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Putin looked like he was strong-arming Trump and got everything.
And reckoning must come from within, not by European Union strong-arming.
It's also the strong-arming campaign to define what that message will be.
Click through to see the five we're strong-arming you into for fall.
He was impeached for strong-arming Ukraine into tampering with the 2020 election.
It was less of a negotiation, then, and more of a strong-arming.
The #CCP moves to strong-arming countries into exposing themselves to surveillance and espionage.
If he just masturbates, he can tell himself that he's not strong-arming anybody.
They accused Facebook of strong-arming them into letting it dominate their home screens.
Sometimes it just requires persuasiveness and common sense, at other times some strong-arming.
Strong-arming a foreign leader to attack an opponent and interfere in our election?
By strong-arming these developers with a DMCA, they've stirred questions about what constitutes DRM.
America has also been strong-arming its allies around the world to reject Chinese kit.
Google canceled that program after criticism it was essentially strong-arming publishers into providing free content.
Despite the strong-arming negotiating tactics of the Trump administration, Canada wants an updated NAFTA, too.
Andrew M. Cuomo — usually a strong-arming presence during these last-minute negotiations — was largely absent.
We still memorialize the names of  strong-arming, union-busting cheats — names like Astor, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford.
The Constitution makes it difficult to pull off the kind of Putinesque strong-arming that Trump admires.
Blackstone infused Hilton with more cash while strong-arming lenders into taking haircuts on their debt positions.
When the president began strong-arming China, China retaliated with a 25 percent tariff on soybean imports.
Neither is strong-arming big energy consumers into using loser coal companies and deteriorating nuclear power plants.
Popular phone accessory maker PopSockets accused Amazon of "strong-arming" it and failing to remove fake products.
"They are strong-arming them," said Richard Painter, an ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.
This macho confrontation results in a lot of ink, literal strong-arming, color changes, biting, and majestic spinning.
The strong-arming failed to change any votes, and on a second polling the result was the same.
But this time, Brown was shown strong-arming a clerk and getting away with a pack of cigarillos.
"They are strong-arming them," Mr. Painter said Thursday night after being sent a copy of the letter.
Master P thinks Kevin Hart is missing the boat by strong-arming celebs into donating $25k for Harvey relief.
Industry, however, views it as the DOD strong-arming a company for its hard work and valuable income generators.
The brokers cold-called and knocked on doors, sweet talking, cajoling, and sometimes strong-arming homeowners into selling their properties.
Hence, you will instead espouse more command and control leadership traits, such as not collaborating, strong-arming and so on.
The crisis has shown that China remains riddled with vulnerabilities that no amount of censorship or strong-arming can hide.
Dr. Miller has been an outspoken advocate for the role of PBMs in strong-arming drug makers to lower their prices.
In the end, strong-arming by the central government and a promise of economic benefits from the base won the day.
The chipmaker's "no license, no chips" policy was characterized as strong-arming manufacturers, as well as crippling rival chipmakers like Intel.
Unfortunately, some special interests have declared war on the initiative process, using tactics ranging from restrictive laws to judicial strong-arming.
Germany has seized on it as proof EU regulators should not meddle, while others accuse Berlin of strong-arming EU institutions.
His redoubtable deputy, Julie Bishop, lost the leadership contest that followed, and several women complained of strong-arming by the putschists.
Of course, substantial challenges stand in the way of this lofty scheme — both from slow-moving regulators and strong-arming utilities.
Ruth's right, he has to stop assuming he knows better than Wendy, who is out here strong-arming Big Muddy's owners.
"Boeing has been capable of strong-arming outside parties if it serves the short-term interest of the company," he said.
It also began strong-arming movie theaters into agreeing to tough terms if they wanted to show Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Mr Trump's strong-arming of corporate America is real enough, and the carmaker will have gained much favour with the president-elect.
Her painting Where shows black cops strong-arming white civilians, a reversal of all-too-common scenes of racially-driven police brutality.
Other castes and ethnic groups have taken similar action in recent years, in the same hope of strong-arming their way into jobs.
There are some obvious explanations: Namely, the drug industry was viciously opposed from the start to such strong-arming by the federal government.
Bogart's letter blamed the Chamber of Commerce and the Institute for Legal Reform for strong-arming members into toeing the anti-litigation funding line.
Now that quiet diplomatic leverage — including moderating European trade demands and strong-arming nations to contribute more to NATO military missions — is suddenly diminished.
"I haven't had any, like, strong-arming or, 'Please support my brother'" from Joaquin Castro, said one member who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
"What matters is when it comes to strong-arming executives into keeping jobs in this country, Trump's got the supermarket going for him," Cramer said.
He has claimed credit for strong-arming Carrier, a maker of air-conditioners, into keeping 1,000 jobs in Indiana, rather than sending them to Mexico.
"What matters is when it comes to strong-arming executives into keeping jobs in this country, Trump's got the supermarket going for him," Cramer said.
Reversing course so quickly only confirms that the strong-arming and backroom dealing that made the DNC so toxic in 2016 is alive and well.
This reflexive rolling over is alarming and portends a future where Facebook does not just tolerate political strong-arming of its platform, but enables it.
There has also been ample speculation that the Trump administration is targeting Huawei as a strong-arming tactic amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.
But the platform's launch was delayed, only recently getting off the ground, and top officials are strong-arming a potential competitor out of the market.
President Trump was clearly strong-arming the young president of Ukraine, a man who desperately needed U.S. military help to ward off the Russian army.
Tariffs, restrictions on Chinese investments and strong-arming American firms in China to bring production home: Chinese leaders claim this increasingly feels like cold-war containment.
And while some people argue that such strong-arming, big-footing, and steamrolling tactics are necessary, time has shown this line of attack to be nihilistic.
Trump has turned off many people in the worlds of real estate, banking and law with his strong-arming, fee-shaving or stiffing, bankruptcies and litigiousness.
According to police, Dejean-Jones was shot after strong-arming his way into an apartment he believed belonged to his ex-girlfriend – the mother of his daughter.
American companies and politicians have been complaining about China's restricted markets, the closeness of its companies to its spooks and its intellectual-property strong-arming for years.
But strong-arming individual companies also isn't going to do that much to help the mass of heartland voters to whom he promised a Trumpian New Deal.
Its flagship policy involved strong-arming De Beers, the world's biggest diamond firm (of which it owns 15%), to bring its sales and sorting operations over from London.
Clinton may spout politically popular pro-Israel platitudes, but her track record of strong-arming Israel while embracing and mainstreaming Muslim terrorists speaks far louder than her words.
A man is in custody for allegedly trolling the Internet for Justin Bieber fans, targeting young girls and strong-arming them into sending him nude photos ... or else.
Leonard, too, was criticized for strong-arming his way out of San Antonio, though he did acknowledge the Spurs on Sunday in explaining his sheer brilliance this spring.
A graduate of a prestigious physics faculty, Mr. Deripaska rose to wealth in the 1990s, strong arming his way to a virtual monopoly over the Russian aluminum industry.
It's bad enough right now for huge companies doing business in countries with oppressive regimes, as we've seen recently with China's strong-arming of the NBA and Blizzard.
Having said that, the Democrats' historic document outlines allegations that the President abused his power by strong-arming Ukraine in order to help his re-election campaign efforts.
On Friday, he emerged from that debacle after strong-arming the entire Chilean bishops conference to resign for what he said were their "grave defects" in handling abuse cases.
Sources close to the company deny this claim and said it was categorically untrue and that Pishevar is perfectly capable of raising money without strong-arming people into it.
Government and regulators rushed out a series of measures to arrest the crash, including limiting short-selling, stopping new listings and strong-arming big funds to buy more stocks.
A centrist, he has boasted of his track record of delivering state budgets on time or close to it, cajoling or strong-arming New York's legislative leaders into agreements.
And then there's Trump himself, who brazenly tried to deceive the American electorate by strong-arming a foreign government into smearing his likely 2020 opponent with false corruption allegations.
Democrats are casting Republicans as strong-arming a wronged woman, their eyes on a #MeToo movement that has caught fire and exploded the careers of dozens of male titans.
But if Amex frustrates customers or develops a reputation for strong-arming customers into signing up for cards, it could limit its ability to take advantage of its merchant network.
The move rankled some in Europe who saw it as strong-arming and some onlookers are concerned that it may impact how the privacy regulators receive the new Privacy Shield.
He has been accused of strong-arming other pharmacy owners into buying from his drug distribution company, threatening to open one of his cut-rate stores nearby if they refuse.
Now, there is a broad consensus among House Democrats that Trump's alleged strong-arming of a foreign leader to investigate a political rival is a dangerous escalation of presidential corruption.
Responding to the Reuters story, U.S. Congressman Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, slammed the Chinese Communist Party, saying in a tweet that it was "strong-arming" countries into "surveillance and espionage".
Anton has decided he's going to take his GED and join the Marines unless he likes Princeton, strong arming his father into letting it happen despite his anti-Ivy League stance.
The reason: Many Democrats are alarmed at the divisive GOP primary contest and are worried that strong-arming Sanders will prompt a similar chaotic result on their side of the aisle.
" Her sentences barrel forward, strong-arming the reader with unlikely pauses or abrupt images; they force "you to breathe where I do, instead of letting you discover your own natural breath.
On the governance axis, the president-elect's strong-arming of the private sector, his media-bashing tweets, and his feud with the intelligence community all hint at an authoritarian timeline ahead.
It's difficult to talk about because there's just so much bullying and strong arming in the NYC underground happening right now and it's creating an environment that basically impossible to thrive in.
And while a great deal of its work concerns strong-arming the Kochs' puppets on Capitol Hill, it's in state houses where the most despicable examples of ALEC's craft live and thrive.
But in practice, many villagers said, companies often secured the permits they needed through some combination of intense lobbying, bribery and strong-arming, and the result was broken promises and missing payments.
When India sent troops and equipment to halt the roadwork and push back the Chinese workers, China accused India of intruding into its territory and of strong-arming Bhutan into going along.
"Guatemala is in no way safe for refugees and asylum seekers, and all the strong-arming in the world won't make it so," said Eric Schwartz, president of Refugees International, in a statement.
The FTC's case is trying to prove that a variety of behaviors by Qualcomm—like allegedly strong-arming exclusivity and charging some competitors "elevated royalties"—add up to a violation of the law.
This strong-arming by the U.S. government has left many expats with little to no choice but to stay compliant or catch up with the IRS if they are behind in their filings.
She led the campaign to raise $2100 million to build a new one, donating $22014 million herself and sweet-talking or strong-arming the balance through her deep connections to Northern California's aristocrats.
While Cruz does not deny, like the President, that Russia meddled in 2016, the argument that Ukraine did so also is apparently meant to frame a rationale for Trump's strong-arming of Kiev.
They have both declared their commitment to reasserting the authority of the Legislature, after eight years of Mr. Cuomo strong-arming Assembly and Senate leaders into compromises, and taking credit for those accomplishments.
People have speculated about how MoviePass plans to stay afloat, including leveraging data it collected from users, sponsorships from studios to help push specific films, and strong-arming theaters into sharing profits from concessions.
Donald Trump's presidency is officially underway, and now that he's spent a full week in office, the breakdown of news out of the White House appears to be half pique, half authoritarian strong-arming.
In the long term, preparing Americans to work in state-of-the-art factories will have more to do with the future of manufacturing than strong-arming trading partners such as Germany and China.
Overt demonstrations of special-interest power in Washington, D.C., are never pretty, but the farm lobby's recent strong-arming of the Trump administration's ethanol policy should be getting more headlines for its exceptional ugliness.
While Trump was strong-arming the reformist Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, his administration had frozen $250 million in security aid that the country desperately needed to defend itself against Russia, which invaded in 2014.
International observers were also troubled by media bias and the strong-arming of civil servants to vote for Mr Jeyenbekov, who was prime minister at the time and had been endorsed by the outgoing president.
Go deeper: Rivals aim to document Facebook, Google strong-arming Top regulators battle to crack down on Big Tech giants Privacy concerns push people to private, group-based platforms Facebook's pivot is bigger than privacy
It probably took some strong-ARMing from Microsoft to convince Qualcomm to add x86 emulation to ARM chips, but Windows Server ARM support was likely a good trade to enable ARM growth in the data center.
There's the fact, as well, of his tax-cheated inheritance, his suspect business practices, and, yes, his brash strong-arming and demands for loyalty above all else, especially as obstruction of justice rumors keep cropping up.
Both are aimed at strong-arming parties into accepting the tough demands of America and its allies, and both could propel decades-long tensions toward a new, and possibly more violent, chapter in the region's history.
The case for including the Russia matter runs like this: Mr. Mueller uncovered a clear pattern of obstruction by Mr. Trump, a pattern replicated in efforts to frustrate an investigation into the strong-arming of Ukraine.
But for most football fans, the furore has reinforced the impression that the rich are strong-arming the rest—and that the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations which UEFA created to encourage competitive balance have proved useless.
She is now suggesting that, exit polling be damned, Mr. Biden's latest string of successes is because of the strong-arming of corporate lobbyists, something Mr. Sanders has underscored by repeatedly calling Mr. Biden the establishment candidate.
His successful strong-arming of Carrier, the air-conditioner company, which agreed to keep 25,2940 jobs at a plant in Indiana rather than move them to Mexico, attests to his priorities in delivering on his trade promises.
By strong-arming his government via aid budgets, beefing up policing of Libyan waters and preparing mass expulsions, the EU aims to emulate tactics that worked to hold back Syrians from Greece and tilt his risk-reward calculus.
Driving the news: In Bezos' annual letter to stockholders Thursday, the Amazon CEO countered two lines of criticism: that his company is strong-arming third-party sellers on its platform, and that it has monopolistic power over the market.
Amazon fiercely opposed a "head tax" on big businesses that would have helped support homelessness services and affordable housing, and which was repealed last year in what critics at the time said amounted to strong-arming by the company.
Qualcomm made its name pioneering CDMA technology—the communication standard currently used by Verizon and Sprint networks—but was accused by the FTC of strong-arming manufacturers into exclusive deals and charging higher royalties for using tech from competitors.
And after Mr. DeLay faced ethics recriminations over strong-arming lawmakers on a major Medicare vote in 2003, Mr. Hastert ousted the ethics chairman and key staff members and instituted changes to make it harder to bring such complaints.
"The government is also strong arming us to disassociate from small local vendors that aren't registered, so we had to look for more established vendors for small matters, such as fabric dyeing and buttons, which increased costs," she added.
They're photographers and animators, part of a vibrant creative community that can be overshadowed in the US by stale tropes or, more recently, rhetoric about strong-arming the nation into building an expensive and ineffective wall along the border.
The Top Chef trial concluded ahead of another case in which two of Boston mayor Marty Walsh's aides are also charged with conspiracy to extort under the Hobbs Act for allegedly strong-arming a music festival into hiring union labor.
He had been working for several years to change the nature of the sales force, the one that had a reputation of strong-arming IT pros, with a new generation, by hiring people right out of college with a fresh approach.
After giving up on strong-arming Democrats into agreeing to the funding, he signed a spending bill to keep the government open last week — but simultaneously declared a state of emergency over immigration to unlock $8 billion in funds for the wall.
From Mulberry Street in Little Italy to Springfield, Massachusetts, to southern Florida to Pennsylvania, the multi-family operation allegedly worked together by reverting to time-honored mob practices like running illegal-gambling ventures, strong-arming businesses, and (at least talking about) busting kneecaps.
But at a time when judges have signaled a seeming willingness to rethink America's strict press freedom protections, a president has vowed to tighten libel laws, and media lawsuits from strong-arming billionaires are piling up, nothing can be taken for granted.
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The mayor and city manager of a south Texas town that bills itself as the "spinach capital of the world," were arrested on Thursday on charges including strong-arming contractors into paying bribes in exchange for doing business, authorities said.
At the beginning of March, Nvidia presented a new GeForce Partner Program (GPP) initiative, which claimed to "help gamers know what they are buying," but basically amounted to Nvidia strong-arming hardware partners and resellers into aligning their gaming brands exclusively with GeForce gear.
First, the short-lived practice of deterring family migration by separating children from their parents; now other tactics designed to scare off potential migrants and the strong-arming of the Mexican government into detaining many more central Americans on their way to the United States.
If Schnatter's group ever buys up enough ownership to move beyond the 30 percent they currently have, every other stakeholder will have the right to buy up stock at half the normal price, effectively sealing off any strong-arming from the former Papa John.
His questionable intervention in the strong-arming of the Department of Homeland Security — to fast-track and issue EB-5 visas to investors for a casino represented by his son Rory — something that would certainly raise the legal eyebrows of a new Republican administration.
When it came to Origo, the government used a mix of suasion and strong-arming, often behind closed doors, to get the website's German owner to curtail investigations and, finally, to sell it to government allies in a purchase funded with government money in 2015.
"I wish I could tell you that this injustice is isolated to illegitimate accusations of insurance fraud, but strong-arming people into taking unfair deals is embedded in the culture of the current DA's office," said Middleman, who works as a public defender in the county.
But another group, the Friends of Newport Preservation, has charged that the Preservation Society of Newport County won by strong-arming its staff members to vote multiple times, by creating extra email accounts for them to use and by pushing tourists to turn over their email addresses.
In other words, if the president thinks his or her reelection itself is in the public interest of the United States, then anything short of crimes he or she does to make that happen — including strong-arming foreign governments into announcing investigations into political foes — is justified.
His blithe assertion that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop nuclear arms; his defense of his campaign manager's alleged strong-arming of a female reporter; and his suggestion, quickly recanted, that women who have abortions should be punished, created a sense of chaos around the candidate.
On Friday, near Bombardier's sprawling factory, which employs about 2,000 workers, local residents said that Mr. Trump's perceived strong-arming of the company had sent shudders through the local economy, from the mom-and-pop shops where factory workers eat to the gas stations that fill their cars.
"The Department of Education is effectively strong-arming universities into adopting policies that would chill criticism of the Israeli government's consistent and well-documented violations of Palestinian rights by falsely conflating it with anti-Semitism," said Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
He cleaned house in his first few months, and since then he has been accused of stocking the school board with patrons and has been hit with no fewer than 20 suits from former town employees accusing him of strong-arming them into donating to his campaign or for retaliatory practices.
"On the merits, Spain, Italy and France should be ganging up on the Germans and outvoting them and strong-arming them," said Adam S. Posen, a former member of the rate-setting committee at the Bank of England, and now president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
" As for Megan's claims about him strong-arming people, he blames Roc Nation attorneys, saying ... "Megan even though she signed an affidavit, talked down, and lied in court documents on me... I understand how lawyers brainwash artist to milk them of funds in lawsuits that they know they can't win.
Though he'd have preferred to remain silent on the issue, Moore felt compelled to criticize the changes made by director James McTeigue and writer-producers Lana and Lilly Wachowski, who updated his book's social commentary to make it more relevant to George W. Bush-era strong-arming in the fight against terrorism.
Coming from a party that until relatively recently had been united on a tough national security posture toward countries such as Russia, there was a striking lack of outrage about the President's strong-arming of a key ally on the frontlines of the effort to contain Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggressive actions.
Dolan, you may remember, is no stranger to strong-arming his way into high-profile gigs: Two years ago, along with releasing a terrible gotta-hear-both-sides blues song about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, he booked his own band, JD & The Straight Shot, to open for The Eagles at Madison Square Garden.
The passage of the Judicial Redress Act was seen as a show of good faith to EU negotiators working to reestablish commercial data-sharing agreement with the U.S. But the 11th-hour changes to the bill — from Republicans who saw the legislation as concessionary — rankled some in Europe who saw it as strong-arming.
"When you take the gloves off, you risk getting blood on your hands," longtime series favorite Captain Price tells his new protege Garrick, who becomes an acolyte of Price's brand of state-sanctioned strong-arming after he only barely survives a terrorist attack at Piccadilly Circus in London that left scores dead and the culprits on the loose.
News Analysis MOSCOW — The partial truce that Russia and the United States have thrashed out in Syria capped something of a foreign policy trifecta for President Vladimir V. Putin, with the Kremlin strong-arming itself into a pivotal role in the Middle East, Ukraine floundering and the European Union developing cracks like a badly glazed pot.
And outside of celebrity circles, men including Clay Johnson and Don Hazen (briefly my own boss) found great success in progressive organizing and media largely by promoting themselves and strong-arming perceived detractors; it was little surprise to learn from recent reporting that they allegedly also bullied, sexually harassed and demeaned the women around them. (Mr.
But as new regulations made it more onerous for clinicians to run their own small private practices, Presbyterian offered to make them permanent employees—strong-arming them to accept, if necessary Allyson Ray, an ear, nose, and throat doctor in private practice in Albuquerque, had treated Presbyterian-insured patients for years when the health plan abruptly cut its reimbursements for her services.
A recent New York Times article that laid bare the last months at the company began with the line: "Sheryl Sandberg was seething," and went on to show her yelling at the company's security chief, Alex Stamos, trying to slow roll the utterance of the word "Russia" in a report and alternately sweet-talking and strong-arming lawmakers to Facebook's will.
As the company grew, it used increasingly elaborate tricks to hold onto its sales tax status, including outfitting employees with fake business cards when they travelled to certain states, strong-arming states into special deals that allowed it to remain sales tax-free, and, in Texas, using a warehouse-concealment scheme that later led the state to sue Amazon for $269 million in back sales taxes.
But CBC leaders think that's because Ryan was bound by the dictates of then-Speaker 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), whose reputation for strong-arming the committees fueled the conservative angst that ultimately pushed him to resign last fall.
But he was the man who kept the whole show on the road, strong-arming governments to provide funds and to make their own vaccines of the necessary purity, potency and stability; conducting his own cold-war diplomacy with the notably helpful Russians; muscling past the tentacular regional bureaucracies of the WHO; sending out continual reports on progress; and answering within three days, before e-mail, every plea that came in from the field.
The move to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is just one of dozens in a long line of decisions made by Trump that falls in line with what has become his most defining trait: his supposed commitment to placing "America first," striking back against some imagined international gang of foreign powers, which through the Paris Agreement, was purportedly strong-arming the most powerful and dominant imperial power in the world into helping itself and its citizenry.
After listening to one witness after another, a reasonable person could come away believing that there was indeed a quid pro quo; that President Trump, through his surrogates, was strong-arming the young, new Ukrainian president, sending a message that he either announces an investigation into Trump political rival Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' Three women accuse Gordon Sondland of sexual misconduct Top Obama-era official says Trump is 'destroying' executive privilege amid investigations MORE or he doesn't get an Oval Office meeting with the president and desperately needed U.S. aid to fight the Russians.
He outbids a prominent real estate developer, making an enemy who could prove to be more dangerous even than his rivals in the underworld... Yea, I'm 'bout to buy a machine gun We drink it all, leave clean cups, make mountains look like speed bumps I'm sittin' on some train tracks Hopin' that bitch speed up I'm strong-arming these niggas, roll my sleeves up, yeah I got bad bitches on standby, all my hoes got cat eyes Celebrate when a rat die, make a nigga fall back like he getting baptized Put me in a hospital room, full of flat lines I'm Tunechi the immortal My name ringin', my name ringin', hello may I take yo order?

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