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Gordon Brown, as British Chancellor of the Exchequer, followed in Thatcher’s footsteps.
I hope that it is the fact of European interdependence - an interdependence carefully constructed by Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer, and those who followed in their footsteps - and not the memory of the horror of World War II that has caused the armies that used to cross the Rhine in arms to vanish.
Some may one day follow in the footsteps of Souad Abderrahim, who was elected the first woman mayor of Tunis with the support of the Islamist Ennahda Movement.
Obama’s surrender exemplified the doctrine that one retreat often leads to another, with new lobbyists following in others’ footsteps.
To be sure, many countries adopted English, French, or Portuguese as their official languages, and European missionaries, who often followed in the colonizers’ footsteps, had success in transmitting their religious practices to local populations.
Its neighbors could surely follow in its footsteps.
The question is whether the world is ready, and whether other countries following in China’s footsteps will step up and provide the world with the economic dynamism for which we have come to depend on the People’s Republic.
Individuals know fundamentally what is good for them and for society, but they are often hesitant to act accordingly, owing to fear, embarrassment, or, very often, the belief that their actions will not be worthwhile if others do not follow in their footsteps.
Of course, this does not mean that Greece is doomed to follow in Argentina’s footsteps toward default.
Obama and the new Republican majority must now decide if they will follow in their predecessors’ footsteps and spark a new era of economic growth.
Kuroda wasted little time in initiating expansionary monetary policies – following in the footsteps of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England – to help reflate the economy.
The time has come for Africa to unlock its true economic potential by following in the footsteps of every modern economy and undertaking the transition from agriculture to manufacturing.
GENEVA – When the Swiss National Bank (SNB) recently brought its interest rate down to 0.25%, it announced that it would engage in “quantitative easing,” following in the footsteps of the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.
Russian leaders have been following in Lukashenko’s footsteps since the mid-1990s.
The Core of the ECB’s New StrategyLONDON – Following in the footsteps of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank has launched an in-depth review of its monetary-policy strategy.
When the US Federal Reserve, following in the footsteps of the Bank of Japan, pursued a similar policy some years ago, then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke openly acknowledged the exchange-rate effects of QE, although he said that it was not quite clear how they came about.
Khomeini died in mid-1989, but his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has essentially followed in his footsteps, acting both ideologically and pragmatically in order to ensure the continuity of the Islamic regime.
By following in the footsteps of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, the Nile countries can make important progress toward those goals – and set a powerful global precedent for the use of transboundary resources to foster sustainable development.
Following in its footsteps, many Asian economies have achieved economic miracles of their own by pursuing a “true” industrial policy.
Oil-rich African countries like Nigeria, Angola, and Algeria have a narrow window to initiate this shift, following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia, which is basing its economic-diversification efforts on a robust petrochemicals industry.
Indeed, after Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his 2019 New Year speech, urged Taiwan to follow in Hong Kong’s footsteps, President Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP revived her popularity by reasserting Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Following in the footsteps of his papal namesake, Francis of Assisi (named Patron Saint of Ecology in 1979), Pope Francis observed in his May 2015 encyclical that, “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”
But Trump is following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, all of whom provoked or exploited fears of urban crime and social decay on their way to the presidency.
Bahrain has already announced that it will follow in the UAE’s footsteps, and more Arab countries are likely to do so as well.
Recognizing this, China might follow in Japan’s footsteps, though the recent drop in Chinese investment in the US – from $29 billion in 2017 to $5 billion in 2018 – suggests that it would take a while for such investment to offset the effects of the trade war.
He went downstairs, but had not had time to leave his study before he heard his wife's familiar footsteps following him with imprudent rapidity.
The floor of this prison lay hidden beneath thick, hempen matting that deadened the sound of footsteps.
But I catch myself following in the Canadian's footsteps.
Then I heard the sound of footsteps on the platform.
I listened for footsteps in the stateroom adjoining mine.
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