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This levy, strongly backed by those countries whose financial sectors are in tatters after the crisis, is hard to swallow for EU states that did not intervene to bail out their banks.
The party is paying the price for surrendering in panic over the years to Tea Party zealots backed by disgracefully large treasure chests of billionaires’ loot.
There were, of course, many reasons why 52% of those who voted backed the “Leave” campaign.
China has agreed to Security Council resolutions against Iran on several occasions, but it has backed sanctions against North Korea on only two, both coming after the North conducted nuclear tests (in 2006 and 2009).
It is time to shift from inaction to urgent combat against the pandemic, backed by billions of dollars in assistance from rich countries.
Then, in 1919, Wilson backed the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred control of former German territories in Shandong Province to Japan, rather than return them to China.
According to Saudi Arabia, because the Houthis are backed by Iran, their attempted missile strike was tantamount to an Iranian “act of war.”
They reassured investors that they would “guide market interest rates into a reasonable range,” and backed their statements with credit injections.
We the soldiers and policemen who backed her were reinforced by Cory's steel core of values and principles.
Fortunately, Trump has backed away from many of his more aggressive positions on trade.
There are two consequences of the Brazilian policy to defend the exchange rate, a policy that has been strongly backed by the International Monetary Fund.
Gaza and the Failure of DeterrenceEvery day in the Gaza Strip, strategic deterrence – the inhibition of attack by a fear of punishment backed up by superior military power – is being put to the test.
Christians and Muslims coexisted for centuries in Sarajevo, until Serb agitators, backed by armed forces, called for violent expulsions and murder.
For a while, it consistently made outsized profits, supposedly due to its Nobel-prize backed financial expertise.
This observation is now backed by neuroscience, which has identified how the brain develops over that period and has created a system for measuring learning gaps.
Such reforms should be part of a larger integrated strategy that includes a range of other domestic policies and investments (backed by international assistance where needed).
And yet Trump has backed away from his threat, and the Europeans have moved a little in the direction that the US has urged.
The early responses have been mixed: although Republican Senators Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Ben Sasse have expressed varying degrees of disappointment, normally independent-minded Senators Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham have backed Trump’s decision.
With an ever-larger military machine backed by village-level militias, civil society has been the main loser.
European banks could bulk up in large part because it was assumed that their respective governments backed them.
At the time, it was agreed that a Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, whose work is backed by the threat of sanctions, would also be established.
Never before in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict has a state that considers itself a leader of the Arab Muslim peoples backed Israel so openly.
The US has almost totally backed away from the global fight against pollution, and, through uncontrolled growth, solidifies its position as the world’s leading polluter.
The main problem is producing well-designed reforms backed by key officials.
Such initiatives should be backed by policies that foster positive nutritional choices.
The strategic environment today is a far cry from that of 1997, when NATO leaders backed the membership bids of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, and awarded Ukraine and Russia privileged partner status.
The boom in America’s prison population in recent decades is the result of ramped up punitive crime-prevention measures, including tougher drug penalties and mandatory minimum sentences, backed up by growing numbers of police and other law-enforcement officials.
Backed by an enraged public, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recently searched some 30 sites, including a raid on a major Sumo “stable,” or training center.
Hollande, backed by Spain and Italy, accomplished a small step in that direction at June’s European Union summit, which finally endorsed the idea of a banking union.
Meanwhile, over the past week, Syrian government troops, backed by Russia and Iran, have retaken almost all of Aleppo – once Syria’s largest city, now utterly devastated by the war.
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