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In a globalized world managed by bankers and technocrats, many people feel that they have no say in public affairs; they feel abandoned.
At the same time, economic reform has not been abandoned.
Although she abandoned a push to rebrand the FN “Bleu Marine,” owing to the original brand’s enduring appeal to its older voters, that approach reflects the personality cult that she has fostered, characterized by the suppression of dissent and even of her own niece, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, a rising political star.
Italians have abandoned their defensive tactics.
But, as with its 1991 financial crisis, India was able to emerge with a revamped foreign policy – one that abandoned the country’s quixotic traditions and embraced greater realism and pragmatism.
But, with the Soviet Union’s disappearance, the US abandoned that game.
LONDON – On September 16, 1992, a date that lives in infamy in the United Kingdom as “Black Wednesday,” the Bank of England abandoned its efforts to keep the British pound within its permitted band in the European exchange-rate mechanism.
They have abandoned the shibboleths of the past, sometimes almost overnight.
But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.
In response to the Great Depression, most countries abandoned the gold standard, developed new exchange-rate arrangements, and tried novel policies to stimulate local industry.
None of this is to say that precision medicine should be abandoned altogether.
Although he opposed America’s use of force against Iraq and Serbia in the 1990’s, his government never formally abandoned the sanctions regime against either country.
For the left, his victory is an incentive to come up with realistic alternatives to the tried and failed liberal nostrums, and the discredited state socialism that was abandoned a decade ago.
That demand must be abandoned.
Argentina abandoned its fixed exchange rate against the US dollar in 2001, and experienced rapid recovery after two bad quarters.
But EU leaders essentially abandoned the project, seemingly confirming American fears.
Any sober Palestinian leadership must know by now that the rhetorical promise of a return to an abandoned house and to the olive tree is an irresponsible mirage that fundamentally contradicts the rationale for a separate Palestinian state.
France has been aligning itself with the military structures of a NATO that has progressively abandoned the practices that were at the root of General Charles de Gaulle’s decision to quit, most notably the placement of all NATO forces under a single command, even in times of peace.
German economists, in contrast to their American colleagues, never abandoned Keynesian policies as a means to combat demand deficits.
In 2000, he abandoned his studies at Beijing University when he learned that thousands of Henan peasants were dying from AIDS after having sold their blood to local traffickers.
But, instead of sticking to this position and turning a debate over debt forgiveness into a Draghi-style diversionary tactic, Greece abandoned this demand within days.
By the 1920s, most geneticists had abandoned the idea of a single gene for each characteristic and were loath to ascribe human behavior solely to genes.
Finally, there is Obama, who effectively abandoned a systematic course of action under the UN framework, because it was proving nettlesome to US power and domestic politics.
Globalization promises too much in terms of welfare gains, particularly to developing countries, to be abandoned.
Even close allies who belong to Saleh’s own Hashid tribe, such as Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, have abandoned him.
In response to German pressure, France already abandoned its longtime opposition to a common EU foreign and security policy.
Moreover, since 2008, US trade policy has deliberately abandoned multilateralism in order to pursue containment of China via a two-pronged strategy: the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the TTIP.
And Japan has so far failed to live up to its treaty obligations to clean up between 700,000 and two million chemical weapons that were abandoned in China by the Japanese army at the end of World War II, another potential flash point if any of these weapons causes casualties in China.
And if the aestheticexploration of the word was no longer the goal, it could not be abandoned entirelyand with disdain; whatever we wrote and now write, with whatever purpose,whether to express the struggle for freedom or the passion of a love affair,can approach the power of truth only to the extent that we are capable ofexploring the splendor of language brought into its service.
Less than two months ago, he reached an agreement to share military intelligence with Japan – a deal that was subsequently abandoned, owing to fears that the opposition would attack his party’s presidential candidate as subservient to Japan.
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