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When American diplomats complained about Jewish settlers’ forcible intrusion into Palestinian neighborhoods, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded that Jerusalem was not a settlement, but the capital of Israel.
As French President Charles de Gaulle once complained, “since the dollar is the reference currency everywhere, it can cause others to suffer the effects of its poor management.
Just about everyone despised this “three-in-one” policy, and people often complained that it created further inconvenience, without reducing time spent on the road.
Shop-owners and drivers complained that sidewalks should continue to be shared with parked cars, as they had been for years.
The Cost of America’s Free LunchBRUSSELS – For decades, the world has complained that the dollar’s role as global reserve currency has given the United States, in a term usually attributed to Charles de Gaulle but actually coined by his finance minister, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, an “exorbitant privilege.”
Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its sphere of influence, America was largely absent in the region.
The virulent public debate about whether fiscal stimulus works, he complained, has become totally disconnected from what experts know and agree on.
His Republican Party opponents complained that Obama’s proposals would bust the budget.
When those left behind by globalization and London’s Big Bang complained that immigrants were making it even harder to find jobs, they were too easily dismissed as racists.
The expatriate workers staffing Luanda’s office towers and occupying its fancy residential neighborhoods complained that it was the most expensive city in the world.
Trial subjects drawn from illegal Latin American immigrants were threatened with reporting of their illegal status to the US Department of Homeland Security if they complained about the risks of the drug that they received.
“We don’t want the Romanians deciding on how we should order our lives,” a Dutch professor complained.
When French and German leaders complained that the sprawling and unregulated tentacles of new finance posed huge risks to the global economy, they were derided as sore losers.
When Vladimir Putin complained during a conference in Munich last year that US unilateralism stoked conflict around the world, an offended Senator John McCain responded that confrontation was unnecessary in “today’s multipolar world.”
He complained that the existing system has limited capabilities against America's precision weapons.
It is a step toward creating a better match between our multipolar global economy and its monetary and financial system – and thus a step toward ending the world economy’s dependence on the dollar, which European and Chinese policymakers have complained about since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.
"But you haven't done the experiments," the students complained, "so how can you know?"I've been thinking about that question ever since.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has regularly complained about the damaging consequences of excess currency volatility, and has called for exchange rates and international monetary conditions to be at the top of the G-20 agenda when France assumes the group’s presidency this November.
But as the conference approached, a growing number of countries, led by the US, complained that the Compact enabled the imposition of binding obligations in the future, thus infringing on their sovereignty.
Foreign correspondents accredited in Moscow complained that nothing was happening in Putin’s Russia.
For example, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, has complained about Snapchat’s inclusion in the FTSE, which prevents it from voting its shares, even as it is forced to invest, since it tracks the index.
Curiously, some officials in Beijing complained about the crude tactics of those sent to run Hong Kong.
In Pinochet’s Chile or General Jorge Rafael Videla’s Argentina, anyone who complained about government-sponsored violence was painted as a member of an international communist conspiracy.
When this new bankruptcy law was passed, no one complained that it interfered with the sanctity of contracts: at the time borrowers incurred their debt, a more humane – and economically rational – bankruptcy law gave them a chance for a fresh start if the burden of debt repayment became too onerous.
Many people, including myself, have long complained about the leadership selection process at the World Bank and the IMF.
For example, when UPS complained to Brussels about Deutsche Post cross-subsidizing its courier services the Commission limited the remedy to imposing an accounting separation between the market and non-market activities of the German Post Office, something very different from a break-up.
Tourists complained that the summer holiday they had planned on a Greek island was now in the midst of a refugee camp.
BANGALORE – When US President Barack Obama recently spoke at the United Nations about countering the Islamic State, many of his critics complained that he put too much emphasis on diplomacy and not enough on the use of force.
For years, foreign governments complained about American hedge funds, arguing that their non-transparent behavior posed unacceptable risks to stability.
For years, I, along with many others, have complained that emerging markets need greater representation in global financial governance.
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