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As Bertolt Brecht famously asked, following the East German Communists’ brutal crackdown on protesting workers in June 1953, “Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”
Bitter controversy marked Jonathan’s ascension to power in May 2010, following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua after only three years in office.
The election was always going to be a challenge, all the more so because, following the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerian politicians had become habituated to rigging polls.
Following prominent left-leaning economists, Sanders rails against the proposed new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), even though it would do much to help the developing world – for example, by opening up Japan’s market to Latin American imports.
The Socialists had initially envisioned a process, following the American example, which was to include successive votes, beginning at the departmental level before continuing to a nationwide poll.
But, following monetary easing and fiscal expansion, it is Abenomics’ third “arrow” that will prove most important – and most politically challenging.
He is also emphasizing the development of renewable energy and power-saving innovations, which became an urgent policy objective following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago.
SEATTLE – Greece is following the road taken by several other crisis-ridden emerging economies over the past 30 years.
Most people, and murderers in particular, fear death, especially when it follows swiftly and with considerable certainty following the commission of a murder.
And, although the 2010 target of universal access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS was not reached, 6.5 million people in developing regions had access by 2011, following an increase of more than 1.4 million in 2010 alone – the largest annual increase ever.
Europe has experienced a mass influx of migrants before; some 700,000 refugees entered the European Union following the 1993 the breakup of Yugoslavia.
But Trump showed little interest in following up on the attack with diplomacy.
If he fails, pressure will mount on the region’s governments to align themselves with China geopolitically, potentially even following its lead in choosing prosperity over freedom.
Most Asian countries are recovering strongly from the global recession that set in following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
The Coming Emerging-Market Debt SqueezeSANTIAGO – Consider the following scenario, one that has played out time and again in emerging-market countries.
The BIS, founded in 1930 to help manage German reparation payments and to coordinate activities among central banks, served as little more than repository for gold reserves in the years following World War II.
In the years following the Armistice, Europe’s leaders failed to transcend the divisions that WWI had laid bare, with the tensions between the French and Germans being particularly destabilizing.
But the biggest lesson for Israel is that it needs to comprehend better the new strategic environment following the Arab Awakening.
Booksellers protested, and the following year John Milton published “Areopagitica,” a foundational statement of our modern philosophy of the right to free expression.
Following the massacre, China’s conservative leaders attempted to reverse the liberalizing reforms that Deng had initiated in the 1980’s, plunging the Chinese economy into recession.
Iran took a big step in that direction following the fall of Mosul on June 10, when regular Iraqi army units disbanded and fled in the face of a few hundred IS fighters.
Following three weeks of fighting in 1962, it was agreed to draw a Line of Actual Control (LAC).
But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power; they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.
I believe that the following four lessons should guide those who are working for change in China and have motivated my actions in this case.
Second, the Bundesbank can always prevent an excessive revaluation by selling deutschmarks and buying foreign assets, following the successful Swiss example of last year.
Had Obama not failed to enforce his chemical-weapons “red line” in Syria a year ago, following an attack on a suburb of Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably would not have been as daring as he was in Ukraine.
Others, following the government’s retreat, grandiosely thought the events amounted to a revolution.
Following independence in 1947, a centralized Indian state emerged for the first time.
But, with one shock following another, the “exit strategy” keeps being deferred.
And Spain clearly has to grapple with its own Irish problem, namely a huge housing over-hang – and probably large losses in the banking sector – following the collapse of an outsized real-estate bubble.
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