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Others are fighting on – calling an extraordinary shareholders meeting, complaining to Government, possibly suing.
Countries are increasingly fighting asymmetric wars against terrorist groups.
Four days' heavy fighting left the British with 4,500 casualties.
If Putin and his team were to start changing the system – genuinely fighting corruption, and perhaps releasing Khodorkovsky – the response would be positive.
And the Middle East is burning just next door: the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, and against foreign tourists in Tunisia, remind Europe that hundreds of homegrown jihadists could return from fighting in Syria, Iraq, or elsewhere and launch further attacks.
Competition between them works because it involves fighting for the best students and offering scholarships to deserving poor ones.
If China is serious about reform, it will need armies of people like these, fighting for their rights, in order to balance the overwhelming political power of its entrenched elites.
The BOJ, by demonstrating that aggressive money creation is a legitimate approach to fighting deflation, has broken previously sacrosanct conventions.
But we Iraqis have also learned that power should not be concentrated in a few hands, and that establishing justice requires fighting all forms of corruption.
Double bladed Chinook helicopters, diverted from fighting Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, now fly over the heartland of jihad and the militant training camps in Mansehra to drop food and tents a few miles beyond.
They employ fighting men of their own, to be sure, but the black-suited men come from a world of contracts, treaties, and big government.
Industrial-country governments all around the world now took fighting depression to be their first and highest economic priority, so that savers and businesses had no reason to worry that the hard times that followed 1873, 1884, or 1929 would return.
Four years after the outbreak of the country’s civil war, and despite the horrific humanitarian consequences of the fighting, international diplomacy to stop the violence has achieved nothing.
There are limits to how far that struggle will go, but the Palestinians are not going to stop fighting among themselves or against Israel.
But officials concede that they may be fighting a losing battle.
Just as during the Cold War, when Latin American leaders were lavished with aid for fighting communist subversion, governments seek to fight “terrorist” threats at America’s expense.
There are also risks that the US will get involved much more heavily in the fighting in Pakistan.
Egypt’s military regime, led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has been unrelentingly hostile toward Hamas, blaming it for the fighting in Sinai between the army and insurgent groups.
With nothing to lose, Hamas decided that another round of fighting with Israel was the only way to shake things up.
As the entire international community is fighting radicalization and terrorism, we firmly believe that this effort must be part of an overall endeavor aimed at building a better world, based on cultural diversity, in which human dignity, human rights, and fundamental freedom are properly respected.
In the fall of 2001, when fighting broke out between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, I could not travel and was stranded at a roadside teahouse for several weeks.
Bush was also able to partly change the tone of the US message in the hemisphere: from free trade and fighting terrorism, to combating poverty and strengthening democracy and human rights.
The most extreme example of such intolerance today – which much of the world is now fighting – is the religious totalitarianism of ISIS.
Is it supporting real development needs, such as growing more food, fighting disease, or building transport, energy, and communications infrastructure?
Iran seeks to project its influence in support of the region’s historically dominant Shia populations, while Saudi Arabia pushes back by arming rebel factions opposing Syria’s Iranian-backed president, Bashar al-Assad, and by fighting what it views as an Iranian presence in its own backyard, in Yemen.
The peaceful vote in Montenegro last weekend may presage conflict and difficult decisions about independence, but chances are strong that the parties will settle these matters by talking rather than fighting.
Fighting the French ExceptionEurope's attention nowadays is rightly focused on enlargement and on the constitution that is currently being worked out between the EU's member states.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, moreover, democracies are more effective both politically and operationally, particularly in terms of their intelligence services.
At the same time, the rule-of-law approach to fighting terrorism must be a pillar of European cooperation with third countries, namely with those of the Mediterranean, or with Pakistan, thereby contributing to a security culture that is conducive to democratization.
To be fair, central banks are not immune to manipulation, and fighting off political pressures is an endless battle.
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