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So, after a week of heroism he and a few thousand of his men
crossed
the border into Austria and exile.
For example, the civil services in Iraq have recently
crossed
a threshold beyond which they are now probably impossible to administer.
They all favored joint action, but they could not agree on a plan, because they disagreed on how epidemics
crossed
borders.
Of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have
crossed
the Mediterranean from Libya in recent years, the vast majority land in – or are rescued and brought to – Italy.
We spent much of this year worrying about the Zika virus, especially once it
crossed
into the US.
Resistance was encountered ten miles south of Baghdad, and some troops
crossed
to the west bank of the river by a pontoon bridge, with the aim of making a flank attack on Baghdad.
But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin’s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia
crossed
a new threshold.
Bo may have lost an internal political struggle, and may have
crossed
a line after the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, for which Bo’s wife is under arrest; but vilifying him is a double-edged sword for the government.
A middle-aged South Korean female tourist was shot to death while walking on the beach, having inadvertently
crossed
over the boundary of the tourist zone.
Indeed, despite Israel’s best efforts, Hamas continued to launch long-range missiles at major populated areas from Haifa in the north to Ashkelon and Dimona in the south, and it repeatedly
crossed
Israeli lines using underground tunnels.
Debt and DelusionNEW HAVEN – Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble.
But Mario Monti, the economist called to lead a technocratic government in the fall of 2011 and stave off a debt default, barely
crossed
the electoral threshold required to enter Parliament.
Instead, regardless of whether it actually pulls back its troops to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia has
crossed
the Rubicon, making this a watershed moment in the West’s post-Cold War relations with Russia.
If the US had not responded to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, the entire world would have asked what a US guarantee is worth if an American president’s “red line” is
crossed
without consequences.
When British leaders
crossed
the English Channel to Europe, however, everything changed.
Such activity
crossed
the line drawn by Putin.
But the 350,000 refugees who
crossed
European borders, and the more than 2,600 who drowned trying to reach them, in the first eight months of this year have opened our eyes.
And sensible people in many emerging-country capitals are wondering whether we have
crossed
that line.
His career entered a new phase in 1974, when Prime Minister Golda Meir was forced to resign after the October 1973 debacle, in which Anwar Sadat’s Egyptian forces successfully
crossed
the Suez Canal.
And I would continue to treat them with contempt, as I have done for 20 years, were I not persuaded that with them the red line – or red-brown line – is being
crossed.
By firing missiles on Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, a boundary has been
crossed.
There never seemed to be a point at which they recognized that an intolerable line had been
crossed
and only resistance or exile would do.
Indeed, Hamas’ confrontation with Salafi groups comes as Israel is charging that dozens of foreign terrorists have
crossed
into Gaza from the Sinai Desert to join the violent underground.
But, after the Turks received the guarantees they wanted, the well-armed Kurds
crossed
the Euphrates anyway.
At the other end of the scale, responses to climate change like the Kyoto Protocol would cost more than they would achieve, so the economists
crossed
them off the list of things to do right now.
Indeed, if peace is to come to Ukraine – and if Putin is to be prevented from using the same strategy elsewhere – the world must let him know that some lines may never be
crossed.
Germany, recognizing that the Dublin system is untenable, has now decided to process all asylum applications from Syrians, regardless of where they
crossed
into the EU.
Chinese soldiers promptly
crossed
the disputed frontier with India in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, going so far as to pitch tents on land that India considers its sovereign territory.
Pursued and harried by their enemies, they
crossed
high mountains, turbulent rivers, and impassable grassland, with Mao steering the course from victory to victory.
But documents that I have seen indicate that the general who commanded the division that
crossed
the Dadu River first told Party historians a very different story.
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