Sentences with phrase «president said against»

Not exact matches

The Israelis have said their strikes aim to prevent Irans garrison in Syria from entrenching itself deeper in support of President Bashar al - Assad and linking with Hezbollah in Lebanon to form a broad front against them.

North Korea says it conducted its sixth nuclear test with a powerful hydrogen bomb — a stark move against President Donald Trump's warnings.

Sessions, during the same drug caucus, went after President Obama for not taking a stand against legalization: «One of our President's great failures, it is obvious to me, is his lax treatment and comments around marijuana,» said Sessions.

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

«I'm fighting a battle against a horrible group of deep - seated people — drain the swamp — that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me and they're not bringing up real charges against the other side,» the president said.

«By taking the pledge, Senator Gillibrand is taking a firm stand against Big Money,» ECU President Tiffany Muller said in a statement announcing the group's endorsement of Gillibrand.

«Given the strength of the currents, it is preferable to head north to Mobile, rather than attempt to tow against them,» Carnival president GerryCahill said in a statement.

«The bottom line is there are members here who understood the president's preference and were willing to vote against it anyway,» Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Tuesday.

In a speech that at times tried to reach for poetry, the Chinese president likened the modern economy and the force of globalism to a raging river, and said any country that tried to swim against it would surely drown.

President Donald Trump said Sunday he is willing to sign new sanctions against Russia.

WASHINGTON / BEIJING, April 4 - President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday talks with Beijing could resolve an escalating U.S. - China trade fight after China retaliated against U.S. proposals to slap tariffs on $ 50 billion in Chinese goods by targeting key American imports with similar duties.

Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska was in the meeting with the president this week and said TPP would be a smarter way than tariffs for the U.S. to build alliances against unfair Chinese trade practices.

President Donald Trump's plan to slap tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel could help U.S. producers, but it could also fuel inflation, slow the economy and trigger other retaliatory actions against U.S. industries, analysts said.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

President Donald Trump's proposal for additional tariffs against China may escalate tensions that would hurt U.S. companies, said Miriam Sapiro, former deputy and acting U.S. trade rep during the Obama administration.

President - elect Trump has said he will meet with intelligence services after the current U.S. administration issued new sanctions against Russia.

In a blog post, a Facebook vice president said the Gizmodo story was inaccurate, and that the site doesn't «allow or advise our reviewers to discriminate against sources of any political origin, period.»

But during an interview with NPR on Friday morning, Ryan struggled to explain the difference between the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, which Ryan said are credible, and those made against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, who consistently voted against rate hikes last year, said in a CNBC interview on Friday that the flattening curve was «a yellow light flashing,» a warning that the Fed should soon stop raising rates or risk braking the economy too quickly and plunging the country into recession.

President Trump said «America stands united, and I mean totally united» against the hurricanes in his weekly address.

Glen Macdonald, president of the Wealth & Giving Forum, said there could even be a backlash against the bucket challenge because the serious message of a disease is getting lost in all the stunts and videos.

This isn't the first time someone from the West Wing family has backed Clinton: Back in June, show creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin spoke out against Donald Trump and said the fictional President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) would surely endorse Clinton.

Once you lose your job, the deck is already stacked against you,» says Surranna Sandy, president of ResumeSolutions.ca.

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

In response, President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has instructed the United States Trade Representative to consider $ 100 billion in additional tariffs against China.

«Even though the Trump administration is not a strong supporter of the fiduciary rule, it will likely continue to defend [it] against legal challenges,» said Marcia Wagner, president and founder of Wagner Law Group, in a statement.

The district judge assigned to Paul Manafort's case said the gravity and number of charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager means he could possibly spent the rest of his life behind bars, according to Politico.

A global sell - off in stocks came back around to North America in morning trading after the president doubled down against growing backlash, saying «trade wars are good.»

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

«The president has also said that he was against President Bush's war in Iraq, saying it was a president has also said that he was against President Bush's war in Iraq, saying it was a President Bush's war in Iraq, saying it was a disaster.

«Mr. Ackman has a $ 1 billion bet against Herbalife and a direct financial interest in hurting our company,» said Alan Hoffman, an executive vice president at Herbalife.

Assad has said he saw promise in Trump's statements emphasising the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President Barack Obama had backed some of the rebels fighting Assad and shunned him as an illegitimate leader.

Meanwhile, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of the net neutrality advocacy group Free Press also voiced dissatisfaction with the ruling, saying it allows phone and cable companies to «block and discriminate» against their customers» communications.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

In one sign of the likely Republican pushback against the president's budget proposal, Cory Fritz, a spokesman for Speaker of the House John Boehner (Republican, Ohio), had this to say in a blog post Thursday:

Trump's attacks against Sessions intensified last summer, when the president said he would not have tapped the «beleaguered» former Alabama senator for attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself.

In the same hearing, Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers added their organizations to the list of many other American and international intelligence agencies over the past week that have said there's no evidence to back the president's wiretapping allegation against former President Barapresident's wiretapping allegation against former President BaraPresident Barack Obama.

«Despite Apple's claims against Qualcomm, Apple suppliers remain contractually obligated to pay royalties to Qualcomm under their license agreements with us, including for sales of iPhones to Apple,» Qualcomm President Derek Aberle said of the dispute on the company's conference call in April.

Asked if he wants to run for president in 2024, Khodorkovsky said, «I am against anyone running to replace Putin.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R - Ariz., also came out against the tariffs and said he would introduce legislation intended to nullify the president's move.

Speaking in August after President Donald Trump signed in the new measures against Russia, Jean - Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said the bloc would be ready to take counter measures if the penalties harmed European cPresident Donald Trump signed in the new measures against Russia, Jean - Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said the bloc would be ready to take counter measures if the penalties harmed European cpresident, said the bloc would be ready to take counter measures if the penalties harmed European companies.

But Simakovsky said Russia most likely believed it had more leeway to continue destabilizing US interests since the president «is working to pour cold water on initiatives that push back against Russia.»

The president of the White House Correspondents Association said in a statement that his group would be «protesting strongly» against how the briefing was handled.

Kelly brought up a recent conversation she had with Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, and said that he didn't have a compelling argument against gay marriage.

Sebastian Gorka, a senior White House national security official, has reiterated President Donald Trump's threats against North Korea, saying on Wednesday that the US would respond to escalating threats from the nuclear - armed rogue state.

As I said, the greenback's been on the decline for most of the year so far, but it slumped to a 13 - month low against the euro last week following European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi's remark that «monetary accommodation» would continue in the European Union (EU) until at least the end of the year.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: «President Putin regards the U.S. attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped - up pretext at that,» according to the Russian Tass new agency.

The president's son - in - law just lost his top - secret clearance and, under increasing ethical scrutiny, is said to be «paranoid» about who's leaking against him.

For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then - candidate Trump when Steele said he «was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.»

In the agency's first report to Congress since Mick Mulvaney took the helm in November, the CFPB said it is dropping sanctions against NDG Financial Corp, a group of 21 businesses that the agency, under President Obama, had accused of running «a cross-border online payday lending scheme» in Canada and the United States.