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Krenz hesitated, then handed him a press release.
When former US president Bill Clinton tried to set up the second Camp David summit, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hesitated.
And it has not hesitated to meddle in other countries’ affairs.
Though the Bank of Japan (BOJ) hesitated before initiating such a shift in 1991, it then cut interest rates aggressively and began injecting large amounts of liquidity into the economy.
The G-7 economies – which, no surprise, have dictated international standards for the last 20 years – have rarely hesitated to name and shame emerging economies for their failure to comply with global norms.
After all, it hesitated little a few years ago to put a current member state, Austria, on notice that it was watching out for the welfare of that country's democracy.
Historically, few governments have pursued this type of sequencing, much less with such fervor; indeed, most governments have hesitated, especially when it comes to full currency liberalization.
Trump continues to govern as a pluto-populist – a plutocrat pretending to be a populist – who has not hesitated to betray the people he conned into voting for him.
China also has the world’s most dams, which it has never hesitated to use to curb cross-border flows.
The ECB has never hesitated to increase or decrease the scope of its non-standard tools – in particular, the duration of the non-standard supply of liquidity – depending on the abnormality in the functioning of the financial system.
Japan, by contrast, hesitated to expand its money supply substantially, leaving the yen's exchange rate against the US dollar to appreciate to 76 (from less than 100 before the Lehman crisis), and causing GDP growth to decline further.
STOCKHOLM – Even after abandoning its empire, the United Kingdom hesitated for decades to join Europe.
Many generals, intelligence officers, and other officials hesitated when it became known that a putsch was underway.
More recently, China, along with India, signed an ASEAN-proposed Treaty of Commerce and Amity, while the Japanese hesitated.
The US has either hesitated to embrace the Arab Spring revolutions (Egypt was a particularly striking case) or has given silent assent to their suppression, as in Bahrain.
One reason why Japan hesitated to export its high-speed rail technology was revealed by JR Tokai Chairman Takayuki Kasai, who wanted to make its provision conditional upon the “country being politically stable and governed by the rule of law.”
In doing this he has not hesitated to use his semi-monopoly over television to exalt his government’s alleged accomplishments.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they realized that Hitler needed to be fought and defeated, because he could not be bound by toothless agreements.
At first, Jordan’s King Abdullah II hesitated to sign a long-sought-after election law.
Since taking office, his administration has not hesitated to weaken the bloc whenever it can.
In India, election fever is heating up under a government that has not hesitated to politicize the military and often substitutes marketing for tangible achievements.
Courts have long hesitated to address these questions out of concern for their legitimacy and deference to the elected branches of government.
Although Japan’s participation was regularized in 2015, India had hesitated to bring Australia back into the fold, for fear of provoking China.
When asked about the recent New York Times exposé showing that he had paid just $750 in US federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 – and nothing for many years before that – Trump hesitated and then claimed without evidence that he had paid “millions.”
As China’s central government tramples on Hong Kong’s rights, more Western democracies – including those that have hesitated to support US President Donald Trump’s efforts to contain China – are likely to support comprehensive economic sanctions.
Those in authority have never hesitated to harness massive government intervention to the preservation of oligarchic power.
By contrast, other administrations had not hesitated to keep oil prices low when they could.
Karenin hesitated long.
CHAPTER XXXMEANWHILE VASILY LUKICH, who had not at first understood who the lady was, having realized from what he heard that she was the mother who had left her husband and whom he, having come to the house only after she had left it, had never seen, hesitated whether to go in or not, or whether to tell Karenin.
'Well then, what did he talk about to you?''He talked about what I myself wanted to ask you, so it is easy for me to be his advocate: about whether it isn't possible... whether it can't...'Dolly hesitated, 'how to remedy, to improve your position... you know my opinions...
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