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The ideology hidden in the plot, defending the intervention of the American government in the Civil War of Nicaragua is also a crap.
The performances in this movie were so convincing that I found myself wanting to sit the starring trio down for a cup of coffee and a good old-fashioned intervention.
The characters themselves are less worthy of self-pity as to simply ignore them as too dysfunctional to bother with an intervention.
He took action against his colleagues from Las Vegas who had trailed him to Seattle because of his own intervention with adultery.
I don't know much about geology, but what little I do know suggests that the nature of the Earth's core is such as to be impervious to any merely human intervention, and that traveling to it is something human beings probably never will be able to do.
All were also emancipated from any studio intervention which more often than not can destroy a director's vision.
I've only seen about a handful of these "Masters of Horror" episodes so far, but I must say that if there is a worse addition than "We All Scream for Ice Cream", I hope divine intervention dissuades me from ever sitting through it.
According to the movie the Confederates won the battle of Gettysburg with military intervention form Great Britian and France.
Still, if you can get by all of the setbacks (maybe a miraculous intervention or drunken flurry?), Dreamland just might be entertaining enough for you.
A seismologist I'm not, but what little I know about plate tectonics tells me that the forces driving the plates are such as to defy any merely human intervention.
After the strike, the US, France, and Britain should ask for the Security Council’s approval of the action taken, as they did after NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.
On the other hand, talk of military intervention – which, under the circumstances, would largely boil down to air strikes – is cheap.
In fact, with large parts of the world most likely condemning any attack, military intervention could clear the diplomatic path to an Iranian bomb.
NATO's intervention was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns, and in part by the need to resolve a crisis of credibility and purpose.
At this point, it is far from obvious that the humanitarian benefits of NATO's intervention will outweigh the costs of the intervention -- costs measured in lives lost as a result of NATO acts and in the larger danger that the intervention poses to international order.
Although the EU had no high-profile successes comparable to the military intervention in Libya in 2011, it performed surprisingly well in its external relations – especially given the deep crisis with which it continued to struggle.
Iran has provided substantial support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, while Turkey has advocated military intervention on behalf of opposition forces.
Rather than quelling dissent, government intervention only inspires more people to take their grievances to WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, where Africans are increasingly challenging corrupt governments, exposing rigged elections, and demanding to be heard.
Structuralists typically advised governments to adopt import-substitution strategies, using public-sector intervention to overcome “market failures.”
Russia’s military intervention in eastern Ukraine has placed it in breach of international law and in violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, by which Ukraine surrendered its nuclear arsenal in exchange for a guarantee of its borders by Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, later followed by China and France.
America took almost 15 years to carry out its first drone strike in Pakistan’s sprawling Balochistan province, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership established its command-and-control structure there almost immediately after the US military intervention ousted it from Afghanistan.
With none of these goals fully achieved, America’s intervention – like every other intervention in Afghanistan’s history – is ending unsatisfactorily.
But discussions of the Chinese economy’s imbalances and vulnerabilities tend to neglect some of the more positive elements of its structural evolution, particularly the government’s track record of prompt corrective intervention, and the substantial state balance sheet that can be deployed, if necessary.
Indeed, only when Pakistan is no longer perceived as fighting a US war will local militants stop thinking of the conflict as a jihad against foreign intervention.
Of course, military intervention for purposes beyond defending one’s country remains possible, but requires a UN Security Council resolution.
The right of humanitarian intervention limits the sovereignty of all other countries.
Hong Kong ’s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to “defeat” the speculators, but failed to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.
Outside intervention has left too many scars in the public’s collective memory.
Just two years ago, the Council approved a resolution authorizing a military intervention in Libya – the first resolution to implement the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) principle, which the general assembly adopted unanimously in 2005.
For their part, Russia and China have blocked three resolutions condemning the Syrian regime, and Russia has worked hard – with evident success – to derail any military intervention in Syria.
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