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Lacking any evidence for his allegation, Trump has called for an investigation, much like he demanded an investigation into widespread voter fraud (in favor of his opponent, Hillary Clinton) that never actually took place.
The Taliban, who demanded to be left alone in exchange for staying out of politics, were driven into Pakistan, where they reconvened.
Croatia and Slovenia have both demanded that the “Western Balkans 6” – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia – be incorporated into the EU as well.
Greater austerity is being demanded from an economy that is on its knees, owing to the heftiest dose of austerity any country has ever had to endure in peacetime.
In response to such extortionary practices, King Abdullah II decried “character assassination” by online news media and demanded that the government establish a regulatory framework for this unruly new sector.
International media groups – such as the IPI, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Article 19, the US-based National Press Club, and Human Rights Watch – have demanded that Jordan rescind the order and revise the law.
And they demanded a return to the old economic order, and thus to the promise that each new generation would earn more and live better than the last.
The problem is that the only plan to which this Israeli government is likely to agree will offer the Palestinians far less than they have historically demanded.
In the Caucasus, Azerbeijanis, Armenians, Georgians, Abkhazians, and Chechens all demanded states on the basis of self-determination.
Throughout the Indian parliament’s recent winter session, the opposition (I am a leader of its largest party, the BJP) demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to inquire into a seemingly endless series of public scandals.
Hizbollah’s leader Mohammed Fadlallah defined the initiative as one of Arab submission, while Syria demanded a guarantee of its interests in the Golan Heights.
Tens of thousands of men and women demanded an end to the politics of discrimination against the Shia.
True, no rebel troops are yet besieging Harare, no US warship with 2000 marines hovers on the horizon, and President George W. Bush has not demanded that President Robert Mugabe step down after 23 years in office.
Russia's Incompetent War on TerrorIn response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him.
This would not be all that the Umbrella Movement has demanded, but it should encourage the protesters to reach a compromise without departing from their longer-term goal.
But Britain (and Denmark), in a groundbreaking departure from the principle that all members take part in all common policies, demanded -- and got -- the right to opt out of the final phase of EMU, the single currency.
The European Commission demanded that I reverse it: after all, these salaries went to functionaries selected by EU bureaucrats – people they considered their own.
They demanded a new start for their country – the chance to consign to history the economic and political misery endured in recent years.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most economies failed to respond to the adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and World Bank.
One critic, a Russian businessman named Valery Morozov, claims that officials in Putin’s own office demanded payoffs for contracts.
The first, Resolution 1970, adopted on February 26, invoked “the Libyan authorities’ responsibility to protect its population,” condemned its violence against civilians, demanded that this violence stop, and sought to concentrate Qaddafi’s mind by applying targeted sanctions, an arms embargo, and the threat of prosecution for crimes against humanity.
China recently demanded that the US reduce its emissions by 40% from its 1990 baseline levels and subsidize emission reduction efforts in China and other developing countries to the tune of .05-1% of America’s GDP.
When the VIX volatility index hit all-time lows, it was not because fundamentals demanded it.
The American politicians who demanded that China float its currency may have anticipated a different outcome – somewhat unreasonably, given that market forces reversed direction in mid-2014 – but one can hardly blame the Chinese for taking them at their word.
We demanded an independent judiciary, because we believed that democracy and prosperity are impossible without the rule of law, and that the rule of law requires a judiciary that can act as a constraint on the government.
He has demanded an easing of the strict budget targets that have become synonymous with German-dictated austerity.
The new cuts being demanded would hit the poor very hard.
After Japan acceded to Chinese pressure and released a captured Chinese trawler in September 2010, China went overboard and demanded an apology from Japan, rattling the Japanese establishment.
Although his college demanded professional evaluation before he would be allowed to return, the suspect in the Arizona shootings, it seems, failed to seek help from Tucson’s available services.
Continued rapid technological change threatens to widen further the existing gap between available skills and those demanded by the global labor market.
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