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Moreover, a global bidding war has broken out for Indian brains.
Indeed, the International Energy Agency noted in September that the usual relationship between oil prices and inventory levels has broken down, with prices much higher than the usual relationship would suggest.
But Cowen’s actions were symptomatic of a broader failure: the fundamental link between the liability of citizens and taxpayers and the responsibilities of government had been broken.
When local ingenuity and international support align, the cycle of suffering can be broken.
Trump’s America has said its goodbyes, and Europe’s old social model is broken, with no replacement on offer.
That map has been in constant flux for the last 60 years, during which the main players – Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, and Iran – have formed and broken alliances.
The emergence of a coalition government shows that the damaging winner-take-all paradigm of Middle East politics can be broken, and that power can be shared.
According to Taleb, things that are anti-fragile – mostly living things – not only resist being broken; they actually grow stronger under stress.
Just as a spider’s web crumples when a few strands are broken, so the pandemic has highlighted the risks arising from our economic interdependence.
For starters, if the existing system is broken, the easiest and fairest way to fix it would be with a modest wealth tax.
If that elicits retaliation, a currency war has broken out.
The bipartisan consensus on strong bilateral relations that has existed in the United States for 25 years, irrespective of the government in Delhi or Washington, has been broken.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican US senator for South Carolina, has raised concerns about Facebook’s uncontested market position, while his Democratic Senate colleague, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has called for the company to be broken up.
In 1986, the Hague-based International Court of Justice ruled that the US had broken international law and violated Nicaragua’s sovereignty by aiding the anti-government Contra rebels.
Whereas the Internet was once seen as an open, universal, and competitive domain, it is being broken up into an archipelago of separate sub-systems, some of which are administered by governments.
Tens of thousands of fires – intentionally started or caused by logging, farming, mining, and other human activities – have broken out over the past year alone.
“Social media is broken,” the American author Annalee Newitz wrote in a recent commentary for the New York Times.
Far from demonstrating leadership in Europe, Italy has broken ranks with the other leading EU member states.
But Trump has broken new ground with his public attacks on US intelligence agencies.
After settling into the bedroom that Georgia had adoringly prepared, and having broken bread with them, I excused myself and drove to the nearby town to meet up with local friends.
More to the point, in the 2010s, the promise of a global rules-based order was broken.
It doesn’t help that fiscal-stimulus measures have largely lapsed, and negotiations on a new relief package have repeatedly broken down.
And the data-breach scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica had not yet broken.
More important, the relative calm already has been broken by renewed Taliban armed attacks.
The moment the prospect of leaving is raised, the spell is broken, which is why even Euroskeptic politicians in Italy and France no longer entertain that option.
Moreover, monetary policy can’t mend broken supply chains.
Provided that the PYD has broken ties with the PKK, the contact group should then spearhead a stabilization plan for the Kurdish region of Syria.
George Washington, America’s first president, decided that he would serve only two terms, and that created a norm that would not be broken until the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
But they are merely the inheritors of Europe’s broken politics, not its cause.
While the recent vaccine news has brought hope, it also has exposed the pharmaceutical industry’s broken business model, casting doubt on the prospects of delivering a people’s vaccine and achieving Health for All.
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