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They assumed control (though not over the military), but did not govern wisely.
In a part of the world where politics relies heavily on symbols, China has not invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to visit Beijing since he assumed power in 2012, and it appears unlikely to do so anytime soon.
When Kim assumed power, he immediately threatened war with the US, posing with his generals beneath a map that showed missiles aimed at North America.
His depiction of former Florida governor Jeb Bush as a man of “low energy” has done real damage to a candidate whom many had assumed – even before he formally entered the race – would be the favorite.
The 1990s was the era of neoliberalism, an economic worldview that wrongly assumed that the benefits of economic growth would trickle down to those at the bottom; government should embrace austerity and do little more than let markets work.
It is often assumed that everyone recoils at the prospect that there are genetic limits to our capacity for change.
And, second, what level of safety is assumed by the term “prevent”?
Morocco’s Veiled FeministsIt is often assumed that modern feminism has no place, and thus can make little headway, in societies undergoing a religious revival, particularly in the Islamic world.
Hassan Yusuf, a Hamas leader who was recently released from an Israeli jail after 28 months of administrative internment, explained to Al-Jazeera that “if Hamas assumed the leadership at this time, it would be vilified and isolated by the international community, and then the people would suffer.”
It is usually assumed that developing economies need to build resources that emulate those in the developed world, but this could actually stifle the most creative thinking.
For starters, because the current account reflects the difference between a country’s savings and investment, Germany is assumed to be saving too much and investing too little.
Russia’s not-so-ex-communists never assumed power again, because reformers were succeeded by Viktor Chernomyrdin’s inert government.
Until now, it had been assumed that the cost of exit would be so high that no country would consider it.
The Libya Option In IranLOS ANGELES – International efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be given a new lease on life this month, because France has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council.
Until recently, the OBR, broadly in line with the IMF, assumed a fiscal multiplier of 0.6: for every dollar cut from government spending, the economy would shrink by only 60 cents.
Forecasters assumed that monetary expansion would provide an effective antidote to fiscal contraction.
These two mistakes compounded each other: If the negative impact of austerity on economic growth is greater than was originally assumed, and the positive impact of quantitative easing is weaker, then the policy mix favored by practically all European governments has been hugely wrong.
Hamilton argued – against James Madison and Thomas Jefferson – that the debts accumulated by the states during the War of Independence should be assumed by the federation.
The seven years since Putin assumed power in the Kremlin have been a time of conflicting signals.
It assumed that demand would always be sufficient if profits were eliminated.
If the international community finds a legitimate way to intervene in Syria, Turkey’s military contribution to any operation would be assumed.
So, even if Merkel’s coalition should fail at, or even before, the next federal election, it was always assumed that no one could seriously challenge her chancellorship, and certainly not within a renewed “grand coalition” with the SPD.
First of all, as a kid, I just assumed that I would go to the moon, without having to do much in particular to make it happen.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.
Whenever the “severity effect” outweighs the “prevalence effect,” the increasing overall prevalence of the NCD will be accompanied by a decreasing health impact, not an increasing disease “footprint,” as is widely assumed.
But al-Maliki seems to have assumed that external forces would simply come to his aid should he run into trouble.
Nobody can predict the full effects of the biggest regime change in global economic management since the 1980s; but they will surely be negative for emerging economies and multinational companies, whose development models and business strategies have assumed free trade and open capital flows.
The daughter of Xi Jinping, the presumptive future leader who has now reemerged from an unexplained absence, is attending Harvard under an assumed name.
When the Balkans’ immediate problems had subsided, EU leaders assumed that they had secured peace for the region.
We assumed that family ties and non-directedness would preclude coercion and commerce.
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