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We worked against NAFTA together; we worked against PNTR together, with China.
I think that capability really worked against him in Hollywood.
Though impressive, the palace's rich appearance has worked against presidents.
Simply put, he has worked against justice his entire life.
The isolation of Alder Springs has sometimes worked against it.
He's consistently worked against women during his time in Congress.
Generating revenue from advertising, they realized, actually worked against their idea.
And being a model minority has often worked against the Chinese.
But a fairly weak battery and poor timing worked against it.
Indeed, many governments actively worked against monetary stimulus by embracing austerity.
Abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc.
But there are concerns that higher values have worked against local people.
Again and again, playing against the character we'd created worked against us.
A growing public clamor for action worked against Pelosi and House liberals.
Nevertheless, hardliners in the U.S. and Iran actively worked against this deal.
Mr. Nigro said the layout of the apartment worked against getting out.
A White House has never actively worked against it in this way.
"It obviously worked against Hillary Clinton," she said of Mr. Trump's attacks.
Firebombs worked against the tanks, but the army couldn't make them fast enough.
They were great theologians who promoted peace and worked against the arms industry.
It's not the first time Romney has worked against Trump in recent weeks.
For far too long, America's tax code has worked against businesses and consumers.
The most revealing moment of how sexism worked against Clark actually featured Cochran.
The uncertainty has worked against Mr. Netanyahu in the prelude to the vote.
This wouldn't be the first time an ill-advised tweet worked against the president.
I wanted to be invested — and cross-cutting between two stories worked against this.
But his notoriety may have worked against him as far as Snow was concerned.
And I know how hard he worked against implacable hostility at every single turn.
During the 1990s and 85033s, several other trends worked against the voice for trade.
The American people will not forget that Democrats worked against them six months ago.
I had great credentials and experience galore but age and gender worked against me.
Comey indicated before Congress that in private practice he had worked against criminalizing negligence.
"It's a shame that this has worked against us," Cisse told a news conference.
Their bold personalities and playing styles often worked against their success on the court.
But his tendency to pull away from the spotlight has worked against him, too.
They had done it so infrequently this season, and their eagerness worked against them.
All three antiviral medications worked against H3N2 strains and various strains of B viruses.
While some might see this deception as unfair, however, it has hardly worked against Trump.
The recent rise in Japanese yields have worked against the dollar by challenging this dynamic.
That sentiment, and the heavy turnout against the proposal may have worked against mushroom advocates.
If "traditional" campaigns worked against Trump, then Jeb Bush would have been the GOP nominee.
Its trumpeting of freedom and the limitless individual worked against the Nazis and the Soviets.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has actively worked against the cause these NFL players are raising.
But at least so far, the conversation has largely worked against women and people of color.
By focusing on common white men, he maintains, the Revolution worked against blacks, Indians and women.
It worked against Duffy because Duffy is a calm, slow-paced fighter who gave him space.
"Too many of our private customers worked against us," he told The Boston Globe in 1957.
In the time since the news of indictments broke last month, Loughlin's behavior has worked against her.
Last spring, McCarthy tried lamivudine in the lab and found that it worked against the Ebola virus.
So the wealth for Romney worked against him and the wealth for Trump is working for him.
It's that near constant presence on the ballot, Democrats in the state said, that worked against Walker.
But those stances also worked against him in Utah, where 60 percent of the population is Mormon.
Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) -- Nashua Police Chief Michael Carignan, who has worked against substance abuse Sen.
Ms. Park said similar nuisance ordinances in other American cities have disproportionately worked against domestic violence victims.
I am one of the family members of the Special Forces, and I worked against the Taliban.
The funding is something, however, that pro-gun groups like the NRA have worked against for years.
And since Trump took office, his administration has worked against some of the solutions to the crisis.
Garrison noted that black people worked "against wind and tide," and white abolitionists joined the assault on inequality.
In fact, some new policies worked against finding survivors or alternative burial arrangements, by cutting short promising inquiries.
Conway's boss has actively worked against every single one of these issues that so many Women's Marchers supported.
Moves by other global central banks to implement a negative interest rate policy also worked against financial companies.
Almost by definition, the white nationalist movement over the past 40 years has worked against the political establishment.
That technique worked against Iran, helping to force it to the negotiating table over its own nuclear program.
It has always worked against anti-Semitism and to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, Ms. Bokova said.
The sandy soil worked against them but proved a sweet spot for cattlemen, who snatched up tracts of land.
But I've also often wondered if they worked against him, chipped away at some of what made him relatable.
The NRA has successfully worked against policies, like universal background checks, that are enormously popular with the US public.
The hedge fund's big bearish bet on Herbalife, the nutritional food supplement, worked against it once again this year.
As Maine's opioid death toll increased, a complex web of enforcement practices and inefficient treatment resources worked against Beal.
We should always ask the questions: How have our laws (and law enforcement) historically worked against people of color?
Party elites — including leaders of interest groups whose agenda Sanders has always consistently supported — really have worked against Sanders.
On the contrary, in building Amazon into a $1 trillion company, he has often worked against the public interest.
Since Trump took office, however, the federal government has actually worked against some of the solutions to the crisis.
His embrace of the Iraqi state has also sometimes worked against him by contradicting his image as a populist figure.
In fact, until Wednesday night's debate, Clinton has shown a rather narrow emotional range and that has worked against her.
During the debates, Clinton has hammered Sanders as too moderate on gun control, but that has worked against her here.
Turns out the three (!) zero-day exploits deployed against Mansoor kind of worked against Safari and OS X, as well.
Cosmological physics pulled the one apart, and then the clockwork balance worked against itself to smash the whole operation apart.
The humor in this film felt completely out of place, and it worked against the gravitas of the mystical elements.
And it's a reminder of the key factor that worked against the GOP in 245: Clinton was a popular president.
The hedge fund's big bearish bet on Herbalife, the nutritional food supplement company, worked against it once again this year.
Like a number of his fellow conservative elites who initially supported Hitler, he became disillusioned and worked against Hitler's rise.
In fact, since Trump took office, the federal government has actually worked against some of the solutions to the crisis.
But it has simultaneously worked against its own goal by not getting a handle on the abuse on its network.
In the past, refugees' uncertain status worked against them by making it pointless for businesses to train and hire them.
In the 2016 Democratic Primary, Sanders himself faced battling for a party nomination while the party actively worked against him.
Instead, what we got was a pulled pork, Walla Walla sweet onion and barbecue sauce pie that worked against all odds.
The Republican nominee's campaign has reportedly worked against his party's call for giving weapons to Ukraine and upping sanctions against Russia.
Hunchback: We wanted it to be chronological, but strict chronology worked against having the chapters each represent a book or title.
Both her size and shape worked against her, forcing her to purchase anything that covered as much of her as possible.
Many of the murdered activists worked against drug trafficking or illegal mining and in favor of environmental or land restitution causes.
These tactics worked against the Lebanese Canadian Bank, which Project Cassandra officials targeted in 2011 and ultimately forced out of business.
The novel's timely political subject, distressing and confounding, could easily have worked against its success: The risk of didacticism is high.
In Alabama, Nevada and West Virginia, Mr. Trump has actively worked against candidates that had strong support from grass-roots conservatives.
Although fogging campaigns have worked against Culex mosquitoes, which spreads West Nile, Aedes bugs like to live inside and around houses.
After all, the NRA has long worked against policies, like universal background checks, that are enormously popular with the American people.
"You had interest rates move higher, which worked against gold, and at the same time, that drove the dollar higher," Melek said.
Nearly half of Gen Z and millennial respondents said they felt the U.S. economic system worked against them — more than other generations.
On Wednesday, the gravity gods once again worked against him, resulting in a slip on stage in Jacksonville, Florida as "Sorry" played.
Growing levels of music piracy and poor compensation models also worked against music videos until systems like Vevo were created, she said.
And again, no one has actually given a meningitis vaccine to anyone to see if it worked against gonorrhea a clinical trial.
The bottom line: "The thing that made King famous — her connection to Oprah — also worked against her with 'The View,'" Setoodeh writes.
What would have worked positively for him in this cycle is precisely what has worked against the "establishment" of the Republican Party.
Ross said NAFTA's dispute resolution system needed to be changed because it had worked against the United States in the lumber dispute.
But what worked against the Soviet Union may not work against Russia, which has made an art of unpredictability and "asymmetrical" action.
The former espionage agent worked against Western intelligence agencies during the early years of the Russian Federation under former President Boris Yeltsin.
India has a history of draconian legislation when it comes to drugs and alcohol--some of which has worked against the country.
The Islanders' demeanor mirrors their coach's, and the approach worked against the Penguins, whom Trotz is meeting for a fourth consecutive postseason.
So far, they have not worked against so-called solid tumors like breast or colon cancer, but scientists haven't given up yet.
As an example, Full Fact highlighted only this week a misleading Facebook post about whether antibacterial sprays worked against the novel coronavirus.
All candidates were taking shots at Sanders, so at first blush one might suppose that six-against-one math worked against him.
While they worked against her in the campaign, they will help her offer incisive commentary and courtroom strategy during the impeachment trial.
And can the forms of resistance that worked against Communist and fascist dictatorships work against the democratically elected illiberal governments of today?
Renata's modern mansion is a frequent filming location for shows, movies and music videos, a fact that initially worked against it for Alpert.
"We found that they worked against a number of bacteria that are commonly implicated in [wartime] wounds—including drug-resistant strains," said Quave.
Hacked emails showing that the DNC seemingly worked against the Sanders campaign, only exacerbated what would have already probably been a contentious campaign.
His sweet good looks could have worked against the gravity of his role, but instead they give his tortured psychology a sympathetic appeal.
The habits that worked against building wealth included overspending, engaging in negative self-talk, maintaining toxic relationships, and unhealthy eating and drinking behaviors.
From what some insiders tell me, the site made this change quickly, which might have worked against leadership's ability to get buy-in.
That worked against the offensively inept Ticos, but if they try for 45 minutes here it seems inevitable Switzerland will grab a goal.
But I, you know, worked against Prop 187 out here, as a Latino seeing that attack on immigrants, prescient to what's happening now.
This unfortunately worked against her — the guards sent Sophia to the SHU (an order she does not resist and she heads there with dignity).
Both have either ignored or actively worked against valid concerns raised by their customers, and now they're joining forces to milk their combined fandom.
Some of those emails suggested that officials at the DNC, which is supposed to be neutral during the party's presidential primary, worked against Sen.
Earlier in the day, Valor Econômico reported that the claim that Thompson worked against the deal originated from an anonymous tip sent to Kroton.
He had chosen to live in Athens and this meant that he would respect its laws even when they worked against him, he said.
Castro ran a dynamic campaign aimed at younger and more progressive voters, but his stable record as a moderate mayor worked against the play.
The two special counsel's office cases on which she worked, against Manafort and against 12 Russian military intelligence officers accused of hacking the Democrats.
They identified a compound, called GNF6702, that worked against the parasites, and then refined it to make it more potent before testing in it mice.
Which is that there were forces and individuals and supposed leaders in our country who actively worked against the integration of schools based on race.
But in his victory, many saw a blow to a Washington establishment they say has failed Turkey as an ally and worked against its interests.
The price spike actively worked against Beijing's domestic agenda of controlling its rare earth producers by encouraging a surge in production, much of it illegal.
Fortum, which is awaiting regulatory approval to buy E.ON's stake in Uniper, said in late April that Uniper had actively worked against the proposed transaction.
Supporters can always say that Trump was never given a chance, and that the media, the Russia investigation, and other conspiracies have worked against him.
The Utica City School District has settled a lawsuit filed by New York State accusing it of discriminatory enrollment practices that worked against refugee children.
Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned shortly after WikiLeaks published hacked DNC emails that suggested the party had actively worked against Bernie Sanders's primary campaign.
"Because it was Google, it was always bigger than just an anti-gentrification fight," said Konstantin Sergiou, a neighborhood activist who worked against the project.
And that same approach has worked against politicians similar to Trump in other countries, as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago has pointed out.
But there is another option: to eliminate the North Korean threat by means of the same cold war techniques that worked against the Soviet Union.
The US intelligence community has resoundingly concluded that Russian election influence worked against her, and for Trump, likely because Putin harbors a grudge against Hillary.
For days, it seemed as if almost everything worked against the sailors and Marines as they bobbed over a 103-square-mile area in the Pacific.
The American people did not vote to put the EPA in the hands of someone who has recklessly worked against its mission to protect Americans' water.
Successive Canadian governments had worked against the hazardous material listing under the United Nations' Rotterdam Convention, fearful it would put Quebec asbestos mining out of business.
Sitting over a glass of tomato juice at the Four Seasons, Vargas Llosa emphasized that he never worked against Fujimori until he brought out the tanks.
Having concluded that his tariff threat worked against Mexico, President Trump has vowed to impose more tariffs against China if it doesn't accept American trade demands.
Washington is revisiting a long-simmering debate: Could the Cold War strategy that worked against the Soviet Union — mutually assured destruction — also work against North Korea?
Notoriously hot-headed, Flynn was reportedly pushed out of the same job that he held under Obama because he was abrasive and worked against the President's policy.
Santana also worked against his will for defeated Panamanian presidential candidate José Domingos Arias at Lula's request and with Odebrecht paying the couple $11.4 million, Moura said.
Some days the language barrier worked against me, like when I missed my stop on a boat ride to Paraíso Secreto (which appropriately translates to Secret Paradise).
Having discovered the drug, and established that it worked against a disease that caused awful suffering, neglecting to use it would have been "incredibly demoralising", he says.
It worked against Sunday afternoon, as the Rangers fell behind 2-0 but earned a 4-210 shootout victory against the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Garden.
For hundreds of years, our political and economic systems have either explicitly or implicitly worked against the interests of black people specifically, and minority groups more broadly.
I and many other advocates who worked against the representative payee rule have no issue with reasonable restrictions on gun ownership for people in the latter category.
Moreover, he is arguing that the Trump Organization was obligated to pay his fees and penalties, even as he worked against it by implicating it in crimes.
Both Christie and Edwards, like Sanders, had credible claims to believing they could vie for the presidency, but timing and circumstance worked against them in each instance.
The Republican Party has actively worked against the interest of disabled people, and, in fact, the Republican standard bearer, Donald Trump, has publicly mocked a disabled person.
Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Tuesday that Russia had clearly worked against Hillary Clinton, and planned to continue doing so if she was elected president, Politico reports.
She was one of the first major candidates to be perceived as a loose cannon and as a sound-bite generator that ultimately worked against the party.
He cleared Hillary who committed literally felonies one after another, he vowed to protect by the way, and he worked against Donald Trump and tried to destroy him.
That spurred the management companies to pass the cost on to investors, which worked against the BOJ's efforts to encourage portfolios to rebalance toward riskier assets, BofA noted.
His lackluster form against Mexico, however, and the furor caused ahead of the tournament by a picture he took with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had worked against him.
Among the factors that worked against them in Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday were a malfunctioning drone and an injury incurred during a postgame celebration.
One easy way to expand access the polls would be to include registration at the Affordable Care Act's healthcare exchanges, something which sadly the Obama administration worked against.
All the Events shared this welcome broadening, even while the mix of stylistic backgrounds, as jumbled as an all-star game, worked against Cunningham's special kind of coherence.
Those numbers might merit the award in most seasons, but the unusual nature of Ohtani's season probably worked against Andujar, and poor defense at third base clearly did.
Sharapova, 32, called perseverance her "greatest tool" but said it had ultimately worked against her as she tried to push through recurring injuries and revive a brilliant career.
This twist reflects a larger, longstanding argument that white feminism has never prioritized racial equality as part of its agenda and has often actively worked against the cause.
That majority opinion was written by Anthony Kennedy, who has now been replaced by Brett Kavanaugh, who worked against affirmative action as part of the George W. Bush administration.
Pan started his build using a Parrot AR.drone 1.0,but found that the software and fail-safes that made it easy to fly also worked against his required customizations.
The cozy confines of right field at Oracle Park also worked against the San Francisco offense, as the Giants tried to break the 1-1 tie an inning earlier.
Part of the cases against the oil companies will be that they knew about the bad effects of their products and sold them anyway; that worked against tobacco companies.
Always a sculptor who worked against the established norms of technique and rigid cultural identities, Kar's work exemplifies the confluence of artistic sensibilities that the Indo-French exchange enriched.
" Noting that many members of their own Millennial generation "are trying to reverse all of that [ignorance] to make a better world," Winter said Grier "really worked against us.
Through these conversations and further analysis, he was able to identify two types of habits: those that helped people build wealth ("rich habits"), and those that worked against them.
All of a sudden, a man that the president believed worked against him was in charge of (among other things) the probe into the Trump campaign's connections to Russia.
That runs contrary to the conclusion of past senior policy makers that what worked against large nuclear powers will suffice against an economically broken nation with a modest arsenal.
At such a tumultuous moment, Republican voters chose Trump, the ultimate outsider candidate, someone who promised to blow up a system that worked against the interests of everyday Americans.
The day had been relatively warm, a couple of ticks above freezing—the temperature he knows—and while he'd hunkered in his camp, the weather had worked against him.
Now we need to get into one of the bigger late revelations from the comics: Veidt despises Doctor Manhattan, and actively worked against him as far back as the 1960s.
"There's no doubt that we built up things within the cars which were completely wrong and which worked against the laws," he said, when asked about VW's posture in Europe.
Akhmetshin said he has never worked against the Russian government, for one thing because his family lives there, but that that does not mean he has worked for the Kremlin.
We need to create equitable workplaces where subtle and overtly taught expressions of power are worked against every day to create equal outcomes, all the way up to the top.
But a confluence of factors worked against him, including the particularly hard-nosed judge who sentenced him and the zero-tolerance ethos of the time against users of crack cocaine.
Those two are married, but somehow he has very publicly attacked his wife's boss on Twitter and actively worked against the presidential agenda his wife is trying to help sell.
Every month I was actually making a tangible impact on my overall balance due—I wasn't giving each loan enough time to gather interest that would have worked against me.
The HFPA loves a good musical, especially one as big as this, but it looks like the decision to premiere in late December has worked against the film's awards chances.
Yet, all these defenses share a failure in common: there are protections against what previously worked, against ways past attackers entered schools or ambushed marathons or scattered concerts and hurt people.
By escalating the tit-for-tat trade war, President Trump has worked against America's energy interests, leaving domestic energy firms to struggle with a glut of oil and gas at home.
After a while, Kettl stopped wearing clothing deemed unisex ("I learned that clothes that weren't 'feminine' just worked against me," she says) and adopted a "less is more" mentality with makeup.
In Syria, the decision threatened the survival of local troops who have worked against ISIS with the US for more than three years — and the residents who rely on their protection.
That, to me, is why you do this movie, because Thurgood Marshall worked on every end of that spectrum that before had only worked against people that didn't have a voice.
An expected cut in the marginal tax rate and a potential increase in the supply of municipal bonds as a result of increased infrastructure spending also worked against munis, he said.
Weakened margins at steel mills in China have also worked against the high-grade ore supplier, with Chinese operators slashing input costs by taking lower-quality, cheaper ores in recent months.
Of course after Trump is eventually driven from office, DC will be full of stories about the quiet yet brave patriots who courageously worked against Trump albeit from behind the scenes.
Nellie Liang, an economist and financial regulation expert, withdrew from consideration after financial industry lobbyists worked against her nomination and Senate Republicans made clear they would not vote to confirm her.
The president has vowed to renegotiate global trade deals that have worked against the U.S., and he has targeted China specifically for tariffs on $50 billion worth of goods so far.
It was a day when a high-risk, logistically complicated multi-national operation with a higher purpose -- the defeat of tyranny -- actually worked against the odds in a show of human ingenuity.
The notion of democratic participation was formed in the Renaissance, and founded upon a naive idea of individual participation, which Rushkoff felt worked against the individual by ceding power to central authorities.
"The central bank is largely at fault for not supplying the needed dollars, and the fact that our non-oil exports are so small also worked against the country's economy," he said.
When he first came to the majors with Arizona, Bauer said, trainers worked against him, discouraging his use of weighted balls and long toss, trying to make him conform to their structure.
With millions of dollars in donations over the years, the Kochs' contribution to today's Republican Party has been seminal, helping to solidify doctrine that favored businesses and worked against stricter environmental regulations.
There is no reason to think, however, that Hamilton would have actively worked against slavery had he had more years, as he did not do so during the years he was alive.
A former undercover cop in the UK who worked against biker gangs across Europe draws a parallel between the use of junior clubs for unsavory business on both sides of the pond.
The skepticism derived from a history of white feminism that has not included – and at times worked against the unique perspectives and systemic hurdles of women who are not cis straight white women.
I didn't deny that about myself at any point and I think if I had, if I tried to reinvent myself as a chaste young woman, I think that would've worked against me.
The Falcons' offensive efficiency worked against their defense's need to rest — so that by the fourth quarter, all the Brady passes that were being deflected at the start were finally finding their target.
But she said the tight-knit nature of the lucrative industry, much of which is controlled by a handful of powerful families, worked against transparency as big players could close ranks against accusers.
Physicist Laura Grego, who studies missile defense at the Union of Concerned Scientists, has examined the publicly available data and disagrees with the Pentagon's assessment that the system worked against a realistic threat.
The Russians played with five at the back and just a lone striker in Artem Dzyuba and it worked against Spain, who managed just one chance in the entire 90 minutes on Sunday.
But little has worked against the Penguins, who have used their decided edge in speed to control play for most of the four games, often keeping the Sharks hemmed in their own zone.
One critical sequence worked against the Rockets late in the first half, with Faried whistled for offensive goaltending on a Harden shot that appeared set to fall and with Houston trailing by four.
Recruiting more women is an obvious way to help solve the pilot shortage, but social constraints have worked against that, said Maria Bucur, a professor of history and gender studies at Indiana University.
So Pran, and he was Indian, he had this fear about it, and he was so cagey about letting anybody hear anything in case they ripped it off, and that worked against the situation.
Freezing temperatures, four feet of fresh powder, a time crunch, and a giant gown all worked against the HGTV designer and her intrepid crew, but you wouldn't know it looking at the final product.
Icahn added that embattled Herbalife is also "undervalued" despite its 45 percent rally from the February 2016 low and a trade that has worked against his rival, short-seller Bill Ackman of Pershing Square.
And even when we finally had a song that did get hit radio play, "Whip It," it seemed like that worked against us, because all of a sudden, you know, we were this band.
He worked against an incredibly dramatic background, with banks failing around the country; factories shutting their gates; and an assassination attempt in Miami on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the new president-elect, that miraculously failed.
Several strategists and observers said the physical distance required to get to Nevada has worked against it in recent years, both among candidates and the media that deploys reporters and cameras to cover events.
In the wake of the horror in Orlando, politicians who have worked against legislative equality for LGBT Americans have been criticized as part of a culture of intolerance that contributes to anti-gay hate.
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were quick to seize on the report and tie its findings to the narrative that top law enforcement officials at the FBI and Justice Department had worked against Trump.
J&J said the motivation for the donations stemmed from anecdotal accounts that a certain type of antiviral has worked against similar coronaviruses in the past, such as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Though he is mayor of California's largest city, Los Angeles has also become synonymous with the state's housing crisis, a factor that would have worked against him had he mounted his own presidential campaign.
The company describes it as "weighty" and "substantial," which might be nice for a guy's face … but as a woman shaving with upward strokes in a slippery shower, the heavy handle worked against me.
The low frequencies and long wavelengths worked against traditional barrier solutions, but airport staff realized that plowed fields in the area seemed to dampen the noise — especially ones with a particular spacing of ridges.
These are, of course, highly inflammatory claims that a Trump Organization executive and lawyer was collaborating closely with Russian government officials regarding paying hackers who had worked against the Clinton campaign in some way.
If there had been Jedi in Germany who had seen Hitler coming, even if Hitler had some kind of imprimatur, and worked against him, in service of the Weimar Republic's ideal, that'd be okay.
When the book is finally written about this era of politicians that actively worked against, and even taunted the citizens they served, you can be sure that a special chapter will be reserved for LePage.
Those emails were released to the public in spurts that undermined the credibility of leading presidential candidate and Putin critic Hillary Clinton, showing that members of the DNC worked against her Democratic primary opponent, Sen.
They've actively worked against the unspoken rule between celebrity and fan that leaves fans expecting unlimited access in exchange for a celebrity that remains as perfect as we believe them to be, at all times.
Noncompete pacts were only one ingredient in the recipe that worked against Massachusetts and to the advantage of Silicon Valley, where employees can depart and start their own companies mostly without fear of a lawsuit.
His case punctured some of the overheated rhetoric surrounding coerced sex work and highlighted the power dynamics that police and prosecutors often enjoy over defendants—not because it worked against him, but because it didn't.
Since then, search teams have worked against the clock to locate the wreckage and recover the two black box recorders crucial to explaining what went wrong, before they stop emitting signals in about a week.
They were treating symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, and skin infections in patients with HIV long before the cause of illness was identified, or researchers had discovered antiretrovirals that worked against the disease.
Unicef released the report as negotiators worked against a March 23 deadline to reach a final agreement to end a half-century of war in Colombia, regarded as the longest active conflict in modern history.
As Agnes negotiates her first weeks of collegiate life with a quirky roommate and a crush on a seemingly unattainable guy, there's a suggestion of whimsy that might have worked against the novel's challenging themes.
He had a strong early voter turnout initially, but several factors have worked against him and his mediocre approval ratings in the state and break with the Tea Party over immigration have really hurt him.
Starting in the summer of 2017, Trump blasted out dozens of tweets suggesting that Jill McCabe's candidacy -- and McAuliffe's donation -- were somehow evidence that Andrew McCabe took it easy on Clinton and worked against Trump.
There's more, but you get the idea: Hook reassigned Nowrouzzadeh not because her work was inadequate or because she worked against Trump, but rather over false fears of her political leanings and loyalty to Iran.
While it worked against everyone else here, and even produced a world championship last year, Canada looked for much of the afternoon as if it had figured out a very effective answer to it — muscle.
Umbridge may be a successful career woman – she's Junior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic – and wizard patriarchy can only have worked against her as she rose up, but we don't know too much about that.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To stop President Donald Trump from undermining Obamacare, Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is considering an approach that has worked against the administration on immigration: using Trump's own words against him.
Brandi Carlile's "The Joke" must be a rebuff to the forces that worked against him while he was president, the haters who said he'd never pass the ACA and wanted to see his birth certificate — right?
Elliott's motion was filed shortly after Fortum alleged in late April that Uniper had actively worked against the proposed deal in Russia, where it operates power plants and water-related activities through its subsidiary Unipro (UPRO.MM).
It's tempting to extend the comparison and to wonder whether Kraus didn't feel that she had to treat Acker in a way that actively worked against the hero worship that characterizes some artists' cults of personality.
One was the Republican National Committee's rule changes, during the 2012 convention, that worked against Mr. Hovater's preferred candidate at the time, the libertarian Ron Paul, and in favor of Mitt Romney, the eventual Republican nominee.
Though Chief Justice Roberts worked against Roe as a lawyer in George W. Bush's Justice Department and has voted to chip away at abortion rights, he has become keener to steer the court away from treacherous waters.
I needed to understand why honest, hardworking people from different ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds would rally behind a man who worked against their interests and constantly perpetuated dishonesty and disrespect for those he claimed to serve.
But the spectacularly conventional nature of Garland's resume — from Harvard Law to distinguished and unblemished service in the Justice Department to the top appeals court in the land -- that worked against him before suddenly became an asset.
Blogs like Vox and FiveThirtyEight tried to debunk the rigging claims, saying essentially that while some rules worked against Sanders, others worked in his favor, and in the end he simply lost because he got fewer votes.
It's an award that doubles as a ranking of the people and institutions who undermined this already troubled industry or actively worked against a free press, and it was devised with high hopes for a better 303.
Maduro's rivals say a mix of dirty tricks, like moving hundreds of voting centers in opposition areas at the last minute and including the names of opposition politicians who lost in primaries on ballots, worked against them.
Also in her hometown, Bailey, along with a committee of local parents, has created a "Protective Guardian" award, which is given to a student or young person who has actively worked against bullying in their school or community.
Why it matters: Though oblique, it's still a rare public critique from Roberts directed toward the president, who has repeatedly bashed federal court decisions that have worked against some of his most controversial policies, like the travel ban.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche said on Wednesday its Ocrevus multiple sclerosis drug controlled the most common form of the disease better than a rival's medicine and worked against another form of MS for which there is no approved treatment.
"We must face the reality that women throughout all sectors feel that existing practices and procedures have worked against them and left them silenced when they have complaints about discrimination and harassment," Waters wrote in the Monday letter.
Everything from the rise of the gig economy's damaging effect on full-time work, Supreme Court and National Labor Relations Board decisions against organized labor and a host of regulatory reversals have worked against worker pay and security.
People have been making a ruckus for a long time but elected officials have more or less ignored them, or actively worked against them, as with the ill-advised repeal of the broadband privacy rules earlier this year.
It's a device originally designed to prevent decision-making that would disadvantage one of the two polarised political camps, but in this case the DUP used it to undermine a democratic choice because it worked against their religious philosophy.
Strategists who worked against Mr. Trump in 2016 have attested to the power of a television-formed image: The perception of Mr. Trump as a decisive billionaire executive from his years on "The Apprentice" was almost impossible to dislodge.
Tillerson on whether he opposed sanctions: At his confirmation hearing, Rex Tillerson, the nominee for Secretary of State, startled senators by stating flatly that he never worked against economic sanctions against Russia and Iran when he was CEO of Exxon-Mobil.
In 2017 the FCC reduced that presence to a blight, with millions of Americans feeling ignored or actively worked against, and an agency once known for quietly fulfilling its purpose transformed into a stalking-horse for partisan and corporate interests.
Moreover, because Republicans saw Democratic failure as their surest way to gain nationally in the next election, anything they did to help Democrats look like they were succeeding, even where common ground could be found, worked against Republican power dynamics.
It also reminds me of a time when fashion, which is supposed to be my armor, worked against me: In August of 2017, I was assaulted on the subway in New York City for wearing makeup and short black shorts.
In the days since the U.S. Senate voted to acquit Trump and not remove him from office, rumors and reports have swirled through Washington of the president's plans to oust those he believes worked against him in the impeachment trial.
But Trump must push ahead with his agenda, and not feel cowed by those who lost the election, worked against him during the election, and — most importantly — showed they don't have a clue what so many American voters really want.
Congress, with Trump's support, has even worked against some of the commission's recommendations by moving — unsuccessfully so far — to repeal Obamacare, which expanded access to addiction treatment through increased insurance coverage and regulations that require equal access to mental health services.
In fact, Congress, with Trump's support, has worked against some of the recommendations from the commission by moving to repeal Obamacare, which expanded access to addiction treatment through increased insurance coverage and regulations that require equal access to mental health services.
Last month, Fortum won approval from a government commission in Russia to buy up to 50 percent in Uniper, marking a key step in getting the deal done, but Fortum also said Uniper's management had actively worked against the deal there.
But in the gaps between such fantasies, Mr. Trump has also begun revisiting broadly popular policy themes of the sort that he campaigned on in 2016 but then largely abandoned — or actively worked against — once he settled into the Oval Office.
Prince Mohammed worked against the transition to democracy in Egypt, defied a United Nations embargo to arm a would-be Libyan strongman and ignored American entreaties to end his feud with Qatar, the host of a United States air base.
Fewer voters who describe themselves as liberal turned out to vote on Saturday than in years past, exit polls show, a decline that ultimately worked against Sanders, the progressive firebrand who has supplanted Biden atop many polls in recent weeks.
"We must face the reality that women throughout all sectors feel that existing practices and procedures have worked against them and left them silenced when they have complaints about discrimination and harassment," Waters wrote in a letter to Hensarling on Monday.
Judge Gorsuch was well known in conservative circles, but his stellar academic credentials — which include degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford — may have worked against him at first, an official said, as the initial list had an anti-establishment theme.
FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, May 16 (Reuters) - The world's biggest proxy advisors and a top-10 shareholder in Uniper urged investors not to back a request to probe whether the energy group's management worked against the planned sale of E.ON's remaining stake to Fortum.
"Afridi worked against the law and our national interest, and the Pakistan government has repeatedly been telling the United States that under our law he committed a crime and was facing the law," Zahid Hamid was quoted as saying at the time.
" Republicans pressured to denounce Trump McConnell has publicly stressed for months that math to keep a GOP Senate worked against the party, telling reporters recently it was a "knock-down, drag-out, sort of like a knife fight in a phone booth.
A number of Trump outside advisers -- including former chief strategist Stephen Bannon -- have stepped up their attacks on the Department of Justice, calling for it to release more documents to the White House while saying a confidential source has worked against Trump.
The one place where Trump support may have actually worked against a candidate on the Republican side was in Virginia's 10th Congressional District, which runs from an affluent area just outside Washington into the exurbs and rural areas at the state's tip.
The ECB is buying 60 billion euros worth of assets per month to kick start price growth but crashing oil prices have worked against it, forcing the bank last month to cut its deposit rate and extend the asset buys by six months.
Using a single character as a lens would have worked against Mr. Lawrence's thesis: that the New York party culture of the early '212s is of interest because it allowed the intersection of a wide array of subcultures, which sent sparks flying.
The strategies that worked against Bernie Sanders will work even better against Donald Trump — a candidate who's very different ideologically, but whose campaign shares many of Sanders's structural weakness in terms of overreliance on slogans, mega rallies, and aggressive white male supporters.
Finally, by opening what would become a criminal inquiry into the origins of the F.B.I.'s investigation of the Trump campaign in 21974, Mr. Barr has given credence to Mr. Trump's unfounded theory that people in American intelligence agencies worked against him.
Finally, by opening what would become a criminal inquiry into the origins of the F.B.I.'s investigation of the Trump campaign in 21974, Mr. Barr has given credence to Mr. Trump's unfounded theory that people in American intelligence agencies worked against him.
Gary Cohn, a chief architect of the tax cuts during his time as Mr. Trump's chief economic adviser, argues plausibly that the uncertainty created by Mr. Trump's trade policy has worked against the tax cuts, discouraging companies from making long-term investments.
"The close-knit, insular nature of the community worked against it, with the C.D.C. later finding up to six people shared needles at one sitting, and two or three generations — young adults, parents and grandparents — sometimes shot up together," The Courier-Journal reported.
Several Haley allies and Republicans who worked against Trump in 2016 and would like to see him beaten or weakened in the 2020 primaries — representing two camps that don't formally intersect but have some mutual beliefs — said that they take Haley at her word.
In July, just before the Democratic National Convention kicked off, WikiLeaks posted roughly 20,000 emails from the DNC that showed favor for Clinton and distaste for her primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, within the DNC, bolstering his supporters' claims the DNC worked against his candidacy.
Hoping to draw the Islamists into the system rather than leave them on the outside where they might grow more radical, the government adopted a new election law allowing bloc voting, reversing a two-decade-old system that worked against parties like the Brotherhood.
Most astonishing, President Trump then went on to cast doubt on the conclusions of his own intelligence community and offer a moral equivalency between Putin -- a former KGB operative who has long worked against America's national security -- and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Asked Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" about a Minnesota Public Radio report from her time as Hennepin County attorney that noted racial disparities in law enforcement, particularly against African-Americans, Klobuchar said she worked against the trend during her time in office.
According to Ethiopian crash investigators, the pilots correctly followed procedures publicized after the Lion Air accident in October to disable a faulty computerized stabilization system that Boeing created to prevent planes from crashing, but the plane's speed and the clock worked against their efforts.
In an interview with Broadly last December, Dana Gold of the Government Accountability Project suggested that Manning's association with WikiLeaks, the organization to which she released the documents, could have worked against her, since WikiLeaks was involved in the 2016 presidential election hacking scandal.
Eventually, a combination of factors worked against Zuma: relentless investigative work into his activities by the country's top journalists; a big electoral loss for the ruling ANC party in municipal elections in 2016; elite outcry at his excesses; and hard pushback by the country's judiciary institutions.
Lou Dobbs, the Fox Business Network host, said on Monday night that Mr. Trump's opponents overlooked times when Mr. Obama tried to influence foreign elections, apparently referring to moments such as when a former aide worked against the re-election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
Clients of the scheme consistently lost small amounts of money: the differences between Moscow and London prices of a stock often worked against them, and clients had to pay Deutsche Bank a commission for every transaction—between ten hundredths and fifteen hundredths of a percentage point per trade.
Consequently, while the site was in conversation with the world of the meme and social media, it seems to have developed in ways that challenged the blithe replication of meme products and also worked against the slicker aesthetic of the cinemagraph gif or the Tumblr-ready net-art object.
The plan has three major thrusts: Portray Mr. Trump as a heartless businessman who has worked against the interests of the working-class voters he now appeals to; broadcast the degrading comments he has made against women in order to sway suburban women, who have been reluctant to support Mrs.
The Old Southpaw Double Attack This writer's thoughts from the signing of the fight were that it would be interesting to see how Vannata's rapid advances and weaves worked against Teymur's old school Cro Cop style, circling out to the left and hammering in left round kicks and left straights when possible.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE assailed the "corporate media" for a series of "conflicts of interest" he believes have worked against his candidacy.
" By contrast, an unnamed "someone else who has never shown any regard for workers" and "has never fought on behalf of social justice issues" and "in fact has worked against economic opportunities for workers and ordinary people" doesn't "suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes.
And even if we could believe servicers willingly worked against students' and the Department of Education's interests, it makes no financial sense for them to push "bad" repayment options that bring in fewer dollars all so they can spend more money on outreach and assistance later when people fall back into delinquency.
As the 2018 election demonstrated, Trump's personally chaotic approach to governance, his record of undermining relations with allies and strengthening ties to autocrats; his use of trade policy to heighten market insecurity; his aggression, his recklessness, his incessant lying; and his sneering contemptuous, bullying style, together worked against him and the Republican Party.
"They were really so out of character with the small communities and two-lane highways that they actually worked against the reason why people come to the East End to begin with," said Fred W. Thiele Jr., a New York assemblyman who represents the area and who fought to have the signs removed.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans, in control in the upper chamber, want to craft a new approach to health care before 2020, recognizing that voter anxieties about GOP efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and Democrats' adroit focus during 2018 campaigns on protecting coverage of pre-existing conditions worked against Republicans (The Hill).
"Marc is a very smart campaign finance and election lawyer, but his legal positions are usually designed to serve the best interests of his Democratic Party clients in winning elections rather than any particular legal principle," said Jason Torchinsky, a Republican election lawyer who has worked against Mr. Elias in several recounts, including in Florida.
Playing an activist will likely be second-nature to Rae, whose Insecure character works at a non-profit organization called We Got Y'all, which runs an after-school program dedicated to helping students recognize and achieve their potential so they can have the tools they need to compete in a system that has historically worked against them.
Priebus had worked against Scaramucci joining the administration when the New York hedge fund manager was first considered for a post and, while the two attempted to put on a show of unity in Scaramucci's first days at the White House, it quickly became clear the two men would continue to be at odds with each other.
In a weird way, A Star Is Born's box office success worked against it, because the debates around the film — over its treatment of pop music, its depictions of women's agency, and its storytelling around mental illness — grew so much bigger so much more quickly than they would have if the movie wasn't such a giant hit.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared on Tuesday that North Korea now had the missile capability to "threaten everywhere in the world, basically," he hinted at a long-running debate inside the United States government: Can the same strategy that worked against the Soviet Union — mutually assured destruction — also work against a far smaller adversary?
The emails released by WikiLeaks created a political storm for the Democratic Party, seemingly validating suspicions of Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE and his supporters that the DNC worked against his candidacy.
Donald 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's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says he has left a conservative law group that has worked against Obama administration rules.
The leaked emails of former Secretary of State Colin Powell—authenticated by his own staff—provide multiple reasons for why Flynn was "canned" by Obama from the DIA three years ago: Flynn was "abusive" with his staff, displayed poor management skills, and often worked against the administration's policies, wrote Powell, who further characterizing Flynn as "right-wing nutty," a snub seemingly confirmed by Flynn's penchant for endorsing bizarre conspiracy theories.
Doug CollinsDouglas (Doug) Allen CollinsHundreds apply to fill Isakson's Senate seat in Georgia The Hill's Morning Report - Wild Wednesday: Sondland testimony, Dem debate take center stage 'Fox & Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade urges Trump not to tweet during impeachment hearings MORE (Ga.), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the closed-door process and text of the resolution also worked against Democrats and helped the GOP unify.
However, the Democratic National Committee seemed to have actively worked against Sanders as a presidential contender three years ago, when he became truly competitive with party favorite Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE, so I'm hypothesizing that this really is just Democratic establishment bias.
A reconstructed transcript of the call, made public by the White House in October, makes clear that Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to pursue investigations into the Bidens and into one element of his belief that Ukraine worked against his election in 2016: a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine rather than Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, and that Ukraine had possession of a server that would shed light on the theory.
He didn't name Trump explicitly but the presumptive Republican nominee was clearly the intended object of derision when Obama tried to distinguish between populism and xenophobia: Somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, has never fought on behalf of social justice issues or making sure that poor kids are getting a decent shot at life or have healthcare—in fact, have worked against economic opportunity for workers and ordinary people—they don't suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes.
When Trump criticized NATO, worked against European unity, criticized other democratic leaders, praised foreign dictators, attacked the free press, praised WikiLeaks, attacked a former FBI director in a closed meeting with the Russian foreign minister, criticized the FBI counter-intelligence investigation, failed to unequivocally restate America's commitment under NATO to defend allies from outside attack, suggested a preference for far-right extremists such as Marine Le Pen in France, fomented bitter political divisions at home, repeatedly violated America's tradition of supporting human rights and collapsed America's global image, per a Pew Research poll, he helps Putin attack America while his administration is being investigated about ties to Russia.

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