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An alarmed government sent in more troops to garrison the disturbed areas than were then available to Wellington in the Peninsular War against Napoleon.
Yet we economists find ourselves increasingly disturbed by the apparent inadequacy of the neo-Marshallian toolkit that we have built to explain our world.
Their favored slogans – “Take back our country” or “Make America great again” – invoke a past when neither the New Deal nor the expansion of civil rights disturbed the peace of upstanding white Christians.
I am profoundly disturbed over the humanitarian tragedy in Syria and the enormous suffering that the Syrian people have endured for almost three years.
Devoid of sentimental attachment to Israel’s cause and deeply disturbed by its policies in the occupied territories, Obama represents the specter of a White House where neither love nor interests are shared with the Jewish state.
The more recent advent of social media may have disturbed the authoritarians slightly – remember the Arab Spring?
Yet it is China’s economic renaissance – some of whose effects so disturbed this patriotic old woman – which has been the most remarkable event in recent world history.
The fact is that deciding to murder, at random, a large number of innocent people reflects deeply disturbed thinking, which might reflect a mental illness.
The Saudis, deeply disturbed by the Syrian-Iranian alliance, worry that re-imposition of Syrian supremacy in Lebanon, and with it the strengthening of Iranian and Shiite power there, would threaten the Kingdom itself.
Nothing fades as quickly as the glow of an election victory, and the German idyll will soon be disturbed by harsh reality – the European Union’s simmering crisis, Syria, Iran, and energy policy.
When disturbed by a question, she usually replies, “Would you have asked the same question to a man?”Ever since Laurent Fabius took a hit in the polls when he mocked her candidacy by asking, “Who will mind the children?”, her opponents have feared appearing misogynous when attacking her, and when they do criticize her, she immediately assumes the pose of innocent victim, unfairly bashed by schoolboy bullies.
A recent US Defense Department paper, “China’s Military and Security Developments – 2011,” argued that “China’s ‘near sea’ politics has seriously disturbed not only India, but Japan, Australia, the US, and the ASEAN countries.”
Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like “contagion” and “domino effect,” which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed.
The Dutch were nonetheless disturbed.
The deeper cause of recent estrangement and national rivalry has been German reunification, which disturbed the bilateral balance.
This form of leadership mismatch has also disturbed relations between South Korea and the US.
It is, nonetheless, hard to see why this document should have so rudely disturbed Fischer’s equipoise.
So Germans are all the more disturbed that the train drivers’ union, the GDL, has voted for a nation-wide strike that will paralyze the country.
All of these events have disturbed and disoriented Turkey, and are magnified by the domestic impact of worst global economic crisis since the 1930’s.
Moreover, it exacerbated tensions within Pakistani society, destabilizing the country’s commercial capital, Karachi, by bringing in large numbers of Pashtun refugees who, having settled in the city, disturbed its delicate ethnic balance.
All of this goes against the notion that massacres like the Christchurch shootings are cases of disturbed individuals – mentally ill “lone wolves” – carrying out a one-time attack.
As Ian Johnson recently wrote in the New York Times, some liberal dissidents in China are disturbed by the culture wars in the US.
For example, in the 2013 edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, resilience was defined as the capacity for “bouncing back faster after stress, enduring greater stresses, and being disturbed less by a given amount of stress.”
Saudi Arabia must coordinate its oil activities with Russia to cope with the surge in US energy production, and was undoubtedly disturbed by US President Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds in Syria, who, like the Saudis, had been loyal American allies.
Such messages must have a damaging effect on the psyches of disturbed and impressionable people like Adamowicz’s killer.
Of that he was firmly convinced, and had long been so – ever since he had begun painting it; yet the opinion of others, whoever they might be, seemed to him of great importance, and disturbed him to the depths of his soul.
He was disturbed both by vexation with Anna for placing herself and him in this false position, and by pity for her sufferings.
To decide this she began working round in a circle, when her master's voice disturbed her.
Another rose behind Levin without waiting to be disturbed by the dog.
On the one hand this fact disturbed him, but on the other hand it seemed the best way.
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