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Insuring the WorstIn the nearly six months since Hurricane Katrina destroyed half of New Orleans, many storm victims’ expectations of help have been dashed, creating a legacy of bitterness.
But the belief that the US-China relationship was based on shared values was dashed by the CPC’s victory in 1949, leading to the suggestion that the US had somehow “lost China.”
Following the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month, world leaders dashed to the scene, locked arms, and marched in support of freedom of expression as a bedrock principle of civilized societies.
The Information Revolution Gets PoliticalNEW DELHI – The second anniversary of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt was marked by riots in Tahrir Square that made many observers fear that their optimistic projections in 2011 had been dashed.
Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that Abe left the recent “onsen summit” with dashed hopes of resolving the territorial dispute, while Putin returned home with 68 new commercial accords.
But with less than a year remaining until “Brexit day” – when the UK’s EU membership officially ends – it is clear that the British government’s hopes of dividing and conquering the EU economy have been dashed.
A well-organized team would collapse like a house of cards, and the hopes for future space research and missile design would be dashed, threatening the country’s security.
Worse, boosting social spending will contribute little to resolving the country’s staggering 17.5% rate of unemployment – most of it structural –while any hope of quick euro adoption will be dashed.
Behind the cold statistics, lives are being ruined, dreams are being dashed, and families are falling apart (or not being formed) as stagnation – depression in some places – runs on year after year.
Those hopes are now dashed.
The Remaking of the Middle EastJERUSALEM – The Middle East’s descent into extreme violence – with mass killings of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in Cairo followed closely by Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war – has dashed the hopes raised by the Arab Spring in 2011.
The hope that many placed in the UN Charter was soon dashed by the onset of the Cold War.
Hopes that Brazil and China would provide cash to Cuba have been dashed by the international financial crisis and geo-politics.
With Rouhani’s hopes for market reforms and closer integration with the West dashed, he may be forced to change course, by adopting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “preference for the East over the West.”
With trade tensions now mounting, hopes of a breakthrough on a US-China investment treaty have been all but dashed.
That outcome may have put the EU out of the treaty-making business altogether, meaning that hopes of future integration may well be dashed.
The year is ending, however, with those hopes dashed and ASEAN more divided than it has ever been.
Moreover, unlike Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, Suu Kyi has had her hopes raised – and dashed – before.
But hopes that “green shoots” of recovery may be springing up have been dashed by plenty of yellow weeds.
And the recent optimism that economies will bottom out by mid-year have been dashed by the most recent economic data.
Unfortunately, these hopes were quickly dashed.
When these hopes were dashed, the West reacted with stunned disbelief and anger, reinstating sanctions on 156 top Belarusian officials and members of Lukashenko’s family.
If Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, now becomes “the handmaiden of Brexit,” in Tony Blair’s memorable phrase, by shying away from effective opposition, these new voters will feel betrayed, the party will split between the Marxists and centrists, and its hopes of ever winning a general election will be dashed.
Without it, hopes that “Abenomics” will get Japan’s annual inflation rate up to 2% will surely be dashed.
If the peace process does not exist, the resulting vacuum might tempt some in the Arab world to deal with the problem of rising economic expectations – and, alas, dashed political expectations – through old-fashioned anti-Israel demagoguery.
Four years on, expectations of significant market-oriented reform have been dashed, and state influence over the economy has significantly increased.
Their hopes should not be dashed.
But the Kremlin’s hope of a deeper partnership with China was dashed when Chinese President Xi Jinping invited US President Donald Trump to a state dinner in Beijing’s Forbidden City – an honor never extended to a Soviet or Russian leader.
The novel’s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit and courage of those who engineered this extraordinary piece of history.
Young men and women throughout the region found their hopes dashed, and sometimes turned to militant Islam as the only alternative to a repressive state.
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