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That happened in India in 1947, when the British left, Pakistan
broke
away, and roughly a million Hindus and Muslims died in mutual slaughter.
The cost is eight million jobs in the US alone, with employment falling 6% from its peak and – in a major departure from other post-1945 recessions – remaining 5% below that peak today, 31 months after the crisis
broke
in earnest.
PHILADELPHIA – Polio
broke
out in Central Asia this year, with 560 cases reported in Tajikistan.
Just before the naval skirmish
broke
out, the Bush administration sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly to Pyongyang to probe North Korea on missile and nuclear weapon proliferation and conventional forces.
Mathematical whiz kids developed new financial instruments, which, by promising to rob debt of its sting,
broke
down the barriers of prudence and self-restraint.
For last Sunday’s run-off, however, Sarkozy
broke
with convention: in races where a Socialist candidate faced off against the National Front, his position was “No, neither.”
In the eastern German city of Chemnitz, violent clashes
broke
out recently between right-wing protesters and police and counter-demonstrators, following the killing of a German by two young men from Iraq and Syria.
In some ways, the agreement with Chile
broke
new ground--in the wrong direction.
The axiom “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” has been abandoned in favor of, “Release today, debug forever.”
The OUN
broke
with the Nazis after they denied Ukraine independence, and finally fought the Soviets and both the army of Communist Poland and the anticommunist Polish underground after the Germans were routed.
Though he continued the tradition of addressing the country from the ramparts of Delhi’s historic Red Fort, the speech
broke
with convention.
Instead, it must now prompt North Korea to halt its nuclear development activities and return to the six-party talks with America, Japan, China, Russia, and South Korea that
broke
up weeks ago.
Perversely, a country that thought blindly imitating Japan was the way to prosperity has, instead, reproduced the very mistakes that
broke
the back of Japan’s economy.
Civil war
broke
out in China, the Korean Peninsula was divided, and the other Southeast Asian colonies, with the sole exception of Thailand, resorted to military force to achieve independence.
This spring, anti-Japanese demonstrations
broke
out almost simultaneously in both China and Korea, with both countries seeking to place the memory of Japanese dominance in the service of building a new national identity and strategic position.
While the politics of frustration was thus controlled in the postcommunist world, it
broke
out with a vengeance in the Islamic world.
More surprisingly, the negotiations
broke
down over arcane details of financial regulation.
Woodrow Wilson
broke
with America’s hemispheric traditions by sending US forces to fight in Europe; but where Wilson made a bigger difference was in the moral tone of American exceptionalism in his justification of – and, counterproductively, his stubborn insistence on – all-or-nothing involvement in the League of Nations.
But the recent report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change
broke
that rule.
Medvedev was in his twenties when the Soviet Union
broke
up, and thus is less “contaminated” by a Soviet mentality.
Five years ago, Britain
broke
the international mold by enacting legislation mandating an 80% cut in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.
In 1971, fighting
broke
out when Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, declared independence from Pakistan.
Nakasone
broke
the taboo by being the first prime minister to worship at the Yasukuni shrine in his official capacity on August 15, 1985, the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II.
The arrest in January 2012 of the chief judge of the supreme court, Abdulla Mohamed, on charges of corruption and malpractice was the straw that
broke
the camel’s back.
This transformation has been under way since the late 1980s, when monetary discipline
broke
the back of inflation and the Fed was faced with new challenges.
When Argentina
broke
its link to the dollar in 2002, the peso lost four-fifths of its value.
And it was to Russia that Yanukovych turned when, after months of peaceful demonstrations in Kyiv, violence
broke
out and demonstrators were killed, spurring him to flee Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Government is broke, and will most likely have to default, or to reschedule its foreign debts, or to borrow new funds to repay the old, in 2000.
Japan’s change of government in 2009 – when the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
broke
the almost uninterrupted monopoly on power held by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955 – was not a revolution.
Our generation of Chinese journalists
broke
from traditional Communist ideas about journalism by the mid-1980’s through extensive reading of Western journalism.
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