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Four wars (in 1948, 1965, 1971, and 1999) have been fought across the cease-fire line, now called the Line of Control (LOC), without materially altering the situation.
A race for UN Secretary-General, which is usually fought so discreetly that it seems almost clandestine, bears little resemblance to the razzmatazz of an American presidential campaign.
The general fought less out of conviction than pragmatism, but the end result was the same.
The Russians fought for ten hard years over the same terrain in Afghanistan.
Thadden himself, however, avoided providing a direct answer, suggesting that he would not have fought alongside his sister.
Churchill was a politician of principle who, like Peel, fought against his own party and, unlike Peel, survived to go on to yet greater political triumph, in the epic battle against the Nazis.
When my community found out that we were being poisoned, we fought back.
Moreover, the asylum battle that Merkel has courageously fought is being lost: two years after claiming that Germany was strong enough to open its borders, she suffered a severe electoral setback, followed by tensions within her coalition and retreat on the European front.
For more than seven decades, America has fought – often fitfully, to be sure – to redeem its stated values, taking on bigotry, fascism, and nativism in all their forms.
One example of this was the citizen-based movement that fought WTO intellectual-property rules, adopted at the behest of the US and other rich countries, that were sustaining high prices for anti-AIDS drugs in Africa.
In Nigeria, the Ibo--who fought Africa's first post-independence war of secession in the name of tribalism--remain an uneasy, defiant minority.
If more people become more highly skilled lawyers, legal cases may be fought more effectively and expensively on both sides, but with no net increase in human welfare.
For the next seven years, Solidarity fought for re-legalization, building the biggest underground network of resistance Europe had seen since Hitler’s war.
This contrasts sharply with the approach of their global peers like Norway’s Norges Bank, which in recent years has fought poorly governed firms and divested from polluting industries like coal.
They engaged in fiscal expansion during the recovery of 2001-2007 and then fought President Barack Obama’s attempts to respond to the 2007-2009 recession with fiscal stimulus.
Yemen emerged in 1990 from the reunification of South Yemen and North Yemen, which fought bitter wars in 1972 and 1979.
The new anti-Semitism, however, cannot be fought successfully by education and argument in the rest of the world alone.
For a century (he argues) the left fought private privilege by strengthening the state.
It was Fischer who fought for (and won) support among the Greens to send German forces to Bosnia and now, perhaps, to Kosovo.
For starters, it is a historic ally for which many Chinese fought and died, their memory enshrined not only on monuments throughout China (though precious few in North Korea), but also in families.
This is the India that Mahatma Gandhi fought to free, and its turbulent politics is well worth celebrating.
Russia's Nostalgic GeneralsGenerals everywhere are mocked for wanting to fight new wars the same way they fought the last one.
If, however, the G Major economies issued quarterly announcements of significant upcoming policy changes – for example, a small round of quantitative easing by country X, a larger liquidity injection by countries Y and Z, and so on – markets would be reassured that a currency war was not being fought.
They point out that the leaders whom Russia has fought - in Chechnya, Tajikistan, Azerbajan, and Georgia --are men of limited democratic credentials who mismanaged their countries.
And so the Germans fought on, until the combined force of the invading Allied armies overwhelmed them in 1945.
The parties may have looked like bitter rivals, but they resembled each other in that they did not appeal to extremes, but fought for the political center.
As Putin has stressed in several speeches, he believes that the Soviet Union, by focusing on an economically ruinous arms race with the US, fought the wrong battle against the West during the Cold War.
Indeed, it was this dynamic – against which John Maynard Keynes fought – that made the Great Depression of the 1930’s so grim.
While India has fought terrorism longer than any other country, the problem now affects the entire region, including Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan.
The battle being fought for the soul of the Middle East cannot be won online, nor can it be subdued through the cynical manipulation of trust and fear.
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