Sentences with phrase «blunt criticisms»

Obama mentions outreach to the region's governors, aiming to blunt criticisms that he didn't engage with regional leaders quickly.

Rubio, a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight that authored the bill, has furiously tried to blunt the criticism this week, acknowledging concerns that the bill does not go far enough to ensure border security and prevent «amnesty,» an ambiguous but potent fear among opponents of immigration reform.

Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC's David Maris told clients in a note, «We believe that there is a high risk that healthcare and drug pricing will be a key part of the midterm elections as well as the next presidential election, and we expect that the current administration will try to blunt any criticism that it hasn't done enough with plans of its own before then.»

They insist that we would blunt their criticism of Islam and thereby prevent them from helping the victims of jihadism.

US and Chinese companies have signed business deals valued at nine billion US dollars (# 6.84 billion) during a visit by President Donald Trump in a traditional move aimed at blunting criticism of Beijing's trade practices.

Cuomo's business - friendly policies have angered some liberal Democrats, but praise from the mayor of New York City may help blunt that criticism.

Although there was little specific talk about the issue, the endorsements were timed, in part, to blunt criticism that Velazquez is «anti-Israel.»

Cynthia Nixon, a Cuomo challenger for the Democratic gubernatorial nod, was not really mentioned, but it was clear Cuomo was moving quickly to bring the Senate under his party's control to blunt her criticism.

The Trump administration has tried to blunt criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has fallen short of its efforts in Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes there.

The team designed the stadium to double as an exhibition hall, to work in conjunction with the Javits convention center, but that feature did little to blunt criticism of the project.

LONDON — The head of the Horizon 2020 research budget tried today to blunt criticism of a plan to take $ 2.7 billion from the European Commission's research budget and put it into an investment fund for economic recovery.

To blunt that criticism, the report recommends housing NSDS within an existing agency, the Department of Commerce, home of the Census Bureau, the nation's largest statistical agency.

These moves have helped blunt the criticism from the bank reward cards by allowing the airlines to claim that award seats are available on every flight.

Scott Waldman, «Cuomo nuclear plan blunts criticism by combining with renewables,» POLITICO, July 19, 2016

The case study was structured to blunt criticism.

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And with each gesture, Trump pulls the media in closer, hoping to blunt the force of any future criticism.

The CIBC senior executive and former Harper government industry minister, regarded by many as a potential future leadership candidate, issued the blunt assessment in a speech in London, England, that contains some indirect criticism of his former colleagues.

In the more than 500 pages of Principles, he preaches for higher - ups to embrace constructive criticism, and to use blunt and honest critiques to grow.

Yes, blunt talk can hurt, but the free flow of both criticism and praise is, according to career coach and former tech exec Kim Scott, «the single most important part of managing people.»

Ahead of Mark Zuckerberg's Senate testimony today, Facebook has rolled out a number of product updates — including a bounty hunting program of up to $ 40,000 for user data violations — meant to address (and blunt) the criticism he's likely to face.

In short, the criticism that data caps are blunt instruments with respect to congestion is correct but largely irrelevant, as is the criticism that they don't reflect the marginal cost of moving data.

If you follow rapper Lecrae on social media, you'll know he's no stranger to blunt honesty and open discussions about social issues, spirituality and even criticism.

Our players lives in a sheltered illusionary world, where Wenger takes the blunt of criticisms from fans and media, they feel safe in the positions they play knowing that no quality will be immediately bought f they are not playing well.

The division among labor over Cuomo has blunted some of the criticism he has gotten from other unions that have remained aligned with the Working Families Party.

On Thursday, de Blasio sought to address all of those criticisms at once, laying out a detailed but linear narrative of how the city's current homelessness problems developed, and unveiling a closely - guarded plan for addressing street homelessness that seemed intended to blunt the force of any proposal Cuomo could unveil next month.

Jinzaburo Takagi, a prominent antinuclear activist, said that Tokyo wants to make Russia an unofficial partner in order to blunt foreign criticism.

Alonso Duralde at The Wrap was blunt with his criticism of the movie.

Landecker described the new approach as an effort that would blunt some of the criticism even as the major thrust of the effort remains adding charter schools to satisfy the growing public demand for them and reducing the long lists of students on waiting lists to get in.

In trying to discern better, myself, what we have and could have and should have today in terms of criticism — and to be blunt about it, how to make something richer and less tied to consumerism palatable to the average reader — I welcome Douglas» interest, as I think my colleague in some of these debates, Bethanne Patrick, will, too.

To get mildly blunt about it, if we are to rule out all - women's awards programs, on the thinking that they're as Bennett summarizes the criticism, «sexist, a ghetto and, in divisive focus on sexual identity, an almost absurd contradiction of fiction's imaginative purpose,» then are we ready to insist that the «real world,» the wider industry and marketplace promote women, both as authors and as reviewers, as readily as it does men?

Dapper Bruce's drawings always are always laden with text: remembrances to friends and relatives who died in the storm, shout outs to dead celebrities, commentary on his art career, and blunt political criticism.

For years, there's been a building drumbeat of criticism of the media for failing to tell the climate story «right,» and thus perpetuating public disengagement and, in turn, allowing elected officials to relax and avoid pushing for meaningful actions to blunt greenhouse emissions.

Dyson is blunt in his criticism of climate models, mocking «the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models.»

Given this, some were more blunt in their criticism of the reluctance to pursue this path.