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Chen was released from detention but remains under house arrest and was dragged back to the police station on September 2 for unknown reasons.
Naturally, most other Lebanese are unhappy that Hezbollah’s adventurism has dragged their country into war and inflicted great destruction on it.
When Putin was dragged in to cover up the mess, an ordinary failure turned into a total fiasco.
There is no sign here of the UK being dragged down by the EU.
Both parties’ leaders will get there – but only when dragged, kicking and screaming, by the financial markets.
The captain, struck with revulsion, grabbed her, dragged her up to the deck of the ship, and threw her overboard.
The case dragged on until it was dismissed in 1982 as being “without merit.”
Instead, the US has pursued a neutral course, which it hopes will enable it to avoid being dragged into a military confrontation over countries’ conflicting territorial claims.
After all, the Cyprus conflict has dragged on since 1974, wearing out United Nations Secretary-Generals and special representatives of all sorts, as well as bringing down governments in both Greece and Cyprus.
As France is dragged down, the widening gap between its bond yields and Germany’s is severely testing the political partnership that has driven six decades of European integration.
Neither the European Union nor Japan can be counted upon to do anything more than allow themselves to be dragged kicking and screaming into trade liberalization agreements.
Nothing is more important than building a Colombia where citizens no longer fear being caught in a hail of bullets or being dragged from their homes in the middle of the night.
It dragged its feet on opening rather than questioning -- as the IMF now does-- the principle of overnight finance.
In Macedonia, the conservative Macedonian Slav-run government has for years dragged its feet on implementing the equal-rights provisions of the Ohrid Agreement, reached in 2001 with the leaders of the ethnic Albanian minority to end a violent insurrection by the National Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian militia.
With many Scots – 62% of whom voted to remain in the EU – leery of being dragged into a hard Brexit by a Conservative UK government in thrall to English nationalism, the case for Scottish independence could be compelling.
In fact, China is a type of mixed economy , with a number of specific features, some of which favor GDP growth, while others have not dragged down the economy to any considerable extent so far.
Last year, the SNB was dragged into the highly charged debate surrounding a referendum on a “gold initiative" that would have required it to increase its gold reserves to 20%, and limited its ability to conduct monetary policy.
But when Trump declared that the mobs in Charlottesville included “some very fine people” and called Mexican immigrants “rapists,” he dragged racism into the political mainstream.
But Russia has dragged its feet, suggesting that Moscow may seek to use the presence of the fleet as a means of pressuring Ukraine.
True, European growth was dragged down by meager growth in Germany, but Italy grew marginally less than Germany.
The abuse of Germany has dragged on for quite some time.
Banks with substantial overhanging debt reduced lending, and, despite the massive intervention of governments and central banks, the crisis dragged down the global economy.
Rather than restoring the banks to financial health and ensuring responsible behavior, the Irish economy as a whole was dragged down.
As a result, the European Union will suffer something worse than a lost decade; it will endure a chronic divergence in which the surplus countries forge ahead and the deficit countries are dragged down by their accumulated debt burden.
The US and the EU must use the strong hand that they still hold to ensure that their vision prevails, bringing lasting peace to a region that has repeatedly dragged great powers into conflict.
It has dragged its feet on completing a banking union and introducing eurozone investment bonds, and has paid only lip service to the idea of a joint budget.
A leading critic of the Kremlin and several others were hastily dragged into a police car and driven away.
The event was videotaped, to be aired to an astonished nation the next day, but in the rush the cameraman’s power cable was yanked from the wall as the convicted couple was dragged out to an open-air courtyard.
But, so far, France remains eager to separate itself from the southern countries, in order to avoid being dragged down with them in financial markets.
Rather than allowing itself to be dragged into Trump’s destructive trade games, the EU should introduce border carbon adjustment in order to foster a climate-friendly system.
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