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In the US, for example, President George W. Bush’s Patriot Act is being extended, following a series of backroom deals.
The world has already seen the use of even greater and more wanton force against civilians in the city of Homs following China’s veto in the Security Council.
A Time for Action in the Middle EastLONDON – The announcement, following the use of chemical weapons in Syria, of an emergency summit in Jordan this week of military leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar is a welcome development.
Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar’Adua, who took power in June 2007, following controversial elections, is to transform the country into one of the world’s 20 largest economies by 2020.
Even in the turbulent 1990’s, when Nigeria was temporarily suspended from the British Commonwealth following the execution of minority rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa by General Sani Abacha’s regime, the governing elite sought to achieve Nigeria’s “rightful” place in global affairs.
Now, following the companies’ discovery of massive reserves, technocrats appointed by Yar’Adua to take charge of oil policy want Nigeria to get a larger slice of the pie.
This dangerous idea – proposed in France by Jacques Rueff in 1958, adopted throughout Europe over the following two decades, and extended to the European Central Bank – was intended to limit the tendency of capitalist economies to aggravate inflation as soon as they hit full employment.
But it was the third attack, which came the following day, that will prove most devastating to efforts to achieve peace.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev may also insist on Belarus recognizing the independence, declared following last summer’s war, of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, knowing that this would make the EU shrink from further commitments to Belarus.
In June, the European Central Bank, following the example set by the Bank of England in 2012, identified “bank credit for the real economy” as a new policy goal.
It is now vital for other countries to carry out "national assessments" of the effects of long-term climate change, following the example of the US study.
As a result, any more Russian efforts to establish even informal suzerainty over the Soviet successor states are, following the dismemberment of Georgia, likely to meet Chinese resistance.
Following this show of force, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis disingenuously stated that, “Obviously, we are not getting engaged in the Syrian civil war.”
There are not two or three Argentina's, one following the experiment that I described above, and another adopting the policies that I prefer.
They have a following, which might be growing, fueled by the widespread anxiety about terrorism spilling over from the Middle East.
The New Face of the United NationsOn January 1, 2007, Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea’s former foreign minister, will become United Nations Secretary-General, following Kofi Annan’s ten-year tenure.
I did not agree with Yushchenko’s decision to appoint Yanukovych prime minister following last year’s parliamentary election.
Only in January of this year, following the LDP’s landslide election victory, did the BOJ set a target of 2% price growth and issue a joint announcement with the government taking aim at deflation.
But following Labour’s victory in 1997, Prime Minister Tony Blair was keen to bring the euro to Britain and was prevented only by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown’s tactical procrastination and eventual refusal to give up the pound.
Except for the interlude following the collapse of the dot-com bubble in 2001, growth in the UK and continental Europe was supercharged by the oodles of paper assets, functioning as quasi-money, produced by banks.
But, following the collapse of talks to form a new coalition, Merkel suddenly seems mortal.
Fortunately, following the 2016 round of stress tests, the EBA is now also considering this type of regulatory sanction.
Following an impressive election victory by his Syriza party in January, Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, appointed Varoufakis to lead the delicate negotiations with the country’s creditors.
Indeed, it is forgotten all too often that the US de facto withdrew from the country once before, following the Soviet retreat of February 1989.
Besides, which country can claim to be following its pure "traditional culture"?
So far, that transformation, initiated following legislative elections in November 2010, has been breathtaking.
In 1989, following the Soviet Union’s exit from Afghanistan, the US lost interest in what it now calls AfPak – Afghanistan-Pakistan.
Financial firms sell assets, like Treasury bonds or real-estate securities, for cash, and promise to buy those assets back (i.e., to repurchase them or, for short, to do a “repo”), typically the following day.
The divisions are no less marked in another transatlantic quarrel, this one over whether to lift the European Union’s embargo on arms exports to China, imposed following the Tiananmen Square massacre 15 years ago.
Following the Asian crisis, the region’s economies underwent intense internal and external scrutiny.
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