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Putin hopes that harsh policies, at home and abroad, will allow him to maintain a stranglehold on Russia.
But the harsh reality is that Europe depends on the US security umbrella, and there is little indication that counter measures by the EU will deflect Trump from his erratic course.
In fact, it was cataclysmic climate change – which transformed a lush, green Sahara into a harsh desert – that triggered the emergence of such lifestyles in East Africa 5,000 years ago.
Instead of needing food assistance, many of the farm families were able to cope with the harsh weather and look forward to a harvest.
Russian interests concerning NATO, harsh rhetoric to the contrary, are ambiguous.
Masses of Chinese were sent to work camps, where prisoners endured harsh physical labor to “reform” their “bourgeois” habits and thoughts.
But at least he would have the chance to ameliorate the harsh judgment that historians will pass on his leadership.
So avoidance of a harsh landing before the next vote is critical.
In early October, a particularly harsh speech by US Vice President Mike Pence illustrated Rudd’s point.
If he turns down the invitation – as some pro-Palestinian activists are urging him to do – he will surely face harsh accusations from America’s large pro-Israel camp.
Eradication will never be successful in Afghanistan, because it destroys the single crop that will grow in the south’s harsh climate – and thus serves as the main source of income to millions of people.
Snyder’s estimate of the total number of Stalin’s victims does not take into account those who managed to survive forced labor or internal exile in harsh conditions.
Consider the harsh treatment of the gadfly critic Liu Xiaobao, sentenced to 11 years in prison on trumped-up charges of “subversion” for launching an Internet petition drive championing civil liberties.
Kunstler’s view is harsh, but perhaps prophetic: India’s “climate-change-related problems are doing heavy damage to the food supply.
The harsh truth is that neither the IMF nor the Bush administration really believes in free markets.
Asia’s democracies now risk confronting the same harsh question that the United States faced when Mao Zedong marched into Beijing, and again when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the Shah in Iran.
(The new, gentler IMF has sworn off such harsh conditionality for Greece.)
In the harsh light of realpolitik, only power and influence matter.
The financial crisis has inflicted hardship on a population that does not like to face harsh reality.
But both lines are porous, at best, given the harsh realities of Greece’s economic circumstances.
We know from past experience that the law of unintended consequences can be harsh.
While recent scandals have put China’s princelings under a harsh media spotlight, they have been hot commodities for Western companies seeking to capitalize on their guanxi (connections) in order to secure multi-billion dollar transactions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin’s main European interlocutor, has been expressing her frustration with Russian policy toward Ukraine in increasingly harsh terms.
However, domestic pressure, a sense of nationalism, and the need to improve its bargaining position with Western countries might force the Iranian government to respond to harsh UN sanctions or an air attack on its nuclear facilities.
Public education is becoming universally available, including for groups that faced harsh discrimination in the past.
That said, since the Islamic Republic’s emergence in 1979, Iran’s leaders have generally preferred Republican presidents to Democrats: despite their harsh rhetoric, Republicans have been more willing to engage with Iran in practice.
Now, as the harsh reality of the continent’s vulnerability to challenging external conditions has set in, sustaining that growth has proved difficult.
She has denounced globalization for its harsh social consequences, but a UK that is no longer in the EU will be all the more reliant on exchange with other countries.
When a woman is caught, although she is often a non-violent first time offender, she faces a harsh mandatory minimum sentence.
That could mean truly withdrawing from NAFTA, taking trade action against China and other trading partners, or doubling down on harsh immigration policies.
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