CM Punk yielded to Daniel Bryan, who yielded to Kevin Owens and AJ Styles.
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Teen-age revolt yielded to precarious mental health; daredevil experimentation with drugs in staged videos yielded to lyrics about self-medication.
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The heavy bush yielded to a more open flood plane.
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The developers, it turned out, yielded to protests and compromised.
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Where science failed, prejudice stepped in and observation yielded to opinion.
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Kevin Kramer then walked and yielded to pinch runner Erik Gonzalez.
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Already, the government has yielded to some of the Brownies' demands.
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Public-spirited science yielded to the demands of a national-security state.
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Those five minutes can be yielded to counsel if a senator chooses.
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The company eventually yielded to public pressure and dropped the controversial website.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Beijing has yielded to Hong Kong's unique economic status.
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So far Britain and Germany, among others, have not yielded to American demands.
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Instead, he was frustrated that Taiwan had not yielded to Beijing's unification demands.
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Both sides yielded to peer pressure and the herd mentality of their party.
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By Saturday night, much of that optimism had yielded to anger and determination.
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But when it has, it has been because the court yielded to political pressure.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — A puzzle by Robyn Weintraub that fought me, then yielded to me.
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The carrier yielded to the pressure and even fired four staff, including two pilots.
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Over all, their 28.4 F.P.P.G. yielded to the receiver position is the second most.
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He also yielded to pressure from Trump to label China a currency manipulator this month.
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Members of both parties have yielded to the demands for greater and greater surveillance power.
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The Americans' brief flirtation with Wilsonian internationalism yielded to a resurgence of nationalism and nativism.
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In 2011, the military-backed transitional government yielded to public pressure and suspended the project.
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But it took 367 days before the November 1968 bear market yielded to the 1969 recession.
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Since 2016, however, if the trope hasn't exactly died, it's yielded to an even simpler reality.
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After about 30 minutes, the trees yielded to a wide meadow dropping precipitously to the sea.
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The Dodgers scored twice more against McCullers in the sixth inning, before he yielded to Peacock.
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One of Mr. Macron's trademarks was scorn for predecessors who yielded to pressure from the streets.
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One recent evening, as dusk yielded to darkness, a cat came up the path from Google.
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Most of its venerable figures have yielded to those pressures, engaging in re-enactments and tributes.
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Learning their identities has helped guide interrogations and yielded to fresh information about potential ISIS attacks.
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To the west, orange and peach striations yielded to a deep blue that mellowed the full sky.
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Returning this winter, I was struck by how the relentless optimism of Kosovars had yielded to disillusionment.
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With a shatter, the sweet, crunchy crust yielded to a mouthful of perfectly seasoned, perfectly sauced spaghetti.
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" In "all these fancies," the viewer finally "yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst … .
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Within months, Pahlavi Iran, a showcase for Westernization, yielded to the Islamic state led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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As the 1960s yielded to the 1970s, Florida state government took on a more modern cast, and Gov.
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On Wednesday, he asked Democratic lawmakers for time to speak on the floor, which they yielded to him.
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Bouteflika yielded to the protests on Monday by postponing elections and dropping plans to stand for a fifth term.
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Although South Korea has signed treaties obliging it to admit genuine refugees, the government largely yielded to the pressure.
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The last military governments in that region, in Greece, Spain and Portugal, yielded to democratic rule in the 1970s.
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Mr. Kabila's government finally yielded to pressure from the international community and the Catholic Church to hold the election.
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It even yielded to years of despondent cries requests and launched a full-sized wireless Magic Keyboard with numeric keys.
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The government in Caracas hasn't yielded to pressure from its beleaguered neighbors and the United States to ease the crisis.
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The rough exurbs of Cape Town yielded to an amber veld with patches of irrigated green; hills rose and fell.
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However, the White House yielded to Beijing's wish that the two leaders not take questions during a joint press statement.
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His desire, which is non-specific and all-encompassing and undeniable, is not so much turned outward as yielded to.
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Since 1945, hundreds of villages yielded to a growing need for energy, with 40 percent of Germany's power coming from coal.
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Deadmau5 already yielded to the feverish lust for Szechuan sauce when he put getting married on pause to buy 64 oz.
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Unbelievable. Is the impeachment investigation, which took shape as October yielded to November, an attempt to "overturn" the 2016 presidential election?
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In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal optimization.
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It mattered so much that complaints about baseball's slow pace yielded to the universal wish that this game would last forever.
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Wheeler reluctantly yielded to those calls, dropping almost all of the items on the agenda a day before the FCC's monthly meeting.
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Both North Korean allies, Russia and China have yielded to pressure from the US to enact punishing economic sanctions on North Korea.
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Managers have come and gone with alarming, uncharacteristic frequency: Michael Laudrup, Garry Monk and Francesco Guidolin, who yielded to Bradley last month.
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But the concept of free play has since yielded to adult-controlled games and hopes for glory among many of today's parents.
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Netflix yielded to popular demand in November and offered subscribers the opportunity to download their favorite films and television shows to watch offline.
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He later said that it was important for the zoo not to give even the appearance of having yielded to the ministers' demand.
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According to opinion polls, more than 60% oppose the agreement, even though Macedonia has yielded to Greek insistence on a change of name.
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The wild and the settled were untangled into separate realms, routine burning on the landscape yielded to internal combustion, and firefighting agencies matured.
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The previous decade, the I.O.C. and I.A.A.F. yielded to pressure by the medical and scientific community and stopped sex-testing every female athlete.
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In today's much gloomier climate, silliness has yielded to the serious work of stifling speech and academic freedom in ever-more insidious ways.
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He never yielded to Judge, Stanton and Gary Sanchez, who went a combined 0 for 12 against Aaron Sanchez and the Toronto bullpen.
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The framers of the 1965 immigration act considered the idea, but yielded to conservatives who feared it would remake the nation's ethnic profile.
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Lam finally yielded to the pressure on Saturday, suspending her push for the legislation while resisting demands to withdraw it completely and resign.
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Comparable gun assaults in this country have been met by an outraged public but craven politicians have yielded to the gun lobby's propaganda.
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The third opened with a drum-set duet that yielded to a skittish dialogue for double bass and cello, then a wailing din.
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Scout24 yielded to pressure of activist investor Elliott and said in August that it would explore a sale or spin-off of Autoscout24.
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He has not yielded to its demand for formal powers to conduct counter-terrorist operations in Punjab, Mr Sharif's home province and political base.
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The post-Soviet national mission of state-building and grand diplomacy has yielded to a quieter emphasis on convergence with the rest of Europe.
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Nunes yielded to Stefanik on Friday as questioning by committee members began, making her one of the first Republicans to speak during the hearing.
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The maroon, older-style vehicle, which one deputy believed to be a Ford Taurus, yielded to the deputies as they sped to the home.
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In 2015, McCarthy was considered the favorite to replace John Boehner as speaker, but he yielded to Ryan amid pressure from the Freedom Caucus.
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"They've already yielded to a lot of my proposals even though they suggested at the time they were wrong or fake news," Cotton said.
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For all his attacks on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the president has so far yielded to corporate America's desire to preserve it.
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Donald Trump finally yielded to public outrage Wednesday and signed an executive order to halt the separation of migrant parents and children crossing the border.
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One day, she finally yielded to my relentless begging for spaghetti, dumped a can of tomato chunks onto some boiled noodles, and that was that.
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Yet, Democrats have yielded to his demands with only a slight increase in time, divided into the ridiculous five-minute segments of most congressional hearings.
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Trump touted the report on Friday while claiming the economy would have transcended previous highs if the Fed yielded to his desire for lower rates.
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Davies (23-33) yielded to Brent Suter, Junior Guerra and Ray Black, who teamed for four innings of no-hit, one-walk, three-strikeout relief.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Europe had yielded to pressure from Washington by launching the dispute mechanism in the nuclear pact, the JCPOA.
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Gender stereotypes among voters, which once ascribed strength to male candidates and empathy to female ones, have almost entirely yielded to the tribal magnetism of partisanship.
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It was a rush of tightly edited footage that eventually yielded to a montage of the sword being tested on car windshields and other modern objects.
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In final negotiations, Democratic leadership yielded to Republicans demanding that prevention (or "welfare for criminals" as one called it) be sliced in exchange for their votes.
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But Trump raised the ire of fellow Republicans with the move and eventually yielded to pressure, throwing his support behind the House leader shortly before the primary.
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As the showiness of the first act yielded to the more serious, sustained intensity of the second, the cast was entirely on board with Mr. Honoré's vision.
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For Zionism, Israeli wars of survival in 1948, 1967 and 1973 yielded to expansionist dreams of Greater Israel that blur the line between religious ideology and security.
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Uber yielded to the ruling in a new Facebook post on Tuesday evening, where it said it was "disappointed with the LTFRB's decision" to deny the appeal.
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President Trump said he yielded to pleas from the leaders of Canada and Mexico and agreed not to withdraw immediately from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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On Wednesday, the tribunal's investigating judges quietly dropped the charges, raising questions about whether they had yielded to pressure from the Cambodian government, which opposed the prosecution.
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After three weeks of demonstrations against an increase in gasoline taxes, French President Emmanuel Macron yielded to the Yellow Vest protesters by suspending the hikes for six months.
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The black women who died in Jonestown were people who had wanted to work toward a better world, but ultimately yielded to the deadly force of white authority.
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Much of that time will likely be yielded to staff counsel, but Nunes will still be in a position of prominence, seated next to Schiff for the questioning.
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"Now the court has from time to time erred and erred greatly, but when it has it has been because the court yielded to political pressure," he said.
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The Allied powers yielded to the French—on whose soil so much of the bloodiest fighting had taken place—the role of dictating peace terms to the Germans.
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When he set out to record the album, he begrudgingly yielded to convention, hiring musicians to join him during his recording sessions, which took place in legitimate studios.
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But this time he seems to have yielded to pressure from Jonathan and other patients like him who told their heartbreaking stories online and in the news media.
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Adam Burchenal considered taking the first — and, up to now, the only — Duncan the new trees had yielded, to his grandfather's funeral, but it was still too green.
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That explanation soon yielded to a succession of reworded statements about why he met the lawyer that cemented impressions that Trump Jr. was not disclosing everything about the encounter.
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Next, came a sharp left turn on the Internet, as the FCC yielded to the president's pronouncement that utilities-style regulation was the preferred path forward for net neutrality.
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Hence the era of erectile dysfunction commercials for Viagra and Cialis yielded to omnipresent spots for Humira and Enbrel, used for rheumatoid arthritis and a range of other conditions.
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Some parents argue that the city, eager to quiet the blistering headlines, yielded to political pressure and closed the books after Mr. Williams's trial as a matter of convenience.
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What he calls "the big childish question—why did you abandon us?" yielded to an attempt "to understand why he had committed suicide and what his life had been like".
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"If the Union yielded to such critics, and condoned the denial of rights to Nazi propagandists, in what position would it be to champion the rights of others?" they argued.
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They have yielded to the bizarre fear of a black president and allowed their Bundy ranch to turn Common Core into "Obamacore" and test-based accountability into big government overreach.
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In a White House meeting the day after Mr. Morsi's ouster — two days after that last phone call — Mr. Obama yielded to those views when he accepted the military takeover.
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Only the chair and ranking minority member, or a Permanent Select Committee employee if yielded to by the chair or ranking minority member, may question witnesses during such periods of questioning.
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No public announcement has been made but it has now yielded to pressure and agreed to include all its African DTTs (except that with Cape Verde, which is not yet finalised).
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"The bill is seen as an amnesty for illegal occupation of the conservancy unit," said Observatório do Clima on its website, adding the government "yielded to pressure" from the rural lobby.
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President Trump chose normal over instinct when he yielded to his generals on Afghanistan policy, providing yet another reminder of the frequent disconnect between what he says and what he does.
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Even Apple, which famously sparred with the FBI over consumer privacy rights, has yielded to Chinese requests such as removing VPN apps and certain news apps from its local app store.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil settled 235 percent lower on Tuesday as the market yielded to technical pressure and worries that U.S. crude stockpiles were still growing amid falling output and refinery maintenance.
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Just before the news on Uber, another online giant under fire, Facebook, on September 21st yielded to pressure from America's Senate to be more transparent about political advertisements on the social network.
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Ever since the Frick Collection yielded to public protest and abandoned plans for a six-story addition last year, curiosity has mounted as to how that museum would revise its renovation plans.
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No one yielded to my car in the parking lot, and I narrowly avoided running into other bodies who streamed from the grocery store exit, intent on getting home and getting safe.
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And after Republican elders went to the White House to tell him that he lacked the political support to survive as president, Nixon yielded to their implication that he should leave office.
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If I was "lucky," I might find one stretchy, oversized top that yielded to my equally oversized curves, but more often than not, I left empty-handed with a mind full of insecurities.
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If that fails to pass, he could be forced to call an early election, though he would be able to do so while saying he has not yielded to separatists' demands, analysts say.
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After years of touting the headphone jack as an important feature on its flagship smartphones, Samsung has finally yielded to the trend and launched the Galaxy Note 10 without the 3.5mm audio connector.
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With Tuesday's announcement, Hatch yielded to the realities of age, poor poll numbers and, just maybe, a desire to leave on his own terms and not as a convenient tool of this President.
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In case after case in recent years, American executives have yielded to Chinese demands to tailor their words and products, as Hollywood studios now regularly do, or to apologize, even for unintentional slights.
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The commissioners of the Port Authority yielded to pressure from airport workers and 32BJ a few years ago and raised the minimum wage at all of the agency's facilities to $10.10 an hour.
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From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the California Alien Land Law of 1913 to the Japanese internment camps of World War II, we have often yielded to our prejudices or fears.
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" This is not exactly a coincidence, the narrator admits: "It is possible that the building's name evoked the closeness of my ties to my husband and that I impulsively yielded to that sensation.
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Argento "eventually yielded to Weinstein's further advances and even grew close to him," according to the New Yorker, and had a consensual sexual relationship with him over the course of the next five years.
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Turnbull yielded to Australia's blood-in-the-streets political system on Friday after a majority of his colleagues called for a so-called spill, where the leadership of the Liberal party was declared vacant.
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A deal gets struck But amid mounting pressure from Republican lawmakers and a budding air travel meltdown, Trump yielded to Democrats' request that government be reopened before the border wall funding issue be debated.
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Two days after the audio was published, President Trump himself yielded to the pressure, issuing an executive order that committed the federal government, at least in many cases, to keeping families in custody together.
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By the third quarter, with the Warriors' lead continuing to grow, the Rockets yielded to the sad reality of a long off-season ahead of them — and most likely an overhaul of their roster.
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We also have to look at these things from a broader perspective than just dollars and cents, and look at what the benefits yielded to the American people are — and beyond that, to humanity.
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Last week, Whitbread yielded to pressure from Elliott and U.S. hedge fund Sachem Head to spin off Costa Coffee, while German activist fund Shareholder Value Management's slate of board candidates at Italy's Retelit was approved.
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The country has escaped what Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, called the "kidnapped West," the great swath of Europe yielded to the Soviet empire after World War II, and has returned to the Western family.
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The isolationism that once subsumed U.S. sentiment following WWI yielded to the realism that a global threat could become a U.S. threat, and if America chose to turn inward, the threat may reach U.S. shores.
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He said he had driven "what he thought to be 20 seconds from the house" when he yielded to three passing squad cars traveling toward the Closs home with their emergency lights and sirens on.
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Just ask Cory Booker, the last serious African American candidate in the race, who yielded to the inevitable in mid-January after months of threatening to drop out if he couldn't meet his fundraising targets.
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Even in cases where women yielded to quid pro quo demands — and maybe a better term for this is "decision" rather than "choice" — it's not clear that Mr. Weinstein actually came through with the goods.
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Tzanakopoulos said critics of the government's handling of the review negotiations ought to consider the impact on growth had Athens yielded to IMF demands for extra austerity measures worth 4.5 billion euros in 2018-19.
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Costa Coffee will be spun off after Whitbread yielded to pressure from hedge funds, including activist investor Elliott Investors, who argued it was being held back by being grouped with the Premier Inn hotel chain.
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He yielded to their demands - accepting, verbatim, a clause they proposed for the constitutional amendment needed to make the GST happen, according to a member of the Congress team that included former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.
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But at the table, the P5+1 yielded to Iran and agreed to the JCPOA, which was an economic lifeline that provided a windfall for Iran to underwrite its terrorist activities and illicit ballistic missile program.
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In this, Mr. Trump and his predecessor have something in common: Both he and Barack Obama came into office promising to change America's foreign policy, but when faced with crises, both yielded to pressure to intervene.
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Because of Weinstein's clout in the film world, many of the women who came forward said they stayed silent for so long because they feared that he would use the power he yielded to ruin their careers.
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The tasty and filling Chinese burger had a bun with a crisp exterior that yielded to a soft middle filled with shredded fatty pork, which had been slow-cooked with a five-spice blend, including star anise.
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"It yielded to Beijing because of economic benefits, did a diplomatic turn in a very unfriendly way and deceived the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) until the last minute," David Lee, Taiwan's foreign minister said.
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The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and a number of party colleagues in the House and the Senate, yielded to the Democrats and President Obama on a number of big-ticket spending, tax and regulatory measures.
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Left alone at lunchtime during the cleaning of the Sistine ceiling, Steinberg climbed the scaffolding and "yielded to an irresistible professional impulse, pressing chaste lips to" the image of a young unmarried young woman, one of the Ancestors.
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While we did not say it directly at the time, we were dismayed that the Times partially yielded to the targeted harassment of an incoming reporter by accusing her of "serving to feed the vitriol" of online discourse.
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The fact that Mexico yielded to Mr. Trump's threat of more tariffs, promising on Friday to take tougher measures to secure its shared border with the United States, could embolden the president further when it comes to China.
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With industrialisation and the influence of European fascism, positivism morphed into corporatism, in which economic freedom yielded to the state's organisation of the economy, as well as society, in non-competing functional units (unions and bosses' organisations, for example).
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Then the McCarthyite, security-minded, conformist 1950s yielded to the 1960s and 1970s, another bloody era of social unrest, assassinations, political bombings, riots, and police violence against civilians who were black and white and female and gay and hippies.
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Still, history has not been kind to those who have unequivocally yielded to racial grievance — to our local agitators, the David Dukes and the Father Coughlins, as well as to the even more poisonous propagators of racial hatred overseas.
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Between June 2013 and December 2014, around 45 percent of drivers yielded to pedestrians on crosswalks on roads where the speed limit was 35 mph or less, an increase from 12 percent compared to 2012, claimed Bike/Walk Central Florida.
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After her story went public, Paltrow said she spoke to other women "who told her that Weinstein, while harassing or assaulting them, would routinely cite her and her soaring career, falsely implying she had yielded to him," the authors write.
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There is a company getting started called Compass Pathways that's established in England, and they have permission to do trials all through Europe, to use psychedelics such as psilocybin specifically to treat treatment-resistant depression, depressions that haven't yielded to two other treatments.
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What's more, in the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, in early 1918, Russia had yielded to victorious German and Austro-Hungarian troops more than a million square miles of fertile land, largely in what today is Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and the Baltic states.
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President Juan Manuel Santos (who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday) could have made the agreement official without the need of a plebiscite, but he yielded to the temptation of obtaining, through this peace accord, the support of his fugitive voters.
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When President Jimmy Carter completed President Richard Nixon's opening to China by recognizing the People's Republic in 1979, he yielded to Beijing's conditions that Washington first sever diplomatic relations and abrogate the mutual defense treaty with the Republic of China on Taiwan.
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But while it yielded to Mr. Acosta — whose testy questions had touched off Mr. Trump's ire — the administration used the occasion to lay down a set of formal rules governing reporters' behavior at future White House news conferences, a highly unusual step.
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The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.
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Brezhnev tempered the USSR's meddling foreign policies and pursued a policy of detente and nuclear non-proliferation with the U.S. When that still didn't bring the Soviets economic stability, an older guard Communist Party power structure yielded to the younger Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Trump released some documents relating to JFK's assassination but yielded to pressure to block others, Australia ruled that its deputy prime minister is ineligible to remain in parliament, and a reporter gave his personal account of shopping for an exoskeleton in a new special report.
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King John (1199-1216) was punished with a papal interdict, suspending all religious services in his realm, and then excommunicated; he finally yielded to the pope's will and to make amends his successors had to pay tribute to the Vatican for another 150 years.
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Nurses, often men in the early days of the profession, were redefined as nurturers when women swelled their ranks; secretaries, once exclusively men, yielded to the dexterous fingers of women who typed and were recast as "the sunshine of the office," Professor Kessler-Harris said.
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A prime example is the country's membership of the World Trade Organization: • To achieve the growth it desired, China had to join the W.T.O. In the process, it yielded to global demands — slashing tariffs, lowering trade barriers in finance and telecoms, and curbing subsidies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 25,288 documents related to the 113 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and CIA to block the release of other records to be reviewed further.
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If I'd been working in a digital marketing agency where gamifying data requests was the norm, I can easily see how I might have yielded to the temptation of disguising a data grab with a recreational app, or scooping up friend data just because it was there.
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During the last decades, even the most reactionary regimes yielded to some of the pressure: By 18983, every major European state (including Russia after the revolution of 1905, foreshock of the greater upheaval in 1917) was governed through a parliamentary system of one kind or another.
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It will presumably take many years to learn if there will be golden opportunities on and off the field like a broadcast booth spot instantly yielded to Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys the moment he retires, as happened to his brethren Don Meredith, Troy Aikman and Tony Romo.
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Jews around the world have been in an uproar in the week since Mr. Netanyahu yielded to pressure from his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners and suspended a plan to provide a better space for non-Orthodox men and women to worship together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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The inevitable ad hominem queries (why does A earn less than B but more than C?) have yielded to the larger ad feminem question of why, across the board, women are paid significantly less than men — in some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds less — for doing the same job.
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Lawmakers also yielded to concerns by business groups about the Senate's last-minute inclusion of the corporate alternative minimum tax, which was added as a way to pay for the bill but faced stiff blowback from companies that said it would restrict their ability to use the research and development tax credit.
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The central paradox of Field's identity is that she yielded to all of these things, with little to no protest — "I eliminated most of me," she writes of her relationship with Reynolds, "becoming a familiar, shadowy version of myself, locked behind my eyes, unable to speak" — but then refused to allow them to stop her.
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SOUNDS LIKE TITANIC A Memoir By Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman As the Summer of Scam yielded to fall and now winter, we might come to realize, two Fyre Festival documentaries later, that we live in an era (or, indeed, a nation) of scam: We love stories about people with big dreams and minimal credentials, whether they succeed or fail.
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So, educators at the University School of Milwaukee were amazed when they started a boys' lunch for the middle school football team members, and the constant blame and bullying that had become routine yielded to an "almost instantaneous effect of creating a better climate on the team," said Will Piper, the middle school athletic coordinator, in an email.
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It is relevant because the literature of the Holocaust continues to be written anew, as the first generation of survivors bent on documenting the obscene reality of the ghettos and concentration camps (Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski) has yielded to a second — and now third — generation more at ease with imaginative retellings, be they fictional accounts of the events (Jerzy Kosinski, Imre Kertesz, Leslie Epstein) or alternate histories (Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson).
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