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Saudi Arabia and Iran are using Yemen’s internal divisions over historic political and socioeconomic grievances in their proxy war there, presenting the conflict as a manifestation of the historic Sunni-Shia rift.
Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society.
But that is simply an attempt to make a virtue out of necessity: for a country with one of the world’s largest and most storied bureaucracies, China has a surprisingly difficult time telling its business community not to do business with someone, especially a historic friend and ally.
Last year, the US fertility rate hit a historic low.
But this does not mean we want to bury history and our historic ties.
Europe must play its part as Ukraine redefines its historic ties to Russia, and its actions must do nothing to undermine Ukraine’s national independence – or, indeed, that of any of the countries that emerged from the Soviet Union’s breakup.
Given the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris in November and in Brussels last week, one must not ignore the possibility that the deplorable actions of disruptive non-state actors could become the pivotal factor determining the outcome of a referendum on the historic interactions of nation-states.
Britain has not only produced great literature, but has an historic tradition of supporting free speech and providing refuge for persecuted writers.
Britain may be on the verge of a historic reconsideration of its position in Europe.
Does the United States support Putin in the elections, or, by recognizing Putin’s historic importance, do the Americans mean to convince him to leave power?
In 1999, during the New York celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I myself heard Shevardnadze assert that Georgia had given the twentieth century two historic figures: “One who erected the Iron Curtain [Joseph Stalin], and one who tore it down” – meaning himself.
The historic job of international lawyers and tribunals has been to determine whether a signatory to an international agreement is complying with its obligations.
Yet we made this historic compromise because we believed that doing so would bring us to the threshold of liberty.
Oil, food, and gold prices have jumped to historic highs, and the dollar has depreciated to historic lows.
To some degree, the Iraq insurgency reflects its historic predecessors.
It was none other than the Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Salah al-Bardawil, who defined the cease-fire as “a historic opportunity for all the sides involved to live in peace, and to build a future for the next generations.”
With this historic move, Serbia adopted a practice that took hold in the rich, Western countries after World War II but was never applied in the Communist bloc.
Finally, Davos was about a belief that globalization, abetted by information technology, would not be just an engine of growth, but also a leveler of cultural and historic divisions.
But there can be no way past the historic date of June 1967 (for both sides).
When it became clear that the “Remain” camp had lost, the pound’s slide seemed to be on track to match the historic 14% depreciation of the 1967 sterling crisis.
It was the beginning of a historic massacre, in which as many as 1.5 million of the two million Armenians living in the empire were killed.
In 2014, for the second consecutive year, official development assistance (ODA) totaled a historic high of $135 billion, according to new OECD data.
To start, we can rule out Chile from the supposed leftist surge, for it is a country ruled by a centrist coalition of Ricardo Lagos’s European-style socialists and the country’s historic Christian democrats.
President Evo Morales’s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.
Morales might yet turn more radical, but, for now, he represents a deep, ethnically inspired demand for historic justice, not a hard-left ideology.
No doubt, his regime revels in all the historic forms of populism: messianic leadership, anti-American rhetoric, disregard for constitutional forms, drunken spending, and state-orchestrated popular mobilization to fill squares and jeer at supposed enemies.
Look East Again, EuropeThe EU's historic decision to admit eight former communist countries as members must not be create a new division between Eurasia's haves and have nots.
BERKELEY – Now that we are witnessing what looks like the historic decline of the West, it is worth asking what role economists might have played in the disasters of the past decade.
As head of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and European Union Fisheries Commissioner, we recently signed a historic agreement to strengthen joint cooperation to address the global scourge of pirate fishing.
He wishes, like a modern czar, to re-create the historic Slav state of Russia, incorporating Ukraine, and to rebuild, albeit in a different form, the Kremlin’s lost empire.
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