Broke
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Likewise, Pope Francis
broke
from the Church’s traditional line to suggest that women exposed to the Zika virus that ravaged parts of Latin America last year could use artificial contraception.
When protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime first
broke
out in 2011, few could have imagined the catastrophe that Syria would suffer.
She is most like Giscard’s counterpart among German chancellors, the social democrat Helmut Schmidt, who also
broke
with his party and emphasized management and competence.
Puerto Rico’s Debt TrapWASHINGTON, DC – The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico – the largest United States “territory” – is broke, and a human calamity is unfolding there.
Saudi Arabia’s Iraq DilemmaSaudi Arabia
broke
ranks with the Arab world’s opposition to military action against Iraq when Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal announced that the kingdom would allow the use of its military bases if the UN sanctions an attack on Iraq.
Then a minor academic storm
broke
out.
And yet he neither
broke
nor surrendered to the rage that would have consumed most people.
Rivero made his decision to go beyond the revolution's definition of journalism in 1989, when he
broke
from the writer's union and joined with nearly a dozen other intellectuals to sign an open letter raising the issue of political prisoners.
But, while many financial relationships
broke
down once the financial crisis started, this one actually became more pronounced, and has become a popular strategy.
The asset bubbles that
broke
Japan and the United States are widely presumed to pose the same threat in China.
Then, in February 2018, Khama
broke
the silence among African leaders and called for Joseph Kabila, the autocratic president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to “relinquish power.”
This infrastructure-building was spectacularly successful: The last urban cholera outbreak in Western Europe occurred in 1892, and by the time World War I
broke
out, communicable diseases had ceased to be the leading cause of death across much of the continent.
Even before these latest troubling stories broke, a large number of congressional Republicans viewed Trump as a threat to the country and their party.
Moreover, no nuclear weapons were unleashed, deliberately or accidentally, and no full-scale war of the kind that ravaged post-communist Yugoslavia
broke
out between Russia and any of its neighbors, although several of them were locked in internal or regional conflict in which Russia’s hand was visible.
For more than a hundred years, America has had strong anti-trust laws, which
broke
up private monopolies in many areas, such as oil.
But no sooner had the parties left Washington after the talks
broke
down than Clinton joined Israel's then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak in blaming the Palestinians.
The Party accuses him of “subversion,” but he
broke
no laws, does not head a counter-revolutionary army, and was not on the verge of toppling the Party.
But its solution to the problem of creeping inflation was jury-rigged, and
broke
down completely in the 1970's.
This time the system actually
broke
down in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse last September, and it had to be put on artificial life support.
Unfortunately, the system completely collapsed after the war
broke
out in August 1914.
Attackers based in China recently
broke
into the US Office of Personnel Management and stole up to 22 million files with sensitive information on federal employees.
Laughter
broke
and built.
It was Indian jawans who stopped the German advance at Ypres in the autumn of 1914, soon after the war
broke
out, while the British were still recruiting and training their own forces.
But the British
broke
their word, and nationalists had nothing for which to thank India’s soldiers.
In fact, one might just as well set the accident in the sixteenth century, when the Habsburg Emperor hung on to the Southern Netherlands (today’s Belgium) while the Protestant northern provinces
broke
away.
Relative calm was restored to Algiers for a couple of years after his arrival, but then the insurgency
broke
out again with redoubled strength, and the French had to leave the country in 1962.
Although everyone knew what happened, no one dared publish details of the inflated profits or the tip-off until we
broke
the silence.
Countless authors view it as a tragedy that
broke
the flow of history and destroyed Russia’s best people.
In 1991, Boris Yeltsin, in one of his first actions as President,
broke
up the old KGB into several agencies, cut its staff by half, and slashed its budget.
Latin America had a big debt crisis that
broke
out in 1982, but in fact there were almost no defaults (with the exception of Peru and, for a few months in late 1987, Brazil).
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