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There is always a chance, in such a volatile climate, that deals will be broken, witnesses will flip, and facts will emerge that are every bit as incriminating as the evidence that felled Nixon.
In 2003, Russia’s wealthiest oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky – a vocal advocate of democratization and tireless critic of Putin – was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of fraud and tax evasion, and his Yukos Oil Company was driven to bankruptcy, broken up, and sold off to Kremlin cronies.
In this newly competitive environment, oil will trade like any normal commodity, with the Saudi monopoly broken and North American production costs setting a long-term price ceiling of around $50 a barrel, for reasons I set out in January.
As the report notes, “the all-inclusive ‘Kyoto’ type of climate policy…needs to be broken up into separate issues again, each addressed on its merits and each in its own ways.”
After all, broken societies are havens for illegality, whether drug trafficking or training of terrorists.
And the old division of the world into rich and poor nations has also, of course, broken down.
Obama’s health-care victory, like his 2008 election, suggests that America’s political system is not as broken as critics who draw analogies to the fall of Rome or other empires would have us believe.
The dynamics of fear are potentially catastrophic, but these dynamics can be broken.
The international exchange-rate system is at least partially broken.
Meanwhile, negotiations over the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the central-planning instrument for the use of EU funds, have broken down, owing to disagreement over key issues, including the size of the budget and the composition of expenditure.
Why fix something that is no longer broken?
The reason ultra-low inflation remains a problem is that the traditional causal link between the money supply and prices has been broken.
The dam has been broken, and the reckoning has begun.
The effects on performance can be seen in the extraordinary results of East German athletes in the 1970s and 1980s, some of whose records have yet to be broken.
The epidemic spread most dramatically in areas where basic infrastructure and surveillance systems had broken down.
In response, Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has called advanced-country policies “selfish,” declaring that “international monetary cooperation has broken down.”
And it is in America’s public debt that the debris of its financial system’s broken promises are collected, just as Italy’s massive public debt reflects its past national prodigality.
Trump’s spell was broken.
Land planning must be overhauled, with industrial monopolies broken up and development goals set according to population, resource volume, and the capacity to absorb pollution.
According to Glenn Kessler, the head of HCD research, which conducted the study with the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, whereas recent ads from both parties have had little impact among voters, “This is the first ad in over a month that seems to have broken through.”
In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado.
But because we Muslims like to add qualifications that often derive from sources other than the Koran, our religion’s unity has been broken.
To him, Boris Berezovsky and his cronies are a nuisance; most are already been broken to Putin’s will.
It would be premature to suggest that the relationship between profits and investments has broken down in the developing world.
After all, if one fundamental pledge can be broken for reasons of political expedience, why not another?
And, of course, the nexus between governments and banks should be broken without further delay.
Adding to the anxiety were fears that law and order had broken down in the city, and that the hospital itself might be a target for armed bandits.
And obliging children of different castes to eat the same meal at the same time in the same place has broken down social barriers in a highly stratified society.
Sarkozy has now broken with this so-called “Gaullist- Mitterrandist” orientation, which was based on the persistence of a belief in French “exceptionalism” in the field of foreign affairs.
Europe’s Franco-German locomotive has broken down and ratification has stopped, even though member states that had yet to ratify the treaty could have completed the process of ratification.
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