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China then simply threatened to abandon or never to conclude trade deals with these EU members.
Trade unions agreed to moderate wage claims and abandon wage indexation, in exchange for reduced working time and improved prospects for the future.
But these defeats did not inspire the Kremlin to abandon the basic strategy.
One option is to abandon fiscal rules and let the market enforce discipline.
The temptation in Britain simply to abandon what appears to be a sinking ship and go it gloriously alone is growing stronger.
New states with ambitious industrialization plans were not prepared to abandon them (shades of “Made in China 2025”).
Since Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War, the country’s political class has championed the city as Israel’s “united eternal capital” – a vision that they remain unwilling to abandon.
America’s decision to abandon the role it has played for more than seven decades thus marks a turning point.
And the policies of states, cities, and companies will translate into an American commitment to climate change, despite Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris agreement.
Indeed, France must abandon its current policies, for its own – and the rest of Europe’s – sake.
Indeed, we need to abandon the idea that there is a holistic or global Islamist movement.
Supporting Palestinian democratization does not mean that the international community should not demand that Hamas abandon terror for once and for all, demilitarize, respect the Palestinian constitution, and accept the existence of the state of Israel.
Yet central banks cannot simply abandon their new operational burdens, particularly with regard to financial stability, which, as the 2008 crisis starkly demonstrated, cannot be maintained by price stability alone.
It cannot have been easy for him to abandon his cherished macroeconomic model in favor of a conspiracy theory, especially one that two decades ago lost whatever explanatory power it ever had for UK elections.
To conduct this struggle effectively, Russia must abandon two hoary stereotypes: that all terrorists are bandits, and that they somehow are acting under some Western intelligence supervision to weaken Russia.
But to abandon it altogether and retreat from globalization is the wrong answer.
A necessary step is to abandon convertibility and let the peso float, while transforming outstanding obligations to pesos so as to prevent the devaluation from wrecking the balance sheets of local banks and corporations.
But the question has never been whether the North Koreans were going to abandon their efforts to marry a nuclear warhead to an intercontinental missile.
But, with the US engaged in such a severe political confrontation with Venezuela, progress would effectively require that Cuba abandon its unconditional support for the Venezuelan regime.
Indeed, it is just what the terrorists want – a cause that would rally all Pakistanis to the flag and provide Pakistan’s army an excuse to abandon the unpopular fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the west for the more familiar terrain of the Indian border in the east.
Can using US funding to reopen Iraqi state-owned enterprises get young men to abandon the insurgency and sectarian militias?
As the Talmud puts it, “You are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
This insight should lead us not to abandon the concept of open society, but to revise and reaffirm the case for it.
We must abandon Popper’s tacit assumption that political discourse aims at a better understanding of reality and reintroduce it as an explicit requirement.
Accomplishing this has required Putin to abandon some of his regime’s taboos.
To back down now and abandon our plans would be the road to economic ruin.”
Trump’s opponent in the presidential election, Hillary Clinton, had also come out against the TPP, so his recent decision to abandon the deal was politically inevitable.
Second, the pressure to stop Le Pen could compel Macron to abandon bold reforms, rather than risk driving away more voters than he can afford to lose and opening the way for Le Pen and the National Front to strengthen their position.
Likewise, the Palestinian Intifada of 1987 forced Israel to abandon the politics of inertia and engage in a process that culminated in the Oslo accords.
In Erdogan’s vision, modernization does not preclude a return to Turkey’s Islamic roots, nor does it require it to abandon its destiny as a Middle East power, even if this means flouting United States-led policies in the region.
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