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Establishing a formal standing group (such as existed before France withdrew from the command structure in 1966) may be necessary, with Italy possibly included.
These markets existed also in the Soviet Union at a time when great efforts were made to suppress them.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
Yet ever since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Russia and China have sought to rekindle the close relations that once supposedly existed between the USSR and Mao’s China before Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin in 1956.
Either the president acted now, or Ukraine would return to the absolute rule of criminal clans that existed before our Orange Revolution in 2004.
The Welfare State's Fragile FoundationsTensions have existed between liberty and equality ever since modern democracy placed citizenship at the root of political legitimacy.
Much of what must be done entails not the rebuilding of atrophied or destroyed institutions, but rather the establishment of institutions that never existed.
But the UN Watercourses Convention’s entry into force raises as many new questions as existed in the period before its ratification.
But a society where the elite’s pursuit of money is elevated above all other human endeavors is a far cry from any kind of Confucianism that may have existed in the past.
Others, wistfully recalling a nation-state that never really existed, cling to national sovereignty as a reason to refuse further European integration.
The rule of law that Shevardnadze promised existed merely on paper.
For decades our world existed under a shell of bipolarity, with two power blocs opposing each other on values, ideas and political convictions.
In any given year, roughly 10 million such “laborers” existed.
There is no provision in the US Constitution to guarantee that the US will always pay its debts, but the American Republic has proven itself for 200-plus years to be about as good a credit risk as has ever existed.
His aggression has dispelled whatever doubts had existed as to whether the transatlantic bond still mattered.
I feel like some communist true believer who, in the 1930s, suddenly realized that terror existed in the Soviet Union.
Anecdotal evidence of publication bias has existed for a long time.
It is worth recalling that more than one-third of employment growth in the US since 1990 has come from jobs that did not exist, or barely existed, 25 years ago.
More fundamentally, monetary unions – in a broader sense – have existed not only within single states, but also in groups of sovereign states, the gold standard being the most notable example in history.
Second, they existed without any fiscal transfers from a common center, because such a center did not exist.
The EEC was established in 1957, and the official aspiration then, as it is now for the EU, was to recreate the Europe of Charlemagne that existed more than a thousand years ago.
Rudra assumed that caste existed in ancient India because, despite the unreliable historical record, the caste system is so manifest even today.
How did ancient Indian princes tie labor to the land if neither feudalism nor caste existed?
The dynamic of competition and emulation among China, Japan, and South Korea has not existed in peacefully reconciled post-WWII Europe; there is nothing like it in Africa, either.
Is corruption something that has always existed here but was somehow hidden until now?
What is coming to light is a much deeper evil, a loss of values within Israeli society and its government, such as never existed before.
The truth is that transatlantic differences have existed for a long time.
Fears over the effect of immigration on national values and on a coherent sense of American identity have existed since the nation’s early years.
Significantly, these majorities existed in Muslim countries as well.
Though centrist and right-wing resistance organizations also existed, they were incomparable to their communist-driven counterparts on the left, in terms of both size and influence.
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