Sentences with phrase «own red lines»

Trump launched the strike without authorization from Congress, despite his frequent past criticisms of former President Barack Obama for establishing a «red line» in 2013 for striking Syria.

Obama was pressed by a similar situation in 2013, after evidence surfaced that Assad violated Obama's «red line» by using chemical weapons.

Obama's establishment of the red line came as a surprise.

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

It should go without saying that McConnell (and the cabal of 13 Republican senators, who crafted the proposal behind closed doors for weeks) knew full well the red lines that both groups said they wouldn't cross.

And it reflects a weird, unspoken assumption in discussing the president's legal troubles, going back at least to the president's declaration that his personal business interests outside Russia are a «red line» the special counsel Robert Mueller must not cross.

The red line is roughly the size of the Fed balance sheet (all the Treasuries and mortgage backed securities).

«This is no Obama «red line.»

The unilateral statement issued by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, initially caught some defense, military, and intelligence officials off guard, NBC News and BuzzFeed reported late Monday, and struck many as President Donald Trump's attempt to draw a red line for US military intervention in Syria — something he had criticized President Barack Obama for doing in the past.

They are saying «we have a red line here and if you are going to test it we will respond, but it doesn't mean we are now shifting strategy» because they also want to reassure the Russians.»

Senator Lindsay Graham on Wednesday said Trump's rhetoric created a «red line» that made it clear that the U.S. would be willing to take action if North Korea didn't pull back.

The red line is the annualized growth rate of household credit since 2007.

This chart shows the major sectors of the power - generation portfolio of the US in gigawatt hours generated annually: note the dynamic between coal (black line) and natural gas (red line).

For the annuity (red lines), you invest the annual post-tax winnings once you receive them each year.

But red lines around your eyes and headaches aside, VR just suffers from the fact that people don't like putting on equipment.

Once you have established those ground rules, it's crucial that you also make it clear that there are boundaries and bright, red lines that simply can not be crossed.

Though it's streaked with red lines, the floor's a real gem.

The red line shows an overall downward trend in the rate of economic growth since 1981.

Trump had been disturbed to learn that Mueller was digging into his business dealings and financial history, which Trump had previously suggested to The Times would be a «red line.»

Temasek Holdings called on firms it has stakes in not to cross «red line» after a bribery scandal at portfolio company, Keppel Corporation.

Trade experts say Chapter 19 could be a red line for Canada.

Over the past couple of weeks, though, news that Bashar al - Assad's regime might have used chemical weapons, and thereby crossed President Barack Obama's «red line,» has put the country far above any other potential spoiler on the probability scale.

However, Verhofstadt suggested the ball was in the UK's court with the government having signalled its «red lines» such as no free movement of people.

Hussain, the security analyst, said Trump on Monday «crossed a red line» as far as Pakistan was concerned when he implored India to deepen its involvement in Afghanistan.

It's taken on greater urgency because the president had declared in an interview on Aug. 20 that use of chemical weapons would be «a red line for us» resulting in «enormous consequences.»

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

I'd say that ultimately we ended up opting for a basically Miesian «less is more» approach with just a few red lines.

They could call the government's bluff, wagering that, in an era of malleable red lines, prosecutors would never round up the usual suspects in Silicon Valley and throw them in prison.

Over the following year, Obama doubled down on his red line.

«I used to tell presidents, you have to be very, very cautious about drawing red lines or issuing ultimatums,» said Gates, the only defense secretary to hold the job under two presidents for two different political parties.

The year after Gates left the job, President Barack Obama told White House reporters a «red line» for US intervention in Syria would come if the regime of President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons.

Gates also said: «The rest of the world must know that when the president of the United States draws a red line, that it is dangerous, if not fatal, to cross it.»

«Backing away from reacting once the red line was crossed impacted American credibility not just in the Middle East, but I think it was being watching in Moscow and Tehran and Beijing and Pyongyang and elsewhere,» Gates said.

Chuck Hagel, who served as defense secretary from February 2013 to last February, told the Atlantic Council earlier this month that backing down on the red line «hurt the credibility of the president of the United States.»

... If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago!

The blue line represents Rosie and Rob using File - and - Suspend, while the red line shows what happens if they both start collecting at age 66.

«We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,» Obama told reporters that year.

Ski lifts are marked as red lines, easy trails as green, medium as blue and so on.

First, it suggests Canada has been too quick in rejecting American proposals as a «red line,» or «poison pill.»

The blue line represents the Russell 2000 Value Index and the red line is the Russell 2000 Growth Index.

The blue line shows the same 10 year treasury yield from the WSJ chart, while the red line shows the subsequent one year total return on the 10 year bond.

Even before the negotiations to revise and modernize NAFTA begin on Aug. 16, a red line has been drawn in the sand between Canada and the United States: Chapter 19, on the «Review and Dispute Settlement in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Matters.»

The red line tracks the ups and downs of the key weekly moving average.

The red line that oscillates along the bottom of the chart is the momentum reading on a scale of 00.00 to 100.00.

The little climb at the bottom right of red line shows part of the advance from the February lows.

«During the meeting, the leader Khamenei underlined the importance of sticking to Iran's red line, which was not yielding to political pressures and not to accept any cut in Vienna,» the source said.

If Russia is found to be behind the DNC hack and subsequent leaks of information, a red line has been crossed, security experts say.

The following chart shows the same data on an inverted log scale (blue line, left), along with the actual subsequent 12 - year nominal average annual total return of the S&P 500 Index (red line, right).

The red line (until the divergence) is the actual CAPE ratio, but after it represents the assumptions that earnings never fell.

When one trendline is moving in one direction (the ascending dashed blue line) and another trendline is moving in the opposite direction (the descending dotted red line), the longer - term trendline typically wins out.