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Today, however, these stereotypes are breaking down.
There is nothing new or surprising about great powers making and breaking rules as it suits them.
But Europe is preoccupied with its own economic problems, which have pressed European leadership to the breaking point.
Now, these tensions may be reaching a breaking point, after the United States, the European Union, and Japan recently filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China’s export restrictions on a number of critical minerals, including rare earths.
The Commission now has until the end of this month to determine whether France has pursued reform diligently enough to avoid penalties for breaking its pledge to cut its budget deficit to less than 3% of GDP by next year.
If the previous trends toward polarization and authoritarianism continue, the country could eventually reach a breaking point.
The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud’s far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
But breaking with the policies of the 1990’s also presents risks because the EU is not, and cannot be, a traditional great power.
Tensions among member states have reached a breaking point, not only over refugees, but also as a result of exceptional strains between creditor and debtor countries within the eurozone.
Breaking this unholy alliance will be the big test for China’s leadership in 2011and beyond.
Breaking the distorting power of these criminal networks requires first confronting the distortions that perpetuate it: the failed war on drugs and criminalization of consumers; the burgeoning privatization of security; police agencies that reproduce, rather than reduce, violence and crime; prisons that hone offenders’ criminal skills; and judicial systems that re-victimize crime victims.
But this does not mean that breaking up the euro would be desirable, or even tolerable.
Many feared mass unemployment, a tidal wave of bankruptcies, millions of families evicted from their homes, the social safety net strained to the breaking point, and perhaps even riots and a resurgence of the political extremism that brought Hitler to power in Germany during the depression of the 1930’s.
This is an obvious misconception, because it was the intervention of the authorities that prevented financial markets from breaking down, not the markets themselves.
It appears that during an upcoming visit to Havana, the Mexican foreign minister will not meet with local dissidents, breaking with precedents established since 1993.
In Belarus, an impoverished Lukashenko increasingly resorts to brute force to maintain his rule – breaking up peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning political opponents, and terrorizing the intelligentsia.
Traditional relationships between consumers and producers are breaking down in other ways, too.
Plummer said that she was taking the drug to her Egyptian boyfriend, who suffers from chronic pain, and that she did not know she was breaking Egyptian law.
The independent Institute of Fiscal Studies calculates that the Chancellor could run cumulative current deficits of nearly £50 billion between now and the end of the cycle in 2005/06 without breaking the Golden Rule, rather than the £2.7 billion the Treasury currently projects.
Breaking the cycle will not be easy, but there is no other way to address many of the most pressing problems confronting China’s economy.
Bending, much less breaking, will not come naturally to such a prideful country.
Even to the most inveterate optimist, the G7 summit in Quebec earlier this month was proof that the geopolitical West is breaking up and losing its global significance, and that the great destroyer of that American-created and American-led order is none other than the US president.
But a stagnant global economy is straining health-care budgets to the breaking point.
His voice breaking, he apologized on behalf of the state for the crimes committed.
At the very least, the EU should apply the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty that allow it to suspend some of the rights of a country that is breaking its rules and showing contempt for its standards and values.
That outcome would run counter to British public opinion, which remains moderate on the question of fully breaking with the EU.
With the rentier systems that governments have maintained for decades now at a breaking point, policymakers must begin the difficult, but not impossible, process of establishing new social contracts.
Breaking the Brexit StalemateBRUSSELS – March 29 marked exactly one year since British Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, thus launching the formal two-year legal process by which the United Kingdom will withdraw from the European Union.
By contrast, in Georgia, Russia moved from support for territorial integrity to breaking up the country in three weeks and relied entirely on military force to do so.
Breaking the old bullying habits - such as imposing visa restrictions on Georgians - won't be easy.
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