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In November of last year, the US Federal Reserve’s decision to launch a new cycle of “quantitative easing” (buying up government bonds through monetary creation) triggered
fierce
criticism in Europe.
The Roman Catholic Church, after a long period of
fierce
resistance, also has adapted successfully to pluralist competition, legitimating it theologically in the declarations on religious liberty that began with the Second Vatican Council.
In 2003, the cash-strapped government decided to “decentralize” various public services to the district level, fueling
fierce
competition for limited resources.
To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Africa confronts the
fierce
urgency of now.
Lobbying was fierce, and is said to have reached into the White House.
The competition is
fierce
to attract the project, and usually involves tax breaks, commitments on infrastructure, and even promises about the engineering curriculum in the local university.
Further eastward expansion of NATO, however, will be possible only against
fierce
Russian resistance.
But, while the OMT program’s positive impact on financial markets is proof of its success, it has come under
fierce
attack by the German public, political parties, and economists.
But it was delayed because of the
fierce
opposition of Narendra Modi, then-Chief Minister of the western state of Gujarat.
Moreover,
fierce
attacks on Muslims started to come from people who, raised in deeply religious families, had turned into radical leftists in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The sharp tone and
fierce
partisanship of the past 13 years have been cast aside.
This August on the 50th anniversary of Japan's defeat in WWII, hard-line Politburo member Liu Huaging invoked memories of "successive and
fierce
aggression by imperialist powers" to insinuate that certain antagonistic countries "will not accept a powerful and prosperous China."
James Williams, a Google engineer turned academic, argues that the digital age has unleashed
fierce
competition for our attention, and few have benefited more than Trump, who is for the Internet what Ronald Reagan was for television.
After ten years of a large-scale repression, the fire, far from going out, is spreading, crossing borders, setting Northern Caucasus ablaze and making combatants even more
fierce.
Having agreed to delegate responsibility for monetary policy to the European Central Bank, most governments put up
fierce
resistance to any further transfer of sovereignty.
The
fierce
debate concerning the presidency underscored the symbolic significance of the post in Turkey’s domestic balance of power.
Groups like the World Health Organization – which came under
fierce
criticism during the Ebola crisis – can learn from the 80% of American non-profit boards that have a formal process in place for a yearly evaluation of their CEO.
The negotiations over those proposals are expected to be
fierce.
By the time the IMF approved anything, however, Gaidar had been ousted by a
fierce
political reaction.
The rulings were met with
fierce
criticism by some journalists and politicians but were enthusiastically welcomed by others.
National passions, unduly exalted in the decline of religion, burned beneath the surface of nearly every land with fierce, if shrouded, fires.
As anyone who followed Latin America’s debt crisis of the 1980s knows, the question is not merely one of laws but of implementation, and that takes time and
fierce
determination.
When the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, himself a
fierce
anti-Zionist, fails to see much wrong with a mural in London depicting evil, hook-nosed plutocrats playing Monopoly over the naked backs of suffering workers, one might be forgiven for seeing a link between Corbyn’s praise of Hamas and a more old-fashioned type of anti-Semitism.
What Corbyn and Livingstone represent is a sectarian hard left, driven largely by a
fierce
hostility to what they perceive as Western imperialism (or “neo-colonialism”), and racism against non-white people.
While implementation will be a long struggle, with occasionally
fierce
resistance, key reforms are already underway.
President Xi Jinping faces the politically risky task of pushing the CCP’s reform agenda against
fierce
opposition while the economy slows.
But the government-controlled media subsequently launched
fierce
attacks against them, targeting Primakov especially, since he was considered a serious rival to Putin and a legitimate presidential contender.
Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a
fierce
public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.
But there is
fierce
resistance to this by those who say they are fighting grave mental disorders, for which medication is the only viable treatment.
However
fierce
the global competition, they should concentrate on safeguarding quality and achieving excellence in research and education.
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