Mr. Duterte later said he regretted the comments, which he described as an overreaction to news media reports he had read about Mr. Obama's plans to press him on his tactics for combating drug trafficking.
A17 Lieberman Exploits New 'Clout' Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said in an interview that he would use the "extra clout" he gained as a vice-presidential candidate to press issues important to him, like improving education and combating sex and violence in entertainment.
In 1921, because of his work in Warsaw, Ratti was named archbishop of Milan, and just seven months after that, he was elected pope, becoming Pius XI, the very pope who met with the French priest Ernest Jouin and commended him for his work in combating "our mortal enemy," namely the Jews.
The play presents Loman's struggle "to maintain a foothold in the upward-striving American middle class" while combating his own self-doubt that plagues him in reminders from the past that his life rests on unsolid ground.
Congressman Bob Dold, like the Republicans who represented Lake County, Illinois in the House before him, has been vocal about combating the array of threats to the Great Lakes, such as sewage discharges and invasive species.
Carefully worded to mean less legally than they seemed to threaten, they forced him to spend his octogenarian years combating South Carolina's interpretation of them as a sanction of state power to nullify federal law.
I worked with him and other trade unions on combating the Tories' awful trade union bill and on stopping Sunday trading changes, and he knows I spent years working for the trade union movement.
I really believe," Eisenhower noted in his diary, "that nothing will be so effective in combating his particular kind of troublemaking as to ignore him.
When it comes to combating Trump, one must take particular care not to join him in the land of conspiracies, however intellectually engaging or emotionally satisfying that may be.
