Cling
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Only a resentful fringe still wishes to
cling
to fond memories of the Third Reich.
The US has been behind the curve from the moment the turmoil sparked, trying to play catch up as two authoritarian governments were toppled by popular protest and more regimes try to
cling
to power as long as they can.
Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to
cling
even more tightly to power.
By ending the whispering campaign that he intended to
cling
to power no matter what, President Yeltsin deserves more cheers than jeers.
In the current TPP debate, many prominent proponents still
cling
to this line.
Japanese often
cling
to tradition, and men tend to have a particularly hard time adjusting to change.
The year has not been kind to dictators, or to those who would
cling
to power regardless of the democratically expressed will of their people.
Indeed, more than two decades after Mandela walked through the prison gates, supposedly completing Africa’s struggle for freedom, “Big Men” in countries like Congo and Zimbabwe continue to
cling
to power against the will of their people.
Many families now face stagnating wages, owing to the kinds of jobs now available, but are determined to
cling
to a lifestyle that they can no longer afford.
It can
cling
to office, as José Zapatero is doing in Spain and Gordon Brown is doing in the UK.
Dictators who order their own people shot will
cling
to power tightly; they know that being overthrown means either death or permanent exile (in Maduro’s case, in Cuba or Russia).
The weakened connection between public services and taxes not only makes it easier for officials to
cling
to power, but also increases the scope for corruption and inefficiency.
Hope means confidence, and young Asians are exuding the stuff, whereas young Europeans – arrogant towards others and diffident towards themselves – too often lack “appetite” and
cling
to the status quo, seeming to demand protection from life.
The longer they
cling
to a belief in magic formulas, the longer the euro crisis will be with us.
Unlike in Chile, where modernized Socialists recently secured the presidency for the first time since the coup against Allende, even Uruguay's moderate Leftists
cling
to a passionate militancy, Cuba, and Che Guevara.
Nevertheless Presidents Clinton and Chirac, Prime Ministers Blair and Shroeder,
cling
to the notion that ground troops will only enter the fray in what Clinton euphemistically calls a "permissive environment."
Others, wistfully recalling a nation-state that never really existed,
cling
to national sovereignty as a reason to refuse further European integration.
But the wave of political repression merely reflects President Mikhail Saakashvili’s desperate effort to
cling
to power.
And many Republicans still
cling
to him in the hope of achieving their policy goals.
Strangely, this history of what actually happened was for some reason swallowed up by an alternative narrative that many still
cling
to today.
By seeking to
cling
to power by hook or by crook, Yanukovych is likely to bring on the deluge.
On the other were conservatives, “a class of men who
cling
with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings.”
But global civilization is such a new phenomenon that we do not yet fully understand what is happening to each of us: we
cling
to old concepts in order to describe our emerging world.
But while Trump ran as a populist, he has governed as a plutocrat, most recently by endorsing the discredited supply-side theory of taxation that most Republicans still
cling
to.
Occupy QENEW HAVEN – The Federal Reserve continues to
cling
to a destabilizing and ineffective strategy.
The easiest and the most understandable idea for Russians to
cling
to is patriotism.
The NPT is not a license for the five original nuclear powers to
cling
to these weapons indefinitely.
Opinion in the City of London tends to favor a middle way, which would allow the UK to
cling
to the benefits of the single market, without conceding unified regulation.
Those who
cling
to old ideological stereotypes face an almost impossible task in reconciling China’s rapid growth with what they condemn as China’s failing system.
The choice facing Brown is whether to
cling
silently to the existing policy, in the futile hope that the problem will go away, or explicitly recognize Britain’s share in the disaster.
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