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When the Cold War was at its height, and the threat from Russia at its most extreme, the West seemed to welcome Turkey's advances.
At the
height
of the Cold War, he moved the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, toward peace.
By destabilizing the region, the war enabled the rise of the Islamic State, which at its
height
occupied a substantial slice of Iraqi territory, beheading its opponents, attempting genocide against the Yazidi minority, and spreading terrorism around the world.
At the
height
of the eurozone crisis, the IMF, the EC, and the ECB (not to mention financial markets) warmly welcomed the economists Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos as highly respected “technocratic” prime ministers for Italy and Greece, respectively.
In 1982, Thatcher was at the
height
of her popularity, having just declared victory in the Falklands War.
But it would be the
height
of irresponsibility not to seize the unexpected opportunity created by Rowhani’s election with all the strength, good faith, and creativity we can muster.
There are roughly 23,000 nuclear weapons today, which is 40,000 fewer than at the Cold War’s
height.
At Battery Park, on Manhattan’s south end, the surge
height
reached 4.2 meters, flooding homes and businesses and plunging millions into darkness.
With a surge
height
of 7-10 meters, and flooding at some locations extending 20 kilometers inland, Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the Gulf Coast, which has yet to be fully repaired.
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck near Charleston, South Carolina, with a surge
height
of nearly four meters.
I was national coordinator of Ebola burials for Sierra Leone at the
height
of the epidemic.
But, by this definition, nineteenth-century Britain – which at the
height
of its power in 1870 ranked third (behind the US and Russia) in GDP and third (behind Russia and France) in military expenditures – could not be considered hegemonic, despite its naval dominance.
In light of the North Korea crisis, it would be the
height
of irresponsibility to trigger a gratuitous nuclear crisis – and possibly a war – in the Middle East.
If the Yellow Vests build a movement that rises to the
height
of Macron’s, it may end up writing a page in the history of France.
(This is not the first case of a soccer match taking on symbolic significance in the EU: in the summer of 2012, at the
height
of the eurozone’s debt crisis, the decisive European summit occurred at the same time as a European Cup match between Italy and Germany.)
The Law of the Sea’s Next WaveLONDON – Thirty years ago, the Cold War was at its
height
and the United Kingdom had just clawed its way out of recession.
After the Promised LandLONDON – At the
height
of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent’s shores.
She is highly respected internationally, at the
height
of her popularity at home, and has no rivals to fend off within her own party.
The scale of the displacement was enormous: at the
height
of the exodus, up to six million Afghans were living outside their country, mainly in Pakistan and Iran.
Many North Koreans are already malnourished, their body weight and
height
substantially lower than that of South Koreans.
“The country needs…bold persistent experimentation,” Roosevelt said in 1932, at the
height
of the Great Depression.
With the exception of Greece, advanced economies experienced nothing like a rerun of the Great Depression, which was a very real possibility at the
height
of the crisis.
The Brisbane Summit therefore needs to rediscover the activism that it displayed in 2008 and 2009, during the
height
of the financial crisis.
At the
height
of the Irish crisis – mainly a crisis of confidence in banks’ stability and the strength and competence of Europe’s political leadership – European leaders were publicly at each other’s throats.
This would seem like the
height
of cynicism, which of course it is.
At the
height
of the crisis, debates raged over fiscal, political, and banking union; but, as the distressed countries’ bond yields have fallen, reforms have become increasingly unambitious.
(The inevitable market correction remains too remote to be taken seriously at the
height
of the boom.)
To reduce the chance of war, the US should also continue to work with both Indians and Pakistanis to strengthen their relationship (which is still far less developed than the US-Soviet relationship at the
height
of the Cold War).
James Surowiecki’s bestselling 2004 book, with the outrageous title The Wisdom of Crowds , pressed this idea forward at the very
height
of the real estate boom.
But, given the divergent interests of lenders and borrowers, it has never been used – not even in 2008, at the
height
of the global financial crisis.
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