It fit me perfect, because I always wanted to be somebody that was like a strong arm in it but silently the strong arm.
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Barletta said Trump is patient and won't "strong arm" Ryan.
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When trying to strong-arm demography, they have an awful record.
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These same strong-arm tactics are in play today by Rep.
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Consumer advocates see a strong-arm strategy to change liability law.
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Lucky for the company, it has a strong arm in Aerie.
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I've got my strong arm and a bag full of mail.
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He's been booked for robbery/strong-arm and criminal mischief over $1,000.
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"I was always a kid who had a strong arm," Burris recalled.
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Maduro's new penchant for strong-arm tactics could see his rival arrested.
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In reality the investigation is intended to strong-arm trading partners into concessions.
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An intense effort to strong-arm the Ukrainians proceeded over the ensuing days.
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"To protect themselves, they strong-arm people on the street," the official said.
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The White House's brief attempt to strong-arm negotiations on Capitol Hill fizzled.
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Both America and Taiwan have bristled at China's attempt to strong-arm the airlines.
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So, should you let your "intuition" strong-arm you into ordering the chicken parm?
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Tillerson could bring that same strong-arm approach to Venezuela as America's top diplomat.
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But it wasn't the first time the publisher had pulled these strong-arm tactics.
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"I am no stranger to political pressure and to strong-arm tactics," Grassley said.
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He commands the strong arm of the law, backed by every advantage in life.
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The child's head, sunburned under the blond velvet, rested on the woman's strong arm.
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Party leaders have long worked to strong-arm legislators disinclined to toe the line.
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"With these strong-arm tactics, Chairman Pai is showing his true stripes," Wood added.
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He's going to kind of strong-arm the car to do what he wants.
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Mainstream gay activists abhorred Weinstein's strong-arm tactics, fearing he might alienate suburban voters.
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You might be able to strong-arm them but it don't work with me.
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Hicks had a very strong arm, but every throw naturally tailed to the right.
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I've had some jobs try to strong arm me, but it's like buying a car.
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We've seen what happens when people try to strong arm Claire, and it's never pretty.
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He's also said pharmacies should be free from "strong-arm tactics" by death penalty opponents.
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"Day 1 all good," he wrote, adding strong-arm, pregnant woman and Vulcan salute emojis.
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Asked if he heard that the Texans were trying to strong-arm McCarthy, GOP Rep.
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The Devil's Right Hand Religious fanatics in Russia want to strong-arm metal bands into silence.
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At town hall meetings, angry citizens both black and white complain about the strong-arm tactics.
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But they will have to strong-arm smaller, low-tax countries, which have most to lose.
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His strong arm and quick release should help him reach the Rams' collection of middling receivers.
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The faith of the American people in justice free from strong-arm politics has been shaken.
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While control over security forces remains essential in the autocratic playbook, overt strong-arm tactics aren't.
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But they disagree with the President Trump's strong-arm tactics, such as tariffs to pressure China.
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His surgically repaired shoulder reduced a once-strong arm to making Terry Leach-style submarine throws.
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The Trump administration has sought to strong arm "sanctuary" jurisdictions into compliance, but had little success.
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They both suppress dissent, neutralize rivals, strong arm the press, and refuse to answer legitimate questions.
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Accusations of strong-arm tactics echo in El Alto, a large, indigenous city high in the Andes.
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Name: Bewear Type: Normal/Fighting Bewear is the Strong Arm Pokémon that must never be approached carelessly.
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Strong-arm tactics, the EU hopes, will speed up a process that has already taken four years.
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Every year Google tries a different tactic to strong-arm manufacturers and carriers into updating their phones.
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But human rights advocates say that ASEAN's neighborliness should not be used to justify strong-arm politics.
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"He had a strong arm and had a lot of power," said the other scout, Stephen Hargett.
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In the meeting, the Saudis appeared to gamble that they could strong-arm Russia, and lost spectacularly.
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The Trump administration's goal is to strong-arm families into accepting deportation to get their children back.
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First, President Sirisena suspended Parliament, which critics saw as an attempt to strong-arm votes for Rajapaksa.
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But too often strong-arm tactics only breed more fighters — and fighters with a desire for revenge.
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The Mets' most impressive escape of the game came in the seventh because of Conforto's strong arm.
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Good speed, strong arm, quick twitch muscles, looks like he has a good feel for the game.
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He was charged with strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief after the incident at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
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Plus, leaking this news to the press felt like a strong-arm pressuring everyone to get on board.
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Reports claim he had to strong-arm Betsy DeVos to go after Obama-era protections of trans students.
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Brooks has denounced Washington Republicans as "swamp critters" who want to "strong-arm" Alabama voters into reelecting Strange.
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Meek's lawyers say she was trying to strong-arm Meek into changing managers to a friend of hers.
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Mackey had been charged a year earlier with strong-arm robbery, a felony, and then convicted, Franco says.
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He was charged with strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief after the incident at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
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The two male juveniles were transported and booked at the San Bernardino Juvenile Hall for strong-arm robbery.
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Known for his strong arm, Cespedes threw from the outfield to home plate this week, according to Rojas.
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She swept the books off the octagonal table with a strong arm, sending them crashing to the floor.
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Critics say Google's latest move is another attempt to strong-arm the process and intimidate possible witnesses. 4.
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It is difficult, in the best of circumstances, to strong-arm an octogenarian war hero battling brain cancer.
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He said his neighbors call him the "strong arm of the law," a play on his last name.
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" Fradkin added that he believes "the strong-arm tactics" used during Pilkington's interrogation "were not only insensitive, but cruel.
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This is another strong arm tactic and that&aposs what they are trying to do and they are desperate.
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Some autocratic leaders continue to use traditional strong-arm tactics, like declaring states of emergency, to enable further repression.
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"This is just another one of those issues where we have to strong-arm them into listening to us."
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States had been using license revocation as a tool to strong-arm debtors into restarting payments on their loans.
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Moreover, the North Koreans are just as likely to resist Chinese strong-arm tactics as they are American pressure.
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He's not trying to just strong-arm it and make it happen without involvement of the Senate and Congress.
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You cannot strong-arm me either into writing such a report for you or withholding one from someone else.
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"Look, I don't want to talk about it," he said, asking me to strong-arm one person in particular.
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Mr. Modi's makeover as a strong-arm champion of the poor is thus tapping into India's fundamentally socialist DNA.
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That's partly why Trump believed China could strong-arm North Korea into halting its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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BTW ... Marvin's known in the underground hip-hop world as Krondon -- and belongs to the group Strong Arm Steady.
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These companies have the best design expertise, top-notch construction-management teams and the ability to strong-arm materials suppliers.
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But before Chun stepped down, he had already used strong-arm tactics to ready the country for its global debut.
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The anarchists laughed as their handiwork withstood the strong arm of the law, driving the bailiffs to weaker doors downstairs.
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If it all starts to go wrong, his strong-arm foreign policy could begin to look like a political mistake.
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Journalists and leaders of civic groups say the government is using increasingly strong-arm tactics in its crackdown on dissent.
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He was a strong player with a strong arm who did not get in trouble on or off the field.
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Meanwhile, Senate Democrats have a plan to try to strong-arm Republicans into a vote to end the partial shutdown.
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Trump is likely hoping that using the U.S. trade surplus to strong-arm China will bring Beijing to its knees.
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Countries from Iran to Cuba to China now have increased motivation to retaliate against sanctions and his strong-arm tactics.
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Developed by the molecular gastronomist Hervé This, it requires only good bittersweet chocolate, fleur de sel and a strong arm.
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Behind the plate he's got a strong arm and quick release, and should be able to hold runners at bay.
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Lighthizer is considering strong-arm tactics in part because there are huge time constraints on settling on a new deal.
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Outside the government, however, many observers saw it as yet another strong-arm move by Mr. Maduro to consolidate power.
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By contrast, the protests this year have been peaceful, allowed to proceed unimpeded by the strong arm of the government.
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He can use the extraordinary force of his office to strong-arm other countries into serving as his political pawns.
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As you know, Conor was arrested and booked for robbery/strong-arm and criminal mischief, and made bail Monday night.
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The argument was that AT&T would strong-arm its cable competitors into paying higher carriage fees for its network content.
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But his proposals to redress this balance would see the state strong-arm its way deeply into the economy (see article).
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At that point, Clinton will start to strong-arm the liberal left as she moves rightward to appeal to centrist voters.
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Iridian's shield stance, with her bent knees, feet apart, strong arm raised, and hard, dark eyes was a thing to behold.
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See, for example, Germany's Federal Cartel Office accusing Facebook of using its size to strong-arm users into handing over data.
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She vividly detailed the shadow campaign Giuliani conducted to strong-arm Ukraine into acceding to Trump's demands for politically motivated investigations.
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But leaders in both parties are approaching Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump gingerly, fearful that strong-arm tactics might foster resentment.
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The number one overall pick in the 2015 draft, Winston had a strong arm but threw a league high 30 interceptions.
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They certainly need to resist the T.V.A.'s recent efforts to strong-arm them into signing new 20-year power contracts.
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A transfer from Ohio State and the son of a college defensive coordinator, Burrow has showcased his athleticism and a strong arm.
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Critics of Sirisena's maneuvering say he's delayed the reconvening of Parliament in an attempt to rally and strong-arm votes for Rajapaksa.
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The strong-arm tactic annoyed campaign operatives, but every active Republican hopeful, except soon-to-be-dropout George Pataki, made the trip.
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In that case, the court held 6-2 that the government cannot strong-arm organisations into adopting its views by withholding funding.
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He shut down the government last year in a bid to strong-arm the Democrats to fund his promised southern border-wall.
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"With these strong-arm tactics, Chairman Pai is showing his true stripes," the advocacy group Free Press said in a recent statement.
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"He was using his office to basically blackmail and strong-arm individuals into not disclosing any of his extramarital affairs," Henry said.
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But, as the bill began to falter, Trump met with House Republicans to try to strong-arm them into supporting the plan.
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The government, in short, has a financial incentive to strong-arm mayors into reopening towns before they're ready, or even properly decontaminated.
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So, the bigger strategy is coming together: MoviePass wants to strong-arm uncooperative theaters into sharing revenue when it demonstrates increased sales.
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Trump's focus on Attorney General Jeff Sessions during last week's health care debate, and his strong-arm attempt to persuade Alaska Sen.
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Since January, China has turned to its usual battery of economic, diplomatic and strong-arm methods to bring Ms Tsai into line.
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White House attempts to strong-arm the press into ignoring the rampant corruption of TrumpWorks have been ugly without being particularly successful.
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Strong-arm tactics North Korea's current hand is a strong one, even if the potential risks of overplaying it are very real.
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Even as Obama urged change, he pledged to Cubans that they had no reason to fear U.S. attempts to strong-arm them.
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Stuart Diamond, a professor who teaches negotiation at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, said Trump's strong-arm tactics backfired.
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The strong-arm techniques are in stark contrast to the days when David Cameron ran the party, and Eurosceptic rebels ran amok.
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If the A.K.P. claims victory, it will be tainted from the outset and ascribed to strong-arm tactics, feeding more popular anger.
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Frazier has a strong arm, but this throw was wide of home plate and catcher Austin Romine darted over to stop it.
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" The prime minister, he said, "has run down the clock in a cynical attempt to strong-arm members into backing her agreement.
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Trump has a made a habit of trying to strong-arm companies into bending to his will and attacking them by name.
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Trump is unacceptable in every possible way, and must continue to be met at every turn with the strong arm of defiance.
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The programs should help strong-arm the economy from falling into a depression, due to government-ordered business closures and isolation mandates.
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The two articles of impeachment relate to the president's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine to deliver politically motivated investigations targeting his rivals.
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The National Enquirer tried to "strong-arm an American citizen whom [Saudi] leadership wanted harmed, compromised, and silenced," according to de Becker.
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The fantasy that the Saudis could bribe or strong-arm the Palestinians to accept a Kushner-constructed peace agreement is now officially dead.
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The fate of the healthcare bill is unknowable after yesterday's embarrassing delay and President Trump's strong-arm gamble of demanding a vote today.
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The charges related to his effort to strong-arm Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election and his subsequent stonewalling of Congress' investigation.
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European Union leaders balked at attempts by the State Department to strong-arm European companies into cutting ties with Iran 20 years ago.
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Their supporters feel like their nations are "on the brink of disaster" and they need tight rules and strong-arm rules to survive.
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Russian and American diplomats are talking about shared goals, and both countries finally seem willing to strong-arm their clients to the table.
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As capable as Petty looked at times, displaying a strong arm and a gunslinger's ease around the pocket, there was shakiness there, too.
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"The Cruz campaign tried to strong-arm and bully people, and they lost everything," Kasich told reporters in Albany, N.Y., while discussing Michigan.
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His business tactic has always been to strong-arm people into a corner and force them to accept his terms or walk away.
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Mr. Trump helped his allies in Congress to strong-arm the Justice Department to hand over internal documents related to the Russia inquiry.
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Lefevre said Richard Thornn, creative director of NAMES LDN and producer of the show, tried to strong-arm her into wearing the prosthetics.
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I find it almost comical to see Bharara put on a straight face and present the outcome of strong-arm bullying as "voluntary" confession.
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Populism, the far right, and strong-arm leaders are on the rise, globalization is fading, and public trust in governments and institutions is waning.
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At the same time, local gangsters learned of Popov's online scamming and began showing up at his apartment to strong-arm him for cash.
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But Kohler's attorney, Robbie Kaplan, said in a statement that Ratner's lawsuit was just another tactic to strong-arm his alleged victims into silence.
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Oxfam has accused the European Union of using African aid and development funding to strong-arm African countries into limiting migration to the continent.
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Under third-generation strong-arm ruler Kim Jong Un, missile tests have become more frequent, straining relations with South Korea and the United States.
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The president appears to be seeking to strong-arm the Bureau, scare White House staffers, silence Congress, stanch the leaks, and stop the press.
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The report documents three separate occasions when Trump attempted to strong-arm then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions into launching a criminal investigation into Clinton.
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" An op-ed by the Wall Street Journal called the campaign a "strong-arm" tactic and suggested, "It isn't clear this is even legal.
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At the same time, some of Sanders's supporters have accused the DNC of trying to strong-arm the Vermont senator into joining the party.
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Critics say the bizarre episode with Hariri was early evidence of Prince Mohammed's strong-arm tactics that are even more apparent after Khashoggi's killing.
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In that setting, a fake monk using strong-arm tactics would be called out because such approaches are so outside traditional practices, he said.
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" "The AMA agrees with Judge [Amy Berman] Jackson's conclusion that Anthem's strategy of gaining size to strong-arm physicians would not have benefited consumers.
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"We'll see whether [leadership] can strong-arm, coerce, buy off—whatever else it is they do behind closed doors—to get support," she said.
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Those tariffs, which stemmed from a Commerce Department investigation similar to the one involving cars, are seen in Brussels as a strong-arm tactic.
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"With these strong-arm tactics, Chairman Pai is showing his true stripes," said Matt Wood, the policy director at the consumer group Free Press.
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But his edifice of power turned out to be fragile and dated, built on strong-arm rule, cronyism and an alliance with the West.
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But his edifice of power turned out to be fragile and dated, built on strong-arm rule, cronyism and an alliance with the West.
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The National Enquirer tried to "strong-arm an American citizen whom[Saudi Arabia's] country's leadership wanted harmed, compromised, and silenced," according to de Becker.
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He has excellent range in the outfield, a strong arm and decent power, and he hits for average, gets on base and runs well.
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What they can do, however, is try to strong-arm health care providers into deciding to stop their abortion services to avoid losing other funding.
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It was also a way "to creatively strong-arm [myself] into making a film," Bulckaert, also a founding member of Yellowknife's Artless Collective, told VICE.
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President Donald Trump sent no tweets, set no deadlines and issued no public ultimatums to strong arm Republican support for a bill to repeal Obamacare.
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Then he showed off his strong arm with a one-hop throw to the plate, preventing 1553B Dixon Machado from trying to score from third.
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In their lawsuit, the organizations asked for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction prohibiting the police from using strong-arm tactics against protesters.
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Police used that piece to make the case that Brown took part in a strong-arm robbery of the store just hours before the shooting.
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"They put this witness on the stand to say Menendez's tone was to strong-arm the government into doing something," Mr. Ogrosky told the judge.
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He explained, "We followed the President's orders" while carrying out a wide-ranging effort to strong-arm Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, into aiding Trump's reëlection.
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Those who are not already gang members are vulnerable to the strong-arm recruiting efforts of MS-13 in the county, law enforcement agents said.
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Given the new administration's hostility to dissenting voices and willingness to strong-arm corporations, we need independent and responsible media outlets more than ever before.
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The paper said the concert promoter will face allegations that it has sought to strong-arm venues into using its Ticketmaster subsidiary for ticket sales.
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Japanese antitrust law bars companies from taking advantage of their dominant market position to strong-arm businesses they partner with into accepting unfair trade conditions.
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He might have been the top pick in the N.F.L. draft, an athletic left-hander with impeccable accuracy, a strong arm and consistently astute decisions.
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McGregor was booked for robbery/strong-arm and criminal mischief over $1,000 -- and the first charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
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But as the New York Times noted in 2015, some loopholes — like domestic air travel — have let the federal government strong-arm states into compliance.
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Because Trump sees nothing wrong with using his perch as the President of the United States to strong-arm world leaders into doing his political bidding.
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Certain elements can be hits-driven, such as original content, but Apple has so much power and weight that it can strong-arm exclusive music deals.
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In the meantime, President Trump has been trying to strong-arm the Fed to put the U.S. on a "level playing field" by lowering interest rates.
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The president could also cause problems for Xi by formally investigating Chinese entities who administration officials say strong-arm U.S. companies into divulging proprietary intellectual property.
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Mankiewicz famously fought with Welles over their collaboration, and Welles supposedly even tried to strong-arm the screenwriter into giving him sole credit, but Mankiewicz refused.
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While the courts have yet to fully weigh in, the commission has had mixed success in limiting the ability of employers to strong-arm their workers.
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At a hearing last month Kennedy suggested the White House was using strong arm tactics to push its own candidates onto some unwilling home state senators.
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"They are trying to strong arm us," Mr. Jackson wrote after meeting with Ms. Hamnett, who presented him with a draft petition to ban the pesticide.
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The Trump administration must not choose drastic and destabilizing steps to put further pressure on Turkey or strong-arm allies into playing along with its decisions.
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The president seems to think that tariffs will strong-arm manufacturers and suppliers into basing more production in America, or somehow get Europeans to buy Chevys.
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Hundreds of apartment buildings went up, sometimes on purchased plots, sometimes on vacant lots that strong-arm characters claimed and dared anyone to evict them from.
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"I call it a perfect call, because it was," he said of his attempts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government to do political favors for him.
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Both articles of impeachment relate to the president's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations targeting his rival ahead of the 2020 election.
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The paper said the concert promoter will face allegations that it has sought to strong arm concern venues into using its Ticketmaster subsidiary for ticket sales.
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She also claims that the group have attempted to "strong-arm" his estate into turning over seven recordings, which were made before Cornell's death in 2017.
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In the background, Trump had frozen American aid to Ukraine, a strong-arm move that some on the internet pointed out would make Tony Soprano proud.
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The market chatter is that the government will strong-arm Deutsche Bank into a merger with its Frankfurt crosstown rival Commerzbank, which also has major problems.
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But she has also been the subject of strong-arm tactics and often-vile abuse, with threats so serious that she has had to hire security.
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Perhaps more than any other website, Amazon is responsible for the era of unmitigated convenience—an era defined by shitty labor practices and strong-arm tactics.16.
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In his efforts to strong-arm other countries, Trump has often petulantly walked away from the negotiating table or struggled to sit down in the first place.
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They quickly learn they're a group of criminals assigned to strong-arm a mining colony that recently had a falling-out with a company called Ferrous Corp.
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Lately, he has found his office faced with accusations of employing strong-arm tactics, using questionable surveillance methods and making prosecutorial decisions colored by local political considerations.
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Instead, the administration seems to want the best of all worlds; using the WTO when it suits it, while putting its energy into bilateral strong-arm tactics.
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Yet any move by the government to strong-arm the board into cancelling the Istanbul vote risks destroying one of the last remaining pillars of Turkey's democracy.
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The researchers note that China does not directly control the miners operating in its territory, though it certainly can influence or strong-arm them in certain ways.
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There will be a crackdown on extremist websites, hardliners will be kept from working with children, and the state will strong-arm councils failing to tackle radicalisation.
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In the interview with the warden, he said it—the guards are outnumbered 35-to-1, so they couldn't possibly strong arm order if they wanted to.
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Yovanovitch took aim at Trump and Giuliani and said they carried out a "smear campaign" to oust her because she refused to help them strong-arm Ukraine.
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Xi messed up in the beginning but has countered with a massive crackdown on movement that Trump lacks the technology or the strong arm tactics to achieve.
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Luck, who showed a strong arm despite missing all of 2017 with shoulder issues, has thrown a touchdown in 28 successive games, most of any current quarterback.
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The Saudis have thus been enthusiastic backers of Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign, which was meant, among other things, to strong-arm Iran into ending such support.
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Both articles of impeachment relate to Trump's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering politically motivated investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Bide and the Democratic Party.
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Senate Republicans also say strong-arm tactics from the White House backfired, making it harder to cobble together votes and have left bad feelings in the caucus.
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Covert influence campaigns have become a favored tool in countries like China and Russia, where the manipulation of social media accompanies strong-arm tactics on the streets.
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He had been convicted five times for strong-arm robbery in South Carolina, including one charge that resulted in a 15-year prison sentence, federal prosecutors said.
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Gilmore, who in 2001 served as chairman of the Republican National Committee, said that "strong-arm tactics" at Virginia's state convention over the weekend forced him out.
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Japan has used its fair share of strong-arm tactics to deal with the homeless, but then it introduced a big urban reform in the early 2000s.
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As has become typical for American trade deals, one big thing we did was strong-arm our trade partners into adopting America's super-long copyright term rules.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered meat-eating dinosaur that prowled Argentina 90 million years ago would have had a hard time using strong-arm tactics against its prey.
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Disney has already shown that it's willing to strong-arm the struggling cinema industry by making unprecedented demands from theaters that want to show the new Star Wars.
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Mnangagwa was elected a year ago on a promise of breaking with the strong-arm tactics that characterized Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule, and engineering an economic upturn.
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While Trump certainly had a case as far as making the trade relationship more equitable, his strong-arm tactics have so far failed to achieve his desired goals.
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Altman makes her case in a provocative new book, "The Truth About Social Security: The Founders' Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings" (Strong Arm Press).
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Turkish security services brought their strong-arm tactics to Washington on Thursday, roughing up protesters, journalists and even D.C. police before a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Later in the day, Miami Beach Police found McGregor arrested him and charged him with strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief, Miami Beach spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez told PEOPLE.
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If Spanish authorities hoped strong-arm tactics against the referendum independence for Catalonia would nip nationalist feeling in the bud, they will almost certainly be proved badly wrong.
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Officials have said that it looks like the agreement is meant to strong-arm Mexico into accepting a similar one with the US. Read more on Business Insider.
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Beyond questions of appearances, a non-corrupt president would want to separate himself from ownership of operating businesses precisely in order to insulate himself from strong-arm tactics.
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He's trying to strong-arm Trump into a pardon The President has already shown a willingness to use his pardoning power when it comes to high-profile people.
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Several well-placed UN diplomats told Human Rights Watch that China used strong-arm tactics to pressure countries to back the Belarus statement, including threats of economic retaliation.
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Opening with "Strong-Arm," the record shows the band at peak form, writing truly chaotic songs that, even when they pull back a bit, are still fully consuming.
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As we reported, Conor was arrested for robbery/strong-arm and criminal mischief over $1,000 in Miami Monday morning for smashing a fan's cellphone and then taking it.
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Any legal challenge to 1L2C already seems dead in the water, partly because Ms. Lam is moving fast to get the project through, using unusual strong-arm tactics.
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Not with demagogic chants of "Lock her up," nor with quiet attempts to strong-arm an ally for the sake of digging up dirt on an American citizen.
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When Olivia Benson or Elliot Stabler strong-arm—or just straight-up beat the shit out of—a "perp," it's presented as a necessary means to an ends.
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But beyond a barometer of antitrust, the deal is also being closely watched for Mr. Trump's strong-arm approach to media — particularly to organizations whose coverage he dislikes.
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But it isn't only the residents directly affected by the project, and complaining of strong-arm tactics, who object to the way the development is being carried out.
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Covert influence campaigns have become a favored tool in countries such as China and Russia, where the manipulation of social media accompanies strong-arm tactics on the streets.
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The United States has floated the idea of requiring all countries to cut economic links with North Korea to try to strong-arm Pyongyang into changing its behaviour.
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During a nearly 40-year strong-arm rule, Franco had suppressed the use of such languages as Catalan and Basque in the northeast and Galician in the Northwest.
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"Physicians want the ability to negotiate fairly with larger health insurers without fear of strong-arm tactics that antagonize patients," McAneny said in a written statement to CNN.
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The United States has floated the idea of requiring all countries to cut economic links with North Korea to try to strong-arm Pyongyang into changing its behavior.
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The scandal unveiled a history of harassment in Murphy's office, including an abusive chief of staff who established a toxic work environment of mental abuse and strong-arm leadership.
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That he would respond equally poorly to strong arm tactics on trade would have been obvious to any longterm observers of Trump except, it turns out, those in Beijing.
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His order was quickly halted by the federal courts in a first showdown between his strong-arm executive powers and the judiciary -- leading Trump to belittle judges on Twitter.
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In preliminary findings at the end of last year, for example, Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Facebook of using its size to strong-arm users into handing over data.
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But he has also come under fire from rights groups and foreign governments for employing strong-arm tactics to stamp out political dissent, making Thursday's small protest particularly noteworthy.
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They reported deceptive marketing; strong-arm recruitment tactics; misleading information about costs, courses, graduation and job placement rates; inflated enrollment numbers; bait-and-switch schemes; subpar instruction; and more.
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The strong-arm tactics by Flake are rankling some of his colleagues, who are having their state's nominees left in limbo because of a fight that doesn't involve them.
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In another piece Monday, the newspaper criticized Washington's "strong-arm and arbitrary practices, interference and wars of aggression," in a comparatively restrained statement which did not include any threats.
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Taylor and Kent are expected to vividly detail Trump's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering political dirt while holding up vital military aid and a White House meeting.
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Two career foreign-service officers laid out a devastating portrait on Wednesday of President Donald Trump's efforts to strong-arm an ally into delivering political dirt on a rival.
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Wearing one on top of another shirt lets you get more mileage out of your more delicate tops — sort of like a fancied up version of the Strong Arm.
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That trickled over into the company's popular perception, as Microsoft customers and developers came to think of it as a company focused on strong-arm sales tactics, not innovation.
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Pamela S. Karlan, a Stanford law professor, told lawmakers that the president's attempt to "strong arm a foreign leader" would not be considered politics as usual by historical standards.
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Trump has been unable to strong-arm the company into keeping operations open, and given the importance Ohio will have in his reelection bid, he's clearly concerned about it.
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But Mr. Prayuth, or other generals, would be resorting to such strong-arm tactics at their own risk, for opposition to their regime is deepening and becoming more sophisticated.
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And some have started to mistrust the manufacturer, worried that it may try to use its power to strong-arm a developing-world airline as the crash investigation continues.
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And it raises a number of questions about the American economy, the future of Trump's efforts to revise NAFTA, and what impact strong-arm tactics will have on Mexican politics.
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Who holds him accountable for battles he's lost in court or the number of small business owners that allege he uses aggressive and strong-arm tactics to rip off vendors?
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One case involves $630 million once controlled by the late Sani Abacha, the strong-arm Nigerian general who ran the country in the 703s and reportedly took billions from it.
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This time, the union has resorted to strong-arm methods that have been described as terrorist by Pierre Gattaz, president of the Medef, the main business lobbying group in France.
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And no previous American president has expressed such admiration for the prevailing political system in Moscow, as Trump has in his public appreciation of the strong-arm characteristics of Putinism.
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The case is part of a legal campaign by the city and state against landlords who strong-arm rent-regulated tenants out of affordable housing in order to raise rents.
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The public will get a window into what House Democrats paint as an insidious campaign by the president and his allies to strong-arm an ally into delivering political dirt.
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As for the legislative filibuster, Republicans would be making a big mistake if they used strong arm tactics to ignore the cloture rule, Rule XXII of the Senate's standing rules.
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Justice Department attorneys originally tried to argue that the DEA could neither confirm nor deny Skinner's status as a government informant, a strong-arm move typically employed by the CIA.
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Although lobbyists from the baby food industry attended the meetings in Geneva, health advocates said they saw no direct evidence that they played a role in Washington's strong-arm tactics.
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Even some national Democratic leaders have criticized the plan, fearing that it undercuts Democratic efforts to attack what they term Republican strong-arm tactics in state capitals across the country.
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The House's impeachment inquiry concluded that the ambassador was ultimately removed in 2019 as part of Mr. Trump's attempt to strong-arm Ukraine to announce investigations of his political adversaries.
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"You're missing a very good shortstop with an extremely strong arm that hit 20-plus homers that you feel is growing as an offensive player," Girardi said Monday of Gregorius.
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Time and again during the impeachment hearings, House Republicans sought to distract from, or even justify, Mr. Trump's attempt to strong-arm Ukraine by floating the specter of Ukrainian saboteurs.
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Still, his showing here suggests that he might have inherited some of Yoenis's attributes, including quick hands, that strong arm and an ability to hit the ball the other way.
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They should be for strong workers, not strong walls; for building strong communities, not relying on a strongman to strong-arm employers; and for strong standards to create strong companies.
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Some analysts believe, US is taking so-called "compulsory strategy", which is strong arm tactics, means by taking a tough stance and threatening attitude to force the other into compliance.
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Now it seems like he wasn't just requesting Zelensky investigate Biden; it looks like he was unsubtly trying to strong-arm him into doing it by leveraging US military assistance.
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Richard Gere is the victim of an extortion plot by a small production company trying to strong-arm him out of half a million bucks ... according to a new suit.
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Vindman catapulted into the national spotlight last year when he offered damning, firsthand testimony of President Donald Trump's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering politically motivated investigations against his rivals.
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"The DOJ should be enlisted and expected to investigate the overwhelming reports and videos demonstrating clear strong-arm tactics, abuses and unlawful arrests by law enforcement," Chairman Dave Archambault II said.
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McGregor, who holds UFC belts in two divisions, was arrested by Miami Beach Police and charged with strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief after the incident at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
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As Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Inquirer pointed out, Wentz offers a strong arm, accuracy, the ability to make plays with his running and reigns as a recognized leader when healthy.
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The music industry tried to strong-arm a replacement for Napster in the market, just as it strong-armed gold records out of artists who had a single and nine demos.
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Having used some shady, strong-arm tactics, huge corporate donations, and more than a little help from the supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee, she alienated many of her primary opponent's supporters.
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Tong Zhao, a fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing, said the visit was unlikely to be an attempt to strong arm Pyongyang over its nuclear program.
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After that, Republicans used strong-arm tactics — like threatening to default on the nation's debt — to impose federal budget cuts, even though the recession-damaged economy required more spending, not less.
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Justin Theroux's neighbor is trying to strong-arm neighbors caught in the middle of their property war ... according to Justin, who says it's gotten so scary he needs court-ordered protection.
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"The Constitution is not a suicide pact," the lead House impeachment manager, Adam Schiff, said after detailing President Trump's repeated efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into pursuing the investigations he wanted.
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If Trump had been hoping to strong-arm the Taliban into accepting last-minute changes, or to stage a public rapprochement between them and Ghani, he grossly underestimated the situation's delicacy.
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The oversight board, which was set up in 2016, has also engaged in strong-arm negotiations, including challenging the supremacy of general-obligation creditors, who are accustomed to being paid first.
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Specifically, Parnas and Giuliani were instrumental in Trump&aposs efforts to strong-arm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into publicly committing to investigations that would be beneficial to Trump&aposs reelection campaign.
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Robin meted-out "justice" against the corrupt taxation by Prince John and the strong-arm tactics of the Sheriff of Knottingham by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.
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Tenichia Wafford is wanted because cops say she tried to strong-arm the alleged victim into dropping charges that Mystikal and another man raped her in October of last year in Louisiana.
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But many of the workers I spoke to described strong-arm tactics of one kind or another being used to pressure them into leaving early without pay, supposedly of their own volition.
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Despite multiple deadline extensions and some strong arm tactics, creditors tendered just US$2.8bn of outstanding 2017s for about US$3.37bn of new 2020s backed by shares of PDVSA's US unit Citgo.
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When Richard has a coffee meeting with Kira, he tries to strong arm her into a deal, demanding she fire 18 of her beloved employees if she wants to save her brainchild.
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In private conversations on Capitol Hill, senior Democrats are weighing how to persuade Sanders to step aside without appearing as if they are trying to strong-arm him out of the race.
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"You need these strong-arm presidents to make the tough decisions like this," said Aaron Gifford, an emerging markets analyst at T. Rowe Price, calling the president a "fanatic" on cost-cutting.
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The movie will be a crime thriller about two cops (Gibson and Vaughn) who are suspended from their department when "a video of their strong-arm tactics gets wide attention," Variety writes.
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"It is absolutely essential for President al-Sisi to reject this strong-arm maneuver by parliament and assert his prerogative to draft a new law with input from Egyptian organizations," Whitson said.
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Security forces dispersed demonstrations by force and cracked down on activists, leading to fears that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reverting to the strong-arm politics seen during Mugabe's 37-year rule.
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Opinion Until recently, I had never had any dealings with Wildlife Services, a century-old agency of the United States Department of Agriculture with a reputation for strong-arm tactics and secrecy.
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It will have even more power to strong-arm independent distributors not to carry rival brands and exert pressure on retailers to cut back on, or even refuse to carry, competitive brands.
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But the strong-arm tactics have sapped a lot of energy out of domestic and offshore yuan markets, and it's unclear how sustainable the strategy will be if the dollar is rising.
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The risk is that when this happens, the White House will resort to drastic and destabilizing steps to put further pressure on Turkey, then seek to strong-arm allies into playing along.
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Once a red carpet stalwart, thanks in part to Harvey Weinstein and his understanding of film-fashion synergies and strong-arm tactics, the label has been conspicuously absent from the awards shows.
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While a convoy might appear like a strong-arm tactic to intimidate people, the convoy as a protest tool actually enjoys unique pride of place in recent community-led organizing in Hawaii.
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Jason Heyward's bat remained dormant, but he made a difficult running catch in the fourth inning and showed off his strong arm by throwing out Perez at second base in the ninth.
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The lawsuit accuses the de Blasio administration's Special One-Time Assistance, or SOTA, program of using strong-arm tactics to send people across the Hudson River to find a place to live.
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The Chinese government has been coming down hard on reining in systemic risks, using strong-arm tactics such as the recent state takeover of Anbang Insurance Group, which was aggressively expanding internationally.
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It's a radical new strong-arm approach for the WFP, which is mainly funded by governments, with the United States being the largest donor in 2018, when it contributed more than $20153 billion.
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The EU suggested that Amazon was using its dominant position in the market to strong-arm publishers into signing these contracts, while ensuring that rival distributers could never offer better deals to consumers.
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It went too far, the EFF said, setting a precedent eerily similar to previously proposed legislation would've worked: ACS theoretically could strong-arm any service that could be seen as aiding Sci-Hub.
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Huawei has strongly denied any involvement in espionage and argued that the U.S. government is simply trying to strong-arm the company because it is beating the competition in the race to 5G.
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Mahathir, dubbed the "Father of Modern Malaysia" during his previous 22 years in power until 2003, was known for his strong-arm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule, marked by an intolerance for dissent.
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Last March, he was charged with strong arm robbery and criminal mischief by Miami Beach police after allegedly taking and smashing the phone of a fan who was trying to take a photo.
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Mahathir, dubbed the "Father of Modern Malaysia" during his previous 22 years in power until 2003 was known for his strong-arm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule, marked by an intolerance for dissent.
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Meek's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, also says the judge tried to strong-arm Meek to fire Roc Nation as his manager and hire Charlie Mack, whom Tacopina says is a friend of the judge.
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The segue from winter to spring is filled with too-warm-for-coats, too-chily-for-bare-arms days, which can be remedied by this first move in our playbook: the Strong Arm.
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Today, at a press conference at his attorney's law office, Mejia made the claim that MLB tried to strong arm him into testifying against another player they were suspicious of having used PEDs.
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One Washington Post columnist predicted that "there will be no Trump collapse" while others are expressing concern that Mr. Mueller's investigation — his dawn raids and strong-arm tactics — don't play well in Peoria.
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In a statement on Monday, Trump Hotels, a division of the Trump Organization, accused Mr. Fintiklis of using strong-arm tactics by deploying "a rogue private security team" to take over the hotel.
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SureScripts is facing a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission, which alleges Surescripts violated antitrust law by using its monopoly power to strong-arm pharmacies and other vendors into exclusively using its services.
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Legal and ethical questions abound about the impropriety and even legality of attempting to strong-arm, and then dismissing and threatening, the law enforcement official leading an investigation into your circle of associates.
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Specifically, Trump tried to strong-arm Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations that would hurt former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrats while withholding vital military aid and a White House meeting.
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From one boss to another, I encourage General Motors to drop its strong-arm tactics in these negotiations, including the boneheaded decision last week to cut off health care benefits to striking workers.
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At the center of the proceedings are Trump&aposs efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election by delivering political dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats.
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As well as being redirected toward domestic political ends, EUTF development aid is also increasingly being used as leverage to strong-arm African authorities into cooperating with EU migration demands, according to the report.
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Apple is arguing that conscripting it to write code that will weaken its security will set a chilling legal precedent to allow the government to strong-arm tech companies into weakening their security measures.
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But Salvador says Keith Davidson, an attorney for Manny and Freddie, tried to strong arm him into accepting $50,000 -- and if he didn't he would lose his job and never land any acting gigs.
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But Ryan was able to buy off conservatives with policy concessions, and then use the promise that the House bill was just a placeholder, to strong-arm moderate Republicans—and still lose 20 votes.
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Huawei insiders, for instance, have claimed that the U.S. government occasionally resorted to informal strong-arm tactics to limit their advance, such as pressuring carriers to pull out of doing business with the firm.
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Each time, Trump either used these tactics to pander to his base or to strong-arm congressional Democrats into acceding to his other policy priorities, such as securing funding to build a border wall.
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Given that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey, the President's own admission that he would like to strong arm top US law enforcement agencies may be unwise.
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The report is also being portrayed as an attempt to strong-arm California Governor Jerry Brown into reopening the plant, a former San Diego city attorney named Michael Aguirre told the Los Angeles Times.
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Lodha's politics aid his real estate business, Chandrashekhar Prabhu, a former state housing chief who is now a well-known housing activist, told me, allowing him to use "strong-arm tactics" to acquire land.
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Holmes and Hill gave riveting testimony about what they witnessed in President Donald Trump&aposs pressure campaign to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering political dirt while withholding military aid and a White House meeting.
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In her testimony, Yovanovitch said she believed she had become the target of Giuliani's ire because she would not help him strong-arm the Ukrainian government into delivering the politically motivated investigations Trump wanted.
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Both men gave vivid testimony that blew up Trump's main talking points and detailed his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering political dirt while holding up military aid and a White House meeting.
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According to the emails, members of the Board tried to persuade the FDA to go after Just Mayo for mislabeling and even tried to strong arm Whole Foods into taking the product off shelves.
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The Strong Arm MoveThis trick is so obvious that it shouldn't be a trick at all, but it's still something that, when done right, can transform the way your sleeveless tops and dresses look.
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Trump has banked much of his presidency on bringing manufacturing jobs, specifically, back to the US, and he's tried to strong-arm companies into bending to his will even when economics say they shouldn't.
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The Google flap lays bare his strong-arm tactics and the dangers of being complicit in his crusade against the media, particularly when Americans are trying to make sense of a mushrooming health crisis.
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He is an above-average runner with a strong arm, and while his power might not translate at the professional level, he should have a strong enough overall game to be a big contributor.
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Clearly, though, the frustration has been mounting for Girardi, a former catcher, in seeing Sanchez's repeatedly poor technique or lack of concentration lead to mistakes that cannot be covered up by his strong arm.
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Some worry about a return to strong-arm tactics: in recent days nearly 600 youngsters were indiscriminately rounded up in Jigjiga on vague allegations of criminality and taken out of the city for "rehabilitation".
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But the latest allegations about Trump and Ukraine — allegations that the president tried to strong-arm a foreign power into investigating his potential 2020 rival — seem to be a bridge too far for Democrats.
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Side effects include blockages & blockades, a block-Head-of-State- Your-business-as-usual, a block-head-strong-arm-of-the-law, A block-head-shot-gun-point-and-shoot, down-fall-out shelters.
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The two witnesses — acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and senior State Department official George Kent — offered highly detailed accounts of Trump's attempts to strong-arm Ukraine to damage his own political rival.
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Top Republicans in the House are vowing to use every procedural tool available to them to strong-arm Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and get them to hold a minority hearing on impeachment.
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By carefully hiding arbitration clauses in written employee policies, handbooks and manuals, sophisticated employers strong-arm women into eliminating their collective voice — a critical tool necessary for change, especially where claims of systemic discrimination exist.
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Stephanie Grisham, Trump's press secretary, imperiously announced that the White House would also strong-arm federal agencies to end their subscriptions to the papers, noting that this would be "a significant cost saving" to taxpayers.
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These promises look empty after Ms Wilson-Raybould, an indigenous politician, told the parliamentary justice committee investigating the affair on February 27th that the prime minister and his officials had tried to strong-arm her.
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Protests in Caracas have largely fallen off the world's radar, but Vallenilla's shooting death Thursday at point-blank range brings renewed attention to the strong-arm response by the government of embattled President Nicolas Maduro.
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Pacman Jones thinks he can strong-arm the media into ignoring all of his off-the-field drama -- and he just banned a reporter from locker room interviews for the season to prove his point.
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And there was an "irregular channel" — one of several terms the day's proceedings added to the lexicon of scandal — working, in his testimony, to strong-arm that government into helping President Trump get re-elected.
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They detailed the charges against him and laid out an intricate timeline of his months-long effort to strong-arm Ukraine into acceding to his personal demands, and leveraging official US policy while doing so.
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Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) is criticizing the Obama administration as having tried to strong-arm a former senator who is pushing to declassify 28 pages of the 9/11 report dealing with Saudi Arabia.
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The dramatic change, which has occurred across North China, is partly because of favorable weather conditions in the past three months but it also shows that the government's strong-arm tactics have had an impact.
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Read a book on Exxon like Private Empire, by renowned reporter Steve Coll, and you'll learn about how Exxon has attempted to strong-arm oil rich governments, like Venezuela, and operate private armies around the globe.
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US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the administration's chief trade negotiator, told reporters last week he wants the USMCA to pass with strong bipartisan support, which might not happen if the administration tries to strong-arm Congress.
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Meanwhile, Dany still owns two dragons, and could always strong-arm her way onto the throne if she really wants to — but knowing she doesn't have the absolute moral right anymore will severely undercut her certainty.
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Stanton said he holds no enmity toward Jeter, who tried to strong-arm him into accepting a trade to St. Louis or San Francisco, threatening to hold onto him through a lengthy rebuild of the Marlins.
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The White House surely will portray any congressional denial of federal funds as a temper tantrum imposing harm on the executive branch (and more broadly the American people) to strong-arm compliance with politically-motivated subpoenas.
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While some rank-and-file members have expressed frustration with fellow Republicans for not always falling in line, Ryan is not known to use the same strong-arm tactics as his predecessor, John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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He was arrested several other times as a teenager and as an adult, with charges that included aggravated assault with a weapon, criminal mischief, possession of cocaine and marijuana, and strong arm robbery, the records showed.
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Teachers unions are responding with duplicitous and strong arm tactics, continuing to collect dues from many teachers without their consent, and seeking other means to expand their reach such as the strike effort in Los Angeles.
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Washington (CNN)Republican Senate leaders on Thursday voiced no objections to President Donald Trump's apparent defense of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's strong-arm tactics, instead highlighting their hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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But for the BJP, Adityanath represents a subservient leader who will continue Modi's anti-corruption drive, shore up support within the Hindu base, and strong-arm the civil service to execute Modi's agenda, the note continued.
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The dynamics on impeachment changed instantly after an anonymous whistleblower complaint surfaced in September, which claimed that Trump and his inner circle had sought to strong-arm a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 election.
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President Donald Trump and his supporters want you to believe that the whistleblower who accused him of abusing his office by trying to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into investigating Joe Biden has the facts wrong.
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"It was a very strong-arm kind of letter, shaking their finger at us and telling us we were doing a bad thing and would be sued if we went ahead with a production," she said.
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Chase Utley led off with a line drive to left against Angels starter Jesse Chavez (173-217), and he hustled it into a double because he knew left fielder Ben Revere does not have a strong arm.
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President Trump recently announced plans to impose 5% tariffs on all Mexican imports in an attempt to strong arm the U.S.'s southern neighbor into halting illegal immigration, a move widely criticized even within the Republican party.
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The circumstances are murky, and a Medium post by someone purporting to be Sherry Spencer claims Gersh attempted to strong-arm her into selling the property—though the emails from Gersh she made public appear innocuous enough.
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Under the new President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Pence there will be a focus on the states and the freedom to let them decide how to govern without the strong arm of the federal government. .
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Joe Maddon has said that Willson Contreras will start at catcher for at least the next two games, and his strong arm and aggressive style may convince the Indians to find a new way of doing things.
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In his books and in interviews, the president has described Mr. Weisselberg as his go-to man, whether it was to help pick carpet swatches for a development, or to strong-arm firms with which he contracted.
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The violent tactics of the Spanish police in trying to break up the referendum left bitter feelings in Catalonia, and more strong-arm tactics, should Catalans defy Madrid, could further shift sympathies — perhaps outside Spain as well.
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Still, the President's comment represented a warning that he would try to strong-arm the newly Trumpian Senate into following his will, much as he did to parts of the Republican-led House, including the Intelligence Committee.
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After trying to strong-arm lawmakers into supporting his new Brexit plan, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to ask for a delay for withdrawal from the European Union, a request he had vowed never to make.
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Knowing all of this, it takes a special kind of audacity on Mr. Felder's part to successfully strong-arm the state's highest legislative body to legally deprive his own constituents' children of an education and a future.
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Both charges were linked to his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into intervening in the election while withholding nearly $400 million in vital military aid and a White House meeting that Zelensky desperately wants and still hasn't gotten.
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As American President Donald Trump continues his headstrong quest to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, many expect him to use various tactics to strong-arm his southern neighbor into paying for the anti-immigration tool.
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There has to be a way for me to pinpoint their weaknesses and strong-arm them into a friendship so that I have someone to hang out with the next time I want to watch a Raptors game.
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As Vox's German Lopez noted at the time, this video appeared to show Brown engaging in some sort of transaction at a convenience store hours before police said he committed a strong-arm robbery at the same spot.
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It's also resisted legal attempts to strong arm it into handing over user data — such as in Brazil where its service has been blocked multiple times as a penalty for its failure to provide decrypted data to police.
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Hiring the offense-minded Kelly could give the 49ers a reason to keep quarterback Colin Kaepernick to work his way back into the dominant, dynamic quarterback he was a few years back with his legs and strong arm.
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The US authorities did strong-arm Swiss banks into handing over client information — and extracted $5.5bn in penalties and compensation over the affair — but only because clients had breached US tax rules requiring the disclosure of offshore accounts.
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It's becoming more and more difficult to defend Trump in the wake of a mountain of evidence showing how Trump tried to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering political dirt on a top rival in exchange for US aid.
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The effort revolves around the president and his allies' efforts to leverage US policy and strong-arm the Ukrainian government into delivering Trump dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son ahead of the 2020 election.
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Why it matters: Trump's attempts to strong-arm the Fed, which has already slashed borrowing costs twice this year, have grown more frequent in recent weeks — and put the central bank on the defensive about its apolitical posture.
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Both charges are related to his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 US election by delivering political dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden&aposs son Hunter as well as other Democrats.
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However hopeful some people may find the election results, there are also bigots who feel validated, for whom the permission to bully and strong-arm was not a sad side effect of the campaign but the whole point.
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The DoJ was preparing to take legal action against Live Nation on allegations it has sought to strong-arm concert venues into using its dominant Ticketmaster subsidiary, Reuters reported last week, citing a source familiar with the matter.
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If AT&T buys Time Warner two of the companies on that list will represent huge conglomerates that own both the transport layer and the content that travels over it, giving them lots of power to strong-arm competitors.
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That is a rise of nine percentage points compared with a decade ago, thanks in no small part to NHK's army of private collectors, who are schooled in the art of strong-arm tactics to go door-to-door.
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What's interesting here is not so much the notion that an ancient ideal of strong-arm heroism has been Pop-ified and degraded, but that the ideal survives, even thrives, in what we sometimes consider a more enlightened present.
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But it made for another day of political theater in the House of Commons, where lawmakers rose one after another to condemn the government's strong-arm tactics or to plead for an end to the endless frustration of Brexit.
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Strong-arm President Xi Jinping, who will headline the anniversary celebrations of the world's second-biggest economy on Tuesday, has further tightened party rule and cracked down on those who may challenge authority since taking office in late 2012.
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Republican opponents of President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement accused Democrats of back-room deal making, rushed legislating and strong-arm partisan tactics, even as the health care bill plodded toward passage over months of deliberation and public debate.
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And the whistleblower complaint at the center of the growing Ukraine scandal about Trump trying to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into investigating Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has already been corroborated in key respects by the White House.
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In the Plaza tale, Mr. Trump demonstrated both strengths (an ability to charm or strong-arm, as the occasion required) and weaknesses (a kind of hungry impatience that left him searching for new trophies as soon as one had been acquired).
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Instead of attempting to strong-arm their way through this technology, authorities catch crooks through slip-ups like an email address mistakenly dropped outside of the secure Tor browser and a suspiciously detailed resume listing cryptography and server admin skills.
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They have produced no evidence to the state board of elections, their candidate has refused to comply with the subpoenas, given no evidence, and are they are trying to strong-arm the state board of elections into taking no further action.
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Two top foreign-service officers on Wednesday laid out a damning portrait for the public of President Donald Trump's efforts to strong-arm a critical US ally into delivering political dirt while holding up military aid and a White House meeting.
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Angered by the era's wave of strong-arm tactics, executive compensation excesses, and company meltdowns, institutional investors recognized ISS' important role in providing them with the tools and unbiased information required to vote their shares in an informed and responsible fashion.
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But Maduro appears to have fallen far short of even that — despite using strong-arm tactics to get people out to vote on Sunday, like threatening to fire public sector workers if they failed to show up at the polls.
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To embrace him is to be seduced by his gifts: the hands that are as quick as a lizard's tongue; the strong arm; and the capacity to be unbowed, often wearing a smile or chomping on gum, in a big moment.
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But according to witness testimony, documentary evidence, and Trump's and his allies' own comments, the president's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering investigations that would personally benefit him were not in the US's interest, but rather his personal interests.
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Over the past month, that figure held, though Democrats hauled in a dozen witnesses over two weeks to highlight evidence that Trump abused his power by attempting to strong-arm Ukrainian leaders into investigating a potential rival in the 2020 election.
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A failure to do so will risk squandering the leverage created through its strong arm tactics, thereby branding American concerns as illegitimate and an attempt to destroy not simply the Appellate Body, but the World Trade Organization itself as well.
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Her views on U.S. responsibility for Venezuela's democratic and food crises, for example, have been criticized by some as apologia for strong-arm leader Nicolás Maduro, whose record on human rights is abysmal and separable from arguments about U.S. interventions there.
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The military's use of deadly force to quell post-election violence in August 2018 and riots over fuel price hikes in January has reinforced critics' fears that Mnangagwe's government is resorting to the same strong-arm tactics as its predecessor.
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"I have met numerous conservationists who never question any human rights abuses, strong-arm tactics by authorities, or the power structures in which conservation exists, as long as there is a semblance of animal protection," said Kenyan journalist Gitau Mbaria in an interview.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, a former labor leader, said on Monday that federal agents had not contacted him in connection with what local media has described as a wide-ranging investigation into whether the city's building unions used strong-arm tactics.
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Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, laid out in minute, day-to-day detail how he discovered the Trump administration's efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into opening politically advantageous investigations by withholding key military aid in their conflict with Russia-backed separatists.
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According to an in-depth report from The Wall Street Journal in July, Apple tried and failed to strong-arm its way into lucrative licensing deals that would have allowed the company to offer a digital TV service unlike any we've ever seen.
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And she is wary of angering her base, sensitive over concerns that the establishment is maneuvering to strong-arm Sanders, who wants to campaign through the last primary next week in the District of Columbia and potentially until the nominating convention in July.
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In the wake of charges from a whistleblower that the President tried to strong-arm the Ukrainian President to dig up dirt on former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Graham has gone on the offensive, repeatedly defending Trump's actions.
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In his testimony to the House Democrat-led impeachment inquiry on Thursday, Morrison backed up what other key witnesses have previously testified to: that Trump tried to strong-arm Ukraine's president into Trump's political rivals by withholding US military aid to the country.
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Huawei has strongly contested allegations that it operates as an arm of the Chinese security and intelligence apparatus and instead characterized them as an attempt to strong-arm them out of the race to 5G, which many believe it is currently winning.
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Both articles of impeachment relate to his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election while withholding $391 million in vital military aid and dangling a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately sought and still hasn't gotten.
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"Yet again, this administration encourages unlawful behavior and strong-arm tactics, instead of supporting commitments by local police to do the hard work of building respect and relationships with the communities they serve," Karen Sheley, ACLU of Illinois's Police Practices Project director wrote.
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We still don't know what the worst of the consequences will be, but we've already seen it strong-arm rival cable providers into paying more for HBO and the shut down of a beloved streaming service that wasn't too big to fail.
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If he was no longer the star who led the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance and a second N.F.C. championship game in consecutive seasons, he remained a capable backup, with a strong arm and the long-legged stride of a wide receiver.
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It's opened the door for the government to crack down on businesses trying to use the threat of a lawsuit, and the associated legal fees, to strong-arm consumers into either avoiding writing negative reviews or taking them down after they've been written.
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The slender Ichiro, with an unorthodox high leg kick to time his swing in the batter's box, turned routine ground balls into short infield singles with his speed down the line and made baserunners cautious with his strong arm in right field.
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She teaches her children about HIV, takes them to get tested, and requires they receive some sort of education, even finding a way to strong-arm Damon into an audition for the New School of Dance after he misses the application deadline.
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These kinds of strong-arm tactics from the White House — coming after the merger has been under review for more than a year — will make many business leaders think twice about doing any kind of M&A activity that might attract attention from the government.
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The Nuclear Posture Review published by the Trump administration in February recommends trying to strong-arm Russia into compliance with work on a new American ground-launched cruise missile that would only be put into production if the Russians continued flouting the INF Treaty.
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It would rightly be able to claim that there's more popular opposition to the constituent assembly than support for it — especially in light of the fact that Maduro has used strong-arm tactics to force public sector workers to go to the polls Sunday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has dealt a blow to farmers this year with strong-arm trade tactics that have prompted retaliation from key markets for U.S. products, including the sweet cherries and apples that speckle landscapes across the Western United States from summer through autumn.
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Still, as the Times noted, tenants should have more time to find legal representation or catch up on rent when facing possible eviction under the new regulations, and the package would slap new criminal penalties on landlords who strong-arm people out of their apartments.
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Blair comes across as a House of Cards-style political chess player envisioning teaching France a lesson for opposing the war, power moves to show Russia who is the boss, and strong-arm tactics to bring nations like Libya, Syria and Iraq to heel.
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Several Republican senators have sought to distance themselves from the president, who has belittled them as looking like "fools" and tried to strong-arm their agenda and browbeat them into changing a venerated rule to make it easier to ram through legislation along party lines.
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His campaign platform, such as it was, was mostly about going backward — pulling out of the Paris climate accord, using strong-arm tactics with criminals (his favorite motto is said to be, "A good criminal is a dead criminal"), giving industry what it wants.
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But according to witness testimony, documentary evidence, and Trump&aposs and his allies&apos own comments, the president&aposs efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering investigations that would personally benefit him were not in the US&aposs interest, but rather his personal interests.
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Apple's move is related to another legal action from earlier this week, when the FTC filed an antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm, alleging it was using its patents to strong-arm competitors into paying exorbitant patent royalties, even for devices that don't use Qualcomm-made components.
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Geopolitical observers will recognize Ramzan Kadyrov as a strong-arm dictator who for the last 10 years, and with the blessing of Putin and his Kremlin, has been turning Chechnya into his own personal playground of political killings, torture, corruption, interrogations, state intimidation, and general repression.
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So they're proposing almost exactly what they proposed a year and a half ago: delay the reckoning—this time by three years—and use a looming health insurance cliff to strong-arm Democrats into cooperating with them on a new, less generous, less expansive health law.
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That didn't work, but its existing muscle allowed it to strong-arm Netflix into paying for better access to its customers — something that may have been even more effective had its plan to seize effective monopoly power in 19 of the 20 biggest broadband markets been successful.
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But the broader takeaway, at least for the president, might be that he just can't always get what he wants: Corporations are going to do what they need to do to make money, even if he tries to strong-arm and shame them into doing otherwise.
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The new antitrust appointees will need to effectively advocate for the economic principles that have guided U.S. antitrust policy, which are often not shared by other major antitrust enforcement agencies and may not be instinctively shared by those who wish to strong arm companies without analysis.
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That's a sample of the various defenses Trump's allies have cycled through as congressional investigators uncover a mountain of damaging evidence about the president's efforts to strong-arm a foreign government into delivering political dirt on a Democratic presidential frontrunner in exchange for US military aid.
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Strong-arm tactics by the Spanish government will only draw more support for the Catalan secessionists, while barreling ahead with an ill-considered declaration of independence whose true support was not possible to gauge from the chaotic voting will only plunge Catalonia into further chaos and conflict.
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As such the play is stocked with juicy historical tidbits on how the political machine worked, including $5 bills stuffed in residents' mailboxes on Election Day; tax increases on Republicans; and strong-arm district leaders who leaned verrrrry close to voters as they cast their ballots.
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MS-13, the nation's largest gang, with 20123,000 members, takes in about $30 million annually, collecting extortion payments of a few dollars, sometimes in coins, and distributing it in small handouts to its members who also live off whatever food they can strong-arm from local vendors.
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From the moment he arrived in Mobile, AL for the 2016 Senior Bowl and the national NFL media found out who he was, Carson Wentz has been ceaselessly compared to Ben Roethlisberger: A small-school quarterback with a big-league frame, plenty-strong arm and surprising mobility.
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After two-plus years of preparation, President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency would revoke California's ability to set its own fuel efficiency rules—a power that the state has used for decades to strong-arm automakers into building more efficient vehicles.
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" There's also a moment in a future episode in which Shapiro tries to employ strong-arm tactics on another Simpson teammate that challenges the boundaries between leverage and blackmail, which Travolta calls, both ruefully and somewhat fondly, "the most despicable moment I've ever had in my career in acting.
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Even though the entire purpose of this conversation is to gather information (thus, the reason why they are not called "strong-arm-someone-at-my-dream-company-to-put-in-a-good-word-for-me" interviews), you could end up developing rapport with someone of influence at that company.
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While New York Ice Cream drivers have been accused of intimidating their frozen-confection competition with threats and strong-arm tactics, the owner of the company, Dimitrios Tsirkos, owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mister Softee for breaching franchise agreements, trademark infringement and other unfair business practices.
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When the House of Representatives officially begins open hearings in the impeachment inquiry this week, the public will have a direct window into what Democrats paint as an insidious campaign by the president and his allies to strong-arm an ally into delivering political dirt to help his reelection.
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A host of Premier League teams did not even apply to enter; many of the tournament's traditional constituents vocally resented what they saw as the strong arm of the Premier League's clubs, voracious collectors of young players, annexing a tournament to solve a problem of their own making.
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He's bypassed the two committees with jurisdiction over health issues, crafted the first (and now the second) Senate bill behind closed doors, is ignoring the bill's dramatic unpopularity, and hopes to quickly bring it to a vote and strong-arm his senators into passing it on party lines.
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The two articles of impeachment against the president relate to his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering political dirt on one of his 2020 rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, while Trump withheld vital military aid and a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately wanted.
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After an intelligence community whistleblower raised alarms that Trump was attempting to strong-arm Kyiv to interfere in the 2020 election in his favor, all but two members of the caucus came together in support of an effort that, it was immediately clear, would likely result in Trump's impeachment.
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He's bypassed the two committees with jurisdiction over health issues, crafted the first (and now the second) Senate bill behind closed doors, is ignoring the bill's dramatic unpopularity, and hopers to quickly bring it to a vote and strong-arm his senators into passing it on party lines.
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Angry over Democratic delaying tactics that have slowed the conveyor belt of Trump administration nominees plodding toward confirmation, the Senate majority is preparing to strong-arm a rules change that would reduce required debate time on judicial and executive branch appointees to two hours from as many as 22013.
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The other thing that Omar and I have in common, as others have noted, is that we both don't like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) — the organization at the center of the Israel lobby — and have spoken in very blunt language about its strong-arm political tactics.
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But that hasn't stopped the deal from being deeply unpopular, and her address only increases the perception among MPs that the prime minister is trying to strong-arm them into voting for this proposal by threatening them with the two extreme options: no deal, or no Brexit at all.
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They outsell apples and oranges combined, and their ascendancy owes much to a pretty nefarious combination of corporate strong-arm tactics and Western hegemony: "Over and over, banana companies, aided by the American military, intervened whenever there was a chance that any 'banana republic' might end its cooperation," says Koppel.
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He prayed beside the deathbed of Eisenhower and the sickbed of Johnson; put his strong arm round Nixon's shoulders after his early election defeats; helped George W. Bush to give up drink, and told all of them that God's grace alone, not any works of theirs, would assure them of Heaven.
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Both articles of impeachment against the president relate to his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election while withholding $391 million in vital military aid and dangling a White House meeting in front of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he desperately sought and still hasn't gotten.
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"There is a very strong belief in Europe that the I.M.F. is essentially cooking the numbers by being overly pessimistic about political and economic developments in Greece in order to strong-arm Northern Europe into providing more generous debt relief," said Mujtaba Rahman, the Europe director for the Eurasia Group.
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While Trump is not directly responsible for the deaths and imprisonment of the journalists honored here, he still casts a shadow over the selections, having stood by the Saudi Crown Prince even as more evidence of his role in Khashoggi's murder was found, and heaping praise upon Duterte's strong-arm tactics.
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While his power is evident, his defensive skills as a catcher and his strong arm — he has thrown out six of the nine base runners who have tried to steal on his watch — have drawn praise from, among others, Showalter, who also warned against placing high expectations on a young player.
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This has been the most shambolically mis-run convention in memory — with a botched V.P. unveiling, a plagiarism scandal, listless audiences most of the time, empty seats midway through prime time, vote-counting strong-arm tactics, zero production creativity, no coherent messaging and a complete inability to control the conversation.
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The fight over California's emissions rules just got real This morning, President Trump tweeted that the US Environmental Protection Agency would revoke California's ability to set its own fuel-efficiency rules—a power that the state has used for 50 years to strong-arm automakers into building more efficient vehicles.
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These strong-arm tactics to elicit guilty convictions from individuals perhaps who otherwise would never have been charged because they can&apost get them on the charge that are investigating, it deserves a serious conversation in this country and not coordinated, outraged by the hypocritical double standard in the Trump-hating media.
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He's more or less operated in the background as something of a black sheep in the family, but he's emerged to the forefront of American politics in recent weeks over work he did in Ukraine that fueled a bogus conspiracy theory at the heart of Trump's decision to strong-arm the country's president.
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While Mr. Erdogan's strong-arm rule and the sweeping new powers he secured in an election last year have severely weakened Turkey's democratic institutions, and have left the political playing field far from level, Turks have largely continued to treat the ballot box as a place where they can express their opinions.
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Both relate to his monthslong efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into delivering him political dirt on a 2020 rival while withholding military aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine&aposs newly elected president, along with his subsequent attempts to stonewall Congress as it investigated the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry.
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Stopped in her tracks when she attempts to "strong-arm" Carrie — "Don't ask me questions you know I can't answer," Carrie snaps — she appears both to grasp the extent of her own wrongdoing toward her ostensible friend, and to show respect for Carrie's decision to put her daughter before ideology and political loyalty.
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Johnson on Tuesday used the power of his newly won parliamentary majority to set a hard deadline of December 2020 to reach a new trade deal with the EU, with the U.K. set to leave the bloc by January 31, in a bid to strong arm the bloc into hastening an accord.
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Though these players are theoretically accused of PED use, according to the strong-arm letter Vice president of labor policy and league affairs Adolpho Birch sent the NFLPA, the NFL is going to consider a failure to participate in, or meaningfully cooperate with their investigation as "conduct detrimental" to league, punishable by indefinite suspension.
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Response to the whistleblower In the wake of the latest Trump controversy -- charges from a whistleblower that the President tried to strong-arm the new Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, something that has triggered an impeachment inquiry in the Democratic-led House -- Graham has gone on the offensive.
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What I don't understand is why, if America is getting out of the Middle East, we are apparently spending so much time and energy trying to strong-arm Syrian rebels into surrendering to the dictator who murdered their families, or why it is so important for Iran to maintain its supply lines to Hezbollah.
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Certainly, whenever trouble stirs involving England fans — and that is separate from English fans, because Premier League clubs now travel around Europe largely without incident — there is a tendency to suggest that the strong-arm tactics of the local authorities have exacerbated the problem, rather than defused it, and the argument has some merit.
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That was how some Egyptians marked the fifth anniversary on Monday of the start of the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak: A handful of flash protests, like the one in Shubra al-Kheima, sought to harness the commitment of the embattled opposition; Mr. Sisi's government and its strong-arm supporters proved they were even more determined.
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But unless Ms Weidel manages to strong-arm Mr Gauland and present a genuinely moderate and fresh face, it also makes the party off-putting to all but its core voters and raises the chances of new sagas like the Höcke one; after all, he is by no means the most right-wing figure in the party.
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There was a calm assumption that the TPP would likely pass through the U.S. Congress in the "lame Duck" session in December, even if that would require a strong win by Hillary Clinton in the presidential election and a reversal of the Republicans' Senate majority to strong-arm both outgoing and remaining senators to ratify the treaty.
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Jared Kushner's New York Observer ran a series of scathing stories depicting Weissmann and then Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell as strong-arm prosecutors that "ran roughshod" over defendants' rights during the Enron investigation, but during his tenure with DOJ, he's won a series of honors, including the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service in 2006.
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Siemian displayed some jitters, with two interceptions that probably could have been avoided, but he also showed a quick release and a strong arm, completing 18 of 26 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown while seeming content to let C. J. Anderson, the Broncos' top running back, lead the way in a dominant second half.
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At Charleston, the low Class-A affiliate, are two intriguing players: Kyle Holder, 22, the 30th overall pick last year, whose defense is major-league ready but whose bat is a major question; and Hoy Jun Park, 20, whose lithe frame may be a concern, but whose bat, strong arm, speed and energy can influence a game.
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"We don't know if this is a deliberate strategy to use the inevitable crunch to strong arm the Republicans to coalesce around a single tax reform plan, but if it is, it is a highly risky strategy that could create a lot of uncertainty and force the market to demand higher risk premium in U.S. assets," Woo said.
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Jeff Bezos' techno-populist suggestion that he can "see the elimination of gatekeepers everywhere" is contrasted with his personal purchase of The Washington Post and his stewardship over Amazon, which is a massive, diverse and participatory marketplace, but one under the control of a single private company with a reputation for ruthlessness and strong-arm negotiation tactics.
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Bolton, who announced this month that he was willing to testify in the impeachment trial, is a firsthand witness to the president&aposs efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into pursuing investigations that would be politically beneficial to him while he withheld vital military aid and a White House meeting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately sought.
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Houston and five other major sanctuary cities and counties sued to block a Texas law's attempt to reinforce the nativist political gospel of President Trump and the strong-arm tactics of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who pioneered the use of local police officers as enforcers of federal law in abusive dragnets across Latino communities in Arizona.
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While the other witnesses laid out the case that Trump abused his power by trying to strong-arm Ukraine into caving to his personal demands while withholding vital military aid and a White House meeting, Turley argued there was no evidence that Trump broke a specific federal statute and that impeaching him would set a dangerous precedent.
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In September, she exercised the full extent of her power as the leader of the House when she announced an impeachment inquiry into Trump after revelations that he withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine while attempting to strong-arm the Ukrainian president into publicly announcing investigations targeting Trump&aposs 2020 rival former Vice President Joe Biden.
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"It seems as if the only plan is an extension, which is more time to do what she's already tried already, which is to basically try to strong-arm Parliament to agree to her deal for fear of either no deal or no Brexit," Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London, told me.
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He was booked for robbery/strong-arm and criminal mischief over $1,000 -- the price of the fan's phone -- and was released a few hours later, around 8 PM PT. Now we know exactly what Conor did after getting out of the slammer ... 'cause we've obtained video of The Notorious going on a shirtless jog shortly after he posted his $12,500 bond.
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Here's another example of what some see as Big Soda's strong-arm tactics delving into grassroots advocacy: Back in 2010, the children's advocacy group Save the Children announced that it was stepping away from its work to promote a soda tax in several states after it was announced that both Coke and Pepsi had made large donations to the organization.
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When news broke that he was using shell companies to launch what could be an expensive legal battle against people who didn't necessarily want to sell their land, there was a public outcry, and Zuckerberg apologized, acknowledging in an op-ed that his strong-arm tactics were perpetuating a process that had led to the loss of land for Hawaiians.
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In addition, the bill could threaten the FCC's authority over "all sorts of tactics the ISPs use to strong-arm competitors and price-gouge consumers: data caps, zero-rating, interconnection disputes, below-the-line and hidden fees, price hiking, and many other kinds of business practices," according to Kate Forscey, associate counsel for government affairs at DC-based advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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Read more:Facebook blames a &apostechnical issue&apos for the vulgar translation of Xi Jinping&aposs nameTrump has &aposemboldened&apos and &aposenabled&apos authoritarians like Putin as they seek to become presidents for lifeChina economic growth slows to ~30-year low as Trump&aposs trade war bitesTrump&aposs blundering attempts to strong arm Iran follow the same pattern as the China trade-war mess
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As Vox's Zack Beauchamp argued in 20203, "Trump's kleptocratic instincts" share significant overlap with post-Soviet dictators and autocratic strongmen elsewhere, from his nepotistic corruption to his insistence on targeting opponents with all the levers of power at his disposal — as seen most obviously in his attempt to strong-arm a foreign government into trying to investigate a political rival.
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More importantly, in the case of Ferguson, the "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative that led to the weeks of unrest there was proven to be a lie on the part of Dorian Johnson, who was Brown's accomplice in the strong-arm robbery of a convenience store for cigarillos that had occurred minutes before the fatal confrontation with Officer Darren Wilson.
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Revelations that Trump may have tried to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching a politically motivated investigation of Biden sparked new calls for impeachment hearings from Democratic senators and representatives (albeit not from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi), and you might be tempted to think that Trump did himself no favors among Republicans with his unconvincing media availability on Friday.
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Schrems also makes the point that small startups and local companies are less likely to be able to use the kind of strong-arm 'take it or leave it' tactics on users that big tech is able to unilaterally apply and extract 'consent' as a consequence of the reach and power of their platforms — arguing there's an underlying competition concern that GDPR could also help to redress.
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He may ferret around town trying to strong-arm cabinet officials, and bark orders at members of Congress who are answerable only to their constituents, and try to wow the inarticulate president with malapropisms, but he has been a notably ineffective operator—the kind of buffoon liberals might want to keep around as a drag on the unified GOP government, if he weren't such a nasty figure.
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Some conservatives began to grow frustrated with BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE's top-down leadership approach and strong-arm tactics, so they formed a unified voting bloc of roughly 30 members, dubbed the House Freedom Caucus, to advocate for more conservative principles.
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With his statement from outside 10 Downing Street on Monday night, the British leader sought to strong-arm lawmakers who might seek to limit his room for maneuver with Brussels, after it became clear over the course of the past weekend that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his allies would seek to rapidly introduce legislation on Tuesday to block an economically damaging hard Brexit in late October.
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Now fresh reporting from the New York Times has emerged to strengthen the Democrats' minimum condition of a real trial: The Senate must seek witness testimony from key players in Mr. Trump's attempt to strong-arm Ukraine into announcing an investigation of his political rival, former vice president Joe Biden, using congressionally appropriated military aid and promises of a White House visit as leverage.
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This interpretation could jeopardize the FCC's ability to "investigate all sorts of tactics the ISPs use to strong-arm competitors and price-gouge consumers: data caps, zero-rating, interconnection disputes, below-the-line and hidden fees, price hiking, and many other kinds of business practices service providers like to impose on their subscribers," according to Kate Forscey, associate counsel for government affairs at DC-based advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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For our features, reporter and Thump contributor Dave Wedge investigates the recent allegations that Afrika Bambaataa—one of hip-hop's founding fathers—sexually abused teenagers during his heyday; Zach Goldbaum travels south to meet the white rappers who are trying to legitimize country rap (also known as hick-hop); and Noisey editor Kim Kelly writes about the religious fanatics in Russia who are trying to strong-arm metal bands into silence.
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And let's not forget that Conor McGregor's dance partner for the Greatest Fight of All Time™, Floyd Mayweather (who never met a money-making opportunity or a misguided notion of manliness or a strong-arm leader he didn't like) was an honored guest of Kadyrov's in Chechnya in April, further boosting the fighting bona fides of Kadyrov's regime and normalizing the horror show he calls a government.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) is not known to use the same strong-arm tactics as his predecessor, John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio).
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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 sought to strong-arm Senate Republicans into passing ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation on Wednesday in an attempt to turn the weight of his office into impetus for action.
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Gang of middle-aged women hired to intimidate debtors or force people to move out of their homes to make way for property developments, news website reports A gang of 14 middle-aged women in northern China has been jailed for using strong-arm tactics to force people to move out of their homes to make way for property developments or to pay up their debts, according to a news website report.
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And shortly before Nunes's second "drug deal" remark, one of the Republicans' witnesses — Tim Morrison, the former top National Security Council official for Russia and European affair — outlined more clearly than any other witness that the Trump administration held up military aid to Ukraine as part of an effort to strong-arm the Ukraine government into publicly opening investigations of the Bidens and of conspiracy theories aimed at showing that Russia did not in fact interfere in the 2016 election.
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So it remains to be seen whether Rudd's public call for encrypted data to be accessible to law enforcement agencies constitutes the beginning of a serious clampdown on end-to-end encryption in the U.K. (NB: The government has already given itself powers to limit companies' use of the tech, via last year's Investigatory Powers Act) — or merely a strategy to apply high-profile pressure to social media companies in trying to strong-arm them into doing more about removing extremist content from their public networks.
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Just when you thought strong-arm leader X had ended the argument by posing shirtless on a horse or dictatorial leader Y had won the day by demanding that women be locked up in their homes and never let out, just when all those pictures of Russian leaders posing with professional mixed martial artists had started to leave you cold and unimpressed, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, ups the ante to impossible levels by broadcasting an MMA tournament featuring boys as young as 8—three of them his own sons.
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Playlist: "Thanks for Nothing" / "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" / "Silence is Deafening" / "Sink Fast, Let Go" / "When All Is Said and Done" / "In Deference" / "Strong-Arm" / "Work to Rule" / "On the Brink of Extinction" / "Errors in the Signals" / "Analysis Paralysis" / "Will By Mouth" / "Smash a Single Digit" / "How the Years Condemn" Spotify | Apple Music Napalm Death as Experimental Art-rock Despite the fact the band was so prone to changing up their sound, even then they have a batch of songs that don't cleanly fit into any of these previous sections.
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BLM continues to protest in the names of armed and/or violent suspects, who include: · Michael Brown, whose investigation revealed was attempting to grab a Police Officer's gun when he was shot following a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store, · Alton Sterling, who was a multiple felon armed with a handgun in a violent physical struggle with police when he was killed, · Keith Lamont Scott, who was armed with a pistol, had a prior shooting on his record, and whose own wife claimed he was armed and violent when filing a restraining order against him, and · Carnell Snell, JR, who was seen on video pulling and holding (not discarding) the very pistol that was recovered from him while running from the police.
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