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For example, US sanctions eventually brought Iran to the table to negotiate a nuclear deal; but sanctions were effective only because a broad international coalition, ultimately backed by the United Nations Security Council, isolated Iran financially.
Some financial segmentation is a price well worth paying for stronger regulations that are solidly backed by domestic politics.
Violent jihadist groups backed by outside patrons mercilessly ravage the country and prey on the population.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the US have regularly backed some of the most violent jihadist groups in a cynical miscalculation that these proxies would do their dirty work and then somehow be pushed aside.
Third, all paramilitary activities should cease, including those of so-called “moderates” backed by the US.
They backed up propaganda with terror.
And the center-right has, so far, backed every one of them.
The latter group, for example, are generally supportive of the plan to build a Community of South American Nations, a scheme backed primarily by Argentina and Venezuela.
The fact that 55.8% of Northern Irish voters backed “Remain” in the 2016 referendum partly reflects this astonishing achievement.
“I told him [Olmert] I had decided on a diplomatic option backed by force” to stop Syria, Bush writes.
Assad remains in power, but more than 190,000 Syrians are dead and millions have been displaced as a result of an insurrection supported by the US and its allies (with Assad backed by Russia and Iran).
Backed by lavish financing from abroad, Salafist fundamentalism – an intolerant version of Islam at odds with the more moderate Sufi-influenced variant that prevailed in India for centuries – has been spreading across Bangladesh in recent years.
For many who supported him, he was the lesser of two evils: his rival was backed by two powerful politicians implicated in corruption scandals.
He launched a series of legal proceedings to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrach neighborhood and elsewhere, and established a fund (backed by donations from wealthy, right-wing Americans) to buy land from Palestinians in order to give it to Israelis – sort of a racist Robin Hood in reverse.
Even the narrower iterations of the global gag rule backed by previous Republican presidents had devastating consequences.
Musharraf backed the military’s opposition to this reform, gaining some gratitude from military commanders.
To avoid more empty promises, all commitments must be backed up by a clear financing plan and subjected to regular accountability checks.
The two main factions fighting in Mogadishu are backed, respectively, by Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Thus, the Mutawa’ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.
It is a rebellion by the Sunni majority against an Alawite-led minority regime backed by other minorities (including Christian and Druze) whose members now find themselves in the difficult position of supporting the regime, despite its oppressive nature.
A new constitution, backed by a national referendum, is part of this drive to reshape Taiwan's identity and distinguish the new generation of politicians from those who arrived as exiles from the mainland.
That view is backed up by the polls’ most striking results: very widespread rejection of inequality based on race, ethnicity, or sex.
But the gross flow of capital is from emerging market to emerging market, through big banks now implicitly backed by the state in both the US and Europe.
Coming from Stalin’s lips, the phrase, backed by the full and fearsome force of the Soviet state’s internal security apparatus, was a death sentence for millions.
That road is built on a foundation in which solid reform is backed by substantial assistance.
Economic integration must be backed up by increased intra-regional trade; less than 4% of Africa’s trade is between African countries, compared to over 70% in Europe and over 50% in Asia.
Indeed, with few exceptions, the same ministers have returned to the same offices as part of an administration backed by the same odd pair of parties (the left-wing Syriza and the smaller right-wing Independent Greeks), which received only a slightly lower share of the vote than the previous administration.
While Karzai has been fickle, to say the least, about cooperation with the Americans (indeed, he has since backed away from participation in the Doha talks), the rupture of his political alliance with non-Pashtun leaders has also fueled ethnic polarization.
As a result, Sunni-led governments that had enjoyed Western support in exchange for generous oil deals – notably, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – became enemies of the Shia and their quest, backed by Iran, to regain their dignity and identity.
In the United States, many liberals console themselves with the belief that the obvious dangers of being governed by an ignorant, narcissistic, authoritarian loudmouth backed by billionaires, ex-generals, peddlers of malicious fake news, and neophytes with extreme views will help to galvanize a strong political opposition.
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