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Likewise, China might oppose "Operation CIS."Until recently, China feared that Russia's withdrawal from the region would create a vacuum that the US would fill.
Even in the days of the Shah, the Kingdom feared that a strong Iran might become the dominant regional power.
Such a basic law would not automatically mean transformation of today’s union into the federal supra-state feared by Eurosceptics.
But Bolivia's impoverished population had been ripped off too many times and feared, understandably, that gas revenues would accrue to foreigners or to Bolivia's own rich.
In the 1960s, President Johnson feared the risk of a new 1930s-style Great Depression, and responded with an increase in domestic social spending ("the Great Society") at the same time as the escalation of the war in Vietnam boosted military expenditure.
Canada’s depreciated currency made American goods more expensive in Canada By doing so, a feared explosion of U.S. imports did not take place.
The reason is simple: the US authorities checked whether their banks could survive the sort of downturn that the market feared most at the time.
It can drive the real over-investment cycles feared by Austrian-school economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and can drive harmful booms and busts in prices of existing assets, as described by Hyman Minsky.
Trump, like Nixon, may have feared that unless he fired the person in charge of investigating him, some terrible revelation would be forthcoming.
The Japanese finally surrendered because they feared an invasion by the Soviet Union.
At the very moment when today's candidate countries strive for EU membership, EU enlargement is feared by those states that are unlikely to join the Union for the foreseeable future.
To do so, it is feared, would give implicit support to the skeptics, which is taboo.
Many of Rivero's old friends feared that talking to the poet would endanger them, and he appeared lonely.
Increased resolution authority will help, but only a little: in the last crisis, US government “blinked,” failed to use the powers that it had, and needlessly bailed out shareholders and bondholders – all because it feared that doing otherwise would lead to economic trauma.
I vividly recall a time in my life when many people feared that starvation would soon run rampant, gaps between the rich and poor would grow ever wider, and everything would eventually come crashing down.
As a result, whatever the final tally, banks will likely get off easier than authorities had feared.
Excessive population growth, it was feared, would outpace agricultural production and create yet more poverty.
And yet, many feared eruptions within and between states did not occur.
Small-town bankers throughout the country wanted government-guaranteed deposit insurance, while stronger big-city banks feared that government deposit insurance would put them at a competitive disadvantage.
In any case, the new policies should reassure those who feared that China’s central government either would simply watch the bubble inflate or that it lacked a sufficiently independent macroeconomic policy to intervene.
This is what Masuru Hayami, the former governor of the Bank of Japan, feared when he resisted calls for more monetary stimulus.
Putin’s Undercover LiberalismWhen Vladimir Putin was elected Russia's president little more than a ago, people expected the smack of firm government -- something most Russians wanted and most outsiders feared.
After World War II, the Lord brothers feared that depression could return, so they liquidated their enterprise and split up.
It was this seeming provocation that inspired lawmakers to act, for they feared a communal divide within the educational system.
A country whose weight in Middle East politics has stemmed more from its role as an engine of the Arab-Israeli conflict than from its objective military or economic power, Syria under the Assads always feared that abandoning ideological confrontation with the Zionist enemy would undermine the regime.
One could also argue that the consequences of reform would not be as organizationally disastrous as feared – in the same way that cleaning up backwaters like the Vatican Bank would restore credibility to the Church’s spiritual message.
A Summit to the DeathOXFORD – As many feared and most expected, the just-concluded European summit left much to be desired.
More and more, Israel began to be infected by precisely the type of politics most Jews have traditionally feared, especially ethnic nationalism.
Political parties and others who mobilized opposition to the EDC feared a remilitarized Germany and a threat to France’s sovereignty.
They feared the financial burden of new requirements to provide social services to urban migrants.
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