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This could have incited a complicated situation where Russians were faced with tough visa requirements when travelling between Kaliningrad and Russia proper.
The common threat of international terrorism must be faced jointly.
When faced with such major social problems, a preference for ignorance over knowledge is difficult to defend.
Do international tribunals of the sort Milosevic faced before his death promote or postpone serious self-reflection and reconciliation in damaged societies?
Many Russian banks were heavily exposed in foreign markets, and therefore faced severe financial problems once the crisis hit.
Indeed, in 2005, when one of us (Werner) recommended such policies to prevent “recurring banking crises,” he faced vehement criticism.
Chronically ill, Colombia has returned to the same critical juncture it faced a decade ago.
After 14 years of devastating war, we faced enormous challenges.
Faced with private deleveraging in the 1990s, Japan avoided an even deeper depression only by running large public deficits.
Now, faced with an alarming risk of a renewed escalation of fighting, it’s time for the United Nations Security Council to step in to end the bloodshed, based on a new framework agreed by the Council’s permanent members.
Japan’s massive QQE campaign has faced similar traction problems.
When we are faced with conflicting choices – burden-sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. – the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide.
Despite more than two decades of on-again, off-again negotiations, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is pushing the world toward a strategic watershed much like the one that the West faced 60 years ago, when the United States and the Soviet Union faced off against each other in Europe.
[Supplementary infographics below]Germany’s Anti-Populist ExceptionalismBERLIN – As Germany prepares for this month’s federal election, the country seems remarkably resistant to the populist challenge that other Western societies have faced.
All that time, he faced consistent political pressure to determine a positive inflation target that would halt the country’s deflationary spiral.
When push came to shove, Varoufakis faced the difficult choice of going along with more of the same, despite knowing that it would fail, or trying to pivot to a new approach.
Fola had minimal support from colleagues to overcome the obstacles and frustrations he faced daily.
Faced with the horror of what the Nazis had done, most people found it psychologically easier to think of what had happened as the behavior of mentally unhinged individuals, or the result of some sort of collective fugue.
China’s leaders will thus be faced with the classic emerging-market dilemma.
Third, faced with chronic economic disorder and political instability, Egyptians increasingly lament the “hijacking” of the revolution, fueling mistrust of the country’s governing elites.
Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.
But the update has proved ineffective, as exemplified by the situation faced by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the secure messaging system used for global cross-border financial transactions.
On top of the damage from the global economy’s woes, the eurozone was faced with a looming Greek government bankruptcy.
Energy companies have long been known to make false statements about climate change intentionally, just as mining companies and manufacturing firms, whether in clothing or tech, have persistently turned a blind eye to terrible, even abusive, conditions faced by their workers.
Deprived of the right to vote, of political representation, and of access to hospitals and schools, they have faced pogroms whenever the military that has tyrannized Myanmar for a half-century has tired of starving them.
For most of that time, and in most places, the Shia have faced discrimination – and often lethal violence – at the hands of Sunnis.
These promises meant a great deal to Sharon as he faced domestic political challenges.
The mainstream media, faced with a president who might sometimes be badly uninformed and yet really believes what he is saying, hesitate to label conspicuously false statements as lies.
Almost everyone on the European continent, exhausted by war, and faced with the shattered institutions of their ravaged nation-states, agreed.
Protests have already toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, leaving other Arab countries faced with widespread discontent.
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