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...Even after meeting with Zelenskyy on Tuesday and hearing his ardent pleas for a quick deal, Republican leaders did not budge....
...However, despite the mounting international pressure, Israel has refused to budge....
...‘F-111’, 1964–5, by James Rosenquist (Room 418) Rosenquist’s eruption of joyous vulgarity is tinged with an oddly bright and shiny form of pessimism....
...Those numbers don’t budge even if the new housing is priced towards the top end of the market....
...But the polls refused to budge and Tory MPs became increasingly agitated. In the second half of 2023, Sunak’s political strategy has often been hard to discern....
...They refuse to budge.”...
...However, the banks are refusing to budge, according to two Italian officials, even after the Italian treasury’s director-general, Alessandro Rivera, sent them a “comfort letter” to confirm the company and...
...“This sounds like a licence to bully,” Judge James Ho told a CFTC attorney. “You can issue these threatening letters — there’s no judicial review.”...
...A person close to Musk said that he was not going to budge on that position....
...University of Cambridge EU law professor Catherine Barnard explains, article 12.4 of the protocol — while drafted in a deliberately obfuscatory fashion — is very clear on this point, and the EU isn’t going to budge...
...But in this case, our exports didn't budge. They didn't go up at all, but our import prices went up, and that raised inflation by about 2 per cent to 3 per cent. So that simply made people poorer....
...Many in Warsaw remain sceptical that Brussels will ultimately budge when it comes to the blocked recovery fund....
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...Diane Jaffee, a portfolio manager at the asset manager TCW, commended Powell for being “strong, clear and constant”, and said that the bar for the Fed to budge from its current monetary policy stance had...
...The Trump administration’s refusal to budge in the negotiations caused concern among other longstanding US defence partners, including Japan and Nato countries, which have similar defence cost-sharing arrangements...
The Belarusian musician was imprisoned after tearing up her passport and refusing to leave the country
...Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, attacked Democratic leaders for refusing to budge, complaining on Friday that they had made “zero offers in the last three days, zero”....
...China also made some additional commitments on intellectual property, currency and market access, but did not budge on some of the biggest sources of tension in the trading relationship between the countries...
...But Mr Johnson will argue that there’s no way he can budge on this point without losing the support of the 10 Democratic Unionist party MPs and the 28 hardline Spartan Conservatives in any Commons vote....
...With a new round of talks starting on Thursday in Washington, Chinese officials have offered limited concessions on agriculture, but are still failing to budge on some core US concerns, such as intellectual...
...Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said that US trade representative Robert Lighthizer read Mr Liu the “riot act” over China’s unwillingness to budge on key issues, before Beijing...
...Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said that Mr Lighthizer read Mr Liu the “riot act” over China’s unwillingness to budge on key issues, before Beijing softened its positions a...
...China is refusing to budge on US demands that it relax its restrictions on digital trade — a priority for America’s largest technology companies and one of several remaining obstacles to an agreement between...
...The political obstacle is that with upper house elections scheduled in Japan for July, Mr Abe has little incentive to budge....
...He said relations with the EU will be “poisoned for many years to come” if Brussels fails to budge in the Brexit talks....
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