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On all recent occasions when the price of oil was halved – 1982-1983, 1985-1986, 1992-1993, 1997-1998, and 2001-2002 – faster global growth followed.
When it didn’t, either the official representatives left in protest at our presence, or we left hurriedly, or we all pretended not to notice each other, or – albeit on rare occasions – we started to converse with each other, which frequently were the only moments of dialogue between the regime and the opposition (not counting our courthouse encounters).
On the few occasions that such resistance was seemingly overcome, the outcome was gradual and timid change.
And on national days, such as the birthday of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, these expats are almost forced to contribute; indeed, they can be assigned to raise sums big enough to cover the cost of food distributed to North Koreans on such occasions.
The police shot at the crowd on several occasions, but proved too weak to intimidate the demonstrators.
In the late Roman Empire, only a wealthy aristocrat could have purchased a nomenclator – a slave tasked with memorizing names and faces, and reminding the aristocrat of them when social occasions demanded it.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation released documents showing that an FBI agent witnessed “on several occasions” detainees who were “chained hand and foot in [a] fetal position to [the] floor,” without a chair, or food or water.
On one of these occasions, the agent reported, “the air conditioning was turned up so low that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold.”
On other occasions the incongruity is real, and the standards developed by the Euro-American world are perceived in all sincerity as alien creations that can be respected, not inwardly embraced.
On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the brink of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the brink.
Secondly, I argued that while there might be occasions when, regardless of international law, human rights abuses are so severe that one is morally obliged to act, Kosovo was not such a case.
Many assumed that Musharraf would follow the lead of his military predecessors, who on several occasions announced elections and a return to democracy, only to postpone the vote when it drew near.
Despite today’s turbulence, it is unlikely that the military will intervene directly and taken over the reins of government, as it has on four occasions in Pakistan’s history.
Since 1991, however, Russia explicitly recognized the territorial integrity of Ukraine on several occasions.
On both occasions, Berlusconi outwitted his competitors by siding with the Socialists, at the time the rising stars of Italian political life.
The Lisbon Treaty was a compromise constitutional arrangement that would nevertheless give the EU greater weight and authority precisely for occasions such as the Copenhagen summit, when global issues are addressed.
Cameron has said on several occasions that he wishes to avoid a referendum revolving around the simple choice of continued EU membership on the basis of the current terms of membership.
Spain’s victory was one of the rare occasions that Catalonians, Castillians, Basques, and Andalusians erupted together in an explosion of patriotic delight.
Firms hire temporary employees for all needs and occasions.
On two of the last three occasions that the Irish have been asked to vote on an EU Treaty, they have rejected the proposal.
China has faced much worse on numerous occasions; each time, it muddled through.
On many occasions, Modi has voiced suspicions about China’s growing footprint in disputed border areas.
Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney has stated on several occasions that he has no regrets about what he likes to call “enhanced interrogation” techniques, such as near-drowning, because they “kept our country safe” from terrorist attacks.
This shows that the SARS virus has jumped species, from animals to man, on other occasions, with benign consequences.
According to the tabulation that Carmen Reinhart and I compiled in our 2009 book This Time is Different, Argentina has defaulted on seven previous occasions – in 1827, 1890, 1951, 1956, 1982, 1989, and 2001.
On other occasions, however, the three countries give the impression of being mainly interested in presenting themselves as an exclusive club, triggering resentment among their EU partners.
“Munich, 1938,” was one of the rare occasions in the history of democracies when careful diplomacy was a mistake.
But, even without invoking the ghosts of Munich, there are occasions when military force is the only way to deal with a tyrant.
On many occasions in recent years, they have been the first to break sensitive news.
As has been the case on previous occasions, internally displaced people from North Waziristan are unlikely to remain in the camps set up for them in adjoining districts.
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