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In the meantime, infrastructure is crumbling even within the vital extractive industry, while manufacturing is internationally uncompetitive.
The last thing that Trump wants is a crumbling world economy and a massive dollar rally, which could derail his domestic economic ambitions.
In many European countries, by contrast, marginalized young people protest to preserve a crumbling social order threatened by fiscal austerity.
For example, according to a 2016 report from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), upgrading the country’s crumbling infrastructure would cost $5.2 trillion.
Every day, thousands of Bosnian Serbs living in the area walk or drive by the crumbling homes of the cleansed Muslims, the vast field of white Islamic grave stones, and the rape house, each one boldly reminding them of the undeniable.
But other pertinent trends – such as failing public schools, crumbling infrastructure, rising crime rates, and ongoing racial disparities in access to opportunities – seem to refute such claims.
America cannot continue to live with the injustices of its health-care system or with crumbling and obsolete infrastructure.
In the nineteenth century, the delicate balance of power between European powers and the crumbling Ottoman fringe gave rise to the “Eastern Question.”
The three pillars upon which Western influence in the Middle East was built – a strong military presence, commercial ties, and a string of dollar-dependent states – are crumbling.
Governments in the United States and parts of Europe are cutting back on social spending, job creation, infrastructure investment, and job training because the rich bosses who pay for politicians’ election campaigns are doing very well for themselves, even as the societies around them are crumbling.
And it has allowed Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia to linger on the crumbling edge of the “failed state” abyss.
Like the crumbling “Majestic” hotel in J. G. Farrell’s novel Troubles, about the end of British rule in southern Ireland, the eponymous apartment block was a metaphor for the state, and its inhabitants are figures representative of different aspects of Mubarak’s Egypt.
Havana’s buildings are stunningly beautiful, but most are crumbling.
Crumbling infrastructure (admittedly not as bad in the US) has become a real issue in Germany.
For those with eyes to see, the two conferences presented a fascinating glimpse of a crumbling diarchy.
The Alawites, who comprise only 11% of the population, dominate President Bashar al-Assad’s crumbling regime.
And in their obsession with running a budget surplus, they have failed to invest in the country’s crumbling infrastructure and education system.
It was only in the late 1980’s, when the Communist empire was crumbling, that US governments actively backed democratic politicians and demonstrators in Seoul, Taipei, or Manila.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s severe, self-inflicted wounds have evidently left it too weak to develop an alternative to its crumbling status quo.
Asian governments borrowed heavily from the International Monetary Fund to bail out their crumbling financial systems.
In 2000, the chief physician at Paris's crumbling La Santé penitentiary, Veronique Vasseur, wrote a scathing exposé of "virtually medieval" conditions, complete with rat infestations, rotten food, extreme temperature variations, desperate self-mutilations, bullying, drug-dealing guards, and widespread sexual assault, often perpetrated by staff.
The bell tolls not only for the migrants, but also for a Europe whose humanistic patrimony is crumbling before our very eyes.
Infrastructure, such as highways, bridges, and even the Kiel Canal, is crumbling after years of neglect.
His long-awaited proposal to upgrade and repair America’s crumbling roads, airports, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure will come to nothing unless all sides are open to new thinking about how such projects are to be financed.
Can Temer’s government save Brazil’s crumbling economy?
Soon, attention will shift again, this time to France’s crumbling political center.
Will the puncturing of the stock market boom incite a crumbling of the US economy, one that will spread to the rest of the world?
But can national success within a crumbling currency union really be considered a victory?
Nobody denies that this year’s wave of migration is overwhelming some EU countries, and that solidarity among them is crumbling.
Take health: public hospitals and clinics are crumbling and largely devoid of medicines (imports of which are barely one-third the level in 2012).
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