Czerwoniec took to the streets of Warsaw to protest against a neo-Nazi rally last August, he steeled himself for the possibility of an ugly confrontation.
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This time, watching A Beautiful Day, I had somehow steeled myself — maybe because I was sitting in the theater with a notebook on my lap, studiously taking notes.
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She's glad it happened to her, a mature combat veteran who has steeled herself against the trials of being transgender, instead of someone vulnerable, someone who's starting their journey.
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Barrett also steeled himself through prayer, as Orel Hershiser did on the bench in Game 5 of the 1988 World Series, the last time the Dodgers won it all.
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Soon after being nominated as Argentina's ambassador to China in late 2015, Mr. Guelar said, he steeled himself for an arduous task: pushing to renegotiate the space station agreement.
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The deaths of Mr. Abedi's acquaintances and the tortuous recent past of his parents' homeland, Libya, may have steeled his urge for revenge in the weeks before the attack.
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I steeled myself before telling my editor I was having a "medical emergency" and prepared for pushback, but she had the more grounded response of offering to call an ambulance.
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As the east coast of Florida steeled itself for Dorian's arrival Friday, the state's governor Ron DeSantis gave a televised briefing on the state's preparations alongside state and local officials.
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At best he now faces a long war of attrition along his southern border with a very disciplined and committed Syrian Kurdish force, steeled from years of urban warfare with ISIS.
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So when Zimbabwe launched a night testing service in August, Hove steeled for the worst and walked nervously into the medical tent pitched at the heart of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
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The message, conveyed by the guides and the village's carefully tended buildings and artifacts, is that Mr. Xi left Liangjiahe steeled for the leadership roles that he would one day assume.
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The violence that erupted during the attempted delivery of much-needed food and medicine to economically devastated Venezuela has steeled the United States' resolve to support opposition leader Guaido, Pence said.
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Muguruza, a finalist two years ago, struggled with her emotions as she tried to defend her French Open title last month, but she has shown an increasingly steeled resolve at Wimbledon.
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Kumar noted that tax reform involves making difficult tradeoffs, so "lawmakers need to come back steeled, ready to have those conversations" in a way that could lead to a positive outcome.
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I steeled myself to take a photo for this article, and then had to burst out laughing when an employee adjusting Christmas decorations made an (inaccurate) joke about me being American.
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For the rich, this is no problem, and indeed it's been done before: The affluent town of Montecito has steeled itself against wildfire by clearing brush and implementing an exhaustive firefighting plan.
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Indeed, America's leaders were acutely aware of how precarious and easily disrupted international peace traditionally had been, and this knowledge steeled them in the face of the challenges of the postwar era.
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Ms. Snider, now a research associate at N.Y.U., wrote a deeply personal essay that noted her father's death when she was 5 and described how she steeled herself against emotion in response.
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The security tsar, who some have tipped to take an even more central political role, told Reuters her past with a guerrilla group had steeled her to deal with tough political fights now.
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WASHINGTON — Bolstered by a growing backlash to President Trump's immigration order, Senate Democrats on Monday steeled themselves to slow the confirmation of cabinet nominees, dimming prospects for cooperation with the new White House.
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Then she steeled herself for what has become the most provocative and potentially dangerous recurring act committed by ordinary voters in the 2016 presidential cycle: protesting Mr. Trump inside one of his own rallies.
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Once I'd fueled up on carbs and steeled my nerves for the crowds at Magnolia Market, I plugged its address into my GPS and made the 215-minute drive over to the Silos District.
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Beto O'Rourke raised only about $4.5 million during the past three months, he said Friday, while his campaign steeled supporters for a potential finish in Iowa and New Hampshire anywhere in the top five.
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He had steeled himself not to react, he said, though he said that Mr. Bowers did not present the face of villainy one might have expected from a person accused of such hatred and violence.
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The talks beginning in Geneva underscore how far the political needle has shifted in Mr. al-Assad's favor as his once failing army, steeled by Russian and Iranian support, has expanded its control on the ground.
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That the US retreats even further behind fortified walls and watches the two -- or many more -- sides now in the Afghan war tear each other apart, steeled by years of brutality and armed to the teeth.
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Roy Cooper As the storm drew closer and residents in the Carolinas steeled themselves, Trump's political detractors found new ammunition to pummel the administration about its handling last year of Puerto Rico's woes following Hurricane Maria.
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Credit...Tracy Nguyen for The New York Times As they neared the turn of the millennium, and steeled themselves for the Y2800K bug, Americans faced a critical question: Whom would they crown the teen queen of pop?
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Or think, too, of the young men and women who, steeled by service in World War II, gave back their uniforms after the war and took up new mantles to build and serve the country at home.
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After providing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg earlier in the day, Dorsey steeled himself for another hearing — one just for him and Twitter in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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" Vollmer, who also qualified to swim a relay in Rio, said she steeled herself for leaving her son by scouring what she described as "mom blogs" about "how you go away and how you deal with these absences.
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Driving out to the three-room restaurant, I steeled myself behind the wheel as I swerved first past a coyote, then a wolf, and then an entire field of wide-eyed antelope ambling worrisomely close to the road.
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"I had mentally steeled myself for anything that could go wrong, but given how weak his case had been, and how he presented it to the court, it didn't seem like the judge had any basis," she said.
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In particular, women who self-selected themselves as tolerant of or oblivious to or amused by or steeled against his casual misogyny and constant sexual subtext — which was somehow, incongruously and often jarringly, matched with paternal regard — got this.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: As my wife and I reviewed plans to finally renovate the dowdy kitchen in our Cobble Hill house two decades after moving in, we steeled ourselves to bid a fond farewell to the Louis Armstrong Memorial Dishwasher.
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Last year, during the Yankees' deepest postseason run since 2012, those raucous crowds rekindled memories of the team's old stadium and the magic it held, urging the Yankees on when the outcome seemed bleak and leaving even steeled opponents somewhat shaken.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Violence during the attempted delivery of much-needed food and medicine to economically-devastated Venezuela over the weekend has steeled the United States' resolve to support opposition leader Juan Guaido, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence said on Monday.
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On the way from the doctor's office, my husband and I talked about what we learned that morning—how I felt, how he felt, what we were going to do about it going forward—and then we steeled ourselves for the actual event.
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I still hadn't tackled the tunnbrödsrulle though, so with hours to go before my flight, I steeled myself up for one last hurrah and headed to Torsgrillen, a frills-free kiosk not far from Sankt Eriksplan that's been in the business since 1948.
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When conservative student groups attempted to host a "Free Speech Week," and invited conservative speakers like Coulter and Steve Bannon, the campus steeled itself to spend in excess of $1 million to allow them to speak while ensuring safety on the campus.
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SHANGHAI, March 15 (Reuters) - Chinese and global firms steeled themselves on Wednesday ahead of the country's annual consumer rights day TV show, an evening gala from China's state broadcaster that can have brands and their corporate PR teams scurrying to take evasive action.
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The Treasury Department said it was sanctioning four pro-Maduro state governors, blocking any assets they control in the United States as Vice President Mike Pence said the aid blockage had steeled the United States' resolve to support opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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Hong Kong democrats should take heart at this reluctance, however momentary: It is a reason for the opposition — especially the younger generation steeled by the Umbrella Revolution — to regroup and for the public to get ready to rally again in defense of Hong Kong's freedoms.
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ALBANY — As lawmakers and lobbyists filed into the New York State Capitol on Tuesday, they steeled themselves for two possible crises: a continuing stalemate on the penultimate day of the year's legislative session, and a rumored interruption of service at the ground-floor Dunkin' Donuts.
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Based on dozens of conversations with Republican and Democratic leaders, lawmakers and political aides by CNN's teams on Capitol Hill and in the White House, it reveals how House GOP members finally steeled themselves to overcome the infighting and inaction that tarnished Trump's First 100 Days.
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Washington (CNN)White House aides who steeled themselves for what President Donald Trump would say when he finally addressed the sexual assault allegation against his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were quietly stunned when Trump said the process should be followed and the accuser should be heard.
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Genz steeled himself for the possibility that he might have to intervene for safety's sake, even if this was the best chance that he and his colleagues might ever get to unravel the scientific mysteries of wave-piloting — and Kelen's best chance to rally support for preserving it.
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I steeled myself internally to do what has become second nature to me since taking my job as head of the nation's oldest political organization fighting for abortion rights, NARAL – to find the patience to try to steer the conversation away from platitudes and towards data, away from polemics and towards reality.
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Russia Dispatch LISTVYANKA, Russia — When Andrei Sukhanov saw that the Chinese-owned hotel rising next door was about to obstruct the sweeping view of Lake Baikal from his small, rustic motel, he steeled himself with a shot of vodka, grabbed his chain saw and chopped down eight wooden pillars buttressing the construction.
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CAMBRIDGE, England — His indomitable will steeled by a dozen years in the Soviet gulag, decades of sparring with the K.G.B. and a bout of near fatal heart disease, Vladimir K. Bukovsky, a tireless opponent of Soviet leaders and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is not a man easily put off his stride.
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I steeled myself against such conventions as Gurira's play got under way and predictable situations were trotted out, such as the toothsome, self-consciously liberal Chris showing up moments after Marvelous's other sister, a strict Africanist named Anne (Myra Lucretia Taylor, who knows that she has a job to do and does it), deplanes from Zimbabwe.
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These well-steeled and long-standing lies have long been a staple of Russian active measures and disinformation that seek to implicate not just the CIA and U.S. government as supporters of terrorism (when in fact Moscow supports the Taliban, Hezbollah and earlier the FARC as well as terrorism in Ukraine) but also to impugn the reputation of these international cargo carriers.
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I remember eating a large breakfast and sitting and staring as the warmth of it filled my stomach and the bodies hovered around me variously eating or waking up or becoming adjusted to the surrounding scape and I felt the sleepiness that comes from being overfull after months and months and more of regulated metabolism and though I could've vomited I steeled myself against retch and hunched over to stare at my still-wet feet in sandals.
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" But he did note that when he has recently talked to Marines in the field, he warned they had to be ready to fight: "When they train, they have to keep in the back of their mind, they have to be (ready) physically, mentally, and always their spirit has to be steeled and ready for serious conflict that's going to test them beyond anything they have ever done in their lives, that was my only intent.
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