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And, in reality, it would not be in Saudi Arabia’s interest simply to destroy Yemen.
There is no guarantee that attempts to destroy Iran’s nuclear potential and thus of its capability for a nuclear breakout will succeed.
The Tragedy of ZidaneThose who the gods may destroy, they grant their wishes.
Unfortunately, the Israelis can show the Arabs that they cannot destroy Israel only by enduring the violent war of attrition that the Arabs are pursuing.
Destroy that and you destroy the hallmarks of liberal order.
Free securities markets will enable firms to raise private capital, and will destroy the lever that bureaucrats have over firms because they allocate credits.
Any pathological group of extremists could destroy New Delhi, Tokyo, Paris, or any city they chose.
And increasingly, some are viruses that have infected friends’ address books, with attachments that, if opened, could destroy my computer.
But it will not destroy Europe.
Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so-called “freeze” comes into effect.
The perpetrators are indifferent as to whether their victims, both direct and indirect, are Muslim or non-Muslim; their goal is to terrorize and eventually to destroy a way of life in the name of a nebulous Dar-al-Islam, a utopian entity that will supposedly solve all of life’s problems.
And, also in the tradition of that era, ordinary people were quick to joke when the tank stalled during the parade rehearsal: “The Armata truly has unprecedented destructive power; a battalion can destroy the entire Russian budget!”
The five-day delay in allowing UN chemical-weapons experts to verify the attack gave Assad’s government ample time to conceal incriminating evidence, allow it to degrade, or destroy it with further shelling.
Western powers need not undermine or destroy Putin’s Russia; they simply need to outlive it.
The defeat of Nazi Germany permitted the Allies to find and destroy the country’s nascent nuclear program.
Russia wants to roll back democratic breakthroughs on its borders, to destroy any chance of further NATO or EU enlargement and to reestablish a sphere of hegemony over its neighbors.
By trying to destroy a democratic, pro-Western Georgia, the Kremlin is sending a message that, in its part of the world, being close to America and the West does not pay.
The best "serious consequences" of which the UN Security Council has warned should Iraq fail to comply with its obligations would be an even more intense effort to destroy its illicit weapons through continuous inspections of the country's offensive military capabilities: inspectors, not invaders.
The US lacks the ability to identify, locate, and destroy all three categories of nuclear targets: warheads, bomb production infrastructure, and delivery vehicles.
Wolf then announced his “fear that the combination of the fragility of the financial system with the huge rewards it generates for insiders will destroy something even more important – the political legitimacy of the market economy itself...”For Wolf, the solution is to require that such bankers receive their pay in installments over the decade after which they have done their work.
Trump is no leader; he cannot create, only distract and destroy – and put his name on what others have built.
The Yellow Vests must choose: democratic re-invention, or an updated version of the national socialist leagues; a will to repair, or the urge to destroy.
The turn for the worse followed last year’s chain of events, which started with the United Nations’ accusation that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons and ended with the US-Russia brokered agreement to destroy the regime’s chemical arsenal (thereby avoiding a poorly planned and ill-timed Western military intervention).
They destroy the political careers of individuals of dubious character.
Thus, the effort to contain and destroy the Islamic State has become yet another referendum on President Barack Obama's stewardship of US foreign policy.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates that the levy on steel alone could destroy 195,000 jobs in the auto and auto-parts industry over the next three years.
In fact, they could inadvertently destroy the benefits of European integration that people most value.
Thus, to destroy the mosque and replace it with a temple was not righting an old wrong but perpetrating a new one.
First, the good news: the economic side of the case.China’s response of to the world economic crisis is the central reason why the financial turbulence that emanated from the US sub-prime debacle did not completely destroy the world economy and lead to a repeat of the 1930’s Great Depression.
For a moment, it looked as if a contagious crisis, driven by fears of government over-indebtedness, would destroy the politically fragile compromise that European countries had carefully constructed over a 50-year period.
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