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Instead, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger conceived a policy whereby Iran and Saudi Arabia, backed by unlimited US military hardware, would police the Gulf.
Banks naturally avoided traditional business loans (which would have to be backed by more capital), and instead loaded up on the highest-yielding – and thus riskiest – AA or AAA mortgage- backed securities that they could find.
They are not yet a serious threat to Megawati, only because they are not backed by Indonesia's powerful Islamic political parties.
Had a free and fair referendum been offered to the Sudeten Germans, a majority might have backed union with Germany.
The PPP bandwagon has three essential components: an explosion in infrastructure finance (backed by pension and other large funds); the creation of “pipelines” of lucrative mega-PPP projects to exploit countries’ raw materials; and the dismantling of environmental and social safeguards.
While these efforts could not be more important, they must be backed by a longer-term strategy to strengthen these fragile countries’ defenses.
It is planning to create a fund, backed 70% by Brazilian financial resources, that will be dedicated to projects such as rehabilitating roads in Uruguay and Paraguay in order to enhance its neighbors’ capacities and correct economic imbalances.
At the same time, a peace process backed by elected and more legitimate Arab governments will actually help solidify long-term peace and stability.
Thailand’s Old Boys Club – generals-turned-politicians, political parties backed by tycoons with an eye on fat government contracts, and that unnameable hereditary institution whose only agenda is to maintain its longevity – has misgoverned the country for the past half-century.
Along with Russia, China has backed Syria in the Security Council, and it was recently revealed that Iran helped Syria to defy international sanctions by providing a ship to transport oil from Syria to a state-owned company in China.
Community paralegals, for example, can solve many problems using mediation, advocacy, and education, especially if they’re backed by a smaller corps of public interest lawyers.
But, two years later, it was discovered that some of the IPCC report’s key claims – for example, that global warming would cause the immense Himalayan glaciers to disappear by 2035, or halve African crop yields by 2020 – were based on statements made in appeals by environmentalist organizations, and were backed by little or no evidence.
Since the expulsion of a quarter-of-a-million Serbs from Krajina by the Croatian Army in the summer of 1995, less than one-third of the electorate has backed him.
Some of the most egregious examples included Obama’s claims that Romney was planning to raise taxes by $2,000 on middle-income taxpayers and/or cut taxes by $5 trillion, and that Romney backed a law that would outlaw “all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.”
But such calls must now be backed by action.
But none of this was persuasive enough for Indiana primary voters, who backed his rival, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, by an astonishing 20-point margin.
The object was to stop these weapons from being used by the Assad regime, and diplomacy – backed by the threat of force – appears to have achieved just that (although there have been recent reports, unconfirmed but worrying, of both rebel use and regime backsliding).
Poor countries are typically at a huge disadvantage in bargaining with big multinational lenders, which are usually backed by powerful home-country governments.
Rising house prices gave people the illusion that increasing wealth backed their borrowing.
As anyone with experience in development policy knows, fiscal transfers cannot generate convergence growth, unless they are backed by deep societal changes – and that demands active local leadership.
For China, this means “defending” its territorial claims in the East and South China Seas with an increasingly assertive foreign policy, conspicuously backed by growing military muscle.
The Colorados dominated this winner-take-all game during six decades of one-party rule, but lost their political monopoly in 2008, when the Liberals, in exchange for the vice-presidential nomination, backed a leftist coalition supporting Lugo.
In 2007, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and most other players in the financial markets were earning huge returns by trading derivatives backed by very risky mortgages.
The Russians openly backed Annan’s peace initiative.
Although German policymakers backed the ESM in June, ratification is on hold until the court’s ruling.
For regulation to be truly effective, it must be backed by robust enforcement – with sanctions for noncompliance.
Magnificent sums of money, backed by Wahhabi dogma, will be deployed to ensure popular submission and silence.
In Iran, much of the middle class backed the most moderate of the candidates acceptable to the country’s Islamic guardians in June’s presidential elections.
Although the foundation backed by the financier George Soros did not fabricate the Rose Revolution, as Russian nationalists claim, it certainly nurtured, encouraged, and supported democracy’s preconditions.
For example, China recently vetoed UN action against Masood Azhar, the Pakistan-based chief of the extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which, backed by Pakistani intelligence services, has carried out several terrorist attacks on Indian targets, including the Pathankot air base early this year.
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