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But it will no longer be able to condemn the US for not signing environmental treaties, or point a finger at China for its massive output of pollution.
Common Sense on Conflict MineralsLONDON – “That diamond upon your finger, say how came it yours?” asks Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
In China, a recent craze was pygmy marmosets, also known as “finger monkeys” because they are small enough to sit on your finger.
Like the Nixon/Connolly team, the Bush administration is responding to America's massive budget and trade deficits by letting the dollar fall--and hard --while it also tries to distract attention from its responsibility by pointing an accusing finger at China as the cause for both US joblessness and deflationary pressures.
Pointing the finger at surplus countries is getting old.
But Trump won an election in 2016, so he is holding up a stained finger as if that is the only thing that matters.
Gligorov remembered looking up at his grandfather to correct him, and his grandfather placing his index finger over his mouth to silence him.
It has already been speculated, with reason, that Flynn will point a finger at Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
China, it now seems, is happy to see Putin poke his finger in the West’s eye and challenge America’s global leadership.
This time, the Kremlin has stuck its finger in the West’s eye over the long and painful effort to bring Kosovo to formal independence.
He pokes out his little finger and he alone goes boom.
The Diplomacy Of BlackmailWARSAW: If someone asked me to point to a decisive factor that helped build democracy and markets in Eastern Europe, I would jab my finger at western blackmail.
Putting an Australian mining executive behind bars for ten years, squeezing out Google, keeping the European Union at bay for an important dialogue, and letting a mid-level official wag his finger at US President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Climate summit is not, after all, the best way to convince partners of your constructive intentions.
NEW YORK – Most of the world has spent the last two years thinking that Russian President Vladimir Putin is twisting his US counterpart, Donald Trump, around his little finger.
The American negotiators who are planning to play an active role in the indirect talks, and will for the first time sit at the negotiating table if face-to-face talks do take place, have apparently promised the Palestinians that the US will point its finger at the party that dares to derail the negotiations.
These efforts prove that, with the press of a button and the swipe of a finger, two million refugee children in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan could be offered the opportunity to continue their studies.
After the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 led the international community to finger Syria as the culprit, Assad stonewalled a United Nations tribunal investigating the matter and silenced domestic critics by once again conjuring foreign bogeymen scheming to weaken the country.
So its popular use seems not to reflect anything we can put our finger on, but instead a general feeling that markets are bubbly and a lack of confidence in their levels.
What else can explain the treatment of Obama on his first trip to China and during the disastrous 2009 climate-change conference in Copenhagen, where a relatively minor Chinese official wagged his finger in the face of the US president?
Bush pointed his finger primarily elsewhere.
There has been a lot of finger pointing, with commentators blaming issues like gerrymandering, rising economic inequality, the campaign finance system, and unbalanced journalism.
Politicians, of course, don’t want to blame voters for their profligacy; it is much easier to point the finger at others.
Here, too, there is considerable finger pointing.
For example, there have been publications of equally insensitive anti-Semitic cartoons in many Arab countries, against which no Muslim ever raised a finger.
The danger that the Czech people might, once again, fall prey to an aggressor who would attack us, certain that the democratic world would not lift a finger to intervene, is irrevocably receding into the past.
On the surface, each of the four suspects has an individual case for arguing that the finger of blame should be pointed elsewhere.
The Gambler of North KoreaSEOUL – After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.
But it certainly was unwise to allow a junior official to shout and wag his finger at Obama at one of the key Copenhagen meetings.
In the early 1970s, US President Richard Nixon adopted the tactic to convince the North Vietnamese that he had his finger on the “nuclear button,” and that they had better negotiate a deal to end the war – or else.
Two Cheers for China’s Climate ObstructionCOPENHAGEN – Since the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure, many politicians and pundits have pointed the finger at China’s leaders for blocking a binding, global carbon-mitigation treaty.
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