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So the summer attack on the Russian oligarchs may turn out to be a litmus test that reveals not only Putin's ability to control the oligarchs, but also the retrograde interests of his closest aides.
And, because Russia, China, and the Europeans would stick to the nuclear deal, the US would find itself alone and at odds with even its closest allies.
Similarly, following the nerve-agent attack in England on former Russian double agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter, the United Kingdom has implemented new measures aimed at preventing money laundering, with capital inflows from Russia to come under the closest scrutiny.
The closest parallel to this year is not 1968 or 1995, but 1998, when France first won the World Cup.
The closest precedent for Trump may be Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who was a well-known media mogul before deciding to take advantage of the disintegration of Italy’s postwar party system in the early 1990s to create his own political movement.
First, we should dare to believe that what most suits Europe’s interests might also be best for our relationship with our closest ally, the United States.
The countries closest to the markets of Western Europe (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, and the Baltic States) have had a much easier transition to capitalism than the more distant economies of the former Soviet Union.
Therefore, the countries closest to Western Europe have received the largest flows of foreign investments from Western Europe, and have also been able to expand their exports to the European Community.
Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is undoubtedly popular with at least some of his base, but it has infuriated America’s closest allies, which have already begun retaliating.
By contrast, there are no fundamental disagreements among Obama’s closest foreign-policy advisers – Susan Rice, the national security adviser, Samantha Power, who succeeded Rice as US Ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of State John Kerry.
Young people can help solve Africa’s unemployment challenges, but those closest to the problem have yet to be made part of the solution.
In May, YouGov, the British polling company that came closest to predicting the election result, added to their final pre-election poll of 1,875 voters the following question: “In negotiating Britain’s departure from the European Union, do you think our government should offer EU citizens the right to travel, work, study, or retire in Britain, in exchange for EU countries giving British citizens the same rights?”
The American and British leaders appear to have forged the closest of political friendships during Churchill’s 24-day stay in the White House in 1941.
If such massive assistance was necessary to restore the market economy to Western Europe's closest neighbours, who spent "only" 45 years under Communism, how much greater is the challenge of building modern economies from scratch in remote lands like Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan?
By slapping tariffs on America’s closest allies, he is practically driving them into China’s arms.
Some of Obama’s closest advisers have just resigned, opening an awkward gap on national security and the economy – the focus of his meetings with India’s government.
Because the United States is the most visible and powerful representative of that free world, it is aimed against America and its closest allies in Europe and elsewhere.
The most developed regions of Europe and North America are closest to gender parity, while the still-developing region of South Asia has the furthest to go.
British voters could – as our closest friends and allies, from the US to Japan, have advised – choose to remain citizens of the real world.
When gatherings like the G7 summit are convened to discuss the world’s most difficult challenges, the people closest to those challenges, who are likely to have the most valuable insights concerning how to overcome them, should be in the room.
The closest thing, in some ways, to the China Model is nineteenth-century Germany, with its industrial strength, its cultivated but politically neutered middle class, and its tendency toward aggressive nationalism.
He also warned that China, despite being North Korea’s closest ally, is also the country that merits the most caution.
Indeed, as the “war” progressed, the audience closest to the action began to see the emerging combat in a way that was diametrically opposed to that of the United States and the West.
He picked an unprecedented and unnecessary fight with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, supposedly America’s closest ally, by retweeting a British neo-fascist group’s anti-Muslim posts.
Indeed, many EU members have been in a race with each other to see who will be Russia’s closest friend in the Union.
Never before has an American presidential inauguration been met with so many hosannas from the United States’ oldest foe, Russia, and with such nervous anguish from its closest allies.
Even Putin's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, a former KGB colleague and a man often considered to be Putin's closest advisor within his government, does not fully agree with him on the terms of collaboration with America.
If Britain leaves the EU, America’s closest ally would be marginalized….and
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) arguably provides the closest thing to a credible hierarchy of economists, not unlike the ATP’s rankings of professional tennis players.
For a European who has been deeply troubled and saddened by America’s evolution in the last decade, Obama, of all the declared presidential candidates, seems to come closest to incarnating such an America.
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