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In 1963, when the world narrowly escaped nuclear catastrophe, the physicist Max Born wrote: “World peace in a world that has grown smaller is no longer a Utopia, but rather a necessity, a condition for the survival of mankind.”
The irony has escaped no one.
Yet with the richest countries richer than ever before, and with much of the developing world already escaped from the horrors of extreme poverty, the balance has shifted in favor of ending global poverty.
The English, who escaped occupation by a hostile power, and still believe they won World War II alone (well, with a little help from the Yanks), still have a militaristic streak.
Given the key role that provincial excesses played in the crisis from which the country just escaped (a role similar to the one they played in the worst financial panic of the nineteenth century, the Baring Crisis of 1890), none of this should be taken lightly.
But in nearly 90% of these murders, the people who ordered the attacks escaped justice.
The refugee has escaped from a country where life has become unsustainable, whether because of conflict or a lack of economic opportunities, but has yet to arrive in the host country.
Following US methods, Ireland would not be judged to have escaped the initial recession.
In a brilliant book, Loaded, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us that the “well-regulated militias” mentioned in the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms, were groups of white men that raided native American villages and hunted down escaped slaves.
That way, if any convict worker escaped, he would be easy to find in an alien setting.
The flames destroyed their house in Mati, along with every other house on their street; but at least they escaped with their lives.
Had he not been assassinated in 1911, Russia might have escaped the 1917 revolution and its tragic consequences, many of which are still felt today.
Following the shock of the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union, GDP data indicate that China’s economy seems to have escaped a slump, with annual growth averaging 6.7% in the first half of 2016.
Curiously, that policy may have escaped discredit in part precisely because its target was a mirage.
One journalist, Hector Ramirez, died of a heart attack while fleeing from the mob; others narrowly escaped lynching.
But at least we seem to have escaped from years of serial disappointment.
Chibok girls who escaped or were released have said in interviews that abductees were whipped to persuade them to marry.
One piece of bubble wisdom that has escaped relatively unscathed, however, is the assumption that the “BRIC” countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – will increasingly call the economic tune in years to come.
In Ireland and Spain, the private sector escaped scot-free.
The charm of tragic literature is that we feel that its heroes could have escaped their Fate but do not because of weakness, or pride or blindness.
Even heads of state have not escaped these bodies.
And those who escaped Assad’s henchmen found themselves confronted by the terror of the Islamic State.
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
But one question has largely escaped thorough examination: what Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine indicates about the European Union’s foreign policy.
But some other multiethnic societies such as Tanzania and Burkina Faso have largely escaped communal conflict.
Moreover, eight million jobs were created, 17 million people escaped poverty, and the income of the poorest 50% grew 32% – twice as fast as the income of the richest 10% in the same period.
Without the revelation of secret White House tapes, Nixon almost surely would have escaped impeachment and served out his term.
First, the global significance of US President Barack Obama’s reelection is clear: the world has escaped a disaster for international cooperation.
The near-disappearance of currency crashes in the 2004-2014 period largely reflect low and stable international interest rates and large capital flows to emerging markets, coupled with a commodity price boom and (mostly) healthy growth rates in countries that escaped the global financial crisis.
Sheikh Hasina escaped the massacre of her family only because she was in Germany at the time.
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