Sentences with phrase «came as an ally»

Not exact matches

The whirlwind trip to NATO in Brussels and to Middle East allies came only hours after Pompeo was confirmed as Trump's top diplomat.

Indeed, since the 1980s, China has eschewed formal alliances with other nations as a matter of policy; the only two countries that come close to qualifying as China's strategic allies are Pakistan and North Korea.

Showing that you understand where people are coming from helps to mollify them and possibly even win them over as an ally.

Trump's comment comes amid escalating tension between allies of the president and the special counsel's office, which has obtained tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team as part of the Russia probe.

In an interview Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the delays come as trade talks with these U.S. allies are ongoing, but not to expect more.

After John Kelly came in as chief of staff last summer, Porter ended up serving as a crucial ally in Kelly's effort to install a more rigorous process.

The reprieve will come as a relief to major American allies that were bracing for damage to their economy from lower sales of metals into the United States.

The request from the top Republican of the House Judiciary Committee comes as Trump and his allies say Nunes» memo proves Trump was the target of a political investigation.

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.

A large - scale attack on Iran would likely involve the US's NATO allies as well as Israel... and if Russia were to come to Iran's aid, we might have World War III on our hands.

But I do know what it feels like to come out as an ally to marginalized people and be bullied because of it.

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«According to the Hebrew prophet, Daniel, the Russians will sweep down to join the Arabs in an attack on Israel and will then continue right through Israel to Egypt and take it over... They come into the conflict... as allies of the Arabs but end up double - crossing them» (p. 210).

As more and more people «come out», the more and more allies we find.

As I came to see during my twenty years teaching at Creighton, this feeling of betrayal by the Church defines the «68er» generation of Jesuits and their allies.

The vast majority, however, came into being as independent religious organizations after the end of World War II, when such groups could first register as independent religious corporations after the Allied occupation relaxed the restrictive legislations of the pre-war era.

As Cohn points out, Zoroaster's view that «the time would come when, in a prodigious final battle, the supreme god and his supernatural allies would defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them once and for all» deeply influenced certain Jewish groups which, in turn, «influenced the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences».7

Yet, even as the movement restated the evils of the Great War, some peace elements came to feel that they were irrelevant to the European situation of the late 1930s, while others found themselves uncomfortably allied with isolationists at home.

In the meantime, check out God and The Gay Christian as well as The Reformation Project, which seeks to equip LGBT Christians and allies to reform church teachings on sexual orientation and gender identity (and which has a conference coming up in November).

I'm on the left, I support the Democratic party, I detest racism (particularly as someone who has experienced its ugliness), but I get some of the arguments made by the right when it comes to language vigilance and accusation, because I've seen far too many situations when people have tried their darndest to ally with identity positions they don't share or rally behind causes that don't necessarily reflect their own subject position, only to have it backfire spectacularly because they didn't do it right or say it right.

Having your dad come with you is great; he can serve as an ongoing mentor and ally.

Two of the points highlighted by both Graff and Garner that I've found particularly useful are, first, that kids of LGBTQ parents having a «coming out» process about their families; and second, that many don't identify «allies,» but rather as «culturally queer,» even if not LGBTQ themselves.

As anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues, babies come equipped with social brains because our ancestors needed friends and allies to survive (Hrdy 2009).

I now have a toddler who is considering the potty as an ally, at least some of the time, I found that I have come full circle.

The political classes interpret this as a declining interest in politics, allied to the growth of an ignorant underclass who care for nothing except what is happening in the soaps or whether their lottery numbers have come up.

As Merkel visits the UK, Cameron may come to regret his more controversial allies in the European parliament

Alex Salmond came under attack from one of his closest allies today, as he struggled to build support for independence with just one year until the vote.

The governor has so far declined to directly criticize the Senate GOP, no doubt recognizing he's going to need them as allies in the budget battle — particularly when it comes to his more conservative agenda items like the property tax cap.

The talks were described as still in the preliminary phase, one person said, and come as an array of Democratic officials and allied groups — including de Blasio himself — has threatened to back primary challengers to the five I.D.C. senators unless they agree to some sort of rapprochement.

A more formidable challenge to Cuomo from the left could come from Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a former ally of the governor who resigned as his state party chair after disagreeing on local government and pension policy.

Trump signed a memorandum that could lead to a trade investigation of alleged Chinese theft of intellectual property — a move that comes as he tries to leverage China, North Korea's only major ally, to apply more economic pressure on Pyongyang to deter its nuclear and missile programs.

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

[319] This followed the surprise launch of a leadership campaign by Michael Gove, previously seen as a key ally of the Johnson campaign, who said (earlier that morning) that he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that Johnson «can not provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.»

He also doles out Assembly leadership positions, which come with cash bonuses known as «lulus,» and his handpicked allies become the chairmen of the key committees that determine which bills come to the floor.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

But Gordon, a sponsor of the New Jersey Port Authority reform legislation and an outspoken advocate for the bus - terminal replacement project, said Cuomo's move is especially concerning since it comes as Christie has taken a largely hands - off approach to the Port Authority in the wake of Bridgegate, which involved two of his former close allies who were employed at the agency.

As the discussion in this House on Monday made clear, it is essential that we now come together — with our allies - to defend our security, to stand up for our values and to send a clear message to those who would seek to undermine them.

The announcement that Skelos would continue on as speaker came from Long Island Sen. Ken LaValle, a Skelos ally in the chamber.

The governor has made it clear that he is heavily and very personally invested in the passage of this amendment, and it should come as no big surprise that MacKay — a longtime Cuomo ally — has been enlisted to assist with this effort.

The formation of the committee came the same month as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's allies won a legal victory as to who controls the ballot line.

Public comments made by Trump allies and advisors, as well as Trump himself, have been cited in the Hawaii judge's decision, whose ruling temporarily blocked the White House's revised travel ban targeting six predominantly Muslim countries hours before it would have come in to effect.

It came as Mr Corbyn tightened his grip on the party with the completion of a shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw a host of allies handed front bench roles.

Both Hawkins and LaVenia are harshly critical of the WFP, which only a few years ago came into existence as a more ideologically cohesive progressive alternative to the power - corrupted, Giuliani -(and Andrew Cuomo --RRB- allied Liberal Party.

Unfortunately, the Mayor and his allies on Council did not see it — under the direction of the Mayor they boycotted the presentation as a group, some offering dubious excuses for not coming to the presentation.

Allies of Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who entered Saturday as one of two leading contenders for DNC boss, «asked him not to come,» said a Democratic Party source.

-LRB-...) A hung parliament came as a surprise to most in Labour (including Corbyn allies) but at the next election the party can sets its sights higher.

In his coming as civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, once himself a soldier, and a very key ally of the «international community» literally transferred the offices of Nigeria's Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to the Headquarters of the World Bank and the IMF.

In the months to come, LGBT New Yorkers and our allies will be working in districts across the state to build the support that will allow us to bring these bills to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as possible.»

The fact that these voices come from the political left as well as the right - Frank Field, Polly Toynbee and John Denham are unexpected allies of the Daily Mail and the Conservative party - suggests that the concern is widespread.

News of Ravitch's potential candidacy is coming to light as talks on a major W.F.P. priority — public campaign finance — have broken down, and as the governor continues to line up labor leaders allied with the third - party to try and convince its state committee to support him.