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By easing Japan’s longstanding, self-imposed ban on arms exports, boosting defense spending, and asserting its right to exercise “collective self-defense,” the government has opened the path for Japan to collaborate more actively with friendly countries and to pursue broader overseas peacekeeping missions.
In 1940, the third longest suspension bridge in the world was opened in Washington State.
And doors were opened to further action in these and other important areas.
When the millennium opened, world leaders pledged to seek peace, the end of poverty, and a cleaner environment.
Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign trade and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative restrictions on imports).
The Chernobyl disaster, more than anything else, opened the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that the system as we knew it could no longer continue.
But Chernobyl opened my eyes like nothing else: it showed the horrible consequences of nuclear power, even when it is used for non-military purposes.
The third case opened an old complaint lodged by a politician decades ago against the “troika” – composed of the president, the prime minister, and the chief of army staff – that then governed Pakistan.
Meanwhile, India has already opened up road communications linking the East Indian state of Manipur to North Myanmar, with India’s Border Roads Organization completing the first all-weather road connecting the two countries.
Nonetheless, a bone marrow transplant unit, financed largely by Japan, had just opened in the same hospital – placing the most vulnerable patients at the mercy of deadly infections.
Security forces throughout the continent subsequently opened their doors to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency.
America’s rapid switch to natural gas is the result of three decades of technological innovation, particularly the development of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which has opened up large new resources of previously inaccessible shale gas.
Now, Pandora’s box has been opened, revealing an incredibly complex geopolitical puzzle.
Only with disciplined budgeting can staff be properly equipped and paid, hospitals stocked, and triage centers opened.
The Internet has opened a window on all of the royal family’s plots, ambitions, and double-dealings.
And increasingly, some are viruses that have infected friends’ address books, with attachments that, if opened, could destroy my computer.
But, as the financial crisis mutated into the euro crisis, an economic gulf opened between the US and the eurozone.
This unpopularity opened the way for a return to the presidency of Ion Iliescu, the Ceausescu-era apparatchik who ruled Romania during the first, wasted years of our postcommunist transition.
It was once fashionable to argue that when China opened up to the world, Hong Kong and Singapore would suffer.
Mediocre income growth for everyone but the rich in the last few decades opened a gap between incomes and spending aspirations.
Around midnight, the door opened and the secretary asked my father to take a phone call.
After all, we – not the Americans – had opened the world’s first nuclear power plant.
Yet, when markets opened on Monday morning, they were utterly unaffected by the weekend’s developments; for them, the G7 summit had essentially been a non-event.
Almost 60 years after the first McDonald’s restaurant opened, nearly one in three American children are overweight or obese, owing to a range of factors, including fewer home-cooked meals.
McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in China in 1990, and hopes to reach 2,000 restaurants in the country by 2013.
This is why it quickly opened a second front in the other disputed Georgian territory, Abkhazia, just south of Sochi.
But, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey implied when he opened the door to a discussion of a US ground component in the campaign against the Islamic State, US military power cannot be used incrementally and indecisively.
Even if the relationship does remain icy, lines of communication that have now been opened must remain so.
As China has opened up its economy, deepened reforms, and become increasingly market-oriented, the government has facilitated the continuous monetization of resources – including natural resources, labor, capital, and technology – by ensuring their constant delivery to the market.
And in Europe, the crypts of nationalism have been opened; in time, they will once again release their demons upon the continent – and the world.
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