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Yet, despite Erdogan’s creeping Islamic revolution, Turkey is not a second Iran.
For the creeping anxiety that you feel derives from an awareness that the space where Zakrzewski's exhibition first appeared, in Poznan, was once meant to serve as a vestibule leading to a room where Adolf Hitler awaited you.
The result is a worrying combination of creeping authoritarianism among those who rule with a growing unrest of the ruled.
But America’s own restraint – whether in response to Russia’s forcible absorption of Crimea or to China’s creeping, covert warfare – has brought no benefits to its allies.
Sharply higher oil prices, at a time when inflation is already creeping up, would be a disaster for the world economy, forcing central bankers to raise interest rates aggressively and possibly provoking a panicked sell-off of long-term bonds.
Indeed, about the only people who are unconcerned about creeping authoritarianism in Russia are the Russians themselves.
Though Assad may survive for now, Syria, like Iraq and Libya, faces creeping disintegration into more ethnically homogenous sub-entities, either completely separate or very loosely tied together, similar to post-Tito Yugoslavia, where communal rage filled the political void left by the dictator’s iron fist.
Talk about the creeping “new protectionism” was rife.
maintains a database of protectionist measures and is a frequent source for claims of creeping protectionism.
The market has been insidiously creeping into many spheres of society traditionally governed by non-market norms.
But while the near-term prognosis for the Chinese economy is far more encouraging than most had expected, an eerie sense of denial, bordering on hubris, appears to be creeping into China’s strategic groupthink.
Former British colonies like India and Malaysia inherited common law and institutional checks and balances, but several today confront institutional decay, rising corruption, and creeping patrimonialism.
Meanwhile, Iran’s creeping de facto annexation of parts of Iraq – astonishingly, with American acceptance – continues because no one except the so-called “Islamic State” has the stomach to stand up to it.
With the increasing likelihood of protracted stagnation in most rich countries, the resulting fiscal austerity measures, creeping protectionism, and other recent developments are likely to make things worse for international development cooperation.
With a two-state solution less likely than ever, the area is likely to experience the creeping consolidation of a one-state reality.
Indeed, with a huge capital surplus and very low interest rates in a time of creeping deflation, Japan now has a golden opportunity to invest in public infrastructure, education, defense, and overseas projects – a burst comparable to the British Empire in the late nineteenth century.
Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19ROME – COVID-19 has been slowly creeping into our communities.
Such a response must, first and foremost, acknowledge the link between resurgent far-right nationalism and the casual racism and dog-whistle politics that have been creeping back into many societies’ public discourse.
By framing the creeping cold war between the US and China as a clash of civilizations, Skinner – whose position was once held by luminaries such as George Kennan, Paul Nitze, Richard N. Haass, and Anne-Marie Slaughter – was being neither original nor accurate.
Unfortunately, a creeping trend toward government overregulation threatens to derail future job creation.
These obstacles were common in the 1950s and 1960s, when socialism was creeping up everywhere.
The US is not about to have another revolution, but it may be creeping closer as the political center collapses.
But she felt an icy cold creeping from her feet to her heart.
Such a mellow, bright, sweet old wall; what a charming picture it would make, with the lichen creeping here, and the moss growing there, a shy young vine peeping over the top at this spot, to see what is going on upon the busy river, and the sober old ivy clustering a little farther down!
I take no interest in creeping round dim and chilly churches behind wheezy old men, and reading epitaphs.
You are no longer the slow, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature!
We shouted back loud enough to wake the Seven Sleepers - I never could understand myself why it should take more noise to wake seven sleepers than one - and, after what seemed an hour, but what was really, I suppose, about five minutes, we saw the lighted boat creeping slowly over the blackness, and heard Harris's sleepy voice asking where we were.
Twenty minutes later, three figures, followed by a shamed-looking dog, might have been seen creeping stealthily from the boat-house at the "Swan" towards the railway station, dressed in the following neither neat nor gaudy costume:Black leather shoes, dirty; suit of boating flannels, very dirty; brown felt hat, much battered; mackintosh, very wet; umbrella.
We have no spring; vegetation seems to leap into existence, instead of creeping, as in the same latitudes of the Old World; but how gracefully it retires!
"Come, captain," he said, coaxingly, a little huskiness creeping into his voice, and his knees beginning to shake with tremor, "end the joke; 'tis enough to make a laugh, and my arms begin to tire - I can't hold on much longer."
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