Heels
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The financial crisis came on the
heels
of food and fuel crises.
The EU’s Bold New StrategyBRUSSELS – When problems accumulate, as in Europe – where the failed coup in Turkey comes hard on the
heels
of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union – attention is often focused on the most recent issue to arise.
This downward spiral has become institutionalized, as the main unions have dug in their
heels
and civil society has become disillusioned.
Turkey’s panic came on the
heels
of Fischer saying that everything seemed on track.
Though it can paint no scenario in which this would ever occur, it not only drags its
heels
on further arms-reduction talks, but insists on keeping a thousand or so of its strategic nuclear weapons on launch-within-minutes alert status.
A halt in Iran’s oil exports alone would dramatically upset international oil markets, and the Iranian leadership would likely dig in its
heels
to continue, if not accelerate, nuclear development.
Since the beginning of the eurozone crisis, the German government dug in its
heels
on European treaty provisions that it interprets as forbidding bailouts and monetary financing of government debt.
China has also spearheaded the establishment of new multilateral institutions, with AIIB following on the
heels
of the New Development Bank, created with other major emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa).
Worse, Kozyrev’s flip-flops, coming on the
heels
of his "Yes, yes, yes" policy in response to Western requests, earned him universal mistrust of Russian elites - nationalist and Westernizing alike.
Coming on the
heels
of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull all US troops out of Syria, it is unsurprising that the Taliban and other insurgents would conclude that it is a question of when, not if, the remaining 7,000 US troops (and another 8,000 NATO soldiers) will be withdrawn.
Moreover, as the historian Niall Ferguson recently reminded us, surges in access to higher education, coming on the
heels
of prolonged periods of peace and prosperity, have often coincided with mass street protest.
In a similar vein, the €750 billion ($852 billion) “Next Generation EU” fund, proposed by the EU Commission on the
heels
of the Franco-German proposal, would channel EU funds through member states and regions.
Making matters worse, throughout the debt-restructuring negotiations – which Argentina initiated to bring its debt to a more sustainable level – creditors have dug in their
heels
and acted as if there was no pandemic.
As I have written elsewhere, it was on the
heels
of the Industrial Revolution that the British economist Stanley Jevons had his seminal insight into how prices are formed and goods and services acquire value.
But since the 2016 US election (which followed on the
heels
of the UK’s Brexit referendum), PiS has bet everything on its cozy relationship with Trump, an American leader who could not care less about democratic principles or the rule of law.
Coming on the
heels
of the 2008 financial crisis, the summit was instrumental in restoring confidence in capital markets and bringing the global economy out of its freefall.
On the
heels
of its success in Sudan, it must stand against “constitutional coups” carried out by presidents, as it establishes itself more firmly as a force for peace and democratic governance in Africa.
Interestingly, it comes hot on the
heels
of Russia’s withdrawal from an agreement with OPEC to limit oil production, a move instigated by Igor Sechin, Putin’s highly influential former deputy chief of staff who now serves as CEO of the state-linked oil giant Rosneft.
Coming on the
heels
of a similar gift to the city of Budapest, such a helping hand is one of a series of interventions the Open Society Foundations will be launching in the coming days in response to this crisis.
It is telling that Warren’s trade plans have come relatively late in the game, following on the
heels
of a long series of proposals aiming to reform the way that American capitalism works, from competition rules and industrial policy to financial regulation and labor-market institutions.
Moreover, the crisis in the CDU comes on the
heels
of the SPD’s own implosion.
Coming on the
heels
of the country’s hottest and driest years on record, the fires highlight the depth and complexity of the global challenges we face.
In three years he could not collect it,' – a short, round-shouldered landowner with pomaded hair that hung down on the embroidered collar of his uniform was saying energetically, stamping loudly with the
heels
of the new boots he had evidently put on specially for this occasion.
Another group followed close on the
heels
of a nobleman who was shouting loudly.
Young men passed along the platform, clattering their
heels
on the planks, talking loudly and gazing at her; and people she met tried to get out of her way on the wrong side.
He was short, with an enormous neck, projecting calves and heels, and long arms, with massive hands falling to his knees.
Then, descending from the cutting they squatted down, their elbows to their sides, their buttocks on their heels, in that posture so habitual with miners that they keep it even when out of the mine, without feeling the need of a stone or a beam to sit on.
Now the school was closed; and all the children were running about, there was a swarm of little creatures shouting and tumbling and fighting; while those fathers who were not at the public-house were resting in groups of three or four, crouching on their
heels
as they did in the mine, smoking their pipes with an occasional word in the shelter of a wall.
Zacharie and Philoméne came back to it out of old domestic habit; Mother Brulé, always on Lydie's heels, was constantly hunting her out with Jeanlin, buried so deeply together that one had to tread on them before they made up their minds to get up; and as to Mouquette, she lay about everywhere--one could not cross a field without seeing her head plunge down while only her feet emerged as she lay at full length.
When the last skirt fell from her, she appeared of pallid whiteness, that transparent snow of anaemic blondes; and he experienced a constant emotion in finding her, with hands and face already spoilt, as white as if dipped in milk from her
heels
to her neck, where the line of tan stood out sharply like a necklace of amber.
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