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The Republicans’ two-year lock on the entire US government – the House, the Senate, the presidency, and, with the recent addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court – could be broken.
Modern cars may be dangerous, but a dead battery or a broken rotor blade in a flying taxi would cause a heavy vehicle to fall onto a densely populated area.
Second, has the developing world finally broken free of its long-standing dependence on the developed world?
Our approach to climate change is broken.
Though Putin has not broken from the international consensus on these issues, he could block progress in order to compel the US to change its policies toward Ukraine, Syria, and other countries.
Is this entertainment – no joke here, however many others abroad may be laughing – destined to continue indefinitely, or can the cycle be broken?
Corruption and incompetence have forged a state in which tens of millions of lives lay broken and hopeless; where vast swathes of the economy are in ruin; where internal and external debts multiply into many billions of dollars; and where an inept army of corrupt bureaucrats presides over a government that cannot meet the most elementary needs of Ukraine's people.
We are living in an age when the Internet and other information and communications technologies have broken down traditional borders and brought us closer together.
Sharon had once again broken the basic rules of warfare, yet won total victory.
Even Myanmar, for all of its problems, has broken definitively with praetorianism.
If the Fed announces that it will tolerate 4% inflation, could the public think that the Fed is bluffing, or that, if an implicit inflation target can be broken once, it can be broken again?
How Money Could Unblock the Brexit TalksLONDON – Like many divorce proceedings, Britain’s negotiations with the European Union have reached an impasse that can be broken only by compromise.
I am confident, on the basis of many hours of productive dialogue with senior Iranian officials in Tehran, New York, and elsewhere, that this proposal could have broken the deadlock.
By actively seeking out victims and treating them quickly, so that they are no longer infectious, the chain of TB transmission can be broken.
But, while the rigid social systems that long impeded progress have broken down in many Arab countries over the last three years, with liberalism becoming a more acceptable worldview, the experiences of Egypt and Syria demonstrate that the goals of the second Arab awakening are not universally shared.
In the end everything will be broken down and randomly distributed.
In an attempt to taint the groups I support and intimidate other donors, they imply that my contributions are illegitimate or that I have somehow broken the law.
Democracy’s promises have indeed been broken.
The commute is now minutes, and the social and economic barriers between the informal settlements and the rest of the city are on their way to being broken down.
The emerging-economy growth engine is not broken; it simply needs to be serviced.
With this clash, the intergenerational pact that long underpinned social and political stability has been broken.
The Pig, the Wolf, and the DragonHONG KONG – Political mayhem has broken out in Hong Kong, and has caught China’s government, already in the midst of a delicate political transition of its own, completely unprepared.
Silence is not always golden; for the sake of Europe’s future, the hush surrounding the common currency should be broken as soon as possible.
While China in 2016 joined the ranks of countries reporting to the Bank for International Settlements, the lending from development banks in China is not broken down by counterparty in the BIS data.
One speculated that these new high energies, when combined with the specific way the particles would be broken, would annihilate us.
Today, the storm has broken.
But the silence surrounding the natural process of menstruation must be broken, so that women and girls can obtain the sanitary products they need at affordable prices.
In fact, social and economic shifts have broken the link between age and dependency.
The real expulsion from Paradise comes only if the sanctity of play is profaned, if the spell is broken: by players falling out of their angelic roles and starting a fight in the field; by a cheating referee; by people realizing that a match is rigged; by spectators invading the field.
What has broken down in many countries is not just confidence in European institutions, but the underlying liberal/left consensus that emerged from the catastrophe of two world wars.
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