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Interestingly, in 1897 the US faced circumstances similar to today.
Faced with bloated fiscal deficits, today's newly cost-conscious welfare states are economizing in the use of expensive life-extending technologies.
The United States – which faced considerable public debt, but had lost little in the way of physical assets – naturally assumed a leadership role in this process.
When faced by a US bent upon bloody vengeance, an acute institutional sense of survival sent the military establishment scurrying to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its former creation, the Taliban and their Amir-ul-Momineen (leader of the pious).
Is the Middle East faced with a neo-Ottoman Turkey’s irresistible rise to regional power?
Curie faced immense gender barriers during her career.
Herzog would then confront the same dilemma that his predecessors faced in 2009 and 2013.
If central banks are faced with a massive hit to their balance sheets, it will not necessarily be the end of the world.
Faced with credit losses, a central bank can either dig its way out through inflation or await recapitalization by taxpayers.
Institution building is painful and laborious ("a slow boring of hard boards," as Max Weber called it), as evidenced in the recurrent crises faced by African countries from Nigeria to Botswana.
But I faced a new surprise the following week, when, on the same TV program, the hostess was rather passive towards her guest, a militant journalist turned mercenary journalist, as he confessed his admiration for Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the “Captain” of the Iron Guard, the far-right Orthodox terrorist organization of the pre-war years.
First, nations faced with conflicting claims to water have historically found ways to collaborate rather than to fight.
But the talks faced considerable headwinds.
Indeed, one key factor impeding consumption is the imperative faced by China’s older workers to save for retirement.
Refugees like Shabbir faced a minimum of nine months before their first encounter with any official who would receive their asylum application.
This implies that intervention is not only unnecessary; it is ineffective: Faced with wide swings and trading volumes of $2 trillion per day, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal.
Faced with fewer traditional employment opportunities, many poor women have no choice but to go into business for themselves; to succeed, they need government support.
Faced with this uncertainty about the future of liberal democracy in Russia, how should western countries respond?
Building on the sentiments of his encyclical letter, Laudato Si’, Francis highlighted the international community’s responsibility to respond to human suffering, such as that faced by refugees and those living in extreme poverty, and called for global solidarity in order to overcome social exclusion and inequality.
Even Sweden faced riots this year, as did the United Kingdom in 2011.
Since 1995, there were 26 reforms of migration policies in the EU-15: two-thirds tightened regulations by increasing procedural obstacles faced by visa applicants, reducing the duration of work permits, or making family reunification more difficult.
Faced with such significant obstacles, it is not surprising that the High-Level Working Group has settled on a more modest measure of success for TTIP negotiations.
When the voters decide in the spring of 2007, their choice may depend more on negative than positive considerations, as it did in 2002, when Chirac faced the odious nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round.
NATO faced off against the Warsaw Pact, created by the Soviet Union and its allies in 1955.
Meanwhile, faced with a large federal budget deficit, many American voters would welcome reduced spending on nuclear weapons.
The world has faced a difficult period during the past six years.
In Uganda, although citizens campaigning against corruption or in favor of gay rights often faced a hostile public, they didn’t face jail time for demonstrating.
Faced by a United States bent upon bloody vengeance, Pakistan’s military establishment scurried to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its own creation, the Taliban.
There must be some assurance by Latin America’s democracies that this will not be allowed to happen – an assurance that could protect them should they ever be faced with a similar catastrophe.
Faced with double-digit growth in inventory, real-estate developers slashed investment.
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