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Is this one of those monuments that has been erected not by artists but by critics, who produce meaning not through creation but through interpretation?
In some cases, monuments are erected not on the former murder sites, as in Germany, but near them.
Digital borders and obstacles to data flows might be erected to meet demands for privacy at a moment when the world needs data to flow freely.
Hungary opened its borders, hoping that the human tide would flow onward, but then erected a razor-wire fence when it turned out that there were too few welcoming destinations.
Under the big tents they erected, everyone – black or white, rich or poor – could find room.
Hungary erected barbed-wire fences to keep out refugees.
As soon as one country blocks another country’s goods or services from entering its market, global value chains will be disrupted, producing spillover effects that hurt everyone – including the country that erected the barriers.
Specifically, Hitler admired the US Immigration Act of 1924 – also known as the Johnson-Reed Act – which had erected openly racist barriers to immigration on the basis of a “national quota” system.
Relying on “infant economy” arguments, major exports were restricted and legal obstacles were erected against foreign participation in the development of natural resources, as well as financial and other services, further impeding regional integration.
Moreover, politicians must reconsider much of the ideological super-structure erected on market fundamentalist assumptions.
The government had erected the TV screens outside the Kremlin in order to ensure patriotic exultation of the victory that they assumed was coming.
Japan kept the yen undervalued and erected hidden barriers to foreign goods, precipitating strong pressure – and periodic arm-twisting – by the US for Japanese concessions.
Kim has already enshrined North Korea’s nuclear-weapons status in the country’s constitution and erected monuments to the long-range missiles launched last year.
This discourse has driven some local authorities to build monuments to Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, while the federal authorities have ceremoniously erected a monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Orthodoxy to Kievan Rus.
Over the last 30 years, the prevailing IP regime has erected more barriers to the use of knowledge, often causing the gap between the social returns to innovation and the private returns to widen.
Members of hundreds of tribes have erected tents in “Change Square” in Sanaa.
Melting Pot or Economic MeltdownWorried about an invasion of migrant workers from the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the old EU members have erected high barriers in order to prevent the flow.
A monument to Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who led the White effort to overthrow the Bolsheviks, has been erected in Irkutsk, and a monument to Nicholas II has been built in Moscow.
Like ancient conquerors, who erected new temples on the sites where the vanquished had their own, the destroyers of New York’s Twin Towers used visual terror to strike at the heart of their enemy’s value system.
Billboards were erected appealing to Sunnis to preserve moderation.
In 1411, Zheng erected a stone tablet – translated into Chinese, Persian, and Tamil – near the Sri Lankan coastal town of Galle, with an inscription appealing to the Hindu gods to bless his efforts to build a peaceful world based on trade and commerce.
As much as it would harm Europe in the short term, Brexit would have the benefit of preventing such a roadblock to integration from being erected.
The fragile political structure that began to be erected following the resumption of civilian government in 2008 is now shaking.
We also know that Iran built an underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, hardened it against missile attack, and erected dummy buildings on the surface to conceal it from overhead surveillance.
By eliminating the two assumptions critical to negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel’s current leadership – and, indirectly, the majority of Israelis – has destroyed the thin veneer of legitimacy that the international community had erected around a country that has been occupying another people for nearly five decades.
And, indeed, from the 1950s to the 1980s, the process of breaking down the high trade barriers that had been erected during World War II brought major gains.
The government erected trade barriers and adopted other measures to protect China's agriculture, but this reflects its concern for factory workers, not-as in the US and Europe-farmers' political clout.
Razor-wire fences and political barriers are being erected in the path of asylum-seekers.
Moreover, they erected trade barriers: By banning the export of raw wool and the import of finished wool products, Indian textiles, which were often superior and cheaper, could not compete with domestic output.
But perhaps monuments will be erected on many European squares as well, acclaiming Russia’s president as “The Father of United Europe.”
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