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“Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.”
The gaffe also opened the door for Republican attacks – this being a standard campaign strategy that has dogged wealthy major-party candidates (as they all are) since George H.W. Bush was astonished by a grocery scanner.
Gulliver finds himself caught in a war between two tribes, one of which believes that a boiled egg should always be opened at the narrow end, while the other is fervent in its view that a spoon fits better into the bigger, rounded end.
It fact, the TPP would have opened Japan far more than it would have affected the US.
Those Asian countries which had earlier opened their political structures in accordance with their economic ones, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, fared much better in the current turbulence.
On the contrary, while the migration challenge became apparent to many Europeans only in 2015, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to a million desperate asylum seekers, the issue has long plagued southern Europe and is now mutating in dangerous ways.
Of the 35 chapters of EU law that must be negotiated, Montenegro has opened 30 and provisionally closed three.
Serbia, meanwhile, has opened twelve and provisionally closed two.
The first message will resonate with those who believe that a key lesson of the Asian crisis a decade ago is that countries opened themselves to certain types of flows – especially foreign currency debt – before they were ready.
It has also opened a probe of Google’s Android mobile operating system.
Yet, with courage and commitment, they managed to produce a pragmatic compromise based on a set of key principles – a compromise that opened the way for far-reaching cooperation and, indeed, the emergence of today’s interconnected and interdependent world.
Mauritania, with IAEA assistance, recently opened its first center for nuclear medicine, which will allow it to provide comprehensive services in diagnosing, treating, and managing cancer and other diseases.
The two countries grew closer again after 9/11, when George W. Bush’s administration delivered an ultimatum to the Pakistani government, telling it to choose between its relationship with the US and its relationship with the Taliban, which had opened up Afghan territory to al-Qaeda.
When post-Soviet Russia opened itself to trade, its industrial enterprises lagged far behind cutting-edge technologies, especially in the dynamic information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
Mohammed’s life changed when Lebanon’s government opened the country’s public schools to refugees.
Lebanon, Jordan, and (to a lesser extent) Turkey have opened up their public schools to Syrian refugees.
But, with this exchange of visits, a wedge has been opened for dialogue on more neutral ground.
By contrast, the younger Hu has narrowed the public space for political discourse that had opened up during the latter years of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, when market pressure was forcing media outlets to be more daring and wide-ranging.
Today, having faded as a result of advances that opened up the Americas and the East to European trade, the Mediterranean has a great opportunity to recover its lost prestige.
Such organizations remain important, but the reduced cost of communication in the Internet era has opened the field to loosely structured network organizations with little headquarters staff and even to individuals.
Markets throughout the world were opened to exports of European goods and capital.
That doctrine of hard discipline was abolished in a coup in May 2010, when it was claimed that the world would collapse unless Germany opened its purse.
Germany has now opened its purse, acting as Greece’s prime rescuer.
Kosovo's Constitutional FictionPRISTINA, KOSOVO: One year after NATO's war over Kosovo, renewal is to be seen everywhere: in reconstructed houses; in the many shops opened in the ground floors of ruined buildings; in the budding cultural, intellectual, and journalistic life of Pristina.
When police attacked with tear gas, pieds noirs opened fire.
Twice last autumn, Chinese attack submarines docked at Sri Lanka's newly opened, $500 million container terminal at Colombo Harbor – built and majority-owned by Chinese state companies.
And the revival of religious parties – in a country created by avowed secularists – opened the way for a more politically powerful but also more nationalistic and intolerant setting.
But this looks a lot like Japan, where the fiscal tap was tentatively opened and closed.
The Russian Academy of Science, the most powerful body in Russian science, has opened itself to new blood, increasing the number of specialists by 20% in recent years.
Among them:Brazil, like Mexico, has opened its economy.
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