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He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.
In the Balkan wars of the 1990’s, communities that had shared the same landscapes for centuries, and individuals who grew up together and went to the same schools, fought one another ferociously.
Members of the forum fought tirelessly for an agreement in Paris, and we will do everything within our power to speed up its entry into force.
That is why it has fought to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees – an ambition that was included, thanks to the forum’s efforts, in the Paris agreement.
This not only surpassed what ten years ago on Heroes Square sounded like chutzpah, it also delivered historical justice to the Hungarian freedom-fighters of 1956 who had fought for Hungary's independence, but were crushed by Soviet tanks.
On a visit to a memorial where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Brandt – who had actually fought the Nazis – dropped to his knees, his head bowed, in a silent but profound apology on Germany’s behalf.
And the European Union has recently established a special court to deal with crimes by Kosovar forces in the war they fought later in the decade.
The Power of MonumentsNEW YORK – The ghastly spectacle last month of neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, carrying torches and barking slogans about the supremacy of the white race, was sparked by the city’s plans to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Confederate army, which fought to retain slavery in the secessionist South during the American Civil War.
But the South was never conquered, and its army, the SPLA, twice fought the North to a standstill.
Of course, Sarkozy would be surprised to be told that the same logic should lead to a declaration of repentance by the French state to Algeria, not to mention to the Algerian soldiers who fought under the French banner, the so-called “Harkis,” many of whom were abandoned to a terrible fate when France left the country in a hurry.
The party’s leaders and elected officials fought against him during the primary, and many are still reluctant to endorse him.
And illiberal democracies have fought each other, as Ecuador and Peru did in the 1990’s.
When it came to voting rights in the European Parliament and in the Council, the Dutch fought doggedly to get one extra vote in Amsterdam in 1991 and another in Nice in 2000.
Because the thousand-year-old city of Mombasa historically had a superb natural harbor, it was fought over many times--by Arabs, the Portuguese, Zanzibaris, the Mazrui, the British, and others.
Having fought the Houthis back in 2009, it had no illusions that this would be a cakewalk.
The US has fought and spilled precious blood to give the nations in the Asia-Pacific the opportunity to achieve prosperity and security.
Beyond any economic metric, we should measure the success of multilateralism in wars not fought and lives not lost.
Thirty years ago, the Afghan mujahedin were mistaken for friends of the West when they fought their country’s Soviet invaders.
More important, they should recognize that the war on terror cannot credibly be fought with unsavory allies, such as Islamist fighters or fundamentalist-financing sheikhdoms.
A small number of young Muslims later fought with the Taliban.
As recently as WWII, armies fought for control of the Ruhr Basin.
To be sure, the country’s “America” card – the result of the two countries’ longstanding strategic relationship (I myself was educated at West Point and fought alongside US troops in the Korean War) – must be played carefully and not be taken for granted.
During the early stages of the Islamic State’s siege of the Kurdish town of Kobani, just across the border in Syria, Turkey seemed to be replicating the Soviet Union’s tactic during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, when Nazi German troops fought Polish resistance fighters: Let the belligerents exhaust each other as much as possible before intervening.
To my surprise, it was not WWII that I learned about; rather, I got my first glimpse into the emotions that my own relatives experienced, as they fought and survived the war.
Learning from the Cold WarNEW YORK – Every war is fought three times.
Taliban-trained Uyghurs have fought against the Northern Alliance and actively participated in the Chechen Muslim struggle against Russian rule.
Both parties are successors to the Catholic German Center Party, which fought against Protestant predominance in Prussia and Bismarck’s Reich.
Industry receives half, a share that business groups have fought fiercely to increase, and households receive the rest though income-tax cuts and higher welfare payments.
Public-sector trade unions fought for preserving privileges.
The aim of the ECSC was explicitly political: to remove control of the two most important raw materials for the production of heavy weaponry from states that had just fought the bloodiest war in history.
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