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This is true for Northern Europe’s large social-democratic parties (Denmark and Sweden) but also for parties that
attempted
to “modernize” themselves by combining socialism and liberalism (the UK and Spain), and even for Europe’s more traditional socialist parties (Belgium and France), which, despite local successes, have found it difficult to re-gain national power.
Driven by these beliefs, a union of “liberals”
attempted
to bring about a kind of bureaucratic modernization, having convinced themselves that liberal political outcomes could somehow be orchestrated by corrupt bureaucracy through limited democratic institutions.
Oman is keeping its distance from the situation, while Kuwait has
attempted
to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
In the early sixteenth century, the German princes
attempted
to settle the philosophical challenge presented by Protestant reformers by engaging Martin Luther to debate a prominent orthodox Catholic theologian, Johannes Eck.
Kim Kyong-hui’s intent to exercise power after her brother’s passing is supported by rumors that she helped arrange a traffic accident in June that killed Ri Je-gang, a senior party official and perceived guardian of Kim Jong-eun who reportedly
attempted
to oust Kim Kyong-hui and her close allies from power.
Claims of prior inability to remember imply that they had
attempted
unsuccessfully to recall their abuse, only to remember it much later.
He consults with Duma sessions, and
attempted
to design a younger more vigorous reform government; and so on and so on.
Just ask Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, who
attempted
to build her blood-testing company on hot air and ended up losing all credibility.
Thus, Mashal has
attempted
to close ranks with Fatah, and is seeking to move Hamas’s Diaspora headquarters from Damascus – a powerful symbol of his efforts at re-invention.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has
attempted
to confront this dilemma by differentiating reserve requirements according to sector or type of financial institution.
Those were the words of US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton as he
attempted
my challenge to establish concrete priorities for the world.
The attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has invariably elicited comparisons to the Saudi-born terrorists who struck the United States on September 11, 2001, or to the Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad, who
attempted
to set off a car bomb in Times Square in 2010.
There are also pending patent applications for a novel form of genetic manipulation – CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing – which a team of Chinese researchers has already
attempted
to use to edit the genome of a human embryo.
For that matter, why shouldn’t Putin have
attempted
to help out Trump?Ukrainians campaigned for Clinton, believing that she would advance their interests.
With limited, if any, hard-currency (US dollar or gold) reserves on hand, and little prospect for acquiring dollars through export earnings, European economies
attempted
to shrink their current-account deficits by compressing imports from other (mostly) European countries.
Similarly, the British philosopher John Gray, who has long decried “hyper-liberalism,” has
attempted
to turn the Brexit vote – a clear outburst of nativism and xenophobia – on its head.
When Turkey became a democracy in 1950, the previous system’s secular Kemalist elites
attempted
to harness the power of the military and the bureaucracy to control the elected government.
We also
attempted
to identify policies that could ease the (possibly forced) transition towards this new model of economic development.
When Franco died in 1975, Spain's future path was not obvious, as evidenced by the
attempted
coup of February 1981.
And those efforts go well beyond
attempted
murder on British territory.
Instead, it
attempted
to limit verification to that which was already known.
The choices, singly or in combination, are: 1) nothing (the current response); 2) mitigation (reducing emissions of greenhouse gases); 3)
attempted
adaptation to the ongoing climate changes; and 4) geoengineering.
But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been
attempted.
The precise mix of policies must of course vary by country; but without more thoughtful approaches than what was
attempted
in France, action to address climate change will be dangerously constrained.
Since World War II, many countries have
attempted
the transition from low- to high-income status, but only 13 have succeeded – and all had relatively low levels of official corruption.
Last February, the newly elected Senate
attempted
to block $1.6 billion from going to Shell and two other companies for production expenses until they provided adequate documents to support their claims.
Every high-growth, manufacturing-intensive Asian economy that has
attempted
it has suffered a massive slowdown.
Erhard even
attempted
to adjust it to the sociopolitical changes of the 1960s, developing the concept of a “formed society," whereby factionalism would be minimized and the state governed by consensus.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol
attempted
to use a system of tradable quotas to establish a price on carbon-dioxide emissions, but foundered after the United States and several emerging countries refused to join.
On July 21, European leaders
attempted
– belatedly – to redress this vulnerability by increasing the EFSF’s capacity to allow it to counter the increased Spanish and Italian risk.
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