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The important points for them are that they gained revenge by inflicting damage, showed that they were real men, did not buckle under, and survived.
As re-nationalization gained momentum, the public economic rhetoric changed and become statist.
It is worth recalling how the dollar gained international prominence in the first place.
But over time, people learn to live with high inflation and insulate the economy from its effects, thus reducing the revenues gained by the "inflation tax."
Across South America there is an almost perfect correlation between the revenue gained from the inflation tax and various measures of poverty, because the poor are the least able to protect themselves from the inflation tax.
Yet, in liberating Iraq, the US failed to ask how the tyrant gained power in the first place, and what, therefore, the challenges in replacing him would be.
For example, I would wager that if France had done more to challenge Germany’s opposition to Eurobonds, anti-European populists on both the left and the right would not have gained the political momentum that they have in recent years.
Though Putin has gained possession of Crimea, he has lost access to some of the resources that he needs to achieve his goal of restoring Russia’s former glory as a great power – and has reinvigorated NATO in the process.
Poland's peasants, who gained a glimpse of the wider world since 1989, see what is going on and fear it.
After 1989 Poles (as happened in other postcommunist countries) gained freedom but lost their national identity, which had been constructed on the revulsion they felt towards their oppressors.
The idea that we can only know what we can make gained wide acceptance.
People gradually became accustomed to the expression “Palestinian state,” and those who embraced it received support and gained prestige on the international scene.
But in the end, nothing would be gained, and a crisis between Europe, Japan, and America would likely result.
While the center-left coalition, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won a comfortable majority in the lower house – thanks to the bonus that Italian electoral law grants to the largest coalition – it gained too few seats in the senate to govern effectively.
This imperative underpins the concept of “sustainable development,” which has gradually gained acceptance since its introduction in the mid-1980’s.
The center-right European People’s Party, which gained a narrow plurality of 221 seats in the 751-seat parliament, has claimed victory in the election; and many others, including socialists, greens, and liberals, concur that the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat, Jean-Claude Juncker, has a moral right to be selected as President of the Commission.
Indeed, he was one of the first so called “revisionists” who came to question Stalinist orthodoxy and lead the way to the important changes that shook the Communist world in 1956, when Poland gained for a short while a small but important measure of independence from Kremlin control.
In the few industries that contracted in China, the US has gained employment.
Revisiting my 2009 book, The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are reshaping the World, it seems clear that fear has gained the upper hand.
Twitter, Facebook, and Google have gained the lion’s share of digital traffic in Africa at almost no cost.
Yet this is the same state-dominated development model that came under heavy criticism at this year’s CDF – and that stands in sharp contrast to the more market-driven alternative that has gained broad consensus among senior Chinese leaders.
Next came the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition of pop (rarely first class) European singers, at which Russia’s Dima Bilan gained first prize for his musical clip “Believe.”
With today’s greater computing power and storage, deep learning is now a practical possibility, and a deep-learning application gained worldwide attention in 2016 by beating the world champion in Go.
They arrived with various levels of education and skill, and over time have generally gained in terms of “human capital” – and in terms of value added and income.
In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
But the battle within Islam is not a satisfactory or sufficient explanation for the state of anarchy we see in a place like South Sudan, whose 11 million people gained independence just over three years ago.
As a street leader who was elected as the head of the Bir Zeit University student council, he gained legitimacy by being chosen by his peers.
The takeaway from this story is that the central bank gained credibility.
In Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s annual Work Report – the official statement of economic policy – emphasis on the consumer-led structural transformation has been downgraded in each of the last two years (ranked third in both 2016 and 2017, as so-called supply-side initiatives have gained higher priority).
But the post-crisis world – in which government intervention in the economy has gained greater legitimacy – will see more of it.
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