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Has Palestine Won?TEL AVIV – The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned would arrive if Israel did not propose a bold peace initiative.
Forced to reckon with your own vulnerability, isolation, and losses (and seemingly lost cause), you learn to look more carefully into the human heart – yours and that of your jailers.
Given Argentina’s isolation from world financial markets, its central bank could cut domestic interest rates with limited fear of capital flight.
Instead, the US has been working hard to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, by reinforcing its international isolation.
But the successful isolation of androgenic anabolic steroids brought a surge in the practice in the 1930s.
The result of these norms and structures is that women in the Middle East are often subject to discrimination, isolation, and frustration.
For Iran, this development would be tantamount to a strategic worst-case scenario, bringing about its definitive isolation.
Of course, none of these changes can be made in isolation.
But perhaps the greatest problem is the progressive isolation of Islamic scholarship – and much of Islamic life – from the rest of the modern world.
Grexit would require capital controls and financial isolation, at least for some time.
If we do not need to kill them for our survival, should we be killing them at all?Economic Growth Is No Longer EnoughMADRID – Macroeconomic data from the world’s advanced economies can be mystifying when viewed in isolation.
They knew that they could not continue to sustain their power through violence and oppression, as that would ultimately cause their regime to collapse under the weight of international sanctions and isolation.
But the stranglehold of North Korea’s dictatorship is based on total isolation.
But these species' behavior, no less than that of the fruit fly, is the product of a vast array of genes, none of which acts in isolation.
Had Nixon not acted in 1972, China’s self-imposed isolation would have continued.
The most prominent of these was an end to North Korea’s economic isolation.
The government will make noise here, but ultimately it will not risk the suspension of European funding and international isolation by rebelling against the European Union.
If Britain insists on pursuing a purist definition of sovereignty, it will find only grief and isolation.
The German novelistThomas Mann was deeply opposed to such deliberate isolation on the part ofwriters, posing instead the claims that society makes upon art: “the courage torecognize and express – that is the quality that makes literature.”
This creative isolation was somethingthat we accepted as part of our contribution to the global political, economic,and cultural isolation of the apartheid regime, an essential strategy in thestruggle for liberation.
He and Russia will suffer international isolation, while Ukrainians are likely to become even more insistent on choosing their own path.
And, at a time of domestic hardship and diplomatic isolation, North Korea’s leaders, their confidence boosted by their possession of nuclear weapons, might try to distract their public through audacious, and possibly destructive, acts abroad.
And yet, most programs designed to tackle these issues operate in isolation.
But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the “color revolution” route to democracy that other post-Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.
The hope was that isolation and sanctions would topple Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship.
Palestinians were once reputed to be among the best-educated people in the Middle East; today, after years of violence, isolation, and poverty, their proud tradition of educational excellence has been shattered.
This will all translate, inevitably, into calls for more toughness toward North Korea – less diplomacy and more sanctions, punitive measures, and isolation.
Rather than assess a medicine’s safety in isolation, its adverse effects must be considered in relation to its efficacy.
But those who suffer from sanctions suffer not just from economic hardship; the isolation that sanctions impose favors the country’s least enlightened elements.
With a politically weakened Germany, a hostile Eastern Europe, a largely paralyzed Spain, and now the likelihood of a populist government in power in one of Europe’s founding members, France and its president, Emmanuel Macron, a firm believer in the European ideal of “ever closer union,” risk being in a position of “splendid isolation.”
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