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The Asian financial crisis of a decade ago brought banks, corporations and governments to their knees.
In Ireland, it was the banks’ losses that brought the government to its knees.
In the 1930’s, the Great Depression brought the entire economy to its knees.
His is the face of Putin’s new Russia, of a smug Russia that is “getting off its knees” and reaching for its gun.
Nor are the concerns that terrorist attacks can force the oil industry to its knees very plausible.
Why hasn’t the huge spike in oil prices cut the world to its knees, as it has on so many other occasions?
Death-Defying EuropeAs the European Union prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome later this month, the EU is widely perceived to be on its knees.
Let a Thousand Capitalisms BloomCAMBRIDGE: The global financial crisis that recently brought the world economy to its knees appears to have abated.
True, China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollar holdings.
In other words, bringing the US to it knees might well mean that China would bring itself to its ankles.
Indeed, six years after a run on the money market nearly brought the United States – indeed, global – financial system to its knees, critical risks that underpinned that crisis still have not been brought under control.
Some in Russia, where the price collapse has hit government revenues hard, claim that the US and Saudi Arabia are conspiring to bring Russia to its knees.
In September 1992, it took George Soros $10 billion to bring the Bank of England to its knees and impose devaluation on the pound.
The banking system ended up fueling massive speculation, including a huge run-up in real-estate prices, only to be brought to its knees when the bubbles popped.
Humanity tolerates a cult of material gain as the highest value to which all must yield and before which even the democratic will must sometimes fall to its knees.
By ignoring the advice that they so vehemently dispensed to the developing world, they brought the world economy to its knees.
At last, that big, arrogant, fatally seductive nation, which left the Old World in its shade for so long, had been brought to its knees.
The author finds the government of a “Russia getting up off its knees” to consist of progressive modernizers fully aware of the challenges facing their country as it attempts to “return to the great powers club.”
Employment numbers have been strong, consumer confidence is solid, and the oil sector is just not large enough relative to GDP for the price collapse to bring the US economy to its knees.
True, if China dumped its dollars on world markets, it could bring the American economy to its knees, but in doing so it would bring itself to its ankles.
I recall the Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson – alongside John Maynard Keynes, arguably the greatest economist of his time – remarking that anti-Japanese propaganda had gone so far that Japan’s critics would argue that the Japanese bow in greeting Westerners to make it easier to cut them off at the knees.
Valery Gergiev, the renowned conductor of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera in St. Petersburg, was pleased by the President's direct interest in his new production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace; as was Nani Bregvadze, a legendary Georgian singer, whom Putin begged on his knees to sing for him after missing her concert at the Moscow Conservatory.
At the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party in April, Kim pledged to defy “hostile forces miscalculating that sanctions can bring North Korea to its knees.”
For example, an employee might find herself perched on the edge of the bathtub, precariously balancing a computer on her knees, so that her partner and children can conduct their business or school work from the living room, bedroom, and kitchen.
There is no playbook for a scenario in which a high-tech world economy interconnected by global supply chains is brought to its knees by a microscopic pathogen.
Coming on the back of a trade war with the United States, COVID-19 momentarily brought the country to its knees.
Falling on his knees by her bedside he held his wife's hand to his lips, kissing it, and that hand, by a feeble movement of the fingers, replied to the kisses.
But she did not take her eyes off the wheels of the approaching second truck, and at the very moment when the midway point between the wheels drew level, she threw away her red bag, and drawing her head down between her shoulders threw herself forward on her hands under the truck, and with a light movement as if preparing to rise again immediately dropped on her knees.
He was short, with an enormous neck, projecting calves and heels, and long arms, with massive hands falling to his knees.
Near the tipping-cradle the workman had not stirred, gathered up in a ball, burying his chin between his knees, with his great dim eyes fixed on emptiness.
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