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As a leading member of the BJP, Swaraj had never faced the wrath of her party’s troll army until the recent debacle.
Even worse, faced with an erosion of their voter base, many mainstream parties are playing catch-up with these destructive forces, engaging in EU-bashing of their own.
The Left Must Vote for MacronLONDON – In 2002, Jacques Chirac, the French right’s leader, faced Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the racist National Front, in the second round of France’s presidential election.
The ICJ, which instead deals with controversies between states, was faced with Bosnia’s claim that Serbia was responsible for the Srebrenica massacre.
The fact that the coup was undertaken with massive popular support is a sign of the enormous difficulties faced by the Muslim Brotherhood during its first turn in power.
In this sense, Egypt’s difficulties differ only in scope, not in kind, from those faced by governments in Turkey, Brazil, and even Europe.
But it also faced opposition from a variety of other, far less democratically minded, forces, including holdovers from Hosni Mubarak’s regime, who continue to wield influence in official institutions.
Morsi and the Brotherhood also faced competition from Saudi-backed Salafists.
Now he is faced with a strategic nightmare come true: Iran’s possible integration into the international community without having to dismantle its nuclear-weapons potential.
Rajapaksa is thus placing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the same difficult position faced in Myanmar by Suu Kyi.
Now he is faced with the question of how to use networks to govern.
Faced with a major converging advance, the Turks decided to evacuate their forward positions, enabling the British to enter the city on March 11 th , 1917.
We know that this will happen, and we know that people do not always make the wisest decisions when faced with deprivation of an essential resource.
Faced with mounting corruption scandals, both Lula and former President Dilma Rousseff, also of the Workers’ Party, routinely invoked us-versus-them rhetoric.
To realize his liberal dream of national unification, Moon will have to confront a much larger challenge than anything his predecessors faced.
Yet many of its citizens recently faced eviction by Spanish banks that had been bailed out by their taxes.
Alas, Colau soon realized that she faced insurmountable obstacles.
Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), faced with the daunting task of ending two decades of stagnation.
Soon enough, Iraq was faced with a new social divide.
Notwithstanding Obama’s skillful response to the Arab Spring – the only strategic surprise that he has faced as president – his credibility in the Muslim world has steadily declined.
To be sure, Obama faces a more complex diplomatic and strategic environment than Nixon faced in the 1970’s.
Faced with a balance-of-payments surplus – largely thanks to high oil prices – the RCB’s 2005 Monetary Program fudges: reducing inflation is a priority, but so is exchange-rate targeting in order to support growth.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.
But even with more effective leaders, Italy would have faced EU headwinds.
Faced with little regulatory restraint, banks overdosed on risky loans.
Faced with this reality, Swedish authorities can limit the impact of electoral meddling by focusing more on restoring social and political stability.
Faced with 1.2 million (highly vocal) Canadians of Ukrainian descent, the Harper government’s strong response to the crisis also reflects domestic political necessity.
Having faced successive contamination crises in recent years--first BSE and then hoof and mouth disease--we feel particularly insecure about food.
The government, faced with lower budget revenues, is likely to issue new debt, but without being able to specify how it will be repaid.
Faced with a nuclear-armed Iran, the Gulf Cooperation Council members, for example, will be forced to weigh their options carefully – and possibly to acquire a nuclear deterrent of their own.
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