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On the contrary, it may have prompted the arrest of a lower-level indictee for crimes in Darfur.
If, on the contrary, they try to diversify into other currencies, they will drive down the dollar faster and create greater losses.
Indeed, contrary to popular belief outside China, the Chinese state is not monolithic; it is a highly complex bureaucracy with many layers of government and quasi-government institutions that do not always conform to central directives.
Nor should a Trumpian thinker care if America’s closest democratic allies – in this case, the Europeans – disagree; on the contrary, European support for the agreement with Iran is yet another reason to scrap it.
If scientists offer evidence to the contrary, call it a hoax, concocted to weaken America.
The law states that one could face a fine or up to three years imprisonment for “publicly and contrary to the facts” ascribing to the Polish people or government “responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes” or “other offenses” that constitute crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, or war crimes.
On the contrary, it is high time for friends of the United States, particularly in Europe, to realize that America’s weakness undermines their international influence as well.
The predictive significance of oil prices is indeed impressive, but only as a contrary indicator: Falling oil prices have never correctly predicted an economic downturn.
On the contrary, with so many of the world’s most productive oil regions gripped by political chaos, any sign of stabilization can quickly boost supplies.
Contrary to many predictions, the eurozone did not inevitably collapse; rather, it was undeniably bolstered by a response that improved oversight, strengthened institutions, and pooled resources.
A common bond would be no cure for a lack of fiscal discipline; on the contrary, it would be no more than a placebo for a “weak” country, but it would also be harmful because it would foster the illusion that it is possible to get out of fiscal difficulty without undertaking fundamental reform.
It is also contrary to one of the fundamental premises on which democracy rests: that voters can make informed choices between contending candidates.
On the contrary, in the 1990s the world's fast-growing countries are all newly industrializing economies, mainly in Asia, while advanced nations are stagnating -- even Japan now seems to be stuck in a rut.
Others insist that, on the contrary, effective policies today require increasingly complex models that can more fully capture the chaotic dynamics of the twenty-first-century economy.
Contrary to what the Western media are saying, Syria is experiencing more than a struggle between liberalism and tyranny.
Contrary to some of Netanyahu’s public statements, Israel does not oppose Russia’s intervention in Syria; it believes that Assad is a lesser evil than a chaotic failed state, such as Libya after the removal of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.
Stagnation is not a solution to any problem; on the contrary, it entails serious risks.
On the contrary, Trump and congressional Republicans are moving fast to dismantle the Affordable Care Act – President Barack Obama’s signature health-care policy – claiming that its as-yet-undefined replacement will maintain the popular elements and drop the unpopular ones.
For Khrushchev’s control over the Soviet military in Cuba was limited;U2 planes flying over Cuba were shot at despite Khrushchev’s explicit orders to the contrary.
Quite the contrary: Saddam’s regime and militant Islam were mortal enemies.
Contrary to China, India finds it difficult to adapt to its status as an emerging “Great Power.”
On the contrary, the settlements offer cheaper housing than is available in Israel, and thus resolve one of the main economic problems of the country’s middle class.
This is an entirely theoretical process: contrary to what admirers of populism sometimes argue, it has nothing to do with actual input from ordinary people.
On the contrary, they make things worse.
On the contrary, a substantial majority consider Russia to be a threat.
On the contrary, the EU’s commitment to using its extensive soft power is what enabled it to assert its influence over a large chunk of the former Soviet bloc.
Likewise, Modi has not kept his vow of “minimal government, maximum governance”; on the contrary, he has created the most centralized, top-down, bureaucracy-driven, personality-cult-dominated central government since Indira Gandhi’s emergency rule in the mid-1970s.
On the contrary, dictatorships have historically fallen, regardless of the fortune of Western democracies.
On the contrary, multinational corporations must use their market power to drive social change.
But he was no avatar of philistinism: on the contrary, he declared in 1963 that “ignorance and illiteracy…breed failures in our social and economic system.”
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