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But a lack of cooperation could result in higher-than-necessary oil and gas prices and perhaps defeat in the battle against climate change.
Only a broad coalition could defeat Kohl and it was essential that it should not spell out any detail or any concrete steps.
The desire of Republicans to defeat the Democrats could lead them to use every maneuver to block votes and slow legislative reforms.
They were weaned on Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s pan-Arab nationalism, and the crucial political event for them was the Arab defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Trump has also voiced an interest in working with Assad to defeat ISIS.
The EU’s Small LeadersThe defeat of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty in referendums in France and the Netherlands has, it seems, given rise to a new consensus that further enlargement of the Union should be slowed down, or even stopped.
In face of economic failure or military defeat, their emperors turn out to be naked.
More significantly, with the latest statement over Taiwan, the US and Japan are poised to use their joint military forces to deter, deny, and ultimately defeat potential Chinese military actions across the Taiwan Strait.
And, as May’s legislative defeat in the House of Commons on December 13 underscored, the British government remains too divided to agree on a common Brexit agenda.
In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, indeed throughout the Middle East, the resurgence of veiling has many roots: some argue that it arose out of the Arab defeat in the 1967 war with Israel; others say it began with the disintegration of the dream of Arab unity.
It is now only a matter of time before events make that defeat a political reality.
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for example, ruled the country for 71 years, before its defeat in 2000.
However, if war reinforces the Arab sense of defeat, Hejazi adherence to bin Laden’s message may grow.
Because of the protest, he was able to snatch victory from defeat.
When my driver was Ethiopian, as often happened, we would commiserate over the national team’s defeat by Nigeria in a qualifying round, then celebrate the US defeat of Ghana, and end by agreeing that in four years, or certainly in eight, the US team would be among the world’s best.
Can NATO survive defeat in Afghanistan?
The lack of a clear plan – is the goal to defeat Al Qaeda or to create democracy?
But exposing the dangers of the madman strategy will not be enough to defeat it.
Pro-EU parties must make Europe’s place in the world a central issue of the parliamentary election campaign; otherwise, they will suffer a shattering defeat at the hands of the new nationalists.
It would represent a defeat for the fundamental values of the European project.
But, to win the second round, she will need to defeat Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old centrist who finished ahead of her in the first round, with 24% of the vote.
NEW YORK – Some of the more hysterical German newspapers blamed Germany’s defeat against Italy in the semi-finals of the European championship on the fact that few players bothered to sing the national anthem.
The tears streaming down the cheeks of Andrea Pirlo and Mario Balotelli after Italy’s defeat were not those of hardened pros.
As for economists like me, who have balked at advocating an end to the failed euro experiment and favored reform, perhaps it is time to admit defeat and move on.
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.
More broadly, the emblematic defeat of Marxism in 1989 allowed Asian countries, including China and India, to pursue capitalist policies overtly.
If each relative military success is accompanied by an absolute political defeat, as was the case with the recent military operations in Gaza, what is the ratio between costs and benefits?
Yet ISIS is not especially difficult to defeat.
Israel therefore prioritizes the removal of Assad over the defeat of ISIS.
Yet both have signaled their readiness to cooperate with the US to defeat ISIS, and perhaps to solve other problems as well.
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