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Americans’ anger following the attacks drove them to support policies that they once would have considered inconceivable.
History placed Merkel amid raging storms: a series of eurozone crises that drove wedges between Europeans; economic tensions at home that fueled social fragmentation; and the largest migration wave since World War II, which intensified European and domestic anxieties.
There were no major wars between superpowers, global trade expanded and drove economic growth, poverty was more than halved, and rapid advances in science and technology delivered benefits to every corner of the world.
In Charlottesville, 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of people.
That is the logic that drove EU Council President Donald Tusk to declare that the UK has two options: hard Brexit or no Brexit.
The post-war “baby boom” generation drove a period of sustained economic growth that strengthened Europe’s standing in the world and led to dramatic improvements in its citizens’ quality of life.
From 1965 to 1997, Arab population growth drove demand for agricultural development, leading to a doubling of land under irrigation.
To be sure, Russia’s interests also include political dominance over its neighbors, which is what drove the ham-handed intervention in Crimea that Trump now describes in such sympathetic terms.
In the 1970s, fear of environmental degradation and societal collapse drove some well-intentioned people to remain childless.
Unconventional monetary policy in the United States – and in other advanced countries, particularly the United Kingdom and Japan – drove down domestic interest rates, while flooding international financial markets with liquidity.
The conflict over austerity has become politically explosive because it is becoming a conflict between Germany and Italy – and, worse, between Germany and France, the tandem that drove European integration for six decades.
Omar Saddiqui Mateen, who carried out last June’s Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida – the deadliest single-day mass shooting in US history – also drew inspiration from his father, who fought with the US-backed mujahedeen forces that drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Previous governments drove the social-security system deep into debt, risking its short- and long-term viability.
Lever suggests that it was as much the memory of the currency collapse of 1945-1948 as of the hyperinflation of the 1920s that drove home this lesson.
Loyalty, rather than merit, drove key appointments, making policy management even more difficult.
The first, Tung Chee-hwa, faced a half-million protesters in 2003; in 2005, halfway through his second term, his ever-growing unpopularity drove him to resign.
In fact, the Taliban’s confidence already drove them to disrupt plans for peace talks with the Afghan government.
As a result, revenues increased, despite his government’s nationalist and statist policies, which drove away investment and hindered access to new markets.
But last year’s A-share debacle – when a price rout drove the government to suspend trading in more than half of A-share companies – underscored how difficult it is to build a strong equity market when the investment culture and tax system remain tilted toward debt.
The low level of all interest rates that resulted from this policy drove investors to buy equities and to increase the prices of owner-occupied homes.
Last July in Nice, an attacker drove a truck through a Bastille Day crowd on the city’s seafront promenade, killing 86.
Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
The irrational exuberance that drove a three-month bear-market rally in the spring is now giving way to a sober realization among investors that the global recession will not be over until year end, that the recovery will be weak and well below trend, and that the risks of a double-dip W-shaped recession are rising.
And the competition that Cisco faces from Huawei of China is what likely drove Chambers’ recent appeal to Obama.
He tried to do so in 1995, but the Chechen War drove Russia's democrats away from him.
When they were high, they drove increased trade – to the point that the share of trade to GDP rose – fueling hype about the inevitable progress of globalization.
Indeed, the World Bank estimates that in the second half of 2010, the rise in food prices drove 44 million people in developing countries into extreme poverty (defined as income below $1.25 per day).
A far more meaningful consideration is what drove these TFP gains; understanding that would enable China’s leaders to design a more effective plan for strengthening the economy’s long-term growth prospects.
Following a sustained period in which China drove global growth, it seems as though its great “opening up” is losing momentum.
Hunger drove the armies to take hostages for ransom.
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