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Chaudhry was
fired
again, a move accompanied this time by a wider shakeup of the already shaken-up judiciary.
Perhaps more remarkably, in a country containing more than 12 million guns, the protesters have not
fired
a shot.
China admitted to no deaths among the Tibetan protesters, claiming that its security forces had exercised restraint and had not even
fired
a single shot.
Stabilizing UkraineMADRID – Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with scarcely a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea.
On labor reforms, he fought the unions head on, but he chose the wrong fight: Italy's infamous "Article 18," which allows labor courts to return a worker to his job if a judge believes that the worker was unjustly
fired.
One of the key incidents in turning world opinion against South Africa’s apartheid regime was the 1961 Sharpeville massacre, in which police
fired
on a crowd of black protesters, killing 69 and wounding many more.
Yet the Harvard study shows that he is responsible for the deaths of 5,000 times as many black South Africans as the white South African police who
fired
on the crowd at Sharpeville.
Mbeki’s health minister, who notoriously suggested that AIDS could be cured by the use of garlic, lemon juice, and beetroot, was promptly
fired.
Goldstone also documented attacks against Israeli civilians by Hamas, and did not restrict himself to a discussion of the notorious rockets indiscriminately
fired
from Gaza.
When possible, Trump has
fired
those who disagree with him.
When she became the first woman to be British Prime Minister, she
fired
the ambitions of countless young women around the world (including mine).
Likewise, the reform-minded education and science minister, Dmitry Livanov, has been
fired
and replaced with the faceless apparatchik Olga Vasilyeva, a rare woman appointee known only for her Stalinist views (imagine the French president handing an important cabinet position to a mid-level official from the far-right National Front).
The West’s greatest strength is democracy; it is what has enabled us to secure peace for two generations and bring an end to communist rule in Europe almost without a shot being
fired.
His nightmarish scenario: a coalition between China and Islam forms against the West, and a nuclear warhead, transported by a Chinese-Iranian missile, is
fired
from Algeria into France.
Anything can trigger such an act: rejection by a girl, being
fired
from a job, failing an examination.
Just as Israel has frequently been attacked by rockets
fired
from across its border with Gaza, India has suffered repeated assaults by killers trained, equipped, financed, and directed by elements based next door in Pakistan.
As one Argentine friend explained, the government
fired
the statisticians who had tried to provide accurate measures of inflation and replaced them with political allies who would produce artificially low numbers.
Meanwhile, in Syria, “the people” rose up, were
fired
upon, took up arms, were manipulated, and began a cycle of sectarian killing and revenge that can only fracture them further.
In a nation like the US, where employees can be
fired
easily, shareholders have less to fear.
The powerful head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, an alleged former KGB officer and friend of Putin’s, was
fired.
This may serve Germany’s narrow self-interest, but it will create a very different Europe from the open society that
fired
people’s imagination and propelled European integration for decades.
In the last few weeks, Kenyatta, a son of Kenya’s first president,
fired
a third of his cabinet, in his own words, “to curb rampant corruption.”
China has
fired
back with a plan to slap 25% levies on a range of US goods, also worth about $50 billion.
And, in the comprehensive National Asian American Survey 9% of respondents reported being unfairly denied a job or fired, and 12.9% alleged that they had been unfairly denied a promotion at work.
Only a few days ago, Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system intercepted a rocket
fired
from Sinai that was aimed at the port of Eilat.
Just as a CEO with a record not only of poor performance, but also of massive corporate misconduct, should be fired, so, too, should political leaders be held to a similar standard.
The Egypt-Israel Peace TestWASHINGTON, DC – The rocket strikes that a militant Islamist group recently
fired
from the Egyptian Sinai into the Israeli city of Eilat served as yet another reminder of how delicate bilateral relations remain two years after Egypt’s revolution.
The fact that Gazan militants have
fired
missiles on Israeli civilians, and continue to do so, is irrelevant.
The Egyptian army
fired
Czechoslovak 130mm rockets while Syrian MIGs fought Israeli Skyhawks over the Golan Heights.
The closest anyone has come to putting some international fizz into the campaign was when US President Barack Obama
fired
a couple of warning shots across the UK’s bow.
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