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The new parliamentary configuration is likely to have a major impact on Turkey’s foreign policy, which has faced serious challenges in the last few years.
Perhaps more important, the AKP government’s foreign policy has faced considerable criticism from domestic forces, which now have more power to change it – an outcome that will occur regardless of whether the AKP ultimately forms a coalition or a minority government.
It is an issue that has faced President Barack Obama in the wake of reports of Russian hacking during the United States’ recent election cycle.
In the eurozone, countries like Greece faced sovereign-debt crises as bank bailouts turned private debt into public debt.
Some economists claim that governments faced a balance of risk in 2010: Cutting the deficit might have slowed growth; but not committing to cut it might have made things even worse.
The regime faced deep opposition, but also had considerable internal support.
No to Academic Normalization of TrumpCAMBRIDGE – The University of Virginia recently faced a storm of protest after its Miller Center of Public Affairs appointed President Donald Trump’s former Director of Legislative Affairs, Marc Short, to a one-year position as Senior Fellow.
Political parties in the democracies, with no force at their disposal, faced the challenge of actually persuading voters.
Finally, faced by a realization of inevitable failure, participants look for a scapegoat.
May’s government knew that, if the Leave campaign’s deception had been revealed, her Conservative Party, now tethered to Brexit, would have faced a potentially disastrous backlash.
Last year, faced with a controversy that dominated national headlines and inflamed outsiders, locals reacted sensibly and with equanimity.
Bangladesh has long faced the claim that, in accordance with the logic of the 1947 Partition of India, which produced what was then East Pakistan, it should be more Islamic.
Asia’s democracies now risk confronting the same harsh question that the United States faced when Mao Zedong marched into Beijing, and again when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the Shah in Iran.
But, as China’s claims and tactics have come under growing scrutiny, its approach has faced diminishing returns.
Faced with the possibility of invasion and defeat, Saddam threatened to burn Iraq's oil fields.
The Kerner Commission described a country in which African-Americans faced systematic discrimination, suffered from inadequate education and housing, and lacked access to economic opportunities.
Faced with the living, breathing Gorbachev, however, there is awkward silence.
From now on, the costs faced by these marginal producers will set the top and bottom of oil’s trading range.
Or, faced with disruption of its missile program and regime, North Korea could go low-tech, by sending a ship with a dirty bomb into the ports of Los Angeles or New York.
Unfortunately, faced with the growing risks to the dollar’s status, American policymakers, rather than nursing the country’s premier export, seem to be more interested in milking it.
Instead, it faced multi-year re-alignments of both a national and global nature.
Faced with contrary behavior, the economist reacts like the tailor who blames the customer for not fitting their newly tailored suit.
Our models of quantifiable risk fail when faced with radical uncertainty.
Navigating the Anthropocene effectively and ethically is perhaps the most daunting challenge that modern humans have faced.
The US, however, faced no consequences from China.
Both had been unstable for a long time, ruled by secular Ba’athist dictators who faced popular majorities that adhered to a rival Muslim sect, in addition to a large population of Kurds, who have long dreamed of independence.
Admittedly, the reformers, headed by Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s first post-communist prime minister, faced dreadful choices, as the post-communist state had almost disintegrated.
What all such schemes amount to is piling one lot of bonds on top of another in an attempt to square the circle of Greece’s inability to pay, and to minimize the losses faced by its creditors – mostly European banks.
Faced with the spectacular rise of anti-immigrant populism in France, and now with anti-Zionist demonstrations (which often coincide with an updated version of anti-Semitism), the French Jewish community is anguished and puzzled.
Furthermore, because these countries no longer faced current-account constraints, they could spend beyond their means without any immediate apparent damage to their economies.
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