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And, as Bengali demands for autonomy gained momentum, the response became more repressive.
A better response would be to increase dramatically research and development into low-carbon energy– an option that gained a respectable mid-placed ranking on our list.
And, even when times were good, India never gained a foothold in the global manufactured-goods trade.
In short, the credibility that Ireland gained through resolute fiscal policy and reforms helped to restore confidence, facilitating a return to growth and thus fiscal consolidation.
Speaking as someone with a long presence in the US intelligence community, I believe that the FBI has already gained access to Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone.
By bringing these subjects into focus, great film directors have gained a larger and more representative world of stories from which to work their magic.
Russia's legislature – the Duma – has now gained power and a new legitimacy, even if only theoretically.
Prime Minister Putin used the popularity he gained through his prosecution of the Chechen war to support Unity and the Union of Right Forces.
But even if Wolfowitz is eventually forced to resign, nothing will be gained if US President George W. Bush is allowed summarily to choose his replacement, as US Presidents have been doing ever since the Bank was founded after World War II.
They have done this 14 times since India gained its independence.
The Republicans subsequently took control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections, gained control of the Senate in 2014, and nominated Donald Trump, who was elected in 2016.
In many countries, nationalist and anti-establishment political forces have gained ground.
Through his confident performance, the new President gained in stature.
According to one analysis, with only modest ad purchases on Facebook, Russian agents gained access to a goldmine of online advertising data – such as Facebook’s customer targeting software – which enabled the “sharing” of Russia’s fake news hundreds of millions of times.
First, it was only recently that China gained sufficient confidence in the performance of its new warships.
Moreover, Fischer gained extensive crisis-management experience during his tenure at the IMF in the 1990’s and as Israel’s central banker during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
That, in a nutshell, is the view of British euroskeptics, and it has gained considerable force in the past few years of Europe’s slow-motion crisis.
Only some three million of these businesses gained sufficient size and organization to form limited-liability corporations that issued shares.
And then, in the 2003 parliamentary election, Putin gained solid control over both the State Duma (the lower house) and the Federation Council (the upper house) of the Russian legislature.
First, Prime Minister Zhu Rongi and his advisors are very uncertain about the short-run benefits to be gained from any devaluation.
The only foreseeable benefit to be gained through a devaluation is a reduction in uncertainty as an end will be put to the rampant speculation on when the RMB will be devalued.
As usual, Putin is offering no real explanation for these changes, leaving Kremlinologists – who have gained a new lease on life under Putin – little to work with other than a clear pattern: those who could speak to the president as equals are being replaced by those whom he has created, and who owe their careers to him.
This explanation also accords with stronger US economic performance in 2014, which was the first year since the Republicans gained a House majority in November 2010 that dysfunctional fiscal policy did not actively impede economic recovery.
At currents rates of deforestation, the combined contributions to greenhouse gas concentrations from Brazil and Indonesia alone would offset nearly 80% of the emission reductions gained from the Kyoto protocol.
In a nationwide vote to select local authorities (the so called Conseiller Général), the far-right National Front gained 11% of the votes cast, but secured only 0.1% of the seats.
But Costa Rica’s experience shows that, in the long run, what is gained far outweighs the sacrifices for all.
Indian voters decisively rejected the Congress party, which had governed India virtually without interruption since it gained independence from Britain in 1947.
Parties of the political extremes have gained ground in Europe.
Though a bad fall kept him from combat, he did serve as a medical orderly – and gained first-hand experience of the trauma of war.
Over the past 16 years, nearly every person who gained access to electricity did so through a grid connection, mostly powered by fossil fuels.
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