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Like many developing countries, China was more or less dragged along in that process.
In short order, the financial woes of banks and consumers dragged the economy into the Great Recession.
It turns out that the overall US score is dragged down by the poor mark given for the country’s high number of traffic deaths.
The US drive to expand NATO is not shared by all its allies, and Europe is in no mood to follow in the footsteps of Georgia’s impulsive president and be dragged by the ex-Soviet Baltic states and Poland into a confrontation with Russia.
And we dragged others into our struggles.
In short, the factors that dragged down the global economy in 2015 will persist – and in some cases even intensify – in the new year.
After all, the worst security failures – for example, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which dragged the US into World War II, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – tend to arise from inadequate preparation.
For example, successful economies require a reasonably independent central bank, and competent bank supervision that does not get dragged into short term politics.
They dragged their feet when it came to the critical agreement on orderly burden-sharing (that is, acceptance of a “haircut” on private-sector claims on Greece).
In April 2007, gunmen dragged 23 Yezidi men from a bus and shot them dead.
While Microsoft could have kept the traditional “.doc” as its default format for MS Word, this would not have served its purpose: eventually, after enough of the world pays for Office 2007, holdouts will be dragged along, kicking and screaming.
As rapidly as the large, modern firms improved, through investments in technology and skills, the economy was dragged down by its unproductive small firms.
Despite Georgia’s strategic location on the Black Sea, bordering Russia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey – and on a key trade route linking the EU, Iran, Russia, and Central Asia – Europe has dragged its feet on the country’s most enduring political problems.
Given how long it has taken to get off the ground – on-again, off-again talks dragged out over nine years – this tribunal’s very existence is a cause for celebration.
But the truth is that Sechin was both arrogant and a fool to assume that he would not get dragged into the case.
The NATO intervention ended with Qaddafi’s corpse being dragged through the streets of Sirte as the world – and particularly the North Koreans – looked on.
But the Turkish government has increasingly allowed itself to be dragged into Middle East conflicts, rather than functioning as an honest broker.
As the financial crisis has dragged on, and recriminations among member countries have weakened the sense of community that forms the EU’s foundations, the refugee challenge has exacerbated a dangerous divisiveness.
They worry that Abe’s defense moves will make it more likely that Japan will be dragged into war, putting an end to its post-war pacifism.
If the situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, China’s growth will be dragged down.
Ultimately, Saudi Arabia dragged all of OPEC into the price war.
Korea's five huge conglomerates, the chaebol – Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo, LG and SK groups – have been dragged, kicking and screaming, into rationalization.
Will Pakistan be dragged along the path of Islamic extremism and emergency rule, or finally achieve modernity as a secular nation under civilian leadership?
Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole.
Negotiations with Russia dragged on, and the country ran out of money.
The US would not be able to avoid being dragged militarily into the region, if only to safeguard the supplies of oil and gas on which the global economy depends.
Indeed, Greece is the only one that has consistently dragged its feet on reforms and sustained abysmal export performance.
It comes at a time when the West is increasingly being dragged down by short-term disruptions and continued policy inertia.
World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia’s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised, partly owing to a widespread belief that the regime’s collapse was imminent.
The only country in the region to have managed communism's end without a single drop of blood being shed, Bulgaria is irritated at the risk of being dragged into a foreign war.
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