Sentences with phrase «as allies by»

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What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

Since the fall, we've seen a calculated effort by the US and its allies to vilify and isolate Iran — as if that country's mullahs didn't do a good enough job of that on their own.

For all their drawbacks, globalization and liberalized trade have been a force for peace in the modern world; as national economies become more interdependent, they have more to lose by alienating their trading partners, which aren't necessarily colonies or even allies.

Trump alarmed European capitals during his campaign by deriding NATO as obsolete and demanding that US allies take on a greater share of spending on mutual defense.

Publicly clearing Trump of obstruction charges — as the president's lawyers have requested — could be used by his allies to build pressure for the broader investigation to be shut down.

So the pre-election Republican position, backed by allies such as the Chamber of Commerce, to extend all of the tax cuts and postpone all of the spending cuts until the leaders work out a deal is not likely to win over many Democrats, who seem more inclined to let the tax cuts expire and start from scratch next year, presumably making it harder for Republicans to resist.

In April 1945, already removed from power, Mussolini tried to flee as Allied forces closed in on him, but he was shot and killed by anti-Fascists and hung upside down in a Milanese square.

As you're climbing the ranks of any company you'll win friends and allies by being real.

The fact that Canada might be included on the initial hit list had become a political sore spot for the administration, as U.S. critics of the move ridiculed it by zeroing on the idea of national - security tariffs against a peaceful next - door neighbour and defence ally.

By shielding its ally Syria, Russia has breached its commitments to the United Nations as a framework guarantor.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

• As China Censors MeToo Activists, Ethereum's Blockchain Proves to Be an Unlikely Ally (by Lucinda Shen)

Ali, perceived by many as an ally of the ruling United Malays party, said he will now instruct the MACC to close its investigations.

Notably, since Ally's acquisition of TradeKing, the possibility of a bid from a regional bank or consumer finance company is viewed as possible by investors.

As for Hope Hicks — a favorite of the president and ally of Jared and Ivanka, though viewed by some as underqualified — Kelly ended up agreeing to promote her to communications director on a permanent basiAs for Hope Hicks — a favorite of the president and ally of Jared and Ivanka, though viewed by some as underqualified — Kelly ended up agreeing to promote her to communications director on a permanent basias underqualified — Kelly ended up agreeing to promote her to communications director on a permanent basis.

Kalanick allies see that late flashpoint, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, as a late «power grab» by his opponents.

By staying silent as Russian diplomats were expelled from 24 countries this week, President Trump has undermined the work of both European allies and his own government.

The plan is being pushed ahead by Mexico's ministries of finance and foreign affairs, who see the possible fall of Venezuela as an opportunity to create more allies in Central America and the Caribbean.

The new story produced a remarkable followup segment on Fox News, in which Laura Ingraham grudgingly implied that Trump and his allies have proven themselves to be liars by blatantly contradicting themselves — then quickly softened that heretical conclusion by reframing it as though the important thing is what the left will say, not the actual truth of the matter:

Decade after decade, and eventually on the campaign trail, Donald Trump painted America as the world's sucker — losing on trade, ripped off by allies, and outmaneuvered by enemies.

These are the actions of a responsible nation honouring the commitments that it has made to its allies, having gone through those commitments line by line, as we said we would.

Once again the Sunnis, armed, trained, funded, and employed to good effect by the U.S. during the surge just a few years earlier, were utterly disenfranchised and aggrieved as Maliki de-professionalized the army, replacing once - U.S. allies with Shia loyalists.

If rhetoric turns into policy, inflationary pressures would continue to build, already tense relationships among trade allies and foes would escalate, and it could cost the global economy a whopping $ 470B by 2020 as the chart below shows.

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

The moves risk further isolating the United States at a delicate geopolitical moment by inflaming key allies, as well as China.

And when Canada is asked by its allies and when Canada is asked by the Afghan people get us ready to defend ourselves, I think Canada should respond as we are responding, as the government has responded...

As John Maynard Keynes explained, unless debtor countries can export more, they must pay either by borrowing (German states and municipalities borrowed dollars in New York and cashed them in for domestic currency with the Reichsbank, which paid the dollars to the Allies) or by selling off domestic assets.

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

Ally mostly operates as an online bank, which allows it to reduce or eliminate account fees often charged by traditional banks.

Democrats have been pushing to formally refute the GOP memo, which they see as an effort by Trump and his allies in Congress to divert attention away from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians, and possible obstruction of justice by the president.

The letter, organized by the Washington - based National Taxpayers Union, comes as the Trump administration travels to China this week for talks aimed at averting a trade war and weighs whether to permanently exempt allies from steel and aluminum tariffs.

There are also countries run by Kings (a form of dictatorship, depending on what political science book you read) that are our allies and doing as well for their people as congress does for ours.

The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»

Repressive regimes often ally themselves with a particular religion as a means of control, and consequently encourage the punishment of those who won't abide by the tenets of said religion.

This wealthy commercial city, though it was never under Hebrew political control, was allied by ties of trade as well as geographical propinquity.

When asked by his allies and enemies alike as to their purpose, president Ahmadinejad did say that they were «purely decorative.»

And Podhoretz is not alone: I know from personal experience that many Jewish neocons, however bemused they may be by styles of evangelical piety» a bemusement, I might add, shared by a number of non «evangelical Christians» still have no problem counting Christian conservatives as staunch cultural and political allies.

He was imprisoned after being found as a conspirator against Hitler's regime and led to the gallows to be executed in early April 1945, just months before the prisoners would be freed by the Allies.

Was Foley killed by ISIS in role as an ally of the US military, or in their role as an enemy?

Others see it as a description of the German Third Reich, defeated by the Allied armies even as the book was germinating in the author's mind.

Efforts by white students especially to join in diversity discourse, to become «allies,» are treated with suspicion and frequently renounced as covert assertions of «privilege.»

It is all about hiding, disguising the truth until it becomes of the past just as that as did that unlawful country was recognized by the USA with out the UN majority vote and UN members were to face the Reality that the USA is taking advantage of her majority states and voting power rather than the majority of the UN member countries no matter how small or poor they are although at that time the majority of member countries were under occoupation or protection of USA and Allies and after the WW1 & 2!

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

But the compound word for «helper» here — ezer kenegdo — suggests a sort of military ally, or a partner in a difficult task, and is most often used in Scripture to describe God, who is not generally regarded by patriarchalists as a subordinate.)

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

As if anticipating and trying to prevent the «war guilt» clause of the Versailles treaty soon to be written by the Western allies, Weber raised the question of forgiveness in politics: «A nation forgives if its interests have been damaged, but no nation forgives if its honor has been of fended by a bigoted self - righteousness.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

When military spending by U.S. allies is excluded, the United States is spending nearly twice as much on «defense» as the rest of the world combined.

In other words, as far as the executors and schemers of the terrorist act, it was a repayment for all the insults against Islamic faith, and for the injury to Islamic communities brought about by the USA and its Western allies in collaboration with several Muslim regimes in the Middle East.

Its outside critics have taxed the church with giving opium to the people, and with securing its own position as well as that of its allies by preaching contentment to the poor.