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Rather than breaking popular morale in London, Berlin, Tokyo, or Hanoi, it usually strengthened it.
Read More from "Zone Defense"Breaking the Middle East’s Cycle of TerrorFEZ – In July, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been driven out of Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, which it captured three years ago.
European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to strain it to the breaking point.
Physicists had long expected the LHC to reveal a new sector of particles and fields associated with “electroweak symmetry breaking” and the dark matter of the universe.
Germany’s government seems to have little appetite for breaking up Deutsche Bank, and the French have taken a leaf from the British book and implemented their own reform.
Now, the Arab world’s state-led development model may be set to reach a breaking point, as hundreds of millions of young people prepare to enter labor markets in the coming decades.
Now this liberal narrative is breaking down.
Evidence from the US indicates that an individualized program aimed at breaking gang ties would cost around $250 per person in Latin America, but could yield benefits worth $2,900.
Addressing that flaw requires renationalization of banking, and breaking up the activities of large financial institutions.
Meanwhile, initial enthusiasm for restoring Glass-Steagall – breaking up banking functions into separate institutions – has fallen by the wayside.
Yet cooperation with the US may not gain the al-Sauds much, because Saudi relations with America are strained to the breaking point.
The breaking news teams returned to Bangkok long ago, where a military coup, ongoing mass protests, and other big political stories have kept them busy ever since.
With these measures in place, Saddam’s Iraq was weakened almost to breaking point.
It also needs a higher inflation target (to reduce the need for nominal wage and price reductions); debt relief, where appropriate; a proper banking union with an adequate, centralized fiscal backstop; and a “safe” eurozone asset that national banks could hold, thereby breaking the sovereign-bank doom loop.
Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.
But the eurozone’s political strains may soon reach a breaking point, with populist anti-austerity parties in the periphery and populist anti-euro and anti-bailout parties in the core possibly gaining the upper hand in next year’s European Parliament elections.
Worse still, Ukrainians know that corruption remains endemic, and little progress has been made in breaking the old elite’s power structure.
But there are clear examples of positive economic outcomes resulting from breaking a similar currency bond.
The two weeks since Taiwan's disputed presidential election of March 20 - only the third such democratic vote in the country's history - has tested this truism almost to the breaking point.
Breaking the Climate DeadlockLONDON – On July 9, the leaders of the world’s largest economies will meet in L’Aquila, Italy, at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) to discuss progress towards a new global climate agreement.
Ending Sexual Harassment and Abuse at the UNGENEVA – Around the world, brave women (and some men) have been breaking the silence surrounding sexual harassment and abuse committed by those in positions of power.
The public is reaching a breaking point.
That means promoting competition, breaking up oligopolies, and supporting entrepreneurs and innovation.
Breaking down the components of banks into manageable pieces makes sense.
The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.
They see EMU breaking German domination of economic policy by taking key monetary decisions out of German hands.
Breaking the impasse requires restoring political legitimacy by electing a president who, having promised reform, gains a mandate to deliver it.
Should Ukraine succeed in breaking its post-Soviet shackles, there will be no way around its EU membership.
Russia is openly breaking those rules and no longer bothering to justify itself under international law.
Breaking the vicious cycle of hunger and malnutrition requires complementing the focus on agriculture and rural development (more than 70% of the food-insecure population lives in rural areas of developing countries) with investment in other social and productive programs, including modest but predictable financial transfers to the poorest families.
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