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In extremis, it would abandon the euro, following the Greek example.
The war in Afghanistan in the 1980s finally exhausted the Soviet Union’s military and economic potential, impelling it to abandon its satellites in Europe and finally to collapse.
Indeed, it is when democracies abandon their ethics and fail to resist the authoritarian temptation that they become weaker.
Ultimately, the gold standard collapsed, after governments were forced to abandon it during World War I and thereafter were never able fully to re-establish public trust.
Not only did he point out that all of the accusations about his intentions to abandon China were false; he openly accused China of using tactics from the Cultural Revolution that left him “trembling with fear” and sent “shivers down the spine.”
His fundamental idea is that France must abandon its insistence on equality with Germany.
We must update – not abandon – the rules of global trade and investment to spread their benefits more widely.
But the unintended outcomes produced by efforts to implement the “R2P” doctrine – most notably, in Libya in 2011 – have led countries largely to abandon their responsibility.
But there is a notable exception to this pattern: Libya’s decision in December 2003 to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Of course, cancer researchers should not abandon their search for ever-more-effective cancer therapies, even for cures.
Today, with technology making underwater as well as fisheries resources more exploitable in the area, it is impossible to abandon this patrimony.
While some pundits and politicians now suggest that the GNP could collapse sooner than corrupt and poverty-stricken North Korea, Park Geun-hye, an iconic woman in South Korean politics, has made it clear that she will not abandon the GNP.
Neither is an easy task, and the precedent of incompetence established by Japan’s Democratic Party since it defeated the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party may make some South Korean voters reluctant to abandon the familiar and battle-tested GNP.
There is little reason to think that he will suddenly abandon this winning strategy come January 20.
On the contrary, during the campaign, he heaped criticism on America’s senseless wars in the Middle East; and his supporters want nothing more than for the US to abandon its global leadership role and retreat from the world.
Libya’s decision to abandon its nuclear option in December 2003 and the Iran deal this year were both possible for precisely this reason.
It would thus be a fateful mistake for Western powers to abandon the ideas and institutions that delivered prosperity and stability in previous decades.
France’s decision to abandon military conscription in 1996 while pressing ahead on nuclear testing did little to improve the relationship.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly announced just last week that Iran could abandon the deal “within hours” in response to new sanctions.
So, if Putin is concerned about Russia, he should abandon his czarist notions of power and leave high office, if not politics altogether.
As policy inertia prolongs sluggish growth and impairs job creation, it becomes even more difficult to abandon.
While an outright military conflict between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other side remains unlikely, it is clear that negotiations and sanctions will not induce Iran’s leaders to abandon efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
But intervention requires that the authorities first have both the reserves and the will to abandon (at least temporarily) their hands-off commitment to a floating exchange rate.
Tragically, strong resistance from Israel and the Jewish diaspora has led Obama to acknowledge openly his powerlessness in the conflict, and thus to abandon US political pressure on Israel.
The State should not abandon its redistributive role; neither can the State surrender to the market its role in development.
Indeed, if the majority of British voters decided to abandon the EU, everyone would suffer the consequences.
Finally, Trump’s election could force Americans to recognize flaws in their own democracy, even as they abandon global “democracy promotion.”
In particular, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should abandon their hesitance to support the post-revolution governments.
This was particularly audacious, for it required us to abandon the supreme Hippocratic principle according to which it is unprofessional to injure a healthy person.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the likelihood that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his willingness to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the half of it).
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