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To this end, Putin has always resisted Ukraine’s historic turn to the West, about which the EU itself has been standoffish in the past.
Only when it became clear that Solidarity was going to enter the government and take the reigns of power, did I come to accept our historic new role.
Nowadays, indeed, instead of deepening disparities in standards of living in Europe, which was the historic norm, differences are actually blurring as the quality of life everywhere in Europe rises.
On the other hand, taking this historic initiative would, relative to fainthearted tactical maneuvering, substantially increase politicians’ chances of re-election later.
A national dialogue about fostering pluralism is now in progress, and has inspired renewed public interest in Pancasila, the national philosophy discredited during the Suharto years but now seen by some as a symbol of Indonesia’s historic pluralism.
Smart Partnerships for Smart DefenseWASHINGTON, DC – When NATO leaders gather in Chicago next week, they will have an historic opportunity to bring the Alliance’s relations with non-member states into alignment with twenty-first-century realities.
But America has long had a presence in both the Atlantic and the Pacific; and, as the last remaining global power, it is in a position to anticipate historic geopolitical changes in such a way as to guard its own interests.
The Promise of Euro-Atlantic Missile DefenseBRUSSELS – The new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and US President Barack Obama just signed in Prague is an historic achievement, and an inspiration for further progress in global arms control.
Why should this historic event cause such political upheaval?
As a result, their historic mission doomed them.
I believe the world will not turn its back on the historic challenge of reducing disparities in global health, eliminating extreme poverty, and building a more equitable and secure world.
Europe has a historic responsibility to help victims of war and violence, and responsible politicians recognize that it is inhumane to bar entrance to people fleeing for their lives.
Last year, the UN passed an historic resolution to tackle illicit wildlife trafficking, recognizing the effectiveness of the CITES legal framework.
All stakeholders – in Africa and internationally – must redouble our efforts to ensure clean, affordable water for all, and to support African countries suffering through a historic drought.
Although engagement with Iran and North Korea may have failed, Obama did help to engineer a historic breakthrough with Burma.
Emigration is at historic highs, and a new rebel force has appeared in the form of an aggressive - and potent - rightwing paramilitary army.
The incoming Trump administration should grasp the historic opportunity to help bring AIDS to an end through a modest financial commitment by governments and other funders.
History is full of positive as well as negative surprises; the end of AIDS can be a historic achievement of our generation, if we reach for it.
The first is Germany’s singular historic track record of right- and left-wing totalitarianism.
What would be the repercussions of losing a historic “partner” (many Chinese today would bristle at such a description), and potentially strengthening a rival, for China’s own political system or foreign policy?
In election after election, voter turnout has hit historic lows.
Ever since the historic events of 1989-1991 changed Europe forever, each of us has been involved in Euro-Atlantic security, both inside and outside of government.
Israel is now led by a prime minister who has the ability to make historic choices and a government inclined to support him.
We economists tend to view abdication of US world leadership as a historic mistake.
This year alone, China produced 7.65 million university graduates – a historic high – and around nine million high school students took the gaokao, China’s general university admission exam.
As European history since 1945 has demonstrated, shared economic interests can provide a solid foundation for building both regional security, and ushering in historic reconciliations.
And while it may not be possible to prove a causal connection, the influx of Indians into America has coincided with a shift in both countries’ geopolitical orientations, as evidenced by the historic 2008 nuclear deal by which the US abandoned its policy of equidistance between India and Pakistan.
Instead, emerging markets are suffering financial convulsions of possibly historic proportions.
By alienating that country for generations to come, Russia has suffered a geopolitical setback of historic proportions.
This reaching for yield has driven up the prices of all long-term bonds to unsustainable levels, narrowed credit spreads on corporate bonds and emerging-market debt, raised the relative prices of commercial real estate, and pushed up the stock market’s price-earnings ratio to more than 25% higher than its historic average.
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