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The Referendum RiskOXFORD – Now that British Prime Minister Theresa May, facing certain defeat, has postponed Parliament’s vote on the deal she concluded with the European Union last month on the United Kingdom’s departure from the bloc, the case for a “people’s vote” – a second Brexit referendum – is gaining ground.
Kibaki has responded harshly to Mungiki, waging a “war on terror”-style campaign to defeat it, which has lead to thousands of deaths, according to Kenyan human rights groups.
It is one thing for candidates to decide that they must be gracious in defeat.
From the “People Power” revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to Boris Yeltsin’s defiance of the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991, to the Rose, Orange, and Cedar Revolutions of recent years, dictators have been forced to admit defeat when enough people stand up to them.
Everyone could claim victory, and no one was obliged to acknowledge defeat.
Taking On Revisionist RussiaMADRID – For some countries, military or political defeat is so intolerable, so humiliating, that they will do whatever it takes to overturn what they view as an unjust international order.
One such revisionist power was Egypt, which resolved to undo its 1967 defeat by Israel and regain the Sinai Peninsula.
It can be opposed with equal fervor, like that which enabled Europe's conservative powers to defeat Napoleon in 1815 and the Allies to defeat Germany in World War II.
Or it can take the route of President Vladimir Putin's Russia, and develop a new revanchist strategy – in this case, to overturn the order that emerged from the Soviet Union's Cold War defeat.
In the US, the Supreme Court’s infamous Citizens United decision of 2010 actively encourages such outcomes, by allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums anonymously to help secure the election or defeat of individual candidates.
Nazi propaganda blamed Jews for everything: Germany’s defeat in World War I, universal moral values that prevented the Aryan race from exerting its superiority, and both communism and capitalism.
Cooperation between Sunnis and Shias will be vital to defeat the extremism of the Islamic State, as well as to bridge gaps between combatants in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon.
But Stalin’s predictions fell apart after Hitler’s defeat, when conflicting interests did not lead to a clash between the US and the United Kingdom.
His latest defense of fiscal austerity came immediately after the United Kingdom’s recent election, when he wrote in the Financial Times that, “Labour should blame Keynes for their defeat.”
The claim that “Keynes is to blame” for Labour’s election defeat is peculiarly odd.
Keynes was not to blame for Labour’s defeat; in large part, Scotland was.
With the defeat in Kosovo, Milosevic was finally thwarted.
The scope for abuse of power, public money, the media, and most state institutions available to sitting presidents makes it almost impossible to defeat them.
At first, this might seem like a crazy move: Why intentionally destroy the only possible way out in case of defeat?
In this sense, Cortés’s strategy was perfect: in case of defeat, the Spanish would have no time to rebuild the burned ships.
Had Cortés’s strategy failed, he would have gone down in history – if he was remembered at all – as an arrogant fool who thought that he could defeat a great empire.
The move exemplifies Russia's commitment to do whatever it takes to prevent a military defeat of the separatist entities that it has incited and forged into fighting units – a determination that has endured, even as the conflict has placed considerable strain on its armed forces.
That step-by-step approach ground to a halt with the defeat of the European Constitution.
At the May 9 Victory Day celebration, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, more than a million people throughout the country marched, holding portraits of Stalin and the fallen in all Russian wars, including the current one in Ukraine.
I could do that too (after I learn how), but doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose?
And a stunning defeat in parliamentary elections surely marks the beginning of the end of 16 years of churlish chavismo in Venezuela.
Once oil and soybean prices collapsed, according to this view, no anti-democratic antics short of suspending elections (which was intensely rumored in Venezuela) could save the populists from defeat.
You confront and defeat your enemies, or you die.
The German public — hungry for economic recovery and tired of excuses -- has not been fooled by the euro and ECB bashing of its present government, and handed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a decisive defeat in the recent North Rhine-Westphalia elections.
The Volkswagen RevolutionNEW YORK – When Michael Horn, the president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, recently testified before a committee of the US Congress about the software that Volkswagen installed on its diesel-powered cars to defeat emissions tests, he expressed his own incredulity that the blame lay with a couple of engineers.
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