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Yet the Palestinian Authority demanded their release, Israel’s government obliged, and the US supported the transaction.
On the other hand, whereas, lenders once demanded commitments from Brazil that were often nearly impossible to meet due to the political situation, these same investors now generally seem completely satisfied with Brazil, despite its economic policy paralysis.
All these forms of greatness, however, demanded that ordinary Russians accept their debasement and enslavement.
Indeed, Russia has demanded that Ukraine revoke the 11 bilateral protocols for WTO accession that it already signed.
Human rights treaties allow for the suspension of some rights only if: (a) there is an officially proclaimed emergency which vitally threatens the life or security of the nation; (b) the measures adopted are required by the exigencies of the situation; and (c) the measures are applied only to the extent and for the time that are strictly demanded by the situation.
An alternative is demanded.
European leaders, faced with an escalating refugee crisis, agreed last month to pursue a joint action plan, which demanded that Turkey help stem the tide of migrants into Europe, in exchange for EU funds, visa liberalization, and, most relevant, renewed negotiations on Turkey’s EU accession.
Decency can be credibly demanded of others only if one practices it oneself.
New economic problems soon rushed in to add to the existing ones: energy and food prices rose and then fell like a yo-yo; the dangers of climate change became ever more clear; and the mal-distribution of global political power demanded action.
Instead, the party demanded the creation of a new country called Padania that would separate the prosperous northern regions from the corruption and poverty of Rome and points south.
As political risks rose, the autocrats’ cronies demanded higher returns.
Draconian safety regulations were enacted in the 1950s, not because evidence demanded it, but to appease an anxious public whose concerns were exacerbated by the nuclear-arms race between the US and the Soviet Union.
China then demanded that all aircraft transiting the zone – whether headed for Chinese airspace or not – submit flight plans in advance.
Without committing itself to any substantive assistance, the Chinese government has publicly demanded that the European Union grant China the coveted status of “market economy” if it expects China to loosen its purse strings.
When the police stormed Ai’s workshop, they demanded that Ai’s wife, Lu Qing, tell them, “What did Ai write on the Internet?”
Similarly, in March 2005, Rafsanjani reiterated Iran’s refusal to dismantle its nuclear fuel cycle facilities, as the EU and the IAEA had demanded, insisting that “we can’t stop our nuclear program and won’t stop it.”
Both countries have so far gone along with United Nations-authorized sanctions against Iran, and have publicly demanded that Iran adhere to its commitments as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In the United States, the fast-food giant McDonald's banned them from its menu; food manufacturers Heinz and Gerber (then a division of Switzerland-based Novartis) dropped them from their baby-food lines; and Frito-Lay demanded that its growers stop planting corn engineered to contain a bacterial protein that confers resistance to insect predation.
As the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere demanded publicly: “Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”
The first “revolutionary” statement of Egypt’s new grassroots Tamarod (rebel) movement demanded that Morsi leave within two days or face a march on the presidential palace.
In some recent cases, the issue has been not much more than an irritating sideshow, as when Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded an apology from the United States late last year for causing unintended civilian deaths – at the price, bizarrely, of allowing the Americans to continue defending him and his country (the US understandably refused).
The protesters did not demand more creature comforts or better infrastructure; they demanded opportunities to make something of themselves.
Even so, its leaders’ strategic anxiety was on display at President Xi Jinping’s June meeting with US President Barack Obama, where he demanded, with the vagueness characteristic of Chinese officials, “mutual respect” and recognition of China’s “territorial integrity.”
Moreover, if the March 8 coalition had won, it would have largely been on the back of Christian voters delivered by Aoun, who might have then demanded the Lebanese presidency, which is reserved for a Christian.
China has been criticized in the past for allegedly manipulating its exchange rate, because it did not revalue its currency as much as the US demanded.
Trump would be well advised to work quickly to ensure that the NAFTA renegotiations he has demanded generate this outcome.
But the data do exist, and most of it could be made available if it were demanded vigorously enough.
Later, he helped to establish the Shared Concern Initiative (SCI), an open and informal group of representatives of various cultures, historical backgrounds, religions, and traditions that sought to prick the world’s conscience whenever and wherever the cause of liberty and justice demanded it.
Until now, Taliban representatives have demanded that all Western troops leave Afghanistan before they even consider engaging in direct talks with the Afghan government.
For example, though the reparations demanded by the victors of World War I were certainly burdensome, by 1932 it had become clear that they would never be paid.
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