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The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders outside of government control.
As for those who managed to survive and cross the Mediterranean, France dumped them in segregated, under-served ghettos.
Similarly, the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen speaks of our “multiple identities” – ethnic, religious, national, local, professional, and political – many of which cross national boundaries.
Indeed, Iran’s leaders, weighing the costs and benefits, have plenty of good reasons not to cross that red line.
Originally defined as those who leave their countries because of fear of persecution, refugees now also include those forced to cross borders because of conflict and violence.
The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing pressure from Israel for the international community to establish a “trigger” – a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.
Unfortunately, the two policies have often worked at cross purposes, diminishing America’s long-term influence in the region and at times hurting its ability to conduct the war.
Millions of people in Southeast Asia venture to the Middle East to work, but millions more cross borders within the region.
The left-right divide will become easier for opportunistic politicians to cross, and perhaps a new centrist party will emerge.
Every other emerging market, even in Asia, has eventually had to cross this bridge.
A shared vision of zero emissions could even spark a race to cross the finish line first.
The ECB would thus cross the threshold from monetary policy to fiscal policy.
Despite glimmers of hope, the eurozone and Japan are struggling to cross the 1% threshold for annual economic growth.
Escalating fears have driven US President Barack Obama to declare repeatedly that any Syrian use or transfer of chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” for which President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would be “held accountable.”
By embarking on a series of mega-dams in its ethnic-minority-populated borderlands, China is seeking to appropriate river waters before they cross its frontiers.
As we cross even more profound cultural boundaries, comparisons become still less relevant.
The central bank stands in the way of cross border financial mergers; union bosses stand in the way of free choice for workers; business leaders have too much to gain from the State to see their interest in rocking the boat.
Helping the ECB Cross the RubiconPARIS – Eurozone monetary officials are expected to make history when they gather for the European Central Bank’s next policy-setting meeting on January 22.Observers anticipate that ECB President Mario Draghi and his colleagues will finally cross the Rubicon and announce the launch of a large-scale program of quantitative easing (QE) – in other words, high-volume purchases of government bonds.
Drivers now allow pedestrians to cross the street, as in Geneva or Munich (while in Moscow people must still dash aside from onrushing cars impervious to pedestrian safety).
The first problem is that Swedish mainstream hostility to the State of Israel has clearly begun to cross the line into outright anti-Semitism.
At present rates of growth, that will undoubtedly cross the $10 billion mark shortly after the millennium.
Images of desperate people on the move – whether trying to cross the US-Mexico border or packed onto rickety boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea – have heightened tensions and forged a narrative that migration has no upside.
In doing so, it followed the example of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, who famously warned that Europe would “turn black” if it did not pay him to hold back migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
Moreover, there is a danger of debt and unpaid loans from projects that turn out to be economic “white elephants,” and security conflicts could bedevil projects that cross so many sovereign borders.
Irregular migrants arrive in Europe every day: as the Aquarius was arriving in Valencia, more than a thousand people were saved just a couple of hundred miles to the south, while trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar.
But many countries – even some that would normally be receptive to a Cuban application – would be reluctant to cross the US.
Nonetheless, China still has rivers to cross, particularly when it comes to adaptive efficiency.
North’s theoretical legacy could prove vital for China’s policymakers in the coming years, because it gives them specific guidance about how to cross the river of rapid institutional change.
Desecrating a shrine, defacing a cross, or, in the US, burning a flag, is an aggressive and insulting act, one that causes real pain for believers.
Yet Syria’s civil war does not appear to be winding down, and the de facto implosion of Syria as a coherent state will continue to challenge Turkish politics and social cohesion, with more and more refugees trying to cross into Turkey.
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