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That crossroads exposed a deep cleavage between the young, self-confident Israeli-born generals, who were spiteful of the older generation’s “submissive” attitude, and the Diaspora-born politicians who, haunted by Holocaust memories and existentially fearful of international isolation, resisted making a
break
with the old politics of diplomatic Zionism.
The fast-food industry makes it cheap and easy to eat out – a difficult habit to
break.
And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble invention of a “people” and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a
break
from tearing each other limb from limb.
This is not the time to take a
break
from efforts to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.
Kids (like Oliver Twist) were punished in ways designed to
break
them; poor people convicted of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
Jon Huntsman, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is addressing this directly – insisting that we should force the largest banks to
break
up and to become safer.
Now they are confronting elevated risks of a European recession and the real possibility that both the UK and the EU could
break
up if populist contagion takes hold.
One way to
break
the stalemate is a change in public accounting standards.
Today, even protests that do not
break
any laws are often decried as “uncivil” or too “divisive” for an already polarized society.
If they do not
break
their intellectual chains, they will secure for themselves nothing but more misery.
Thus, the question was never whether the single currency would
break
up, but what political reversals, economic sacrifices, and legal subterfuges would occur to hold it together.
In this sense, Hong Kong is locked in a vicious circle – and it is up to China’s government to
break
it.
The question now is whether Macron – who went on to secure an unassailable majority in the French National Assembly – can
break
the mold, or whether he will provide further proof that media savvy is no substitute for experience in the political trenches.
Unless we
break
the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.
More and more Palestinians, fed up with the futility of what is still called the “peace process,” believe that Fatah’s fierce rival, Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, has more effective ways to
break
the current impasse.
It has been proven repeatedly that military intimidation of civilians does not
break
their morale and turn them against their own leaders, however terrible the regime.
Is it possible to
break
the cycle of illiberal democracy and crony capitalism?
The 1998 elections that saw the defeat of Vladimir Meciar's regime clearly demonstrated that a
break
can be made.
If this cannot be accomplished, the eurozone, and most likely the EU itself, will
break
up – with enormous economic and other implications for us all.
One vehicle failed to
break
through the border crossing; the other penetrated Israeli territory, before being stopped by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
But sometimes shock waves are needed to
break
the ice and start the water flowing again.
Moreover, Doing Business helps to
break
down barriers – particularly in developing countries – that can discourage the establishment of small and medium-size enterprises, provide opportunities for corruption, and drive small business owners to the informal sector.
Vital issues are at stake: the scramble for oil;China’s robust presence in Sudan; the West’s desire to see a mostly Christian state
break
the contiguity of Muslim regimes – and the consequent threat of Islamic radicalism – in the region; the regional distribution of the Nile’s waters; and the possibility that independence for the South might lead to Sudan’s total dismemberment along ethnic and religious lines.
As long as France’s state of emergency lasts, police may arrest people without warrants,
break
down the doors of private residences in the middle of the night, take over restaurants and other public places with armed force, and generally behave like agents in a police state.
Besides, even if bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq or Syria makes military sense, it won’t
break
the spell of Islamist revolution for frustrated, bored, and marginalized young people in French slums.
If the Libyan revolution is to succeed, the country’s new leaders must make a clean
break
with the spirit of the past.
This represented a sharp
break
from the previous half-century; indeed, this period was characterized by the slowest growth in real per capita health-care spending on record.
Germany will not be challenged to
break
out of its increasing introversion, no longer obliged to demonstrate its democratic post-war credentials by embracing the European cause at every turn.
In the heyday of the Soviet Union, when Georgians of my generation dreamed about the eventual demise of the empire (because all empires eventually
break
up), we did not dare to imagine that it would happen in a peaceful and orderly manner.
If Obama can weather domestic resistance to new international trade negotiations and modify America’s current position on sectoral tariff reduction by developing countries, the US and India will have an opportunity to
break
the impasse that has stymied the Doha Round’s successful conclusion.
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