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While this one doesn't have the wine and the vineyards, it certainly possesses the same biting humor, outrageous moments, and thoughtfulness.
Yet Trump now ups the ante on tariffs – in effect, biting the very hand that feeds the US economy.
Amazingly, in the one area vital to its economic and social performance, America shies away from biting the reform bullet.
As John Limbert, the erudite Iran scholar and retired US diplomat (taken hostage in Iran for 444 days) once reflected on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Our liberal-minded Iranian friends proved to be helpless in political turmoil....[T]hey could write biting editorials,” but lacked the stomach to “throw acid, beat up opponents, organize street gangs...and engage in the brutality that wins” in political uprisings.
Along with its empty threats of interest rate hikes, there is a real danger the ECB will be labeled the central bank that barks but doesn’t bite (animal behaviorists know that barking and biting are substitutes, not complements).
In 1921, he wrote a biting piece of social criticism, “The True Story of Ah Q,” about a hapless character who adjusts his values to whatever the circumstances and people around him seem to demand.
Consider the rabies virus, which is transmitted among dogs, humans, and other mammals by biting.
To maximize its chances of spreading to another host, the virus actually alters its host’s mind to turn it into an angry, slavering, biting machine that will chomp at anything it encounters.
He grew stronger and more aggressive and began biting his teachers.
Only under the most biting international criticism and censure did China grudgingly admit that there were 340 cases in Beijing, with over 400 more suspected cases.
But, with the escalating financial sanctions of the past year now clearly biting hard, the signs are more encouraging than they have been for some time.
While it is critical for the West to stand by its principles, including by imposing biting sanctions, pragmatism is equally important.
By all means, the Six should keep the option of more biting resolutions as an inducement to Iranian compromise.
A group of NGOs have rechristened it the “Robin Hood tax,” and have launched a global campaign to promote it, complete with a deliciously biting video clip featuring British actor Bill Nighy (www.robinhoodtax.org).
The MSZP was even honorable enough not to buy votes by making promises that the country could not afford, instead asking voters to continue biting the bullet of sound reform policies.
Yet the potential to control malaria was actually improving, thanks to several newly emerging technologies: long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent the mosquitos from biting, better diagnostics to identify infections, and a new generation of highly effective medicines.
Government, too, is biting the bullet.
Hence the necessity of something like the individual health-insurance mandate of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), or of biting the bullet and adopting a single-payer system for financing health care.
Good people get to know each other by biting each other and it serves bad people right if they are bitten by good ones…”Friends of my generation invariably comment when I mention that I was born on August 18: “Hey, that was the anniversary of Chairman Mao first receiving the Red Guards.”
But, as the crisis deepened, German Chancellor Angela Merkel worked to persuade her European counterparts to implement a broad and biting sanctions regime.
Increasingly, it is being filled by the US Embassy in Mexico City, staffed by first-rate diplomats who may be biting off more than they can chew.
The Zetas’ star recruits in recent years have come from the Guatemalan military’s special forces, whose infamous induction technique involved biting off the head of a live chicken.
He went on to boast the return of “the most biting sanctions ever imposed,” as if sounding the death knell of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the deal is officially known.
Though promising to be even more biting, the US sanctions regime is not backed by UN Security Council resolutions and hence lacks international legitimacy.
Immediate debt restructuring on a grand scale, biting the bullet and accepting a few painful years of retrenchment.
The Fund, wary of biting the hand that feeds it, has been reluctant to issue strong warnings in such instances.
But Xi may be biting off more than he can chew.
Financial sanctions, direct and indirect, already are biting – including on the Revolutionary Guard and its significant economic interests – but have been tolerable in the context of asserting Iran’s “right to enrich” under the NPT.
The EU’s Four ChallengesMADRID – This year’s European Parliament election has spurred months of nail biting.
Despite the failure of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent attempt to mediate between the US and Iran, diplomatic prospects have arguably improved, in part because the sanctions are biting.
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