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Second, the rise of the non-aligned movement, founded by Zhou En Lai, Nehru, and Tito in 1955,
launched
a sort of substitute ideology for the UN.
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative attempts to curtail sharply the amount of unhealthy fast food that Americans consume, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has
launched
a campaign to crack down on “super-sized” sodas, Asia is witnessing the opposite trend.
The $40 billion Silk Road Fund and the $50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,
launched
last year, promise to finance much of the construction, with the AIIB being viewed by many as a challenge to the World Bank.
But Sunni extremists have
launched
some 50 suicide attacks in the last month, killing 500 mostly Shia civilians.
Sadly, North Korea has betrayed the US at least three times since then: it conducted a second nuclear test in May 2009;
launched
a satellite in April 2012 in defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874; and carried out a third nuclear test in February 2013.
Iran formally
launched
its opening toward America in January.
The passage of libel reform is attributable to a campaign
launched
more than three years ago by three organizations: English PEN, a writers association;Index on Censorship, a bimonthly journal that has monitored censorship worldwide and published the works of censored writers for the past four decades; and Sense About Science, an organization that promotes scientific knowledge and understanding.
Last month’s victory by scientists, writers, and anti-censorship campaigners suggests that the movement
launched
by Milton still has life in his own country.
Indeed, no sooner did our meeting finish, and with the world commemorating International Human Rights Day, the Syrian regime
launched
a massive campaign of arrests and intimidation directed against some of the country’s most prominent dissidents.
One such initiative is the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, which was formally
launched
in 2011.
Around 1,770 of them in Russia and the US, and a further 64 in France and 48 in the United Kingdom, remain on high alert, ready to be
launched
in response to a perceived attack with only minutes for verification and decision.
But he has consistently ruled it out, and
launched
an independent bid for the presidency in November, most likely with an eye toward the long term.
But its representatives missed a golden opportunity when US President Donald Trump, who might as well have written the chaos playbook, offered an alternative to the trade wars he himself launched: the complete dismantling of tariff barriers.
Instead, he
launched
an armed intifada, in which competing Palestinian militias unleashed terrorism and suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets - not only in the occupied territories, but also in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Hadera, Afula, and Netanya.
One promising attempt to correct this imbalance is the proposal for a Health Impact Fund that Thomas Pogge, director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, and Aidan Hollis, an economist at the University of Calgary,
launched
seven years ago.
Italy would probably be better off today if Garibaldi had never
launched
unification.
But, in order to coordinate energy strategies and strengthen energy security, last year the organization
launched
a club that unites energy-producing and energy-consuming states, transit countries, and private companies.
Some 70 years ago, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father,
launched
the movement to create an independent state for the Muslims of British India.
The United Kingdom’s largest-circulation Sunday newspaper recently
launched
a petition calling for an end to ring-fenced aid spending (worth 0.7% of national income).
The Bush Administration probably
launched
its war against Iraq because it intended to make the country a new base for long-term military operations in the Gulf region.
The city of Chicago has
launched
a similar but larger project for $17 million, with upfront funding from some of the same investors as in Utah.
The SICP just
launched
a competition for a new $10.6 million round of matching grants.
In response, Egypt’s military and security forces
launched
an offensive against Bedouin militants in Sinai, while Morsi forced the General Intelligence Service’s director to retire and dismissed the governor of Northern Sinai.
In Jordan, a coalition led by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists has
launched
a new campaign, “Talk is Not a Crime,” to raise awareness about declining media freedom.
The WHO started paying attention to NCDs in the 1970s, when it
launched
its first programs to reduce cardiovascular disease.
Likewise, as the recently published Chilcot report showed, the Iraq War was
launched
in 2003 under false pretenses.
The advantages of a long-distance, internationally connected transmission system have been powerfully emphasized by the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, a worldwide partnership of engineering companies and institutions
launched
by the State Grid Corporation of China in 2016.
The staunchly pro-American Saakashvili
launched
successful economic reforms and an all-out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses.
In response, China has
launched
its “Silk Road” initiative to create an economic zone that will favor its own priorities.
For example, in the United Kingdom, the MP Damian Collins has
launched
an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, but he has struggled to receive much cooperation from Facebook and Twitter.
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