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The occasion was Brazil’s decision to impose a 2% tax on short-term capital inflows to prevent a speculative bubble and further appreciation of its currency.
Of course, international summits are usually an occasion for countries to sign agreements, not for the hard bargaining that can begin to improve their relations with one another.
Not every weapon is right for every occasion or every economy.
Kofi Annan, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations in 2005, attempted to adjust the multilateral institutions of our world to fit its new realities.
Though mean reversion is not a scientific law, there has never been an occasion when rising asset prices did not eventually return to their long-run average.
More importantly, October will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China, an occasion that the Party will commemorate in grand style.
India sees nothing unusual in Rijiju, an Arunachali politician, being present for a major spiritual occasion.
African leaders should use the occasion to send a clear message to the rest of the world that Africa is ready for a social and economic transformation.
This year also marks a much less noted anniversary, an occasion on which de Gaulle showed how his rare combination of determination, political skill, and rhetorical ability could be brought to bear to face down determined opposition.
Lessons from TiananmenNEW YORK – It is a chilling thought that exactly twenty years after the “Tiananmen Massacre” few young citizens of the People’s Republic of China have much idea of what happened on that occasion.
When Rafsanjani, the patriarch of Iran’s moderate forces, died in January, his funeral was the occasion for one of the largest demonstrations in the Islamic Republic’s history.
This month, in short, has been a fitting prelude to the happy occasion on December 13 th when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the United Nations organization itself share this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
US President Barack Obama correctly argues that this is an occasion to set the rules for trade and investment in the twenty-first century.
By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.
Not one government official had the courage, skill, or decency to rise to the occasion.
On this occasion, the EU once again suspected the UK of using Northern Ireland as a Trojan horse to gain an unfair advantage, and the Brexiteers accused May of capitulating to the extortionist gangsters in Brussels.
Yet it has not risen to the occasion, with many of its responses failing to match the urgency of the situation.
Of course, some past appointees turned out to be far better than anticipated; they rose to the occasion, despite qualifications that, in any open and objective selection process, would never even have left them on the short list.
It would have been too bad had such an exciting event, (after all, Russia remains new to the business of electing presidents, and novelty imparts a festive air to our elections), become just another occasion to register dissatisfaction.
Plainly, that was not enough to deter those who sought an occasion to attack the US Consulate in Benghazi.
It is difficult to overstate the significance of the occasion.
In the spirit of the occasion, everyone should consider how much more attention and funding maternal and women’s health would get if women were more equally represented in government.
This should be an occasion for him to rethink his long-standing macroeconomic mantra, rather than claiming vindication for ideas that recent trends seem to contradict.
But that could well divide NAM even further: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, invited to sit next to Iran’s leadership, used the occasion to denounce publicly his hosts’ policy in Syria.
Normal people – with or without much education, with or without much money – rise to the occasion.
The occasion underscores not just the shared history between the two countries, but also the South’s unique qualifications to bring about a peaceful resolution to the current military standoff.
On one occasion, he was dragged behind a speeding truck.
Much credit belongs to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who used the occasion of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang to reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first-class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold-buttoned blazers.
I contend that financial markets are always reflexive and on occasion they can veer quite far away from the so-called equilibrium.ampnbsp;
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