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When confronted about this, Volodymyr Stelmakh, the bank’s governor, is said to have told Tymoshenko that his policies would destroy her government before they
broke
the back of the economy.
The Irrepressible 1930’sLONDON – The just concluded G-20 meeting in Seoul
broke
up without agreement on either currencies or trade.
Another domestic war, with the Egyptian Bedouins of Sinai,
broke
out two years ago.
Eventually, the so-called Sunni Awakening
broke
the back of Al Qaeda’s efforts in Iraq, and the 2011 Arab Spring redirected the region’s political development.
The latest piece of bad news, which
broke
late last month, was the discovery by government investigators that a pharmaceutical company had been producing substandard vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, and had faked data for its rabies vaccine.
This was clear in a recent speech in Sydney, in which she
broke
with the “policy of small steps” that had guided her in the post-2008 euro crisis.
Then, Trans-Atlantic bickering over the selection of a new IMF Managing Director
broke
out.
Not until Margaret Thatcher
broke
their power was the country able to breathe freely and renew itself.
In February, however, the opposite happened: political support for the IMF program
broke
down when President and Prime Minister had a shouting match.
This diverse coalition of leaders – from the richest countries to the most vulnerable Pacific island states –
broke
a political deadlock that had impeded climate progress for years, if not decades.
The Dominican Republic, despite violence, dictatorship, and periodic invasions from the US,
broke
through recently to embark on a two-pronged development path: expanded health and education and a shift to profitable manufacturing and services activities.
Both
broke
down barriers among manufacturing, distribution, media, and finance, thereby achieving scale, expanding scope, and increasing speed.
But the camel’s back actually
broke
a long time ago.
Likewise, in January 2006, following the collapse of negotiations with European emissaries, Iran
broke
the IAEA seals on the Natanz facility’s equipment and storage areas.
If the US were to become the first developed country to experiment with a flat tax, that shift would tend to confirm what many suspect but hope is not true: that America is broke, desperate for inward investment, incompetently governed, and increasingly ruled by a self-regarding oligarchic elite.
Non-violent movements
broke
British rule in India and Malawi, and brought down authoritarian regimes in Chile, the Philippines, and Portugal.
The impact would be many times more severe than when one money-market player, the Reserve Primary Fund,
broke
the buck in 2008.
In his first speech after the story broke, he made no reference to it, most likely expecting the president to make a statement.
Its global leadership role was being destroyed, even before Trump
broke
faith with over 190 countries by withdrawing from the Paris accord.
But once they
broke
the mould, they were forced to address the question of the relationships of the nation-states to each other and to the Union.
The violence that
broke
out at the site of a planned Chicago rally in mid-March was probably no accident: the chosen location invited it.
When Ebola emerged, the system simply
broke
down – with overwhelming human and economic consequences.
The system
broke
down when European countries, particularly France, decided to stop funding those deficits.
Worldwide, most of the high-growth countries of the 1990’s and 2000’s
broke
with free-market orthodoxy by maintaining a stronger state hand in the economy.
Navalny himself
broke
house arrest to join his supporters, but was swiftly detained – along with more than 100 of the protesters.
Marketing Nationalism in ChinaExplanations abound for the fevered anti-Japanese protests that
broke
out across China last month.
This created a “ring” of vaccination around infected people that
broke
the chain of infection.
Ever since the Soviet Union
broke
up 20 years ago, there has been much talk about reintegrating the successor states.
The state can't fix the shambles because it is
broke.
The IMF worried a great deal about what would happen when this chain
broke
– and the eventual break was, of course, more a matter of arithmetic than economics.
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