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The Scottish National Party’s crushing victory left Labour with only one seat in the country.
Moreover, the prospect is not a distant one, but something knocking at the door: population (hence the number of taxpayers) is already declining, the social security accounts are already turning to deficits and 15 years hence the debt mountain will be crushing capital markets.
But, for the millions who face the crushing burden of poverty, mere proclamations that help is on the way are not enough to create jobs or foster development.
No lone African country, for example, can overcome the crushing burden of malaria, a disease that claims perhaps 1million lives per year, and which causes around 800 million episodes of illness per year.
To overcome its balance-sheet recession, the eurozone needs to clean up its banks, reduce the crushing overhang of mostly private debt, redress the huge shortfall in investment, eliminate barriers to enterprise, and tackle the deflationary drag of German mercantilism.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California is getting impressive results by firing high-powered lasers at capsules of fuel, crushing the particles together to trigger fusion reactions.
Voters showed their gratitude by crushing John Major.
To save the ECHR from this crushing burden, some member states have proposed changes that could weaken it, even if unintentionally.
But these liabilities also have to be reduced, because they are already imposing a crushing fiscal burden, largely owing to rapid aging, with rising longevity a major contributor.
While in power, Bo was lauded for crushing organized crime and restoring law and order in Chongqing.
Kenya’s crushing debt to China now threatens to turn its busy port of Mombasa – the gateway to East Africa – into another Hambantota.
It is appalling that the world has decided to blame the United States for the crushing end to five years of global trade talks last month (the so-called “Doha round”).
Russia's liberals are thus blamed for the woes of the last decade, not the Communists who had created the crushing system that the liberals sought to change.
Fatah leaders are justifiably worried that their party’s current unpopularity and infighting foretell a crushing defeat in the parliamentary election.
On both occasions, however, the regime’s hardliners gained the upper hand, crushing prospects for reform.
In particular, Iran is a fount of moral corruption that spearheads extremism and halts reform, crushing the legitimate protest of its own citizens and acting against the brave Syrians now fighting for their freedom.
Creating a proper parliament, able to dismiss the executive, would destroy the European Parliament’s “current make-up” and usher in a democratic politics that would prevent official creditors from crushing countries like Greece.
What nobody anticipated was that the crushing defeat of the Communists at the polls for all but one of the seats we were allowed to contest made it impossible for the Communists to form a new government, even if the numerical majorities were still on their side.
For the Poles and other Easterners, the threat was Soviet imperialism – a threat soon realized in Brezhnev’s crushing of the Prague Spring.
Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe’s economy remains unable to grow.
All totalitarian systems have one thing in common: by crushing all forms of political expression except adulation of the regime, they make everything political.
Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two-thirds, it would have been able to shed its crushing debt overhang.
The weight of one of the world’s longest-running conflicts is resting on their thin shoulders, crushing their childhood and inflicting psychological scars that may never heal.
China’s defiance of the PCA’s ruling will deal a crushing blow to international law.
Now, however, that recent mixture of confidence and hope has vanished under the crushing weight of political reality.
It is against the spirit of the Games to stand by and reap huge profits while the city that opens its doors to the world bears crushing, generational costs.
China’s reforms started in agriculture, where the crushing burden of state controls was relaxed.
She wants a strong mandate to “negotiate for Britain,” and that means crushing what one tabloid – in the typically incendiary rhetoric of Brexiteer populism – described as “saboteurs” of the national interest.
Even today, the weight of the world economy is already crushing nature, rapidly depleting the supplies of fossil-fuel energy resources that nature created over millions of years, while the resulting climate change has led to massive instabilities in terms of rainfall, temperature, and extreme storms.
The combined social security tax on employees and employers in Argentina had reached 50 percent of wages, a crushing burden.
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