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But punishment could be harsh.
Indeed, as 20th century experience demonstrates, in the face of true enemies, liberal societies must apply the rule of law even if the consequences appear harsh and "illiberal."
Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh.
In fact, Putin’s manipulation of Yanukovych – forcing him to renege in November on Ukraine’s plan to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, and to enact a harsh anti-protest law the following month – ended in disgrace for the Kremlin: Kyiv is now firmly in the hands of pro-Western forces.
Unless ordinary Americans wake up to these fiscal risks, the rich may walk away with another multi-billion-dollar gift as the country and the world bear the harsh consequences for years to come.
Its criticism of Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and Chief-of-Staff Dan Halutz – set forth in a detailed and meticulous 117-page assessment – is harsh, but not surprising.
But financial markets are a harsh and fickle taskmaster.
Two days after my hospital experience, a tour of the Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem – surrounded or divided by the security wall – served as a reminder of the region’s harsh and sobering realities.
Some point as a cause of Putin’s absence to recent tensions between Russia and the United States arising from Putin’s increasingly harsh response to the protests by his opponents at home.
While there were some faint trails here and there, it was clear that people were facing such harsh economic conditions that they could barely purchase any food to cook.
Events in Syria are forcing Turkish authorities to accept the harsh reality of the Assad regime’s resilience – and now its hostility towards Turkey.
They will not hear any more harsh words from the US about their regimes’ contempt for democracy, freedom, or human rights.
This failure was reflected in the Armistice itself, which imposed excessively harsh requirements on Germany, including billions of dollars in reparations payments, due at a time when the country faced a deep economic crisis.
The Education Antidote to RadicalizationDUBAI – No visitor to the Middle East can avoid noticing the yawning gap between the educational, entrepreneurial, and occupational aspirations of the region’s young people and the harsh reality that deprives so many of them of a positive future.
Poland, which supposedly went "cold turkey"-- embracing market reforms that are alternately admired and reviled, but always seen as harsh -- saw social spending claim 11% more of GDP between 1989 and 1993.
Sudan has learned these lessons through harsh practical experience, including war.
In other words, harsh austerity is being viewed largely through a Keynesian lens.
Czarist rule withstood many harsh tests during its long history: peasant revolts, conspiracies, and the alienation of the educated class.
But if present EU members erect conditions on membership that are too harsh for newcomers to meet, they run the risk of creating a "Catch-22" situation.
This judgment may be too harsh, because we do not know whether the EU and the single market would have survived without the single currency.
The less willing we are to ask harsh questions about humanitarianism and human rights, peace and justice, truth and reconciliation, the longer we take refuge in self-flattering fantasies about the fundamental reconcilability of all good efforts, the higher the cost will be when the moment of reckoning comes.
First, it is strange that Europe has agreed to provide assistance only as a last resort, by unanimity and with harsh conditionality, at a time when the International Monetary Fund has created first-resort, near-automatic, and low-conditionality facilities to help countries hit by sudden capital outflows.
When a state or association of states is in mortal danger, it is better for its leaders to confront harsh reality than to ignore it.
Instead, they emphasized harsh austerity, which was to be pursued everywhere.
Was the global financial crisis a harsh but transitory setback to advanced-country growth, or did it expose a deeper long-term malaise?
Just as in Darfur, where China’s perceived support for the Sudanese government translated into harsh criticism and threats to brand the 2008 Olympics the “Genocide Games,” China’s backing of the Burmese generals, particularly if the death toll rises, could cause similar problems.
The government was forced to impose harsh capital controls, including restrictions on what citizens could spend abroad as tourists.
For Syria’s Kurds, the struggle against more than four decades of the Assad family’s Ba’athist dictatorship became particularly harsh after 2004, when security forces killed dozens of unarmed protesters in the northeastern town of Qamishli.
So, naturally, they applaud the Israeli government for using harsh measures to keep the Arabs down.
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