Ashes
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Aylwin belonged to the Christian Democratic Party, which in Chile emerged from the
ashes
of the old Conservative Party.
In France and Germany, a new far left – composed of Trotskyites, communists, and anarchists – is rising from the
ashes
to become a political force again.
But, at the same time, it is unlikely that Europe’s economy will follow the pattern of emerging-market crises and rise, phoenix-like, from the
ashes.
His fellow-surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his
ashes
were scattered over the surface.
Without these, military victory and occupation quickly turn to
ashes.
Old hands know that global trade deals often rise out of the
ashes
of failed talks.
A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the
ashes
of the traditional craft and guild systems, transforming agrarian societies into urban ones.
The Resource Raj rose from the
ashes
of the License Raj.
Begin was the best proof that Israel’s critics needed that the Zionist revolution, although it created a state out of the
ashes
of the Holocaust, had failed to eradicate the collective self-image of the Jew and the Israeli as victim.
President Dmitri Medvedev, for example, regularly calls for extremists to be “burned to ashes,” and for terrifyingly broad punishment, including of those “washing linen and preparing soup for terrorists.”
Should the disastrous events contemplated here occur, a new global economy will eventually emerge from the
ashes.
To his devotees, he was like an enlightened monarch, a man who gave up his successful private businesses to help Italy rebuild from the
ashes
of Italy’s post-war party system, which had collapsed in a vast corruption scandal that had left almost no part of government unsullied.
He was far less shaped by religious and biblical teachings than all of them, and the narrative of Jewish history and of Israel’s heroic emergence out of the
ashes
of the Holocaust is not the primordial sentiment in his attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The UN arose from the
ashes
of a war that the League of Nations was unable to avert.
Out of the
ashes
of war a new kind of Europe arose, as did a new kind of Japan, which even had a pacifist constitution (written by idealistic Americans, but gratefully accepted by most Japanese).
Or is it a phoenix, about to rise (yet again) from its
ashes?
As Deng Xiaoping began to encourage individual incentives over the next several decades – embodied in such slogans as, “To Get Rich Is Glorious” – I watched with wonder and amazement as China’s private economy began to rise from the
ashes
of Mao’s revolution.
They must also freely be able to discuss the future and what kind of society they wish to see rise from the
ashes
of Mao’s revolution.
Even if the US and its allies defeat the Islamic State over the coming decade, we should be prepared for a similar Sunni extremist group to rise from the
ashes.
Starting with the Sword of Damocles, he chooses as its opposite not the robustness of the Phoenix rising from the ashes, but the inventiveness of the Hydra, who sprouts two heads whenever one is cut off.
The concrete consequences of this enthusiasm were the creation of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), born out of the
ashes
of the Financial Stability Forum, at the G20’s London summit in April 2009, and inclusion of representatives of all G20 members among the key rule makers in Basel and elsewhere.
The European Union – an empire built through diplomacy and consensus – emerged out of the
ashes.
One of them argued that, in Russia, autocracy rises constantly from the ashes, like a Phoenix, sustained by Russians’ passivity and endurance.
Back then, Tokyo proudly stood up as a city that, through hard work, self-sacrifice, and imagination, had risen from the
ashes
of World War II.
Modern Europe was built on the
ashes
of World War II and the Holocaust.
Again, who better than this collage artist, this chameleon of citation and intertextuality, this laconic lyricist, this verbal alchemist who spent his life reinventing others’ words and his own, uncovering the embers of the era beneath the
ashes
of the day’s defeats, and transmuting into gold the lead he heard on the radio?
What is significant about thalidomide is that a new treatment emerged from the
ashes
of failure.
The emergence of a six-decade-old alliance from the
ashes
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the many near-miraculous achievements of America’s far-sighted post-1945 diplomacy.
The Germany of Beethoven has been reborn on the
ashes
of the Germany of Hitler.
In 1989, China rose from the
ashes
of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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