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Back then, a peaceful and honest result was reached in the end because Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma refused to heed Yanukovych’s call to use violence to
defend
his rigged election.
When that protection disappears, we will all end up losing the freedoms that democracy was supposed to
defend.
In 2005, Senators Charles Schumer, a liberal Democrat from New York, and Lindsey Graham, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, formed an unlikely alliance to
defend
beleaguered middle-class US workers from supposedly unfair competitive practices.
China has defined its territorial claims as a “core interest,” which implies that it will use force to
defend
its position there.
While no one from either the Bush or Obama administrations attempted to
defend
American-style free-wheeling capitalism, European leaders argued for their “social market economy,” their gentler form of capitalism with its social protections, as the model for the future.
So how could any developing country
defend
to its citizens the idea of opening itself even more to America’s highly subsidized banks?
The Economic Policy Trump Should PursueLONDON – As Donald Trump assumes the US presidency, a group of 35 prominent international business leaders, led by Unilever CEO Paul Polman and me, is stepping forward to
defend
open markets, endorse the fight against climate change, and demand a massive push against global inequality.
In fact, China is already taking steps to intimidate South Korea over its decision to deploy a US anti-missile system to
defend
itself against the North.
We need to enable people to
defend
themselves against others; prevent innocent, well-meaning people from becoming infected and harming others; and reduce the incentives and ability of the ill-intentioned to do harm.
At the start of 2018, Guterres issued a “red alert” for the world, declaring that, “we can settle conflicts, overcome hatred, and
defend
shared values.
Defend
the Stability and Growth Pact.
Inequality by the ClickLONDON – Pope Francis warned in November that “ideologies which
defend
the absolute autonomy of the marketplace” are driving rapid growth in inequality.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in banks’ current scramble to
defend
their territory from online financial-services providers.
It is up to those of us who
defend
free trade and globalization to prevent that, by offering concrete solutions that address the very real problems that now afflict so many workers.
How to Lose a Trade WarNEW HAVEN – Protectionist from the start, US President Donald Trump’s administration has now moved from rhetoric to action in its avowed campaign to
defend
US workers from what Trump calls the “carnage” of “terrible trade deals.”
Since citizens’ militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to
defend
individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
This new, more focused and limited American role thus raises the following question for America’s European partners: Can they afford the luxury of being unable to
defend
themselves without US help?
Moreover, if the ECB raised interest rates in order to
defend
the euro, even assuming such intervention might actually work, the ECB would be accused of stifling growth.
By raising living standards, we would also be empowering both civil society and impoverished governments to
defend
the rule of law.
Again, there is an anti-international right that has come to play some role in all the major industrial countries, and that tries to
defend
existing prosperity and property rights from the vagaries of international markets.
And three Salafi militants died when local residents were forced to
defend
the Sidi Al-Lafi mausoleum near Benghazi.
European leaders too often shout from the sidelines when they should be on the field, acting to
defend
common European interests.
But their readiness to
defend
their ideals tells a very different – and much older – story.
By failing to
defend
the constitution against internal enemies, Weimar's liberals showed that they feared taking a decision more than they feared taking on their enemies.
If we believe in liberal values, we must be prepared to
defend
them--in the words of Malcolm X, "by any means necessary."
Then the populist appears and promises to shake things up, to
defend
the interests of the “people” (though really only some of them), and offers something arguably more attractive than feasible solutions: scapegoats.
And if the US no longer guarantees its Sunni allies’ security, all regional powers – including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt – might decide that they can
defend
themselves only by acquiring nuclear weapons, and even more deadly conflict will ensue.
In Europe, the European Central Bank’s quantitative-easing policies have been widely criticized, and ECB President Mario Draghi recently had to
defend
his approach before a highly critical German Parliament.
Democracy can work properly only if all citizens’ operative principle is: “I may hate what you stand for, but as long as you are elected fairly and govern constitutionally, I will
defend
to the death your right to compete and win.”
If the US can
defend
its invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria in terms of national security, Russia can do the same in Syria.
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