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Lexiteers reject the call issued by DiEM25 (the radical Democracy in Europe Movement,
launched
in Berlin in February) for a pan-European movement to change the EU from within.
The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which
launched
a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.
This raises doubts about the so-called “growth compact”
launched
by the European Council in June, particularly about the political commitment to mobilize €120 billion quickly by reallocating unused Structural and Cohesion Funds and increasing the European Investment Bank’s lending capacity.
The protests
launched
a countrywide movement, spurring nonstop media coverage of women’s issues.
As the world was watching the football games in Germany, North Korea was testing long-range missiles and Palestinians in the governing Hamas
launched
attacks on Israel that prompted a bloody invasion of Gaza.
Once in office, Obama
launched
the White House app, designed to give citizens a new way to connect with their leaders in Washington, including updates on the latest events, insight into administration initiatives, and access to high-resolution photos and live streams of White House events.
That July, after an uneasy period of sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s royalist party, Hun Sen
launched
a bloody coup in which his opponents were exiled, arrested, tortured, and in some cases summarily executed.
Kim has already enshrined North Korea’s nuclear-weapons status in the country’s constitution and erected monuments to the long-range missiles
launched
last year.
The big difference between the two is that Russia
launched
its economic reforms in 1992, while Ukraine did so almost three years later.
The much higher income and payroll taxes that existed in Ukraine before Kuchma
launched
his reforms this year forced a larger share of the Ukrainian economy underground.
The Séralini fiasco was only a week old when, on September 26, the Climate Vulnerability Forum, a group of countries led by Bangladesh,
launched
the second edition of its Global Vulnerability Monitor.
For example, Morocco’s Ouarzazate Solar Power Plant and its Drinking Water Efficiency Program were
launched
with €37 million ($50.6 million) from the EU’s Neighborhood Investment Facility; these projects subsequently gained additional funding totaling more than €600 million.
Then, in July 2006, North Korea
launched
seven ballistic missiles, including the Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile.
North Korea also
launched
short-range ballistic missiles in April and July 2009.
Several missiles were
launched
on Kim Jong-un’s watch that use mobile transporter erector launchers.
Now that his electronic surveillance program has been exposed, Bush’s Justice Department has
launched
an investigation into how the news became public, threatening the journalists who reported the information.
In the early years after World War II, the Soviet dictator
launched
a campaign against Jewish intellectuals, scientists, and writers, who were accused of disloyalty to the Soviet Union and bias toward the West.
To hasten that process, the Kremlin has left no lever of destabilization unpulled: It has
launched
military incursions, manipulated Ukraine’s politics, used energy blackmail, and engaged in information warfare.
For the US, steered by neoconservatives, the war in Syria is a continuation of the plan for global US hegemony
launched
by Defense Secretary Richard Cheney and Under Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at the Cold War’s end.
The Democrats showed unprecedented unity in Congress, television comedians provided even more effective opposition, millions of progressive voters took to the streets, media outlets
launched
relentless investigations, and the American Civil Liberties Union received $24 million within 24 hours of the administration’s attempt to bar Muslims from entering the country.
For these reasons, we should care strongly about the quality and design of the "rescue" programs
launched
by the International Monetary Fund in Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand.
Seehofer immediately
launched
a cold war within the governing coalition.
Instead of focusing the Bank’s attention on helping the poorest countries to improve their infrastructure, he
launched
a crusade against corruption.
As such, it dominates the program
launched
by President Bill Clinton to provide cash assistance with significant restrictions.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have
launched
a mining frenzy on the plateau that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its precious water.
It was French officials Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman who
launched
the initiative for European political union just after World War II with the call for a United States of Europe.
The pilot project,
launched
in 2015 with support from TechnoServe and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has led to a 60% decline in pesticide use and a 100% increase in yields.
Our NATO allies
launched
proportionate military operations aimed at denying Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s regime the means to attack civilian targets.
To support and encourage more girls to attend school in the face of abduction threats, the Nigerian Safe Schools Initiative has been
launched
to fund fortifications, telecommunications, and security measures aimed at allaying children’s fears about going to what should be a safe haven.
Only in the last few months of his second presidential term, after he
launched
the second war in Chechnya in September 1999, did he and his lieutenants regain some legitimacy in the eyes of the Russian public, while causing revulsion among any remaining Western admirers.
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