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A democratic and European Turkey could be a bridge to deliver reform and modernity to the Muslim world; an alienated and authoritarian Turkey could bring conflict and strife back to Europe’s eastern borderlands.
That’s a bridge too far for Turkey’s nationalists and its military.
For example, the billionaire magnate Arkady Rotenberg has constructed natural-gas pipelines for state energy giant Gazprom and is building a bridge to Crimea.
State intervention needs to bridge gaps that the private sector cannot reasonably be expected to do on its own.
And we will need to bridge the gap between eurozone members and EU members that remain outside the monetary union, some of which may want to participate in the new supervisory mechanisms.
That may well be a bridge too far, but such maximalist demands hardly assuage the Saudis’ anxiety about the Islamic State.
Such cooperation would not bridge the main differences between SCO members and the West over issues like democratization and human rights.
If these ties are not strengthened soon through new institutional links, the Nato bridge, the only US-European institutional arrangement devoted to Atlantic cooperation, will also becorneshaky.
Every other emerging market, even in Asia, has eventually had to cross this bridge.
Back then, parliament was seen as a means to bridge the divides of caste, religion, and region.
Judging by Trump’s long history as a public figure, the idea that he would help to bridge the divides in the US probably seems ludicrous.
Yet, as Clinton starts "building a bridge to the 21st century", he and the nation face some difficult economic problems.
For example, 750 Chinese workers were shipped to Indonesia, along with 630,000 tons of steel, to construct the five-kilometer Suramadu bridge linking Surabaya to Madura.
On paper, Turkey looks like an ideal country to serve as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East.
Because natural-gas combustion produces fewer greenhouse gases than other hydrocarbons, such as coal or oil, it can be a bridge to a less carbon-intensive future.
Meanwhile, government, global health organizations like the World Health Organization and UNICEF, civil-society organizations, and community leaders, all working together, managed to identify and bridge the gaps that have historically impaired access to polio vaccines.
Here our right confronts much the same dilemma as that facing the right in Western Europe – how to bridge the gulf between the market and the community.
That also means ending government co-financing of operating costs and demanding that the oil companies tap capital markets to bridge the shortfall.
Thus, America trumpeted its continuing support for Turkish membership in the EU, notably in President Bush's speech in June at Istanbul's Galatasaray University - at a bridge that joins Asia and Europe.
If this approach succeeds, Europe's bridge to Asia may also become its bridge to America.
The desire to secure access to Crimea is also why the Russian Army is now focused on the strategic port of Mariupol, a gateway on the Sea of Azov, for a land bridge.
It is a divide that the UN is determined to bridge.
But while we cannot close the gulf between us, we can try to bridge it so that we may be able to talk across it.”
Shevardnadze also nurtured Georgia's dream to be a transport and energy bridge to the West.
Leadership may be a bridge too far for Europe today.
But just where the dividing line is remains unclear, because Russian President Vladimir Putin may yet attempt to capture the strategic port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, thereby enabling the Kremlin to create a land bridge between Russia and the Crimea peninsula.
The history and political culture of Egypt suggest a natural limit to the Brotherhood’s appeal if Egyptians can bridge their most important differences, maintain order, and restore economic growth.
Even if some cleaner source becomes viable later, we would still need natural gas as a bridge to get us from here to there.
And it has made it more difficult for elites to bridge the gap separating them from ordinary people who feel deserted by the establishment.
In France, the 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, who is campaigning on a positive, pro-EU message that aims to bridge the right-left divide, has edged ahead of Le Pen.
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