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But while we have good reason to be encouraged by recent progress, we must not become complacent in our efforts to defeat malaria.
Later, China inflicted a humiliating defeat on India in the 1962 border war, securing peace, as a state mouthpiece crowed in 2012, on its own terms.
When Germany was occupied, the old regime's defeat was total, utterly beyond dispute.
Prime Minster Theresa May secured a compromise deal with the EU, but, facing a resounding defeat in Parliament, was forced to postpone a vote on it until January.
State Capitalism 2.0GENEVA – The fall of the Berlin Wall almost 30 years ago represented a high-water mark in the retreat of the state from the global economy, signaling a defeat of socialist economics virtually worldwide.
For all of these reasons, excessive austerity and deflation could defeat its own purpose and make the “reforms” to improve the southern European countries’ competitiveness impossible to implement.
President Barack Obama’s administration suffered a stinging (and highly embarrassing) defeat.
Yet if NATO were to give up the struggle and leave Milosevic in control of the field, the consequences of such a defeat would be horrific for the NATO alliance, for the US, and particularly for the European Union.
It is hard to believe that any of the allies is prepared to contemplate that kind of defeat.
So the time may be coming where the only option, if NATO wants to avert defeat, is to send in troops.
If the Europeans help defeat Milosevic, they will have been carried far further towards a CFSP than any of them expected - or wanted.
The defeat of BJP governments in the Hindi states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh is all the more significant because the region is a bastion of support for the party.
His party’s victory in all three states (which no political pundit or polling organization had predicted) was a personal triumph and consolidated Congress as the lynchpin of the opposition’s drive to defeat the BJP in the coming general election.
Requiem for a HeavyweightCAMBRIDGE: After World War II, Winston Churchill suffered a resounding defeat at the polls.
The fleeting humiliation of an electoral defeat is just a footnote that was by and large inevitable.
No one was prepared for defeat.
Whether motivated by tribal animosities, an ideological rejection of the peace process, or cultural estrangement from Israel’s liberal elites, anyone who feels alienated – ethnically, culturally, or socially – joined Netanyahu to defeat those on the left who had usurped Jewish history and betrayed Eretz Israel.
The second factor that is spurring a shift in America’s attitude is the recognition that a new Syrian government is vital to defeat – or even contain – the Islamic State.
It will also transform economics, by paralyzing the European Central Bank in the next euro crisis: while the ECB can always defeat market speculation, it is powerless against breakup pressures from voters.
The difference is that George W. Bush won the presidency by a whisker, whereas William Hague could not avoid defeat.
But, despite the defeat of Napoleon and the World War I alliance, Russia could never get any respect from France.
While it is true that Germany and Japan became democratic after American occupation, it required their total defeat in a devastating war, and a seven-year occupation.
Fatah leaders are justifiably worried that their party’s current unpopularity and infighting foretell a crushing defeat in the parliamentary election.
In 2009, they worked to defeat climate-change legislation by relying on anti-regulation rhetoric that demonized their own creation.
Bush’s electoral defeat was blamed on that supposed betrayal.
Yet defeat after painful defeat has driven center-left parties to a stark realization: voters who are concerned primarily with immigration are not going to be won over with calls – however justified – for equality.
Yet Nahles has doubled down on her stance, publicly endorsing a critical analysis, compiled by a board of independent observers, of last year’s election defeat.
John McCain managed to defeat his more conventional Republican rivals by seeming to be totally different from them: a maverick who says what he damned well wants, a tough guy with the knowing wink of the old ladies’ man.
Unfortunately, that approach would be akin to conceding defeat; it would amount to an acknowledgement by the government that boosting growth by expanding exports is impossible.
By 1950, China’s share of world GDP had fallen to under 5%, while all of Asia accounted for just 18%, the biggest chunk of which was attributable to Japan, despite its defeat in WWII.
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