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Trade integration was
initially
supported by massive investments in regional infrastructure, financed to an important extent by a large, specifically created institution, the European Investment Bank.
Though financing water-efficiency schemes certainly helps society, its effects are felt years after the aid is
initially
dispensed.
With the eurozone as a whole benefiting from a relatively solid balance-of-payments position, European leaders
initially
failed to foresee the risk incurred by letting competitiveness differentials grow, and underestimated the threat posed by some countries’ accumulation of significant external debt.
Initially, Armenian intellectuals were arrested and executed in public hangings in groups of 50 to 100.
The plan
initially
worked.
While political infighting obviously might lie behind the Chinese government’s hesitancy and ineptness in managing the scandal, the Party undermined its public credibility further by
initially
trying to cover up the seriousness of the affair.
Initially, Pussy Riot’s troubles attracted little attention, but the hate campaign orchestrated by Orthodox activists and the threat of a seven-year prison sentence for the women turned the tide.
Moscow liberals,
initially
treating the performance as silly, saw the threat of prison as inappropriate and the proceedings of the court as Kafkaesque and demented.
Moscow and Kiev are full of stories of
initially
successful foreign investors unlawfully forced to leave without compensation by their not very grateful partners.
Congress
initially
rejected the measure, but a dramatic 770-point drop in the stock market focused politicians’ minds, bringing them back to the table – and to agreement.
Initially, the Primakov government tried some monetary financing, but it soon realized that it only led to high inflation.
Bhutto
initially
saw this as an opportunity to end her exile and ease herself into the prime ministership with a politically wounded partner.
Initially, the Commission gave the German government free rein, but instead of assisting Opel, Berlin sought to protect German jobs by supporting Magna, the prospective Canadian-Russian buyer, even though this placed Opel’s Belgian and British workforces at risk of job losses.
European Union heads of government, and the European Central Bank,
initially
rejected the idea of involving the International Monetary Fund, but without a fall-back plan.
But it is useful to recall that the university has been accused of subverting its own ideals and social role since time immemorial, yet what in the past
initially
looked to many like a conflict of interest often later came to be viewed as a confluence of purposes.
Initially, a foreign policy based on Nelson Mandela’s shining global reputation enabled the country to project itself as an exemplary international citizen.
The activist trend in South Africa’s foreign policy was
initially
accelerated under the presidency of Thabo Mbeki after he was first elected in 1999.
The American economy will likely return to growth late this year and next, especially with all the monetary and fiscal stimulus (growth would have
initially
been slower and then much stronger without it), but it will still be an economy on a government lifeline.
That is why, for example, the ECB and European Commission
initially
did not want Greece to go to the IMF and did not want to write down Greek debt.
Progress in economic thought after 1929
initially
led to the argument that, in a depression, tariffs are justified because they would divert insufficient aggregate world demand to one’s goods at the expense of others.
Viewed from this perspective, it might be possible to create a fiscal capacity for the EMU, at least initially, that could provide the financial incentives for implementation of major reforms at the national level, expanding later to other stabilization functions and perhaps issuing bonds to support public productive investments at the EU level.
For example, even though the United States was at the heart of the financial crisis, the dollar
initially
soared.
Initially, the Trump administration called for a provision requiring the new agreement to be renewed every five years, with sunset as the default option – an extreme demand that would have crippled the deal.
Boris Yeltsin began the 1990’s as a courageous democrat, only to end up a corrupt, bibulous buffoon, while Putin
initially
vowed to bring law and order to the post-Yeltsin chaos.
The fact that Tsarnaev, despite his many requests, was not
initially
informed of his right to remain silent and be represented by an attorney – normally a required part of any US arrest – caused considerable anxiety.
The rescue
initially
takes the form of intergovernmental loans, so that the fiction can be preserved that each country pays back its own debts.
Because they had exposed themselves only to elite perspectives, members of the mainstream media were
initially
blindsided by the fact that many Americans who had previously voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 either stayed home or voted for Trump in 2016.
But it
initially
produced a much less stable outcome, because of the strong temptation of political abuse.
Initially, Dieudonné achieved success through humorously exploiting racial stereotypes and campaigning against racism.
Thaksin
initially
dismissed the violent attacks as the work of bandits.
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