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Only then did Russia start to claim that the US and its European allies had offered some implicit pledge not to expand NATO eastward.
The fighting would last until the end of the decade, claim thousands of lives, and twice require the intervention of NATO (in Bosnia in 1995 and Serbia in 1999).
More fundamentally, orthodox economists claim that it would be a quasi-fiscal operation for which the central bank has no explicit mandate.
The view that individual opportunity and heterodoxy should be subordinated to overall predictability empowered the political elite to claim omniscience and cite outside interference as the main threat to Russia’s future.
Arab youth had finally moved, and Obama and his team made the right statements to encourage them, while also making it clear to the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes that they could no longer hide behind the claim that they were fighting America’s war in north Africa.
First, almost no one disputes the claim that democracy serves the cause of peace, but little is being done to make democracy - together with human rights - a basis of the international order.
For their part, the Shia minorities claim to welcome democracy.
A way would have to be found for the US, while recognizing China, to continue dealing with the government on Taiwan without recognizing their claim to represent China; most important, the US had to retain the right to sell arms to Taiwan.
Further negotiations were to decide the final status of the Palestinian Authority (ie, whether Palestine is to be an independent state), the border issue, the future of Jewish settlements, whether refugees could return to their homes, and the final status of Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital but which Israel controls in its entirety.
To make Boko Haram appear more potent, its members play up this alleged affiliation, and even claim to have the support of “important” people in the northern part of the country.
They claim that this knowledge will help you live longer and better.
Its auditors claim that its central practices were within the law; that thousands of firms do the same.
They claim to manage conflicts of interest; but we see that they may manage them for their own interests.
But no one would claim that lowering short-term interest rates spurred investment.
The claim that Germany loses from this is simply false.
The risk is that UK voters, angry about the government’s damaging actions, will succumb to the pro-Brexit camp’s false claim that leaving the EU will restore the UK’s economic dynamism.
With global connectivity undergoing a profound transformation, now is the time to establish key partnerships and claim market shares.
And, for once, his claim wasn’t mere bluster: a recent poll indicated that 45% of Trump voters would still support him if he shot someone.
Does it matter whether this claim was strictly true or not?
Or will they finally realize that a future of independence, sovereignty, and dignity is open to them – but only if they grant the Israelis what they rightly claim for themselves?
At least it’s a recovery, they claim, and a sign of healing that can be attributed mainly to the heroic, unconventional efforts of the US Federal Reserve.
Mexico shares a 2,000-mile long border with the United States, which provides not only privileged market access in goods and labor, but also a claim to the resources of the US Treasury (as became apparent during the 1995 peso crisis).
Europe’s leading politicians have spoken out, and now it is time for European civil society – its newspapers, critics, curators, academics, and publishers – to declare the failure of multiculturalism and show some courage in defending the values they claim to embody.
Turkey's military and political old guard claim that the modern system introduced by Kemal Ataturk to replace the Ottoman caliphate almost 75 years ago separates mosque and state.
What they lack is the willingness to accept the economic and political costs of defending the values that they claim to uphold.
While a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy is gaining traction globally, some claim either that it is merely a glossy repackaging of the sustainable-development agenda, or, worse, a plot to constrain rather than liberate growth in developing and least-developed countries.
It is irrelevant that President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party, unlike the CCP, makes no claim to any form of Marxist ideology.
While the UK will claim that, under Article 50, negotiators should be “taking into account the framework of future relationships,” the EU trade negotiator is insisting that future arrangements can be discussed only after Britain leaves.
To be sure, many claim that popular disaffection with the EU and, in turn, the rise of right-wing populism is a reaction to the lack of structural reforms in the eurozone.
The sordidness of all of this will be sugarcoated with the hoary claim that lower tax rates will spur growth.
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