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When Obama was faced with a campaign crisis over incendiary racial remarks by his former pastor, he did not simply distance himself from the problem, but made use of the episode to deliver a speech that served to broaden the understanding and identities of both white and black Americans.
Hamas faced an intensifying crisis.
Addressing the sense of injustice, siege, and alienation faced by young Muslims is not a victory for the extremists.
Only when fiscal austerity is implemented (or at least threatened), and a population is faced with rising unemployment and widespread economic misery, is a country motivated to pursue them.
For example, in 2009, Jamaica was faced with a plummeting currency, surging unemployment, and considerable banking-sector risks stemming from exposure to government debt.
The proposal turned out to be a step too far and subsequently went down in Dutch history as “black Monday,” named after the day on which the then foreign minister, Hans Van den Broek, faced near-unanimous opposition in the European Council of Ministers.
Even now, many of the losses that bankers should have faced are being shouldered by the public sector, including through various forms of direct support and the extraordinary and risky actions of the European Central Bank.
Of course, my decision faced plenty of criticism.
Unable to treat her patient, and with no access to an ambulance, the health worker faced a choice.
The fact that Saudi Arabia intervened thus highlights the severity of the threat it faced once the Houthis had overthrown Yemen’s legitimate government and seized control of Sana’a.
And he faced a Congress and an economics profession with a tendency to confuse these real demons with imaginary ones.
But foreign investors remain aware of the challenges faced by certain countries.
The Roots of German OpennessPARIS – “Germany, Germany,” shout thousands of refugees, faced with the obvious bad will of Hungary’s political authorities, in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station.
China’s current macroeconomic situation shares many similarities with the situation that it faced in 2007 and the best part of 2008, when, owing to strong investment and export demand, GDP growth surged significantly beyond its potential.
Shouldn't equal consideration for the political constraints faced by President Kostunica and the sensitivities of the Serbian people be given?
Faced with US President Barack Obama’s reluctance to challenge China’s muscle-flexing and territorial ambitions in Asia – reflected in Japan’s recent split with the US over China’s new Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) – an increasingly desperate Abe was compelled to let both countries know that restraint cannot be one-sided.
Indeed, Romania’s reformers confronted conditions that the Polish, Hungarian, and Russian reform governments had faced when communism first collapsed.
For example, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz’s World Bank stint, from June 2005 to July 2007, was a disaster, but the US faced no consequences (such as losing the right to choose the next nominee).
Hugo Chavez's government faced a widespread opposition strike, whose intent was not only to demonstrate popular opposition, but also to starve the government of revenue.
In the absence of an analog to the West’s Industrial Revolution, Muslims (and especially Arabs) have faced multiple humiliations and partial colonization over the past two centuries.
The report also details the destruction of schools, the post-conflict mental health problems faced by the young, and the imprisonment of children.
Faced with an entrenched status quo, many Sikhs of less privileged backgrounds became disillusioned.
Faced with re-imposition of harsher measures, and with the pragmatists continuing their push to steer the country in a new direction, Qadaffi relented, trading the nuclear program for political normalization.
The difficulties of living in such circumstances, however, are surely less daunting than the hazards David would have faced had he stayed in the orphanage – assuming that he would have survived at all.
Over the past decade, the bloc has faced two profound challenges, and it is now in the process of confronting a third.
In recent years, markets have faced an unusually large (and expanding) set of unconventional political statements and maneuvers.
Any state faced with insurrection from within would do the same.
Faced with an invasion of Russian state-minded companies, EU member states are tempted to ring-fence certain sectors of their economies (such as domestic energy markets), threatening the liberal economic order that is at the centre of the European project.
In fact, China has long faced criticism for its meager provision of humanitarian aid.
That was the situation faced by European leaders last autumn.
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