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But two sides that simply want to teach each other a lesson lack the common ground needed to hammer out a compromise acceptable to both.
The background was bright red, and a hammer and sickle and a skull were planted on Putin’s breast.
They were like a young boy with a hammer who thinks that every problem resembles a nail.
Conservatives will hammer away on the economy, as they did in 1992, the last time that they won an election outright.
We have only 12 short months to hammer out the elements of a global climate change accord before world leaders convene next December in Copenhagen.
We took an important step in early December in Poznan, Poland, where climate ministers and experts met to hammer out a work plan toward the future.
Symbols range from the open palm of the ruling Indian National Congress to the lotus of the Bharatiya Janata Party and variants of the hammer and sickle for India’s profusion of Communist parties.
In December, when world leaders meet again to hammer out a climate agreement, the quality of their work will, in many ways, determine the trajectory of the planet.
Experts are unanimous: the financial, food and energy crisis will hammer the “bottom billion” – the poorest in some 60 countries that survive on around a dollar a day – the hardest.
In desiring EU membership these countries open themselves to prolonged diplomatic wrangling in which their inherited environmental sins are likely to provide EU negotiators with a multi-purpose hammer.
In this subdued and challenging context, world leaders are now convening in the city at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to hammer out a new global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Pride of place goes to Fedor Fedorovich, the generic unsung hero whose task it was to prevent accidents by banging the rails and wagon couplings with a hammer to check for faults.
That would deal a hammer blow to the euro, the EU, and the West.
At this point, President Jimmy Carter – who initially opposed the process – invited both sides to Camp David to hammer out a peace treaty.
In July, the world’s governments will meet in Addis Ababa to hammer out a new framework for global finance.
If all you have to work with is a hammer, as the saying goes, every problem looks like a nail.
But it is vital that, amid all the make-believe, there are still those who hammer home the simple truth that, no matter how much people wish for it, a country cannot decide simply to stop the world and get off.
True, if one has a hammer, all problems look like nails.
The real trouble begins when one thinks that the hammer might be the right solution for headaches, too.
Another prominent escapee from the special counsel’s hammer was Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is widely believed to have used his White House role, especially in foreign policy (in which he’d had no experience), to attend to his family’s need for funds to pay off a huge real-estate debt.
But shopkeepers sell bronze statues of Stalin and mugs emblazoned with the hammer and sickle and “Long Live USSR.”
As the American psychologist Abraham Maslow famously put it, “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
My parents were bonded laborers, and as soon as I could hold a hammer, I was, too.
As governments assess their external balances and competitive positions, hammer out trade deals, and set national policy agendas, they need to look beyond manufacturing and agriculture.
One only heard from the pit the distant sound of a hammer tapping on an iron plate.
The distant hammer struck regular blows in the pit, and the wind passed by with its moan, like a cry of hunger and weariness coming out of the depths of the night.
Near the shaft the signal was working, a heavy-levered hammer drawn by a cord from below and allowed to strike against a block.
Maheu first began again to hammer, lower down, with his head level with the rock.
For nearly half an hour one only heard the creaking of wood wedged in by blows of the hammer.
Meanwhile, the manoeuvres went on in the shaft, the signal hammer had struck four blows, and the horse was being lowered; there was always excitement at such a time, for it sometimes happened that the beast was seized by such terror that it was landed dead.
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