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Now we are paying for this self-censorship and contempt for professional ethics, as all media abandoned the truth in order to curry favor with the Kremlin.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League special envoy, has abandoned as hopeless his efforts to implement an internationally agreed six-point plan to end the violence.
Liberalism has not been abandoned, but a dash of populism and Hungarian patriotism has been added to the brew: "While we wish to feel at home in NATO and the EU," Orban declared at a rapturous FIDESZ congress on June 6the, "we do not wish our good feelings about our home here to fade".
China long ago abandoned Mao’s effort to reduce the country’s vulnerability by relocating strategic industries to remote provinces.
Perhaps the Bush administration worries that if oil countries abandoned the dollar standard, today’s dollar weakness would turn into a rout.
Last week, Austrian authorities found the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants in a Hungarian truck abandoned near Vienna.
Italians have rightly felt abandoned by their fellow Europeans when they were confronted with the arrival of masses of refugees.
I still shake my head in wonder that she could embrace the abandoned hope of liberation when almost no one else – not even Gorbachev – could even imagine it.
Finally, one can envision a system in which the attempt to establish global rules is abandoned, but regional or like-minded country groupings formulate their own sets of rules.
Time and again, it is argued that the single currency does not fit the different needs of its member countries, and that unsustainable economic divergence will ultimately require that the euro be abandoned.
Unsurprisingly, the 200,000 members of Israel’s liberal and prosperous middle class that abandoned the city in the last 20 years find Tel Aviv – Israel’s economic capital, and a center of technology-driven growth – far more appealing.
With this race to the bottom, EU countries appear to have abandoned solidarity, thereby jeopardizing one of the crowning achievements of European integration: free movement within the Schengen zone.
Yours sincerely,Concerned citizensLibya’s Lord of the FliesLONDON – “I am a glory that will not be abandoned by Libya, the Arabs, the United States, and Latin America…revolution, revolution, let the attack begin,” said the self-described King of African Kings, Dean of Arab Leaders, and Imam of all Muslims, Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi.
The Kremlin abandoned democratic procedures, controlling which parties were allowed to run and their candidates, while Putin’s United Russia monopolized media coverage.
But one element of the Kim dynasty’s end is certain: China will have abandoned it.
Putin has appealed to Russia’s most reactionary forces by restricting gay people’s rights with legislation that Western countries abandoned years ago.
As soon as French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy decided to leave the government and start campaigning for the presidency, incumbent President Jacques Chirac abandoned all plans for reforms that might antagonize voters.
The axiom “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” has been abandoned in favor of, “Release today, debug forever.”
Even current EU members feel abandoned by the Union: there is a growing sense in the three Baltic Countries, Poland, and Hungary that the EU is allowing them to be squeezed by Russia, particularly on energy policy.
Other post-Soviet countries are also experiencing internal pressure to re-orient themselves towards Russia and feel abandoned by the EU.
But ever since those immortal scenes of US army helicopters hovering above the abandoned US embassy in Saigon in 1975, Vietnam has mostly slipped from the world’s consciousness.
These refugees could much more properly establish themselves in the new state of Palestine, their mother country, among their compatriots, under a Palestinian flag and Palestinian authority, merely 30 kilometers from the homes and farms that they abandoned, or from which they were expelled, more than 60 years ago.
Most Japanese have remained rational in the face of their country’s tragedy, as have most people in neighboring Asian countries like China and South Korea, which, likewise, have not abandoned their commitment to nuclear energy.
Poverty runs rampant, orphanages overflow with abandoned children, countless packs of wild dogs roam the streets.
The feral dogs of Bucharest are a tawdry legacy of communism, like the many half-built and abandoned blocs of flats dotted across the city and throughout the country.
As tens of thousands of people were moved into tiny, standard issue apartments, many dogs were abandoned.
Of course, you cannot “adopt” abandoned factories or the unemployed masses in the way that dogs can be adopted.
Only education remains as a future investment sector, given its impact on productivity, but the rest of the much-needed social sector interventions have been abandoned in favor of investment in infrastructure, the environment, regional integration, and finance.
Others argue that the old myths should be abandoned in favor of a bold move forward.
More important, governments have abandoned the goal of full employment; as a result, all of those bits of interventionist policy previously thought necessary to keep economic activity on an even keel have gone by the wayside as well.
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