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Indeed, even while in office, Berlusconi consistently claimed that he was being attacked by the judiciary, by rival businessmen, by “communists,” by the political establishment.
He was also attacked by a leader of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP).
In early April, a funeral at St. Mark’s Cathedral (the seat of the Coptic Church in Cairo) for four Christians killed in sectarian riots days earlier descended into chaos, with thousands of mourners attacked as they tried to leave after the service.
Immediately attacked for reversing a long-held policy, he quickly retreated.
Computer hackers attacked Georgian government Web sites in the weeks preceding the outbreak of armed conflict.
In fact, everything on which a modern democracy and knowledge-based economy relies was attacked.
The young thugs who have attacked synagogues come mostly from the ranks of the unemployed and frustrated.
If the Parliament in Baghdad, one of the best protected buildings in the country, can be attacked from within, then no Zone in Iraq is Green; they are all Red.
In 2010, they attacked the Fed for its monetary easing, even though unemployment was still above 9%.
(The celebration was cut short, however, when terrorists attacked the London transport system the following day).
It was the speculators whose blood flowed in the streets when they attacked Hong Kong’s dollar peg in 1998.
Ahn, who has been in the running for only two months, has attacked Samsung, LG, and other major corporations for treating their subcontractors and employees “like caged animals in a zoo.”
After going to the cinema, she and her boyfriend were beaten, before she was brutally assaulted and attacked with an iron rod for more than an hour.
Some feminists have attacked me for this position, but the numbers bear me out: thirty years ago, 30% of reported rapes in the US and the United Kingdom resulted in prosecutions; today, after three decades of confidential sex-crime reporting, the number is 12% in the US and 6% in the UK.
Conflict erupted in early 2003 when rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement attacked government troops in an effort to gain greater autonomy and resources for their region.
A Cautionary Tale for Media RegulatorsQUITO – To understand the possible consequences of US President Donald Trump’s constant denunciations of the press, one need look no further than Ecuador, where former President Rafael Correa’s government attacked the news media for years.
The existing world order – created by the US itself – was first devalued in American eyes, then weakened, and finally consciously attacked.
Beyond outright expropriation, the government implemented a system that attacked the market’s natural ability to self-organize the economy.
The demonstrations that will rock European cities the day Iraq is attacked must be counteracted in advance by unequivocal European statements to that effect.
Once he is attacked by the US, he may use it against Israel, which will retaliate.
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP, attacked the “cozy consensus” around fiscal consolidation in Westminster.
Three months ago, armed vigilantes attacked the six-year-old’s village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek, the two most famous Austrian economists of the last century, also attacked the view of the economy as a machine.
It contrasts starkly with the extremism that grabs headlines when bombs are planted, hostages seized, or embassies attacked in Islam's name.
Militants chanting “death to the American dervishes” have attacked Sufis’ homes and destroyed shrines near Shiraz, Isfahan, and elsewhere in Iran.
And, typically, Russia seizes such opportunities: just recently, Russia’s United Nations envoy, Vasily Nebenzya, attacked his US counterpart, Nikki Haley, for calling Vladimir Putin’s “legitimately elected” government a “regime.”
On April 7, 2009, Moldova made headlines when peaceful protests against unfair elections were hijacked by a small number of provocateurs who attacked the parliament building and presidential palace.
"I'm glad that the USA was attacked," read one.
Already, in Gilani’s hometown of Multan, rioters attacked government offices and banks to protest electricity disruptions.
Indeed, Shafiq has been linked to multiple cases of corruption and repression, including the “battle of the camels” on February 2, 2011, when Mubarak’s henchmen attacked Tahrir Square, killing and wounding protesters.
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