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In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra-orthodox leader of Israel’s Shas party an invitation to the White House.
It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime – surveillance over “currency manipulation,” in particular – its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.
“If things are left as they are,” writes Watanabe, “a skewed perception of history – without knowledge of the horrors of the war – will be handed down to future generations.”
Now just imagine the problems that legislators in developed democracies will face when they must explain why billions of dollars and euros should be handed over to China, whose deliberately undervalued currency is costing their constituents their jobs.
Consider, for example, a government policy in which subsidies, funded with newly printed money, are handed out to residents of 1,000 villages.
Moreover, this anomaly is compounded by the bitter irony that the British Prime Minister who handed these six million ‘souls’ (to use the old Russian term for such serfs) to Beijing was the same Iron Lady who valiantly went to war only two years earlier, in 1982, to free 12,000 settlers in the Falkland Islands from being occupied by the generals from Buenos Aires.
The judges contrasted their opinion with that handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada when it was asked to rule on Quebec’s right to secede unilaterally.
The German public — hungry for economic recovery and tired of excuses -- has not been fooled by the euro and ECB bashing of its present government, and handed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a decisive defeat in the recent North Rhine-Westphalia elections.
Rather than a letter, he might be handed a string of Republican congressional defeats.
Subsequently, the interim government was able to resist pressure from abroad to restore him, held a previously scheduled election, and handed power over to a new, democratically-elected president, Porfirio Lobo, who has now been recognized by the US, the EU, and several, though not all, of the region’s governments.
Already, Greek voters handed the far-left anti-austerity Syriza party a sweeping victory in January.
True, the Turkish military was not interested in governing directly, and handed power back to civilian governments after its coups.
But the EU’s failure to devise a cohesive response has had another dire, if less commented-upon, consequence: As Europe’s leaders stumble from one inconclusive summit to another, they have handed the rest of the world an excuse for similar inaction.
If no leftist candidate makes it to the second round, voters on the left could cast their votes for “Republican unity,” as they did in 2002, when they handed Chirac a landslide victory over Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Thaksin and his cronies handed the establishment an opportunity to strike back by abusing power and profiting personally from it.
If not for US resistance, John Major and Francois Mitterrand would likely have handed Bosnia over to the Serbs in 1993.
Worse, government help was handed out to strong and weak performers alike.
China’s Creditor ImperialismBERLIN – This month, Sri Lanka, unable to pay the onerous debt to China it has accumulated, formally handed over its strategically located Hambantota port to the Asian giant.
But, in an unusual twist, Navalny was released from custody pending appeal of his conviction only a day after it was handed down.
Some bank bosses will retire in shame, but with huge payments to ease their pain – such as the $55 million golden parachute handed to Bank of America’s Ken Lewis, with his, and the £25 million pension bestowed on Royal Bank of Scotland’s Fred Godwin.
Krenz hesitated, then handed him a press release.
So they have handed it over to technocrats, in the hope that they make rational choices that benefit everyone.
On the eve of the anniversary, the PLA’s former top general, Guo Boxiong, was unceremoniously booted out of the Communist Party and handed over to military prosecutors to face corruption charges, including allegations that he took large bribes from fellow PLA officers in exchange for promotions.
Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.
As Prime Minister in 2007, he handed power to his opponents on a silver platter, by attacking his coalition partner, the Samoobrona party, and calling for an early election.
It would have been far better if he had been handed over alive to be judged in a court of law.
The remaining 187 were handed a fait accompli , which some accepted and others denounced.
Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’ balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.
The rhetoric of reform was dropped as President Kibaki handed out title deeds of national trust and parkland to gain votes.
Through “rendition,” a captured suspect can be handed over to a friendly government to be tortured, and, on the basis of the information thus gathered, “kill lists” can be compiled.
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