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It is the continent where al-Qaeda
launched
its war against the United States in 1998, by bombing the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls in 2014; and where 147 students were killed in their sleep at Kenya’s Garissa University in 2015.
But each undeniably
launched
an unprecedented period of democratic consolidation and economic modernization in their respective countries.
In 2005, President George W. Bush
launched
the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), shortly after my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, undertook the first-ever comprehensive analysis of development policies using cost-benefit analysis.
So it was the Conservatives who ended up winning the 1983 election in a landslide – a result that
launched
the still-unpopular Labour’s long trudge back toward the political center.
The strategy involves monitoring the religious field; reforming the penal code; fighting social exclusion through the National Initiative for Human Development,
launched
by the government in 2005; and implementing the enhanced security apparatus “Hadar.”
It is true, they say, that the Bush administration
launched
the Free Trade Area of the Americas, but hemispheric free trade looks as distant today as ever.
Last but not least, we have
launched
a major labor-market reform that will establish our own version of northern Europe’s “flexicurity” model.
Ever since Deng Xiaoping
launched
his reforms in 1978, China has been moving from a planned economy to the free market.
Within hours of publication, the company was suspended from trading, and within a week, security regulators had
launched
an investigation.
A lot has happened since: Russia
launched
an undeclared war, first occupying and then annexing Crimea.
The Iraq war was ostensibly
launched
because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.
But the need to use that term to distinguish true science from the practice of imposters was already fading by the time the Nobel Prizes were
launched
in 1901.
The latest Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index, which covers 52 countries, fell to 84, from 137 when it was
launched
in 2005.
The euro was
launched
in January 1999 for a complex set of economic, financial, political, and historical reasons.
(Launched
at $1.18, it plunged to almost $0.80 early on, then rose, peaking at nearly $1.60 in 2007-2008, before falling back to around $1.30.)
For example, he
launched
a barrage of criticism against the judges and courts that ruled against his executive order banning anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.
Trump has also
launched
a war on the media, which his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has labeled the “opposition party.”
When the first – and only – strategy was
launched
in 2003, it was meant as a long-term guide, to endure through multiple European Commissions.
Dynamic attempts at political and economic liberalization, including reviving the stock exchange
launched
by the Shah, were slowed or scuttled by political hardliners, social conservatives, and Ayatollah Khamenei.
The police officer who murdered Taseer apparently acted because the governor recently
launched
a campaign to repeal the law.
But it is an ambitious endeavor that cannot be
launched
overnight.
Diplomacy remained stalled until North Korea
launched
a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan in July.
It could use force, and some officials have argued that if North Korea
launched
a war in response to a limited American air strike, Kim would lose his regime.
But that painful and risky process will have to be
launched
eventually, and it will be better served by Obama’s brand of caution than by the tough talk of his critics.
Despite a decade of talks, the global trade negotiations
launched
in 2001 have gotten nowhere.
On the mainland, the Chinese Communist Party has
launched
the biggest crackdown on universities since the aftermath of the killings in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
This mass national consciousness
launched
the Chinese colossus into global competition to achieve an international status commensurate with the country’s vast capacities and the Chinese people’s conception of their country’s rightful place in the world.
Following this breakthrough, the first serious cross-party campaign explicitly aiming to stop Brexit, and not merely to mitigate damage by seeking a “softer” divorce deal, will be
launched
later this month.
Another of Berlusconi's economic wheezes is decriminalization of accounting fraud, something his government
launched
just when the world, in particular America, was establishing harsher punishments for dishonest managers and other fiduciaries.
They
launched
this war for certain declared reasons, all of which were heatedly debated around the world.
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