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China may have grown at breakneck speed, but it has broken a lot of necks in the process.
Have the last taboos been broken?
But at least the taboo of private debt restructuring, which had been hanging over discussions for months, was broken.
It is only a matter of time before the global dominance of the US Internet companies is broken.
Indeed, it increasingly resembles a chicken farm after a fox has broken in.
With the taboo on discussing the succession broken, talk about the physical and mental fitness of the likely successor became commonplace, and members of the ruling family who objected to the prospect of being ruled by a severely incapacitated crown prince came to enjoy broad support.
The governments that emerged from the Arab Spring’s wreckage inherited a broken system of closed deals.
Today’s global economy can be broken down into two systems: a virtual, securities-based economy, which represents most economic activity and a small, yet powerful, minority of the world’s population, and the rural economy, which represents a tiny fraction of global GDP and directly affects the lives of the vast majority of people.
Every ten years or so, we think that a particular model of growth is so broken that it cannot be resurrected.
If a geostrategic catastrophe is to be avoided, the unholy alliance of religion and nationalism must be broken.
Officials in Germany, Britain, and the US have acknowledged that hackers believed to be from China also have broken into their government and military networks.
In fact, US President Barack Obama’s administration has broken all historical records in its military aid to Israel, even as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has shown no willingness to use that US taxpayer-funded military edge to take calculated risks for peace.
Draghi and the doves on the ECB Governing Council – namely, the presidents of southern European countries’ central banks – seem to think that they can get a car moving simply by giving it more gas, even if its clutch is broken.
This is the literally “reactionary” interpretation of these movements: they are animated by a sense that the social contract has been broken, and that elites ought to return to the status quo that preceded the policies which ultimately led to the financial crisis.
When it does, the region’s decades-old dependence on nuclear power will finally be broken.
As the Chilean economist and politician Carlos Ominami put it: “The children of democracy have become the prime movers of change; the social movement they represent lacks political leadership, and the country’s political forces have practically broken off all their connections to the social world.”
The EU bet here is that, on the back of Croatia’s accession, the enlargement logjam in the western Balkans will finally be broken.
And that requires removing one of the main obstacles to achieving this objective: broken transportation services.
Earlier this year, Trump praised China for making promises on this front, even though it had already made – and broken – the same promises to the Obama administration.
Our hunter ancestors ate fat, which was transported to the liver and broken down by the lipolytic pathway to deliver fatty acids to the mitochondria (the subcellular structures that burn food to create energy).
Meanwhile, our gatherer ancestors ate carbohydrates (polymers of glucose), which was also transported to the liver, via the glycolytic pathway, and broken down for energy.
Other services include SeeClickFix, a user-generated data tool that lets individuals collect information about infrastructure problems such as potholes, broken streetlights, and the like, and then monitor the repairs.
But have those patterns finally been broken?
Thirty years on, shareholders have broken definitively with this system.
That is a dangerous game: The US has broken with the international community to support Israel in the past; it is less willing to do so today.
Sequence data, whether from proteins or nucleic acids, are well suited to computer processing because they are easily digitized and broken down into their constituent units.
Its public meetings were broken up by armed police; its leaders arrested and beaten;Putin called its supporters “coyotes.”
The institutions established to support constructive interaction between Russia and the West are badly broken and appear incapable of addressing today’s core political, economic, and security issues.
By 2004, the constitutional review process had broken down, owing to major disagreements between Kibaki’s camp in the coalition government, and the rest of the country.
He has broken with the taboo against calling into doubt any aspect of the European project.
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