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Halliburton is now at the front of the line for Iraqi reconstruction projects, for which contracts are being handed out without any transparent and competitive process whatsoever.
Moreover, now that President Donald Trump, by ending US military support for Syria’s anti-government rebels, has effectively handed the country over to Russia and Iran, Sunni-led Turkey needs a strategic buffer against Shia-led Iraq and Syria more than ever.
Palestine from the Jordan River to the coast should be handed to Israel so that the world can end with a cataclysmic Christian triumph.
After Menem handed over the presidential sash to Fernando De la Rua, Argentina began to unravel: President de la Rua resigned his office well before the official end of his term.
Among his achievements is a Citizens’ Charter that is handed to every new resident to explain Swiss participatory democracy and lay out its rules.
With that narrow-minded approach – reflected in the lack of any articulated vision for a post-war Syria – the US effectively handed the diplomatic reins over to Russia.
Oil revenues should be taken out of public hands to the greatest degree possible and handed over to the private sector.
After years of rotation every six months, we handed the job over to the EU’s new permanent structures, established in Brussels in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty.
When disaster strikes, what can only be described as a begging bowl is handed around the world’s donor community.
But every market exists within a specific set of rules, which are not random and are not handed down from the heavens.
Will it not deprive in particular the Southern member states of the subsidies so generously handed out by the EU’s structural fund?
Intense American and European pressure ensured that former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and many of his allies were handed over to the UN’s International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
But, if the Church made the opposite decision, and handed over its hospitals and universities to bodies that were willing to provide the coverage, Catholics would still be free to worship and follow their religion’s teachings.
Tax incentives can also play a role in spurring growth, but as part of a clear strategy – not handed out indiscriminately, as they have tended to be in the past.
The Discreet Terror of Fidel CastroThis spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro’s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents.
But this recognition does not exonerate Africa's "kinglets," who handed their subjects over to the slave traders.
A Race to HungerSYDNEY – Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race’s stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol.
So the politics of the Vietnam dilemma has been handed down to Obama virtually intact.
Lebanon Goes WestBEIRUT – Lebanon’s voters have handed a clear defeat to the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance.
It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy handed response from Israel—which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.
I handed the finished project to McNamara, who thanked me, but said nothing further about the matter, either then or at any time thereafter.
America’s destruction of Iraq as a regional power handed hegemony in the Persian Gulf – whose centrality to Western interests cannot be overstated – to Iran’s Shia Islamist regime on a silver platter.
He is not a man whose identity was handed to him by birth.
Although many view the second Chechen war as a conspiracy launched with the presidential election in mind, it was the Chechens who handed Putin, through their invasion of Dagestan in August 1999, a unifying cause and campaign theme.
He then describes the utter lack of cooperation between intelligence agencies and the military, because many US and Mexican officials fear that whatever information they share with the army will be handed over to the cartels.
Recent personal experience at New Delhi airport indicated that nominal arrival checks, as the government requires, were loosely enforced, with a number of passengers exiting the terminal holding completed Ebola information cards that should have been handed to immigration officials.
Perhaps a divine creator handed us these universal elements at the moment of creation.
And, in fact, Schrems’s lawsuit was heavily informed by Snowden’s disclosures, which included details of a US National Security Agency program whereby US companies allegedly handed over to the NSA personal information stored on their computer systems.
Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al-Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt’s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.
Those generals should have been handed life-sentences like Mubarak,” said Zakaria Abd al-Aziz, the former elected head of the Judges Club.
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